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Brothers and Israeli Olympic triathletes Ran (left) and Shachar Sagiv, after the triathlon at the Tokyo Games on July 26, 2021. (Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

For Israeli triathlete brothers, the Olympics is a family affair

Shachar and Ran Sagiv complete the men’s triathlon in 20th and 35th place, respectively, setting a new Israeli record

Israel's Tohar Butbul competes in the judo men's -73kg quarterfinal bout during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on July 26, 2021. (Amit Shisel/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 20202nd judoka pulls out of Olympics in apparent move to avoid facing Israeli

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Anna Plichta of Poland and Omer Shapira of Israel compete in the women's cycling road race at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Oyama, Japan. (Michael Steele/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo 2020Israeli cyclist who just missed out on Olympic medal: ‘I went with my gut’

Israel's Anastasia Gorbenko competes during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on July 26, 2021 (Amit Shisel/Israel Olympic Committee)

Tokyo 2020

With new national record, swimmer Gorbenko makes history to reach Olympic final

Teen becomes 3rd Israeli, and first Israeli woman, to earn a chance to chase a swimming medal in 100m backstroke; also qualifies for semifinals in 200m individual medley

Dorian Coninx of France takes water as a volunteer holds out a bag of ice, during the run portion of the men's individual triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 26, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

After intense heat and pandemic, Tokyo Olympics to be hit by a typhoon

Illustrative image of Israeli high school student taking a mathematics paper, May 25 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Israelis win 6 medals, including 3 golds, at math Olympiad

National team finishes in seventh place at international tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, its best-ever showing

Tombs tagged with swastikas are pictured in a Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, eastern France, December 3, 2019. (AP Photo)

Analysis

A hatred that dwells alone? Antisemitism debate cuts to heart of Zionist vision

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on July 25, 2021. (Lazar Berman/ Times of Israel)

Lapid assails Netanyahu-era neglect for diplomacy as antisemitism soared

By Lazar Berman

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing July 26 – Will Abraham Accords founder over frozen pipeline deal?

Environment reporter Sue Surkes gives an update on impact of UAE-driven oil pipeline, while diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses potential fallout if deal falls through

The Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil boom in Eilat, designed to catch any potential oil spill before it leaks more broadly into the sea. (Courtesy EAPC)

Israel partially freezes UAE oil pipeline deal over environmental concerns

The Fleur de Passion research ship before it left Eilat in southern Israel for Port Sudan, July 19, 2021. ((Marcos Schonholz)

With coral research delayed by crash, scientist not waiting to dive back in

Amir Hayek. (Smadar Cafri)

Israel’s new UAE envoy called oil deal with Abu Dhabi a ‘security danger’

By Michael Bachner

Amir Hayek has slammed aspects of normalization deal, mocking US sale of F-35 jets and panning former gov’t for allowing Israelis to attend ‘mass COVID-spreading parties in Dubai’

Algeria denounces African Union granting Israel observer status

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lapid taps business executive as first permanent envoy to UAE

By Lazar Berman

Direct Israel-Morocco flights launched, months after ties normalized

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri

Travelers arriving at Ben Gurion Airport on July 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

2,000 travelers with COVID entered Israel in past month — report

Hundreds of infected passengers were returning from Turkey, Greece; 12 cases of ‘Delta Plus’ variant found in country

6:04 pm

Over 1,500 new COVID cases diagnosed since midnight; 121 in serious condition
6:02 pm

Man drowns near Herzliya, in 6th fatality since Saturday
5:56 pm

France calls for 'competent and capable' government in Lebanon

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz attend a press conference at a Maccabi vaccination center in Holon on June 29, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Pool via Flash90)

Analysis

‘They’re endangering us’: Why Bennett is suddenly locking horns with non-vaxxers

PM hasn’t said what prompted him to up the ante, but an influential expert panel is convinced that inoculating half of those still unvaccinated will stop the rise in cases

Police officers enforce COVID-19 regulations at Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Government approves electronic tracking of travelers in quarantine

Illustrative: Doctors and nurses treat a patient at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Unvaccinated woman, 38, in critical condition with COVID following birth

A technician collects swab samples for COVID-19 at a testing center run by the Tel Aviv Municipality at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Serious COVID cases in Israel top 100, for first time in 3 months

Number of Israelis in serious condition with the coronavirus has doubled over the past 10 days, but remains a fraction of the figure seen in January

People, some wearing face masks, walk on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, July 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Daily rate of positive COVID tests goes above 2% for first time since March

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meets with officials at his office in Jerusalem to discuss plans for reopening of schools, July 25, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

No decision yet on school reopening plan as Health and Education ministries spar

British conspiracy theorist Kate Shemirani, a former nurse, addresses a crowd of hundreds of conspiracy theorists at a rally at London's Trafalgar Square. (File: Salim Fadhley / Wikipedia)

UK police probe anti-vaxxer for implying medics should be hanged like Nazis

By Stuart Winer

Ex-nurse Kate Shemirani urged crowd at rally to compile lists of health professionals administering vaccines, noting that doctors and nurses were executed after Nuremberg trials

