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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 managers of the Hadassah and Rambam hospitals as saying. “The numbers of serious patients are high...

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 agreement with Benny Gantz, promising him the premiership after 1.5 years without any intention of ...

26 shares Over 45 percent of Israelis over 60-years-old have received the first shot of a coronavirus vaccine, according to television reports. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it's full of beauty and meaning. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out, to capture the complexity of this extraordinary place. I believe our reporting sets an important tone of honesty and decency that's essential to understand what's really happening...

0 shares CAIRO — Yemen’s prime minister says that a missile attack on the airport in Aden was meant “to eliminate” the country’s new government as it arrived in the key southern city — a daring assault which he blames on Iran-backed rebels. Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed speaks to The Associated Press in an interview conducted at his office in the Mashiq Palace in Aden. It is the leader’s first interview with international media after he survived Wednesday’s attack that killed at least 25 people and wounded 110 others. “It’s a major terrorist attack that was m...

6 shares WASHINGTON — A coalition of 11 Republican senators announces it will challenge the outcome of the presidential election by voting to reject electors from some states when Congress meets next week to certify the Electoral College results that confirmed President-elect Joe Biden won. US President Donald Trump’s extraordinary refusal to accept his election defeat and the effort to subvert the will of the voters has become a defining moment for Republicans and is tearing the party apart. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has urged Republicans not to try to overturn the ele...