Even if the lockdown is extended – given the current state of enforcement and lack of law and order – no miracle can be expected that would significantly curb Israel's coronavirus infection rates in a week

After talks on joining Gantz's Kahol Lavan party fail, Itzik Shmuli announces he would take 'a time out' from politics

The Education Ministry announced the change in the wake of a Haaretz report that such proposals needed to be submitted in Hebrew, even though the papers themselves could be written in Arabic

Parties plan to run markedly different campaigns to distinguish themselves from each other, as latest polls find both with enough support to enter the Knesset in Israel's March election

Despite procedure to make it easier to indict someone for organizing illegal gathering, only indictment has been against someone who attended party while infected

The slowdown, which health workers believe stems in part from young people's view that coronavirus poses only a minor risk to them, could foil plans to fully immunize 5 million Israelis by April

Turnover in cafés cratered from 6 billion shekels ($1.8 billion) in 2019 to 2.75 billion shekels in 2020

Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and Biden cabinet members call on President Biden to reverse move to ease sanctions on Dan Gertler

Tesla's new Hebrew site invites customers to order cars for delivery in March, with plans to target the mainstream market

22-year-old nursing student was killed when he went outside to see the reason for the noise during a shootout between police and suspects

Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, from the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, praised hate crimes against Palestinians in 2013 in two opinion pieces

In first press briefing, State Department Spokesman Ned Price confirms aid to Palestinians will resume 'very quickly,' urges regional powers to build bridges in order to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace

The Economy Ministry is giving incentives to employers to hire students or fresh graduates who are Israeli Arab, Druze, Bedouin or Circassian

'It is not a bipartisan issue, it is a nonpartisan issue,' said co-chair of the Senate's Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-semitism, Republican Senator James Lankford

Years of neglect have created an unlivable situation, Tamra residents say, as the death of an innocent bystander in a police shootout attracts thousands of saddened and angry mourners

The toothbrushes seemed too new, there were too many cleaning products: Wasim Masis' case gives an insight into the many hurdles Jerusalem's Palestinians face when they apply to become Israeli citizens

The prime minister's Likud loses some support ■ Far-right alliance could score six seats, Yamina ten ■ United Arab List solo run might still take it into the Knesset

'Entire population in West Bank, Gaza must also be covered,' progressive lawmaker Jamaal Bowman says

An investigation by Al Jazeera claims that Bangladesh made a deal with Israeli spytech firm Picsix through a middleman: ‘The technology is very aggressive and intrusive’

While Israel is on course to vaccinate its entire population by the end of March, the Palestinians are likely to contend with major procurement and delivery problems for months

Buttigieg becomes the first openly gay Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary

Some moderate Israeli ultra-Orthodox say extremists' refusal to comply with coronavirus regulations will change the status quo in the upcoming election

Former Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein has been dubbed ‘the Bibi whisperer’ by the Israeli media and has been working full-time for the PM as a strategic adviser since June 2020

Three parties on the left or center of Israeli politics are now headed by former television stars who all learned their craft on live TV – and it’s no coincidence

Britain and many other countries have begun rolling out the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to try to stem the spread of the pandemic disease

Researchers said that based on a fall trial involving about 20,000 people in Russia, the vaccine is about 91% effective and appears to prevent inoculated individuals from becoming severely ill with COVID-19

Israel is the only OECD country that never fully reopened its school system. For many pupils, especially between the fifth and tenth grades, school exists only in the distant past and the uncertain future

The E484K mutation, which occurs on the spike protein of the virus, is the same change as has been seen in the South African and Brazilian variants

'We live in the Netherlands, not in the Middle Ages,' said Jolisa Brouwer, who had been chosen for the No. 3 slot on Islamic party’s ticket in next month’s national elections

Amnesty International reveals South Sudan is waging an aggressive campaign against journalists, human rights activists and critics – and Verint's spy-tech plays a role

The Hebrew University's Prof. Zakovitch has 'developed an exceptional method for identifying interrelationships between the books of the Bible, through word games and interweaving of motifs,' prize committee says

The nine House Democrats, known as House impeachment managers, in their brief also rejected Republican claims that it would be unconstitutional to put Trump on trial in the Senate since he is a private citizen

The online campaign for a proposed alternative to the Republican Party has heavily promoted 'Stop the Steal' events throughout the country, including the violent siege of Capitol Hill on Jan.

