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A police officer shoots in the air during a clash with ultra-Orthodox rioters protesting the enforcement of a lockdown ordered due to the coronavirus, in the city of Bnei Brak, January 24, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Cop shoots in air after ultra-Orthodox rioters surround and shove police

Violence seen in 3 cities as officers attempt to shut down educational institutions open in violation of pandemic restrictions; Haredi minister says officers going ‘wild’

Police clash with Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during enforcement of coronavirus regulations, in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, January 24, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police as some schools flout virus lockdown

A medic in a coronavirus ward at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem (courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)

Israel sees 60% drop in hospitalizations for age 60-plus 3 weeks after 1st shot

By Nathan Jeffay

Full effects of Pfizer’s shots only kick in around a month after inoculation, but data from Israel shows there is a stark drop in infections even before that point

Jerusalem residents walk in downtown Jerusalem on January 21, 2021, during the 3rd lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Military task force warns that Israeli COVID variant could emerge

Illustrative: A pharmacist prepares a syringe of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Doctors seek review of UK’s 12-week gap between vaccine doses

By AP and ToI Staff

Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work at the coronavirus ward in Jerusalem, January 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel’s COVID-19 death toll since start of January passes 1,000

By Michael Bachner

Almost 25% of country’s fatalities since start of pandemic occurred in the past 24 days alone; more than 1,000,000 Israelis have received both vaccine doses

7:37 pm

Trump's virus adviser says some in White House saw pandemic as 'hoax'
7:27 pm

Baby girl said hospitalized with COVID-19 in serious condition
7:13 pm

'Come back anytime': Biden stops by Jewish Deli in DC

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav (L) with his father Menahem Meshi-Zahav (R), in an undated photo. (Courtesy: ZAKA spokesperson)

Father of ZAKA emergency rescue chief dies of COVID-19, days after his mother

Amid lockdown violations in ultra-Orthodox communities, Yehuda Meshi-Zahav has said rabbis have ‘blood on their hands’ for disdaining COVID rules

Rabbi Yisroel Hager, the head of Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, speaks to his followers in the northern city of Safed on August 14, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Hasidic rabbi calls for reopening ultra-Orthodox schools, then backtracks

A worker from 'Hevra Kadisha,' Israel's official Jewish burial society, prepares bodies at a special morgue for COVID-19 victims in Holon, near Tel Aviv, October 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Minister slams claim COVID death rate is ‘failure’ compared to others in region

Police clash with Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during enforcement of coronavirus regulations, in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, January 24, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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PODCAST: The Daily Briefing — COVID, politics and ‘autonomous’ ultra-Orthodoxy

A quick 15-minute podcast with ToI editors and reporters to catch you up on what’s important today

Passengers wearing full protective suits and masks to protect against the COVID-19 pandemic push their luggage trolleys at the departures area at Ben Gurion Airport on January 19, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Government to vote on immediately suspending all passenger flights for two weeks

An almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport on January 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeks to suspend flights amid fears over virus variants

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yossi Cohen at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, October 15, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

TV: Mossad chief to meet Biden, set out terms for overhaul of Iran nuclear deal

Key Netanyahu colleague will be 1st top Israeli to meet US president, report says; will specify what Israel believes are core commitments Iran must make if US to reenter accord

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, listens to his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif prior to a meeting in Tehran, Iran, November 24, 2015. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran said to lay out 7 preconditions to US for renewal of nuclear deal

By Lazar Berman

The national flags of Morocco, Israel and the United States on an El Al plane to Morocco flying a delegation to finalize a normalization deal between Jerusalem and Rabat, at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, December 22, 2020. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Cabinet to okay Morocco normalization, debate travel ban to curb virus variants

‘My grandfather was a Nazi and I just wanted to say…’

Like the Fawlty Towers episode, when it comes to Germans, I don’t mention the war. But I can’t help wondering

Israel’s street cats are my therapy

I dispense handfuls of comfort to little creatures living short, brutal lives, making what difference I can amid so much that I cannot change

Labor MK Merav Michaeli votes in the party primaries, January 24, 2020. (Courtesy)

Israel elections 2021

Labor to pick new leader as frontrunner Michaeli looks to renew struggling party

By Raoul Wootliff

37,104 party members will choose between 7 candidates seeking leadership of the once-venerable political force that faces oblivion in March election

