Israel elections 2021: With 95.1 percent of vote counted, neither bloc has clear path to majority ■ Meretz up one seat at Islamist party's expense ■ Election panel chief expects vote count done by Thursday afternoon

Israel elections 2021: Meretz up one seat at Islamist party's expense ■ Kahanist party makes major gains ■ 450,000 votes in double-sealed envelopes yet to be counted ■ Islamist party enters Knesset

Cyprus opens skies for vaccinated Israelis starting April 1 ■ With rapid COVID-19 testing, Israel prepares for next phase of reopening ■ Holiday guidelines would let thousands celebrate together

Its hard to imagine Mansour Abbas and the United Arab List joining Netanyahu's government after election, or even supporting it from outside, without at least tacit consent of sister parties in the Mideast

Netanyahu may not be able to form a government without Islamist party leader, but far-right politicians agreeing to join a coalition with him seems fantastical

North Korea's ballistic missiles are banned under U.N Security Council Resolutions, and if the launch is confirmed, it would represent the first ballistic-missile test launch under new U.S. President Joe Biden

There are five ways legislators outside the prime minister's bloc might join up with Netanyahu, giving him the 61 seats he needs to form another government after Israel's fourth election in two years

Zvi Hauser, Osnat Mark, and Uzi Dayan are among the many MKs who did not make it into the 24th Knesset

Israel's coronavirus vaccination drive lets Health Ministry issue more lenient guidelines ahead of religious, national holidays

The original five-year plan required all government ministries to reduce their bureaucratic burden by 25 percent, estimating it would save the public 5 billion shekels

Before going public this week in a SPAC merger, the Israeli company had a spectacular year; but what comes next?

Whoever forms the next government after Israel's fourth election in two years should leverage COVID crisis to enact badly needed economic reforms

Among the options, Naftali Bennett could agree to bring Netanyahu down, while Israel's center-left politicians might break their election promises and join up with the premier

In-depth research before Israel's election by Yesh Atid, Labor and Meretz had concluded that the party's support base was fragile

Rather than waste their time farming wheat and pigs, copper miners in the Austrian Alps imported stuffs in ready-to-cook form, or already as food

The 20-year-old worker was from the Ramallah area, and tried to flee the building site after seeing two Border Police, but fell into a shaft dozens of meters deep

Israel election results show Itamar Ben-Gvir, a disciple of Meir Kahane, has been voted into to the Knesset, and possibly the government, in the culmination of many years of far-right activism and media attention

Turkey needs U.S.-friendly allies. And Israel needs a solid regional front against Iran. Paying a modest 'price' to a needy Erdogan could gain Israel a significant strategic advantage

The experts say no, but many countries use other digital technology such as computerized identification at polling stations

Election results show that repeated attempts to create a right-wing alternative to Netanyahu and Kahanists fails time and again because they include an internal contradiction

Uri Frank, who left Intel this year, will lead a team based in Israel to develop customized chips and processors - first and foremost is its TPU processor, meant for artificial intelligence

Eric Greitens is back, and hes on Team Trump

450,000 votes cast by those unable to visit their polling place, like soldiers and prisoners, remain uncounted

A day after the election, Israel is left with a surprising kingmaker, a Trump-style campaign of fraud claims, and even less certainty than at the start

'This mistake is my mistake alone,' Merkel told reporters

While the turnout in the Israeli city of Kafr Qasem is set to be about 20 percent down from the March 2020 election, two locals are on track to be lawmakers in the next Knesset

Leading member of New Hope says party will fulfill campaign pledge to not be part of Netanyahu-led coalition amid reports of Likud plans to find defectors

In the wake of Trump's fall, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has risen to become a full-on GOP hero. But his isolationism on Iran, and his lack of enthusiasm for the Jewish state, is a threat to the pro-Israel community

Passover is the first major holiday for Americans to come together since the CDC this month advised that vaccinated people can hold small, unmasked gatherings with unvaccinated people from a single household

The bruised and vilified Zionist left is no longer on a respirator, but the decision by Meretz and Labor to run separately was illogical and must be remedied

The Claims Conference, which is running the program, estimates there are more than 340,000 Holocaust survivors around the world, of whom 45 percent are not yet vaccinated

