A Taliban leader in Doha said the group ordered its fighters to refrain from violence and allow safe passage to anyone seeking to leave, as Western officials in the country seek safety

Saher Ismail, who ran on the New Hope election slate this year, was shot as he was sitting in his car in an apparent murder, the 70th this year in the Arab community. Party leader Sa'ar called him 'an honest and brave leader'

The Health Ministry's director-general, Prof. Nachman Ash, says he's 'cautiously optimistic' as the number of COVID patients hits a five-month high

Despite about $89 billion budgeted for training the Afghan army, it took the Taliban little more than a month to brush it aside

Sunday’s explosion was the deadliest in the country since an August 4, 2020, blast at Beirut’s port killed at least 214 and wounded thousands

Given the strident final chord of the American adventure in Afghanistan, one might wonder why it was necessary to draw out the withdrawal of U.S. troops for 20 years

The deployment of approximately 5,000 U.S. troops to Kabul has been authorized to ensure 'an orderly and safe drawdown of U.S. personnel and other allied personnel'

Some 70,000 doses were administered this weekend, bringing the total to 846,000, and over 100,000 people have signed up to get the third dose of the COVID vaccine next week

This is the latest turn in a crisis that has sunk the Lebanese pound by 90 percent in less than two years and pushed more than half of the population into poverty

The United States and Britain rushed in troops to help evacuate their embassies as Taliban rebels make gains

Almost five percent of Israel's COVID tests came back positive on Friday, compared to about nine percent on average during the previous wave

Poland says it will take 'appropriate diplomatic and political action, taking into account the principle of reciprocity'

Both Israel and the United States have expressed stark opposition to the legislation, which has led to tensions between Warsaw and Jerusalem

The national coronavirus taskforce, which issued the decision, also ordered a travel ban between all Iranian cities from Sunday to Friday

Eight COVID patients were transferred to hospitals in Jerusalem in the past 24 hours, as small hospitals in central Israel see high numbers

The government is planning to add health care staff every time the number of hospitalized patients doubles, but hospital officials say it won't be enough

Heavy rains that pounded coastal Turkey caused flooding that demolished homes, severed at least five bridges, swept away cars and rendered numerous roads unpassable

An Afghan lawmaker says the Taliban have captured Logar province and reached the Char Asyab district, just 7 miles south of the capital, Kabul

The two were not charged with killing the victim's sister, who also died at the scene, after a legal opinion said it wasn't possible to conclude that her death was caused as a result of the violent incident

The videos by Noble Energy and Delek Group praise the use of natural gas without mentioning its contribution to the climate crisis

This is the first U.S. comment on PM Bennett's plan to push for more than 2,000 Israeli settlement homes in the West Bank

The first non-Russian to win the Games' individual event in rhythmic gymnastics since 1996 tells Haaretz how the new atmosphere got her and her coach thinking about upping her difficulty level

Equipment and goods for humanitarian relief will also be allowed into Gaza, which is still recovering after hostilities erupted between Israel and Hamas in May

Ten other countries, including Israel, have announced that they will boycott the UN conference, known as the Durban conference

The third COVID dose will also be given in Israel to people with disabilities, psychiatric patients, and other high risk groups at a younger age

The agreement with the UAE failed to live up to Trump's hype about the 'deal of the century', the Palestinian issue hasn't faded and there's no real Israel-Sunni alliance against Iran

Mahmood Rashid Amur Al Habsi and a network of businesses have been targeted, the U.S. Treasury says

The incident comes a week after Israel's air force attacked Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons launched by the militant group the day before

In the past five years the number of such students in the better-funded Israeli program has climbed 160 percent. This should foster social mobility, but how do you teach citizenship to a noncitizen?

