7 of 9 heads of Israel's research universities denounce decision to keep country's highest honor from Oded Goldreich over his political views | Continue reading
Leaked Health Ministry probe raises concerns as 62 cases of myocarditis found out of 5 million vaccinated -- most after second dose; 2 deaths, but no direct link established | Continue reading
Not everyone is relinquishing their face coverings after mandate revoked, however, as concerns linger over variants | Continue reading
Al-Arabiya says the 'Saviz,' sailing near Yemen, was targeted by Israeli commandos; no comment from Jerusalem | Continue reading
Tel Aviv University researchers says Stone Age humans were apex predators, only moved to more plant-based diet 85,000 years ago | Continue reading
Health Ministry-approved labeling says antiviral is effective within 2 minutes; can save many lives in countries without access to vaccines, says inventor | Continue reading
Parts of books of Nahum and Zechariah, world's oldest woven basket, 6,000-year-old mummified child, Bar Kochba Revolt coins among stunning finds from daring Judean Desert rescue op | Continue reading
Shaare Zedek hospital finds 94% still report symptoms three months on, notably shortness of breath, but most symptoms disappear within six months | Continue reading
'Green Pass' uses a simple QR code to store inoculation status and personal information; Health Ministry says it will fine those with fake documents, issue more secure ones soon | Continue reading
Medicine developed at Ichilov moderates immune response, helps prevent deadly cytokine storm, researchers say; 29 of 30 phase 1 trial patients left hospital within 3-5 days | Continue reading
Figure represents 0.015 percent of people, indicating vaccine is hitting 95% efficiency rate predicted by clinical trials; top immunologist hails 'exciting results' | Continue reading
Full effects of Pfizer’s shots only kick in around a month after inoculation, but data from Israel shows there is a stark drop in infections even before that point | Continue reading
Health Ministry announces 950,000 out of 9.3 million have been given first dose of inoculation; daily cases top 5,500 for 4th day in a row | Continue reading
Researchers find some desert plants sprinkled with motes manage to absorb phosphorous on their leaves, and grow stronger; breakthrough could open door to reduced fertilizer usage | Continue reading
Following criticism over initial trial, pharma giant's CEO believes general efficacy will be equal to Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna; says data will be published 'at some point' | Continue reading
BlackShadow group claims responsibility for 'massive' attack on Shirbit, which held information on many civil servants; National Cyber Bureau confirms breach and is investigating | Continue reading
Tel Aviv University team uses 'microscopic scissors' to pinpoint and eliminate cancerous cells; results of animal tests just published, trial in humans expected within 2 years | Continue reading
Researchers discover that a barely visible number scrawled on Ludwig Steinberg's valise corresponds to transport number of his six-year-old son Amos, killed at Auschwitz in 1944 | Continue reading
Inventors in self-service spit test have signed a deal with airport security giant to pilot tech on the continent, predict it will be a ‘de facto solution for air travel’ | Continue reading
The World Health Organization says no evidence supports using BCG to fight pandemic. Some Israeli biologists beg to differ — after studying stats for 63% of world’s population | Continue reading
Regional policy chief tells Knesset committee Iranian leader's tweets calling for Israel's destruction don't violate company rules, are seen as mere 'foreign policy saber-rattling' | Continue reading
Study of 10,000 seeds from Negev viticulture settlements illustrates how plague, climate change and socioeconomic depression in booming empire's periphery point to its decline | Continue reading
Hebrew University professor says he's worked out what makes the raging virus so vicious, and how to fix it using an anti-cholesterol med; no human testing done yet | Continue reading
After reports that Tehran tried to dangerously increase chlorine levels in Israel's civilian water system, overall control of defenses now being taken over by Cyber Directorate | Continue reading
'Sapiens' author says current affairs are more important now than ever, as the world undergoes the largest social experiment in modern history | Continue reading
A similar pattern – rapid increase in infections to a peak in the sixth week, and decline from the eighth week – is common everywhere, regardless of response policies | Continue reading
Isaac Ben-Israel, who is not a medical expert, says analysis worldwide shows new cases peaking after about 40 days, slams economic closures; leading doctor dismisses his claims | Continue reading
In TV exposé, senior member of spy agency says Israel -- and other countries -- has been laying hands on machines ordered by others, in 'most complex operation' he's overseen | Continue reading
Carmi Sheffer describes connecting patients to ventilators via scuba gear, placing them on stomachs, in battle with unpredictable virus which 'spreads like wildfire' among elderly | Continue reading
Government reneges on its promises that phone tracking program would get approval from Knesset, last only 30 days, and that all data from it would be deleted immediately | Continue reading
Cafes, malls, preschools among places to cease activities as public urged to stay 2-meters apart; PM says ‘digital measures’ will track sick, admitting privacy issues | Continue reading
State-funded Migal Galilee institute has been working for 4 years on a vaccine that could be customized for various viruses, so it had a head start when COVID-19 emerged | Continue reading
Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, 43, the first non-doctor to lead the Health Ministry, is bucking withering criticism with a strategy aimed to prevent coronavirus from overwhelming hospitals | Continue reading
American military abandons plans to buy two more Israeli missile defense batteries, integrate system into existing air defenses, due to cyber vulnerabilities and other problems | Continue reading
Britain and France urge deescalation after US strike on Iranian general; Moscow blasts 'adventurist step,' praises Quds Force chief's 'devotion' to Iran's national interests | Continue reading
UK street artist's latest work in West Bank portrays baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph in front of mini replica of security barrier | Continue reading
MusashiAI says it created 'world's first employment agency for robots,' allowing manufacturers to hire them by the project or hour | Continue reading
New cookbook features unique kosher dishes unwittingly prepared by generations of a Catholic Cuban-Spanish family with hidden Sephardic Jewish roots | Continue reading
Uncovered in northern Israel, Ein Esur, largest Early Bronze Age settlement ever excavated here, set to 'change forever what we know about emergence of urbanization in entire area' | Continue reading
Prof. Jodi Magness busts myths and asks unanswerable questions in new book about Masada -- the site of the largest Jewish wholesale self-slaughter that maybe never was | Continue reading
New critical book on the Clinton family claims that Israel tapped White House phones, blackmailed president with recordings of intern | Continue reading
'Hundreds of subtle signs' are used by BioCatch software to spot a victim of online fraud being duped | Continue reading
Remains of Neolithic site near Motza, the largest ever discovered in Israel, show mix of agriculture, hunting, animal husbandry -- a society at its peak, say archaeologists | Continue reading
Documentary 'Little Poland in India' chronicles the selfless rescue of Jewish and Christian kids as India struggled for its own independence | Continue reading
Yossi Klein Halevi wrote a book of 'Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.' Here's what happened when Mohammed Dajani, a hardliner who later took his students to Auschwitz, wrote back | Continue reading
Cheerful artifact from 1,700 BCE discovered near border with war-torn Syria, at the site of a famous biblical battle where Lawrence of Arabia once dug | Continue reading
The terror group's vast networks of tunnels give it endurance as it rains rockets on Israel -- in a bid to extort concessions at a sensitive time | Continue reading
Trump adviser criticized for advocating immigration policies that are 'antithetical to everything I know about Judaism, Jewish law and Jewish values' | Continue reading