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What to know about the 7.8 earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake walloped Turkey early Monday morning and the aftershocks were felt in Syria, Jordan, and Israel, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died in Israel.

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, died on Thursday in central Israel. Perel was born in 1925 to a Jewish family in Brunswick, Germany, just several years before the Nazis came to power. Landing in the Soviet Union, Perel and Isaac took refuge at children's home in what is now Belarus.

Fox News host Sean Hannity recalls some of Rep. Ilhan Omar's controversial statements following her removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Israel has said it is ready to strike targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to rein in Iran's nuclear program or missile development.

Two questions on a recent New York Regents standardized exam have upset Jewish leaders due to how they gave "false choices" to questions about Israeli history.

How Adani Group's founder once named the richest man in Asia and once second only to Elon Musk, lost nearly $70 billion in days

The defence ministry said three drones were involved, but there was only minor damage to the site.

It comes after an Israeli operation against militants in the West Bank left nine Palestinians dead.

A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle has attacked the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran’s capital, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards

Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers

Just before Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Jewish youth leaders in the eastern European country jumped into action: They formed an underground network that in the coming months would save tens of thousands of fellow Jews from the gas chambers. This chapter of the Holocaust heroism is scarcely remembered in Israel.

The tradition which began during World War One has been passed from father to son.

An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial brings back to Germany a diverse set of everyday objects that Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.

The fabrics were discarded along a Silk Road trade route.

The Supreme Court agreed that Aryeh Deri was ineligible to hold public office.

Jeremy Hunt drew comparisons to the comic character as he used coffee cups to explain soaring costs.

Bible quiz! How well do you know the facts about this bestselling and highly influential book? Test your knowledge of the contents in this engaging lifestyle quiz.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s new coalition includes members who would enforce religious prohibitions over democratic liberties.

The vote has been hailed a victory by Palestinians and described as "despicable" by Israel.

Iran on Friday held top military drills in a joint effort that involved air, sea and land based forces in the Strait of Hormuz.

One of the holiest days for Christians is marked with festivities and prayer around the world.

Why do we play with this little top during the holiday? It goes back to the second century, when the Greek empire ruled over Israel.

Micah 5:2 in the Old Testament foretells Christ's birth, and the fact that Bethlehem would play a significant and eternal role in the Christian story. Two North Carolina faith leaders weigh in.

Hanukkah made western civilization possible by preserving idea of one God instead of pagan beliefs of many gods. Holiday is more than just a Jewish victory.

The offending posts were made in 2014 by Francesca Albanese, an unabashed critic of Israel who now serves as the United Nations human rights special rapporteur in the Palestinian territories. The Times of Israel first reported on her posts earlier this week. American officials sharply criticized the messages, which seemed to validate charges of anti-Israel bias in the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, where Albanese’s office is located. "It severely undermines the credibility of the UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur to deal with the issue of human rights in the context of Israel & the Palestinian territories." "Thank you to those who have expressed their solidarity after yet another politically-motivated attack against my mandate," she wrote.

Trump issued a startling first public message to the Jewish community since his Mar-a-Lago dinner with antisemitic Ye and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed continued support of the two-state solution between Israel and the state of Palestine.

The island’s people seem blissfully oblivious of a looming conflict with China. The U.S. can’t afford that luxury.

The former president addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition.

A Palestinian official says last week’s massive apartment fire in the Gaza Strip was ignited accidentally by a man using gasoline in a party stunt, but did not explain how investigators reached that conclusion

The team were concerned about finding charging points, but a little-known law was to be their undoing.

An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by an Iranian bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Tehran.

The airline's new gender neutral uniform policy will not apply to staff flying the England team to Doha.

Instead, the European country is looking from now on to align its U.N. voting position in such matters with Washington, its closest security policy ally. Previously, Estonia has usually voted for resolutions condemning Israel at the U.N. together with several other countries. Reinsalu said his country’s foreign policy has changed in this matter. However, should the 27 EU countries have differences of opinion, Reinsalu said Estonia would now as a rule align its voting position with Washington. Estonia, a nation of 1.3 million, held a non-permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council in 2020-2021.

Estonia’s foreign minister says the Baltic country has changed its policy toward Israel and will no longer vote for U.N. resolutions condemning Tel Aviv’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Instead, the European country is looking from now on to align its U.N. voting position in such matters with Washington, its closest security policy ally. According to a report published Monday by the Estonian public broadcaster ERR, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said Estonia — an European Union and NATO member — recently voted together with the United States against the condemnation of Israel at the U.N.

