From antiquity, human milk has been the most controversial of all bodily fluids

Seven-day average for new COVID cases nearly triples in two weeks, as U.S. hospital systems prepare for strain

The Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, which has been experiencing massive protests, is an important source of oil and a lucrative market for Israeli arms sales

Although the High Court abstained from issuing the order against the home of Eliyahu Kay's murderer, the filing of the petition against it automatically freezes the demolition

While the epicenter was reported in western Cyprus, shocks from the earthquake led dozens of Israelis to call the police

Orban's 2018 visit to Israel drew sharp condemnation from Yair Lapid, then in the opposition and now foreign minister – and who is planning an official visit to Hungary

More than a third of children and teens in grades five to 12 reported suffering emotional problems in 2021, up 10 percentage points from 2019, a study conducted by Bar-Ilan University has found

The Gaza Health Ministry urges the international community to press Israel to let more medical equipment in

Lapid's deputy at the Foreign Ministry is also isolating after having contracted COVID

The former officials express concern over the formation of two Political Action Committees to help fund candidates’ election races, questioning whether it will endanger the group’s lobbying efforts on behalf of Israel

Fifteen sewage treatment plants were torched in recent years, mostly for suspected protection rackets. The police tell corporations to hire security guards

'Nothing was done that wasn’t done to other detainees in other cases,' says officer who interrogated Netanyahu's ex-aide turned state's evidence Nir Hefetz, after allegations of cruel treatment

The Health Ministry's advisory panel says data shows quarantine time can be reduced to a week, while also saying there still isn't enough information justifying giving second COVID boosters to people under 60

When an argument ensues over which side made concessions in the nuclear negotiations, it is safe to say that concessions were made. The question is were they enough to reach an agreement

Nearly half a million Israelis qualify for citizenship, but are not defined as Jewish by halakha. The Central Bureau of Statistics is now expected to stop using the offensive term ‘other’ to define them

PA calls on the Netherlands to continue its funding for one of six Palestinian civil society groups Israel labeled as terrorist organizations

Israel has officially reopened its borders to tourists, yet many tourists are staying away as COVID infection rates skyrocket. But that doesn’t mean no one is planning to visit

The Egyptian government's years-long crackdown on dissent has stifled many of the country's civil society groups and jailed thousands

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian will also be in China at the end of this week, but it remains unclear whether he will join his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain

Yad Vashem director calls growing trade in Nazi memorabilia ‘a moral stain’ and is examining legislation that would outlaw it

United Arab List leader threatens to boycott Knesset deliberations on Jewish National Fund work on land used by locals for agriculture

The real engine behind the incredible returns Israelis have been enjoying is the U.S. stock market. Double-digit returns have become the standard – but for how long and at what cost to the economy and society?

The Orthodox world has been shaken before by charismatic figures who have abused and defiled our faith in them. But something feels grimly different in the case of Chaim Walder, accused of serial sexual abuse

Tel Aviv's mayor has publicized a plan to renovate part of the Carmel Market for the sake of 'the coming generations.' But behind the words lurks a process that will destroy the last remnant of Tel Aviv of yore

The dismissal comes a day after the official criticized in an interview a legislation passed in 2018 originally seeking to outlaw blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes

Israeli data suggest that only 13 inpatients have omicron, but figures are very partial since some hospitals don’t even have PCR test kits that can diagnose the new variant

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup against Suu Kyi's democratically elected government led to widespread protests and signaled the end of 10 years of tentative political reforms

When exposed to a COVID carrier, people should take more than one test or at least wait three days since exposure before testing with rapid kits, top Israeli health official says

Israel's Health Ministry announces that people self-testing for COVID should swab their throat as well as their nose when using antigen test and wait at least three days since exposure before testing with rapid kits

After filing a libel suit against Olmert, the Netanyahu family fail to reach a compromise with the former PM, meaning the cases will go to court

A well-known public figure and activist, Aura Herzog was the wife of Chaim Herzog and mother of Isaac Herzog

