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The alleged Karaj centrifuge parts plant near Karaj, Iran, seen in a photo posted online by Google user Edward Majnoonian, in May 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)

Israeli defense chiefs said to be 'concerned' after US talks

Israel consulted with US before covert strikes on Iran missile, nuke sites — report

New York Times says alleged hits on missile base, centrifuge facility earlier in year were discussed with US; Israel worried Washington will stop it taking action if new deal made

The alleged Karaj centrifuge parts plant near Karaj, Iran, seen in a photo posted online by Google user Edward Majnoonian, in May 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)

Iran says probing if IAEA cameras had role in alleged Israeli attack on nuke site

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on October 13, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

‘Sanctions on Iran must not be lifted,’ Lapid tells Blinken

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

A March 26, 1986 photo from files showing an interior view of the Great Synagogue of Rome. Pope Francis on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2015 becomes the third pope to visit Rome's main synagogue in a sign of continued Catholic-Jewish friendship that was highlighted by a recent Vatican declaration that it doesn't support official efforts to convert the Jews. But the visit also follows a series of developments that have upset some in the Jewish community, including a new Vatican treaty signed with the "state of Palestine" and Francis' own words and deeds that have been interpreted by some as favoring the Palestinian political cause. (AP Photo/File)

Documents show Italy ignored warnings ahead of 1982 terror attack on Rome synagogue

A still from the new Netflix animated documentary 'Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis.' (Courtesy of Netflix)

Interview'It's so bizarre and unreal we could barely believe it'

How European Jewish refugees wined and dined Nazi prisoners for US Army intelligence

By Rich Tenorio

New short animated Netflix doc ‘Camp Confidential’ by Israeli directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan unearths a controversial top-secret program that helped America win the Cold War

Lebanese army soldiers and other official security forces block the main entrance of Burj Shamali refugee camp, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Dec. 10, 2021 (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Some reports say up to 12 died, others deny any fatalities

Hamas source says weapons cache that exploded in southern Lebanon was ‘for defense’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Source from terror group confirms to Lebanese outlet that explosion was caused by fire; arms depot in mosque detonated after fireball engulfed building in refugee camp

A picture taken on December 11, 2021 shows the shattered windows and blackened walls of a mosque damaged in a blast inside the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp for Palestinians outside the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Hamas claims COVID oxygen bottles, not weapons, exploded in Lebanon blast

By Agencies and ToI Staff

An ambulance enters the Burj Shamali Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Several killed as explosions rock alleged Hamas weapons cache in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Defense Minister Benny Gantz addresses the Israeli American Council's national summit in Hollywood Beach, Florida on December 10, 2021. (Noam Galai)

Gantz: Iran is the biggest threat to global peace, and only then a threat to Israel

Addressing IAC Florida confab, defense minister seeks to combat narrative placing Israel at center of Iran issue; says Jews must never hide their identity amid antisemitism spike

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a live interview in Tehran, Iran, broadcast on state-run TV on Monday, October 18, 2021. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran’s Raisi says Tehran serious about nuclear talks if US removes sanctions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command at Resolute Support headquarters, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahmad Seir)

US Mideast military chief: Attacks by Iran-backed militias ‘may provoke a response’

By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The 20 shekel bill that was chased by a dog and hit by a bus on the way to Eilat

Israel is a country of people who have been through the wringer — each one of us is torn and wrinkled and crumpled. But, oh, the stories we can tell

Michael Laitman

We’ve turned ourselves into temporary residents

The world will continue to reject Israel until it unites to fulfill its true purpose: building a ’national home for the Jewish people’

Adrienne Shelly and her daughter Sophie Ostroy in a still from the new HBO documentary 'Adrienne.' (Courtesy Warner Media/ HBO)

Interview'This is not a film with a happy ending'

HBO doc ‘Adrienne’ is a husband’s loving tribute to murdered wife and rising star

By Cathryn J. Prince

When Adrienne Shelly was victim of a high-profile murder in 2006, Andy Ostroy and daughter Sophie were left to pick up the pieces; the new exploration of her life premiered Dec. 1

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks to reporters in the wake of anti-Islamic comments made last week by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who likened Omar to a bomb-carrying terrorist, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, November 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US moves forward with bill to create an Islamophobia monitor

Several Republican lawmakers oppose measure saying it would distract from, and even hamper, efforts to combat antisemitism; Jewish Democrats support move

Swiss museum gives up 40 Nazi-looted treasures from Gurlitt trove, keeps 1,000 items

By AFP

Museum of Fine Arts Bern giving up pieces it concludes were stolen by the Nazis or of doubtful origin, but retaining most despite their provenance remaining unproven

A visitor watches the paintings 'Melancholisches Maedchen' (left) and Nackte Frau im Walde" of German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art - confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, on Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)

