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Follow May. 5, 2021 Israel's police commissioner asked the attorney general to see to the formation of an external panel, headed by a judge, to examine the incident last week in which 45 people were crushed to death while celebrating the Lag Ba’omer festival at Mount Meron in northern Israel. Police commissioner Yaakov Shabtai made the request Monday after asking to speak with Avichai Mendelblit ahead of a meeting of police commanders. People close to Shabtai say that he requested an “inquiry committee,” but Mendelblit’s associates say the police chief specified a “state commissio...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio This report comes only two months after a survey, conducted by the Health Ministry and Tel Aviv Municipality, has showed that about 85 percent of asylum seekers in Tel Aviv are said to be suffering from food insecurity, and more than half of them showed signs of actual hunger. The coronavirus landed a devastating blow to the city’s asylum seekers. Most of them are not entitled to government benefits and were left without a job following the closure of restaurants and hotels, in which most of them work, due to the pandemic restriction...

Follow May. 4, 2021 On Saturday night, a young volunteer from one of the rescue organizations returned to Bnei Brak after the funeral of Yedidya Hayut, the 13-year-old who had been killed in the stampede at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron. He said that his arms still hurt from the resuscitations he carried out Thursday night – 16 in all, not all of them successful. He couldn’t sleep at night, and he said he wasn’t the only one: “As a Zaka [emergency response] member, you come to the scene and you’re used to seeing a body, two, three. But here there were so many de...

Get email notification for articles from Ido Efrati Follow May. 4, 2021 6:18 PM Israel’s Institute for Biological Research is considering restarting its ongoing clinical trial from the beginning on the COVID-19 vaccine that it is developing. The step would be taken in the hope of developing a version that is effective with a single dose, Haaretz has learned. According to sources, it became apparent from the first and second phases of the clinical trials on the two-shot Israeli BriLife vaccine that it would be possible to forgo the second shot if patients were given a higher dose in a singl...

Get email notification for articles from Amir Tibon Follow May. 4, 2021 3:59 PM At the stroke of midnight at the end of the day Tuesday, the 28 days that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was granted to form a new government officially end. And as the clock winds down, Netanyahu is attempting everything he possibly can to stop Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid from getting a chance to form a government. Netanyahu is afraid that if President Reuven Rivlin officially tasks Lapid on Wednesday with forming a government, Lapid will convince Yamina party chairman Naftali Bennett to enter into a ro...