Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy Your Privacy Rights

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Thursday, December 2, 2021

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) meets with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

Gantz: 'We must prepare for alternatives' if no deal reached

Bennett to Blinken: US must immediately halt Iran talks over ‘nuclear blackmail’

In call with US secretary of state, prime minister calls for world powers to take ‘concrete steps’ against Tehran over its boosted uranium enrichment

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, fist-bumps US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel on April 12, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Amid Iran tensions, Gantz to head to Washington to meet with US counterpart

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh during a press conference in Tehran, on February 22, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran accuses Israel of lying in order to ‘poison’ Vienna nuclear talks

Mossad chief David Barnea at a ceremony marking his taking the helm of the agency, on June 1, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Mossad chief says bad deal with Iran intolerable, vows it won’t ‘ever’ have nukes

‘Our eyes are open, we are prepared, and we will do everything necessary to alleviate the threat,’ David Barnea says

7:25 pm

Armed man outside UN arrested after standoff, lockdown
7:16 pm

New US Ambassador tours Yad Vashem
7:07 pm

Extremist group said to issue call for religious affairs minister's assassination

Op-ed

Iran — the gamble, the original sin, and the unthinkable current consequence

Nothing short of a credible military threat — and certainly not negotiations with a US leadership anxious to revive a failed accord — will deter the ayatollahs’ nuclear drive now

A technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)

A satellite image from April 2, 2016, of the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran. (Google Earth)

Iran starts enriching uranium at Fordo plant during nuclear talks, in further breach

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his wife Gilat and their four children at the Knesset on June 13, 2021. (Naftali Bennett/Instagram)

Bennett’s wife, kids go on vacation abroad despite PM urging against flying overseas

After facing criticism, premier says he no longer recommends avoiding international travel due to details learned in past few days about Omicron strain

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his wife Gilat attend a Hanukkah ceremony in Jerusalem, on November 29, 2021.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Bennett family vacation said to elicit grumblings from allies as well as PM himself

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visits the official Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on December 1, 2021. (GPO)

Bennett visits Prime Minister’s Residence for first time since taking office

Palestinians gather around the remains of a burnt Israeli car being transported away by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 1, 2021, after the vehicle was set on fire by Palestinian youths upon after two Israelis drove it into the city's downtown (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Two Israelis attacked, car torched by Palestinians after entering downtown Ramallah

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority security forces extricate the two, hand them unharmed to Israel after crowd surrounds them in the city center

A stun grenade thrown into a Palestinian home in Sarta in the West Bank, apparently by Israeli settlers, January 2021. (Israel Police)

Teen settler gets 20 months for stun grenade attack on West Bank Palestinian homes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Dr. Elad Maor (Sheba Medical Center)

As Israel awaits Omicron confirmations, 1 doctor’s likely case sparks wary optimism

Number of confirmed cases in Israel of apparently more-contagious variant expected to rise, but doctor who may have the strain appears to have infected only one other person

A healthcare worker collects swab samples at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Modi'in, on November 10, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Health Ministry clarifies only 2 Omicron cases so far confirmed in Israel

In South Africa, where the Omicron variant was first discovered, a woman is tested for COVID-19. (AP Photo/ Shiraaz Mohamed)

Early data shows past infection does not ward off Omicron, but vaccines effective

By AFP

A man (R) appears to make a Nazi salute, in a video showing a group of people accosting Jews on a Chabad bus as they celebrated Hanukkah in London, November 28, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

UK police probe video of men spitting at Hanukkah party bus, accosting passengers

Clip shows group appearing to make Nazi salutes, shouting at Jews celebrating Hanukkah in London; incident being treated as antisemitic hate crime

Illustrative: People pass a large menorah sponsored by the Lubavitcher Center, during the celebration of Hanukkah in Philadelphia, December 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

New York hate crimes unit probing vandalism of menorah in Queens

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/ Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Florida Jewish federation: Facebook algorithm blocked our ad against antisemitism

Illustrative image: A photographer takes a photo of a projector image showing immunofluorescence staining of Omicro- infected Vero E6 cells in Hong Kong, December 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

‘Overwhelming’: Israeli virus sleuth researchers work flat-out on Omicron puzzle

By Nathan Jeffay

Quantity and location of mutations are ‘big surprise,’ says Prof. Adi Stern, as her team works to build a picture of variant’s origins

New COVID infections in South Africa nearly double in single day

By AP

PM said considering further measures to encourage unvaccinated to get COVID shots

By Stuart Winer

First US case of Omicron variant identified in California

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and Zeke Miller

Ari M. Solomont

When my rabbi took me to the mikvah

Listen up educators: Back when sexual abuse was more hidden and we all had the luxury of naivete, my rabbi did everything exactly right by setting clear boundaries

Loolwa Khazzoom

At home in the Jewish body

I eventually realized that not only am I beautiful but that my ’JewNose’ is a distinct part of my beauty – and I’m keeping the ’JewFro’ and brown eyes too