Ambassador Dan Oryan (left) joins Emek Hefer Regional Council head Galit Shaul (second from left), singer Mosh Ben Ari (second from right), Israeli capoeira champion Mickey Hayat (right), and children with special needs from the Benjamin Rothman Shvilei Ha'Emek School in a photo for the Foreign Minstry's Upside Down exhibition. (Courtesy)

Israeli diplomats, celebrities join kids with disabilities for ‘Upside Down’ exhibit

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry photo series marking Disability Awareness month will be displayed at Israeli embassies around the world

Bethlehem hoped to recoup some coronavirus losses this Christmas. Then came Omicron

By Aaron Boxerman

Some tourists were expected to return this year, but new COVID strain and resulting Israeli ban on foreigners mean city will likely see second year with little income

Palestinians prepare to welcome in a month of muted Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem on Friday, December 3, 2021 (Aaron Boxerman/The Times of Israel)

Palestinian female candidates for local council elections prepare campaign merchandise in their village of Burqin, west of Jenin in the West Bank, on December 2, 2021. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

All-female electoral list seeks to shake-up male-dominated Palestinian society

By Hossam Ezzedine and Yasmin Zaher

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Beita, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on November 12, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian said killed in clashes with IDF near West Bank outpost

By Emanuel Fabian

Right-wing activists and Likud supporters protest against the Israeli government in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2021. The sign reads Abbas is Hamas.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ra’am’s Mansour Abbas said to fear attempt on his life, party calls for protection

Concerns come after right-wing protesters call coalition party leader a ‘terrorist,’ Shin Bet says it has not been asked to review his security, knows of no current threats to him

(From left to right) Avner, Sara, Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu tour the Golan Heights, on April 23, 2019. (PMO)

Netanyahu pleads for state to keep guarding his family, citing ‘clear threat’

Rep. Jamaal Bowman during a visit at a Palestinian school in Hebron, on November 10, 2021. (Jamaal Bowman/Twitter)

Profile'Every time he opens his mouth, it causes a storm'

US lawmaker who ran to represent marginalized in Bronx finds himself talking Hebron

Colleagues of Rep. Jamaal Bowman say he’s most driven by domestic affairs, but his district’s large Jewish constituency has forced him to weigh in on Israel-Palestine

Doctors prepare to sequence COVID-19 Omicron samples at the Ndlovu Research Center in Elandsdoorn, South Africa, on December 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South African doctors see early signs Omicron variant is milder than Delta

By AP and ToI Staff

Only 30% of hospitalizations in recent weeks serious, about half the rate of previous waves; just 3% of patients die, unlike 20% in earlier outbreaks; meanwhile UK predictions dire

Children aged 5-11 receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, at Clallit vaccination center in Tzfat, on December 3, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

HMO: Just 1% of Israeli parents with kids 5-11 seek medical advice after COVID shot

Shoppers, some wearing face coverings to combat the spread of COVID-19, walk along Oxford Street in central London, on December 10, 2021. (Niklas Halle'n/AFP)

UK records most COVID cases since January, warns Omicron to soon be dominant strain

By AFP

A man dressed as Santa Claus holds a flare as he sits on a boat during a Christmas eve celebrations in Imperia, Italy, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Down the chimney

Uproar in Italy as bishop tells kids there is no Santa

By AP

Church forced to apologize, says Sicily’s Bishop Antonio Stagliano was only trying underline the true meaning of Christmas

More Headlines

Members of the Bowling Green Fire Department dig through the remains of a house destroyed by a tornado in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Clubb)

At least 50 feared dead in Kentucky tornadoes as powerful storms rip across US

Czech President Milos Zeman addresses the media during a joint press conference after meeting at the Hofburg palace in Vienna with his Austrian counterpart, on June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)

Czech president objects to incoming FM, citing ‘distant attitude’ toward Israel

By AFP

Illustrative: Israel Police investigate the scene of a crime on June 2, 2021. (Israel Police)

2 men stabbed, seriously injured in northern Druze town of Maghar

A rescue team surveys the site of a massive explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Judge probing Beirut port blast demands ex-minister’s arrest

Bassem Lutfi Sarhan. (Courtesy)

Arab man shot dead in north in apparent underworld dispute

By Emanuel Fabian

Shoruk Shaheen, a Palestinian woman who has undergone dimple creation surgery, smiles at a clinic in Gaza City on November 30, 2021 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Grin and bear itGazan women seek dimple surgery to brighten smiles

By Claire Gounon

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during a press conference for the latest COVID-19 update in the Downing Street briefing room in central London on December 8, 2021 (Adrian DENNIS / POOL / AFP)

AnalysisChristmas parties, lies and videotape: Is it curtains for British PM Johnson?

By Martine PAUWELS

"Jeopardy!" contestant Ed Hashima smiles as he listens to host Mayim Bialik read a question in the Yiddish Theater category in the episode that aired December 9, 2021. (Screenshot via JTA)

What is spiel?‘Jeopardy!’ devotes entire category to Yiddish theater

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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