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0 shares Speaking to his party members during a video-conference, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz says he laid out five demands to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert elections. “If they want it, they’ll take it. If they don’t, there will be elections,” he says. The demands are: passing a 2020-2021 budget; approving all the senior appointments that have been held up; closing all loopholes that would allow Netanyahu to avoid handing over power to Gantz as part of their rot...

0 shares Gulf countries say they will halt all passenger flights and close their borders for a week or longer, after a new strain of coronavirus spreads quickly in England. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman say they are suspending commercial travel and banning entry and exit via their land and sea borders, other than for cargo. Riyadh said it is stopping international flights for at least one week and possibly two, the official Saudi Press Agency reported late on Sunday night. “Entry to the...

0 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the murder of Esther Horgen, 52, a mother of six, in a northern West Bank forest, vowing Israel will hunt down her killers. “Esther Horgen was brutally murdered when she went for a run near her home. The security forces will apprehend the murderer as fast as possible and bring them to justice. I would like to send deep condolences to the family,” tweets Netanyahu. Authorities are investigating the case as a suspected terror attack. P...

0 shares The Health Ministry says it will take until January 19 for the country to administer 60,000 vaccinations a day, the benchmark laid out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Channel 12.   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 c...

Dec. 20, 2020 Israel can no longer be considered a young democracy. However, even democracies that have passed the age of 70 face dangers. The dissolution of the Union and the Civil War occurred in the 85th year of America’s democracy. The Civil War erupted in part due to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case. In this infamous judgment, the court held that no Black person of African descent could be a citizen of the United States. The Dred Scott ruling casts serious doub...

Photo Credit: Original image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay We are living in stressful, divided, indeed dark times. The sense of cohesive mission by many in Western democracies has fractured into angry divisiveness in which the views of others are not only to be disagreed with, they are to be reviled; those who hold such views are to be cancelled. So, when we are privileged to see rays of light, evidence to the contrary, we should take stock and celebrate the moment. Such a momen...