A 53-percent reduction in new coronavirus cases, a 39-percent decline in hospitalizations and a 31-percent drop in severe illnesses are reported among the first fully-vaccinated group

Israel to reopen schools in areas with low COVID infection, high vaccination rates starting Thursday ■ Israel demands negative test for inoculated arrivals

Israeli political parties are barred by law from using the military in their campaign advertising

The novel by Boris Pasternak consternated others too: 'One of the most despicable books about Jews ever written by a man of Jewish origin'

The Mysterious Case of Hand on Head caused confusion for many viewers and frenetic discussions on Jewish Twitter, where political polarization fell away in favor of shared bemusement

In the rift between the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office, the U.S. president aims to signal to Netanyahu: ‘You’re nothing special.’ While Israeli intelligence says Iran is two years from a bomb, the outgoing Mossad head hopes to be...

Israel’s Military Intelligence sees Iran and Hezbollah as the year’s main challenges, but the coronavirus pandemic is bound to reshape the Middle East through 2021

The Holocaust researchers, who have been victims of a smear campaign in Polish media, must publish an apology after niece of the man, a mayor during World War II, sued them

Heiko Maas says Palestinian statehood 'required by international law' for jurisdiction, is slammed by former Palestinian official: 'No self-respecting state should accept instructions from (or intimidation by) Israel'

The prime minister's coalition is spurred on by the far-right Religious Zionism party, while Gantz's Kahol Lavan scrapes over the threshold for entering the parliament in the March election, Kan poll finds

Preschools through fourth grades will reopen in areas with low COVID infection rates, second stage of leaving COVID lockdown, more reopenings expected to start at the end of the month

Turkey's first moon mission is soliciting Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk for possible cooperation

Excitement at the special clinic in south Tel Aviv contrasts with other Israeli vaccine centers right now, where younger citizens are proving reluctant to receive the two shots

The last year has seen a wave of IPOs by startups with no revenues, much less profits, but promises of a brilliant future

Fatah and Hamas, despite rift, release statement with other Palestinian groups pledging 'to abide by the timetable' for balloting and 'respect and accept' the results of the elections set for May and July

Staffing and wage increases outpaced population growth, while pay gaps persisted between genders and communities

Ahead of Trump impeachment hearing, the Georgia representative tweets false claims about the January 6 attack, just days after being removed from her committee assignments for spreading conspiracy theories

The state had asked the court to extend the law that allows yeshiva students not to serve their military duty until July 6, after the next Knesset can handle it

Governmental agency posted about real cases of abduction of Polish children by the Nazis, but it has also been accused of increasingly focusing on crimes against Poles to placate a right-wing agenda to obfuscate Polish complicity in the Holocaust

Polish chief rabbi slams probe into journalist who wrote of Poland's complicity in Holocaust: 'The state should not be a side in the historical debate, and especially it should not support historical untruths or hatred'

Ruling comes after a court indicted a former concentration camp secretary following a German precedent that anyone who helped a Nazi camp function can be prosecuted for accessory to the murders committed there

Profs. Joan Steitz , Lynne Maquat and Adrian Krainer are being awarded the prestigious prize for discovering the dominant role played by RNA in cellular protein production

Trump's lawyers argued that as a former president, the Senate has no legal standing for holding a trial on the House of Representatives' impeachment charge that he incited an insurrection while in office

China recently ratified an extradition treaty with Turkey that was signed years ago, raising fears among the Uighur community that they could be sent back to the country they fled

The Iranian nuclear program is advancing, intelligence assessment says, but Tehran is still missing some key components needed for a bomb

'What, should we return it to Syria? Should we return the Golan to a situation where mass-slaughter is a danger?' Netanyahu argues during a visit to a northern town

While some Israelis take part in street demonstrations, others take to nature and shout to the heavens

A State Department reiterated U.S. charges that China has committed 'crimes against humanity and genocide' in Xinjiang