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, right, lights the menorah in the East Room of the White House in Washington, during an event to celebrate Hanukkah, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Biden White House celebrates Hanukkah with first-ever Jewish second spouse Emhoff

By AP

Husband of Vice President Kamala Harris pays tribute to Jewish and American values as he lights menorah with president, Jewish leaders and new Israeli envoy at pared-down party

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams, center, joined Rabbi Noach Majesky and his family at a Hanukkah celebration in Accra, Ghana, Dec. 1, 2021. (Chabad via JTA)

In Ghana for ‘spiritual cleansing,’ NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams celebrates Hanukkah

By PHILISSA CRAMER

US Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Second Spouse Douglas Emhoff and light a menorah on the first night of Hanukkah at their home in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2021. (Twitter)

Impressed by ethics, US Second Couple lit menorah owned by ‘Mensch of Malden Mills’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Analysis

Lapid’s Iran approach seems to be paying off with Western allies… for now

After Netanyahu chose confrontation to try to stop the 2015 JCPOA, France and UK are open to hearing from new Israeli government

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a Conservative Friends of Israel event in London, Britain, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with French President Emanuel Macron in Paris, on November 30, 2021. (MFA / Quentin Crestinu)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 2 – Lapid visits British, French leaders during Iran talks

Arthur Kurzweil first encountered amulets and dreidels excavated by treasure hunters during a trip to his father's hometown in Poland. Now he has collected thousands of them. (Photo by Shira Hanau/JTA; background courtesy Kurzweil)

'I wonder what this person's fate ultimately was'

A Jewish writer has 4,000 tiny dreidels found by Eastern European treasure hunters

Traditional Hanukkah tops collected by Arthur Kurzweil are pulled from the earth in the Old Country; they have little monetary value, but their historical significance is priceless

President Isaac Herzog meets with representatives of the Conservative and Reform movements at his office in Jerusalem on December 1, 2021. (GPO)

Herzog talks Western Wall mixed-gender prayer plaza with Reform, Conservative groups

President condemns ‘all manifestations of physical and verbal violence’ amid recent tensions over planned egalitarian area at holy site

Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prominent national-religious rabbis call for protests against government

Scene of a shooting in the northern Arab Israeli town of Umm Al-Fahm, December 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

Man killed, another injured in Umm al-Fahm shooting that caused car to crash

Shots fired at vehicle apparently caused driver to lose control and collide with oncoming truck in northern Arab town; in separate incident, gunfire toward bus in Tira

Police are seen in Lod during ethnic rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel, May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

2 Arab residents of Lod indicted for shooting of Jewish man during May violence

Join The Times of Israel Community!

Help support our journalism and enjoy the site ADS FREE - for as little as $6 a month

JOIN US

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of Omri Goren, accused of offering to spy on Defense Minister Benny Gantz for Iran, during a remand hearing at Lod District Court, on December 2, 2021. (Channel 12 News)

House cleaner accused of spying on Gantz denies espionage was on behalf of Iran

Amos Gitai (bottom) with Keren Mor (left) and Yuval Sherf, checking takes during filming of 'Jerusalem Light Rail.' The director will be honored at the Solidarity and Human Rights Film December 9-18, 2021 for 40 years of making films about human rights (Courtesy Amos Gitai)

Eye on the global goodFestival showcases films striving to make world a better place

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addresses the Security Council on October 19, 2021. (Courtesy)

Israel’s UN envoy said under fire for using post to advance own political agenda

A woman shops at a street market in the center of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on December 1, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

For many in costly capital Tel Aviv, White City living means going into the red

By Daniella Cheslow

Justice Minister Gideon Saar leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 22, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Sa’ar appoints temporary Supreme Court justice after deadlock in appointments

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visits the Yamam police unit on December 1, 2021. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Bennett declares ‘Yamam’ Israel’s national counterterrorism force

By Judah Ari Gross

Edward Kachura, appears at a hearing in the Haifa District Court in the case of 17-year-old Lital Melnik's death, November 29, 2021. (Flash90)

Prosecutors to charge nurse with murder in death of 17-year-old Lital Yael Melnik

Dr. Daphne Haim-Langford, CEO and Founder of Tarsier Pharma. (Courtesy)

Israeli pharmaceutical executive wins 2021 EU Prize for Women Innovators

Selina founders Rafael Museri and Daniel Rudasevski. (Selina)

Israeli-founded hospitality company Selina heads for Wall Street debut

By Ricky Ben-David

Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a court hearing in Jerusalem, November 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Berland no longer under murder probe detention, but remains jailed in unrelated case

Alain Schmitt, from France, celebrates his victory over Uuganbaatar Otgonbaatar, from Mongolia, after their men's - 81 kg fight at the World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Schmitt won the bronze. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Israel Judo Association revokes job offer to French coach held for domestic violence

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020, then-US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. (WIN MCNAMEE / AFP)

Trump tested positive for COVID just before Biden debate — chief of staff’s book

By AFP

View Edition by Date

November	December 2021					January
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.