Well-known Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury withdrew his participation from the Arabofolies festival organized by the Institut du Monde Arabe...

"We now have a culture minister who is a close friend of the Iranians and who has bowed her head wearing a headscarf in front of the mullah regime, in addition to being a supporter of the boycotters of Israel," says Sacha Stawski, head of the pro-Israel watchdog group Honestly Concerned.

"We're in this pickle because Iran's nuclear program is advancing to a point beyond which it has any conventional rationale," the US official says, as Defense Minister Benny Gantz is slated to meet his American counterpart Lloyd Austin in Washington on Thursday.

The 42-year-old singer has talked about her Jewish identity before on social media.

Research by Clalit Health Services includes 843,208 members over the age of 50. "These findings provide research-based data for the public who are still undecided about getting the third vaccine," Dr. Doron Netzer says.