Israel is part of a growing list of governments that have decided to offer COVID booster doses. Analysts forecast revenue of over $6.6 billion for the Pfizer shot in 2023, mostly from booster sales

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in New Rafah, near the Gaza border

Officially, there have been only four virus cases and one death in Yemen’s north, according to the Houthi rebel authorities who control the capital and surrounding provinces

A continued rise in COVID figures comes as the country is expanding its vaccine booster campaign to people aged 50 and up

Israel is already administering the third shot to avoid another crisis due to the contagious delta variant of the coronavirus

On the nuclear issue and with the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, Iran may again have to display what Khamenei has called 'heroic flexibility'

The increase in the number of Palestinians killed this year – almost twice as many as in every other recent year – is due to a combination of circumstances

Bennett might succumb to pressures regarding a COVID lockdown, despite his previous objections ■ Meanwhile, Netanyahu is more interested in criticizing the new PM than in paying for his own hotel

As Israel's northern border heats up, army intelligence is forced to disentangle a complicated tangle of power brokers and interests between Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's Quds Force

The resurgent Taliban are estimated to hold over two-thirds of Afghanistan, weeks before the end of the U.S. military mission some 20 years after its invasion

A seemingly furry shrimp and soldier termites on the march featured in BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition 2021

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: She's an Arabic teacher, he's training for Ironman. Here's their secret to a great relationship

Many health care leaders warned that the extra staff won’t have a profound impact anytime soon because it will take time for them to be trained in treating COVID-19 patients in the midst of a crisis

Imad Duikat was the sixth Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli troops during recent protests against the settler outpost of Evyatar, and the 40th to be killed in the West Bank since May

Health Ministry orders administering third dose to medical workers 30 and up and prison staff 40 and up

While trying to educate people about historical injustices – by posting reports about the past in the present tense – this American got himself in hot water

Greece's largest fire broke out on the country’s second-largest island of Evia and was still smoldering more than a week later, after having destroyed most of the island’s north

The news is one of the most significant signs of concern in President Joe Biden's administration about the security situation and the failure of the Afghan government to protect key cities

The launch of a new fundraising round, the surprising acquisition offers, the pandemic shake-up – Yael Vizel, a founder of the virtual fitting room startup Zeekit, talks about the sale of her firm to the giant American Walmart corporation for an es...

The drone was monitored by Israeli forces from the moment it entered Israeli airspace, military says in statement a day after the incident

Little to nothing was known about the range of the woolly mammoth. Now we know the life story of one young bull in Alaska thanks to the isotopes in a tusk

Tumarkin, whose works include monuments and sculptures found all over Israel as well as paintings and drawings, was a controversial artist who frequently spoke out against the establishment

The victim, who brings foreign workers from China to Israel to work in the construction industry, was pulled out of his car and forced into a van by a group wearing police hats

For years powerful entities with vested interests, whether petroleum giants or conservative politicians, tried to deny a connection between human activity and extreme weather events. Dr. Friederike Otto, a trailblazing scientist from Oxford, provides...

'On the Polish subject, I don’t think there needs to be continuity with the previous government's policy,' Foreign Minister Lapid says

Matthias Koch first visited Iran in 2015 out of curiosity to see beyond the headlines. What was supposed to be a tourist experience, turned into an impressive project that gives Iranian musicians access to new listeners around the world

The court reversed the conviction of a man for importing drugs found in a random search at Ben-Gurion Airport on his arrival from Amsterdam. He had not aroused suspicion justifying the search, the court ruled

The offer is limited to orders over $65 and mostly applies to tech products, a scaled-down version of pre-coronavirus policy

The newly released study 'Beyond the Count: Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color' is the first large-scale examination of the lived experiences and perspectives of Jews of color in the United States

Bullets, bayonet and grenades were found alongside remains during light rail works near Ammunition Hill, site of famed Six-Day War battle between Jordanian Legion and Israeli army

The official residence is set to undergo renovations, state tells High Court in response to a petition by Bennett's neighbors, who aren't happy with demonstrations near his private home in Ra'anana

Administering third COVID shots for Israelis in their 40s and 50s could start as early as next week, Bennett said