Just two Jews living in Wallace, Idaho, a town of fewer than 1,000 residents that abuts the Aryan Nations compound from which white supremacists preached their ideology for three decades

Last August, Cawthorn drew criticism for posting photos from a past trip to Hitler’s vacation home. He later told Jewish Insider that he has attempted to convert Jews to Christianity

With less than six weeks to go, election panel scrambles to set up enough polling stations and recruit manpower that would allow observing COVID restrictions

Collaboration between Ben-Gurion University and the Austrian Academy of Fine Arts will start by identifying the microbial miscreants – which must begin with cyanobacteria, as everything does

State Department official praises Israel’s decision to give 5,000 vaccines for Palestinian health care workers last week, says more are needed in the coming weeks

Israel may face many more months in lockdown despite the vaccines, and can’t sustain stimulus-style spending if COVID lingers for years

Prince Mohammed said in the statement that the new laws will be announced consecutively during 2021

Over the past 12 months, two firms with links to Dubai’s government and its ruler, respectively, have said they would not meet hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of debt repayments

The orbiter, called Amal, Arabic for Hope, traveled 300 million miles in nearly seven months to get to Mars with the goal of mapping its atmosphere throughout each season

Maxwell is separately seeking to dismiss all or part of the charges against her, arguing in part that prosecutors are targeting her only because Jeffrey Epstein is dead and she serves as a 'substitute' for him

It was later said that the suspect had fled the Nevatim Base by scaling two barbed-wire fences and an additional 16-feet fence

A 1990s fatwa, or religious edict, by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei states that nuclear weapons are forbidden

Israelis with COVID vaccination certificates should be able to travel to Greece without restriction, a trial run for other nations as Greece attempts to rescue its tourism industry

In its race to absolve Marjorie Taylor Greene and divert attention towards Ilhan Omar, the GOP is pushing a totally false comparison which whitewashes the persistent antisemitism within its own party

The move comes ahead of a hearing in the cases regarding the eviction of four families in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood

Researchers at Israel’s Technion – including a high-school girl – have created the ‘Ramanujan Machine,’ a revolutionary generator of conjectures on fundamental constants, which usually take a lifetime to formulate

Under the pretense of offering donations, fake social media accounts were used to try to find out more details about the Israeli movement’s leaders. The FBI is being asked to investigate

Other countries have been limiting travel as new variants spread, too, but the key is implementing smart policies

Holy sites, beaches, locals are vaccinated against COVID-19: The local industry is strategizing how to get visitors back, but the future is murky

The defense establishment made an unusual legal maneuver to justify funding the purchase of F-35s and other air force hardware

Gabi Ashkenazi reaches out to allies after ICC decision paving way for war crimes investigations against Israel and Hamas

In wide ranging conversation on CNN, Secretary of State also stops short of endorsing Trump's groundbreaking recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights

In proposed outline, grades 1-4, 11 and 12 will reopen in cities with low COVID infection rates; Haaretz breaks down Israel's plan for reopening schools

With the COVID vaccine now available to all over the age of 16, and in the face of disinformation, Israel plans a campaign to convince people to get the shot

Documents obtained from the IDF show Palestinians are expelled from Jordan Valley firing zones while settlers are left alone

During Martin Griffiths' first visit to Iran in his role as UN Yemen mediator, the pair discussed 'urgent need to make progress towards a nationwide ceasefire'

For Netanyahu, being in the dock during an election, a victim of the 'deep-state' cabal of leftist prosecutors and journalists, at the mercy of the distrusted judges, may actually help him court Israel's right-wing electorate

The teeth had been thought to date to as much as 120,000 years ago. But that’s not when they’re from, new study says

Russian authorities imposed a lockdown during the first wave of the pandemic last year, but resisted doing so again in September when the daily number of cases began to rise

The municipality, along with Ichilov hospital, will be vaccinating 2,000 people daily in the city's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood, and stress that those receiving the COVID vaccine will not be checked by Israeli immigration authorities