Iran denies any intent to weaponise enrichment. The nuclear deal sets a limit of 3.67% enrichment purity, suitable for producing civilian nuclear energy and far below the 90% that is weapons-grade

A judge can now only issue a non-conviction when the convicted party has committed a crime that isn't considered 'serious,' or if there is proof that convicting would cause 'tangible harm'

Omer Yankelevich becomes the latest in a long string of Kahol Lavan lawmakers to leave the party

U.S. Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said last week that people felt 'everyday people' were finally able to 'get back' at those who had all the marbles on Wall Street

Voting for niche parties is futile and they’re sick of empty promises. They haven’t forgotten who Netanyahu is, but they want influence from the inside

After eight weeks in a city paralyzed by COVID, I’m more certain than ever than that big cities are here to stay

'I do not deny any right / Whatever it would be / Of your Jews, Israel,' wrote Tawfiq Zayyad in 1970. A new biography about his life examines his important work

Trump took to a stage near the White House and exhorted supporters to 'fight' - using the word more than 20 times

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described being terrified for her life during the storming of the U.S. Capitol and later revealed she is 'a survivor of sexual assault'

Energy minister Yuval Steinitz says the Trump administration 'seriously damaged Iran's nuclear project and entire force build-up'

Turkey's government has harshly criticized recent protests, with President Erdogan praising his party's youth wing on Monday for 'not being the LGBT youth'

Israel has seen a decline in the average number of people each COVID carrier infects, but in recent days it has risen to nearly 1, while the number of seriously ill patients over age 60 decreases

Biden has already spoken to eight heads of state – the leaders of Canada, Mexico, Britain, France, Germany, NATO, Russia and Japan

Defense officials have argued for decades that such a pact would constrain Israel’s military operations. Former defense official says military chief Kochavi likely pressured to change position

Facebook debuted a new pop-up last week aimed at combating Holocaust denial on the platform

The U.S. death toll has climbed past 440,000, with over 95,000 lives lost in January alone. Deaths are running at about 3,150 per day on average

Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to McConnell on Twitter, suggesting that 'the real cancer for the GOP is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully'

The U.S. has said that it would seek Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh's extradition if his acquittal is upheld

By telling the Biden administration that reentering the Iran nuclear accord would be a ‘bad thing,’ IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is failing to learn the lessons of history and displaying the worst traits of Israeli security officials

Nursing student Ahmad Hijazi was killed by stray fire and a doctor who accompanied him was moderately injured

35.1 percent of Israel's population (3.2 million) was inoculated with first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while 20.1 percent has received their second jab (1.8 million)

Estimates of ‘just’ 90 centimeters sea level rise by 2100 ignore Antarctica’s slower but hefty contribution, warns oceanographer John Englander

The worn out and frustrated public has lost trust in the authorities and is increasingly flouting COVID-19 rules

Olive pits in stone circles found at now-submerged Chalcolithic site suggest people started pickling this fruit earlier than previously thought – but only after they learned to make oil

As Netanyahu fights his fourth battle for survival in two years in an election overshadowed by just one issue – COVID-19 – the ultra-Orthodox community’s brazen flouting of the lockdown is causing him deep damage

Students at the Bogazici University in Istanbul began their protests nearly a month ago, saying the appointment of Melih Bulu as rector was undemocratic

Israelis who meet the criteria and have tested negative for COVID in the previous 72 hours will be allowed to return, and spend at least 10 days at a state-run quarantine facility

Between 70,000-80,000 companies shut down last year, and tens of thousands will likely close this year as well

The U.S. intends to reopen Palestinian diplomatic missions shuttered by the Trump administration and restore U.S. aid to the Palestinians

Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman and Interior Minister Arye Dery have been working to ensure new homes ahead of the March election

State asks High Court to extend a law exempting yeshiva students from compulsory military duty through July 6, or until the next Knesset can tackle the issue

Ron Huldai's party seems to self-destruct in a month's time, due to a few bad decisions and calculations. Might he eke out a couple of Knesset seats just the same, enough to pay back those expensive loans?