Joint List MK Sami Abou Shahadeh, on September 25, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Balad faction elects new leader as future of Joint List hangs in balance

By Raoul Wootliff and Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, parade with a replica rocket on a truck during a march to show loyalty for the Iranian-backed Palestinian movement's newly-elected leader Ziad al-Nakhalah during a rally along the streets of Gaza, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Islamic Jihad says late Iranian general Soleimani gave ‘direct orders’ in Gaza

Assassinated Quds force commander behind ‘complex’ delivery of Iranian missiles used to attack Tel Aviv, says senior figure in Palestinian terror group

Palestinians demonstrate in support of Samer Arbid, a PFLP member arrested by Israel on suspicion of carrying out a deadly West Bank bombing, near the Hadassah Medical Center Mount Scopus in Jerusalem on October 1, 2019. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Case shelved against Shin Bet agents accused of torturing suspected terrorist

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel's offshore Leviathan gas field is seen from on board the Israeli Navy ship Lahav on September 29, 2020. (AP /Ariel Schalit)

Ministries feud over future of natural gas in climate change tug-of-war

Environmental Protection and Energy ministries trying to reach pre-election deal on renewable targets and whether Israel can move to almost total reliance on sun by 2050

88-year-old Holocaust survivor David 'Dugo' Leitner, left, and President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem for a falafel lunch, January 17, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Holocaust survivor turns falafel into a symbol of Jewish resilience

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Larry King presenting his show on CNN. (CNN screenshot)

‘One of my most historic nights’: When Larry King hosted Rabin, Arafat, Hussein

Months before the Israeli PM was assassinated in 1995, the CNN star got the 3 leaders together for a joint interview. A transcript makes plain the optimism… and the friction

Walter Bernstein (YouTube screenshot)

Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, blacklisted in McCarthy era, dies at 101

By Hillel Italie

Illustrative: Volunteer Malka Rodrig unpacks meals at a kosher food drive-thru distribution site, July 29, 2020, at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation building in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

US Jewish philanthropists give more during pandemic but struggle with allocation

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Illustrative: A police patrol car in Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Times of Israel/Stuart Winer)

Islamic Movement leader shot dead in Jaffa, 2nd man moderately wounded

In this image from video provided by the Kenosha County District Attorney, Kyle Rittenhouse poses for a photo at Pudgy's Pub in Mount Pleasant, Wis., on Jan. 5, 2021, the day he was arraigned on charges related to the killing of two people at an August protest in Kenosha. Prosecutors presented this photo and others as evidence of Rittenhouse consorting with white supremacists, citing the use of the “OK” sign, which has been co-opted as a sign of “white power.” Rittenhouse's attorney said he is not and has never been a member of a white supremacist group. Rittenhouse's shirt and the face of the man posing with him were redacted by the source. (Courtesy of Kenosha County District Attorney via AP)

Judge says teen charged with Kenosha killings can’t associate with supremacists

By AP

Umm al-Fahm residents hold prayers on Route 65 to protest the shooting death of Muhammed Nasser Aghbariah in the northern Arab Israeli city, January 22, 2021.

Arab Israeli man shot dead on his way home from a protest against violent crime

This photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office shows Garrett Miller. Miller has been arrested for allegedly taking part in the storming of the U.S. Capitol this month and posting violent threats, including a call to assassinate Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. (Dallas County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Texas man arrested over US Capitol riot threatened to kill Ocasio-Cortez

By AP

Israeli painter Iddo Markus speaks during an interview at his studio, surrounded by his paintings of former US president Donald Trump, in the northern port city of Haifa, on January 22, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Art of the deal120 faces: Israeli artist paints Trump from every angle

By Claire Gounon

Illustrative: Gun-carrying men wearing the Hawaiian print shirts associated with the Boogaloo movement watch a demonstration near the BOK Center where US President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

In US, boogaloo adherents’ aloha shirts coopt peace symbol for violence

The five members of 'Zehu Ze,' joking around Hebrish, that particular blend of Hebraicized English that some Israelis think of as English (Courtesy Facebook screenshot)

Speak da languageWho needs English? It’s all Hebrish, anyway

By Jessica Steinberg

Fire ants. (Cabezonication, at iStock by Getty Images)

Swat teamMinistry publishes map of fire ant-infected plant nurseries

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