3 diagnosed with strain, all in same family; officials said concerned variant already spreading; preliminary US research suggests mutation may potentially weaken vaccine efficacy

Top health official warns opening up airport without proper enforcement of quarantine could lead to arrival of vaccine-resistant variants and 'catastrophe'

PM holds first meeting with Mohammad Mahmoud Al Khajah after the latter's arrival in Israel Monday

Ministers permit 300 people indoors and 500 people outdoors, with space no more than 75% full

The only heavy metal choir in Israel -- and possibly the world -- recorded a Linkin Park cover during the latest lockdown

Ignoring warnings from Tehran, Paris says Europeans will lodge IAEA resolution condemning Islamic Republic for restricting nuclear inspectors

A second survey has left-wing party squeezing past minimum electoral threshold if March 23 elections were held today

The Health Ministry has called for non-inoculated staff to be kept away from highest-risk wards; Jerusalem's Hadassah has gone a step further, barring contact with all patients