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Israel to Drop Mask Mandate on Flights Starting Next Week

As of Saturday, All Passengers No Longer Need COVID Tests to Enter Israel

Israel's COVID Infection Rate Rises Above One for First Time in Two Months

Rich Israelis Spend a Fortune on This Food – and Don't Even Eat It

Israel to Nix COVID Testing at Airport on May 20

An anti-vaxxers’ protest in Jerusalem, in February. Conspiracy-theory advocates know less about the world, not more. They are consumed with doubts and seek constant confirmation for their beliefs.

Anti-vaxxers Wanted to Turn Their Backs on Society. COVID Was Just an Excuse

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in the Knesset last year.

Israeli Cabinet Set to Approve $292 Million in Grants for the Self-employed

The tourist information counter at a quiet Ramon International Airport in Eilat last month.

Israel's Tourism Industry Is Bracing for a Difficult Summer

COVID testing in Tel Aviv, in April.

Israel to Downsize COVID-fighting Measures in Light of Low Infection Rate

U.S. Army Paratroopers deploy from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina in 2020

U.S. Bans Troops From Visiting Israel, Middle East

Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday.

Israel Detects First Cases of New COVID Variant BA.5 in Incoming Passengers

Travelers in Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, this month.

New COVID Sub-variant Detected in Three Passengers Returning to Israel

Tour guide turned mosaic artists Uzi Tauber poses next to his creations.

Mosaic Art Is ‘Like War – You Know How It Begins, but You Don’t Know How It Ends’

Travelers queue at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, ahead of Passover.

Israel Mulls Reducing COVID Testing at Tel Aviv Airport

Green Pass

Tourist Nightmare: Catching COVID Instead of a Flight Out of Israel

Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv, this week.

Israel Officially Ends Indoor Mask Mandate Amid COVID Decline

Masked woman in Jerusalem

Israel Drops Indoor Mask Mandate as COVID Wanes

The end of Israel COVID Vaccine Venture

The Israeli COVID Vaccine Has Taken Its Last Breath

Travelers crowd at the check-in desks at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Thursday.

Holiday Traffic Takes Tel Aviv Airport Back to pre-COVID Levels, but Can It Keep Up?

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett talking in the Knesset after forming their government of change last year.

The Year Israel Defied All the Economists' Expectations

Fourth vaccinations are given to medical staff at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, January.

Fourth COVID Shot Halves Risk of Death, Severe Illness, Israeli Data Shows Fourth COVID Shot Halves Risk of Death, Severe Illness, Preliminary Israeli Data Shows

The COVID infection rate has declined in Israel this month, following a spike in March due to the BA.2 omicron subvariant.

'It Was So Fast': Why Israel's Latest COVID Wave Suddenly Dissipated

A syringe containing a coronavirus vaccine dose in a Jerusalem hospital in January.

Fourth COVID Shot Triples Protection From Serious Illness, New Israeli Data Shows

A medical clown in Israel in January.

COVID in Israel Recedes, Severe Cases Reach Three-month Low

A COVID testing center in Tel Aviv.

COVID Infection Shrinking in Israel After Two Weeks, Curtailing Fears of New Wave

Gary Oldman, Rosalind Eleazar and Dustin Demri-Burns in “Slow Horses,” on Apple TV+.

Don't Miss the Best Spy Thriller in Years Catch ‘Slow Horses’ – the Best Spy Thriller in Years

A man receives a COVID vaccine in Tel Aviv, this month.

Israel's COVID Infection Rate Falls for Seventh Straight Day

Tel Aviv Skyline

Coming to Israel? Here’s What’s New Since You Last Visited

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaking at an event in Jerusalem last week.

Bennett Just Caught COVID. The Fallout Goes From Blinken to India

A nurse administers a COVID vaccine in Tel Aviv, on Sunday.

Despite Rise in Cases, Israel's COVID Infection Rate Wanes for Fourth Straight Day Despite Rise in Cases, Israel's COVID Infection Rate Declines for Fourth Straight Day

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset, in March.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Tests Positive for COVID

A COVID-19 drive through testing site in Tel Aviv.

Israel's COVID Infection Rate Wanes for the Third Straight Day After Surge Israel's COVID Infection Rate Wanes for the Third Straight Day After Month-long Surge

New studies suggest the fourth vaccine dose significantly reduces COVID fatality rates.

Fourth Vaccine Reduces Risk of Dying From COVID by 78 Percent, Israeli Study Finds

Dr. Ruth Mayo

Why This Israeli Researcher Is Inducing Distrust Inside Her Lab

David Treatman. “Through our ridiculous optimism and pride, we’re able to sustain an industry for the very few people who consume the content.”

The Young Israeli-American Producer Who Became a Hit on Broadway

A nurse administering a coronavirus test at a Tel Aviv COVID testing center on Monday

As COVID Infection Rate Rises, Israel to Offer Incentives for 4th Shot

People shop at the Hatikva Market in south Tel Aviv, in February.

Israel Isn't Planning New Restrictions Despite Rising COVID Curve

A nurse administering a vaccine against the coronavirus in Netanya, Israel, in January.

Moderna Says Its Low-dose COVID Shots Work for Kids Under 6

COVID test in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday

Israel's Rising COVID Infection Rate Revives Controversy Over Fourth Dose

A COVID-19 test is conducted in Tel Aviv, Monday.

Israel's Expert COVID Team to Meet as Infection Rate Surges

A COVID test in Tel Aviv on Monday.

Israel's COVID Infections Double as Highly Infectious BA.2 Subvariant Spreads

Staring at us out from the screen were our parents.Aron Ehrlich

Greying Hair, Greying Skin: The Pandemic Has Come to Teach Us Humility

Staring at us out from the screen were our parents.Aron Ehrlich

Greying Hair, Greying Skin: The Pandemic Has Come to Teach Us Humility

Coronavirus testing in Jerusalem, December 2021.

COVID in Israel: Infection Rate, New Cases Surge as Fears of a New Wave Reemerge

A nurse administering a coronavirus test at a Tel-Aviv COVID testing center.

COVID in Israel: Infection Rate Rises, Serious Cases Stable

Hatikva outdoor market in Tel Aviv in February.

COVID in Israel Expanding Again, Data Shows, in First in Two Months

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing in Kyiv,

Ukraine War Could Fuel New COVID-19 Wave, Experts Warn

Paxlovid, Pfizer's coronavirus pill, is seen manufactured in Ascoli, Italy in November

Israel's Teva, More Than 30 Other Firms Worldwide to Make Pfizer's COVID Pill Israel's Teva, More Than 30 Other Firms Worldwide to Start Making Pfizer's COVID Pill

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Israel Shut Down Exactly Two Years Ago. This Is How It’s Changed

Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, last year.

Israel's COVID Infection Rates Continue to Rise Amid Purim Celebrations

Travelers enter and exit the COVID testing area at Ben-Gurion Airport, in November.

Two Cases of Unidentified COVID Variant Discovered in Israel

A coronavirus ward at Shamir Medical Center, in central Israel, in January.

BA.2 Variant Drives Up Israel's COVID Infection Rate Ahead of Purim Holiday

A woman wearing facemask standing next to graffiti of a popup museum in Tel-Aviv, in February.

COVID in Israel: Infection Rate Reaches Two-month High

Residents pass near the headquarters for Evergrande in Shenzhen in southern China, in September.

China Shuts Business Center of Shenzhen to Fight New Coronavirus Surge

Children during an outdoor lesson in Rehovot, Israel in September.

COVID Restrictions in Israeli Schools to Expire Over the Weekend