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Illustrative image: travellers wear protective face masks at Ben Gurion International Airport. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Israel is 'strange case: high infections, high vaccinations'

Portugal, Sweden slap COVID entry ban on Israelis, including those vaccinated

By Nathan Jeffay

New bans take effect, ironically, as Israel eases quarantine rules for returning travelers; Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Czech Republic bar unvaccinated Israelis

Health personnel take test samples on Israelis wanting to travel abroad, at a COVID-19 test temporary station in Safed, northern Israel, on August 31, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

New daily infections top 10,000 for 4th day, but serious cases fall further

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to US President Joe Biden, on June 13, 2021. (Courtesy: Ariel Zandberg)

Bennett rolls out robocalls urging Israelis to get vaccinated

President Joe Biden speaks about the response to Hurricane Ida during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden tells 1,000 rabbis he’s tackling antisemitism, wants hate monitor approved

President addresses virtual event ahead of Rosh Hashanah, says he has asked Senate to swiftly confirm Deborah Lipstadt as State Department antisemitism watchdog

President Isaac Herzog (center), his wife, Michal, and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, hold a toast ahead of the Jewish New Year for diplomatic corps, on September 2, 2021 in Jerusalem. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

‘Israel is your home away from home’: Herzog sends holiday wishes to Diaspora

Orthodox rabbis in Baltimore and on New York's Long Island in a video urge their community members to take the COVID vaccine ahead of the High Holidays. (Screenshot from YouTube)

US Orthodox rabbis urge communities to get vaccinated ahead of Rosh Hashanah

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a Knesset vote on the state budget, September 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Budget now heads to committee before final readings

In boon to Bennett, Knesset fully okays 2021-2022 budget in its first readings

Financial plan moves forward for 1st time since 2018 after coalition compromises; PM hails ‘budget that cares for citizens’ while Netanyahu pans it as ‘terrible’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett seen with Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman during a vote on the first reading of the state budget in the Knesset, September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel media review

It’s a budget! What the press is saying about spending money and spreading COVID

By Joshua Davidovich

The budget still has some hurdles, but after almost 3 years of waiting, an initial Knesset okay is enough for the press to play up, even as sky-high virus figures are played down

Bryan Friedland, an actor on the autism spectrum, found work as a tourist site actor through his participation in 'Tnu L'avod," a reality show (Courtesy Kan 11)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Actor on the spectrum seeks job through reality show

Bryan Friedland, a 38-year-old Jerusalemite on the autism spectrum, talks about his experience participating in ‘Tnu L’avod’ on Israeli TV

Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)

Israeli strikes said to target Syria; fragments from defense fire land in Israel

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Errant Syrian air defense missile explodes over waters off coast of central Israel, fragments found in north Tel Aviv; no injuries or damage reported

Pride & Prejudice movie poster (Courtesy)

UK anti-racism group demands harsher sentence for neo-Nazi told to read classics

Judge ordered Ben John to study Jane Austen and Dickens as punishment for downloading almost 70,000 white supremacist docs, bomb-making instructions

A man in traditional Muslim garb is seen punching an ultra-Orthodox man in the street, in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Man arrested for 5 attacks on Jews in London’s Stamford Hill

Rabbi Yosef Khersonsky cuts the ribbon at the grand opening of the Jewish Point congregation's new synagogue building in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Jews of the former USSR'Without a synagogue it's like you're at sea with no anchor'

Tel Aviv’s 1st Russian-speaking congregation says ‘da’ to young progressives

Cutting-edge and open-minded, Jewish Point challenges clichés that Israelis from former Soviet states don’t embrace spirituality, as it celebrates its ribbon cutting this week

2 new synagogues open in Hungary, bringing rival Jewish groups together

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Interview

Wrapping up stint as ambassador to US, Erdan confident visa waiver forthcoming

After personal plea to Biden in Oval Office, envoy says there’s growing understanding in DC on the matter, obstacles surmountable in coming months; US source far less optimistic

Israel's Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan (R) shakes the hand of US President Joe Biden (C) as President Reuven Rivlin looks on in the Oval Office on June 29, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

(Left to right) IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, CENTCOM Commander Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., and Defense Minister Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv, on January 29, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel formally moves to US Central Command’s area of responsibility

By Judah Ari Gross

The Rosh Hashanah when things went wrong and turned out right

The day’s events threw a Lubavitcher Hasid, a Bedouin soldier, and me together so we could each do some good, and I was sure our encounters weren’t by chance

Standing at attention, for better or worse

When Moses addresses all swathes of society in his final speech, he paves the way for the nation to improve, for it really does take all kinds (Nitzavim)

Rabbi Raziel Cohen demonstrates how to use the Tactical Kapota, a jacket designed for easily accessing a weapon. (Rabbi Raziel Cohen via JTA)

Hasidic rabbi makes Shabbat jacket for carrying guns at synagogue

‘Tactical Rabbi’ Raziel Cohen creates modified kapota that closes with snaps, making it easier to draw a firearm

Illustrative: A scooter belonging to Hatzalah of South Florida, a volunteer emergency medical service organization serving mostly areas with Jewish communities, is shown parked outside the Shul of Bal Harbour, a Jewish community center in Surfside, Florida, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jewish group gives ‘trauma kits’ to South Florida synagogues ahead of holidays

By AP

Hadassah Ein Kerem team members wearing safety gear as they work in the hospital's coronavirus ward, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Experts stress this should not discourage vaccination

Study: COVID recovery gave Israelis longer-lasting Delta defense than vaccines

By Nathan Jeffay

The variant was 27 times more likely to break through Pfizer protection from January-February and cause symptoms than it was to penetrate natural immunity from the same period