Thousands vote in Labor Party primary ahead of the general election, as polls see its prospects improving after Merav Michaeli assumes leadership

Judge rules commander had been harassing three soldiers for their 'presumed political opinion'

Just ahead of deadline for submitting election slates, Tzipi Livni says she won't run: 'The power to save Israel isn't in my hands'

The opaque process will leave the 17-year-old from Ramallah in prison without the right of defense after he was initially released on bail

According to official, Palestinian enclaves are expected to receive 37,000 doses of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines starting in mid-February through COVAX, while Tunisia is due to receive 93,600 doses

Health Ministry previously recommended that vaccines not be given to those in first trimester because of risk of unrelated complications. Top official: Vaccine 'outweighs' COVID-19 complications

Iran says its satellite program is for scientific research but critics have long been suspicious of the program because the same technology can be used to develop long-range missiles

David Schoen, a member of the Zionist Organization of America's national board, has filed lawsuits in U.S. courts against the Palestinian Authority

As Biden 'temporarily' suspends F-35 deal, Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed realizes that he might find himself put on hold, and that relying on Israel might also turn out to be an unsteady prospect

All the leading Israel election polls in one place: Here are the parties projected to enter Knesset, ahead of the March 23 vote ■ Build your own coalition: Click the parties and try to get to 61 seats

Passengers say officer conducting inspection was deliberately discriminating and didn't check Jewish passengers at all, while police deny their claims

Those subjected to Israel’s occupation have been abandoned to the occupiers' cruelty, as a result of the weakness of the country's army, law enforcement and security establishment

No Israeli official would approve the visit to the Aero India Show because of the country's lockdown. Then Netanyahu intervened

'We have QAnon members of Congress. It's appalling,' said Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House's communications office for six years

Team of experts who advised Israel's National Security Council says control over crisis not achieved mainly due to lack of long-term policy and failure in curbing infection rates in COVID hotspots, such as Haredi communities

Meni Wakshtock and Efi Skakovsky aren’t afraid to tackle some sacred cows in their "Bardak" video skits. They insist they’re not meant to be taken too seriously, though

Cabinet set to debate lockdown extension ■ Netanyahu warns of 'massive and rapid spread' of British coronavirus variant ■ Palestinians start vaccination campaign

Last month, UN experts said Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium stockpiled for at least two nuclear weapons, if it chose to pursue them

Holocaust educators in Germany often report that Germans of Muslim origin respond ‘wrongly’ to discussions about Nazi atrocities: Rather than remorse, they react with anxiety, fear – and radical empathy

Israeli military says drone had fallen during operation near border demarcation known as the Blue Line and that there was 'no breach of information'

Decline reflects a splintering of white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups that are more difficult to track online

The Illinois congressman cited most Republicans’ seeming unwillingness to hold Trump accountable for his role in encouraging the violent protests and support for Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Ya'alon ran for three election campaigns with Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan, before leaving the party after Gantz joined a coalition with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

'A lot of what Biden has done has been unwinding what Trump had done,' said Kenneth Mayer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and expert on presidential powers and executive actions

For 40 years, Israel has allowed a radical separatism, fed by political extortion and impunity, to flourish. That Haredi sedition, empowered by its blatant defiance of COVID rules, is now a danger to the Jewish state

Remember Palestinian teen Amal Nakhleh? During his 40 days out of jail he tried to catch up with his studies and had some medical tests. But then he was sent to administrative detention – just as the Shin Bet had promised

Nominating the pair of former deputies to then-President Donald Trump was American attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was eligible to do so in his capacity as a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School

The delivery is the first out of a total of 5,000 COVID Israeli vaccines intended for healthcare workers in the West Bank, while Palestinian PM announces 50,000 vaccines will arrive in mid-February

Alongside the agreement, Noble struck a deal with the Israel Electric Corporation, under which the Israel Electricity Company will buy gas from the Tamar reserve at lower prices