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A member of the Israeli security forces stands guard as a group of Jews enters the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, during the annual Tisha B'Av fast day, on July 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Bennett’s office backpedals after he seems to say Jews can pray on Temple Mount

Unnamed officials in premier’s office tell outlet he meant to say Jews have ‘freedom of visitation rights,’ not worship, after comments seemingly upend status quo

Israeli police stand guard as a group of Jews enter the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Tisha B'Av fast mourning the destruction of the Temples, on July 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

On Tisha B’Av, Bennett speaks of ‘freedom of worship’ for Jews on Temple Mount

Israeli security forces guard as a group of religious Jews visit the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, during Tisha B'Av, on July 18, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Jordan, Egypt, Turkey all condemn Jewish visits to Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av

By Aaron Boxerman, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Op-ed

Israel’s PM is playing with fire on the Temple Mount

Bennett hailed ‘freedom of Jewish worship’ at the religious hotspot, a day after TV footage showed Jews at prayer there. Then he backtracked, anonymously. This is no way to govern

Israeli security forces stand guard, as a group of Jews visit the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa) compound in Jerusalem, on July 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Israeli security forces stand guard as a group of Jews enter the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Tisha B'Av fast mourning the destruction of the temples, on July 18, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Ra’am: Al-Aqsa Mosque ‘is solely the property of Muslims’

By Aaron Boxerman

Current Prime Minister Naftali Bennett prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on March 16, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 19 – New government gets scorched by Temple Mount flub

Worldwide probe finds tech by Israel’s NSO Group targeted media, politicians

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Investigation by Guardian, Washington Post and other news outlets identifies more than 1,000 people in over 50 countries potentially hit by Herzliya firm’s Pegasus spy software

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman walks outside the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya. (Jack Guez/AFP)

European leaders blast use of Israeli spyware to target activists, reporters

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Critics call for curb on spyware after revelations about Israel’s NSO

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Julia Haart of 'My Unorthodox Life' conducts a work meeting. (Courtesy Netflix)

Interview'This isn't about Judaism. My issue is with fundamentalism'

From frum to fashion week: Julia Haart’s ‘Unorthodox’ journey burns up Netflix

With her new reality series ‘My Unorthodox Life’ making waves around the world, the born-again style mogul wants viewers to know that she still feels deeply connected to Judaism

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Travellers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel expected to require all travelers entering the country to self-isolate

Coronavirus cabinet will likely adopt recommendation Tuesday to reinstate quarantine, including for vaccinated and recovered COVID patients, TV reports say

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Herzog wishes Abbas a happy Eid al-Adha, in 2nd call in just over a week
6:04 pm

21 killed, 33 wounded in bombing at Baghdad market
5:45 pm

Ben & Jerry's Israel: Don't boycott us!

Leon Wiener Dow

Eyewitness to the irony of destruction in Jerusalem

On Tisha B’Av, at the very rocks that remain from the destroyed Temple, Jews raged at each other on the precipice of violence

Sharon Nazarian

Growing antisemitism reminds us that AMIA victims need justice, now

Argentina took years to recognize the 1994 bombing that killed 85 people as a national – not just Jewish — tragedy. And still, no one has been arrested or prosecuted

A greedy coalition

The ’change government’ undermines Israel’s democracy when it sets out to weaken the opposition. It should correct course and ensure a fair fight in the Knesset

High Court gender segregation ruling provides for ‘A Room of Their Own’

In agreeing to limited separation in academia, the Court rejected the extreme positions of both the Haredim and those who oppose them

Far-right Orthodox Jews disrupted prayers being conducted by the Conservative Movement at the pluralistic prayer plaza at the Western Wall, on July 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

President, FM pan Orthodox storming of egalitarian plaza during Tisha B’Av eve

By Emanuel Fabian and Jacob Magid

Herzog says he is saddened to hear of disruption of Tisha B’Av prayer service held by Conservative Movement; Lapid: Extremists ‘desecrated’ holy day

(L) US President Joe Biden speaks on July 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (R) Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks on May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Biden to host Jordan’s Abdullah Monday for first meeting with Arab leader

By AAMER MADHANI

US administration plans to stress that Israel’s normalization agreements aren’t an ‘end run’ around finding the way to a peace deal that includes a Palestinian state, official says

Travellers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health officials put brakes on talk of shutting airport to stem infections

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett seen during a cabinet meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on July 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Bennett warns public to take virus rules seriously, or prepare to pay up

