The head of an addiction treatment center discusses why he doesn't presume to know what's right for his patients, how Israeli social services discriminate against addicts, and the stigma that surrounds substance abuse in Israel.

Why do these shootings keep happening in your communities, I'm asked sometimes. That's what happens, I respond, when the state ignores your existence, and violence mediated by criminals is used to resolve disputes.

Israel has headed the 'greatest threat' list since 2011. but it was replaced by Russia following Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane.

Secretary-General Ban cites humanitarian situation in call to end sieges on several towns before peace talks.

If no solution is found, there will be no choice but to cancel orders or put on hold orders for asylum-seekers to report to Holot and extend temporary residency permits in those cases.

For many French Jews hiding their kippa is the only sane choice open to them: wearing such a Jewish identifier in public isn't an act of bravery, but rather an 'invitation' to violence.

'I fail to understand how greater transparency is undemocratic,' prime minister says. Proposal requires organizations getting more than half their funding from foreign governments to wear tags in Knesset.

Army and science team up to create Ebola-fighting antibodies. For now, they have only been tested in mice.