Science fiction, fantasy…and resiliency

The questions film and secular literature raise about the nature of evil offer a safe way to start talking about loss – including when that loss is my own

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Less water, more Oreos

What my household really needs this summer is for me to leave everyone alone

Journalist Roni Daniel on March 1, 2016. (Arielinson/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Obituary

Roni Daniel, one of Israel’s most prominent journalists, dies at 73

Illustrative: Explosions light up the night sky above buildings in Gaza City as IDF planes hit the Palestinian enclave, early on June 16, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF strikes Gaza after incendiary balloons spark fires in south

By Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross

Army says warplanes hit Hamas terror group base located next to school after first suspected arson attacks in weeks; Palestinian media claim Israeli drone shot down

Masked Hamas members apparently prepare incendiary balloons to be launched toward Israel from the Gaza Strip, on May 8, 2021. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Israel restricts Gaza fishing zone after arson balloons spark fires in south

By Aaron Boxerman and Judah Ari Gross

A Hamas security officer checks a truck entering Gaza at the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing with Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 21, 2021. (Adel Hana/AP)

Entry of Qatari fuel into Gaza held up; Israel, PA trade blame

By Aaron Boxerman

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) greets Foreign Minister Yair Lapid ahead of their meeting in Rome, on June 27, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP)

Lapid and Gantz said to warn US: Iran is close to nuclear threshold

Senior diplomat cautions that Tehran could take advantage of lull in talks, until Iran’s new president installed, to advance program

People gather outside the Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Student employee of Foreign Ministry probed for suspected illegal visit to Iran

By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman

Javad Foroughi of Iran celebrates after winning the gold medal in the men's 10-meter air pistol at the Asaka Shooting Range in the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Tokyo 2020Iran Revolutionary Guards nurse wins Olympic gold medal in shooting

By AFP

Jordanian King Abdullah II, right speaks to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on July 20, 2021, at the State Department in Washington. (Nicholas Kamm /Pool via AP)

Jordan’s king: I was ‘very encouraged’ after meeting with Bennett, Gantz

In CNN interview, Abdullah says violent Jewish-Arab unrest in Israel during its most recent conflict with Hamas was a ‘civil war,’ should serve as ‘a wake-up call’

Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Interview'Why would Epstein give up before he even got to court?

For writer who broke Epstein case, a rumored Mossad link is worth digging into

By JP O’ Malley

Reporter Julie K. Brown isn’t convinced the accused sex trafficker took his own life, and says associate Robert Maxwell may not have been the only one tied to Israeli intelligence

Illustrative image of semiconductur chips (venuestock; iStock by Getty Images)

As global demand for microchips surges, tech giants go all-in on Israel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel and Nvidia are setting up or expanding their Israeli chip design operations, and local firms are seeing a renaissance as VC money rolls in

An illustrative image of a ransomware attack by hackers (AlexLMX; iStock by Getty Images)

Check Point reports 93% surge in smart ransomware attacks over past year

By Shoshanna Solomon

'We're just trying to create a public good'

Chicago couple transforms rundown former synagogue into shared community space

By Naomi Waxman

Artist Amber Ginsburg and law professor Tom Ginsburg bought the empty South Side property from the city and envision a hybrid family home with art studios and more for the public

More Headlines

The Israeli woman who crossed into Syria and was returned in a deal brokered by Russia, in a photo shown by Channel 12 on February 20, 2021. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Israeli woman who crossed into Syria sentenced to 8 months in jail

Comedian Jackie Mason recording his album 'I Want To Leave You With The Words Of A Great Comedian' on February 20, 1963 in New York. (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)

WATCH: When comic legend Jackie Mason turned his wit on the Jews

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A man selling eggs at an eggstand in the Machane Yehuda Market, in Jerusalem, January 27, 2018. (Liba Farkash/ Flash 90)

Farmers irate over planned agriculture reform, say it won’t lower prices

By Stuart Winer

Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 20, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

‘Frustrated’ Fauci says US heading in ‘wrong direction,’ as COVID-19 cases soar

By AP

Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, right, arrives in Basra, Iraq, July 15, 2020. (Ahmed al-Rubaye/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden to host weakened Iraqi leader tiptoeing between Washington and Iran

In February 2021, Kestenbaum & Company, a Brooklyn firm that has specialized in Judaica, pulled off its catalogue what the Jewish Community of Cluj says is a 19th-century ledger from its Jewish burial society. (Kestenbaum & Company via JTA)

US authorities seize suspected Holocaust-looted Judaica from Brooklyn auctioneer

People celebrate in the street after Tunisian President Kais Saied announced the dissolution of parliament and Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi's government in Tunis on July 25, 2021, after a day of nationwide protest. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisian president suspends parliament, dismisses prime minister

By AFP

Fan file through the main concourse of T-Mobile Park before a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

US headed in wrong direction on virus, health chief Fauci warns

By AP

A car and a bus drives through deep water on a flooded road in The Nine Elms district of London on July 25, 2021. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

London roads flood, stranding buses and cars as summer storms lash UK capital

By AFP

Israeli navy boats are seen from Rosh Hanikra, on the Israeli and Lebanese border in northern Israel, May 4, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

IDF stops infiltrator swimming in from Lebanon

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