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In this file photo taken on May 7, 2018 Rob Malley, former US negotiator during the Iran nuclear program negotiations and current CEO at the International Crisis Group in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

NSA: Goal is to put Iran nuclear program 'back into a box'

2015 nuke deal negotiator Malley named as Biden’s envoy on Iran; hawks cry foul

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Appointment comes amid criticism from some who consider him soft on Tehran, appears to indicate seriousness of Biden plans to reenter JCPOA if Iran returns first

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies think tank's annual conference on January 26, 2021. (Screen capture/INSS)

IDF chief didn’t coordinate speech criticizing US on Iran with PM, Gantz: report

Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at a cyber conference at Tel Aviv University on June 24, 2019. (Flash90)

Mossad head to visit US next month to meet White House officials — report

Police close off a street after an explosion near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on January 29, 2021. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

Note at Israel embassy blast scene cites Fakhrizadeh, Soleimani deaths — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Letter found nearby reportedly claims Friday’s New Delhi explosion was just a ‘trailer’; 2nd claim on Telegram by unknown group says device targeted Indian government, not Israel

Illustrative: Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport, Iran, July 17, 2020. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Air raid sirens wail in Tehran; official blames ‘technical mishap’

The lower trail at Beit Zayit. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

A breath of fresh air: 5 invigorating nature walks to cure what ails you

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

US President Donald Trump signs a document as Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti (R) and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (L) sign an agreement on opening economic relations, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Kosovo says it will formally establish diplomatic ties with Israel on Feb. 1

By AP and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi will hold virtual signing ceremony with Kosovar counterpart, after deal brokered by Trump White House in September

National Security Council chairman Meir Ben-Shabbat (L) and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. (Photo collage/Flash90, AP)

Israel, Morocco to exchange delegations next month to push normalization deal

Clockwise from top left: Philip Sassoon; both gay and anti-Semitic, SA head Ernst Röhm, left, and his deputy Edmund Heines, right; Ronald Cartland; Victor Cazalet; Berlin gay club Eldorado; Robert Bernays. (Public domain; Bundesarchiv Bild)

Without these queer MPs, the UK would never have gone to war with Hitler

By Robert Philpot

My digital death: Who will be my executor?

On leaving behind a script for your inevitable hologram to say, and other posthumous legacy challenges we never faced before

Elias Rosenfeld

I’m a Jewish DACA recipient. Joe Biden has already changed my life

I graduated top of my class and went to Brandeis on a full scholarship. Then, I had to hide in my apartment out of fear of immigrant raids.

Chef Michael Solomonov during a recent visit to Israel. (Courtesy Michael Solomonov)

With Israel closed, a chef fills cravings through its food

By Jessica Steinberg

Nazi soldiers march through Paris, France, October 24, 1940. (AP)

French village that sheltered Austrian man from Nazis inherits his fortune

By AFP

Eric Schwam bequeaths over $2 million to Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he and his family hid in a school during World War II

Holocaust survivors walk below the gate with its inscription 'Work sets you free' after a wreath laying at the death wall at the memorial site of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz during ceremonies to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2020. (Janek Skarzynski/ AFP/ File)

From our partnerThe boy who drew Auschwitz: How a child saw the Holocaust in the death camp

A photo of Auschwitz survivor Herschel Herskovic receiving his COVID shot in the same arm that bears his camp number tattoo taken by his son (Twitter)

From our partnerPhoto of Auschwitz survivor getting COVID shot in tattooed arm goes viral

By Ellie Jacobs

Simon Belenkiy, left, and Sulamif Belenkaya were given monoclonal antibodies to combat COVID-19. (Courtesy)

First person

Wonder drug that works? Monoclonal antibodies ‘cured’ my grandparents from COVID

Police officers check cars at a checkpoint during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, January 10, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Health chief: Lockdown is reducing infections ‘but at slow, disappointing rate’

Official says ‘irresponsible personal contact’ must stop if pandemic is to be beaten

A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine to a pregnant woman at a Clalit Health Services clinic in Tel Aviv on January 23, 2021. (AFP)

