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The President’s Climate Forum, launched in November, has begun to identify climate crisis solutions that might be presented at COP27, to be held...
Communities in the Jerusalem area nearly devastated by wildfires a year ago have failed to take precautions ahead of the return of Israel’s dry...
Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg announced Tuesday that she will soon declare a new marine protected area in the Mediterranean Sea,...
The High Court on Sunday rejected four petitions against a controversial plan to build a cable car to Jerusalem’s historic Old City, shutting down...
Thousands of runners are expected to take part in the Israel leg of what is being billed as the world’s longest non-stop relay run, aimed at...
Nearly all of Israel’s ecosystems are losing biological diversity, the State Comptroller said in a report released Tuesday on preventing damage from...
Spain’s government on Tuesday sacked the country’s top spymaster in the wake of the hacking of the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez...
Israeli universities are stepping up to the plate to absorb students from Ukraine whose studies have been disrupted by the ongoing war. The vast...
Brain size has allowed certain large animals such as elephants, rhinos, hippos, and kangaroos to adapt to changes over tens of thousands of years and...
Drive up the northern Mediterranean coast, or the northern Jordan Valley, or in and around the valleys in between, and you will be struck by the...
Plant enthusiasts are making beelines to the Carmel Mountain range in northern Israel to snatch some final glimpses of spring’s bee orchids, which...
TEHRAN, Iran — Three Iranian policemen have been arrested in Tehran, state media reported Sunday, after a video appearing to show the officers...
After several delays, and in what Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg hailed as a “historic moment,” the Ministerial Committee for...
The sky is anything but the limit for an Israeli company developing special carbon-catching balloons that it says will provide the world’s first...
A rare phenomenon in Israel of prolonged cold and rain during the first two and a half months of the year delayed the blooming of wildflowers and...
Jewish American lawyer Steven Donziger was freed on Monday after 993 days of detention, including 45 days in prison, and vowed to continue his fight...
An internationally renowned Israeli expert in insurance and risk has proposed that the world’s governments issue a special bond to raise the...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai’s Museum of the Future, housed in a jaw-dropping architectural marvel of steel, takes visitors on a journey...
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that many birds in Israel have either become smaller or longer over the past 70 years, and posit that...
A joint research project kicked off Sunday to map the marine mammal population in a little-explored area of Israel’s stretch of the Mediterranean...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A six-month window during which Israelis were able to visit Iran, Syria, Yemen and other nations that normally won’t...
DUBAI, United Arab emirates — It was never going to be easy for 10 soccer players from Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to take on...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The reluctance of the developed world to cough up the money it promised to help developing nations cope with the worst...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates’ commitment to environmental sustainability, on the one hand, and to continuing oil...
DUBAI — Israel’s special climate envoy, Ambassador Gideon Behar, told dozens of Middle East and North African ministers on Monday that the country...
‘We’ve become crisis experts in 3 weeks,’ says head of Joint Distribution Committee in Chisinau, one of a dizzying number of groups trying to...
CHISINAU, Molodova — As soon as the Russians invaded Ukraine, English teacher Tami Jeffay, from the northern city of Zichron Yaakov, teamed up with...
New two-step system, aimed at speeding up departure from Eastern Europe, provides for partial checks in countries bordering Ukraine, completion of...
CHISINAU, Moldova — Determined to send food and medicine to her 87-year-old grandfather, who is stuck in the city of Kharkiv, an Israeli eye doctor...
LONDON, United Kingdom — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson found himself under fire on Sunday, including from his own MPs, after saying that...
MOLDOVA — Among the staggering number of Israelis who have dropped everything to go volunteer with refugees fleeing Ukraine to Moldova are a clutch...
‘Mariupol looks like Chernobyl,’ says Vika Korotkova, who spent 2 weeks in shelters with husband, daughter; Viktoria Smyrnova makes...
OTACI, Moldova — It is one of history’s ironies that the northern Moldovan town of Otaci, emptied of its Jews during World War II, is now an entry...
BUCHAREST, Romania — These are unusual times, and an El Al flight on Monday from Tel Aviv to the Romanian capital of Bucharest reflected today’s...
A rabbi’s daring and dangerous dash to bring food from the Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula to the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson will...
With around half of Kyiv’s population having fled since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the capital’s mayor, the ability to care for...
The number of sea turtle nests along Israel’s coast rose sharply for the second year in a row in 2021, according to a government report published...
An Orthodox Jewish couple from Ukraine arrived just minutes before the start of Shabbat last week after a frenzied three-day journey to get...
Conditions are deteriorating in Kherson, the only regional capital taken by Russian forces, according to the director of the Hesed Center, which...
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s royal court said Tuesday that former crown prince Hamzah has met his half-brother King Abdullah II, and apologized over...
A Ukrainian family in Mariupol, a city that has suffered massive bombing and has had little contact with the outside world for days, risked everything...
Senior sources at the Energy Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the European Energy Commissioner has asked Israel whether it could supply liquified...
With roads blocked and public transportation either shut down or commandeered for military needs, providing care to needy members of Ukraine’s...
In Ukraine, it has even become dangerous to walk the dog. “I don’t feel safe anywhere,” Sveta (Svetlana) Soroka, 36, told The Times of Israel...
The Genesis Philanthropy Group, best known for its annual $1 million prize for outstanding individuals, will give $10 million in emergency assistance...
Israelis of Ukrainian origin are selling their belongings in order to be able to send money to their brethren in Ukraine, according to an active...
Busloads of Jewish orphans from the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr near the Belarus border have escaped to southwestern Ukraine, and hope to cross into...
Yisroel Silberstein of Chernihiv, close to Belarus and Russian borders, says food supplies cannot get through as Jewish homes hit, city bridges bombed...