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Tehran and Washington are indirectly sending messages that are also aimed at the Saudis and Israelis. Any delay could put Biden under pressure at home to block the contacts

Hady Amr, the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, is coming in with a fresh perspective, regional relationships and years of experience – and he has a lot of work to do

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The parties said in the joint statement that they had agreed to establish an organizing committee and a tribunal that would deal with transparency and fairness of the elections. The tribunal is to consist of judges appointed by consensus in the near future, and it will have the authority to oversee the election and confirm the results. Security for the elections will be the responsibility of the Palestinian police, which, like other Pales...

Follow Feb. 10, 2021 Haim Shapow, 64, from Rishon Letzion, has a hobby he likes – ordering products online from Ali Express. “Likes” might be an understatement: He’s ordered hundreds of packages from Ali Express. “I’m like a little kid. I wait for the package to arrive and I open it right away in the car. I can’t help it,” he says. But to Shapow’s surprise, he discovered over the past year that some people think that his hobby is a danger to the public. His fondness for openin...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The winners of the prize conferred by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation are Professors Joan Steitz of Yale University, Lynne Maquat of the University of Rochester and Adrian Krainer of the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory.  The acclaimed prize, awarded "for achievements in the interest of mankind," is given out each year in different categories of the arts and sciences, and laureates receive 100,000 dollars. The Israeli foundation has awarde...

Polish chief rabbi slams probe into journalist who wrote of Poland's complicity in Holocaust: 'The state should not be a side in the historical debate, and especially it should not support historical untruths or hatred'

Follow Feb. 8, 2021 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty as he appeared Monday at the Jerusalem District Court to respond to the corruption charges against him. Netanyahu, who is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three cases, confirmed the written answer his defense team submitted to the court on his behalf in January, arguing he was not guilty in all the charges against him.   Netanyahus attorney Boaz Ben Zur requested that the evidentiary phase be postponed...

Scheiner had also taken a very strict stance regarding the coronavirus guidelines. He received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine a month ago, but contracted the virus before receiving the second dose. His condition deteriorated quickly and he died on Sunday at Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem, near Jerusalem. In his last public letter, written at the start of the third wave of the pandemic in Israel, Scheiner encouraged the public to observe the coronavirus restrictions and to ...

Jan. 31, 2021 Elie Klein and Barry Wendell have little in common other than both being Jews who grew up in Baltimore. Klein is 40, works for a non-profit and now lives in Beit Shemesh, a commuter town halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Wendell is 71, semi-retired and lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. But the two men – separated by 6,000 miles – both just received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Israel’s success with its vaccine rollout has made international headlines. But West Virgin...

Follow Jan. 29, 2021 The hearing the Education Ministry held on Thursday for the principals of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, after they had invited B’Tselem’s director to talk to students, was intended more than anything else to deter other principals and teachers. The message is loud and clear: principals and teachers must shut up, avoid any discussion of the reality they and their pupils live in. There must be no fact-based discussion, not even thinking about it. Like silencing lawsui...