Reversing course, the organization representing Israel’s pediatricians is urging postpone the plan to exempt from quarantine schoolchildren who came into contact with a COVID carrier

Elpis has already brought snow to northern Israel, after causing disruptions in Greece and Turkey

At a Holocaust remembrance event, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says governments have a duty to teach about the Holocaust

Close to 1,900 kids in Israel receive homeschooling, with the coronavirus pandemic accelerating the number of applications by parents

Yemen's Houthis have stepped up their attacks on the UAE. Meanwhile, the more the U.S. is distracted by what is happening in Ukraine, the harder it is for Israel to continue applying pressure in the Iran nuclear talks

A young father has been in a psychotic state for weeks, his doctor and relatives say. Since he ran away and hit a soldier with his car, he's been in detention without access to medication. The Shin Bet isn't involved in the investigation, yet he's al...

Hundreds of children caught in the crossfire as Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces aided by U.S. troops attempt to storm the prison in after it was seized by militants last Thursday, leaving dozens dead

The power to impose a lockdown, require schools to switch to remote learning or impose restrictions on people leaving the country will be limited to a state of emergency only

No signs of violence were found on 27-year-old woman's body, leading the suspect's lawyer to suggest the cause of death was a ”medical complication” or that she had “used substances"

'My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control,' anti-vaccine activist says after backlash

Ayelet Shaked exploits a legal loophole to permit construction on Poleg beach, which connects two nature reserves and serves as an ecological corridor for wildlife

Negotiations with Integrity Partners, which seeks to acquire control of NSO in 2022-2023, are in advance stages. The plan: rebuilding NSO

Hundreds of thousands of migrants hoping to reach Europe have made their way through Libya, where a lucrative trafficking and smuggling business has flourished in a country without a functioning government

Dara Horn has connected with the broadest spectrum of Jews with her award-winning nonfiction book ‘People Love Dead Jews.’ She talks about its success and why she is tired of Jews being the canary in the coal mine

Following Haaretz's revelations, further footage and testimonies show that Jamal Hakhrush left the murder scene in Kafr Kana right after it happened, and returned 10 minutes later to escalation and a victim who had bled out

When a prime minister who is accused of corruption uses his power against the judicial and law enforcement systems, it’s no wonder that Israel is slipping in its corruption score

President Herzog is due to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed next week

Refusing to link Iran's economy to nuclear talks, the president has instead promoted a 'resistance economy' in order to circumvent sanctions, the benefits of which not felt by everyday citizens

J Street's 'action fund' for progressive pro-Israel candidates comes fresh on the heels of AIPAC's move last month, and explicitly seeks to counter groups 'spending millions' to push candidates to the right

A report by Israel's national coronavirus information center states COVID wards in hospitals across the country have reached 'all-time high' capacity

An immigrant to Israel from North Carolina got relatives of his Dutch-born wife to meet online and learn about their Jewish family that has been in the Netherlands for centuries

Relief at temple of pre-Islamic goddess shows that Hatra, a buffer state between the Persian and Roman empires, created hybrid camels by mating species from Central Asia and Arabia

Vegetarianism wasn’t born yesterday. Greek and Roman philosophers were among the earliest to practice a ‘green diet’ and to defend animal rights

Gaming in Israel is becoming as big as hi-tech. Local firms are rooted in online gambling, producing games designed to extract more and more money out of users

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is just the latest high-profile figure to equate COVID restrictions with the Shoah. Holocaust experts warn it could lead to more antisemitic attacks and create a new wave of deniers

NSO’s Pegasus spyware was reportedly used by Israeli police to snoop on mayors and protesters without warrant, but chairman says he’s leaving for other reasons

Israel had the potential to be the first country in the world to detect side effects of the coronavirus vaccines. And it did detect two, almost by accident. But its disregard for more minor effects cost it public trust

'How can I know that tomorrow they won’t come to my village and throw me out of there?' asks Palestinian columnist and author Odeh Bisharat. Upon publication of his new novel, he talks about understanding Arab youth's anger bursts and his readers b...