Illustrative: Hadassah Ein Kerem medical staff work in the coronavirus ward of the hospital in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli male life expectancy in decline amid COVID pandemic — TV

A vaccination center in the city of Bnei Brak where anti-vaxxers are registering as getting inoculated without actually getting injections, September 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 13)

Anti-vaxxers said exploiting loophole to obtain Green Pass without immunizing

People take a look at the 206 route partially flooded as a result of the remnants of Hurricane Ida in Somerville, N.J., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. (AP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Death toll from historic Ida drenching hits 45 as northeast US mops up

By AP

At least 23 people killed in New Jersey, 13 in New York after former hurricane combines with front to dump record-breaking amounts of rain, inundating Atlantic seaboard

Headstones at a cemetery that flooded in Somerville, N.J. September 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Cleanup, mourning continue in northeast US after Ida claims at least 48 lives

By AP

Vehicles are under water during flooding in Philadelphia, on Thursday, September 2, 2021, in the aftermath of downpours and high winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ida that hit the area. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Rabbi among at least 18 people killed as remnants of Ida slam New York area

By AP and ToI Staff

Palestinian protesters at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza City, on August 21, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Probe faults poor placement, not open-fire rules in soldier’s death in Gaza riot

By Judah Ari Gross

Initial findings presented to family of slain border guard Barel Hadaria Shmueli; army chief calls for military’s investigation to be completed, lessons to be implemented

Palestinians carry an injured protester during a night protest along the border fence with Israel, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 2, 2021. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Gazan killed in clashes with IDF during nightly border riots

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony in Jerusalem, on August 11, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

As border guard’s death criticized, IDF chief denies soldiers overly restricted

By Judah Ari Gross

The banner in question flies across the Florida sky, August 2021. (Screenshot)

Made in heaven

‘Antisemitic’ aerial banner actually a marriage proposal

Huge message to ‘Jew’ flown across Florida sky attracts both jokesters and antisemitism watchdogs

Afghan women hold placards and don burkas as they take part in a protest in Herat on September 2, 2021. (AFP)

Donning burqas as ‘compromise,’ Afghan women plead for daughters’ school rights

By AFP

Mothers defy Taliban to press for daughters’ continued education, with new leadership in Kabul expected to roll back female access to public sphere

Illustrative: Police marksmen watch from the rooftop of the Christchurch High Court ahead of day two of the sentencing hearing of Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, in Christchurch, New Zealand, August 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

New Zealand: 6 injured in ‘ISIS-inspired’ stabbing spree, terrorist shot dead

By Agencies and ToI Staff

File - A Kurdish security officer escorts Alexanda Kotey, one of the Islamic State 'Beatles,' at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Islamic State ‘Beatle’ pleads guilty over grisly hostage murders

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An ancient stone weight, marked as being two-gerah that was discovered near the Old City of Jerusalem. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)

Stone cold sting: Ancient Jerusalem weight points to a 2,700-year-old hustle

By Stuart Winer

Ancient ‘two-gerah’ stone dug up near Old City found to weigh over three times the amount inscribed on its surface; archaeologists assess it was used to cheat in trading

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Police secure the area near a bank in Haifa where a woman threatened to detonate an explosive vest, on September 2, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Haifa man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping woman, forcing her to try rob bank

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Egyptian President Abdelfattah El-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II in Cairo, on Thursday, September 2, 2021. (WAFA)

PA’s Abbas meets Egypt’s Sissi, Jordan’s Abdullah in rare trilateral summit

By Aaron Boxerman

The scene of a deadly shooting at Nitzanei Oz Junction near Netanya on September 2, 2021. (Courtesy Yoni Uziyahu/ United Hatzalah)

2 killed in gangland-style shooting near Netanya as crime spurt outflanks police

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz speak in the Knesset on September 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Gantz defends his meeting with Abbas, says it had Bennett’s backing

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

President Isaac Herzog address the opening of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Israel Bar Association in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.)

Urging action, president laments deadly organized crime as ‘civilian terrorism’

Israel's then-ambassador to the UAE, Eitan Na'eh, left, talks with an Emirati official during the Global Investment Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on June 2, 2021. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Eitan Na’eh tapped to be first ambassador to Bahrain

Israeli human rights activists protest calling for the release of Anhar al-Deek, 25, at the entrance to Damon prison, northern Israel, on August 29, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Israeli military court frees pregnant Palestinian security prisoner on bail

By Aaron Boxerman

From left: Sam Spiegel director Dana Blankstein Cohen, prizewinner Netalie Braun and film lab director Aurit Zamir at the 9th edition of the Sam Spiegel film lab, August 28, 2021 (Courtesy Yossi Zwecker)

Lights, camera, congrats!Awards for promising young directors at Sam Spiegel film lab

By Jessica Steinberg

Attendees at the inauguration of a new food tech innovation center called Margalit Startup City Galil in Kiryat Shmona, on Thursday, September 2, 2021. (Courtesy)

New innovation hub to foster Israeli food tech ‘revolutions’

By Ricky Ben-David and AFP

Tamir Grinberg, the vocalist who won 'HaKochav Haba," the Keshet 12 reality music show, on September 1, 2021. (Courtesy: Keshet 12)

Stage presenceEnglish-singing pianist wins music reality show ‘Rising Star’

By Jessica Steinberg

General view of the Lahav 433 police unit headquarters in the city of Lod, on November 4, 2019. (Flash90)

Police said probing severe allegations against senior justice official

File - French founder of the far-right National Front party Jean-Marie Le Pen poses during a photo session at his home in Saint-Cloud, France, January 14, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP)

French far-right veteran Jean-Marie Le Pen on trial over Holocaust pun

By Anne Lec'hvien

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