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Get email notification for articles from The Associated Press Follow May. 3, 2021 4:44 PM Top Biden administration officials and U.S. senators crisscrossed the Middle East on Monday, seeking to assuage growing unease among Gulf Arab partners over America’s re-engagement with Iran and other policy shifts in the region. The trips come as the U.S. and Iran, through intermediaries in Vienna, discuss a return to Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that former President Donald ...

The deadly stampede 'could have been prevented,' says state comptroller, whose office warned in 2008 and again in 2011 that the tomb site in Israel's north could not accommodate mass gatherings

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio "The best way to clarify the circumstances surrounding this tragedy and to learn the necessary lessons that will prevent such a thing from happening again, is to carry out an investigation under a singular body," Mendelblit said, "not amid a multiplicity of decentralized investigations." Open gallery view Attoreny General Avichai Mendelblit in Israels top court, last month.Credit: Emil Salman Despite the attorney generals approval, Prime ...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The appeal was filed by three activists: Daniel Ohana, Niron Mizrahi and Ziv Bertfeld. Ohana was arrested on Saturday afternoon when he protested outside the prime minister’s residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem. The police stopped two buses in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem that were taking protesters to a demonstration on Balfour Street. Both Mizrahi and Bertfeld were on the buses. All three were arrested on suspicions of...

Get email notification for articles from Oded Yaron Follow May. 3, 2021 8:45 PM The Israeli hackers-for-hire firm NSO Group promised it would publish a transparency report starting this June. The announcement from last week comes after a coalition of human rights groups published an open letter to the company and its investors calling out NSO for failing to comply with human rights disclosure practices. The letter, written by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Access Now and the Commit...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio With the exception of Ginzburg, all these appointments will be temporary, lasting for up to three months, as mandated by law. Open gallery view Defense Minister and Acting Justice Minister Benny Gantz, last weekCredit: Hadas Parush Last week, the court froze the appointment of Likud’s Ofir Akunis to the Justice Ministry, leading Netanyahu to concede to his political rival and allow Benny Gantz to serve as justice minister. Under orders ...

Some 60 Israeli active and reserve soldiers begin work in Equatorial Guinea after blasts at military complex kill over 100, with president blaming negligence

Follow Mar. 10, 2021 At the beginning of December, Britain’s health system became the first to begin vaccinating the population using Pfizer-BioNTech’s messenger RNA coronavirus vaccine. It was the first time that messenger RNA technology, which had been used in research for about 30 years, was being used to treat the public at large. Since then, roughly 100 million people have been inoculated using mRNA vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. The information now available about pos...

Follow Mar. 9, 2021 Israels next target in its campaign to achieve COVID-19 herd immunity is to vaccinate children 12 and older. But while Israelis rushed to get vaccinated, setting a per-capita record for their country, it seems they have more reservations when it comes to their children. A comprehensive survey conducted by the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis shows that less than 45 percent of parents of children under 18 said they will definitely vaccinate their...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio All Israeli medical students are required to spend three years doing clinical training in hospitals. The deans’ letter was prompted by a Health Ministry circular issued last week that forbade unvaccinated students in health-care professions to work with immuno-suppressed patients in either hospitals or health maintenance organizations. Such patients are found in a wide variety of medical fields, including oncology, neonatal, hematology-...