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0 shares The US Food and Drug Administration authorizes the country’s first rapid at-home test for COVID-19, which is available over-the-counter and produces a result in around 20 minutes. The test, made by California-based Ellume, will sell for around $30 and the company plans to roll out three million units in January 2021. — AFP 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 p...

Since the morning, 1,444 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus, the Health Ministry says. The number of active cases stands at 17,745, of which 375 are in serious condition. The death toll stands at 3,004. Illustrative: A doctor using a thermometer to check body temperature for COVID-19 symptoms. (RyanKing999/iStock by Getty Images) 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 prou...

54 shares A former Israeli consul general to New England and Boston will be the next executive director of J Street Israel. Nadav Tamir, a longtime diplomat who most recently served as director of international affairs at the Peres Center for Peace, will lead the liberal lobby’s operations in Israel. “I’m excited to be joining J Street at the dawn of a new era for American diplomacy,” Tamir says. “I’ve been a fan of the organization since it was first founded during my time as...

0 shares The Walla news site reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to appoint Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz as the next US ambassador in place of Gilad Erdan, who is supposed to take up the role in addition to the UN envoy position he already holds. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) According to the outlet, Netanyahu is meeting with Erdan, and giving him the choice of choosing which position he wants to keep and which he wants Steinitz to have. ...

The head of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee says the details of an emerging prisoner swap with the Hamas terror group in Gaza are “outrageous” and will bring hundreds of terrorists “back into circulation.” Hamas is currently believed to hold two Israeli civilians, Avera Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who entered Gaza of their own accord in 2014-2015, and the remains of two Israeli soldiers, Sergeant First Class Oron Shaul and Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, killed ...

274 shares Amazon is looking into shipping to Israel from the United Arab Emirates, according to reports in several media outlets, in a move that could allow the e-commerce giant to expand in the Israeli market. In the wake of the normalization deal between the countries, Amazon is now weighing shipping to Israel from its warehouses in Dubai, the Globes business daily and Channel 12 say. Doing so would allow Amazon to supply goods to Israelis directly, rather than through third-party sell...

After months of promises, the mandatory quarantine period will be shortened to 10 days this week, the Health Ministry announces. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has adopted the recommendation of professionals, a ministry statement says, and has decided that starting Tuesday at 6 a.m., anyone who needs to isolate will only have to do so for 10 days rather than the current 12. As part of the new rules, people will have to test negative in two coronavirus tests, one taken at the beginning of the qu...

1 shares Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Qatar for a state visit. He is scheduled to meet with Emir Thani bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss “issues of mutual concern” tomorrow in Doha. The trip is Abbas’s third official international visit since the beginning of the pandemic: at the end of November, he traveled to Amman and Cairo for a quick two-day trip to meet with Jordanian monarch Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi. — Aaron Boxerman ...

0 shares There’s no official word yet on the government’s reported decision to walk back its plans for Hanukkah restrictions. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts on Twitter that Israel has “among the lowest death rates among coronavirus sufferers in the world.” “We made the right decisions, saved many lives, and that’s what we will continue to do,” he says, without detailing what decisions he is referring to. He attaches a chart of unknown provenance showing de...

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