A Finance Ministry report found that parental education and financial security were key factors in entrepreneurial success, and that the exalted universe of Israeli startups is far from meritocratic

George Haswani denied any wrongdoing after Reuters reported that his company shared an address with the company responsible for ordering the chemicals that led to August's deadly explosion

After much deliberation, the museum will be located in the capital city to make it easier for the general public to visit

Israeli defense officials say upcoming election and new U.S. president make Kochavi’s comments on the 2015 nuclear deal and plans for military action ill-timed

Leifer, who is standing trial by video link following her extradition from Israel in January, was silent as the 74 charges against her were read out

Hoping to inquire into human-turtle relations in prehistory, a study finds spotty evidence of turtle consumption in the East Mediterranean – and it wasn’t because they were hard to catch

Call between Blinken and Ashkenazi is second high-level one between U.S. and Israeli officials in the week since Inauguration Day – while Netanyahu has yet to get a call from President Biden

In terms of encouraging people to move to Israel's northern and southern peripheries, the coronavirus has succeeded where decades of government policy have failed

Some 25,000 self-employed people and their family members fell into poverty in Israel in 2020, advocacy group reports

The airports authority says there shouldn’t be a problem with cargo flights and therefore shipping times shouldn’t be impacted, but shipping companies say some packages arrive on passenger flights

Israelis coming back from a Dubai vacation sometimes find themselves throwing chairs when learning about their country’s latest tool for tackling the coronavirus

Attorney General Mendelblit said new material convinced him to change his decision on Netanyahu's funding

Even those attacks that get reported to police have led to nothing, as Palestinians take the brunt of Israeli settlers' anger over the death of an Israeli teen

'This reality is the complete opposite of the public perception of prostitution,' activist says following disturbing report on the emotional pain suffered by women in prostitution

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his confirmation hearings last week that the Biden administration would 'take a hard look' at the UAE F-35 sale

Rift between the religious United Arab List and other member parties of the Joint List results in split, with final configuration of election slates still unclear

'The Holocaust was no accident of history,' Biden says, comparing the rhetoric heard during the rise of Nazism to that of the 2017 Charlottesville rally

Earlier this week, the president of the European Jewish Congress called on all countries in the EU to ensure that Holocaust survivors have access to coronavirus vaccines as quickly as possible

At confirmation hearing, Linda Thomas-Greenfield pledges to 'stand against the unfair targeting of Israel' at the UN, hopes to get support of states involved in recent normalization pacts

Blinken, a longtime Biden confidant, lists COVID, climate change and fights for racial justice among the many challenges to tackle

The B-52 flew nonstop from Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base into the region earlier in the day

Three cases detected in random sampling of COVID tests show the more infectious variant has managed to break through Israel's testing and isolation screenings

By attacking the United States' still-unformulated Iran policy, IDF chief Aviv Kochavi is ingratiating himself with Netanyahu – and irritating the new White House

GOP signals unwillingness to part with Trump after riot

'To remember is an expression of humanity. To remember is a sign of civility. To remember is a condition for a better future of peace and fraternity,' said Francis

The 33-year-old Columbia University graduate, who has already racked up 110,000 followers, hopes to inspire users to 'create a connection between a person and a tree'

From telling Donald Trump about a terrorist attack that was actually a road accident to waging war on indoor smoking in Israel, these are the key moments in Erdan's political career

Alongside the benefits of digitization, the online arena poses a unique threat to the memory of the Shoah, from Holocaust distortion to denial, and even fake history

'Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent in these really evil theories,' Gates said

On Tuesday, new CDC rules took effect requiring nearly all international air travelers aged 2 and older to present a negative coronavirus test

Enrique Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the right-wing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be Antifa

On Tuesday, Aviv Kochavi said the U.S. returning to nuclear deal is 'bad and wrong,' warned that Israel was drawing up plans for armed confrontation

COVID-19 Vaccination campaign expanded to those 35 and older ■ Israel closes borders, Tel Aviv airport shut

The police have asked that the man be kept in custody, but the judge says testimony shows the patient never threatened to hurt Netanyahu

A Telegram bot claims to have the numbers of 533 million users from around the world as a result of a Facebook security vulnerability that was fixed in 2019. For $20 you can buy one

Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi has warned the new administration against returning to the Iranian nuclear deal, but he shouldn’t be lecturing Israel’s key ally

Kevin McCarthy is facing a renewed challenge with Marjorie Taylor Greene, while GOP Congressman Dan Newhouse is facing calls at home to resign for his vote to impeach Trump

Many Holocaust survivors in the United States, Israel and elsewhere find themselves in a state of previously unimaginable isolation due to the coronavirus

Pandemic lockdowns pushed Holocaust memorials to produce innovative, immersive and interactive ways to engage with a distanced audience, from Zoom testimonies to concentration camp tours on Instagram Live

With new polls showing 78 percent of center-left voters would prefer a coalition without ultra-Orthodox parties, Lapid is seeking to exploit his base's frustrations, yet will steer clear of running an anti-Haredi campaign

City preparing to vaccinate tens of thousands of asylum seekers from Tel Aviv and other cities in dedicated compound that is being set up

Modi’s relentless endorsement of Trump earned India few tangible benefits. And now he faces the mother of all political hangovers with a U.S. administration headed by the people his own media relentlessly trolled

Two cops were attacked when enforcing coronavirus restrictions on gatherings in Bnei Brak last week

The assessment grades 10 social media platforms according to their respective Holocaust denial and general hate speech policies, response rates and enforcement actions. Twitch ranked highest with a 'B' rating

The Health Ministry has flagged the higher level of contagion among the new variants and the public’s lower-level observance of COVID restrictions as the cause for high infection rates