Adler, who established what would become one of Israel’s largest advertising firms, was a close advisor to political leaders, including former Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert

As escalation grows, the Saudi-led coalition says the facility in Yemen's Saada was not included on a no-target list agreed with UN agencies

Naor was part of several landmark rulings, including overruling a law to keep asylum seekers in detention, and she authored the ruling abolishing the draft exemption for yeshiva students

His grandfather was assassinated, his father incapacitated. Now Hussein was king of Jordan, and Israel needed a covert, deniable but direct line to the palace in Amman. Newly declassified, here's the surprisingly intimate route its agents took

Seven U.S. Jewish organizations call on the Israeli government to take 'unequivocal action' against settler violence that has been 'increasing and intensifying over the past year'

The 29-year-old pregnant woman and her one-year-old daughter were rushed to hospital in a serious to moderate condition. The hospital says the fetus is a stable condition

77 years after Auschwitz was liberated, Yad Vashem releases several videos and launches a website to remember those who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Arye Dery, who is accused of tax evasion and has resigned his Knesset seat, will pay a 180,000 shekel fine and receive probation time

The recommendation will expand Israel's fourth COVID dose rollout, previously limited to Israelis above 60 and at-risk adults, but still awaits the Health Ministry director-general approval before implementation

Both Russia and China see the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, disengagement from the Middle East and its diminishing interest in intervening in crises as proof that the international system is ripe for change

Israeli health experts think it is too early to determine that omicron will make COVID endemic, and that antibodies from the less virulent variant won't necessarily provide long-term protection

Police Comissioner's testimony among those expected to be pushed back due to the death of Miriam Naor, former Supreme Court president and chair of the commission

Institute for National Security Studies' annual report also cites domestic polarization and failure to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as major strategic threats to Israel

The number of Jewish students in Israel taking the exam has dropped by a third over the past five years

Brig. Gen. Hakhrush offered no assistance to the victim, who died of his wounds, and an investigation found that senior police officials were aware of the incident but disregarded it

In a video of the incident, soldiers are seen standing at the side of the road and a military jeep is seen driving behind the settlers' vehicles

Israel started administering a fourth COVID dose to most vulnerable groups as omicron surged

As one of the few countries to have close diplomatic ties with both Kyiv and Moscow, Israel will be aiming to stay on the sidelines if the two sides go to war

Following clashes between Jews and Arabs across Israel during May’s Gaza war, the campaign by residents of the Tel Aviv suburbs of Kafr Qasem and Rosh Ha'ayin waned, but it has since been revived

Netanyahu’s announcement comes after his lawyers received a message from AG Mendelblit that negotiations with him would not be possible and that they would have to wait for the appointment of his successor

At least 180 inmates and militants and 27 security forces have reportedly died since ISIS fighters attacked the jail in Hasaka last week in a bid to free their members

Police use of NSO's spyware was never 'brought to my attention,' former minister Amir Ohana says ■ Public security minister orders staff to look into existing wiretapping laws

Acclaimed Israeli filmmakers Joseph Cedar and Hagai Levi respond to the uproar over 'JewFace,' the term coined by comedian Sarah Silverman for non-Jewish actors being cast as Jewish characters

Not only were the Mesopotamians growing millet, a thirsty summer crop, before the Neo-Assyrians introduced irrigation: They were early adopters of multi-cropping at least 3,500 years ago

With about 23 million people, more than half the country, facing severe hunger and nearly 9 million on the brink of starvation, the Taliban is expected to demand the release of $10 million in frozen assets

As Anshel Pfeffer and Dahlia Scheindlin dissect Bibi's latest legal drama, listen in as Omer Benjakob discusses the latest NSO scandal, all with host Allison Kaplan Sommer

Andrei ‘Andrusha’ Sawoniuk was the only Nazi collaborator to stand trial in a British court for his crimes. A gripping new book tells the remarkable story of how justice was finally served, 50 years late

Police say shots were fired during a brawl in the Bedouin village of Sawa

Turkey and Greece face frigid temperatures and heavy snow, as Israel braces for winter storm Elpis

