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 9, 2021

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

Israeli F-15s accompany a US B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a presence patrol above the US Central Command’s area of responsibility, October 30, 2021. (US Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris)

Israel, US to discuss military drills to prep for worst-case Iran scenario, US says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

As Gantz heads to Washington and negotiations falter in Vienna, American official tells Reuters that military chiefs will talk exercises for possible attack on Iran nuke facilities

Then-US ambassador to Israel David Friedman during a visit in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, in Gush Etzion, February 20, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Trump’s Israel envoy Friedman: Israel should not rely on US sharing its Iran views

Israeli fighter jets performing an aerial show at a graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/ Flash90/ File)

Israel to launch major exercise this spring simulating strike on Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Talks to save Iran nuclear deal resume, break off just an hour later

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian envoy calls meeting ‘short and constructive’; Iranian negotiator insists positions are the same; Tehran’s previous proposal had been deemed unacceptable by others

The Coburg Palais, the venue of the Iran nuclear talks, is pictured in Vienna, on November 29, 2021. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP)

A Mahan Air passenger plane takes off from Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, Febuary 7, 2016. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

Over half of Iran’s civilian planes grounded for lack of spare parts

By AFP

Fighter jets from the IAF's second F-35 squadron, the Lions of the South, fly over southern Israel, January 2020. (IDF spokesperson)

Just over half of Israelis say US approval not needed for strike on Iran

'Justice remains to be done; this was clear Gestapo theft'

German prince fights for estate ‘stolen’ after his grandfather tried to kill Hitler

By Robert Philpot

Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth III was tortured and imprisoned after being involved in Operation Valkyrie; his heirs want their property back, but Germany’s government disagrees

Republican Party presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola stand before supporters amid confetti at his campaign headquarters after polls closed and partial results were announced in Santiago, Chile, November 21, 2021. (AP/Esteban Felix)

Documents reveal Nazi past of Chilean presidential frontrunner’s father

By Frank Jordans and Joshua Goodman

An illustrative image of computer pop-up box screen warning of a system being hacked. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Live updates (closed)

Israel said to lead 10-country simulation of major cyberattack on world markets

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Report says 10-day simulation held in Jerusalem tested several scenarios, is aimed at promoting international cooperation to minimize damage to global financial systems

7:26 pm

Fire at Tunisian Islamist party HQ leaves 1 dead, 18 injured
7:14 pm

Israeli author David Grossman says Israel’s West Bank control has become ‘apartheid’
7:04 pm

Gantz meets US defense chief, warns of Iran's 'hegemonic' aspirations

A couple receive their third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Shaare Zedek hospital, on August 17, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Pre-Omicron Israeli research: People 50+ who got 3rd shot had 90% lower death rate

Researchers looked at data of over 840,000 people who got booster; paper co-author says study ‘unequivocally’ shows value of extra dose against Delta strain

A vaccination center in Safed, November 29, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Omicron carriers to require 14-day quarantine, instead of 10 mandated for others

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to American Jewish leaders in New York City on Sept. 27, 2021. (Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of North America/Sara Naomi Lewkowicz)

‘You have my word’: Bennett pledges to US Jewry that he’ll reopen borders ASAP

In letter to Jewish Federations of North America, PM recognizes pain caused by decision to shutter borders to foreigners, but says his primary responsibility is citizens’ health

Illustrative: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, right, and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz hold a press conference at the HaKirya military base in Tel Aviv, November 26, 2021. (Moti Milrod)

Bennett sought lockdown for unvaccinated, was blocked by health officials – reports

Border Police chief Amir Cohen (R) and the two officers who shot an attacker (faces blurred) in an undated photo (Israel Police spokesperson)

Police officers cleared in deadly shooting of Palestinian stabber

Several dozen far-right Jewish nationalists march through the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in response to a suspected Palestinian terror attack against an Israeli Jewish resident there earlier in the day, December 8, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

After stabbing, Jewish nationalists march through tense Sheikh Jarrah

Moriah Cohen, who was stabbed in Jerusalem on December 8, 2021, speaks after her release from the hospital. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sheikh Jarrah stabbing suspect said to be neighbor of victim

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 9 – Traffic jams are driving Israelis crazy

Reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses traffic problems and passports, followed by culture editor Jessica Steinberg on exhibits at Jerusalem’s Tmol Shilshom and new Train Theater

Pinchas Goldschmidt

In Europe, we are freeing chained wives

A law extending the jurisdiction of Israel’s rabbinical courts over non-Israeli agunot has already helped free 80 women. And that’s just one tool in our arsenal

The IDF’s ‘Operation Guardian of the Pensions’ will backfire

The army’s campaign to prop up extravagant retirement payouts busts the budget and rankles the public. Becoming fodder for satire is not a good sign.

