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In this April 9, 2018 photo, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listens to explanations on new nuclear achievements at a ceremony to mark 'National Nuclear Day,' in Tehran, Iran. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Blinken: If it further breaks deal, Iran could amass material for nuke in weeks

US secretary of state says at current rate Tehran is months away from being able to produce material for weapon, but timeframe could shorten

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard chief says country has no need for nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gantz: Israel will take military action against nuclear Iran if needed

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

US can’t return to nuclear deal just by signing up for it, warns Iran

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, worshippers chant slogans during Friday prayers ceremony, as a banner show Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, left, and Iraqi Shiite senior militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in Iraq in a US drone attack on January 3, 2020, and a banner which reads in Persian: "Death To America, "at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, January 17, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran agents scouted Israeli, US, UAE embassies in East Africa for attack — TV

Kan News says several agents arrested, some in unnamed African country, others in different nations, while planning revenge for killing of top general, nuclear scientist

7:33 pm

PA acknowledges receiving vaccines, doesn't mention they're from Israel
7:30 pm

Jewish 'Saved by the Bell' star Dustin Diamond dies of cancer
7:28 pm

High-level security cabinet to convene Wednesday

Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry the body of Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik during his funeral in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. The mass ceremony took place despite the country's health regulations banning large public gatherings, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Op-ed

When funerals are fatal

Ultra-Orthodox crowds at 2 rabbis’ funerals were ‘helpless’ in the face of the ‘divine decree,’ an MK suggested. But helplessness is not an option when the consequences are deadly

Illustrative: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a funeral procession for the head of the Brisk Yeshiva, Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik in Jerusalem on January 31, 2021, following his passing aged 99, due to months-long illness compounded by the coronavirus. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Police say they were helpless to stop funeral of rabbi that drew 10,000

Police enforce lockdown restrictions at a termporary roadblock outside Jerusalem, January 19, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ministers extend lockdown until Friday morning, keep airport closed for week

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ultra-Orthodox men attend the funeral of late Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, in Jerusalem, January 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

For 2nd time in day, thousands attend funeral of rabbi, flouting lockdown rules

TV news estimates 8,000 attend Jerusalem burial of Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, hours after 10,000 joined procession for Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik; both died of COVID

A burial services employee carries the body of Romania-born Holocaust survivor Golda Schwartz, who died at the age of 93 of complications of COVID-19 in Nof Hagalil Cemetery on January 28, 2021 (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

30% of Israeli COVID-19 deaths were in January alone — Health Ministry data

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Police officers seen during clashes with ultra-Orthodox men over coronavirus lockdown restrictions, Jerusalem, January 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset passes law doubling fines for lockdown violations

Anti-vaxxers and Israel’s own conspiracy theorists

As Trumpian language creeps into the upcoming Knesset elections, it’s worth noting how much blaming powerful shadowy elites mirrors anti-Semitism

Joe Biden is the ‘Jewish’ president Israel needs

Israelis can count on the US president to have their country’s most significant interests at heart, even if it comes with a dose of tough love

Where have all the parties gone?

Too many instant alliances, personality-driven plans, and single-issue groups cannot substitute for robust political parties that balance the abuse of power by those in office

Bishara A. Bahbah

Necessary steps toward an Israel-Palestine peace deal

Under Biden, there’s a chance to resume the process. For its part, Israel must decide whether it is truly committed to a two-state solution

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid after addressing the Knesset ahead of the swearing-in of the new government, March 18, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

As Lapid emerges as challenger, Likud signals it’s no more Mr. Nice Campaign

Centrist Yesh Atid has pulled ahead of Netanyahu’s rightist rivals in the polls, meaning Likud can pivot from talk of ‘unity’ to a much muddier and less friendly strategy

Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv mayor and head of The Israelis party, holds a press coference in Tel Aviv, January 24, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Poll shows 10% of voters support parties that fall below electoral threshold

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli votes in the party primaries on February 1, 2021. (Courtesy of the Labor Party)

Reviving Labor party holds primaries for slate in coming elections

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel Podcast

PODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 1 — The ‘fabled’ Palestinian elections

Listen Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh opens a hospital for covid-19 in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 16, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinians say they’ll start vaccine rollout by mid-February

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian workers from the West Bank city of Hebron carry personal belongings as they cross to Israei through a hole in security fence near Hebron, January 31, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Hundreds of Palestinians cross into Israel to work despite border closure

Moshe Ya'alon seen during a visit to the Vered Yeriho observation point, in the Judean Desert, January 21, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ya’alon bows out of politics: The ‘battle for change’ has more chance without me

Head of Telem says party, freefalling in polls, will drop out of March elections so opposition can maximize its strength

