Israel’s 89-athlete delegation, its biggest-ever by far, includes top contenders, returning champions and no shortage of inspiring stories

Serious patients down to 52, but new infections highest in 4 months as positivity rate hits 1.5%; PM calls meeting with ministers, professionals to discuss rise

Videos show demonstrators setting fire to tires, blocking roads in Khuzestan, as police use gunfire to disperse them

Pfizer says trial results for those aged 5-11 likely in by September; company seeking full approval, as some are hesitant due to emergency use authorization

Daughter-in-law of Zvi Havivi finds letter from David Ben-Gurion expressing wife's remorse, along with more than 7 liras sent 5 months late

Around 15,000 members of German emergency services, police and army on the ground in worst-hit areas; in battered Ahrweiler district, around 1,300 people unaccounted for

Religious residents, who won't use electronics from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, are forced to remain in their high-rise apartments or hire help to press buttons for them

Predominantly Arab party reportedly recognizes coalition is better than alternatives; willing to offer assistance to a Bennett-Lapid government desperate for extra votes

Peter de Vries was pillar of support for families of slain and missing children, campaigner against injustice and gangsters' menace

Mainstream groups say disconnect between Diaspora youth, reality in Israel result of 'deficient education'; liberal counterparts argue Israel's faults being glossed over entirely

Colleague compared Emmy Noether's premature 1935 death to 'echo of a thunderclap' but her contributions to the field through her paper on ring theory continue to reverberate

Secretary of State Blinken calls resignation by PM-designate 'disappointing,' raps political class over failure to provide citizens with basic services as economy is in freefall

Police open probe into matter, which joins series of acts of incitement by far-right activists targeting members of new coalition

County officials account for 240 people connected to collapsed Surfside building, with several people still classified as missing, or 'potentially unaccounted for'

Hady Amr proposes several measures Jerusalem can take to strengthen governing body in Ramallah, which is at one of its lowest points yet due to pandemic and election postponement