Seeking to bury the hatchet, Cohen interviews Daniels in the latest episode of his podcast: 'Mea Culpa'

South Africa said on Sunday it would put on hold its use of the AstraZeneca shot after research showing it was only minimally effective in preventing mild-to-moderate illness against a variant in the country

How long immunity lasts from natural infection is one of the big questions in the pandemic

The battle inside the Republican Party is taking place both in the halls of Congress and on the state level - where more and more local officials are spreading the antisemitic QAnon conspiracy theory

Authorities hope that additional protections will help improve tourism at the Red Sea resort, which has been dented by a long-running Islamist insurgency, the coronavirus pandemic and other disasters

Rep. Ron Wright represented the 6th Congressional District in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He was first elected in 2018

Chief judge on panel expresses reservations, tells premier's defense lawyers that they knew the case would be going to court, process of hearing witnesses would have started long ago 'If it wasn’t for the coronavirus'

Researchers from Checkpoint discover Iranian hacker group has infected computers across the world with malware, allowing them to capture victim’s screens and record their audio

Try to be a feminist in Algeria, where the minister of culture and arts says that 'a woman who doesn’t know how to make couscous constitutes a threat to family life'

104 Yazidis whose bodies had been dumped by the Islamic State in mass graves were identified by DNA samples and buried as part of an effort by a UN team to exhume the more than 80 mass graves found

Amanda Gorman, in a first, brings poetry to Super Bowl

Avichai Mendelblit characterized the move as legally problematic, but said he could defend it at the High Court should the need arise

The metal block has old Turkic script that reads 'Look at the sky, see the moon' and was found near Gobekli Tepe. Other mysterious monoliths have popped up around the world in recent months

I was a Cold Warrior. I worked in the Reagan White House. But thanks to Trump and his GOP creatures, I have severed my association with the Republican Party, and I won’t even call myself conservative anymore

Netanyahu signs tourism agreement with Greece, easing travel restriction ■ 23.2 percent of Israelis have received second COVID vaccine dose

Both print and electronic outlets are supporting the project of crowding Palestinians into Bantustans so that most of the West Bank will be annexed and the Jews will benefit from cheap real estate

The Arab family, all Israeli citizens, was picnicking at a site near Ramallah, not far from an outpost, when settlers harassed them and called the army

Netanyahu's defense team requests that the evidentiary stage in his corruption trial be postponed by three or four months

For the last two years, Israel has been on hold, going through a long election campaign interrupted by temporary governments unpalatable to Netanyahu's taste for corruption with impunity

Even as he celebrates the vaccination drive, Netanyahu completely ignores the fact that over 5,000 Israelis have died of coronavirus, and his campaign against the legal system is clearly undermining efforts to get the pandemic under control

Under Trump, the U.S. had left the organization on grounds of being biased against Israel and inefficient

Vaccines can achieve herd immunity and a gradual waning of the disease, but in the case of the coronavirus, vaccination won’t be able to immediately stop the virus

As many as 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million people were driven from their homes in the conflict in the western Darfur region in 2003

Schultz, who played a central role in helping bring about the end of the Cold War, was one of the longest-serving secretaries of state, held four different Cabinet-level positions and remained active through his 90s

'This is a catastrophe,' French ambassador Philippe Leglise-Costa told a Jan. 27 meeting, according to a diplomatic note seen by Reuters

The panic number has been disseminated again, lawyers are on alert and Israel has already reached out to friendly countries for advance information on arrest warrants. None of this is justified at present

Concerns have grown amid soaring initial public offerings activity on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange due to the coronavirus

Central bank's purchases follow program to buy $30 billion in 2021

Online filing was made available to minimize crowding at police stations during the coronavirus crisis. But Palestinians can't access the system, even though Israel Police serves them too

While he's waiting for the new U.S. president to call, Israel's prime minister has more pressing matters to think about: Iran, the ICC, an election and a trial.