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Move announced hours after anyone 55-plus was made eligible for shots, as country continues to lead world in immunization rate with over one in five given first dose

71 shares Team member works in the coronavirus department of Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv, on January 1, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) A military task force warned on Sunday that the British strain of the coronavirus, a variant that officials say could be up to 70 percent more infectious, was spreading in Israel. The report said the increase in the number of cases involving the new strain could lead to a further increase in the already climbing infection rates. The task force said addition...

236 shares An Israeli teacher receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Shamir Medical Center in Beer Yaakov, on December 30, 2020. (Avi Dishi/Flash90) Low coronavirus vaccination rates among Arab Israelis have raised concerns that Israel’s conservative minority may be immune to calls to get shots against the novel coronavirus — but experts say it’s more complicated than that. While a few vaccination centers have been erected in Arab towns and cities, many facilities reported that most of tho...

134 shares On December 16, Nimr Suleiman was sitting in a house in al-Reineh with several friends when a group of armed men burst in and opened fire. Suleiman was hit by a spray of bullets and died on the spot. While his death is still being investigated, it is believed that the intruders had intended to gun down one of his companions. The killing marked a tragic new record for bloodshed among Israel’s Arab citizens: 90 homicides since the start of 2020. By December 28, the toll had hit...

21 shares Arab Israeli lawmakers and demonstrators block Route 6 in protest of what they allege is government inaction in the face of violence in Arab cities and towns (Credit: Joint List) Around 100 cars blocked one of Israel’s main thoroughfares on Monday morning as Arab Israelis protested what they alleged was government inaction in the face of violence and organized crime in their cities and towns. “We cannot stay idly by as long as blood continues to be shed in our communities,�...

The 5 Towns Jewish Times December 19, 2020 TEL AVIV — Growing up in Cutchogue, New York, Jovan Booker thought he was the only amputee in his small Long Island town. Raised largely by his late father and grandmother, Booker also had no idea until he was 15 that he was Jewish — an identity later cemented during a trip to Israel and through time spent in Jerusalem. Now a graduate student at New York’s Hofstra University and a basketball coach, Booker, 27, decided last year that h...

Open gallery view Shani Littman Dec. 20, 2020 Last weekend, Hamada Odeh from Kafr Qasem, Sayf Nader from Jerusalem and Mohammed Issawi from Ramle, three Arab citizens of Israel, all race car drivers, conducted an interesting social experiment. “I got this idea,” Odeh says. “After the peace happened with the Emirates, a lot of my friends flew there. They said they were received there with love and respect, that the people there took good care of them.” He had also been to the UAE a few t...

Park Synagogue hosted a Virtual Trivia Night March 13 and raised more than $2,000 for the Greater Cleveland Food Bank. Featuring 26 teams of eight people, the three top teams were “Smarter than a Fifth Grader,” “Team Mish-Mosh” and “DiamondsR4Ever.” The teams included multi-generational fami… More Headlines

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The only directives regarding the installation of such CCTV cameras are from the Justice Ministry’s Privacy Protection Authority from 2012, and directives regarding the use of drones as well as an Interior Ministry procedure on cameras in parking structures. According to the report’s author, Ro’i Goldschmidt, facial recognition cameras are not in use by any of the municipalities that responded to the Knesset research center’s ques...

Follow Dec. 14, 2020 In an unusual move last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended a special session of the Knesset committee to fight violence in Arab society, which broadly addressed the government proposal to combat violence and concluded that the plan would be approved soon, perhaps within two weeks. A month and a half later, the plan hasn’t been approved, nor is it clear when it will be; moreover, no budget has been allocated for it. Meanwhile, the number of victims of violen...