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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets with UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the latter's Abu Dhabi palace on December 13, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

UAE ruler hopes meeting will yield 'further cooperation'

Bennett, on landmark UAE visit, meets crown prince to discuss booming ties, Iran

In 1st official visit by an Israeli leader, PM also meets government ministers, tells state news: ‘Mutual partnership and friendship are natural. We are neighbors and cousins’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett sits with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi on December 12, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Bennett welcomed in Abu Dhabi by Emirati FM on first official visit by Israeli PM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Stowe vaccination center in central London on December 13, 2021. - (Jeremy Selwyn / POOL / AFP)

World’s first confirmed Omicron death announced in Britain

Visiting vaccination center, PM Johnson estimates that 40% of coronavirus cases in London are Omicron, notes hospitalizations are rising

Sudden death of 6-year-old a month after coronavirus recovery puzzles doctors

Health Ministry advisory board decides against fourth COVID shot, for now

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

WHO: Omicron spreads faster, vaccines less efficacious, but symptoms less severe

By AFP

Tourism workers protest government policies outside Ben Gurion International Airport on December 13, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Omicron spread in Israel may be wider than thought — report

By Joshua Davidovich

Between five and nine cases, mostly concentrated in two cities, have no known source, Health Ministry officials tell Kan, indicating strain may have escaped containment efforts

7:57 pm

F-15i fleet returning to service after malfunction grounded jets
7:47 pm

Netanyahu threatens Facebook justice on MKs who miss votes
7:03 pm

Top US official presses police minister on settler violence

Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, November 29, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel delays travel ban to UK and Denmark by 24 hours

Workers from the tourism sector, calling for financial support from the Israeli government, protest outside Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 13, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Jobless tourism workers protest travel bans, demand compensation

The leader of the Belz Hasidic sect, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, December 15, 2015. (Yaacov Cohen/ FLASH90/ File)

Israeli leader of Belz Hasidic sect urges teachers in Brooklyn yeshiva to vaccinate

Thirty-Six podcast

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum on Spreading Light Within the Pandemic Darkness

Justin spends the morning with Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum in her cozy, blue-painted apartment on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Rabbi Tamar discusses how her community combatted darkness during the depths of the pandemic.

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 13 – What they talked about in the hallways of the IAC summit

Political reporter Tal Schneider and US correspondent Jacob Magid discuss last week’s Israeli American Council’s national conference in Florida

Ronit Aldouby looks at her Givat Amal home, with luxury towers overlooking, on November 23, 2021. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

Asked by Ben-Gurion to move in, now kicked out by the state

A Tel Aviv neighborhood is gone, but evicted residents are still mired in struggle

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

The working-class Givat Amal is to be replaced by luxury high-rises, but its last residents, scarred and scattered by their removal, say they’re still seeking fair compensation

Israel’s beauty on full display as India takes the crown at Miss Universe in Eilat

‘Tonight we are in the beautiful country of Israel,’ host Steve Harvey tells hundreds of millions of viewers in 172 countries who tuned in for live TV broadcast from Eilat

Nandita Banna, Miss Singapore, Veronika Ščepánková, Miss Slovak Republic, Lalela Mswane, Miss South Africa and Sarah Loinaz, Miss Spain, take part in the preliminary competition of the Miss Universe pageant in Eilat on December 10, 2021. (Benjamin Askinas/Miss Universe)

Battered by COVID, Eilat hopes Miss Universe will help revitalize tourism

Israeli Miss Universe contestant Noa Cochva. (Benjamin Askinas/Miss Universe)

Israel’s contestant faints during Miss Universe rehearsal

Betsalel Steinhart

Reach out, please, to your local tour guide

I’ve lost count of the many skilled educators who are working menial jobs to feed their families, who are having trouble coping, who are suffering from despair

May you live long and be prosecuted

At 100, Herbert Wahler has outlived other Germans listed as members of the genocidal Einsatzgruppe C. His age should not shield him from accountability.

Wherefore Israel’s left?

Meretz and Labor MKs cannot easily pursue their preferred agenda in the current government, but they can establish red lines to block what they find untenable

About those supposed anti-Arab slurs

Reports on the attack against Hanukkah revelers on a London bus show how media spread false tales of a worldwide Zionist Islamophobic conspiracy

33 unicorns and $25b in funding: Israeli tech sector sets new records in 2021

By Ricky Ben-David

Blockbuster funding year for local startups and companies is driven by massive investments in cybersecurity, fintech, and enterprise IT

Israeli company Innovid, the developer of a smart TV advertising delivery and measurement platform, debuts on New York Stock Exchange, December 1, 2021. (Innovid)

From left to right: Efrat Duvdevani, Director General of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation; Israeli actress Esti Zakheim, who hosted the 'Miss Fix the Universe' event, Einat Fischer Lalo, Director of the Israel Women’s Network. (Sivan Shachor)

Miss Fix the Universe: Alternative ‘pageant’ in Israel highlights beauty of ideas