Israel elections 2021: Haaretz reveals how Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu, Likud officials and their media proxies have been using the Trump (and QAnon) playbook to cast doubt over election results since April 2019

Pictures posted on social media had appeared to show the ship positioned diagonally across the canal, blocking one of the world's most important waterways

Israel election 2021 results ■ United Arab List's Mansour Abbas, who has become a potential kingmaker, said any deal will depend on solving problems facing Arab society ■ Likud lawmakers split on working with the party

Israel elections 2021 ■ With nearly 90 percent of the vote counted, Mansour Abbas' UAL is slated to garner five of Knesset's 120 seats. Abbas has not yet declared support for either political bloc

The Sun reported that he later added: 'Actually I regret saying it' and that he asked lawmakers repeatedly to 'forget I said that'

Chinese FM Wang Yi, who is touring the Middle East this week, has also voiced support for a Saudi initiative announced to end the war in Yemen

Sidney Powell asked a judge on Monday to throw out a $1.3 billion lawsuit accusing her of spreading false pro-Trump conspiracy theories

Segal was one of the first American film actors to rise to leading man status with an unchanged Jewish surname, making him a trailblazer for other Jewish actors who rose to fame in the 60's and 70's

Sheikh Hamdan, brother of the current ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, had been in poor health for several months

It's not suprising for the Yamina leader to be stuck between Bibi and 'no Bibi': He's always attempted to portray himself as the 'sane rightist'

The 21-year-old suspect purchased a Ruger AR-556 semi-automatic pistol, a weapon that resembles a semi-automatic rifle, six days before the shooting, according to a court affidavit

With exit polls only revealing uncertainty and a probable deadlock, Netanyahu treads with caution and relies on the common denominator of this next Knesset: right-wing values

It seems that the breakup of the Joint List persuaded Arab citizens to vote with their feet and stay home

As with every election since 2013, Bennett met his fate at the ballot box, left with just seven seats after Netanyahu got through with him, cruelly and efficiently as no one else can do

It appeared to be the first time since September 2018 that envoys from the four mediators - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations - have met

Lockdowns, quarantines, more than 6,000 deaths, Shin Bet tracking, huge deficits, soaring unemployment and a closed airport did nothing to change Israelis' minds at the polls

Three election exit polls project Netanyahu doesn't have a majority, even with Bennett ■ 450,000 votes in double-sealed envelopes yet to be counted ■ Kahanist party makes major gains ■ Kahol Lavan, Meretz spring back from brink of demise

Mansour Abbas' gamble of breaking with the Joint List doesn't seem to have panned out

Radical characters look likely to enter the Knesset, with far-right alliance Religious Zionism projected to get seven seats

Reform rabbi Gilad Kariv said ultra-Orthodox calls for a boycott against him in election campaign are a rejection and boycott of a large chunk of the Israeli public and half the Jewish people around the world

'There will be many voting for Smotrich, and that's not terrible because it may rescue the right,' says one worshiper at a synagogue

There is still no clear victor in Israel's 2021 election. A fifth election is now a possibility

Paris closed its embassy after evacuating some 50 French and British nationals as fighting broke out in Tripoli in July 2014, and will be reopening following a smooth transition of power after a decade of violence

Israel immediately and without evidence pointed the finger of blame at Iran when oil started washing up on its beaches. But the disaster could have a much less conspiratorial explanation.

Asked about any withdrawal from Afghanistan, where the United States has been at war since 2001, Blinken said a U.S. review of options was underway and he would consult with allies

Israel election 2021: Retailers reported massive traffic at stores around the country when they opened on Election Day

Vaccinated Israelis have increasing options of countries to visit, although things can get complicated with children who are not vaccinated

Mehdi Hasan asked Levy to compare the similarities between former U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel elections 2021: Exit polls and live results updated in real-time in what is seen as a highly charged referendum on the divisive rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli army strikes the Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Election Day rocket, which landed in an open area in the city of Be'er Sheva

Flags at the White House were at half staff until sunset on Monday to commemorate the Atlanta shooting victims. They flew at full staff for a few hours on Tuesday morning before being lowered again to mark the Boulder killings

As she approaches 59, the renowned Israeli singer is daring to open old wounds in her new memoir: from a childhood in Iran that included a five-story fall that nearly ended with a kidnapping, to her struggle for survival in Israel as she was forced t...

