105,505 injured and 211,000 residencies either destroyed or need to be demolished, president tells cabinet; nearly 3,700 killed in neighboring Syria

Rescue teams turn focus to humanitarian disaster, as international pariah Assad allows more aid to rebel-held areas and estimated 5 million Syrians left homeless

Times of Israel editor David Horovitz discusses Herzog's proposal for judicial reform and Diaspora affairs reporter Judah Ari Gross describes earthquake rescue mission in Turkey

7-year-old boy, 62-year-old woman saved from collapsed buildings, as more than 32,000 Turks, over 8,000 international workers participate in search and rescue efforts

In some areas, locals claim it took days for help to arrive, accuse government of political, ethnic discrimination; others angry at burden of Syrian war refugees

Scientists say rings of juniper wood from 3,000 years ago showed three-straight years with low growth, suggesting a prolonged and severe drought

16,546 people have died in Turkey and 3,317 in Syria; in potentially life-saving development, aid convoy reaches rebel-held northwestern Syria for 1st time since tremors

Pediatrician Itai Basel is taking part in his first delegation to a disaster zone with United Hatzalah. 'Training is one thing. Being a part of this is something else,' he says

Using Israeli-founded startup Carbyne's dashboard of high-resolution incident mapping and video, rescuers communicate with United Hatzalah Israel call center and medical experts

Rescuers scramble to get to as many survivors as possible, as 72-hour mark passes; countless people left in uncertainty as relatives trapped under rubble go silent