Volunteers have cleaned up stunning sites including Sanhedrin seat and huge Roman theater that were buried under trash; as authorities argue, experts plead to set up national park

Project reappears on municipal planning body's website, with hearing date set for August 31; parks authority insists it has no plans to advance controversial initiative

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses 2023 budget plans and US correspondent Jacob Magid looks at highlights of US Democrats' visit and a church land brouhaha

Plan to expand national park onto church-owned lands still appears on website of planning panel; parks authority: Project won't be advanced without dialogue with church leaders

Visiting US lawmakers raise concern with PM about move slated to clear preliminary hurdle next month; church leaders blast plan to 'nationalize one of Christianity's holiest sites'

Poleg swamp, southeast of Netanya, second in size only to Hula Valley marsh in northern Israel, said to be essential to wildlife, including migrating birds

Agriculture Ministry says it will kill 320,000 laying hens, in addition to the 244,000 that have already been culled in northern Israel in past week

Authorities expect to have to clear 25 to 30 tons of crane carcasses after H5N1 virus spread from northern moshav, where farmers failed to report poultry deaths on time

One death blamed on storm, as woman crashes car into pole; weather system brings down trees and poles, causes fires and floods

Pedestrian suffers serious head injury in Netanya incident; snow falls on Golan Heights; IDF cancels navigation exercises