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5 shares Prosecutors file an amended indictment in the corruption cases against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the Jerusalem District Court accepted a demand by the premier’s lawyers that the original indictment lacked important details. The court had ordered the state to clearly distinguish Netanyahu from his wife and kids in the charge sheet, and detail a list of instances in which the premier allegedly made requests from tycoon Shaul Elovitch for favorable changes of covera...

14 shares Egypt says it has opened an investigation into the deaths of four COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit allegedly due to lack of oxygen, which sparked a public outcry. “The prosecutor’s office in Al-Husseiniya (in the northern Sharqiya province) summoned the director of Al-Husseiniya hospital to question him over the deaths of four people due to lack of oxygen,” a judicial source tells AFP, without specifying the dates of the deaths. Since yesterday, numerous social ...

2 shares The left-wing Meretz party agrees to cancel its primaries ahead of the March elections, meaning its slate will mostly be a duplicate of the previous elections. Nobody stepped up to challenge the leadership of current party leader Nitzan Horowitz. The slate will see one change, however, as Nazareth-based political and social activist Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi will get the fourth slot. She is the second Arab member in Meretz’s top 5, alongside MK Issawi Freij. גאים להציג, ב�...

Rivka Tytell, the wife of Jack Tytell, Nov 4, 2009. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90) The Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics treated the injured driver, who was conscious, before taking her to Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan for treatment for a head injury. Reports said two of the woman’s children were in the car at the time of the attack but were unharmed. The Kan public broadcaster named the victim as Rivka Tytell, wife of Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell, who was convicted in 2013 for a st...

1 shares The woman seriously wounded in a rock-throwing terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf is Rivka Tytell, the wife of Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell, Hebrew-language media reports. Jack Tytell (right), convicted terrorist, is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on January 16, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Tytell is serving two life sentences and an additional 30 years in prison for murdering two Palestinians, two other attempted murders, placing a bomb next to now-...

0 shares Health Minister Yuli Edelstein expresses optimism about the vaccination campaign and says that any Israeli who wants to be inoculated will be able to by the end of March. However, he adds that with current infection numbers skyrocketing, “there is no avoiding a full-blown lockdown, including closing schools.” A lockdown entered effect last week but has been slammed as ineffective and full of holes, such as the education system and workplaces remaining open and a lack of enfor...

0 shares Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group makes a speech marking a year since the US assassination of Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani and a pro-Iran Iraqi militia leader, and threatens that Iran “doesn’t need help” from its allies and will take revenge “when it decides so.” Nasrallah says Tehran will not ask any other country or body to conduct the strike on its behalf. “Iran is a strong country and it will decide when and how to ...

0 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports stepping up the lockdown restrictions for a week or two to curb rising coronavirus infections, Hebrew-language media reports. That would include resuming online studies for grades 5-10 and placing more limits on workplaces. Some members of the Blue and White party reportedly oppose the plan and are insisting that the outbreak is slowing down, reports say. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here...

10 shares Israel’s hospitals are under immense strain as infections soar, with many medical centers electing to cancel between 10 percent and 40% of non-urgent surgeries, and convert operating rooms into makeshift coronavirus wards, the Kan public broadcaster reports. The report says hospitals nationwide are suffering from a shortage of manpower and beds that is the worst seen since the beginning of the pandemic. “The third wave is more severe than the second,” the report cites the ...

0 shares New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar says he will not agree to join a power-sharing government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose Likud party he recently left to form the fledgling party. Sa’ar, a longtime internal rival of the premier, has previously vowed not to enter a government headed by Netanyahu. “I also won’t agree to a rotation [agreement] with Netanyahu,” he tells Channel 12. Netanyahu has widely been accused of intentionally violating a power-sharing...