Constituents and local Jewish leaders in the city laud congressman's support for Jewish community after president called his district a 'rodent infested mess'

New owners hope to lose last vestiges of company's socialist roots and ready it for new era of high-tech transportation

Meanwhile, Filipina foreign worker who has been in Israel since 2006 deported with her 11-month-old baby

Prof. Udi Qimron and his Tel Aviv University team mutate mice to have single-sex offspring; female or male. He explains why despots couldn’t use the technique to create an army

After his decade in power, Israelis suffer collectively from metathesiophobia - fear of change and renewal

He could have had a restrained, downsized and loyal Ayelet Shaked on the list of top ten Likud Knesset candidates. But now she's back, and in a big way, leading a right-wing union that may have the power to dethrone him