Israeli MPs approved a 609-billion-shekel ($194-billion) spending plan for 2021 and are to resume debate later on 573 billion shekels for next year. It is being seen as a victory for the coalition that unseated Benjamin Netanyahu in June but has only 61 out of 120 seats in parliament.

Israeli air strikes hit positions held by the Syrian government and its pro-Iranian allies near Damascus overnight, a war monitor said on Wednesday.

During the recent olive harvest, Palestinian farmer Dalal Sawalmeh raked her fingers through the silvery green leaves of her family's trees but said there weren't as many olives cascading to the ground.

Israel has said the objectives of the 1956 Gaza invasion included ensuring free passage through the Straits of Tiran.

Israel is anticipating a significant influx of Emirati and Bahraini tourists as the global tourism industry starts recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.

An Iranian general has said Israel and the United States were likely to have been behind a cyber attack that interrupted the distribution of fuel at service stations. In July, Iran's transportation ministry said a "cyber disruption" had affected its computer systems and website.

A hacking group known as Black Shadow claimed responsibility for the attack.

The finance ministry lowered its 2021 budget deficit target to 5.5%-5.7% of gross domestic product from 6.8% due to higher-than-expected tax revenues, reflecting a rapid economy recovery. It projects a 3.9% deficit in 2022.

The reaction comes after four years under Donald Trump in which the United States offered a green light to Israel's activity on occupied Palestinian land, with his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, touring a settlement at the end of his tenure.

Israel's designation of six leading Palestinian civil society groups as outlawed "terrorist organizations" is an unjustified attack, the UN human rights chief said Tuesday.

Agricultural workers from Lebanon are being allowed into Israel as a ‘gesture of goodwill’ through the borders at Al Jabal, Itaron, and Balida. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, overseeing a buffer zone between the two countries, has ‘reported the gesture’ to the Lebanese side.

Amir Lazar, chief of Israeli air force operations, told reporters the drills "don't focus on Iran", but army officials have said the Islamic republic remains Israel's top strategic threat and at the centre of much of its military planning.

The expenditure is expected to improve socio-economic conditions for Israel’s Arab minority, which has long complained of marginalization.

The competent authorities in the two countries will be able to develop specific procedures ensuring the unrestricted movement of vaccinated individuals. This is apparently part of the efforts made by the two countries’ governments to facilitate the safe movement of travelers under the Covid-19 pandemic.

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all agreed to normalize ties with Israel in 2020, as Washington under the administration of then US President Donald Trump made Arab-Israeli rapprochement a foreign policy priority.

Crashing through the Mediterranean waves at sunset, Palestinian fisherman Mohammed al-Nahal leads a convoy of rickety boats out for another risky night under the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six-Day War of 1967 and exercises full administrative control across much of the territory.

In Israel, as in many advanced economies, digital payments are rapidly growing, taking the place of transactions once done with bills and coins. But in the West Bank, a territory under Israeli military occupation since 1967, cash is still king.

Mohamed al-Sadat has long been a fixture of Egypt's political scene. As many as 60,000 political prisoners are serving time in Egyptian jails, according to human rights defenders.

Israeli companies are tapping air force veterans’ expertise to avoid collisions in increasingly crowded skies as they look to start delivering food, drinks and other supplies using drones. However, there may be other challenges in the offing as more and more drones take to the skies.

Qatari support is considered a crucial lifeline for impoverished Palestinians living in Gaza, which has been under Israeli blockade since 2007.

Meeting with his Israeli and UAE counterparts, Blinken said that President Joe Biden's administration's policy on Syria was largely focused on humanitarian relief.

Azerbaijan-Iran ties soured weeks ago over allegations that Israel's military was active in Azerbaijan.

Citing human rights reports, the Irish author said Israel's system of racial domination and segregation against Palestinians meets the definition of apartheid under international law.

The visits of several Israeli ministers so far show the importance the Jewish state attributes to the event.

Jared Kushner, a former White House adviser married to Ivanka Trump, was a major architect of the deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.

The facility in Yavne, south of Tel Aviv, produced two million liters of wine each year.

The new ad posted on the Twitter handle of the Israeli Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai has been videographed in The Dead Sea, the lowest land-based elevation on Earth.

Blinken had met virtually in mid-September with Lapid and top Emirati foreign policy adviser Anwar Gargash, as well as top diplomats from Bahrain and Morocco.

An Israeli missile strike on an air base in central Syria has killed two Damascus-allied foreign fighters and wounded several Syrian service personnel, a Britain-based war monitor said on Saturday.

The total number of permits being granted by Israel to Palestinian labourers in Gaza is 7,000.

A project has managed to grow date palm trees from 2,000-year-old seeds found near the Dead Sea.

Yair Lapid began a landmark visit Thursday to Bahrain where he opened the Israeli embassy one year after the US-brokered normalisation of ties. The Israeli foreign minister touched down at Manama airport over an hour before a Gulf Air A320 took off in the opposite direction for the first commercial...

Teheran: Iran's army is to hold maneuvers near the Azerbaijan border from Friday, state media announced, despite strong criticism from Baku. "The maneuvers scheduled to start on Friday will involve armored units as well as artillery, drones and military helicopters," the army's ground forces commander General Kioumars Heydari told the...

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid began a landmark visit Thursday to Bahrain where he will open the Israeli embassy one year after the US-brokered normalization of ties.

In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, Bennett claimed the Islamic republic had in recent years taken "a major leap forward" in its nuclear production capacity

Jerusalem: An Israeli operation to dismantle a Hamas cell in the West Bank sparked fierce gun battles at multiple locations Sunday, killing four Palestinians, Israel's army and Palestinian official sources said. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed a total of four deaths from Israeli gunfire, including one in Burqin near Jenin...

The first initiative of its kind in Iraq, where Israel's sworn enemy Iran has a very strong influence, the conference took place on Friday and was organised by the New York-based Center for Peace Communications (CPC). More than 300 Iraqis, including tribal leaders, attended a conference in autonomous Kurdistan.

Abbas called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to "convene an international peace conference."

This came after the funding was controversially stripped from a separate bill following a revolt from the left flank of the Democrats. However, the vote was near-unanimous this time, with the funding approved by a 420-9 majority vote.

The row underlined that progressives are becoming increasingly skeptical of no-strings-attached aid to America’s key ally in the Middle East.

The UAE marks one year since normalising ties with Israel today as the leaders hope the Abraham Accords could reap a trillion dollars in economic exchanges.

The virtual meeting of the US Secretary of State with his counterparts from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco marks a full embrace of what former United States president Donald Trump considered one of his top foreign policy legacies. Trump broke long taboos in Middle East diplomacy to...

Bennett said the meeting helped create "a foundation for deep ties in the future" between two countries

On September 15, 2020, the UAE became the first Gulf nation to establish formal relations with the Jewish state

The airline will operate two weekly flights from September 30

It has spent $1.03 billion to buy a stake in the Tamar gas field.

Eitan Na'eh had served for eight months as the temporary head of mission at the Israeli embassy in the United Arab Emirates

The port, to be operated by Shanghai International Port Group, is expected to bring competition to a sector plagued by delays, and boost Israel’s standing as a regional trade hub.

The budget proposal was approved in August by the coalition government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett