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Get email notification for articles from Yaniv Kubovich Follow Apr. 21, 2021 11:48 AM A powerful explosion took place on Tuesday at a sensitive defense factory during a test in central Israel. There are so far no reports of casualties. The explosion occurred during a routine test by the Tomer factory for advanced weapons, which develops rocket engines and houses various types of missiles. Locals say they heard an explosion and saw a mushroom cloud, with some filming it. Officials may have und...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. An explosion is seen at a rocket factory in central Israel in which the manufacturer says was a controlled test on April 20, 2021. (Screen capture/Twitter) A large explosion occurred at a state-owned rocket factory in central Israel on Tuesday morning, causing no injuries or damage, in what the defense contractor called a “controlled test.” The blast sent up a massive plume of fire and smoke outside the central Israeli town of ...

April 21, 2021 at 12:15 pm | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News Members of the Israeli security forces gather in front of a damaged factory [GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Image] April 21, 2021 at 12:15 pm A powerful explosion struck a sensitive missile factory during a test in Ramle city, central Israel, yesterday, no casualties were reported, Haaretz said. Locals said they heard an explosion and saw a cloud of smoke coming from the Tomer factory for advanced weapons, which develops ro...

There was also a similar incident in Ramle. Six people were arrested over the weekend during clashes between the Arab and Jewish communities in Jaffa and Jerusalem. In Jaffa, the riots erupted after a violent attack on a yeshiva dean and his administrator. Two suspects were arrested following that incident. Two police officers were later injured after attempting to separate a counter-protesting group of Arabs from a group of Jews in Jaffa demonstrating over the attack on the rabbi earlier in ...

Apr. 16, 2021 10:27 AM Two Israeli Arab brothers were shot dead in the West Bank on Thursday night, after a vehicle with an Israeli license plate opened fire on them in a suspected feud, according to the Palestinian police. Shafa and Salah Abu Hussein, from the northern Israel town of Baqa al-Gharbiya were taken to Tul Karm Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. According to several sources in Baqa al-Gharbiya, there was an ongoing conflict between Shafa and criminal groups in the town. A ...

Get email notification for articles from Zafrir Rinat Follow Apr. 16, 2021 11:10 PM A cave in central Israel boasts “living fossils” of species that went extinct millions of years ago, but scientists fear that invasive species and a plan to turn the area into a floodwater reservoir will do in the unique scorpions and crabs that dwell there. Living fossils are species that resemble extinct species that are only known from fossils. At Ayalon Cave near Ramle, the researchers want to turn the ...

Get email notification for articles from Anshel Pfeffer Follow Apr. 14, 2021 10:13 PM On Memorial Day last year in Israel, at the height of the first coronavirus lockdown, when even immediate family members were not allowed to visit their loved ones’ graves, the IDF sent an honor guard to every military burial ground. As a result, for the first time in over a century, since fallen Jewish soldiers serving in the British army were buried in Palestine during the First World War, they were honor...

The sights and sounds of Israels oldest religious communities Step back in time with a visit to the hidden communities of the Holy Land, the cradle of Judaism and Christianity and home to different Jewish and Christian offshoots that split from their respective mainstreams centuries ago Uri Sharon | Published: 04.10.21 , 08:51 Spring is one of the best seasons to travel in Israel and with Israeli returning to normality thanks to the world’s fastest vaccine rollout, domestic tourism is alr...

Follow Apr. 9, 2021 The prison service refused to transfer a transgender female prisoner from a men’s jail to the Neveh Tirtza women’s prison, citing her “masculine appearance” despite a doctors opinion stating she should be treated as a woman who only stopped hormone treatment due to an allergic reaction. After Haaretz asked the prison service about her case and she appealed to the Supreme Court, the service transferred her Thursday to Neveh Tirtza from Nitzan Prison, a men’s jail. A...

Raam, Arab politics and becoming Shas In-depth: This election revolutionized the political power of the Arab sector, with its representatives now the deciding voice who could either end the political stalemate or plunge the state into a fifth vote in some two years Sivan Hilaie | Published: 04.03.21 , 18:37 Voter turnout may have been relatively low and the campaign season rather lackluster, but there is no doubt that the March 23 election shone a spotlight on the Arab sector. It made key ...