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Young Jewish adults participate in the Tel Aviv Urban Experience track of Birthright in an undated photo (Courtesy)
June 17, 2026, 10:38 pm
Canceled flights, high prices: Is the golden age of American Jewish travel to Israel ending?
Trips to Israel were long seen as the best defense against declining rates of Jewish affiliation and support for the Jewish state. But for years, getting here has been an ordeal — and it’s unclear how many people still want to come
By Ben Sales
'Tehran''s Niv Sultan in the lead role of Keshet 12's 'Murder at the Dead Sea,' a new crime thriller premiering December 22, 2025 (Courtesy Keshet)
December 2, 2025, 5:11 pm
‘Tehran’ lead Niv Sultan stars in whodunnit about COVID hotel murder
Seven-episode contemporary drama set at Dead Sea reimagines classic Agatha Christie mystery
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: A baby receives a routine vaccine. (naumoid; iStock by Getty Images)
November 25, 2025, 4:57 pm
Amid measles outbreak, study finds skepticism of routine vaccines soared during COVID
Bar-Ilan researcher finds that 6.6% of parents who vaccinated an older child before the pandemic chose not to vaccinate a younger child; ‘enough to trigger’ current outbreak
By Diana Bletter
Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)
September 28, 2025, 4:03 pm
Hebrew U-led research team calls for global wildlife tracking to help curb pandemics
Biologging animals’ movement and temperature to spot diseases that spread from creatures to people said much more cost-effective in reducing human deaths than taking later measures
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A prisoner holding the bars of a jail cell. (Channel 2 news screenshot)
September 18, 2025, 1:40 pm
Two Israelis sentenced to years in US prisons for separate fraud scams
Daniel Dadoun gets 40 months for $3.2 million swindle of federal COVID aid program; accountant Hava Yfrah-Austin gets 51 months for defrauding 2 businesses out of at least $10 million
By Stuart Winer
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Prof. Dan Peer, left, with Dr. Inbal Hazan-Halefy and PhD student Shani Benarroch of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
July 13, 2025, 3:10 pm
In first, Israeli researchers develop mRNA jab against antibiotic-resistant bacterium
Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid nanoparticles and shows 100% protection in animal models
By Diana Bletter
A New York City police officer keeps watch on the campus of Columbia University in New York, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP/Seth Wenig)
March 27, 2025, 10:37 am
Researchers caught in middle as Columbia toes Trump line to restore federal funding
Scientific and medical research teams dependent on funds lament that their work, impacted by $400 million freeze, was sucked into debate on campus antisemitism at Ivy League school
By Philip Marcelo
A yeshiva school bus drives through Borough Park on September 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City (Spencer Platt / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)
March 26, 2025, 10:26 am
Former allies, divided by Trumpian style, vie to represent NYC Orthodox neighborhood
State Sen. Simcha Felder and radio host Heshy Tischler joined forces to open playgrounds during pandemic. Now they’re competing in race for city council spot
By Ben Sales
Cleaning workers disinfect the Western Wall due to the COVID-19 virus in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 31, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2025, 7:57 pm
5 years later: Things we know and still don’t know about COVID-19
Half a decade after a viral outbreak in Wuhan, China, forever changed the world, a look at the global pandemic and its ongoing effects
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, laura ungar and Mike Stobbe
Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro of Tel Aviv University. (Tel Aviv University)
November 22, 2024, 8:39 am
COVID vaccine in nasal spray: Israeli researchers help develop needle-free inoculation
Tel Aviv University scientists say peer-reviewed invention can be stored at room temperature, helping to reach remote regions; it can be administered without nurses or injections
By Diana Bletter
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, 'Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,' in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/ AFP)
August 27, 2024, 7:10 pm
Meta CEO Zuckerberg says US pressure to take down COVID-19 posts was ‘wrong’
In letter seen by Republicans as a win, Facebook founder says US government pressured his company to ‘censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire’
By AFP
FILE - A worker wearing a protective suit swabs a man's throat for a COVID-19 test at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, on June 22, 2022. The World Health Organization said Friday May 5, 2023 that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
August 22, 2024, 12:30 am
Israeli researchers say wearable sensors could cut spread of contagious disease
Tel Aviv University-led team finds that technology that warns of illness 1 to 3 days before appearance of symptoms might prevent future pandemics and help timely disease management
By Diana Bletter
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