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Mon, 02 Aug 2021 08:32:36 GMTCoronavirus: Some 45,000 Israelis already jabbed with 3rd vaccine
Israel launched a new campaign to administer a new shot to people whose immunity has been considered waning on Friday.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 08:32:15 GMTSettler filmed firing towards Palestinians with IDF weapon
A shooting incident this week is the latest in a series of incidents involving Jewish settlers and Palestinians near Hebron.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:24:47 GMTMK Kahana: The price of women in combat units is higher than the benefit
Former fighter pilot and Sayeret Matkal fighter comes out against the idea of integrating women in combat units.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:56:51 GMTIsrael back to normal with budget passing - analysis
Budget meetings are supposed to be boring, and the state budget is supposed to pass regularly.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:54:13 GMTIsrael's cabinet passes new state budget for first time in three years
Bennett: “After three years in which the State of Israel operated without a budget...we are bringing the 2021 to 2022 state budget for approval.”
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:27:42 GMTPolice arrest Arab teenager on suspicion of hit-and-run
An Arab teenager is under questioning for a hit-and-run. He has no criminal record and maintained his right to remain silent during his first interrogation.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:26:06 GMTDemonstrators attack police, asylum seekers at south Tel Aviv protest
A few hundred protesters were present at the demonstrations that were sparked by the assault of a woman in south Tel Aviv last month.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:54:29 GMTChinese university to open campus in Petach Tikva
A new Chinese campus will be an independent Israeli campus of the University of International Business and Economics, a prestigious school originally based in Beijing.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:51:32 GMTWoman filing rape complaint investigated instead for quarantine violation
Following recent public criticism of Israel Police on handling reports of violence against women, a woman said police investigated her for quarantine violation rather than taking her rape report.
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:30:39 GMTCoronavirus: What do Israelis think of the country's current restrictions?
Israelis expressed confusion and mistrust of the government's coronavirus regulations.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:49:19 GMTIsrael won't let Olympic gold medalist Dolgopyat marry
Artem Dolgopyat, Israeli Olympic gold medalist, is not Jewish according to Jewish law.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:28:36 GMT‘We feel safer,’ say first recipients of third coronavirus shot
Israel is the first country in the world that has authorized a third Pfizer vaccine for people over 60 who have completed their full immunization for at least five months.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:06:16 GMTCoronavirus: The morbidity is not slowing down – Health Ministry D-G
As of Sunday, there were 212 patients in serious condition in Israel, an increase of almost 60 patients in three days.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:40:15 GMTIsrael’s baseball team swings for gold at Tokyo Olympics
The Jerusalem Post asks the players of Israel's Jewish Olympic baseball team questions about God, Judaism and what it means to represent Israel.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:39:49 GMTThe personal art and music of Roee Lavan come to Hutzot Hayotzer
While fully appreciative of how his personal struggle with cancer is inspiring to many, Lavan points to how he was engaged with both the blues and art well before he was diagnosed with GBM two years ago.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:37:19 GMTBillie Eilish slammed for saying ‘hi Israel’ in promo video
Billie Eilish received a wave of backlash from anti-Israel advocates for starting a video with "hi Israel" in a recent promotion for her new album.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:35:53 GMTIsrael's budget hinges on agricultural reform as farmers take the streets
Liberman has called the agriculture reform one of the most important items in the budget, and shows no signs of backing down.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:33:18 GMTHapoalim, Access Israel launch employment forum
The online conference “First Steps to Integration in Employment for People with Disabilities” will be held on Zoom on Monday, August 9 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:28:41 GMT4,000 Migdal workers to receive discount on Enerpoint solar panels
Employees will have access to special purchase tracks for the systems, which will enable the production of green and clean electricity.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:10:08 GMTIsrael's Lior Raz on virtual premiere of new Netflix series 'Hit & Run'
The series will begin streaming on Netflix around the world on August 6, and it is billed as Netflix’s first original Israeli series.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:50:36 GMTSwastikas scrawled on Bnei Brak synagogues
Photos of Shira Banki, who was murdered in the Jerusalem Pride Parade in 2015, were scattered in front of the entrance to Young Israel Synagogue.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:36:42 GMTIsrael-Iran war reaches deadly new level - analysis
The latest attack by Iran on a cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman has crossed a deadly line in the war-between-wars waged by Israel.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:23:54 GMTVeteran 'Post,' Voice of America reporter Charley Weiss dies at 93
Although for most of his life he was intimately involved with Israel, it was only at the age of 90 that he formally made aliyah, becoming an Israeli citizen.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:12:29 GMTReform movement petitions High Court on Jerusalem chief rabbi ‘incitement’
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar has described homosexuals as “a cult of abomination” and said non-Orthodox Jews were worse than Holocaust deniers.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:05:50 GMTMemorial ceremony held in Tokyo in honor of Munich massacre victims
During the 1972 Olympics in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered by eight Palestinian terrorists.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:54:11 GMTNew 'all business-class' flight from Israel to Paris, NY launches Sept. 5
Passengers will enjoy business-class comfort and services, at prices about 30% cheaper than similar seats on other airlines.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:47:03 GMTIsrael’s Spring Vision to detect systemic diseases, leap into space
Spring Vision will send its technology into space in order to examine astronauts' recurring complaints of impaired vision by tracking structural changes to their eyes.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:44:22 GMTGov’t approves biometric bill for visiting foreigners
Although parallel initiatives to collect fingerprints of all citizens have been met with heavy opposition in the past, there was no real opposition to the current bill.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:34:54 GMTTwo fires break out across Israel
The fires, one in the Israeli settlement of Karmei Tzur in the West Bank and the other in Mount Yitzpor, part of the Gilboa mountain range in the north, are spreading quickly and are uncontained.
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:57:15 GMTPresident Isaac Herzog speaks at opening of B'Sheva conference
President Isaac Herzog commented that he had assumed his role in stormy days following four rounds of parliamentary elections, with Israel barely avoiding a fifth one.