Over 400,000 are eligible to vote for candidates in 154 West Bank village councils, a few months after the 86-year-old president indefinitely postponed national elections

Prof. Moran Bercovici and Dr. Valeri Frumkin developed cheap technology for making optic lenses, with the potential to produce glasses for developing nations where many have no access to them. Now, NASA says it could be used to make space telescopes

Workers' rights and solidarity have been severely undermined in recent years, but it seems that only the existential confusion of the pandemic has succeeded to shake up the capitalist order a bit

Palestinian paramedics are often attacked by Israeli soldiers, who prevent them from fulfilling their duty during clashes. Mohammed Omar was beaten and arrested in 2018 – a year when three of his colleagues were shot to death in Gaza protests. Rece...

A visit to Tel Aviv's Ludwipol neighborhood, which has been slated for demolition for decades and where 20 people live in houses that move

Lebanese military investigating cause of blasts at the Burj Shamali camp for Palestinian refugees

In return for its demands, the Islamic Republic is promising nothing but a vague willingness to roll back the significant nuclear advances it has made since 2019 following Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA

A former top Iranian official calls on Tehran to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, and revitalize relations with the United States and the West

Basem Lotfi Sarhan was shot at close range while sitting in his car in the village of Nahf

Palestinian prisoners have long used hunger strikes to pressure Israel to improve the conditions of their detention or to secure their release after being held without charges for months or years

In a video, the former PM accuses an anti-Netanyahu Facebook page of explicitly threatening him by publicizing the official expiration date of his security detail

The Palestinian suffered a head wound during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Beita, as part of a weekly protest against the illegal outpost of Evyatar

'Iran said it accepted to work from the June texts,' a European source says, after Iran reportedly reneged on compromises worked out earlier this year during last week's nuke talks

The directive, which upholds a 2017 Supreme Court ruling, will be binding on law enforcement agencies, who have failed to carry out this ruling in the past

Declassification of Israel's 1948 government discussions expose origins of discrimination in the country's education system

Police arrest two suspects after a group of people attack a Palestinian man in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah

Israel is 'prepared for any such attempt,' Defense Minister Benny Gantz says in Washington meeting with top researchers

PLUS: Why an Israeli video-on-demand service has just added Sally Rooney’s hit TV show ‘Normal People’ to its catalog – despite calls to boycott the BDS-supporting author

How do you count three days of quarantine? Leave it to the Israeli mind

Meanwhile, health experts have warned officials that a fifth COVID wave in Israel had begun

In a letter to the leaders of the Jewish Federations of North America, prime minister says he fully understands ‘the critical importance of visits by North American Jews to Israel’ and is doing everything to resolve the crisis

Shortly after his retirement this summer Haaretz reported an investigation into complaints against Yossi Cohen, involving possible breaches of ethics and information security

Eric Zemmour has reenergized a particularly French brand of noxious far-right racism and antisemitism. And his core thesis, and the reason he called his party 'Reconquest,' has another, very prominent Jewish advocate

Netanyahu says he 'greatly appreciates' Trump's contribution to Israel, but in the interest of preserving the Israeli-U.S. alliance, it 'was important to congratulate' Biden

‘I nearly stopped reading the newspapers,’ says one top Israeli defense official who’s in despair about the gap between the Iran headlines and reality ■ What the Israeli army must do to stem abuse of Palestinians

Crazy speeches by Likud lawmakers wouldn't usually be noteworthy if it weren't for Bibi taking the time to attend them ■ Bennett has learned he can use his left-wing partners as shabbes goys for halting settlement construction

Amid growing fears over the new omicron variant Prime Minister Bennett proposes a lockdown on all unvaccinated Israelis

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: A nurse and med student who sees unimaginable suffering every day, and a kibbutz member trying to the sell the world on the idea of cooperatives

Lawyers for the state and New York counties argued that the companies used deceptive marketing and failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of opioids as required by law

After turning Manhattanites on to real couscous, Ron and Leetal Arazi are sure that the next hot thing (literally) is matbucha, a cooked tomato-and-pepper delicacy

'I can assure you that if the Iranian regime suspects the United States of weakness, they will be sorely surprised,' says U.S. State Department spokesperson

For the first time since the 1994 peace treaty, Israel and Jordan are daring to forge mutual strategic dependence. Israel will supply Jordan with 25 percent of its water needs, while 8 percent of Israel’s renewable energy will originate in Jordan. ...

