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Israel is set to impose its third nationwide lockdown since the start of the pandemic. The lockdown aimed at tackling the COVID-19 resurgence will begin at 5 p.m. and last for at least two weeks, though health officials have indicated it would likely be extended to a month. The closure comes as daily coronavirus cases climbed steeply upward, surpassing 3,000 a day, amid fears that a British variant of the disease could be spreading undetected in the country. Israelis, wearing protective masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, shop in the central market of Israel’s coastal city of Netanya on Dec...

Israelis artists protest against the COVID-19 lockdown, on November 8, 2020 in Tel Aviv. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) 1. Round three: A decision to place Israel under lockdown for an unprecedented third time is the major story of the day, even if the exact contours of the supposed lockdown are not exactly known. The lockdown leads most major news sites Thursday morning and dominates the print press, edging out Likud minister Ze’ev Elkin’s bombshell decision to quit the government and aim fire at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (scroll down for those fireworks). “The closure was announced i...

Raoul Wootliff is the The Times of Israel's political correspondent. A worker prepares ballot boxes March 25, 2019 at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations for the April 9 Israeli election. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90) Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (left) is seen with his back to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Knesset approves a preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve parliament, December 2, 2020 (Danny Shem-Tov / Knesset spokesperson's office) Then-Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar poses for a picture at his office at the Knesset...

Likud MK Michal Shir at an orientation day at the Knesset, April 29, 2019. (Noam Moscowitz/Knesset) Likud lawmaker Michal Shir, who went rogue and voted against a bill that may have averted now nearly certain early elections, submitted her resignation from the Knesset on Tuesday. The Knesset overnight rejected a bill that would have deferred a Tuesday midnight deadline for passing the 2020 state budget, and thus set Israel on an almost certain course to its fourth general election in two years. The bill was brought for a vote by the coalition but Shir, as well as three members of Likud’s un...

Kahol Lavan pointed to the indictments against Netanyahu following his remarks: “If there was no trial, there would have been a budget and there wouldn't be elections.” A bill that would have delayed the budget deadline to next Thursday, December 31, failed to pass on Monday, with 49 MKs voting against it, and 47 voting in favor. The bill called for approving the 2020 budget on the last day of the year, and the 2021 budget on January 6. Once that failed, efforts to put off the inevitable halted, since the bill could not be brought for a vote again. With the formation of the current govern...