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hates COVID lockdowns, but mass quarantines and long testing lines as a result of the omicron variant's uncontrolled spread come at a cost too

Israel is trying to keep its economy open and avoid another lockdown for as long as possible. However, tens of thousands of new COVID infections may render basic services obsolete

The Police Commissioner allegedly wanted to dismiss the officer from his post because he suspected he leaked to the media information about his unwillingness to restrict access to the site of the disaster last April

"Once his employer failed to strictly comply with safety regulations ... he should not be allowed to point the finger of blame at the worker for failing to demand this,” Justice David Mintz wrote in the ruling

Project has created the single largest repository in the world of online materials related to Eastern European Jewish life

Antigen tests are selling like hot cakes, and prices are shooting up ■ Israel is approving the sale of at-home test kits across almost all places that sell food and beverages

Fire at 19-story apartment building in the Bronx leaves another 13 hospitalized in serious condition ■ Fire not thought to be suspicious, but cause under investigation

Judge scolds opposition leader, his wife and their son for last-minute request to skip hearing in defamation suit against former prime minister

Principals have been left trying to cope with Israel's demand that schools stay open despite some 40,000 students and teachers had tested positive for COVID and 78,000 were in quarantine

The frustration of the Israeli public grows amid ever-changing COVID regulations, a shift to the less-reliable antigen tests, and long lines at testing facilities across the country

Parliament now has 30 days to elect the country's new president, who will then ask the largest bloc in parliament to form a government

The White House says Iran's sanctions imposed on dozens of Americans over the 2020 killing of General Qassem Soleimani comes as proxy militias continue to attack U.S. troops in the Middle East

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem says he believes radical Israeli groups aim to drive the Christian community from the old city, which has sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Bennett says information presented to cabinet shows that up to 2-4 million Israelis will be infected with COVID during the current wave ■ Expert panel will meet Sunday to discuss expanding drive of fourth shot to additional groups

'We have been working on outreach to the Arab world, into the Arabic-speaking public here in Israel for over a decade, and we have slowly built up a rich set of resources,' said the head of the library's collections

Director Adam McKay has made a successful climate change movie without ever mentioning the phrase once, which is a neat trick. But there are better options out there

The Yesh Atid leader founded his party in January 2012 and, despite early skepticism from many in the media, is now counting down the days until he becomes Israel’s 14th prime minister in August 2023

The village of artist Efrat Hakimi’s mother’s family, in the High Atlas, no longer exists even on maps. With the opening of her new show she talks about migration, memory and her journey

An Israeli court is now debating whether TikTok’s decision to ban the professor for ‘violent, racist, sexist’ hate speech infringes on his freedom of expression

The group charged Israel's Mossad was behind the murder of Fadi al-Batsh, which a New York Times report alleged was part of a Mossad operation to take out Hamas scientists and engineers training abroad

The amendment to the Citizenship Law expired in July following a mutiny in the coalition. Israel's cabinet is set to table the bill once again, but there are no guarantees it will secure a majority in the Knesset this time around

From Orban to Le Pen, Europe’s nativist, anti-Muslim far right is affirming its grim alliance with Bosnia’s belligerent Serb nationalists, joining endorsements from Russia and China

Fear of getting on a plane was a problem for many people long before COVID. Pilot Alon Pereg has drawn on 40-plus years’ flight experience to help create an app that could assuage the concerns of aerophobes

Following calls by artists to boycott Australia’s most prestigious cultural event over Israeli funding, a Hollywood-based pro-Israel group is leading the response against BDS 'censorship' with a 120-strong open letter

'The guns have started to threaten all of us, even in our own homes,' says the mayor of the Bedouin village in northern Israel, where 3-year-old Ammar Hujayrat was killed by a stray bullet

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

The state tells High Court of Justice that it fears automatic work permits for LGBTQ asylum seekers that would reduce the chances of those Palestinians finding a permanent solution outside of Israel

