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Shai Berlin behind a newly re-erected Perspex screen in his hardware store in Binyamina on June 21, 2021 (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Back in COVID mode, Binyamina residents fear new wave starting under their noses

As Israel returns to post-pandemic life, in this small town quarantine orders keep arriving and masks are back in use amid concerns that celebrations were premature

A bottle of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine doses, which expires June 2021, seen after shots from the bottle were administered to Israeli minors on June 21, 2021. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Health chief: Same vaccines rejected by PA being given to our kids ‘right now’

An Israeli youth receives a Covid-19 vaccine, at the Clalit Covid-19 vaccination center in Petah Tikva, on June 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel pushes vaccines for teens as fast-spreading Delta variant stokes fears

Travelers line up for COVID-19 testing at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 20, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

As virus infection rate rises once more, health experts say: Don’t panic

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 20, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Government orders stepped-up COVID screening at airport, quarantine inspections

Shai Berlin behind a newly re-erected Perspex screen in his hardware store in Binyamina on June 21, 2021 (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Back in COVID mode, Binyamina residents fear new wave starting under their noses

As Israel returns to post-pandemic life, in this small town quarantine orders keep arriving and masks are back in use amid concerns that celebrations were premature

Health chief: Same vaccines rejected by PA being given to our kids ‘right now’

Israel pushes vaccines for teens as fast-spreading Delta variant stokes fears

As virus infection rate rises once more, health experts say: Don’t panic

Government orders stepped-up COVID screening at airport, quarantine inspections

A Palestinian demonstrator is arrested by Israeli security forces during protests in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of in the Sheikh Jarrah on June 21, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

20 Palestinians, 1 Israeli wounded in fresh clashes at East Jerusalem flashpoint

4 Palestinians arrested as stones, firebombs thrown at Jewish homes in Sheikh Jarrah; police use batons, tear gas, ‘skunk’ water cannons, sponge-tipped bullets to disperse protest

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (2L) and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar (2R) in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Coalition meeting on Palestinian family reunification ends without breakthrough

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein, right, and his attorney (now MK), Itamar Ben Gvir, left, arrive at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Knesset defense panel head calls for designating far-right Lehava a terror group

Israelis march with a national flag along a hillside near the settlement of Bat Ayin in the West Bank on June 21, 2021, as right-wing activists and settler leaders hold 14 simultaneous marches to stop 'illegal Arab control' in Area C. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Hundreds of settlers march against Palestinian construction

Reporter's notebook

A changing of the guard, as Bennett’s new government hits the ground running

Substantive decisions made on the key issues of a Meron commission of inquiry and power-sharing bylaws highlight the difference between the new coalition and those of Netanyahu

Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lapid: Likud government left behind ‘unbelievable’ destruction and neglect

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: PMO staff describes ‘significant’ paper shredding before Bennett arrival

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