A medical worker carries RT-PCR swab tests at a pre-departure coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility, as countries react to the new coronavirus Omicron variant, outside the international terminal at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia, November 29, 2021.

Omicron appears more contagious, less dangerous than other variants

BREAKING NEWS

A young man in his 20s was shot in Tamra, his condition is fair

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IDF to begin 'Red Granite' training drill in southern Israel

Mahmoud Abbas in Algeria to discuss Palestinian issue with Tebboune

COVID-19 in Israel: Four new Omicron cases, 11 in total

UAE's crown prince, Israeli ambassador meet for first time

Belarus summons Ukrainian military attache over border violation

US reluctance to lift sanctions main obstacle nuclear deal talks - Iran

Cabinet meeting, December 5, 2021.

Coronavirus: Omicron continues to spread in Israel

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

VIEW OF a damaged building after a fire broke out at Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Facility, in Isfahan on July 2.

Is third sabotage the charm at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility? - analysis

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

PEOPLE PASS a mural of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran

Gantz, Mossad chief to pressure US to attack Iran

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Top News

Israeli security forces at the scene of terror attack, outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on December 4, 2021.

Yes, Border Police should shoot when necessary - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett lights the menorah with new US Ambassador Tom Nides on the last night of Hanukkah, December 5, 2021.

Biden restoring bipartisan support for Israel, Bennett tells Nides

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Aeroflot Boeing 777-300ER at Vladivostok Airport

Israeli flight to Russia forced to reduce altitude due to spy plane

By REUTERS

Saturday shooting of Palestinian terrorist not comparable to Elor Azaria - analysis

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

Israel Border Police officers stand guard at the Damascus Gate

Stabbing attack backlash: Border Police officers probed, defended by Bennett

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Middle East

President Isaac Herzog meets with incoming US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 5 in Jerusalem.

Israel will act against Iran alone if necessary, Herzog tells Amb. Nides

By TOVAH LAZAROFF , OMRI NAHMIAS

Police officers stand outside the new Salt government hospital in the city of Salt, Jordan March 13, 2021

Jordanian doctors jailed for causing deaths of COVID-19 patients

By REUTERS

Palestinians take part in a rally to mark the founding of Fatah in 1965, at the Arab American University in the West Bank city of Jenin, January 6, 2008.

Student’s killing sparks protests against PA in Jenin

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Is Turkey pretending it wants reconciliation with Israel again? - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference in Istanbul, Turkey October 16, 2021

Attempted assassination of Turkey's Erdogan foiled - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analysis and Features

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Channel 20 conference in Jerusalem earlier this year.

Channel 14 as Israel’s Fox News? - opinion

By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

A MONUMENT dedicated to the Jews who died in Verdun, France, in one of the deadliest battles during World War I.

Remembering the Maccabees who died fighting for Germany in WWI - opinion

A handout picture from October 2019 shows Sundar Pichai and Daniel Sank (R) with one of Google's Quantum Computers in the Santa Barbara lab, California, US

Researchers create 'time crystal' with quantum computers

Asteroid twice the size of pyramids heading near Earth at end of year

An ancient coin is seen among the artifacts seized from the home of an east Jerusalem resident on the last night of Hanukkah, on December 5, 2021.

Ancient Hasmonean artifacts found in east Jerusalem at end of Hanukkah

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hot Opinion

Yes, Border Police should shoot when necessary - editorial

BY JPOST EDITORIAL

Don’t cherish Jewish values? You don’t get to make the call - opinion

BY LEAH AHARONI

Gov't optimistically embracing conversion reform - opinion

My Word: Beauty and the BDS beast

BY LIAT COLLINS

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JPost Spotlight

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Meet Portugalis, the company helping Jews claim Portuguese citizenship

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

The three winning playwrights of the Arditi Foundation Awards, hosted at Tel Aviv University

Arditi Foundation awards students for plays on Jewish-Arab coexistence

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

PNINA TAMANO-SHATA: We are the generation that merited to be the one that returned to Zion, and we need to encourage aliyah because this is the home of all Jews.

Ethiopian-born minister hints at racism in Israel's Omicron Africa ban

INTERIOR MINISTER Ayelet Shaked

Pregnant women ask Shaked to let parents to visit for births amid COVID

By JEREMY SHARON

Israeli News

New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar.

Gideon Sa’ar at New Hope event: We aren’t going anywhere

A nurse prepares a dose of the Soberana 02 vaccine during its clinical trials at a hospital amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Havana, Cuba, June 29, 2021.

COVID: Israel to consider 4th vaccine for immuno-suppressed patients

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

Israeli Border policemen patrol the area near the site of a shooting incident in Jerusalem's Old City November 21, 2021.

Israeli politicians deeply divided on the killing of Damascus Gate terrorist

Supreme Court picks may be delayed by months

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Gilboa Prison

Gilboa Prison Pimping Affair: A symptom of a larger problem?

