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The East Jerusalem Palestinian Who Became Israel's Chief Scientist

Israeli Fathers to Receive Paternity Leave Without Altering Partner's Leave

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Environment Minister Tamar Zandberg in February.

Israel's Cabinet Endorses Climate-change Bill, Dividing Environmentalists

Israeli Prime Minister Bennett and Health Minister last year.

Israel Scraps Plan to Provide Addiction Treatment via Health Care Providers

Birds do it, bees do it. Grasp the concept of "nothing,” that is.

The Existential Loneliness of the Chicken

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

FILE: The CEO of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Kare Schultz speaks in Tel Aviv, 2019.

Israeli Pharma Giant Teva Reports Shrinking Profits Amid U.S. Opioid Litigation

Prof. Dan Tchernov. 'The earth has been through five mass extinctions. At worst, there will be another extinction.'

'Earth Has No Climate Problem. We're the Ones Who Won't Survive Within Decades'

A crowd of people gathering outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Monday night.

When Roe v. Wade Dies, Israel Will Be More Liberal Than U.S. on Abortion

South American foxes. Did their ancestors cross an ice bridge to the Falkland Islands some 16,000 years ago?

How Did Wolves Get to the Falklands? (P.S. They Weren’t Wolves)

Climate protest in Tel Aviv, earlier this year.

'No Way' Israel Will Meet Its Climate Goals, Treasury Officials Admit

Tel Aviv's Independence Day fireworks, last year. Some cities are curtailing displays.

Israeli Army Veterans Have Yet to Win the War on Fireworks

Dinner is served: Patella lusitanica, Mytilus edulis, Monodonta lineata and Balanus balanoides.

Seafood on Spanish Coast Attests to Climate Cataclysm 8,200 Years Ago

Exquisite, endangered and exposed to diabetes: Northern rock iguanas of Exuma Island

Tourists Feeding Iguanas in Bahamas Are Giving Them Diabetes

Spanish police officers removing a Scientist Rebellion activist who threw red paint at the parliament building in Madrid, earlier this month.

If Scientists Are Doing This, Things Must Be Really Bad

An illustration of imperator. No the team did not analyze its coloration.

Pterosaurs Were Strutting Their Stuff in the Early Cretaceous

The end of Israel COVID Vaccine Venture

The Israeli COVID Vaccine Has Taken Its Last Breath

A gif of an IV that resembles a scale.

No Credit Card? Israeli Hospitals Could Just Let You Die

Glaciers in Greenland.

Sorry, Vikings: You Didn’t Flee Greenland Because of Little Ice Age

Taking off at minus 400: An extreme rider during the Hard Enduro World Championship race in Israel, this week.

IN PHOTOS: Dust, Sweat and Dirty Bikes in the Dead Sea

A street cat eating on a path.

Groundbreaking Study Finally Finds How to Control Cats in the City

Mambers of Falun Dafa practitioners simulate organ harvesting in a mock Chinese laber camp in protest against China's suspected abuse and killing of Falun Gong members, in 2006, in Taiwan.

China Harvested Organs From Living People, Israeli Researcher Claims China Harvested Organs From Living People, Doctors Helped With Executions, Israeli Researcher Claims

Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Scotland in November.

Climate Emergency: Israel Lacks Political Will

Stibbe takes off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk's commercial space launch venture SpaceX, April 8.

SpaceX Safely Docks at ISS With Second Israeli in Space After Technical Glitch

Eitan Okun.

'Food Is Harmful. We Should Choose Other Types of Pleasure, Like Running or Sex'

Stibbe takes off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket furnished and flown by Elon Musk's commercial space launch venture SpaceX, April 8.

SpaceX Reaches International Space Station With Second Israeli in Space

The Ax-1 crew during a Zero-G flight training. Israeli mission specialist Eytan Stibbe is on the left.

Second Israeli Goes to Space on Friday in First All-private Flight to ISS

Frozen embryos stored in the IVF department of Tel Aviv’s Lis Maternity Hospital, Sourasky Medical Center.

Revealed: Israel Is Storing 1 Million Frozen Embryos, Some From the '80s

Gondwana 420 million years ago. View centered on the South Pole.

Mystery of Multiple Extinctions in the Jurassic Solved

A climate justice protest in Indonesia, last month.

Humanity Gets a Failing Grade on the Climate Crisis

ICYMI

Unrepentant Nazis, in Their Own Words

How Israel Destroyed Old Tiberias How Israel Destroyed One of the World's Most Beautiful Ancient Cities

Long-lost Recordings of Eichmann Confessing to the Final Solution Revealed Revealed: Long-lost Eichmann Tapes Confessing to Final Solution

The Unbearable Conceit of False Comparisons Between Israel and America

No Israeli Criminal Probe Into Al Jazeera Reporter’s Death

Republicans Slam 'anti-Israel' White House Press Secretary Over AIPAC Boycott Republicans Slam New White House Press Secretary as 'anti-Israel' Over Support for AIPAC Boycott