The Tunisian president claims that the new political system he is proposing would provide the public with better representation, but his real goal is to assume more powers for himself

Having difficulty remembering information? Size might matter for you. Larger pictures are remembered better than small ones, regardless of resolution, Israeli researchers discover. Size might also affect the way we remember texts

'Iran has never accepted any preconditions by the United States,' Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says after U.S. lead negotiator says nuclear deal unlikely if Iran does not release American hostages

Elpis, which will bring 'a significant drop in temperatures' on Wednesday, is the fifth storm to be assigned a moniker by the newly formed East Mediterranean Storm Naming Group of Greece, Cyprus and Israel

America’s decision to withdraw its support for the EastMed pipeline, upsetting Greece and to Turkey's delight, is due partly to confused climate change politics

Nusrat Ghani’s claim has deepened the rifts roiling Johnson’s governing party, which is being wracked by allegations of lockdown-breaching parties in the prime minister’s office

The patrol over Syria's borders, which involved fighter, fighter-bomber and early warning and control aircraft, will occur regularly, Moscow says

The 2022 draft budget is expected to include tax increases in a country struggling to deal with soaring poverty levels and hyperinflation, also proposing deficit spending which critics charge will further hyperinflation

NSO-Israel Police affair proves we need to rethink the way we oversee surveillance technologies. The solution: Israel needs a privacy czar

Tensions in Ukraine have been climbing for months after the Kremlin massed some 100,000 troops near its border, in what Western countries see as preparation for war to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO

The leading Sunni Muslim politician's announcement comes as Lebanon suffers an economic meltdown which the World Bank has described as one of the sharpest ever globally

In Nazi Germany, 'You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,' anti-vaccine activist says on public health policies – triggering strong backlash, including from Auschwitz memorial museum

Some residents of the southern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kfar Shalem have refused to leave until they receive adequate compensation for their evictions, meant to make way for construction of a new light rail

Like a terrorist, Putin is holding Ukraine hostage to extort ransom demands from the West. So why is Germany backing the autocrat in the Kremlin who is so actively working towards a ‘Greater Russia’?

As threat of Russian invasion looms, top officials examine possibility of emergency evacuation for up to 75,000 Ukrainians thought to be eligible for Israeli citizenship under Law of Return

Naor has been part of several landmark rulings, including overruling a law to keep asylum seekers in detention, and authored the ruling abolishing the draft exemption for yeshiva students

'Military action by Russia could come at any time,' the U.S. Embassy said in a statement as tensions in Ukraine rise

Missile fragments fell harmlessly over the capital, the state news agency said, a week after Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed an attack on the capital that killed three people

Brig. Gen. Jamal Hakhrush, who headed the administration to improve police services to the Arab community, offered the victim no aid, and didn't try to stop the suspect ■ Police announce investigation, Hakhrush on leave

Even if the inquiry approved by the government doesn’t incriminate Netanyahu, as many of its supporters ardently believe it will, evidence has accumulated about the rot in the defense establishment’s procurement system

Maher Anati, arrested last April, was suspected of attempting a knife attack in the West Bank, but was released and immediately placed under administrative detention

The current COVID wave is expected to peak in the coming week, with as many as 100,000 confirmed cases a day, and in early February herd immunity will lead to a 'significant decline' in figures

For a prime minister like Bennett, sitting on the fence isn’t a model of leadership. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has another big (and expensive) problem that he has brought on himself

'It is very hard for us to imagine getting back into the nuclear deal while four innocent Americans are being held hostage by Iran,' Special Envoy Robert Malley said, as eighth round of indirect negotiations continue

Most violent attacks by West Bank settlers are not random acts of hooliganism. They are harnessed to a strategy, a political objective wholehearted endorsed by sections of the current Israeli government

The Israeli cabinet had made earlier changes amid demands for diversity, but it was particularly slow to add Arab Israelis

Esrail forged passports and identity documents, helping many avoid death at the hands of the Nazis, before being sent to Auschwitz and forced to walk in a death march

Israeli source says ministers discuss initiatives to improve the Palestinian economy ■ Lapid recently also met with the head of Palestinian intelligence services