New coronavirus infections in Israel hit an all-time high on Wednesday, as the government announced only at-risk groups and individuals over 60 would be eligible for PCR testing in a bid to relieve pressure on testing centers.
Up to a third of Israel’s population will be infected with the Omicron strain over the next three weeks, a leading health expert and adviser to the Israeli government said on Sunday, and added that many won’t even know it because the country is quickly running out of test kits.
Upon assuming the presidency, Joe Biden promised the world, “America is back,” building on his campaign claims that President Donald Trump had severely damaged relations with the country’s allies.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has come under fire from his coalition partners for hosting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his home in on Tuesday night, marking the first time the Palestinian leader has held talks with a senior Israeli official in Israel in over a decade.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday even if the U.S. reaches a new agreement with Iran, Israel will still be able to strike the regime’s nuclear program.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday the country plans to double the amount of people living in the Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar development plan earmarked for the strategic plateau.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued Christmas greetings to Christians worldwide along with a message of brotherhood and unity.
The U.S. has determined a deadline to reach an agreement in the faltering nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna that will come “within weeks,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said from Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Israel will become the first country to administer a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot for over 60s, healthcare workers and certain at-risk groups, in accordance with a recommendation by a government panel of experts on Tuesday.
Israel was involved in the American airstrike that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, the outgoing head of Israeli military intelligence said.
Israeli ministers on Monday voted to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other “red” countries amid the spread of the omicron variant.
JERUSALEM — Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant.
The Biden administration has deemed the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be as severe as the nuclear threat from Iran, the Jerusalem Post cited multiple Israeli diplomatic sources as saying.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Abu Dhabi to meet with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — the first official visit of an Israeli leader to the United Arab Emirates — his office said in a surprise announcement Sunday morning.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday the military was always fighting “bad forces” in the region, after Syrian state media reported an Israeli airstrike targeting an arms shipment from Iran at the the Latakia port overnight.
Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian terrorist outside the Old City in Jerusalem on Saturday. They struck after he stabbed an Israeli civilian and lunged at police officers, in what was later described by the Palestinian Foreign Ministry as a “field execution” by Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the recently resumed Middle East nuclear talks needed to come to an “immediate cessation,” accusing Iran of “nuclear blackmail.”
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has come under fire after his office announced his wife and children were going on vacation abroad, contravening the Israeli leader’s recommendations to avoid all travel overseas.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday warned the U.S. and other world powers that have resumed nuclear talks with Iran they should not give into the antisemitic regime’s “blackmail.”
As talks commenced in Vienna this week in an effort to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned countries worldwide against caving to Iranian “nuclear blackmail” by supplying the “murderous” Iranian regime with sanctions relief and funding.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned against an interim agreement with Iran the U.S. is considering, a day before nuclear talks with are set to resume in Vienna after a five month hiatus.
Israel has barred entry to all foreign nationals and has ordered all returning citizens to quarantine regardless of their vaccination status, as part of the world’s most aggressive effort to stave off the new Omicron variant.
Go home and stay home. That was the simple message echoing around the world Sunday as successive national governments raced to meet the challenge posed by a new, mutated coronavirus strain.
Israel “fell asleep” after the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday morning. He added that going forward his country would be far more aggressive in its approach to Tehran.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday permanently banned the Palestinian terror group Hamas in a move that aligns the country’s stance on Gaza’s self-styled rulers in line with the United States and the European Union.
An Israeli couple who were detained eight days ago in Turkey on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking photographs of the Istanbul palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were freed Thursday morning in what is being hailed as a “Hanukkah miracle.”
A Turkish court has extended custody of an Israeli couple who were detained Friday on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking photographs of the Istanbul palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, deemed an illegal act.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told a visiting delegation of Democratic members of congress he will not give permission to the U.S. to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid delivered a clear message to President Joe Biden on Saturday: Open a consulate for the Palestinians, but in Ramallah, not Jerusalem.
Nicosia – Six people will stand trial in Cyprus on December 6 for allegedly plotting to attack Israeli businesspeople on the Mediterranean island, police said.
The Israeli Knesset approved the 2022 state budget Friday – the first one to pass in over three years, marking a key win for the disparate coalition led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
An Israeli minister was unable to attend the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow earlier this week because of her wheelchair, prompting furor and a belated apology by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The Israeli Air Force will begin training for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program at the start of 2022, the Times of Israel reported on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received an invite from UAE Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to make an official state visit to Abu Dhabi. It will be the premier’s first since the two countries established ties as part of the Trump-led Abraham Accords last year.
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned the Biden administration is not taking the Iranian threat seriously enough and does not have a backup plan in the case a return to the 2015 nuclear deal collapses entirely, a senior Israeli official told Al Monitor.
Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said talks surrounding a return to the nuclear deal have entered “very decisive weeks,” and warned every day without an accord would see the regime in Tehran continue to enrich uranium.
Merkel said that Germany remains committed to reviving the international nuclear agreement with Iran — a step Israel opposes.
Opening the early session Monday of the final session of speakers at the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Iran is still funding terrorist groups in the Middle East that seek to destroy Israel.
Christians from nearly 30 countries – including several Muslim nations – sent a prayer for peace and blessings to Israel with a song released in Hebrew to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a stand-alone bill to provide Israel with $1 billion to fund its Iron Dome missile defense system, two days after the funding was removed from a wider spending bill following pressure from the Squad.
