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A Google employee who became the most visible opponent of a company contract with the Israeli military said on Tuesday that she would resign after claiming Google had tried to retaliate against her for her activism.The employee, Ariel…

NIH Director Ms. Francis Collins holds up a mockup of the coronavirus as he testifies before a hearing showing the budget estimates for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research on Capitol Hill in Washington,…

People will be given a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a Covid-19 mass vaccination center on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday January 4, 2020.Kobi Wolf | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19…

As the Delta variant takes over the world, researchers are tracking how well vaccines protect against it - and getting different answers.In the UK, researchers reported in May that two doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine had 88 percent…

Two women with face masks walk down a shopping street in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on April 19, 2021.Francois Nel | el Getty Images News | Getty ImagesVaccination campaigns in several Middle Eastern countries are racing ahead of the rest…

WASHINGTON - Stuart Force says he found solace on Facebook after his son was stabbed to death by a member of the Hamas militant group in Israel in 2016. He turned to the website to read hundreds of condolences on his son's page.But just a…

A Bedouin shepherd came across the first of the ancient scrolls in 1947. He found them in jars in a cave in Qumran near the northern tip of the Dead Sea. Some were sold to a monastery, others to an antique dealer in Bethlehem. Once their…

Mr. Shanks died on February 5th at his Washington home. He was 90 years old. His daughter Elizabeth Alexander, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, said the cause was complications from Covid-19.Mr. Shanks made…

JERUSALEM - Israel, das weltweit führend bei der Impfung seiner Bevölkerung gegen das Coronavirus ist, hat einige ermutigende Neuigkeiten hervorgebracht: Frühe Ergebnisse zeigen einen signifikanten Rückgang der Infektion nach nur einem…

A health care worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak on January 6, 2021.JACK GUEZ | AFP | Getty ImagesIsrael was praised for deploying what is currently the fastest…