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Opulent 2,000-year-old ‘city hall’ unearthed near Western Wall in Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

One of the most significant public buildings from the Second Temple period ever uncovered; new pathways in Western Wall Tunnels provide 2nd life to underground ancient Jerusalem

Water cisterns dating back to the Ottoman Empire discovered ahead of Jerusalem construction work (Midtown Jerusalem)

Underground cisterns dating back to Ottoman era uncovered in Jerusalem

Palestinian boy walks past a building that belonged to Muntasir Shalabi, accused of killing an Israeli student in a May terror attack, after it was demolished by Israeli forces in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah in the West Bank on July 8, 2021 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

US slams demolition of family home of alleged Palestinian-American terrorist

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US embassy says residence should not have been destroyed over actions of one man; official responds that PM acts solely in consideration of Israel’s security interests

Palestinians gather outside a building that belonged to Muntasir Shalabi, accused of killing an Israeli student in a May terror attack, after it was demolished by Israeli forces in the village of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah in the West Bank on July 8, 2021 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

IDF demolishes home of Palestinian-American suspect in West Bank terror attack

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in Humsa al-Fouqa on Thursday, February 4, 2021 (Credit: WAFA/Suleiman Abu Srur)

Israel again tears down contested Palestinian hamlet in Jordan Valley

By Aaron Boxerman

Ilustrative: Hadassah Ein Kerem staff members work in the hospital's coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

COVID deaths reported in Israel for first time in over 2 weeks

Unvaccinated 48-year-old man and vaccinated man in his 80s succumb as daily cases keep rising; news outlets say Health Ministry inflating number of serious cases

First case of Delta Plus COVID variant found in Israel — report

Haifa courts rule children can get COVID vaccine even if one parent objects

Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate

By Joshua Goodman

Isaac Herzog is sworn in as president at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Herzog takes office as Israel’s 11th president, warns of dangers of polarization

New president sworn in on same Bible as father 38 years ago; Rivlin: ‘Long live the eleventh president of the State of Israel. Long live the State of Israel’

The Daily Briefing

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 8 – Herzog’s hope: What the new president wants to achieve

Op-ed

A new job for President Rivlin?

We need a serious, empowered forum to enable more effective interaction between Israel and the Diaspora – to thrash out our differences, meet our challenges. He should head it

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Madrid's Jewish community on November 5, 2017. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Chaim Herzog takes the presidential oath of office at the Knesset, 5 May, 1983 (HERMAN CHANANIA/GPO)

Pretty niftyHerzog given virtual NFT copy of dad’s presidential oath of office

By AP

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman cancels daycare subsidies for kids of full-time yeshiva students

New finance minister announces only families in which both parents work part-time are eligible for NIS 1,000 monthly benefit; Haredi MKs slam ‘destructive and wicked’ move

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speak, during the swearing-in ceremony for President Isaac Herzog, on July 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The next crisis? Coalition faces uphill battle in bid to extend Haredi draft law

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks at the UN in New York in January 2021. (Shahar Azran/ Israeli Mission to the UN)

Israel hails UN adoption of resolution linking antisemitism to terrorism

Envoy Gilad Erdan also praises Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy resolution for condemning the use of human shields by terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah

From left: Arizona Teaching the Holocaust co-founder Michael Beller, Alexander White, Arizona State Rep. Alma Hernandez and Oskar Knoblauch. White and Knoblauch, both Holocaust survivors, testified on behalf of legislation that would mandate Holocaust education in the state. (Courtesy of Michael Beller/ via JTA)

Arizona okays Holocaust education bill stalled over IHRA antisemitism definition

A building on the campus of Bar Ilan University, near Tel Aviv, whose facades have been largely covered by vegetation. (BIU Vertical Fields Project)

Plant-covered buildings can tame summer heat, Israeli study finds

Bar-Ilan University researchers cover facades of 2 buildings in greenery and leave another bare in what they say is first serious study of live plants’ climate-regulating benefits

Hezbollah supporters wave their group and Iranian flags during a protest on the Lebanese-Israeli border near the southern village of Kafr Kila, Lebanon, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

With Lebanon in dire straits, Hezbollah seeks to cast Iran as country’s savior

Amid near-complete economic and political collapse, Tehran-backed terror group increases its hold on Lebanon and could try to have Islamic Republic fill the power vacuum

Head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command Ahmad Jibril attends a conference in Tehran, Iran, February 21, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Ahmad Jibril, head of Syria-based Palestinian terror group PFLP-GC, dead at 83

By Aaron Boxerman

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Yanir Aharonson

No, the pandemic wasn’t good for the environment

It’s not (just) the straws! The destructive force of single-use plastic will only be curbed by a circular economy, in which we reuse plastic several times over

Israel’s message to Iran must be ‘If Hezbollah hits us, we’ll hit you’

It’s not enough to focus only on the nuclear agreement and on battling aggression from Lebanon. Israel needs a comprehensive regional strategy

Jordan's King Abdullah II gives a speech during the inauguration of the 19th Parliament’s non-ordinary session, in Amman, Jordan, on December 10, 2020. (Yousef Allan/The Royal Hashemite Court via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett secretly met with Jordanian king in Amman last week

News site quotes ex-official as saying the two agreed to open a new page in Israel-Jordan ties after tense relations between the countries’ leaders during Netanyahu’s tenure as PM

6:31 pm

Biden announces US military mission in Afghanistan to end August 31
6:21 pm

Israel seizes bitcoin wallets used by Hamas to fundraise - report
6:13 pm

Senior health official: Israel headed for another lockdown if no change in gov't policy