US President Bill Clinton (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the White House after their Oval Office meeting and joint news conference, November 12, 1993. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)

Israel advances East Jerusalem project 25 years after promising Clinton to trash it

Neighborhood to be located on land then-PM moved to expropriate in 1995, sparking outcry; Security Council resolution was vetoed by US in exchange for Rabin backtrack

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a press conference at the presidential palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 17, 2021. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)

Erdogan ready to improve ties with Israel if it is ‘more sensitive’ to Palestinians

'Slater with the Trump mask,' 2019. (Gillian Laub)

'In a divided America, I have also struggled'

Photographer Gillian Laub exposes her family ties and turmoil in the Trump era

The new book and simultaneously released exhibit ‘Family Matters’ depict 20 years in her colorful clan, including upheaval sparked by bitter political rifts

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid sits with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, December 9, 2021 (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

In Egypt, Lapid and Sissi discuss Iran nuclear threat, Hamas

By Lazar Berman

Foreign minister presents two-stage economic plan for Gaza with Egypt’s president; looks to expand security, economic ties

Israel Aerospace Industries workers union chair Yair Katz unveils Wing of Zion on December 8, 2021. (Israel Aerospace Industries workers union)

Israel’s ‘Air Force One’ is ready for takeoff, but Bennett’s not boarding yet

Government committee to consider reforming IDF draft, broadening national service

By Judah Ari Gross

Commission will examine swapping current enlistment model for true universal draft, with some Israelis serving in the military and others performing national service

Ultra-Orthodox men protest outside the army recruiting office in Jerusalem on August 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Members of Women of the Wall gather around a Torah scroll the group smuggled in for their Rosh Hodesh prayers marking the new month at the Western Wall, where women are forbidden from reading from the Torah, December 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Diaspora minister promises progress on pluralistic prayer plaza at Western Wall

A feral dog. (Ohad Yahalomi, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Feral dog explosion threatens survival of endangered vultures – Nature Authority

Chief scientist calls for cutting food waste, regulating wild dog numbers, and banning poisons that also kill vultures

Illustrative: A festival official touches the lip of a camel, originally from, Saudi Arabia, during the final day of Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the United Arab Emirates, Dec. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Last strawSaudis crack down on camel beauty pageant contestants for using Botox

By AP

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

This October 10, 2012, file photo shows the New York Times building in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Dropping hyphen, New York Times updates style guide to ‘antisemitism’

Biden’s nominee for antisemitism envoy argues that keeping hyphen and capital ‘S’ implies existence of racial category called ‘Semite’ that obscures actual hatred of Jews

Pope Francis greets the journalists onboard the papal plane on the occasion of his five-day pastoral visit to Cyprus and Greece, Dec. 6, 2021 (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool photo via AP)

Pontiffication

Pope Francis: ‘Sins of the flesh are not the most serious’

Leader of Catholic Church responds to resignation of Paris archbishop over ‘little caresses and massages’ he gave to his secretary

Fox anchor Ainsley Earhardt interviews Kathie Lee Gifford during"Fox & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios in New York City, Nov. 14, 2019. (John Lamparski/Getty Images via JTA)

Festival of slightsFox News host: Christmas tree is about Jesus — and Hanukkah

More Headlines

Tipalti employees in Israel. (Tipalti)

Israeli fintech firm Tipalti soars to over $8b valuation after $270m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

Knesset advances bill censoring ‘criminal’ social media posts

Illustrative: A Tel Aviv classroom. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Tel Aviv teen arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting several girls

Illustrative: Police stand guard outside Gilboa Prison in northern Israel, September 6, 2021. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Coalition rebuffs bid for Knesset inquiry into prison ‘pimping’ claims

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock 'apartheid wall' in front of the iconic Low Library steps during Israel Apartheid Week, March 3, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA/File)

No boost for BDS on US campuses last year despite Gaza war — ADL

Hadassah Ein Kerem medical staff are seen wearing safety gear as they work in a coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel earmarks $17m for new digital health innovation program

By Ricky Ben-David

Undated photo provided in December 2021 by AstraZeneca shows its Evusheld anti-body medication. (AstraZeneca via AP)

FDA approves new COVID-19 antibody drug to protect most vulnerable from coronavirus

The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2021. (Daniel Slim/AFP)

US Supreme Court appears to back state funds for religious schools

By AP and ToI Staff

Cast and crew filming the fourth season of the action drama 'Fauda' in Kafr Qasim, December 2021 (Channel 13 screenshot)

Kafr Qasim residents fume over ‘Fauda’ production’s gunfire sounds amid crime wave

Illustrative: French CRS (Compagnies Republicaines de Securite) police officers stand near the entrance of Le Bois d'Aulne middle school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris, on November 3, 2020 (Thomas COEX / AFP)

France foils jihadist-inspired Christmas knife attack plot

By AFP

In this file photo taken on October 6, 2021, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and his wife Carrie (R) arrive at the Manchester Central convention center ahead of his keynote speech on the final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, northwest England. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

UK Prime Minister Johnson and wife Carrie welcome baby girl

An Indian migrant worker, who makes her living by selling balloons and toys, cooks food for her family outside a tent on a cold morning in a slum in Jammu, India, Dec. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Billionaires’ share of global wealth soars as pandemic widens inequality gap

By Ali BEKHTAOUI

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.