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Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 29, 2021. (Photo by Flash90 )

Ban would include travel to US and Canada

Bennett said planning to urge cabinet to expand no-fly list to most of the world

‘I expect all the ministers to understand the seriousness of the situation and not give in to pressure from the public or lobbyists,’ TV quotes PM as saying

A health official collects a COVID-19 swab test at a drive-through testing site on Bondi beach in Sydney, on December 15, 2021, as rapidly-growing Omicron and Delta clusters brought more than 2,700 new cases nationally. (Mohammad Farooq/AFP)

WHO says Omicron found in 89 countries, cases doubling every few days

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People queue up to get COVID-19 booster injections outside a vaccination center in a UCL (University College London) building, in London, on Friday, December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK, Netherlands said mulling lockdowns as European nations tighten virus regulations

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Op-ed

Vaccine grinches are wrong — Israel is still a paragon of immunization excellence

Two in every five Israelis have little to no immunity against infection by Omicron, but don’t jump to the conclusion that the inoculation effort has gone off track

An Israeli girl receives her first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical staff at Clalit Health services in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Pfizer testing 3rd COVID vaccine dose for kids under 5 after setback

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Egypt says it has identified its first cases of Omicron variant

By AP

Denmark seeks to close public venues, impose curfew on restaurants to curb COVID

By AP

In this image made from April 17, 2021, video released by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, various centrifuge machines line the hall damaged on April 11, 2021, at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran. (IRIB via AP)

Iran’s nuclear breakout time is now ‘really short, unacceptably short’ – US official

By ToI Staff and AFP

An illustrative photo of a US Air Force F-16, below, escorting two F-35 jets, above, September 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Ex-officials urge Biden: ‘Restore Iran’s fear’ to boost chances of nuclear diplomacy

A national flag of Iran waves in front of the building of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber)

European powers warn Iran nuclear talks ‘reaching end of road’

Then-US president Donald Trump delivers a peech at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'The New York Times hates Israel, and they're Jewish people'

Trump says American Jews ‘either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel’

Former president says the Jewish state used to have ‘absolute power over Congress’ but now even ‘evangelical Christians love Israel more than Jews’ in the US

Then-US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 22, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Jewish groups pan Trump antisemitic tropes after remarks on Israeli, Jewish control

Robert Palmer at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (DOJ

Rioter gets 5 years in harshest sentence yet over Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection

By Colleen Long

Fact or fiction? The mass-suicide at Masada

The story of martyrdom captures the imagination, but if it was no more than a fiction composed by Josephus, archaeology has some real explaining to do

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Do not become a chimpanzee

Unlike their simian counterparts, human beings can tolerate mundane repetitive tasks and get past the boredom, for they can see the bigger picture

Netanyahu tests negative for virus in Knesset outbreak, will isolate until 2nd test

Some 130 people at Knesset enter quarantine after 4 personnel catch virus, with 3 of those cases suspected to be Omicron; infected staff include opposition chief’s gym trainer

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 13, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 13, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, 130 others enter quarantine after 4 Knesset staff infected with COVID-19

Entrance to the Israeli Consulate in New York City (screen capture: Google Street View)

At least 10 COVID cases said confirmed at Israeli consulate in New York

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: A worker covered in personal protective equipment power washes a school bus that serves an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

As COVID spikes in NYC, Jewish schools and synagogues are going remote again

Several Jewish day schools have switched to virtual learning until winter break, while multiple synagogues announce a halt to in-person worship on Shabbat

A health care worker, left, checks people in at a NYC mobile vaccine clinic in Midtown Manhattan, Dec. 6, 2021 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US federal appeals court reinstates Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and Andrew DeMillo

Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Burqa on December 17, 2021 (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF carries out intensive West Bank searches for attackers in deadly terror shooting

Troops concentrating on villages south of Jenin, according to Palestinian reports, as manhunt continues for gunmen who killed Yehuda Dimentman

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi speaks with military and security officials at the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh in the West Bank, on December 17 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief says Israel will expand West Bank manhunt until terror shooters are found

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack, in the West Bank city of Hebron on December 18, 2021 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israeli man stabbed, lightly hurt by Palestinian woman, 65, in Hebron

Suspect attacks settler near checkpoint close to Tomb of the Patriarchs; troops subdue and detain her, police say

An Israeli Douglas A-4 Skyhawk taxiing in front of an American Skyhawk on the Tel Nof airbase, Israel, October 1973. (IDF Spokesperson, Courtesy)