Non-residents will be barred entry into the country for another 10 days, as Israel mulls further COVID restrictions to prevent the spread of omicron

Israel's defense minister tells Secretary Austin he is 'totally confident in the commitment of the United States as a global power to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons'

The U.S.-led coalition began its mission in 2014 to defeat the Islamic State, after the militants took over vast areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria

With no ultra-Orthodox parties in Israel’s post-Netanyahu government, it seemed like a no-brainer that an egalitarian prayer space at the Kotel would finally be happening. So what’s stopping it?

Testimonies continue to pile up, documents are revealed, and gradually a broader picture emerges of the acts of murder committed by Israeli troops during the War of Independence. Minutes recorded during cabinet meetings in 1948 leave no room for doub...

Until last year, Yazan Hamdan, who started his career singing at weddings in Tul Karm, was an unknown. He’s now made the YouTube list of the most-viewed videos in Israel this year

You might have been able to outrun a T. rex, but not the theropod that left its tracks in Cretaceous Spain

Amnesty International’s Security Lab confirms phones were actually infected with NSO’s Pegasus software, just weeks after Apple alerted the victims to a ‘state-sponsored’ hack

Gantz’s opposition to shipping large amounts of crude oil from the UAE through Israel bolsters the position of other opposing cabinet members, including Israel's foreign and environmental protection ministers

Interior minister says Bennett to inaugurate dedicated plane ordered by predecessor Netanyahu and criticized by members of the current government for its price tag

Iran wants all sanctions re-imposed by the United States in 2018 after then President Donald Trump ditched the deal to be lifted

The Kingdom apologizes over 'Amira,' which depicts a Palestinian who was conceived by sperm smuggled out of an Israeli jail, only to find out a prison guard is her biological father

Some 3,000 years ago, Gezer vied with Jerusalem and Beit She'an for importance. Now it’s a rewarding archaeological site

Tomorrow.io will be publicly listed on NASDAQ through a merger with SPAC co. Pine Technology ■ Expected to raise up to $420 million ■ One of the SPAC’s goals – funding the company’s satellite launch

Prime Minister Bennett works with his own panel of experts that shapes COVID policy – usually without the involvement of other politicians

Antisemitic thinking, fueled by ignorance or malice, surfaces with extraordinary frequency in UK public discourse, from lawyers to playwrights and pop culture. What's troubling is how many people don't seem to see the racist stereotypes and conspirac...

Israel's Justice Ministry accepts the officers’ assertion that they acted in self-defense and decides to close the case against them

A high-profile delegation sent to the Gulf monarchy looks to tighten enforcement against Iran's second-largest trade partner in the shadow of nuclear negotiations, the Wall Street Journal reports

Study of DNA gleaned from permafrost shows we definitely did meet the mammoth in North America, and much later than had been thought

Bennett set to ramp up enforcement and proposes restrictions on unvaccinated Israelis ■ Serious COVID cases fall below 100 for the first time since July

Sissi's office stressed its efforts to secure peace based on a two-state solution and to prevent escalation between Israel and the Palestinians

Groundbreaking flood risk analysis factors in not only climate but beavers, badgers and porcupines, whose impact on lovely dirt levees is growing as their habitats shrink

The comment by a senior Israeli official follows an announcement by the Biden administration that it will refrain from sending a political delegation to the games in Beijing in protest at China’s human rights record

The mountaintop saw five centimeters of snowfall overnight, as the site remains closed for visitors. Temperatures due to rise across Israel over the weekend

Female golden orb-weavers spin large webs. The males strive to reach a particular point – and wait for the right moment to mate with her. Yet she poses a great danger

