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Death toll hits 6,000 ■ Israel to reopen nightclubs next week ■ Infection rate reaches 5-month low

First Digital Bank, started by auto-tech firm Mobileye's founder Amnon Shashua, is built around AI, not branches

Religious Zionism's Ben-Gvir will be made minister ahead of many others for one simple reason: He will be the 61st lawmaker Prime Minister Netanyahu needs for a Knesset majority

Police apparently won’t charge Arab driver who fatally ran over pedestrian while trying to escape attackers

Agreement would require airline to stop charging state for security and other personnel for next 10 years

With flights now allowed from anywhere in the world, and elections less than 10 days away, Israel faces dilemma between right to vote and curbing new COVID variants

While Lapid's Yesh Atid claims his latest campaign was meant to convince undecided voters, the smaller parties on the left fear they could find themselves outside the Knesset after Israel's election

'There never was any political connection between the Mossad director and the prime minister or the Likud party,' Yossi Cohen said following suggestions Netanyahu made in a TV interview

The arrival of the more contagious British variant made January the most deadly COVID month, followed by a steep decline in the death rate as Israel stepped up its vaccine campaign

The Channel 13 poll projects Religious Zionism to secure 6 seats, leaving the landscape of the left and right wing blocs unchanged

Some 60 Israeli active and reserve soldiers begin work in Equatorial Guinea after blasts at military complex kill over 100, with president blaming negligence

Nasser Nawaj’ah, a field researcher for B'Tselem, was told by Shin Bet officials that he was 'making trouble and threatening the army'

Since the coronavirus R number dropped below 0.8, Israel's Health Minister said 'it's time to allow clubs to be opened too'

Israel tells High Court it will reopen skies to flights from all locations, while keeping the daily quota to 3,000 people and mandating self-isolation to limit spread of new coronavirus variants

Order was ultimately cancelled, journalist Ben Caspit reported, but came after Jordan stalled approval of Netanyahu's planned flight through Jordanian airspace to the UAE

The Israel Police announced Friday that they had opened a probe into the claims against Meshi-Zahav, and will be specifically investigating claims of rape, indecent acts, and soliciting prostitution

Aliyah, one of the cornerstones of Zionism, is increasingly being funded by an unlikely group of non-Jews - from Kansas to Korea. How did this absurd situation come about and does anyone care?

On Thursday, the Czech Republic opened a diplomatic office in Jerusalem in a move that drew condemnation from the Palestinians and Arab League

The pastor was filmed preaching and praying with his congregants, saying 'Massacre the Jews, God, hit them with your sword, for they have left God, they have left the nations'

‘Operation Varsity Blues’ examines the multimillion-dollar bribery affair that sent Felicity Huffman and others to prison, plus read reviews of ‘‘Til Kingdom Come’ and ‘Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry’

After Harvard denied his tenure review, Cornel West tells Haaretz that he finds reason for optimism in the evolution of pro-Palestinian activism over the past decades, and why he's especially bullish about the movement's future

Despite law, text messages show Likud gathered personal information on voters from the Truecaller app; Netanyahu’s party blasts ‘false allegation’

The conditions amenable to the mosquito had been thought to be correlated with agriculture creating stagnant water. Yet in Southeast Asia, the disease predated farming by at least thousands of years

If Netanyahu succeeds in the upcoming Israeli election and forms the next government with an unholy alliance of far-right and religious extremists, democracy will suffer, and so will the country's ties with the United States

A growing number of women are speaking out in a country where the criminal code doesn’t define sexual harassment and lays out few repercussions for men who kill female relatives

Despite their differing approaches, California and Florida have experienced almost identical outcomes in COVID-19 case rates

In Gulf states, the COVID pandemic has accelerated the discrepancy in rights between citizens and second-class migrant workers. Kuwait is now paying the price of its xenophobic vaccine policy as infection rates spike to record highs

With Biden’s blessing and following a 10-year renovation, Tel Aviv’s Beit Hatfutsot reopens with a major face-lift and a brand new name: ANU

Schumer, the Senate majority leader and the most senior Jew in U.S. government, is the most prominent Democrat so far to call on New York Governor Cuomo to quit in the face of sexual harassment allegations

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife could face extradition if formally charged

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that everyone in Brazil should take the situation seriously, adding that neighboring countries could be affected

New Military Intelligence report shows Israel's R number – the number of people a person sick with COVID infects – has dropped to 0.78, the lowest since mid-October

Official tells Reuters that diplomatic outreach was made 'through several channels' since mid-February

A year later, the United State's largest metropolis — with a lifeblood based on round-the-clock hustle and bustle, push and pull — is adapting and showing new life

Wisconsin Senator Johnson is being called racist for saying he wasn’t worried about the predominantly white insurrections at the U.S. Capitol, but that he might have been if they had been BLM protesters

Vote kicks off an electoral marathon which features six state elections, culminating in the September 26 vote for a new national parliament

55.6 percent of Israelis has received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and 45.3 percent the second. Vaccine data shows promising results

Jennifer Weisselberg, the former daughter-in-law of the Trump organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, recalled the incident to the New Yorker

Death toll hits 6,000 ■ Infection rate reaches 5-month low ■ Israel to begin allowing incoming flights from additional cities ahead of election ■ Palestinian Authority announces five-day COVID lockdown in the West Bank

The Israeli army was called to the scene by settlers, and soldiers detained the Palestinian boys for allegedly stealing parrots from a West Bank settlement. The missing birds were never mentioned in their interrogation

A guide to how Israel’s main players are handling the final laps of their election campaigns

A professor at McGill University, Chris Silver now possesses about 500 albums recorded by Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian Jewish vocalists and instrumentalists. It’s the first archive of its kind

