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What we need is not just an exit plan from the current lockdown, but a longer-term exit plan from the republic of Nphet. Photograph:  Getty Images

There is a theme emerging from Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s latest pronouncements. He was “surprised” at the call by Catholic bishops for an easing of C(...)

AstraZeneca  vaccinations in Lichfield cathedral: British ministers treat every question about the safety or effectiveness of the drug as a grievous insult to national honour.  Photograph: Oli Scarff

When a single issue defines a country’s politics for as long as Brexit has England’s, it’s perhaps inevitable that, after a while, it can be hard to s(...)

Supporters of Israel’s Likud party lift a banner depicting prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu at Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on Friday. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images

Israelis head to the polls on Tuesday for the fourth time in two years and, once again, the outcome hangs in the balance as a deeply divided nation de(...)

Ata Khattab: has been denied access to his legal team for prolonged periods. Photograph: Akram Khan Company

When Palestinian dancer Ata Khattab concluded his solo piece on a Galway stage in 2017, the audience jumped to their feet and offered roars of approva(...)

Israeli media reported that Jordan’s Prince Hussein turned back at an Israeli-operated West Bank crossing due to disagreement over the large number of armed guards in his party. File photograph: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images

Jordanian-Israeli relations are at their lowest point since the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1994. Already-strained relations morphed into a(...)

IDA Ireland chief executive Martin Shanahan: The agency is seeking an Israel-based business development consultant. Photograph Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times

IDA Ireland is looking to expand its global footprint by establishing a presence in Israel. This follows the agency seeking expressions of interest (...)

The recently-discovered 2000-year-old biblical scroll fragments are displayed at the IAA’s Dead Sea conservation lab in Jerusalem March 16th, 2021. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed two dozen Dead Sea scroll fragments from a remote cave in the Judean Desert, the first discovery of such Jewish (...)

Stuart Hogg: Scotland have a pack of forwards able to dominate their opponents and backs, like the impressive Hogg,  who can turn a game with their X-factor. Photograph: Craig Watson/Inpho

The business community has only recently discovered what sport has known for over a century. Leadership is an intangible substance, but its absence ha(...)

‘We are sailing very close to the wind,’ said Nphet’s modelling expert Prof Philip Nolan on Thursday. ‘A gust of wind in the wrong direction and we’re in real trouble.’ Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins.

The change shows up as a small uptick on the graph of daily case numbers, but after two months of mostly steady decline it was sufficient to cast an a(...)

Vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm being unloaded in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Zsolt Szigetvary/EPA

Czech and Hungarian leaders have visited Israel to discuss joint efforts to fight Covid-19 and learn from its successful inoculation programme, as a s(...)

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