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Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:58:52 GMT
Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar begins drafting PM term limit bill
Despite expectations that the bill would be retroactive to apply to former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sources close to Sa'ar said the bill would be "prospective, not retroactive."

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:37:31 GMT
Tzipi Hotovely to remain as Israel's ambassador to the UK for full term
Hotovely, a former Likud MK and deputy foreign minister, was a political appointee by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and FM Yair Lapid has decided not to replace her.

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:30:31 GMT
Israeli businessman jailed in Jordan contracts COVID, seriously ill
Yechiel (Chilik) Chaiv is a 65-year-old Israeli businessman jailed in Jordan after falling prey to a sting operation. He also only has one lung and has contracted COVID.

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:40:25 GMT
Gantz meets Abbas in Ramallah after Bennett's US visit
Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah just hours after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett returned from Washington DC.

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:58:05 GMT
Israel's emissions falling, but still much work to be done - report
While many emissions in Israel are decreasing, Israel is still lagging behind other countries in some categories.

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:09:37 GMT
Teen girl falls down manhole on main street in Jerusalem
"She just didn't see where she was going, and slipped," said a shaken construction worker at the scene.

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 05:58:55 GMT
Flight ticket demand increases by 250% after HM announcement
Demand for flight tickets sharply increased on Sunday evening after Health Ministry officials announced in a press conference that the third vaccine will warrant an exemption from quarantine.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 23:33:11 GMT
Bennett critics have amnesia about Netanyahu’s Washington debacles - analysis
Think back to 2015, when former US president Barack Obama refused to meet with Netanyahu when he came to Washington, and more.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:28:44 GMT
Nevzlin mulls joining crowded field of Jewish Agency candidates
If chosen for the post, she would be the first woman to head the agency. Herzog has denied urging former MK Uzi Dayan to run.  

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:29:41 GMT
A Shabbat to remember with Prime Minister Bennett - reporter's notebook
Bennett's surprise extended stay in Washington left him, and everyone who travelled with him, stuck in the capital over Shabbat.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:28:37 GMT
Oriental dancer Orly Portal succumbed to populism and wronged her own dancers
The dancers had grace and improvisational skills that kept us interested in their rapid shifting compositions tinted with Oriental innuendos of a sensuous nature.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:22:25 GMT
Field to plate in bucolic Galilee: Israel’s epicenter
“The Galilee really is the center of the country," says Paul Nirens.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:16:38 GMT
Israeli-US film history is front and center in ‘The Ambassador’
It stars Robert Mitchum as Peter Hacker, the US ambassador to Israel, as he sets up meetings with members of the PLO to try to get direct negotiations going between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:50:22 GMT
COVID: Booster opened to all, jabbed with 3rd dose exempt from isolation
Morbidity is slowing down, but it is too early to talk about the end of the fourth wave, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:48:44 GMT
‘Thousands of businesses will go bankrupt if there’s another closure’
These businesses barely survived the third wave and are already operating in overdraft.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:16:17 GMT
Sexual abuse by two rabbinic brothers suspected at Be’er Yehuda Yeshiva in Jerusalem
Rabbinical court of haredi rabbis rules that rabbis Yitzhak Tufik and Moshe Tufik committed ‘severe and obscene transgressions’ against their students

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:06:02 GMT
Netanyahu dines with state's witness against him in Hawaii
Netanyahu and Ellison were seen eating together at Nobu Lanai, a very expensive restaurant on the Hawaiian island of Lanai.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:00:28 GMT
Arab activists: Police not doing enough to combat crime
“We don’t need enhancement or reform. Instead, we need a process of rebuilding. We cannot build on what has already failed."

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:46:11 GMT
Herzog to welcome first-graders on September 1 in Modi'in
President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will attend first grade classes to repeat the time-honored greeting "boker tov kita aleph."

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:19:53 GMT
Dozens of Israeli websites see hacker message from 'DragonForceMalaysia'
A month ago, the group claimed that they hacked into AcadeMe and leaked emails, passwords, first and last names, addresses even phone numbers of registered students.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:12:19 GMT
Israel strikes Gaza following violent riots, incendiary balloons
Gazan 'Night Harassment Units' are rioting on the border east of Gaza City • IAF struck Hamas targets in response to incendiary balloons and violent protests.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:32:11 GMT
Temple Mount: Maintenance begins on Mughrabi bridge amid tensions
Jordan is sensitive to any changes to the status quo and previous attempts to alter the bridge have met with protests and also conspiracies spreading about al-Aqsa being in danger.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:20:49 GMT
Israeli journalist Josh Mitnick dies at 50
Since moving to Israel from New Jersey in 1997 with a master's degree in political science, Israeli-American journalist Josh Mitnick worked for a number of global publications.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:29:44 GMT
Yair Netanyahu has over NIS 1 million despite claim in defamation suit
Yair Netanyahu was ordered to pay a Walla News editor over NIS 250,000 in a defamation suit earlier this year.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:07:18 GMT
Israeli Olympic medalists will not have to pay taxes on their awards
Olympic and Paralympic athletes will not have to pay taxes on their prizes, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman announced.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:04:06 GMT
Shmuel Yitzhaki appointed Dir.-Gen of Institute of Biological Research
Yitzhaki has been serving as acting director-general since Shmuel Shapira stepped down in March.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:32:33 GMT
The International Jerusalem Puppet Festival returns for 30th year
The 30th edition of the festival kicks off at the Train Theater on Sunday, with a program chock-full of quality work for all ages lined up throughout the five-day program.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 14:16:04 GMT
Israeli home prices rose 346% in a decade, fastest in the world
While Israeli home prices skyrocketed, salary growth and inflation rates place Israel among the best in the world.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:40:24 GMT
More workers quit their jobs during coronavirus - report
The percentage of job seekers who had quit their jobs was 22.3% in 2020, and currently stands at 22.6%, compared to 16.1% a year earlier and just 12.3% in 2014.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:17:32 GMT
What foods are Israelis buying for Rosh Hashanah?
The Agriculture Ministry released data on consumption rates around the Jewish New Year.



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