Israel

Netanyahu’s son calls for return of a ‘free, democratic and Christian’ Europe

Yair Netanyahu was criticizing a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony for Israel’s Memorial Day.

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We Israelis couldn’t visit our loved ones’ graves this Memorial Day. Still, we remember.

It’s an opportunity to pause from the ceremonies and ritual to dedicate some time to thinking about our fallen loved ones and what they could have been.

Israeli hospital partners with National Institutes of Health to study and combat the coronavirus

Sheba Medical Center will supply blood samples, plasma and the COVID-19 virus itself from infected patients in Israel.

Woman, 62, stabbed in apparent terror attack in central Israel

Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Nov. 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Yair Lapid once allied with Benny Gantz. Now he wants to keep him from becoming prime minister.

Arab Israelis fear that Ramadan could bring a coronavirus surge

Sirens wail throughout Israel at start of Memorial Day — then there was a Western Wall ceremony with no audience

Israel’s tracking of coronavirus carriers is out unless Knesset makes it a law, Supreme Court rules

Matisyahu, Ben Platt and Joshua Malina to appear on virtual Israeli Independence Day celebration

Israel’s population grows slightly to nearly 9.2 million on eve of Independence Day

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