Israel is the only country in the world to close its airport. Instead of a proportionate, thought-out COVID policy that could have brought about the same result with less damage, Israel chose again to go with a single dramatic, aggressive move

Bee-io is working on developing cultured honey via an artificial bee stomach that imitates the enzymes and conditions inside actual honeybees

A Tel Aviv District Court Judge ruled that Apple can indeed be sued in Israel, paving the way for other suits against other multinational tech companies as well

Lebanon and Israel are still in a formal state of war and have long contested their land and maritime borders

Mayors of nearby cities also oppose the plan to put up 36,000 apartments in space being vacated by Israeli Military Industries moving their plants to the south

Avichai Mendelblit tells High Court he didn't know when approving the money transfer, meant to cover the prime minister's legal fees, that Netanyahu had business ties to his cousin Nathan Milikowsky

Channel 12 poll has Labor getting enough votes to enter Knesset following election of new leader, with Netanyahu and his likely allies two seats short of majority

The two advisers allegedly violated a ban barring civil servants from engaging in political activity

The source said the domestic intelligence agency had classified the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as a 'suspicious entity' representing a potential threat to the democratic order

Victims of coronavirus made up five percent of the 17,000 Holocaust survivors who died during the year, Israel’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority says ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Baron, 66, expanded the Post newsroom from 580 journalists when he arrived to over 1,000 this year. The newsroom won 10 Pulitzer Prizes under his leadership

'We’re watching a profound change taking place in American society and it’s happening very fast. The stakes could not be higher,' warns Carlson

Peretz defied newly elected Chairwoman Merav Michaeli, who ordered him and Social Services Minister Itzik Shmuli to resign from government, but the move could help the party's image ahead of the March 23 vote

Head of mission arrives in Rabat for first time since Morocco suspended ties with Israel in 2000

Virus spreads after employee tests positive as a carrier of the British variant

Blinken is a longtime Biden confidant who has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate before, most recently to serve as No. 2 at the State Department

Amid talk of a Biden administration return to the 2015 deal, Kochavi says 'anything resembling the current agreement is bad and must not be permitted'

Britain has the fifth highest toll globally and reported a further 1,631 deaths and 20,089 cases on Tuesday, according to government figures

Canada's parliament called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to 'use all available tools to address the proliferation of white supremacists and hate groups'

It remains unclear how Biden's administration might tackle Lebanon

The new administration's Middle East policy 'will be to support a mutually agreed, two-state solution, in which Israel lives in peace and security, alongside a viable Palestinian state,' acting ambassador tells the UN Security Council

Other potential executive actions in the works include reforms targeting prosecutorial decisions and sentencing, as well as policies involving voting and other civil rights laws

Protests broke out this month on the 10th anniversary of Tunisia's 2011 revolution that inspired that Arab Spring and introduced democracy

Ski resorts no longer exempt from some regulations following anger over parties taking place as country has observed two months of strict nighttime and weekend curfews

Using Yanbu, as well as air bases at Tabuk and Taif along the Red Sea, would give the American military more options along the crucial waterway

Yellen, 74, made history in 2014 when she became the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve

A soccer team and a beer factory are forgotten evidence of the active Jewish life in Oswiecim, the town next to the Auschwitz extermination camp. A 29-year-old Israeli has decided to go live there

Camille Kouchner's new book - in which she accuses the jurist and media personality Olivier Duhamel of raping his stepson, her twin brother - sparked a #MeTooIncest movement in France. Now experts weigh in on the scandal: 'It’s true that in leftist...

More than 1 million people in Israel have received both doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 while some 2.7 million received the first dose

'We do not allow content that asks for people's medical information,' said a Facebook spokeswoman, following a post seeking phone numbers to call and convince people to get COVID-19 vaccinations

Tel Aviv airport is shut ■ Health minister wants to extend lockdown by at least a week ■ Over 1 million receive second vaccine dose

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, speaking at the same ceremony for swearing in judges, insisted the courts were apolitical, rejecting accusations to the contrary by Israeli politicians and pundits

The PM’s strategy toward the ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities could yet backfire, while the COVID-19 mutation threatens to imperil his desired timetable for reopening the country

Tomas Zeron De Lucio is wanted for his role in the abduction and murder case of 43 students. He also helped bring NSO’s tech to Mexico. Now he’s hiding in Israel, Mexican FM says

Saudi Arabia's finance minister says, 'We are negotiating with a lot of the vaccination companies to provide more vaccinations particularly to low income countries'

On Saturday, the Saudi-led military coalition operating in Yemen had said it had intercepted and destroyed an 'enemy air target' launched towards Riyadh

A new online photography exhibition at Yad Vashem examines the lives of Jewish children right after the Holocaust

Yang's op-ed, which reads that 'BDS unfairly singles out Israel for unfair economic punishment,' sparked fierce debate between pro-Israel, progressive Democrats

The remarks by Iran's Cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei are part of pressure Tehran is trying to exert on the U.S. to get the new U.S. administration to quickly return to the 2015 deal

The most recent wave of the coronavirus is more aggressive than its predecessors, and hospitals report a profound impact on their care and morale

The violence in Haredi communities this week over police enforcement of the coronavirus lockdown is the price the rabbis are paying for autonomy

17-year-old assailant attempted to stab two soldiers near Nablus, army says; no soldiers were wounded

Protests rage on over the Israeli teen who died in a police chase after stone-throwers in the West Bank and a Haredi demonstration against a new light rail

The Cordoba government reported that the alleged assailants were arrested in connection with the physical and verbal attack on a family

Sources say army is unmoved by state's dire economic situation, refuses to back down from request for additional 3 billion shekels ■ Military sidesteps treasury, goes straight to Netanyahu