In reversal, WHO says pregnant women can get COVID-19 vaccine

Wuhan residents attend an exhibition on the city's fight against the coronavirus, January 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team, seeking COVID origins, visits Wuhan hospital that had early patients

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA

Poet and author Kwame Alexander surprises bar mitzvah boy Mossy Simonson at his home in London, January 17, 2021. (Raymond Simonson)

A real mensch

Famed young adult author walks hours across London to surprise bar mitzvah boy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

People receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit COVID-19 vaccination center in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Israeli expats weigh returning home for vaccine, but few will give it a shot

Israel’s surge in vaccinations means recent emigrants could get immunized sooner by flying home than staying put, but logistical hurdles make it near-impossible to achieve

Parked airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport, August 8, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90/File)

Rescue flights for Israelis stranded abroad on hold, could be cancelled

Illustrative: In this, July 23, 2018, file photo, Immigrant seeking asylum Ildra Medreano wears an ankle monitor at a Catholic Charities facility not long after she was reunited with her son in San Antonio. (AP/Eric Gay)

Health Ministry said to weigh ankle bracelets for those returning from abroad

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., gestures as US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

RJC slams Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘indefensible’ Jewish space laser comments

Republican Jewish Coalition chief calls lawmaker’s anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ‘unacceptable,’ but won’t say if he will press for her to be removed from House committees

(L) Cori Bush at a news conference, Aug. 5, 2020, in St. Louis (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) and (R) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at a campaign rally in Dalton, Georgi, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Citing safety, US lawmaker Bush moves office away from QAnon extremist Greene

A person dressed as Lady Liberty wears a shirt with the letter Q, referring to QAnon, as protesters take part in a protest, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., against the counting of electoral votes in Washington, DC, affirming President-elect Joe Biden's victory. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Quitting QAnon like kicking drug addiction, say supporters now seeking a way out

By David Klepper

Jennifer Shahade at the London Chess Classic, December 18, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Interview

Female chess champ hopes Netflix hit ‘Queen’s Gambit’ will inspire more women

By Micaela Blitz

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Illustrative: Taxis wait for customers in Jerusalem, March 23, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘You’re a disease-spreader’: Haredi man says Tel Aviv taxi refused him service

ILLUSTRATIVE -- This photo taken June 25, 2015, shows inbound morning rush hour traffic on the Glenn Highway from the Bragaw Street overpass in Anchorage, Alaska (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Alaska announces screening changes after issuing ‘3REICH’ license plate

By BECKY BOHRER

A police van is driven out from the Karachi Central Prison where British-born Pakistani Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was charged, convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, is detained, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Pakistan is scrambling to manage the fallout of a Supreme Court decision to free the Pakistani-British man accused in the 2002 beheading of American Journalist Daniel Pearl. The Sindh Provincial government on Friday filed a review petition, asking the same court to revisit its decision. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Pakistan prosecutors in last ditch effort to stop release of Daniel Pearl killer

By AFP

A woman walks past the ruins of the Great Lubavitch Synagogue in Vitebsk, Belarus. (Courtesy/Municipality of Vitebsk via JTA)

Marc Chagall’s synagogue in Belarus is for sale to anyone willing to restore it

By Cnaan Liphshiz

(Left to right) IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, CENTCOM Commander Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv, on January 29, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz meets top US general in first visit since Israel moved to Central Command

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Steven D'Antuono, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington field office, speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. Federal prosecutors are looking at bringing “significant” cases involving possible sedition and conspiracy charges in last week’s riot at the US Capitol. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

FBI: Pipe bombs targeting political offices planted night before Capitol riot

By MICHAEL BALSAMO

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Russian university fires lecturer who denied Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A memorial for US Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick near the US Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 14, 2021 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US police officer who died of injuries from riot to lie in honor at Capitol

By AFP

In this Jan. 21, 2021, photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Fauci hopes to see US kids being vaccinated by summer

By Ricardo ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Lebanese soldiers pass burned tires as they clash with protesters, during a protest against deteriorating living conditions and strict coronavirus lockdown measures, in Tripoli, Lebanon, January 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

What’s fueling Lebanon’s lockdown protests?

By Bachir El Khoury

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