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A group of 21 scientific experts led by Christopher R. Moore, Archaeologist and Special Projects Director at the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, have published a study detailing a cosmic-impact event that utterly destroyed a city in modern-day Jordan, and which may have inspired the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Yahoo News reports. Recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study describes a Middle Eastern city at the archaeological site of Tall el-Hammam, which the experts believe was destroyed by a comet 3,600 years ago.

Lebanon’s new Prime Minister Najib Mikati vowed on Monday to reclaim territories it sees as occupied by Israel, while warning that the country has the right to respond to any aggression.

US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that a sovereign and democratic Palestinian state is the “best way” to ensure Israel’s future.

Democratic Party leadership in the US House of Representatives removed about $1 billion of funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system on Tuesday.

Senior Israeli leaders kicked off the 42nd International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem Feast of Tabernacles celebrations on Monday with video greetings as the massive annual gathering went online due to the pandemic.

After an FDA decision called into question the necessity of so-called “booster” shots, Israeli doctors and medical professionals wrote a letter condemning a new policy from the Ministry of Health which requires Israelis to be triple vaccinated in order to freely enter a number of public places.

Defense Minister and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz met once again with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of the last Knesset session, the latest in a series of recent meetings between the two party leaders.

Ramping up its efforts to stave off the spread of coronavirus, Israel launched on Sunday a new GPS tracking system to better monitor quarantined Israelis.

Last year’s assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist was carried out by Israel through a state-of-the-art remotely controlled “killer robot,” according to a New York Times report published Saturday and based on interviews with American, Israeli and Iranian officials.

A 16-year-old boy and three other people were detained Thursday in connection with a suspected plan for an attack on a synagogue in the German city of Hagen, authorities said.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz said he was prepared to accept a scenario in which the US negotiates a fresh nuclear deal with Iran, in a rare comment from a senior government official not rejecting such a multilateral accord out of hand.

Representatives from member countries of the Abraham Accords gathered at the Four Seasons hotel on Tuesday to mark one year since the normalization agreements between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

Israel shut down on Wednesday evening for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, even as security forces remained on high alert amid a recent spike in attacks.

Health Ministry Director-General Nachman Ash said Tuesday that the current wave of coronavirus infections is surpassing anything seen in previous outbreaks and that he is disappointed that a recent downward trend appeared to be reversing.

An Israeli defense contractor on Monday unveiled a remote-controlled armed robot it says can patrol battle zones, track infiltrators and open fire. The unmanned vehicle is the latest addition to the world of drone technology, which is rapidly reshaping the modern battlefield.

A pool of water near the Dead Sea was found to be red recently, with the Jordanian Water Ministry sending technical teams on Saturday to take samples and find out why the pool was red, according to Jordanian media.

Israel is working on a system to conduct genetic scanning for all those who arrive in the country in order to better identify travelers infected with the coronavirus, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at a cabinet meeting Sunday.

“Israel takes very seriously the situation reflected in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) report released this week on the Iranian nuclear issue,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Friday.

An official at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer claimed that Israel was a “kind of laboratory” for the Covid-19 vaccine that his company developed, during a conference on Zoom last week.

For a third consecutive day, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Sunday evening.