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Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel's military correspondent. The national flags of Morocco, Israel and the United States on an El Al plane to Morocco flying a delegation to finalize a normalization deal between Jerusalem and Rabat, at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, December 22, 2020. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel) RABAT, Morocco — Israel’s renewed ties with the Kingdom of Morocco are substantively different from its normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and that distinction — being not so much a groundbreaking shift, but a shift back — was on c...

19 shares This week The Times of Israel Podcast takes you behind the scenes at the paper with our departing diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren, who tells us what it’s like to jet set around the world with Israel’s prime minister. Next, we’ll hear from our new science and health reporter Nathan Jeffay, who has gotten very little sleep since joining us this past March to cover the coronavirus pandemic. Ahren speaks four languages fluently — a skill that has served him well as he trotted around the globe. He’s visited 26 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South A...

0 shares The weekly cabinet meeting, which had been pushed off this week to tomorrow, faces an additional delay until Thursday amid disagreements between the Likud and Blue and White parties over the agenda, Hebrew-language media reports. The government is expected to be dissolved next week and elections called for the fourth time in under two years. 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 int...

0 shares The United States places a pro-Iranian group based in Bahrain on its global terror blacklist, accusing it of plotting attacks on US troops in the tiny Gulf kingdom. The group, Saraya al-Mukhtar, poses a “significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in a statement. “Saraya al-Mukhtar is an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Bahrain, reportedly receiving financial and logistic support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Pompeo says. ...

0 shares The daughter of a 74-year-old Austrian citizen imprisoned in Iran has told of her fears for her father’s health after he started displaying coronavirus symptoms. “He started suffering from fever last Thursday, but he doesn’t get the medical attention he needs, and he was denied a COVID test,” Fanak Mani, daughter of Massud Mossaheb, tells AFP of her father’s treatment in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Mossaheb was detained while traveling in Iran with a delegation from an Austrian research center in January 2019 and in August it was announced that he had been jaile...