Daniel Estrin

The city is seeing Christian and Jewish religious gatherings this week after the same events were canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opponents appear to have a secure path to forming a majority coalition. The scales could tip as more votes are counted in the coming days.

With nearly all the votes counted, there appears to be enough for analysts to conclude that Prime Minister Netanyahu could struggle to form the majority coalition he needs to win another term.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the running for yet another term as votes are counted in Israel's fourth election in two years.

For the fourth time in less than two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to assemble a coalition of right-wing parties that will give him a majority in Israel's parliament.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is barely an issue in the upcoming Israeli elections, which are a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the vote will impact Palestinians.

A four-year effort by Israeli archaeologists searched 500 caves near the Dead Sea. In addition to ancient parchments and papyri, they found an intricately woven basket more than 10,000 years old.

With much of its population vaccinated, Israel has reopened many elements of its economy. But many Israelis think the reopening might be affected by upcoming elections.

With elections later this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is courting votes among Israel's Palestinian citizens after a controversy over LGBTQ rights.

An outgoing high official told NPR that Israel has a public health imperative to protect all Palestinians from COVID-19, plus a humanitarian obligation.

About a year ago the country's domestic intelligence agency began monitoring Israelis' movements through cellular phone location data, leading critics to say it was spying on its own citizens.

Israel is leading the world in per capita vaccinations and is reopening. In the occupied West Bank and Gaza next door, very few Palestinians are getting vaccinated.

Israel has vaccinated more of its population than any other country and this week it started opening places like gyms and the theater to people with both shots — but they have to prove it.

Israeli police reportedly sped after young Israeli settlers suspected of throwing rocks at Palestinians. In the chase, the settlers' car flipped over, killing one of them. It's caused fury.

A suspected oil tanker leak off the coast of Israel has led to the country's biggest maritime ecological disaster in years — with authorities closing beaches and beginning a massive cleanup effort.

Large swaths of the Middle East are covered in snow, sparking joy and wonder in a region that doesn't normally witness white winters.

The prize committee said Dr. Anthony Fauci, long-time head of the United States' leading infectious diseases research institute, "is the consummate model of leadership and impact in public health."

Vaccines have yet to arrive. Residents, fearing loss of income, continue to work while infected. And medical professionals including one of Gaza's few remaining heart surgeons have died from COVID-19.

The pandemic has hit the Gaza Strip hard. Many ill Palestinians cannot afford to quarantine and doctors in COVID-19 wards have struggled to supply enough oxygen for ventilators.

Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and agreed to share data from Israel's centralized trove of medical statistics. Privacy advocates have some misgivings.