Israel

Passengers wade into the waters of the Dead Sea from Noam Bedein's boat on a recent excursion. (Noam Bedein)

A boat trip aimed at saving the Dead Sea also explores the marvels revealed by its evaporation

Noam Bedein is the latest activist to confront a problem that has bedeviled Israel — how to save an ecological marvel and tourist attraction that is being depleted by water scarcity, industry and climate change.

Police and rescue forces at the scene of a terror attack in Tel Aviv on August 5, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli security guard killed in Tel Aviv terror attack

The terror attack came after a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Friday night.

Wall Street billionaire ends funding for think tank behind Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan

Arthur Dantchik cited danger to future of Israel democracy in announcing that he was cutting off funding for Kohelet Policy Forum.

Israeli circus troupe brings laughs — but no clothes — to NBC’s ‘America’s Got Talent’

Mamu Noam of Israel, Jakub Dudycha of the Czech Republic and Davide De Rosa of Italy

Israel flexes its muscle as an up-and-coming sports host as 2023 European Athletics Under-20 Championships open in Jerusalem

Jan Schakowsky joins Israeli protesters in Chicago area in a sign of the movement’s inroads among Democrats

Palestinian gunman shoots 5 at Maaleh Adumim restaurant before being shot dead

The song in an ad for an Israeli sandwich shop has become a nationwide party anthem

Right-wing Israeli TV channel boots pundit for calling to free Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin

Dugo Leitner, Holocaust survivor whose falafel ritual made him a social media star, dies at 93

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