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Israeli space company SpaceIL signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to cooperate on a joint mission to the moon in 2024, according to the Technion UK.

Some Jewish baseball fans know the name Elie Kligman, even though he's just a freshman in college. That's because last year he became one of the first two Orthodox Jewish players ever picked in a Major League Baseball draft.

The political action committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is backing Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who has criticized the group for backing GOP colleagues who voted not to certify Joe Biden's election as president.

For years, the editorial board of The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University, has declined to back the movement to boycott Israel, even as it expressed concern about Israeli policies and supported the free-speech rights of Harvard student groups that did advocate for a boycott.

A new study shows that pandemics may become more common as a result of climate change.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic inaugurated a new plaque last week in memory of those who were killed in Belgrade's Staro Sajmiste concentration camp during the Holocaust.

A new Imperial College London study, the largest of its kind so far, has identified several factors that increase the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19.

Brother Francesco Patton was confirmed as Custos of the Holy Land and Guardian of Mount Zion for the next three years on Friday in a Jerusalem ceremony.

Christian pilgrims from around the world returned to the Holy Land for Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations this month. They visited the churches of the Holy Sepluchre and Gethsemane, as well as other smaller establishments throughout the Old City, Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The 20-year-old Squirrel Hill resident Andrew Clinton is not Jewish. But on April 21, when Pittsburgh police searched the home of his parents, they found several bins of Judaica — all stolen.

A historically Jewish fraternity at Rutgers University has been the target of multiple cases of antisemitic harassment this week, prompting the school to announce it would be increasing security on campus.

A new traffic planning software, LISA, will be used for traffic in Tel Aviv and for the light rail in Jerusalem.

Clashes broke out in the al-Aqsa mosque after people with face coverings who advanced towards police in order to confront them were blocked by hundreds of prayer goers, Hebrew media sources reports on Saturday morning.

Yuri Milner, a Russian Jewish philanthropist who made billions in Silicon Valley with early support from the Kremlin, is pledging to donate $100 million for new efforts to aid Ukrainian refugees.

A total of 2,640 people in Israel tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday out of 24,620 tests taken, according to the Health Ministry.

It has been more than a month since I fled Russia with my two daughters, a cat and a dog. Like thousands of other Russians horrified by the senseless war in Ukraine, we left with few suitcases and no plan.

Controversial right-wing MK Itamar Ben-Gvir received threatening messages over social media, containing pictures of rifle bullets with the caption reading "We will kill you and your family."

A bus carrying 39 students and seven adult chaperons crashed into a tree on Highway 87 in northern Israel on the northern side of the Kinneret, MDA announced on Friday morning.

An Egyptian archeological expedition in late April discovered an ancient Roman pottery workshop at the Tibet-Matrouh site, west of Alexandria.

Two Israeli Arab residents of Umm el-Fahm in northern Israel are accused of having failed to prevent the recent terrorist attack in Hadera, Israeli media reported Friday morning.

At first, 24-year-old Shay Asher claimed that a picture of him giving a Nazi salute at a soccer game in England last year was merely a misunderstanding.

Pro-Iranian hackers targeted livestreams on the websites of Israeli radio stations on Thursday night, as Iran and its proxies marked Quds Day.

Bupkis — meaning nothing, absolutely zilch — is one of those few Yiddish words that have become part of the American lexicon. It's also the name of Pete Davidson's new show.

Holocaust survivor Rabbi Natan Weinberg, 90, from Efrat, held his great-grandson during his brit milah as he was circumcised while the Holocaust Remembrance Day siren sounded on Thursday morning, in a video posted on Efrat Regional Council Head Oded Revivi's Twitter account.

Palestinian Education Minister, Dr. Marwan Awartani, was set to attend the European Union Parliament's April 20 hearing on textbook incitement but backed out at the last moment.

The Chasdei Naomi organization has established the first Holocaust museum in the Metaverse — where it will display NFTs created by Holocaust survivors — in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 27.

On Saturday, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, turns 50.

Igor Volobuev, the vice president of Gazprombank, the third-largest bank in Russia, left the country to join the Kyiv territorial defense forces, he said in an interview with The Insider.

Israeli security forces arrested Nazir Nassar, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad figure, in a raid in the West Bank in the early hours of Friday morning, Army Radio reported.

The Moskva, flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet which now resides on the floor of the Black sea, was declared last week as an item of Ukrainian underwater cultural heritage.