By SHIRA SILKOFF

World News

A plume of smoke is seen after the crash of a PIA aircraft in Karachi, Pakistan May 22, 2020

Pakistan: Mob beats to death Sri Lankan manager accused of insulting Islam

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD / THE MEDIA LINE

Freight trucks and vehicles drive on the only entrance to Kuwait's Shuwaikh Port from the Ghazalli Bridge in Shuwaikh February 11, 2013

Kuwait bans entry of ships carrying goods to and from Israel

A number of new generation Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, Iran April 10, 2021

Iran must halt uranium enrichment before nuclear talks resume - Bennett

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Bitcoin falls over $9k in hours as Fed suggests higher interest rates

By ZACHY HENNESSEY

Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021.

Religious clergy urge aid for asylum seekers on Polish-Belarusian border

By JEREMY SHARON

Health & Wellness

Dividing cancer cell

Hadassah discovers mechanism contributing to cancer in overweight women

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Death valley National Park, California

How to talk to your kids about death

By Daniel Saransky , in cooperation with JAMA

Scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus

COVID: First signs that vaccine protects against Omicron – health minister

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN , MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Can Evangelicals be convinced to vaccinate against COVID-19?

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Seaweed is seen on a beach in Cancun

Could seaweed stop coronavirus from infecting human cells? - study

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Antisemitism / BDS

Boise, ID, United States; A general view of downtown Boise, Idaho prior to the start of the 2018 Idaho Potato Bowl between BYU and Western Michigan, Dec 21, 2018.

Anne Frank Memorial vandalized in Boise, Idaho - police

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Kansas City, Missouri

Burglar ransacks Kansas City Chabad, leaves Torah untouched

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Police officers keep guard outside a house in the Kensington area where counter-terrorism officers arrested men after a vehicle exploded outside Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, Britain, November 15, 2021.

Antisemitic British video streamer sentenced to four years in prison

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Who will be the 2021 Antisemite of the Year?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

UK neo-Nazi sentenced to read classic literature hasn't started yet

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Environment & Climate Change

Cows at a dairy farm

Cows cause 30% of methane gas emissions, Israeli team plans to reduce it

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30% - study

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Science

The Geminids meteor shower in 2020 (illustrative).

Geminids meteor shower starts next week - can it be seen in Israel?

Mars screenshot from Celestia 3D astronomy program.

Mars may have had water for a very short time, study finds

JPost Tech

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

Spark IL aims to empower small businesses in the Israeli periphery

By ZACHY HENNESSEY

Aidoc offers artificial intelligence solutions that support and enhance the impact of radiologist diagnostic power

Israeli health company releases its first AI operating system

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Archaeology

Villagers clear floodwaters near residential houses following heavy rainfall in Yitang county, Jiexiu city, Shanxi province, China, October 10, 2021.

Stone Age Liangzhu civilization collapsed due to climate change - study

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The first building ever discovered in Yavne from the Sanhedrin era. It contained fragments of ‘measuring cups’ identified with a Jewish population.

Israeli archaeologists dig up new info on Sanhedrin era in Yavne

Diaspora

The new US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides arrives in Ben Gurion airport, November 29, 2021.

Incoming US Ambassador Nides presents credentials to Pres. Herzog

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Members of Israel's Iraqi Jewish community at a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 1, 2021

Israel’s Iraqi Jewish community free to celebrate Hanukkah together

By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE

US Politics

Bob Dole

Former US Senator, WWII veteran Bob Dole dies at 98

By REUTERS

CNN's Chris Cuomo during a televised townhall with Democratic 2020 US presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dedicated to LGBTQ issues in Los Angeles, California, US October 10, 2019.

CNN fires anchor Chris Cuomo over role in brother's sex scandal

By REUTERS

Judaism

‘THE SEVENTH Plague of Egypt’ (1823) by English Romantic painter John Martin

Kabbalah — Understanding the Ten Plagues

By EDUARD SHYFRIN

Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, December 5, 2021.

Western Wall deal: Women of the Wall reinforce presence with prayer

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Culture

Gal Gadot in 'Red Notice'

Gal Gadot’s 'Red Notice' beats 'Bird Box' to become Netflix’s biggest hit

By HANNAH BROWN

Woman learns Hebrew with Ivrit Talk (illustrative)

Six tips to learn Hebrew

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Food

BAKED POTATO latkes.

University of Chicago Hillel hosts 75th Latke-Hamantash Debate

By STEPHEN SILVER/JTA

Mini sufganiyot

Pascale's Kitchen: End-of-festival Sweets

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN

Travel

Ben-Gurion Airport in wake of the new travel imposed in light of the COVID Omicron variant, November 28, 2021.

COVID: Residents, visa holders continue to struggle entering Israel

By JEREMY SHARON

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Bayit Yehudi party and his wife Gilat make their way to the ballot box to cast a vote in the Israeli general elections on Tuesday, January 22, 2012 Raanana

Bennett's family to fly abroad for vacation despite new COVID variant

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

OMG

Asteroid (illustrative)

Large asteroid stronger than nuke heading towards Earth late December

1978 Superman/DC Sticker Cards

‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ ranked oddest book title of 2021

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By SARAH GOLDMAN

A homeless woman

Poverty seems to be the only ‘variant’ plaguing Israel

By MEIR PANIM