Rockets from Gaza, on right, are seen in the night sky fired towards Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2021, while Iron Dome interceptor missiles, on left, rise to meet them. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Israel, Hamas on path to more violence, warns official familiar with Cairo talks

Israel’s conditioning of Gaza rehabilitation on return of captives and Hamas’s emboldening since May war have hampered progress in indirect negotiations

US President Joe Biden walks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 7, 2021, (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Israel pushing US to keep Trump sanctions on Iran, even if nuke deal resurrected

King Abdullah II of Jordan, right, meets with US Vice President Joe Biden, at the Husseiniya Palace in Amman, Jordan, March 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan’s King Abdullah to be first Mideast leader to visit Biden White House

Search and rescue team members depart after working the debris field of the Champlain Towers South condo, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

Rescuers end search for survivors at collapsed Florida condo; death toll at 54

By TERRY SPENCER and Adriana Gomez Licon

Fire chief tells family members ‘no chance of life’ in the rubble as crews shift their efforts to recovering more remains; 8 bodies found on Wednesday, 86 still missing

Pablo Langesfeld is hugged as he visits the memorial to the victims in the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building as the search and rescue efforts are transitioning to a recovery operation on July 7, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. Mr. Langesfeld's daughter Nicole Langesfeld is one of the missing in the collapse of the building. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Families, rescuers hold vigil near collapsed Florida building

By AP

People look at a memorial that has pictures of some of the missing from the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 7, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

10 more bodies pulled from Surfside wreckage, bringing death toll to 46

By TERRY SPENCER and Adriana Gomez Licon

Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion prepare for a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview'No one can defend the border better than us'

After heading coed battalion, an IDF officer sees women soon leading the charge

By Judah Ari Gross

As he leaves Caracal, Lt. Col. Erez Shabtay hails performance of mixed-gender units over same-sex ones, says his troops cut smuggling on Egyptian border by 80%

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump reportedly saw Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden as ‘ultimate betrayal’

New book by Michael Wolff says that even though Israeli leader waited 12 hours to acknowledge Biden’s election win, Trump felt that he ‘owed’ him and had ‘sold out’

Then-US president Donald Trump and White House chief of staff John Kelly walk toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump praised Hitler for doing ‘a lot of good things,’ says new book

By AFP

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a news conference after visiting the Holocaust Museum, outside the US Capitol, on June 14, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Marjorie Taylor Greene likens COVID vaccine outreach to Nazi-era ‘brown shirts’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz appears for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on June 17, 2021. (Flash90)

Lod imam charged with inciting violence against police amid ethnic strife

Illustrative -- Beersheba District Court on December 1, 2019 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Judge slams state’s ‘unimpressive’ case against national security suspect

Illustrative photo of a prisoner (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli arrested over alleged serious national security crimes

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Business launch

Palestinian twins turn Boeing 707 into West Bank restaurant

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi bought decommissioned plane from Israel in 1999, but intifada, pandemic delayed their dream — until now

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Griiip has developed cloud-based software that allows fans, drivers and team players to get data in real time from racing cars, to get a feel of driver stress levels, tire data, and battery status, and compare drivers' performance (Courtesy).

Carmaker Porsche invests in Israeli startup to give fans greater race thrill

By Shoshanna Solomon

Foreign Ministry Director-General Alon Ushpiz delivers a letter from Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita in Rabat, July 7, 2021 (Reut Shafir Ben Naftali)

Lapid invites Moroccan foreign minister to Israel

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021 (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Israel budget plan: Boost AI, convert offices to homes, promote weed exports

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustration of how a needle containing alpha particles is inserted into a solid tumor; Alpha Tau Medical says it has developed a technology in which these alpha particles can live long enough to destroy the cells (Courtesy)

Alpha Tau Medical to merge with SPAC at $1 billion valuation to battle cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

A fox pictured with its head stuck in a mayonnaise container. (Nir Hershkovitz, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Jarring storyFox rescued after getting head stuck in mayo container

A Palestinian boy begging for alms at a junction in northern Israel, July 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

Palestinian kids sent by Israeli handlers to beg on roads in the north – report

Visitors pass outside the front of a replica Noah's Ark at the Ark Encounter theme park during a media preview day, in Williamstown, Kentucky, July 5, 2016. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Knocking on heaven's doorNoah’s ark theme park in Kentucky to build ‘Tower of Babel’

By AP

In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is reviving plans to reconstruct a historic Warsaw palace where the German Enigma machine codes were first cracked in 1932 and which Nazi German occupying forces blew up in 1944, it was announced Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

Poland to rebuild historic palace where Nazi Enigma machine first cracked

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Sheep being shipped for fattening and slaughter in multi-story vessels. (YouTube screenshot)

Record number of calves and lambs shipped to Israel for fattening, slaughter

Canada's Denis Shapovalov reacts during the men's singles quarterfinals match against Russia's Karen Khachanov on day nine of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Israeli-born Shapovalov advances to Wimbledon semifinal, will play Djokovic

By AFP and ToI Staff

(From L) Israeli actress Nur Fibak, Israeli director Nadav Lapid and Israeli actor Avshalom Pollak pose as they arrive for the screening of the film 'Ha'Berech' (Ahed's Knee) at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 7, 2021. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Israel entry at Cannes confronts ‘censorship of the soul’

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is seen in Egypt's Great Bitter Lake, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohamed Elshahed, File),

After settlement deal, Egypt releases ship that blocked Suez Canal

By Samy Magdy and MOHAMED SALAH

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