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New Jersey's population is about nine million, and, due to its similarity in size, is often used as a comparison point for Israel's geographic size.

The first Sa'ar 6 warship, the INS 'Magen,' arrived in Israel in December, and two more are slated to arrive by the end of 2021, and will become the backbone of the Israeli Navy.

“We will not associate Australia with one-sided and contentious language that singles out Israel or with an event that champions such language,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

Prospera's machine vision technologies monitor plant development, health & stress by analyzing multiple layers of climate & visual data from a crop field & providing actionable insights to growers.

According to the report, this is not the first time Moore Shaked has been sexually assaulted, the last was when she was 17. At the time, she didn't know how to react to the situation

Guetta was one of three 19-year-olds injured in a Palestinian shooting attack at Tapuah Junction Sunday evening. His funeral took place on Thursday morning in Kiryat Moshe.

Israeli Television Academy award winner Nir Berger (Dead End) and Atara Frish (Heroine), created the series and Frish is also the director.

The Yamina MK reiterated her support for her party's leader, following numerous attacks by the prime minister and right-wing MKs who blame him for preventing a right-wing government.

Tickets, beginning at NIS 260, go on sale May 11.

What is going on in Israel's capital this week?

American guard Tyrus McGee takes aim at powering Hapoel Holon in Champions League playoffs

Movers and shakers from Israeli society.

Jerusalem’s story covers thousands of years, but this segment began in 1948.

Living in Jerusalem in the 1920s was not simple.

The ‘Holocaust or Hope Mini Museum and Escape Room’ takes a completely different approach from what most people would expect.

Badehi, 89, is a French Holocaust survivor, who tells her story in French or English to local and visiting groups that come to Yad Vashem.

“Jerusalem Facts and Trends for 2020 – A Glimpse” is the exhaustive and highly detailed picture of the city in numbers and figures.

A round-up of city affairs.

This month, Fresco Dance Company will finally premiere 'O.K-19', which is comprised of On by Adi Salant and Kapow by Eyal Dadon.

From Shlomo Carlebach to Debbie Friedman to Yiddish tunes, there is a vast history to explore.

This is Israel, so everyone is willing to share their interesting life stories with someone like me who is always interested.

Mona’s Nazarene tasting tour has five stops, each more decadent than the one before.

Our mother stays with us throughout our lives, even when we are mothers, or even grandmothers, ourselves.

VICKY & YITZHAK MAIS FROM NEW YORK TO JERUSALEM, 1973

‘The Sabra symbolizes our attempt to create a figure who is the complete opposite of the weak Diaspora Jew’

Founded and developed by Esther Hershcovich, the platform was built to share the wide range of information and personal experiences of retired individuals with younger adults.

Even when lockdowns, prohibitions on gatherings and other pandemic constraints are not in place, Jerusalem’s minor league purveyors of cultural wares have a hard time balancing the books.

There is an active debate in Israel and the Diaspora about how the day is celebrated and whether it is a day for all Israelis and all Jews.

For the past few years negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been stuck, but regardless, it seems clear that in the near future Jerusalem will not be partitioned.

After serving half his tenure, has Jerusalem's mayor fulfilled his promises?

Thompson arrived to the Mandate in November 1937, and spent 11 years assisting those in need as a Mandate government employee.

In Jerusalem presents you with 10 questions about the capital, reflecting the story of this extraordinary city.

The awards special recognition to residents for their contributions to benefit Jerusalemites of all ages.

MK Karin Elharrar uses a wheelchair due to her muscular dystrophy, which has not prevented her from breaking down barriers since getting elected to the Knesset for the first time eight years ago.

UTJ chairman MK Moshe Gafni tells Bennett ‘no thanks’ in response to Yamina leader’s offer to join ‘broad emergency government’

Rivlin entrusted Lapid with forming a government on Wednesday

Transgender parents will be registered simply as 'parent,' without any specification of gender, on their child's birth certificate.

Economy Minister Amir Peretz announced on Wednesday that he will not be a candidate in the race for president

Promised reforms for the rights of disabled veterans have been stalled as the Finance and Defense ministries squabble over budget.

Chikli is potentially doing to Bennett what Religious Zionist party head Bezalel Smotrich did to Netanyahu: deprive him of becoming prime minister by adhering to an ideological position.

First Reform rabbi to serve as MK says rights of ‘millions of Israelis’ violated by monopoly of Chief Rabbinate, says he will speak for Diaspora Jews in Knesset.

“In 2020, corona also reached Israel, and the crisis caused by the epidemic brought with it, among other things, significant risks in banking activity.”

Defendants stabbed, burned, tore pictures of Duma victims at a wedding in 2015

Over the years, the café has become a unique success story, with 100 branches throughout the country.

Gunfire and explosions were heard for several hours with a live feed of the incident playing out on Facebook.

Persian music and Persian culture are central to Jahanforooz’s very being and not just in a pure artistic sense.

A new online course called “The Art of Chutzpah,” teaches users how to become more confident, courageous, and resilient.

The concert will take place at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in the framework of Museum’s chamber series and will be repeated in Ness Ziona Pais Art Center next night.

