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Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya's annual conference on September 10, 2020. (Screen capture: IDC)

Iran closest it’s ever been to nuclear bomb, former IDF chief says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gadi Eisenkot appears to imply US exit from accord was a mistake; also pans ‘irresponsible’ comments on covert Israeli actions, in seeming criticism of ex-Mossad chief, Netanyahu

This October 26, 2010, photo shows the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant up and running after closure

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Search and rescue personnel remove remains on a stretcher as they work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building where scores of people remain missing more than a week after it partially collapsed, Friday, July 2, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Rescue efforts resumed Thursday evening after being halted for most of the day over concerns about the stability of the remaining structure.(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Rescue efforts could be suspended as hurrican approaches

Florida condo missing tally cut to 128; body of firefighter’s daughter, 7, found

By TERRY SPENCER

Confirmed death toll stands at 22; audit finds same people were listed twice, by English and Hebrew names; others have turned up safe

This photo shows the 156-unit Crestview Towers, Friday, July 2, 2021 in North Miami Beach, Fla. The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of Crestview Towers, a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions about 5 miles from the site of last week's deadly collapse in South Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Santana)

North Miami Beach condo evacuated after being found unsafe

By Rebecca Santana

In this photo provided by a family member, 12-year-old Elisheva Cohen poses with President Joe Biden, Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Surfside, Fla., as the president and first lady visited the community devastated by the fatal collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South beachfront condominium a week earlier. (Contributed Photo via AP)

Biden meets girl, 12, seen saying psalms for father missing in condo collapse

By Adriana Gomez Licon

Khaled Awad is led into court while arraigned on charges in the stabbing of a rabbi near a Jewish day school, in Brighton District Court in Boston, Friday July 2, 2021. (Mary Schwalm/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Suspect in stabbing of Boston rabbi held without bail; hate crime probe opened

By AP

Khaled Awad, 24, pleads not guilty; has previously faced charges in Florida of battery and theft and was sent to a mental health facility there

Rabbi Shlomo Noginski in a Boston hospital recovering from a stabbing attack on July 1, 2021. (Rabbi Dan Rodkin)

Chabad rabbi stabbed in Boston in ‘good spirits’ as condition stabilizes

By AP and ToI Staff

Medical staff prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center in Versailles, France on May 29, 2021. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP)

Israel to examine 3rd vaccine dose for people with impaired immune system

Pfizer has not yet sanctioned booster shots, but there is concern vaccine less efficient in protecting such individuals, Kan reports

A young teen receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Misgav Ladach hospital in Jerusalem on June 6, 2021, as Israel begins its coronavirus vaccination campaign for 12- to 15-year-olds. (Menahem KAHANA/AFP)

Israel-UK vaccine swap said to fall through, but other nations may be in play

Analysis

Coalition rift reignites debate over law keeping Palestinian families apart

Israel says measure stopping Palestinians from becoming citizens through marriage is key for security, but critics lament toll on family life and ask if justification still holds

Palestinians and Arab Israelis protest against the 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law into Israel outside the Knesset on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In this October 23, 2019 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

'Educational content is literally hitting a brick wall'

Are social media platforms banning Holocaust education along with hate speech?

New policies aim to block posts preaching genocide denial, but journalists and organizations say artificial intelligence algorithms are throwing the baby out with the bathwater

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A fire burns near the Gan HaShlosha national park in northern Israel, on July 3, 2021. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

7 people hurt as fires rage in northern Israel; national park, town evacuated

By Emanuel Fabian

Medics treat injured for smoke inhalation, vehicles damaged in blaze near Gan HaShlosha, also known as Sakhne; 50 homes cleared in Rameh

US President Joe Biden kneels before Rivka Ravitz, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin's chief of staff, after learning she has 12 children (Haim Zach/GPO)

Credit where credit's due

Biden kneels before Rivlin aide after learning she has 12 kids

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Israeli president clasped his hands in surprise at the gesture by the American leader as the two met in the White House

'It’s more than just a group, it’s a family'

People of the bike: Jewish motorcyclists who ride hogs and mow down stigmas

By Cathryn J. Prince

From the Chai Riders to the Shul Boys, members of 42 diverse Jewish clubs worldwide enjoy freedom of the road even while the men and women involved give back to their communities

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea. (Video screenshot)

Police to question witnesses on funding of Netanyahu’s home renovations – report

Officials to collect testimony amid probe of whether state funds were used for former PM’s private house; he himself is not currently a suspect

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his wife Gilat and their four children at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Naftali Bennett/Instagram)

Bennett said planning to sleep 4 nights a week at official PM residence

Jack and Adria Abu Shehadeh in Hilweh Market, a carefully curated boutique of handcrafted Palestinian items in Jaffa (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In Jaffa, battered by ethnic unrest, locals unsure whether the scars can heal

By Jessica Steinberg

Despite claims of coexistence, Jews and Arabs in Jaffa say longstanding issues need to be resolved in seaside city

A flock of sheep is seen in an aerial time-lapse video by Lior Patel (video screenshot)

On the lamb

Flock of sheep captivates in beautiful Israeli time-lapse video

Lior Patel captures fascinating elasticity of herd over period of months near Yokne’am

Swiss challah baker Katharina Arrigoni. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

How a non-Jewish Swiss baker’s challah up-braided the internet

By Rachel Ringler

Though she’s never tasted an actual loaf of challah she hasn’t baked herself, master breadmaker Katharina Arrigoni inspires grateful established bakers with her novel techniques

This image released by O&M/DKC shows Shuga Cain during a performance of "Seven Deadly Sins," in New York. The production of seven new microplays, officially opened on Tuesday in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. (Matthew Murphy/O&M/DKC via AP)

Theater review

Director Moisés Kaufman brings whole new ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ to New York

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS

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Police officer Barak Daddon speaks to Channel 13 news (video screenshot)

Cop’s life saved by a rock to the head — and the tumor it revealed

Illustrative: Israeli students wearing face masks return to school in Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

New education minister planning 5-day school week for grades 7-12

Shylee Westland (Courtesy)

Female IDF cadet dies days after collapsing at training base

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

Report: Police hope to enlist 2,500 Muslim officers in 3 years

Healthcare workers prepare to administer COVID-19 vaccines at a vaccination center in Lisbon on July 2, 2021 (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Europe in vaccination race against COVID-19’s Delta variant

By Barry Hatton

Gaza children train in weapons-use in the Strip, summer 2021 (Hamas)

At annual summer camps, Hamas trains kids to fire guns, kidnap soldiers

An Iranian woman, mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic, waits to cross a street in the capital Tehran, on July 3, 2021 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran fears ‘fifth wave’ of COVID linked to Delta variant

By Barry Hatton

A civil defense worker inspects a destroyed building after shelling hit the town of Ibleen, a village in southern Idlib province, Syria, July 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian regime shelling kills 8, mostly children, in last rebel enclave

By AP

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann during commencement in Philadelphia, May 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Biden nominates daughter of Holocaust survivor as next US ambassador to Germany

Participants in Mitzpe Ramon's first LGBT pride march, July 2, 2021 (Flash90)

Mitzpe Ramon holds its first gay pride parade, despite local leader’s opposition

Illustrative -- An ambulance the entrance to the emergency unit at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, on March 6, 2019 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Man killed, several seriously hurt in traffic accidents

In this Friday, Nov. 11, 2016 file photo, nationalists, burning flares as they march in large numbers through the streets of Warsaw to mark Poland's Independence Day in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish rallygoer who led chants about hanging ‘Zionists’ gets 1 year in jail

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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