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0 shares Health Minister Yuli Edelstein expresses optimism about the vaccination campaign and says that any Israeli who wants to be inoculated will be able to by the end of March. However, he adds that with current infection numbers skyrocketing, “there is no avoiding a full-blown lockdown, including closing schools.” A lockdown entered effect last week but has been slammed as ineffective and full of holes, such as the education system and workplaces remaining open and a lack of enforcement. “We’re going through a very severe outbreak and are probably in a more dire situation th...

0 shares Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group makes a speech marking a year since the US assassination of Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani and a pro-Iran Iraqi militia leader, and threatens that Iran “doesn’t need help” from its allies and will take revenge “when it decides so.” Nasrallah says Tehran will not ask any other country or body to conduct the strike on its behalf. “Iran is a strong country and it will decide when and how to react,” he says. “It doesn’t need to rely on others.” However, he says that Hezbollah will h...

0 shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports stepping up the lockdown restrictions for a week or two to curb rising coronavirus infections, Hebrew-language media reports. That would include resuming online studies for grades 5-10 and placing more limits on workplaces. Some members of the Blue and White party reportedly oppose the plan and are insisting that the outbreak is slowing down, reports say. 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...

10 shares Israel’s hospitals are under immense strain as infections soar, with many medical centers electing to cancel between 10 percent and 40% of non-urgent surgeries, and convert operating rooms into makeshift coronavirus wards, the Kan public broadcaster reports. The report says hospitals nationwide are suffering from a shortage of manpower and beds that is the worst seen since the beginning of the pandemic. “The third wave is more severe than the second,” the report cites the managers of the Hadassah and Rambam hospitals as saying. “The numbers of serious patients are high...

0 shares New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar says he will not agree to join a power-sharing government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose Likud party he recently left to form the fledgling party. Sa’ar, a longtime internal rival of the premier, has previously vowed not to enter a government headed by Netanyahu. “I also won’t agree to a rotation [agreement] with Netanyahu,” he tells Channel 12. Netanyahu has widely been accused of intentionally violating a power-sharing agreement with Benny Gantz, promising him the premiership after 1.5 years without any intention of ...