Police officers managed to shoot dead a gunman who killed at least four people in a central Israeli city on Tuesday, “preventing a much more serious attack,” a police spokesperson said. The officers had been “at routine work, they encountered the terrorist (and) managed to neutralize him,” said the spokesperson, Eli Levy. The attack by…

Archaeologists have unearthed an intact chicken egg dating back to the Byzantine period, roughly 1,000 years old. During the excavation of an ancient cesspit in the city of Yavne, part of a large-scale archeological undertaking by the Israel Land Authority, researchers were astonished to find the fully intact egg. The sight was located in an…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran blamed Israel on Monday for an attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, but Israeli media widely reported that the country had orchestrated a devastating cyberattack that caused a blackout at the nuclear facility. Israeli officials rarely acknowledge operations…