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0 shares Police confirm a young settler was killed in a car crash in the West Bank during a chase, saying he and several others were throwing rocks at Palestinians, prompting police officers to pursue them. Four other passengers were lightly injured, police confirm. Lawyers representing the group accuse the police of causing the accident, saying “a police car hit their vehicle with force from behind. From the force of the impact, their car ran off the road.”   Im proud to work at...

0 shares Likud lawmakers are told they must receive permission to be interviewed by the media, citing the yet-to-be-officially-called election, according to reports. “Starting from today, we are beginning election discipline,” a message from the party to its MKs says, adding that they must coordinate their talking points and ask permission before speaking to the media. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. Bu...

0 shares Travelers from Britain who were forced to self-isolate in a state-run hotel are protesting the order and their conditions. Some 30 people have walked out of the Dan Panorama hotel in Jerusalem to demonstrate the order, demanding they be allowed to quarantine at home, according to Channel 12. Others are seeking medicines and other amenities, noting they did not know in advance they would be forced into a hotel and were therefore lacking supplies. Im proud to work at The Times ...

0 shares Likud MK Miki Zohar, who is the coalition whip, says Blue and White is “committing political suicide” — and expresses hope the party won’t survive another election. “Blue and White decided to knowingly commit political suicide. Emotion triumphed over reason. They are going to elections just so Avi Nissenkorn remains in his position [as justice minister] for three more months to try and uphold the judicial hegemony,” says Zohar in a tweet. He expresses confidence that ...

0 shares Moncef Slaoui, the chief science adviser for the US government’s COVID-19 vaccine effort, says scientists are still working to confirm whether the virus strain in the United Kingdom spreads more easily. Although that could be why it has become more prevalent in the UK, Slaoui says in a briefing with reporters Monday that another possible explanation is that “seeding happened in the shadows,” before scientists started looking for it. Animal studies are needed to confirm that...

10 shares Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Aviv Kohavi warns Iran against attacking Israel, saying the Jewish state will retaliate forcefully. “Recently, we have heard increased threats from Iran against the State of Israel. If Iran and its partners, members of the radical axis [Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Palestinian terror groups], whether in the first circle of states or the second, carry out actions against Israel — they will discover their partnership to be very costly,” say...

0 shares The European Medicines Agency says that it had approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for inoculations to start across the EU within days. “I am delighted to announce that the EMA scientific committee met today and recommended a conditional marketing authorization in the EU for the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech,” EMA chief Emer Cooke tells an online press conference. — Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the t...

0 shares The Knesset House Committee approves a bill to briefly delay the upcoming state budget deadline and avoid going to new elections. The bill — which requires three votes — will go up for its first vote in the plenum later this evening, according to Hebrew media reports. It would delay the deadline to pass a budget for this year from December 23 to December 31. The deadline for approving a budget covering 2021 would be January 5. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I�...

10 shares The Knesset will still vote tonight on whether to delay the budget deadline — despite the total breakdown of talks between Blue and White and Likud. The bill is up for its first vote. 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 t...

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, says he deserves early release from home confinement, but federal authorities refuse to credit him for good behavior and hundreds of hours of work and prison courses completed behind bars. Cohen filed court papers Monday contending he “could be eligible for release in a matter of weeks or months” under the First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform Trump signed into law in 2018. Once one of Trump’s closest advisers, Cohen wa...