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People walk face masks in Jerusalem on June 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) New Health Ministry figures show 460 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed this weekend. The figure includes 323 recorded yesterday and another 137 since midnight. The infections bring the number of active cases to 2,398. Yesterday’s figure is the highest since April 6 and comes amid a recent rise in cases. The number of people in serious condition with COVID-19 complications ticks up slightly to 31. The death toll remains at 6,429, with only one fatality recorded in the past two weeks. The ministry says th...

A lawmaker in the far-right Religious Zionism party denounces the new government as “anti-Zionist” and claims Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is a “illegitimate” premier. “This is the first anti-Zionist government in the history of Israel. There are elements in the government who are clearly anti-Zionist,” MK Simcha Rothman tells the Ynet news site. He refuses to say “Prime Minister Bennett” when asked to do so. “From a legal perspective he is prime minister. I don’t think he’s a legitimate prime minister,” Rothman says, accusing Bennett of “stealing votes” by break...

Members of the Rosenberg family urge authorities in Florida to speed up search efforts for those missing after the deadly collapse of a residential building in the town of Surfside near Miami. Harold Rosenberg, whose daughter and son-in-law were missing at the time of the collapse, owned a condo in the building. Rosenberg, his daughter Malka Weiss and son-in-law Benny all remain missing. “If it was your father, your sister and your brother-in-law, would you send four firemen under a tunnel,” Shuly Rosenberg, one of Harold Rosenberg’s sons, says in an interview with CBS. Yehuda Rosenberg...

Illustrative: Houses in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Safafa on July 5, 2016 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90) A man and a woman were killed in a house fire in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa overnight Saturday-Sunday. The victims, said by medics to be in their 40s, were not immediately identified. Medics who arrived at the scene attempted to revive the man and woman but were ultimately forced to pronounce their deaths. Five other people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, according to the Kan public broadcaster, including two teenagers and a 30-year-old man who entered the bur...

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh condemns the new government for approving building in the settlements. “The government has existed for less than two weeks and has already approved 31 building plans in the settlements,” he tweets. “The left caves to the right and sidelines the diplomatic issue, but the right continues to sabotage the prospects for peace and deepen the occupation, the oppression and dispossession of millions of Palestinians,” adds Odeh. The new government includes two dovish parties — Labor and Meretz — and the Arab Ra’am, which oppose settlement building. I'm pr...