Iraqi and U.S. officials have said they support a scheduled withdrawal of forces from Iraq, but questions remain over time-frames and the scope of the threat posed by Islamic State

In normal times, Netanyahu would need a strong judiciary more than anything to rein in Kahanist leader, but the criminal proceedings against the prime minister have stripped him of his red lines

Authorities said Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was from the Denver suburb of Arvada and that he engaged in a shootout with police Monday afternoon inside the Boulder store

Finance experts say that the local market has gotten so used to political uncertainty that most election outcome scenarios wont make much of a difference for the stock exchange

Israel elections 2021: Some scenarios are more likely than others, but particularly since by law no polling results have been published since Friday, none are beyond the realm of possibility

Over the past year or so, Israel has seen an incredibly large number of companies reaching unicorn valuation privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more

'It's kind of boring here,' complained one volunteer from the far-right Religious Zionism party, as Israelis vote for the fourth time in two years. 'There's no one here from the left to argue with'

The controversial firm is accused of hacking the phones of dozens of human rights activists around the world as well as journalists from Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television

Israel election 2021: If Prime Minister Netanyahu's haters were to acknowledge his achievements, it would be easier to listen to them when they list the dangers he presents

Authorities have not yet offered a possible motive for the bloodshed, which killed 10 ranging in age from 20 to 65, including an 11-year veteran of the Boulder police force

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research survey finds that neither Hamas nor Fatah would be able to form a parliamentary majority after the May elections

Some of the Syrian refugees interviewed by Amnesty said they were beaten by metal sticks, electric cables and plastic pipes

Ramat Beit Shemesh is uncharacteristically quiet this Election Day, with residents citing voter fatigue and holiday preparations

The discovery of vast shell middens, aka garbage from seafood feasts, attests that the rising seas as the Ice Age waned didn't wash away all trace of prehistoric societies living by the sea

Unlike previous Israeli elections that saw disinformation spread against Arabs in Hebrew, this time, Israel's Arabs are enjoying bespoke propaganda in Arabic and even Likud wants a slice

Israelis with a 'green passport' or negative coronavirus test will be able to visit Cyprus, and Israelis with negative COVID tests even if they're unvaccinated can go to Greece

A Palestinian official said on Sunday that Riyad al-Maliki's VIP card, a pass granted by Israel to allow senior Palestinian officials to move freely through border crossings, had been confiscated

Despite 'clear violations' of Facebooks policies, hundreds of pages and groups with just under 27 million followers were still active as of March 18, nonprofit advocacy group Avaaz finds

Outside polling places in Tel Aviv and the suburb of Ramat Hasharon, voters see few signs for optimism on Election Day

Frozen in time, the destruction of the Canaanite town of Azekah wasn't wrought by a volcano but by humans, and paints a vivid picture of horror at the end of the Bronze Age

The nightmare we're living in is so deeply rooted that a fifth Israel election is seen as a reasonable scenario, while previous elections show that the opposition loses even when it wins

Right-wing NGO Im Tirtzu says oversight app not functioning, while election committee calls claims an attempt 'to undermine public faith in the election results and in the committee'

Washington, which agreed to withdraw its troops by May 1, is pushing for a proposal that would replace the Kabul government with an interim administration

Bangladeshi officials are investigating the cause of the blaze which reportedly left more than 550 people injured and about 45,000 displaced

With rapid COVID-19 testing, Israel prepares for next phase of reopening ■ Israelis with weak immune systems are more hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID ■ Palestinian Authority launches vaccine drive

Shmuel Shapira was the driving force behind Israels effort to develop its own coronavirus vaccine, and is ending his role as the project encounters delays

From concerns about 'outdated information' during its trial to missteps in reporting data and a blood clot scare, health officials worry that past issues could cause lasting harm to the shot

Even on Election Day, some European-born immigrants are still mulling which right-wing party will get their vote: Likud, New Hope or Yamina

Roberto Jefferson, leader of the Labor Party, or PTB as it is known in Brazil, claps back after Jewish organization condemns his remarks, calling their statement 'clowning'

While polling data does not indicate who will be able to form a government, polling suggests 76 of the Knesset's 120 seats will be held by the right