Israel is working to protect sections of its 170-mile coastline, a measure experts say is crucial to maintain biodiversity. (Nov. 14) (AP Video/Sam McNeil)

JERUSALEM — (AP) — Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial acknowledged Sunday that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week. The photos, which were recently donated by a former U.S. serviceman's family to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, show rare close-up images of Nazi officials carrying out looting and destruction of Jewish property in Nuremberg and a nearby town. Yad Vashem said the photos were “never-before-seen," but many in the collection had in fact been published on Twitter, in a research publication, and a recent PBS documentary. The violence is widely considered a starting point for the Holocaust, in which Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial acknowledged Sunday that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week. The photos, which were recently donated by a former U.S. serviceman’s family to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, show rare close-up images of Nazi officials carrying out looting and destruction of Jewish property in Nuremberg and a nearby town. Yad Vashem said the photos were “never-before-seen," but many in the collection had in fact been published on Twitter, in a research publication, and a recent PBS documentary.

JERUSALEM — (AP) — Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection donated to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial, the organization said Wednesday. Another image shows a Nazi officer splashing gasoline on the pews of a synagogue before it’s set alight. Yad Vashem — The World Holocaust Remembrance Center released the photographs on the 84th anniversary of the November pogrom also known as Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass." Firefighters, SS special police officers and members of the general public are all seen in the photos participating in the Kristallnacht. His descendants, who declined to give his name, donated the album to Yad Vashem as part of the institution's effort to collect Holocaust-era objects kept by survivors and their families.

Archaeologists from Israel have discovered an ancient comb that has what they believe is the oldest complete sentence written in Canaanite alphabetical script. >> Read more trending newsThe 3,700-year-old comb’s inscription tells people to comb their hair and beards to get rid of lice, The Associated Press reported. The sentence shows how the Canaanite alphabet was used, a system that eventually evolved into other languages that use alphabets such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic, the AP reported. Hebrew University archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel, one of the comb’s researchers and study authors, said that there have been many artifacts that have Canaanite script but the comb is the first with a complete sentence. The inscription dates to approximately 1700 B.C., but the comb was found in an area with a later archaeological context.

JERUSALEM — (AP) — Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection donated to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial, the organization said Wednesday. One shows a crowd of smiling, well-dressed middle-aged German men and women standing casually as a Nazi officer smashes a storefront window. Yad Vashem — The World Holocaust Remembrance Center released the photographs on the 84th anniversary of the November pogrom also known as Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass." Firefighters, SS special police officers and members of the general public are all seen in the photos participating in the Kristallnacht. His descendants, who declined to give his name, donated the album to Yad Vashem as part of the institution's effort to collect Holocaust-era objects kept by survivors and their families.

Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938's Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection donated to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial, the organization said Wednesday. One shows a crowd of smiling, well-dressed middle-aged German men and women standing casually as a Nazi officer smashes a storefront window. Another image shows a Nazi officer splashing gasoline on the pews of a synagogue before it’s set alight.

NEW YORK — (AP) — Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the New York City Marathon women’s race in her debut in the event Sunday. It was Lokedi's first-ever marathon and she finished in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 23 seconds — just ahead of Lonah Chemtai Salpeter of Israel. Hug, who also won the race last year, earned $50,000 for besting the course record. Susannah Scaroni also broke the course record in the women's wheelchair race, finishing in 1:42.43. Scaroni, a 31-year-old from Illinois, pulled away from the field early and also earned the bonus money for topping the course record.

Benjamin Netanyahu's election win clears the way for him to form the most right-wing government in Israel's history.

JERUSALEM — (AP) — Israel's election on Tuesday, the country's fifth since 2019, largely pits familiar faces against one another in a tight race. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now the opposition leader, is hoping to return to power and replace his main rival, interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid. Here’s a look at the main players:BENJAMIN NETANYAHUAfter more than a year in the opposition, Israel's longest-serving prime minister seeks a return to power while on trial on charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. Election polls project that his Likud party and its presumed allies are hovering close to the 61-seat parliamentary majority required to form a governing coalition. YAIR LAPIDIsrael's caretaker prime minister took office in June after the ruling coalition he cobbled together disintegrated.

Israel's fifth election since 2019 largely presents familiar faces to voters.

One of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends has died at age 93.

UN officials say Syria is facing “acute violence,” the worst economic crisis since the war began in 2011, and a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak with more that 24,000 suspected cases reported and at least 80 deaths

Start-up Lunaria One's ALEPH-1 experiment will attempt to grow plants aboard an Israeli lunar lander.

