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0 shares As if the economic waste of a fourth election within two years weren’t enough, Channel 12 is reporting that the next election is expected to cost NIS 80-100 million ($25-$30 million) more than a regular one due to the need to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic, adding health precautions and ensuring voter safety. All in all, the cost to the economy is expected to stand at some NIS 2.6 billion ($800 million) — with most of the sum being a result of the loss of a national workday. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel i...

0 shares Visitor numbers at Israel’s national parks and nature reserves almost halved this year, thanks to the coronavirus, the Nature and Parks Authority reports in its annual summation. Total visits dipped 49 percent, from 10.6 million between January and October last year to 5.4 million over the same period this year. Visits by foreign tourists were down by 77% and those by Israelis decreased by 37%, with nationwide lockdowns during the peak visitor periods of Passover and the Fall High Holy Days and limits on visitor numbers outside of lockdowns compounding the hit taken by the to...

0 shares Liaison offices between Israel and Morocco will reopen within the next few weeks in Rabat and Tel Aviv, respectively, after being closed roughly 20 years ago, officials from the countries say. Senior Adviser to US President Donald Trump Jared Kushner praises the efforts of Morocco and Israel to normalize ties, saying “huge strides” were made with a number of bilateral and trilateral agreements that will be signed in the coming days. Six of them will be signed today. Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, the son of Morocco-born parents, says — first in Arabic...

Earlier today a plan with 219 new immigrants from Ethiopia to Israel landed at Ben Gurion Airport. The flight was the third to bring new Jewish olim from the African country as part of Operation Tzur Israel. The operation is set to bring some 2,000 members of the community to Israel. The immigrants were welcomed by Absorption and Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata and officials from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the Jewish Agency, which took part in the effort. A child on a flight of immigrants from Ethiopia is seen after landing in Israel, December 22, 2020 (Av...

86 shares Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem clash with police as they protest against the arrest of a draft-dodging yeshiva student, December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators opposed to compulsory military service blocked roads near the main entrance to Jerusalem on Tuesday to protest the arrest of a draft-dodging yeshiva student. The demonstration slowed car traffic and disrupted light rail service, as protesters clashed with police who tried to remove them from the road. All of the surrounding roads were cleared several hours after the protes...