By Ricky Ben-David

Finance Minister and Yisrael Beytenu party chair Avigdor Liberman speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, October 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Liberman says tourism workers should find a new job amid ongoing travel restrictions

Sheikh Raed Salah (C-L), leader of the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, celebrates with supporters following his release from a jail in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel on December 13, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Firebrand Arab Israeli Islamist released from prison, given hero’s welcome

By Aaron Boxerman

Radical cleric Raed Salah, jailed for praising a deadly Palestinian terror attack, arrives in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm after nearly a year and a half behind bars

Illustrative: Israeli forces operating in Nablus in a photo released by the IDF on March 18, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

Troops shoot and kill Palestinian man during West Bank arrest raid

Security camera footage shows two suspects fleeing after firebombing a car owned by a Jewish resident of East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, December 12, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Car owned by Jewish resident of Sheikh Jarrah firebombed

A woman in bed with an oxygen mask (iStock via Getty Images)

Oxygen when sleeping eases depression for 1 in 3 patients in small Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Results from double blind, peer-reviewed research show improvement among those who received extra oxygen, but not regular air

Doctors and nurses strike outside a Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, on August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nurses declare nationwide strike Wednesday over violence against medical staff

Jewish children deported from Lodz ghetto to Chelmno death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Public domain)

'The commander was an absolute pioneer in gassing Jews'

80 years ago this month, Nazis invented ‘industrial murder’ at quiet Chelmno

By Matt Lebovic

In a small Polish village outside Lodz, German SS leaders discovered how to bring the Jewish genocide ‘to scale’ and hide evidence of their crimes by cremating the human remains

This photo released Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, by the Iranian Army, shows a missile being fired during a military drill at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Saudi and Iranian experts hold ‘security dialogue’ in Amman

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rivals said to discuss missile threats and cooperation on nuclear fuels, but Riyadh’s envoy to UN says Tehran is just ‘playing games’ with its regional diplomacy

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani is seen leaving the Coburg Palais, venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) meeting aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna on December 3, 2021. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Iran: Europe not offering viable solutions at Vienna nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Then-newly appointed Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (left) and then-outgoing minister of justice Benny Gantz (right) at a ceremony marking the change of minister, at the Ministry for Justice in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Justice minister files list of candidates for next attorney general

2 deputy AGs and a former Tel Aviv District attorney named as potential successors to Mandelblit; more candidates may be added before December 20 deadline

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (right) and the ministry's director, Yigal Slovik, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 31, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Education minister denies top official was fired over school vaccine drive

Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton and the ministry's director, Yigal Slovik, speak at a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 31, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Education Ministry director fired amid spat with minister

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Tulips bloom in the mountains of the Negev desert after four days of rain (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Israel’s Negev Desert chosen to feature in first global fungi map

Screen capture from video of one of two suspects sought by police in connection with a break-in at the Amsterdam home of Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi, December 12, 2021. (Ynet)

Israeli soccer star Zahavi’s Amsterdam home ransacked for second time in six months

Illustrative: A child receives their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit vaccine center in Jerusalem, on November 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

US Jewish day schools rushed to hold vaccine drives, but most hold off on mandates

By julia GERGELY and Shira Hanau

Students from an academic exchange mission are seen in Dubai, December 12, 2021 (Courtesy Barak Alkobi)

Jerusalem teens head to Dubai for academic meetup

Armed fighters and people take part in a funeral procession for Hamza Ibrahim Shahin (pictured in posters), a member of the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, in the Burj al-Shamali camp for Palestinian refugees near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on December 12, 2021. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Deadly clashes break out during funeral for Hamas member in Lebanon refugee camp

By Emanuel Fabian

In this July 26, 2017, file photo, Syrians look at a US armored vehicle convoy on a road that leads to Raqqa, northeast Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Covert US army unit tasked with fighting IS repeatedly killed civilians – NYT

Medics are seen at the scene of a shooting in Haifa, December 12, 2021. Insert: Ahmed Omaria. (Magen David Adom; Courtesy)

Man gunned down in Haifa in apparent clan feud

By Emanuel Fabian

Remains of a 2,000-year-old syngagogue found in Migdal. (University of Haifa)

Second ancient synagogue found in Migdal alters ideas of Jewish life 2,000 years ago

By Stuart Winer

Students at an elementary school in Efrat, near Jerusalem, make a rug out of plastic bags, June 9 2009. (Gershon Elinson/ Flash90/ File)

Hot topic: Education Ministry explores teaching climate crisis in classrooms

Moshe Hogeg visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on August 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Cryptocurrency fraud case against businessman Moshe Hogeg ‘very weak’ — TV

Illustrative: Emiratis wearing face masks due to the coronavirus pandemic work on the floor of the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 7, 2020. (Jon Gambrell/AP)

In shift of mindset, young Arabs flock to fintech as saving, investing takes off

By Salim Essaid

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's new Taliban-run Cabinet, Amir Khan Muttaqi speaks during an interview to the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 12, 2021. (Mohammed Shoaib Amin)

InterviewTaliban urges against sanctions, seeks ‘good’ ties with US

By KATHY GANNON

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