In a story published October 18, 2022, about Australia dropping its former recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel's capital, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the government would again recognize Tel Aviv as the capital.

The former president posted comments that are being widely characterized as antisemitic to Truth Social on Sunday.

Two of the world’s most persistent conflicts have punctuated debate at the United Nations.

The Miss Universe Organization says New Orleans will be the site of its 71st contest, drawing nearly 90 women contestants from around the world in January.

Iran’s president is warning that any roadmap to restore Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers must see international inspectors end their probe on man-made uranium particles found at undeclared sites in the country.

Israeli archaeologists say they've unearthed a lavish 1,200-year-old estate in the country's desert south.

Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi was omitted from the 30-man list of nominees for the prestigious award.

The White House says it believes Russia is turning to Iran to provide it with “hundreds” of unmanned aerial vehicles, including weapons-capable drones, for use in its ongoing war in Ukraine.

Summer travel is underway across the globe, but a full recovery from two years of coronavirus could last as long as the pandemic itself.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has urged Iran to cooperate with his inspectors amid a standoff over its atomic program and a threat by Western nations to censure Tehran over its noncooperation.

Israeli police have decided to investigate the conduct of officers who attacked the funeral of a slain Al Jazeera journalist, causing mourners to briefly drop the casket during the ceremony in Jerusalem.

A bomb scare set off scenes of panic at Israel’s airport after an American family showed up with an unexploded artillery shell they had found in the Golan Heights.

Holocaust survivors across the world are uniting to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.

Israel has lifted an indoor mask mandate in place for nearly a year as the country’s new cases of coronavirus continue to drop.

Thousands of Christian pilgrims have taken part in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week.

European health officials say it’s too early to consider giving a fourth dose of messenger RNA coronavirus vaccines to most people, but say an extra booster can be administered to people over age 80.

Three Russian oligarchs who said their reputations were smeared by a dossier of opposition research examining Donald Trump’s ties to Russia have agreed to dismiss their defamation lawsuit.

Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard.

As the airline industry struggles, Israel's state-owned aerospace company is flying high.

After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books.

The NFL is helping wave the flag for flag football to become part of the Olympics.

An Israeli hospital says preliminary research indicates a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine provides only limited defense against the omicron variant that's raging around the world.

Israel’s Health Ministry says more than 500,000 people have received a 4th vaccine dose.

Israel's health ministry says the government's ban on travel from certain coronavirus-ravaged countries should be a thing of the past.

Yes, "flurona" is a thing. Here's the deal.

Israel says coronavirus infections in the country have spiked to a new record high since the start of the pandemic.

A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis.

Israeli ministers have agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant.

Organizers of the Miss Universe pageant say a contestant tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Israel.

The World Health Organization has urged countries not to impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concerns over the new omicron variant.

Israel's prime minister says the country is “on the threshold of an emergency situation” after authorities detected its first case of a new coronavirus variant in a traveler who returned from Malawi.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has warned that his inspectors are close to being unable to “guarantee” they know what's going on at all of Iran's nuclear sites.

The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog is meeting with Iranian officials to press for greater access in the Islamic Republic.

Israel has begun administering the coronavirus vaccine to children age 5 to 11.

An 86-year-old woman who survived mass roundups and massacres of Jews as a child in Romania has been crowned Israel’s “Miss Holocaust Survivor.”.

The U.S. Air Force has flown a B-1B strategic bomber over key maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel.

Israeli police say a man is dead after falling from a hot air balloon in mid-flight.

A trash bin installed next to a bus stop in Jerusalem thanks people for not littering.

Israeli archaeologists say they have unearthed a massive ancient winemaking complex dating back some 1,500 years.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he’s worried that people resisting COVID-19 vaccine shots based on religious grounds may be confusing that with a philosophical objection.

Citricos at Disney’s beautiful Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is now back open to guests with a newly reimagined look.

The resurgence of COVID-19 this summer and the national debate over vaccine requirements have created a fraught situation for the nation’s first responders, who are dying in larger numbers but pushing back against mandates.

Israel’s government watchdog has released a report criticizing the former government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.

U.S. health officials plan to offer COVID-19 booster shots to vaccinated Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and evidence that the vaccines’ effectiveness is declining.

U.S. health experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot.

Warning of tough days ahead with surging COVID-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health says the U.S. could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to more Americans this fall.

Imagine Olympic swimming without the world’s top 100.