A two-dose version of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine provides 94% protection against symptomatic infection, the company said Tuesday — making a two-dose regimen of J&J's Janssen vaccine comparable to a two-dose regimen of Moderna's or (...)
People infected with Covid Alpha variant exhaled 100 times more virus into the air than people infected with the original strains of the virus, according to a study.
The University of Maryland researchers suggested the need for better ventilation (...)
Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted on Friday to recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for Americans 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness, after overwhelmingly rejecting a call for broader approval, according to (...)
The European Union Wednesday said it has accepted COVID-19 certificates from seven more non-EU countries as equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate.
The seven countries are Albania, Andorra, Faroe Islands, Israel, Monaco, Morocco and Panama, (...)
Leaders of Egypt and Israel met for the first time in over a decade Monday.
The meeting between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signaled a significant thaw in a relationship that had been frosty (...)
Israeli researchers have found that a type of white blood cells called eosinophils can efficiently treat cancer, Tel Aviv University (TAU) in central Israel said on Monday.
These white blood cells can destroy cancer cells directly while recruiting (...)
The Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, on Friday, as a number of Palestinians organized a peaceful march after Friday's prayers in solidarity with prisoners who are being repressed by the prison administration.
The Palestinian (...)
British vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday said a decision had not yet been taken on whether healthy children aged 12- to 15-years-old should be vaccinated against COVID-19, following reports that a rollout could begin in the coming (...)
The prospect of European travel for Americans has begun to diminish once more as countries adopt new measures in response to a recent surge in US COVID-19 cases.
Earlier this week, the European Union announced it was dropping the United States from (...)
Israel appointed its first ambassador to Bahrain, almost a year after the two countries normalized their ties.
Eitan Na'eh, who had served for eight months as the temporary head of mission at the Israeli embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), (...)
Bahrain's first ambassador to Israel Khaled Al Jalahma arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
His arrival and the expected opening of the Bahraini embassy "are important milestones in the development of (...)
The number of COVID-19 cases in Israel has reached 1,005,511, almost a year and a half since the first case was detected in the country, the Israeli Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
Israel became the 35th country with more than 1 million (...)
The Arab League on Saturday warned against ongoing attacks by the occupation Israeli authorities on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The league affirmed in a statement, on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of burning the mosque, full solidarity with (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday received the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, Israel's Prime Minister's Office said.
Earlier on Friday, the Israeli health ministry lowered the eligibility age for the third dose of the vaccine (...)
Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel paid a rare visit to Israel on Wednesday to discuss the cease-fire deal between Israel and the Hamas militant group that followed an 11-day war in May, Israel announced.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office (...)
US administration officials have worked to delay a bill proposed by Knesset member Nir Barkat (Likud) which, if passed into law, would essentially prevent the reopening of a de facto US embassy to the Palestinians in Jerusalem.
The bill seeks to ban (...)
The Israeli forces' bulldozers started scraping the courtyards of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque in order to establish a tourism route, the Director of the Ibrahimi Mosque Sheikh Hafthi Abu Sneineh stated Wednesday.
He added in remarks to KUNA through a phone (...)
BRUSSELS — The European Union has strongly condemned the deadly drone attack on an Israel-linked commercial vessel in the Arabian Sea last month, saying that "all available evidence clearly points to Iran."
In a statement on Sunday, the EU said it (...)
Fires of "biblical catastrophe" continue to burn through Greek forests, forcing the evacuations of thousands of people as a political storm brews in Turkey over the worst wildfires in recent history.
Three large wildfires churned across Greece on (...)
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, said on Friday that escalating hostilities over the past two days involving Lebanese and Israeli forces have created "a very dangerous situation" in the volatile border region.
In a statement, the (...)
WASHINGTON — The United States has strongly Hezbollah's rocket attacks into Israel, saying the violence puts Israelis and Lebanese at risk and jeopardizes Lebanon's stability and sovereignty.
In a statement on Friday, Ned Price, the spokesman of the (...)
Thousands of people have fled wildfires that continue to spread in Greece and Turkey.
They escaped a blaze north of the Greek capital Athens early on Friday as firefighters waged an overnight battle to stop the flames from reaching populated areas, (...)
Heads of Mission and representatives from Belgium, Denmark, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom visited Beita, a village near Nablus in the West Bank, the UK (...)
The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on booster shots until at least the end of September, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a news briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
"WHO is calling for a moratorium on (...)
GCC Secretary-General Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf has condemned the attack on an oil tanker off the Oman coast last week.
In a statement on Tuesday carried by the Kuwait News Agency, Al-Hajraf called on the international community to assume its (...)