Travelers arriving at the Ben Gurion International Airport, stand in line to get a COVID-19 check upon arrival. July 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Report claims airport virus testing firm not properly handling samples

A health worker prepares a vaccination against COVID-19 at a vaccination center of the Tel Aviv municipality and Magen David Adom, in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli study claims vaccines cut infection risk even in COVID-afflicted homes

By Nathan Jeffay

Research was conducted before Delta variant, but deputy head of Sheba Medical Center, which took part in effort, calls findings ‘convincing illustration of vaccine effectiveness’

An Israeli girl receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Just one serious COVID patient in Israel is both vaccinated and under 60 — TV

A man receives a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at the outpatient clinics of the Cardiovascular Centre at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 12, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Health Ministry: Most cancer patients should not get third COVID booster shot

90-minute movie constructed entirely of still drawings

New film portrays Jewish revolt against Romans in vivid, gripping detail

By Jessica Steinberg

‘Legend of Destruction’ is filmmaker Gidi Dar’s latest masterpiece, an eight-year project, now in theaters for Tisha B’Av

Illustrative. The Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid requests delay in contentious demolition of West Bank Bedouin village

Foreign minister says new government needs time to study in-depth the issue of razing Khan al-Ahmar, which has ‘legal and international consequences’

A photo distributed by B'Tselem showing an off-duty soldier with a shirt wrapped around his face as a mask opening fire toward the village of Urif from the Yitzhar settlement on May 14, 2021. (B'Tselem)

IDF probing Palestinian’s death, video of masked soldier shooting at village

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi J. Leonard Levy, and a recently rediscovered trunk containing his sermons from over 100 years ago. (Courtesy Rodef Shalom Congregation/ Matthew Falcone)

Buried trunk at Pittsburgh synagogue reveals past and future of Reform Judaism

Memphis Grizzlies forward Omri Casspi dunks during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings on on January 25, 2019, in Memphis, Tennessee. (AP Photo/ Brandon Dill)

Omri Casspi retires from pro basketball: ‘I reached peaks I never dreamed of’

Former NBA player says he reached basketball heights during his career; sports minister: ‘Casspi has shown how much determination is necessary to become an elite athlete’

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This combination of file photos shows actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (left) at a screening of the Oscars on April 26, 2021 in Sydney, Australia, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (right) in New York, on October 25, 2019. (AP/Rick Rycroft, Pool, Mark Lennihan)

Sacha Baron Cohen suggests jailing Zuckerberg over COVID misinformation

Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles, January 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Not dark yetEnding 18-month hiatus, Bob Dylan returns to the (online) stage

By David Bauder

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched by the frigate Admiral Gorshkov of the Russian navy from the White Sea, in the north of Russia, July 19, 2021 (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia says it successfully test-fired Zircon hypersonic cruise missile

By AFP

Kurt Westergaard receiving the M100 Sanssouci Media Award in Potsdam in 2010. (Courtesy M100)

Danish Muhammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard dies aged 86

By AFP

In this April 1, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. During the Mass the Pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year. Pope Francis cracked down on the spread of the old Latin Mass on Friday, July 16, 2021, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis restricts Latin Mass that calls for the conversion of the Jews

Illustrative: a National Insurance Institute building. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

9 suspected of swindling NIS 60 million from National Insurance Institute

By Stuart Winer

Then-Yesh Atid MK Ronen Hoffman, Israel's next ambassador to Canada, during a committee meeting in the Knesset, May 30, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid taps ex-party MK for long-vacant Canada ambassador post

By Lazar Berman

Eyal Hulata, in an undated photograph. (Courtesy)

Cabinet confirms ex-spy Eyal Hulata as Bennett’s national security adviser

Political adviser Moshe Klughaft (L) with then-Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett in 2013 (Eric Sultan/Klughaft.com)

Bennett again working with controversial political strategist Moshe Klughaft

Ministers in the newly sworn-in Israeli government pose for the traditional group photo at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP)

Government axes 5 ministries, 4 of them set up last year

By Stuart Winer

A car belonging to an Israeli family that was hit by rocks thrown by Palestinians near Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem, July 18, 2021. (United Hatzalah)

Parents, infant child injured by rock-throwing near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

By Emanuel Fabian

Izat Hamad (Youtube / Channel 10 screenshot)

Assassinated mob boss was ‘king of protection racket’

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