Merav Ben-Ari (L) joins Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, February 1, 2021 (Courtesy)

Former Kulanu MK Merav Ben-Ari joins Lapid’s Yesh Atid

An Iron Dome missile defense system fires an interceptor at a target during an exercise in early 2021. (Defense Ministry)

Israel holds fresh trials of upgraded Iron Dome due to be installed on ships

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry says ‘complex’ tests simulated threats the air defense system is liable to face on land and at sea, including drones

A 'Matrice' drone, with night-vision capabilities, used by the IDF. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

IDF drone crashes in south Lebanon; Hezbollah says it shot it down

By Judah Ari Gross

Chef and culinary guide Harry Rubenstein gave a master class in shakshuka on February 2, 2021, for the Times of Israel series Israel Unlocked. (Photos courtesy)

Master Class

Join the ToI Community for a shakin’ shakshuka master class with Chef Harry

In a ToI Community exclusive live cooking class, Harry will teach you how to make the Israeli breakfast classic that’s taken the world by storm

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

‘Count the days’: Death threat against Israeli envoy left at site of India blast

Letter addressed to ambassador says he is under constant observation, cites slain Iranian commander, nuclear scientist, is signed by ‘Indian Hezbollah’

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

Iran may have been behind blast at Delhi embassy, ambassador says

By Tal Schneider

Avi Berkowitz, assistant to the president and special representative for international negotiations, left, and president Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, look at each other during a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, August 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kushner, Berkowitz, Friedman and Dermer nominated for Nobel for Israel deals

Three Trump officials named by celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, along with Israel’s former US envoy, for roles in Abraham Accords on normalized ties

The foreign minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Meliza Haradinaj Stublla, speaks during a press conference with her German counterpart at the Federal Foreign Office, in Berlin, November 3, 2020. (Odd Andersen/Pool via AP)

Israel and Kosovo to establish ties Monday via virtual ceremony

By Lazar Berman and AP

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left; United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan; and Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa; at the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Netanyahu said to shorten scheduled Gulf visit from 3 days to just 3 hours

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist specializing in substance abuse, June 19, 1990, (Steve Christo/ Fairfax Media via Getty Images/ JTA)

Obituary

Abraham Twerski, renowned Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist, dies at 90 of COVID

By Shira Hanau and Ben Harris

Prolific author, noted Judaic scholar and recognized authority on substance abuse succumbs to virus in Israel

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In this December 17, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a joint press conference with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar military seizes control in coup, arrests Aung San Suu Kyi

By AP

Screen capture from video of Ziv Yaffe, left, who was reinfected with the coronavirus, and Shai Efrati of the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center. (Channel 12 news)

Israeli who recovered from COVID-19 reinfected with South African strain

Ceremony after the Israeli Embassy in Guatemala completed the Guatelinda project of homes for families that lost their homes in the 2018 Fuego volcano disaster, January 31, 2020 (Courtesy)

Israel builds houses for 39 families that lost homes in Guatemala volcano blast

By Lazar Berman

A construction site for new residential housing in Be'er Yaakov, central Israel, on March 26, 2020. (Flash90)

Israelis took out record amount in mortgages in 2020 despite pandemic downturn

Joana Dagher, 33, who lost her memory for two full months from the trauma she suffered in the massive August explosion at the Beirut port, including a cerebral contusion and brain lesions, takes pictures of the explosion scene from her damaged apartment rooftop, in Beirut, Lebanon, January 27, 2021. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Survivors of Beirut’s deadly port explosion endure psychological scars

Then-Mossad chief Yossi Cohen speaks at a Tel Aviv University cyber conference, on June 24, 2019. (Flash90/File)

Mossad head says IDF chief ‘irresponsible’ for panning US on Iran policy: report

Police and forensic investigators at the scene of an attack that wounded two people near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France, September 25, 2020. Thibault Camus/AP)

French lawmakers to debate bill aimed at routing out radical Islam

By Elaine Ganley

In this photo dated March 7, 2017, Teresa Zabinska, the daughter of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, prior to the gala screening of 'The Zookeeper's Wife' movie (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)

Daughter of Warsaw Zoo directors who saved 300 Jews in Holocaust dies at 77

By AP

Palestinians receive their $100 financial aid as part of the aid allocated by Qatar to poor families, through a post office, in the town of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on December 3, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Qatar raises annual aid to Gaza to $360 million

By Aaron Boxerman

People march with those who claim they are members of the Proud Boys extremist group at a rally in support of US President Donald Trump in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Right-wing hate groups harder to track as they migrate online, says US watchdog

By Aaron Morrison

Then-US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, January 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

After other attorneys leave, Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team

By Eric Tucker and Jill Colvin

Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė via JTA)

Lithuania MP who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament memorial commission

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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