'Arab armies attacked undefended borders and we had nothing'

Newly opened archives show Israel’s air force was a weak link during Yom Kippur War

By Abraham Rabinovich

In Hebrew title ‘A War of Its Own,’ Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph airs criticism that’s been kept under wraps, detailing failures that stopped Israeli operations from getting off the ground

Illustrative: View of the Hukok Beach, Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, as rain begins to fall, on December 18, 2021. (Tzachi Gavish/Kinneret Cities Association)

Homeless Tel Aviv man dies of hypothermia, as Israel braces for major storm

40-year-old found on street bench in critical condition with clothes soaked from rain; ‘Storm Carmel’ set to hit Israel on Monday with strong winds, heavy rainfall

A crow flies as a rainbow appears over Hadera, Israel, Dec. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Rain lashes Israel, snow falls on Mount Hermon, with major storm expected Monday

'Roll Call in Concentration Camp' by Boris Lurie, shown at the exhibit 'Nothing To Do But To Try' at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, December 2021. (Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation)

Exhibition'His work from that period really speaks to the nightmare'

No shock value, just shock: Exhibit shows Boris Lurie’s searing post-Holocaust works

By Danielle Ziri

Through April 2022, ‘Nothing To Do But Try’ at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage showcases the artist’s overlooked early work, created in the immediate aftermath of the genocide

Illustrative: "Pill Mann" made by Frank Huntley of Worcester, Massachusetts, from his opioid prescription pill bottles, is displayed during a protest by advocates for opioid victims outside the Department of Justice, December 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Uncertainty follows US court’s rejection of Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

Parents who lost children to addiction split on decision to overturn deal that would have prevented future lawsuits against Sackler family: ‘I want them to know what it feels like’

Milton Glaser’s designs came from a deep love and appreciation for the city, and they championed the idea that art can exist anywhere. As the New York Times wrote on Milton Glaser’s 90th birthday, 'no one hearts NY quite like Milton Glaser.' (Cosmos Sarchiapone/via JTA)

'People interact with him all their lives and don't know it'

New exhibit honors Milton Glaser, Jewish design icon who made the ‘I Love NY’ logo

By julia GERGELY

A tribute at NYC’s School of Visual Arts reveals the artist’s nearly ubiquitous presence in the everyday lives of Americans, in album covers, product labels, and organization logos

Rehearsing for a performance at the Nazareth Liturgical Festival, opening December 16, 2021 (Courtesy Yoel Levy)

Classical music fest in Nazareth brings Arabs, Jews together for Christmas

By Jessica Steinberg

Polyphony Liturgical Festival launches its annual event, drawing local patrons as well as Jewish Israelis seeking holiday spirit and a change of tempo in historic town

Illustrative: A display in the German colony, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa includes a menorah and a Christmas tree. (Sapir Bronzberg/FLASH90)

Explainer

To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate December’s dilemma

Interfaith families always seem to discuss which traditions to observe, but for the Christmas tree, the method of debate is more important to them than what is ultimately decided

More Headlines

Israel's Anastasia Gorbenko smiles after winning 50 meters breaststroke during World Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Anastasia Gorbenko wins Israel’s 1st-ever World Swimming Championships gold

Protestors light flares during a demonstration against measures to battle the coronavirus pandemic in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 11, 2021. New research indicates that far-right extremists and white supremacists are gaining new followers and influence by co-opting conspiracy theories about COVID-19. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)

Far-right using antisemitic COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows

By David Klepper and Lori Hinnant

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, December 9, 2019. (Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/Getty Images via JTA)

Alluding to conflict with Russia, Zelensky likens Ukraine to Jewish people

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Children play on a sidewalk in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, Thursday, June 4, 2020 in New York during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC’s next comptroller says he will push Haredi yeshivas to teach secular subjects

AP photographer Mahmoud Illean reacts after being attacked by Israeli security forces during the coverage of a demonstration in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on December 17, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Press watchdog protests after police assault AP photographer in East Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Avram Grant is pictured in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Algerian players boycott soccer game because opposing coach, Avram Grant, is Israeli

The mortar-covered frame of a synagogue's stained glass window is visible following renovations at the hospital of Bilohirsk in Crimea. (Crimea24 via JTA)

Hospital renovation unearths parts of Crimean synagogue long thought destroyed

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, left, sits at the defense table with defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca, while listening to testimony in her sex abuse trial, December 16, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Ghislaine Maxwell declines to testify as defense rests case in sex trafficking trial

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

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