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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and New Hope leader Gideon Sa'ar (right). (Flash90)

AG said to consider the bill legally defensible

Justice minister details bill that would block Netanyahu from forming government

Gideon Sa’ar’s proposal would prevent any MK indicted of serious crime from becoming PM; Shaked opposes the legislation; Bennett silent

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh speaks to reporters outside his home in Haifa, on March 3, 2020. (Flash90)

Joint List offers support to coalition bill barring Netanyahu from becoming PM

By Michael Bachner

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) with a bouquet of flowers and then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool/AFP)

After losing power, Netanyahu said to have promised Putin: ‘I’ll be back soon’

The major was also convicted for sexual assault, harassment

IDF removes gag on 2016 conviction of officer for raping Palestinian woman

By Judah Ari Gross

Military had long barred outlets from publishing information about the case, a decision that was was largely overturned this week following appeal by Ynet news site

Illustrative: An IDF soldier sits in a military court. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Guy Shapiro, suspected of murdering of his wife in Ma'ale Adumim the month before, is seen on a screen via a video link during a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, October 7, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Man indicted for strangling wife; after staging it as suicide, he took Zoom call

The children's playroom at an abused women's shelter in Beit Shemesh, July 15, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Report shows 24% leap in treated child sex abuse cases in 2020

By Michael Bachner

View of Israel's largest Arab city Umm El-Fahm, December 31, 2011. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90

Live updates (closed)

City of Umm al-Fahm calls general strike for Thursday amid murders

Businesses, institutions and schools will all be closed as Arab community reels from 102 victims of communal violence this year

6:23 pm

Report: Russia disbanding Syrian militia it formed, opening up Golan for Iran
6:11 pm

City of Umm al-Fahm calls general strike for Thursday, given murders
5:51 pm

TV: Yamina members told to stay mum on bill that bars Netanyahu from premiership

The sun sets over the Mediterranean Sea near Ashkelon on September 12, 2014. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

ToI investigatesA place in the sun

The sun is shining, so why isn’t Israel making hay of its solar energy?

The energy minister prioritizes renewables. One entrepreneur says the sun could supply all our energy by 2035. But policy discord and red tape cloud Israel’s sunny renewable future

View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)

Haifa’s Oil Refineries Ltd. tops worst environmental offenders list… again

By Ricky Ben-David and Sue Surkes

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The last shot Beresheet sent of landing before crashing onto the moon's surface, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel and UAE flags on Moon? Nations said poised to pen space cooperation deal

Report says allies will cooperate on Israel’s Beresheet 2 mission, with students from two nations to build satellite that will also determine precise time of new moon for calendar

UAE cyber officials to join Israeli counterparts at major NYC conference

By Lazar Berman

New Israel-UAE agreement to promote innovation-based business ties

By Ricky Ben-David

Bennett meets UAE, Bahrain envoys, is invited to Abu Dhabi for state visit

By Lazar Berman

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Oct. 20 – The 26-year fight over how to memorialize Rabin

Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and political reporter Tal Schneider assess the ongoing battle over the lessons to be learned from the 1995 assassination of Israel’s prime minister

Forced to leave Israel by Rabbinate and Interior Ministry

No government should push its citizens out of the country, but that’s what happened when my overseas marriage wasn’t recognized and my love lost his visa

Elie Wiesel’s haunting, mysterious, brilliant master

Now at the National Library, ’Mr. Shushani’s’ notebooks attest to his vast knowledge: he cites a wealth of texts, though he had no physical books to reference

Israel media review

Joshua Davidovich

Law for one and one for brawl: What the press is saying about Knesset tussles

Ayelet Shaked is at the center of several scraps within the coalition, though rifts are all over; and papers look at what’s behind a law that could keep Netanyahu out of power

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked during a memorial ceremony marking 26 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at the Knesset on October 18, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ra'am MK Walid Taha attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am pulls plug on a Knesset panel’s meetings in power struggle with Shaked

MKs David Amsalem and David Bitan of Likud at the Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on July 5, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MKs scrap in factious faction meet as Likud tries to navigate opposition life

Deputy Public Security Minister Yoav Segalovitz meets with parliamentarians on October 20, 2021, to discuss plans to end the crime wave in Arab communities (Knesset Spokesperson/ Noam Moscovitz)

Deputy police minister announces joint task force to fight Arab crime

By Aaron Boxerman

Amid surging body count, PM Bennett orders two Border Police battalions to patrol southern Israel; Arab MKs skeptical: ‘We don’t want plans on paper’

The scene where a man was shot in Umm al-Fahm, October 19, 2021 (Israel Police)

2nd man murdered in Umm al-Fahm in 24 hours, amid surging Arab death toll

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

From the blogs

When I was right, Colin Powell was wrong…

…and to his everlasting credit, he admitted it. America and the world need leaders like him more than ever.