Israeli decision to build over 2,000 new settlement homes violates Biden's stance against unilateral steps, Palestinians say, hours before meeting between President Abbas and CIA director Burns

The shift to working at home full time or adopting a hybrid model is forcing the Israeli economy to adjust to a new reality. Experts say the impact will be felt not just financially, but culturally as well

At the inauguration of Israel's diplomatic mission in Morocco following normalization, Foreign Minister Lapid says the two countries will mutually open embassies in two months

The pro-Israeli lobby targeted four congresswomen, including Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, drawing criticism from J Street and prompting Tlaib to respond, ‘I am so sick of this shit’

Twelve percent of Jewish Americans are also the least likely to look to religious leaders for information on vaccines, tied for the least likely of religious groups surveyed

Former Transportation Minister Miri Regev demands there be a Mizrahi prime minister, asserting that 'after Bibi Netanyahu, the Likudniks must have a reckoning'

As Israel police roll out new department to combat surge in violent crime in Arab communities and aim to increase number of Arabs on the force, many prominent Arab voices contend the approach is inadequate and unsuitable

For every factor that could send the Israeli economy back into recession, there is one that could save it. It all depends if and how long the next lockdown is.

With Lapid visiting, officials say defensive cyber cooperation between Israel and Morocco already in swing: ‘Morocco is no chump in the cyber field’

Conservative pilgrims to Orban's Hungary, like Tucker Carlson and Rod Dreher, dream of a 'Christian democracy' in America, too. But their hug for Hungary's illiberal strongman, like their embrace of Trump, is all about opportunism

Aviv Kochavi says the IDF will crack down on soldiers who don't follow regulations after 40 Palestinians were killed by IDF fire in the West Bank since May 2021, including non-combatants killed by mistake

Upon investigation, Human Rights Watch said Hamas rocket attacks that killed 12 civilians in Israel, as well as a misfired rocket that killed seven Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip, 'violated the laws of war'

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said the government plans 'to accept serious cases of COVID and accept deaths,' then apologized. But she was telling the truth: if things continue, Israel might see 100 deaths a day

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton will next be given the opportunity to decide whether to affirm Former Education Minister Yoav Gallant's decision to withhold prize from Prof. Oded Goldreich

Numbers of seriously ill COVID cases continues to rise as Israel tightens gathering, proof of immunity restrictions

A member of a workers' group in the Arab east of the city had to wait nearly four hours before seeing a clerk. In the Jewish west, the visit was finished in an hour and 40 minutes

Members of CIA Director Burns' delegation told their Israeli counterparts that they have little faith in the talks being pushed by global superpowers to bring Iran back into the 2015 deal, Israeli officials report

The postponement – despite a 2018 deadline – is attributed in part to the absence of a state budget and repeated rounds of inconclusive Knesset elections

The mayor of Acre asserted last week that 'buses coming from the West Bank are a serious health problem,' since 'we know that almost nobody in the West Bank is vaccinated'

The new restrictions require Israelis aged three and older to adhere to the Green Pass rules, which involve proving immunity by presenting a negative COVID test, vaccination or recovery proof

Foreign Minister Lapid says 'Israel will not compromise on a single comma when it comes to the memory of the Holocaust' after Polish lawmakers approve law limiting restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis

The previous, heavily-criticized 'quality group' score assessed education, intelligence and suitability, the new version takes into account cognitive ability, resilience, managerial capabilities, adaptive capacity and more

Ahead of the inauguration of an Israeli mission in Rabat, Foreign Minister Lapid and Morocco's Bourita signed several cooperation agreements

Residents of the Neveh Kfir neighborhood have expressed opposition move, which was prompted by a shortage of space at kindergartens in the Hatikva neighborhood, where the children live

The move to approve construction in the West Bank's Area C, seen as part of the Israeli government's push to strengthen the PA's standing, also includes hundreds of settlement housing units, which Bennett wanted to push through before his upcoming me...