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A car hit by rocks in a suspected terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, January 3, 2021. (Binyamin Regional Council)

Israeli woman seriously injured in West Bank rock attack

Victim, said to be wife of jailed Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell, taken to hospital with head injuries; 2 kids uninjured; IDF says soldiers pursuing suspects

Police use water cannonד on protesters during a rally over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

7 cops hurt, police car overturned at violent protests over settler teen’s death

An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian farm shed in the West Bank village of Masafer in Area C, in February 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Government to fund settler efforts to monitor illegal Palestinian construction

Ichilov hospital staff members wearing protective gear as they work at the coronavirus ward, Tel Aviv, January 1, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Hospitals said under record strain, nixing surgeries to open more COVID wards

By Michael Bachner

‘The third wave is more severe than the second,’ hospital managers tell media, saying soaring infections have caused severe shortages of beds and manpower

7:49 pm

Shooting in Texas church leaves one dead, others wounded - governor
7:25 pm

Group of US senators urges Biden's win be certified
7:23 pm

Fire strikes fuel warehouse on Syria-Lebanon border, 7 hurt

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) with Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab Jabarin, the millionth Israeli to get a COVID-19 vaccine, and medical staff in Umm al-Fahm, January 1, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel’s millionth vaccinee, hailed by Netanyahu, served 14 years in jail

State radio retracts, apologizes for report that Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab Jabarin was convicted of murder 40 years ago; ToI also apologizes for citing false claim

People shop at the at a market in Ramle, on January 1, 2021, during the third national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Government to weigh tightening porous virus lockdown as daily cases hit 6,000

Prof. Ronni Gamzu speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office near the central Israeli city of Lod, September 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Often spurned by cabinet that hired him, ex-virus czar lashes COVID leadership

Israeli civilians under cover following a Hezbollah rocket attack in Haifa, August 11 , 2006. (photo credit: Flash90)

Iran warns: Lebanon, Gaza terror groups can ‘level Haifa, Tel Aviv to ground’

Revolutionary Guards’ commander says proxies ready for ‘confrontation,’ with their missile capabilities supported by Tehran

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Iran claims Israeli agents ‘plotting attacks’ on US in Iraq to spark conflict

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Iraqi woman carries a poster at Baghdad Airport, in Baghdad on January 2, 2021, at the site of the killing of an Iraqi commander and the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Mock funeral procession held in Baghdad to mark anniversary of Soleimani killing

By AP

Palestinian Authority security forces enter the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab following a triple homicide on January 2, 2021 (video screenshot)

After triple homicide, Israel lets PA police sweep East Jerusalem for suspects

By Aaron Boxerman

Israel rarely allows Palestinians to operate in the city, but Ramallah says exception made for dozens of armed PA security forces to enter neighborhood of Kafr Aqab after shooting

Sama Abd al-Hadi (Screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian DJ said released by PA after her arrest for rave at Muslim holy site

Avigayil Halpern

I finally started including non-male voices every time I taught Torah

I balked at the idea that source sheets must include at least one non-male voice. When I finally tried it, everything changed for me

What did the Holocaust smell like?

An initiative to recreate scents in European history raises some of the same questions sparked by use of graphic photos from the Shoah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Likud supporters as the results of the Israeli general elections are announced, indicating that he has won reelection, at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, in the early hours of April 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu says he wants to break Joint List’s monopoly on Arab Israeli vote

Criticized over past rhetoric toward community, PM tells Likud officials he is ‘reaching out to Arab voters’; rivals slam comments as opportunist electioneering

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised statement at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu hints at trips to Arab states: ‘I recently visited other countries’

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov at a press conference at the UNSCO offices in Gaza City, September 25, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)

Outgoing UN peace envoy: Palestinians can gain from Israel’s normalization deals

From the blogs

I’m a former CIA agent: Iran was behind Lockerbie and should be made to pay

Despite former US AG Barr’s claims, Libya did not carry out the horrific 1988 bombing of a plane over Scotland. The US should bring Iran to justice now

Team member works in the coronavirus department of Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv, on January 1, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli task force warns British virus strain spreading, calls for full lockdown

Panel says infection increasing among kids; Health Ministry chief warns virus ‘running amok’; health official says no immediate plan to follow UK lead in delaying 2nd vaccine dose

Israeli students arrive at school in the southern city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020 (Flash90)

Over 600,000 students stay home in high infection areas as virus cases climb

Care home worker Pillay Jagambrun (L), 61, reacts as he receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Croydon University Hospital in south London on December 8, 2020. (Dan CHARITY / POOL / AFP)

‘An act of desperation’: UK’s delay of second vaccine dose comes under fire

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Musician Asaf Roth, left, artistic director Anat Safran, middle and director Zvi Sahar of the Gnazim Itim Ensemble performance project produced in Tel Aviv's Beit Ariela public library and premiered December 28, 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Letters from literary lights inspire artists in underground library show

By Jessica Steinberg

People carry portraits of late Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad Airport, in Baghdad on January 2, 2021, at the site of their killing (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

US, Iran locked in tense standoff on 1-year anniversary of Soleimani killing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

American officials fear the Islamic Republic could carry out attacks on date of assassination of its top general

An Iron Dome missile defense battery being loaded onto a ship for delivery to the United States in January 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Israel ships 2nd of two Iron Dome batteries to US, hopes to sell more

By Judah Ari Gross

An aerial photo shows oil tankers load crude oil at Iraq's Al-Basra Offshore Terminal in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq dismantles mine on tanker in Persian Gulf

By AP

Illustrative: A crowd gathers in front of a kosher butcher shop during a protest in New York's Lower East Side. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Author interview

Where’s the beef? Jewish women led New York City’s kosher meat riot of 1902

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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Police officers scuffle with demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside of his official residence in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Thousands protest PM in Jerusalem, determined to take rallies into new year

Steam comes up from the ground next to an apartment building on Ibn Gabirol Street in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hot spots: Tel Aviv officials mystified by steam emerging from under city homes

Fighters with the Saudi-backed coalition assess the damage inside the airport of Yemen's southern city of Aden on December 31, 2020, a day after explosions rocked the building, killing or injuring dozens of people. (Saleh Al-OBEIDI / AFP)

Yemen PM: Airport attack by Iran-backed rebels meant to ‘eliminate’ government

Illustrative: An Orthodox Jewish man walks past Parcare's health care facility, December 27, 2020, in the Willamsburg section of Brooklyn in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

NY attorney general recuses herself from vaccine fraud probe of ParCare clinics

In this file photo taken on November 10, 2020 US Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, arrives for the weekly Senate Republican lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Republicans enlist in Trump’s effort to undo Biden win in Congress

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Graffiti reading, 'Where's my money' is seen on a door of the home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. 2, 2021 (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Homes of Pelosi, McConnell vandalized with graffiti, fake blood, pig’s head

By TIMOTHY D. EASLEY and TRAVIS LOLLER

Larry King attends the 45th International Emmy Awards at the New York Hilton on November 20, 2017, in New York. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Talk show host Larry King, 87, hospitalized with COVID-19

A health worker engages in a COVID-19 vaccine delivery system trial in New Delhi, India, Jan. 2, 2021 (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India approves easily stored AstraZeneca and locally made COVID-19 vaccines

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SHEIKH SAALIQ

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