Prof. Yoel Rak challenged his colleagues at Tel Aviv University’s anthropology department, saying their groundbreaking find is in fact a run-of-the-mill Neanderthal. He says they responded by changing his locks

The public and bombastic declaration by Mossad chief, 'guaranteeing that Iran will never have nuclear weapons', is so embarrassing in its ignorance

'We're in this pickle because Iran's nuclear program is advancing to a point beyond which it has any conventional rationale,' an American officials says as Israeli defense minster's heads to Washington

The Israeli security establishment understands that any military action will include all facets of Israel's security apparatus, but action is not likely for years

The Israeli defense minister's visit comes after the head of the Mossad conducted a round of talks in Washington, as negotiations over Iran's nuclear program continue

Prisoners told police investigators they were repeatedly beaten in an alleged act of revenge perpetrated by the guards, a day after six inmates escaped from Gilboa Prison

It's typical for the Israeli mainstream to consider any nuanced attempt to understand the motives driving Palestinian violence a form of justifying it, but the difficulties of life in Sheikh Jarrah shed a complex light on the latest incident

Findings gathered by Clalit, Israel's largest HMO, reaffirm what medical professionals have long been saying about the effectiveness of a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

A meeting with Macron was a first step, and until Biden calls, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is trying to emulate what the UAE did to become an economic force

'Knesset members are permitted to receive gifts from relatives to assist in funding legal expenses,' Netanyahu says after attorney general says he must return $300,000 gifted to him from his cousin Milikowsky

The research may lead to the development of treatments that will prevent weight gain after quitting smoking

Committee set up after a major oil leak caused Israel's worst-ever maritime pollution urges the creation of an intelligence apparatus to prevent similar cases

Health Ministry says people infected with the omicron COVID variant will have to quarantine for 14 days instead of 10, as it may be contagious for longer than others

The conservative Kohelet Forum was asked to join brainstorming sessions on policy formation, in a move ministry officials say was highly unusual

Coalition members from Labor and Meretz shoot down vote on extending legislation increasing penalties on asylum seekers

More and more throughout the Islamic world, women are finding roles as educators, spiritual guides and even as judges in Islamic courts, but not without a backlash

Israel's defense minister says PFLP members managed the six groups he declared terror organizations, and that the NGOs allowed PFLP members to meet in their offices

Former National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat says Moscow shares Israel's view of Iran as a destabilizing regional force

The ministry has been preventing the publication of the draft report, detailing the involvement of medical officials in separating Mizrahi babies from their families and helping give them up for adoption – the first known instance of a ministry ack...

None injured, suspect faces several charges after Christmas tree at Fox News headquarters set on fire

Newly revealed information about José Antonio Kast's father adds a twist to a highly charged presidential runoff billed as a battle of extremes — between communism and freedom, authoritarianism and democracy

In a conference, Nature and Parks Authority staff discussed the dangers solar and wind installations pose to wildlife, and pose an alternative: Generation IV nuclear reactors

Warsaw's move follows a rift with Jerusalem over a law limiting restitution claims, and as it continues to discourage research into Polish collaboration with the Nazis

On Monday, the Jerusalem-based vehicle technology firm’s parent – Intel – announced that it was taking Mobileye public. The move benefits Intel, is it good for Mobileye?

Defense Ministry is proud of a new declaration that purchasers of Israeli cyber tech will be required to sign. But instead of tightening supervision, the ministry has only further shrugged its responsibilities

Danish study shows we prefer farmed salmon to wild, as long as we don’t know where the fish came from

In Qatar, Erdogan says that better ties with Israel would be 'beneficial' for peace in the wider region

Merkel will officially hand over the chancellery to Olaf Scholz as Germany faces a brutal fourth wave of COVID infections and challenges to its democratic order by authoritarian governments

Maya Reiten Stoll, a lawyer and single mother of two, was arrested last month while on a business trip for possession of medical cannabis

Israeli Defense Minister Gantz will arrive in Washington Thursday to step up pressure on the U.S. administration as nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers are set to restart