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236 shares An Israeli teacher receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov, on December 30, 2020. (Avi Dishi/Flash90) Low coronavirus vaccination rates among Arab Israelis have raised concerns that Israel’s conservative minority may be immune to calls to get shots against the novel coronavirus — but experts say it’s more complicated than that. While a few vaccination centers have been erected in Arab towns and cities, many facilities reported that most of those waiting in line were Jews. In Umm al-Fahm, Shfaram, and Nazareth — three major Arab Israeli c...

Israeli Election, Take Four: Conservatives vs. Conservatives After the center-left failed in three elections to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the fourth one is shaping up into a contest among right-wing leaders. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has survived three electoral challenges in a row from the center-left. Now he faces two challengers from the right.Credit...Pool photo by Yonatan Sindel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a chance of a sixth term, . JERUSALEM — For three elections in a row, Israel’s conservative prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has managed to stav...

To Understand Red-State America, He Urges a Look at Red-State Israel An Israeli sociologist argues that Trump voters, like Netanyahu supporters in Israel, have legitimate reasons to find liberal values threatening. Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a rally in Beit She’an, a town with a large Mizrahi population.Credit...Dan Balilty for The New York Times Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 23, 2020 JERUSALEM — Liberals were confounded. The right-wing incumbent’s blue-collar base was sticking by him, cheering as he weaponized identity politics, attacked democrat...

177 shares Health Minister Yuli Edelstein gives a press conference at a coronavirus vaccine center in Tel Aviv on December 13, 2020. The slogan behind him reads: "Here, we're beating coronavirus." At right is Maccabi health fund head Ran Saar. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/Pool) Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday criticized Israelis who spread fake news and unverified claims about coronavirus vaccines, saying it could cause people to die if they take their advice and refuse to vaccinate. At a briefing at the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, Edelstein said he didn’t ...

An Epic Israeli TV Drama Exposes War Wounds Old and New Grappling with the traumatic opening of the 1973 war, when Israel feared destruction, the series “Valley of Tears” has prompted a national outpouring of emotion. Israeli soldiers during the war in 1973.Credit...Rolls Press/Popperfoto, via Getty Images Published Dec. 12, 2020Updated Dec. 23, 2020 JERUSALEM — A new Israeli television series based on true events from the 1973 war, when the country was caught off guard on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar and feared total destruction, has prompted an intense public reckoning with ...