Israel

Covid live news: Omicron variant detected in Canada as Fauci warns two weeks needed to study new strain

Canada has confirmed two cases of Omicron in Ontario in travellers from Nigeria, while top US infectious disease official Dr Anthony Fauci says two weeks will be needed to gather definitive information on the new coronavirus variant

Helen Livingstone

29, Nov, 2021 @12:31 AM

Britain and Israel to sign trade and defence deal

Pact covers Iran as well as cybersecurity, despite controversy over use of Israeli firm NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in UK

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security correspondent

28, Nov, 2021 @11:56 PM

The world is watching: TV hits around the globe

A Spanish trans woman’s memoirs, a Mumbai gangster drama, Israeli sisters in trouble… critics from Spain to South Korea tell us about the biggest shows in their countries

Killian Fox

28, Nov, 2021 @11:00 AM

How settler violence is fuelling West Bank tension

As attacks on Palestinians worsen, we speak to farmers, settlers, Israeli human rights activists, and the mother of a three-year-old boy left injured in a raid

Donald Macintyre & Quique Kierszenbaum in Al Mufakara

28, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM

Nothing can stop Iran’s World Cup heroes. Except war, of course…

The ‘Persian Leopards’ are going great guns on the football field, but at nuclear talks in Vienna a far more dangerous game is being played

Simon Tisdall

28, Nov, 2021 @9:00 AM

Controversial Pegasus spyware faces its day of reckoning | John Naughton

The infamous hacking tool is now at the centre of international lawsuits thanks to a courageous research lab

John Naughton

27, Nov, 2021 @4:00 PM

‘Amoral 21st-century mercenaries’: problems mount for NSO Group

Israeli spyware firm’s problems go from bad to worse as scathing Apple lawsuit follows US blacklisting

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington DC

26, Nov, 2021 @3:37 PM

Man arrested over alleged kidnap of boy who survived Italy cable car crash

Gabriel Abutbul Alon accused of helping remove Eitan Biran, six, from Italy during bitter custody battle

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

26, Nov, 2021 @11:26 AM

Weatherwatch: Israel hit by torrential rain and flash floods

Drains blocked by sand after extended dry period are thought to have worsened conditions

Jodie Woodcock (metdesk)

25, Nov, 2021 @6:00 AM

Authors back Sally Rooney’s boycott of an Israeli publisher

Kamila Shamsie, Monica Ali and China Miéville are among those who have signed a letter organised by Artists for Palestine

Alison Flood

22, Nov, 2021 @2:27 PM

Denied a state, Palestinians are now denied a say in their own future | Owen Jones

Boycott, divestment and sanctions is a peaceful movement. If it’s banned, how do we press for an end to human rights abuses, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Owen Jones

19, Nov, 2021 @2:53 PM