The disaster at Mount Meron took the lives of 45 people and injured over 150 others who had come to the place believed to be the gravesite of the Jewish sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.

“I wanted to stop the campaign against Walla,” he said, under defense cross-examination.

Most of the experiments are not for space-related technologies, but will test conditions in space that may lead to technological, scientific, and medical breakthroughs.

Jerusalem prepares to welcome the first foreign tourists in over a year starting May 23, from a list of countries that includes the US, the UK, France, Australia and Italy.

This comes after the airline will already be increasing the frequency of its New York-Israel flights from 10 a week to 14 starting June 1.

For some women in Israel today divorce seems like an impossible reality, as religious and legal barriers stretch before them every step of the way. One organization seems determined to change that.

Elbit Australia was informed of the decision without being given any explanations.

The soldiers presented their stylish moves, with handstands and the like, to the Arabic song "Habib Galbi."

On Monday, institutions across Israel will commemorate the victims who tried to make aliyah from Ethiopia, in an effort to highlight a side of Zionist history that doesn't often get told.

Following efforts for Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich, relatives of Israelis seeking to visit their loved ones in Israel can now apply for an entry permit before purchasing a ticket.

On Monday, soldiers continued the search for the Palestinian attacker, but found only his torched and bullet-ridden vehicle.

Along with other areas of the Arab sector, the city of Umm al-Fahm has seen a spike in crime and violent activity in recent years.

Aura Smart Air has helped set up air purification systems in transport companies and businesses around the world to combat the pandemic.

“The future of Jerusalem is the future of the State of Israel," President Reuven Rivlin said. “Jerusalem is a microcosm of our existence."

Itzhak was charged with leading dozens of Border Police officers as the chaotic night dragged on.

The program, which launched on Tuesday, will be led by social workers, costs NIS 10 per meeting, for ten meetings.

Staff and Students Express Elation Over Return to JNF-USA’s High School in Israel.

Video surveillance from homes in the heavily Jewish area in the northwest part of the city shows three youths approaching Efraim Gordon as he leaves a car. One then shoots Gordon.

Keinan would voluntarily advise Brazilians making the move on how to land their first job in the Israeli market. He died of a rare neurological disorder at 68.

The final Meron victims were identified on Sunday morning at around 7 a.m. and released for burial the same day – nearly 55 hours after they died.

Two years after the establishment of Israel’s first outpost of the 501st Legion, preparations for a Rebel Legion outpost are already underway.

It spoke out amid reports of Jewish extremist attacks against Palestinian homes and fields in the West Bank village of Jalud in the aftermath of the shooting of three Israeli teens.

The Knesset Arrangements Committee agreed Tuesday evening in a 19-13 vote to fast-track the private members' bills.

If the bills pass - and most of them have a majority - they would be brought to a vote in the Knesset plenum on Wednesday.

Netanyahu could follow Trump model of maintaining influence over his party

Meretz MK Mossi Raz stressed that the woman who attempted to stab soldiers had difficulties with mental health after she was harmed financially by the pandemic.

Defense uses ex-Walla chief’s own words to undermine him.

Liberman is a believer in free markets, with a strong social safety net for those who contribute to the system.

For a month, the prosecution got to hit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Elovitch with punch after punch. Tuesday saw a U-turn.

The festival's 60th iteration will take place June 3-19.

The aid includes thousands of group and individual oxygen generators, which the Indian health system needs urgently.

No one expected Netanyahu, with the cards he was dealt, to be able to put together a winning hand, and – after 28 days of trying – he was unable to do so.

Major Lionel Mansell Jeune saved the lives of at least a hundred Jews and an unknown number of Arabs during the 1921 riots in Jaffa, as commander of the port.

Rabbi David Yosef, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages and a state-paid rabbi, violated regulations for public servants.

In first comments regarding the death of 45 people during the Lag Ba’Omer celebrations, the leading haredi rabbi said the disaster was “a decree from Heaven” the reasons for that cannot be known.

Chairmen of Israel Allies Caucuses worldwide reject investigation for lack of legal basis

In the new program provided by the municipality, young new immigrants will learn for about three months how to promote and implement social ideas.

Outside the stadium in the northern city of Haifa, one fan carried a banner that hailed Berman as a "super woman, incredible, brave."

The tubular ascidians, commonly found in the coral reefs of Eilat, are considered to be the invertebrates "closest to humans from an evolutionary point of view."

The re-entry permit may be useful for foreign university, yeshiva and seminary students and workers in Israel.

The Rabbi first arrived in Haifa to help the families of those who died, and then came to visit those who had been injured.

Several foreign diplomats wrote their thoughts in a book of condolences.

Held online this year, the competition was attended by 12 competing representatives from each country.

Deri had lobbied for the removal of restrictions, but insisted that he was strictly referring to coronavirus restrictions on crowd numbers.

The IAC has trained, to date, nearly 5,500 graduates and is viewed as a leading institution for health services.

Service from Tel Aviv to New York/Newark will increase from 10 to 12 weekly flights starting on Friday and to 14 weekly flights starting June 2.