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0 shares Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai will unveil his new dovish political party on Tuesday evening, according to Hebrew media reports. “Hundreds of thousands of Israelis feel they don’t have a political home in this election,” says Huldai. Israel goes to national elections on March 23. Huldai, 76, has been the mayor of Tel Aviv for the past 22 years. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai attends the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2020. (Miriam Al...

1 shares More than NIS 1.5 million ($465,500) has been invested over the past year to collect some 8,300 cubic meters of olive mill wastewater for treatment, from around 37 Palestinian olive presses in the West Bank, the Civil Administration has reported. This is 40 percent more than was collected during a pilot project last year, and will stop the wastewater, which is full of contaminants, from blocking sewage facilities and polluting the a-Shaer and Alexander streams, which run into Isr...

The motive for the stabbing is not immediately clear. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But its full of beauty and meaning. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out, to capture the complexity of this extraordinary place. I believe our reporting sets an important tone of honesty and decency thats essential to understand whats really happening ...

It says 3,508 were recorded on Sunday, when 4.9 percent of tests returned positive. According to the ministry, there are 36,888 active coronavirus cases, with 602 people in serious condition, 147 of them on ventilators. The death toll stands at 3,247. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But its full of beauty and meaning. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their wo...

0 shares The Chevra Kadisha, or Jewish burial society, is demanding that the Health Ministry vaccinate its workers, citing the risks of interring the bodies of people who succumbed to the coronavirus. It has given the ministry an ultimatum, saying that if its members do not receive the shots by Wednesday, they will stop burying COVID-19 victims, according to the Ynet news site. Members of Hevra Kadisha, an organization which prepares bodies of deceased Jews for burial according to Jewish ...

0 shares South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announces a ban on alcohol sales and says mask-wearing would be mandatory in public, as his country became the continent’s first to record one million coronavirus cases. Ramaphosa says during a televised speech that alcohol would be temporarily banned from midnight to help emergency services already under pressure. He also announces it would be “compulsory for every person to wear a mask in public spaces,” saying it was a “drastic m...

People walk in Jerusalem on December 16, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) 1. Lock till you pop: Israel’s stumbling path toward a third lockdown is high on the media agenda Thursday morning, with infections piling up like presents beneath the Hanukkah bush. “Between vaccines and a lockdown,” reads the top front page headline of Yedioth Ahronoth. “Vaccine storage is filling up, but in the meantime the virus is rearing up — and Israel is in a race against time,” the paper continues. It...

1 shares Indonesian President Joko Widodo has assured Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that Jakarta will not join the tide of Arab and Muslim countries normalizing their ties with Israel until after a Palestinian state has been established. “Despite the rapid changes in the Middle East, Indonesia will not take any steps to normalize with Israel until a permanent and comprehensive peace is achieved between the Palestinians and the Israelis,” Widodo tells Abbas in a phone c...

Israel will consider handing the Palestinian Authority coronavirus vaccines if ends up having a surplus of doses, Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch tells the Kan public broadcaster. “Israel is ensuring it has more than 100% of the vaccines for Israel,” Kisch says. “If we see Israel’s needs have been fulfilled and we have more capabilities, we will definitely also consider helping the Palestinian Authority.” However, he adds, “Israeli citizens will come first.” The West Bank is goi...

0 shares Israel’s health maintenance organizations (HMOs) will start vaccinating at-risk populations and elderly people against the coronavirus on Monday, two days earlier than previously planned, Channel 13 reports. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But its full of beauty and meaning. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out, to capt...