Palestinians clash with police during a protest at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on October 19, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with police at Damascus Gate; 22 arrested, 17 wounded

By Aaron Boxerman

Tensions have been rising in the area outside Jerusalem’s Old City for weeks, leading to ‘dozens’ of arrests

Screen capture from video of an altercation between leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir (center left) and MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the predominantly Arab-Israeli Joint List party, at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, October 19, 2021. (Twitter)

Far-right and Arab MKs scuffle during visit to hunger-striking terror suspect

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, at his office in Jerusalem, June 4, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview'All Israel can do is get its own act in order'

New Israel Fund CEO’s book is a toolbox for US Jews to discuss Israel-Palestine

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In ‘Can We Talk About Israel,’ Daniel Sokatch provides readers of all ages and backgrounds with history and information they can use to engage intelligently about the Jewish state

Israeli, PA envoys trade recriminations at Security Council

US envoy bashes UNSC for disproportionate focus on Israel, raps settler violence

Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemns Hamas for holding Israeli civilians, troops’ bodies, and urges Israel to probe settler attacks

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the media in Ankara, Turkey, on June 4, 2021. (AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Foreign Ministry employees disrupt a meeting of the promotions committee as a committee member waits for them to leave, October 19, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Blasting obdurate Finance Ministry, diplomats launch fight for better conditions

By Lazar Berman

US President Biden's Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 22, 2021. (Screen capture/Senate Foreign Relations Committee)

Senate committee advances nomination of Biden’s pick for ambassador to Israel

Republicans Cruz, Rubio and Haggerty vote against Tom Nides; no date set yet for full Senate vote to confirm envoy, which could still be delayed by GOP

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, on October 19, 2021. (Noam Mushkovitz/Knesset Spokesperson)

Defending budget increase, Gantz says IDF needs funds to fight off Iran threat

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister appears before Knesset committee, warns Iran nearly a ‘threshold state,’ after cabinet reportedly allocates NIS 5 billion for potential strike on nuke program

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, (left) speaks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on Monday, October 18, 2021, in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department in Washington, ahead of a meeting. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

UN nuclear watchdog heading back to Iran for talks in coming weeks

Illustrative: Hezbollah fighters hold flags as they attend the memorial of their slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, South Lebanon, February 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

AnalysisFor a change, Hezbollah’s boast of 100,000 fighters is not aimed at Israel

From the 'Coffee: East and West' exhibition at Jerusalem's Museum of Islamic Art that closes in April 2022. (Courtesy: Elad Sarig)

Perking lot: Israel’s coffee culture served up in Jerusalem exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Museum of Islamic Art offers the java-curious a brimming mug of information, including why their morning joe is different from their afternoon brew

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Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

First case of new Delta mutation AY4.2 diagnosed in Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

A sign pointing to a tax authority office in Israel. (Flash 90)

In new report, ombudsman says Tax Authority owes Israelis $1.1 billion

Jake Berman, a Jewish former student, speaks at a school board meeting in Southlake, Texas on October 18, 2021. (Screenshot)

Local Jews fume after teachers told Texas law requires ‘opposing’ Holocaust view

In this July 12, 2021 file photo, a medical worker administers a shot of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Gostinny Dvor, a huge exhibition place in Moscow, Russia. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Under pressure, Israel said set to let in tourists with Russia’s Sputnik vaccine

Amos Hochstein, US State Department special envoy for energy (left), shakes hands with then-US vice president Joe Biden after introducing at the Caribbean Energy Security Summit at the State Department in Washington, on January 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US energy envoy visits Lebanon, will discuss maritime border talks with Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Medical interns demonstrate for better work conditions in Tel Aviv on October 9, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hundreds of medical interns rescind resignations, accepting gov’t compromise

People walk one the streets and sidewalk as the sun sets in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Roadside bombs hit military bus in Syrian capital, killing 13

Jewish and Christian clergy stand together for prayers for the souls of some 60 Jews murdered by the occupying Nazi German forces during a ceremony marking a memorial to the victims in Wojslawice, Poland, October 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Not forgotten: Mass graves of Jewish Holocaust victims dedicated in Poland

By Vanessa Gera

A screenshot from video of singer Gil Ofarim posted to his Instagram account, on October 5, 2021. (Screenshot/Instagram)

Singer doubles down on accusations of antisemitism at German hotel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A page from the notebooks of "Mr. Shushani," a mysterious scholar who taught many of the greatest Jewish studies scholars of the 20th century. (National Library of Israel via JTA)

Israel to display notebooks of mysterious scholar who taught Elie Wiesel

The scene where a man fell to his death from a hot air balloon near Afula, northern Israel, October 19, 2021(Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

‘Makes me shudder’: Man photographed hot air balloon operator before fatal fall

A statue of Thomas Jefferson, right, stands in New York's City Hall Council Chamber, on July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

New York City to remove Jefferson statue commissioned by Jewish naval officer

By AFP

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