University of Haifa researchers studied over a dozen species of songbirds and were surprised to find female molting patterns are determined by coloring of the males

Very little early Christian art has survived the centuries in the Holy Land – but then an Israeli art historian looked at the apse of a ruined Byzantine church in Shivta, and saw Jesus’ face and short curly hair

As Hezbollah drones increasingly conduct tactical reconnaissance missions, the Israeli army's situation room dedicated to the aerial threat has also become efficient

The currency is at roughly half the value of a year ago, but Turkey’s president refuses to raise interest rates. His popularity is plummeting as prices rise; lucky for him, he can forestall an election by over a year

Why is Israel still appeasing the ultra-Orthodox radicals who seek to erase and exclude women?

The number of seriously ill COVID patients has tripled in 18 days ■ 14 percent of Israelis over 20 are unvaccinated, yet they account for 50 percent of serious cases

‘Targeting our kid’s play space is so disturbing': When violent settlers pick on Palestinian children in the West Bank village of Susya, backed by the Israeli army, it’s part of a larger strategy of intimidation and dispossession

Israel prepares to welcome vaccinated tourists back amid omicron outbreak, logs record 18,780 new COVID infections and a rise in severe cases

The army, rebel groups, political parties and representatives from protest movements in Sudan will be invited to the UN talks in a bid to get the transition to 'democracy and peace' back on track after the October coup

Transcripts obtained by Haaretz reveal that the deputy prison commissioner disobeyed an order to block cellphone service in Gilboa Prison, a move which assisted six Palestinian prisoners escape in September

The Education Ministry failed to implement necessary changes when the school system was faced with COVID-induced problems, report concludes

Parts that took less than a month to get into Gaza now take up to five months, leading to breakdowns, releasing sewage to the sea and reducing the quality of drinking water

The move, which awaits the results of a government-run research, would cut quarantine in half for COVID carriers, in line with CDC recommendations

In 2020, Princess and rights activist Basmah Bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said via her social media channels that she had been held in the capital Riyadh for more than a year and was sick

UN mediation in the weeks after the coup succeeded in reinstating Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, but his resignation last week sparked a wave of deadly protests

Ramy Shaath, the son of a prominent Palestinian politician, was deported after more than two years in pre-trial detention over allegations of having ties with the Muslim Brotherhood

The strikes hit a camp for displaced people, though Ethiopia denies targeting civilians in the 14-month conflict with rebellious Tigrayan forces

Whether COVID lingers or disappears for good, it looks like Zoom is here to stay, having upended how interior designers and architects work. Welcome to the world of virtual design

Ramy Shaath was arrested in July 2019 at his home in Cairo and accused of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Egyptian government designated as a terrorist organization in 2013

Levan Kogeashvili, 22, was killed in the city of Almaty amid ongoing anti-government protests

The FeelBeit project is trying to harness art to forge ties between Jerusalem's Jewish, Palestinian, secular and religious communities. Participants push each other's most sensitive buttons – but the experience is transformative

One of the three arrested includes the son of Zakaria Zubeidi, who escaped from Gilboa prison in September, as footage of the arrest caused dozens of gunmen to take to the streets

Two of the three, Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael, are sentenced to life with no parole, while William “Roddie” Bryan could seek parole in 30 years

The world-famous star was known for taking on roles that were not permitted to Black actors before him, portraying nuanced characters during a time of profound changes in American race relations

The army continues to expel residents of this Jordan Valley village when it trains on their land

Billions have been wasted trying to rebuild Afghanistan, a failure akin to the Iraqi army’s 2014 defeat to ISIS. With countries from Turkey to China talking with the Taliban, it will be very hard for Biden’s sanctions to work

Forget about Black Friday: Global supply chain problems, EU regulations and the end of the pandemic boon spell major problems for Israel’s Riskified

Demonstrations that began as a response to a fuel price hike have swelled into a movement against the government and ex-leader Nursultan Nazarbayev