Prosecution dropped rape charge because perpetrator 'believed' victim was 14

With solid feminist credentials, and policies to boot, Merav Michaeli attracts women from all sides of the political spectrum, taking away votes from left and right ahead of Israeli election

Black Shadow that hacked an Israeli insurance firm in December and leaked its data online now hits a financing company, which accused 'Iran and its proxies'

Days after Jordan withheld approval for his flight to UAE, Netanyahu tells Channel 13 News Israel has 'good relations' with its eastern neighbor, claims 'missiles over Saudi Arabia' prevented an alternative flight route

Newly revealed attempt to hit Iranian oil trade to Syria provides a belated glimpse into the economic war between Israel and Iran

Some 900 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, were detained at the facility – including 350 inside a warehouse – when the fire took place on Sunday

Counter-protests by supporters of Prime Minister Netanyahu held in Tel Aviv, Haifa

The office opening comes one month after Prague received thousands of COVID vaccine doses from Israel

The lockdown will go into effect on Monday, following a spike in coronavirus cases and deaths

Goods flow from parts of the country controlled by opposition forces to regime-run areas, disrupted by occasional fighting in poverty-stricken Syria, which has largely dropped from the headlines

Jewish American nursing home tycoon immigrates to Israel, poising him to take control of the country's troubled national carrier

A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said 'measures to identify the perpetrators of this sabotage action is on our agenda,' adding it is 'in clear violation of international law'

Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh ordered an urgent investigation into the oxygen supply disruption, said his government takes full responsibility for the incident

The settlers hurled stones at the parents and their eight children and assaulted them with clubs, according to B'Tselem ■ The father of the family was injured and taken to a Hebron hospital

Ayman al-Safadi says Jordan is 'angry' with Israel over a canceled visit by Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, which was nixed over security arrangements

In 2019, Australian Brenton Tarrant slaughtered 44 people at the Al Noor mosque during Friday prayers before driving to the Linwood mosque, where he murdered seven more

Senior Democrats, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, argued that the Oslo Accords do not supersede international law on Israel's responsibility to 'to provide for the health and well-being of all people under its control'

In letter to Blinken, Democratic members of congress urge White House to condemn Israel’s home demolitions and settlement construction, demand it vaccinate Palestinians

As Israeli hotels reopen, cabinet approves entry of 700 Jordanian workers ■ Israeli military reports 81 percent of soldiers vaccinated ■ Vaccinated mothers pass on COVID antibodies in breast milk, research shows

Sixteen million Yemenis are on the brink of hunger, but internal power struggles are preventing a diplomatic solution

110 years later, Alexander Brekner's diary epitomizes the experience of Jewish pioneers in pre-state Israel

Ship was slightly damaged by an explosive object on Wednesday, no one on board was hurt, spokesman for state-run shipping company tells Iranian state media

Demonstrations held in Jaljulya, where Mohammed Abed Alrazik Adas was shot dead last week, and in Umm al-Fahm, where weekly protests have taken place for over two months

Heather Morris, author of ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz,’ pays tribute to the late Lotte Weiss, who survived Auschwitz, emigrated Down Under and ensured that her own experiences were documented for future generations

In the first joint statement on Egypt since 2014, 31 signatories call on the government to end prosecution of activists, journalists and political opponents

Since the civil war began in 2011, an estimated 2.4 million people were displaced every year in and outside Syria, the Norwegian Refugee Council said this week

Last month, the House of Representatives stripped Greene of her committee memberships for peddling threats and conspiracy theories, including some with antisemitic themes

Haaretz investigation revealed that Yehuda Meshi-Zahav took advantage of his position for decades with knowledge of others ■ Police morning they will open a probe into the accusations

A statement from the prime minister says that Benjamin Netanyahu is at Sara's side as she recovers from her surgery, after being taken to the hospital for appendicitis

Comments by an outgoing Mossad official drew the obvious political responses, but also shone a light on Israel's security priorities

Netanyahu failed to pull a rabbit with UAE visit, but his campaign can draw encouragement from other developments

Once a premier broadcaster and journalism school in one, the station has come under control of Netanyahu's allies, and its stature is in decline

Netanyahu's rivals, jealous over his ingenuity, won’t be able to take their eyes off him and will continue to respond with pointless stammering

The joint project comes as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has stepped up cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and has threatened to launch strikes on the UAE

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: One Israeli trying to make it as a singer, and another trying to make it to Los Angeles for a wedding against all odds

A 69-year-old Palestinian woman suffered a fatal heart attack in her home when Israeli soldiers arrived in the middle of the night to arrest a relative – who wasn't present. Last year IDF troops invaded some 2,500 homes in the West Bank

According to the Wall Street Journal, since 2019 Israel has struck Syria-bound ships carrying Iranian oil out of fear it would fund regional extremism

Psychologist Anav Youlevich, creator of a volunteer project that assists victims of narcissistic and psychopathic exploitation, explains what can be done to help victims of gaslighting

Party that rules the West Bank says Nasser Al-Qudwa didn't comply with demand to drop his breakaway challenge in the upcoming Palestinian election

Election Overdose podcast, episode 11: Why are Palestinians concerned about Israel's March elections, and do they see any difference between the Israeli political parties in ways that will affect their lives?

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the celebrated founder of the Zaka rescue organization, had a darker side, taking advantage of his position for decades with the knowledge of others in the community, his accusers say

Islamic Jihad vows retaliation while rights group says fishermen were killed by gunfire from one of the enclave’s armed factions

Airline to pay Melanie Wolfson an undisclosed amount after staff failed to defend her right to her seat