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Travelers seen at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 19, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel puts US on no-fly list for 1st time as daily virus cases top 1,000

Ministers vote to add 10 countries to ‘red’ travel list; daily caseload highest since October; health minister says parents must be responsible and vaccinate kids

Illustrative -- People at the cinema on May 27, 2021 in Jerusalem (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Virus czar tells MKs there may need to be restrictions on gatherings

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

As Omicron rises, Bennett urges parents: Protect your kids, 5th COVID wave is here

Ettya Dimentman, widow of Yehuda Dimentman, seen during a press conference as she mourns his death in a terror attack, seen at the family home in Mevaseret Zion on December 19, 2021, (Yonatan Sindel /Flash90)

Widow of terror victim appeals to Bennett to save illegal outpost where he studied

In letter to PM, Ettya Dimentman says Homesh should be legalized rather than demolished, which would be a ‘prize’ to terrorism

Staff member suspended pending investigation

DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’

Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shooting victims; Jewish student cast as Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise

The Watkins Elementary School in Washington DC where 3rd grade children were made to reenact scenes from the Holocaust in December 2021 Screencapture/Google Maps)

Help support Israel’s best medical center!

Sheba Medical Center is a global innovator and central to Israeli healthcare.

Iranian Air Force personnel work on air defense missiles during an exercise, in Iran, October 21, 2021. (Iranian Army via AP)

Top Iranian commander: Israel can’t strike us without US ‘green light’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This October 26, 2010, photo shows the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour)

Blasts heard near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear site; officials cite air defense test

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the IAEA, presents a surveillance camera at the International Atomic Energy Agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on December 17, 2021. (Alex Halada/AFP)

Iran inspects new IAEA cameras for nuclear site allegedly targeted by Israel

By AFP

A child is vaccinated against the coronavirus at an elementary school in Tzur Hadassah, on December 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 20 – Weighing Israeli vax rate against Omicron wave

Health and science correspondent Nathan Jeffay discusses COVID as well as autism research, while ToI editor David Horovitz looks at Christians in Israel and ‘Hatikva’ in Abu Dhabi

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, November 9, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Minister to probe police violence after cops seen whipping anti-vaccine protesters

Arriving travelers at Ben Gurion Airport on December 19, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel confirms 40 new Omicron cases, bringing total to 175

Troops come under fire as they ready to raze home of suspects in terror shooting

By Judah Ari Gross

Forces enter Palestinian town of Silat al-Harithiya, hand demolition order to family of two men suspected of killing Yehuda Dimentman last week

IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank Palestinian town of Silat al-Harithiya, December 20, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack near Jerusalem's Old City on December 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian arrested over suspected stabbing attempt near Jerusalem’s Old City

Settlers from Homesh hurl stones at Palestinians on March 26, 2020. (Yesh Din)

Palestinians say 3 wounded by stone-throwing settlers near Homesh

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (left) hold a press conference at Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, on November 26, 2021. (Moti Milrod/Pool via Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett meeting with health officials said to end with no decision on restrictions

Debate reportedly dealt with proposals to impose significant new regulations on large gatherings and to expand the Green Pass system to the entire commerce sector

7:37 pm

Bennett meeting with health officials said to end with no decision on new restrictions
7:31 pm

UK's Queen Elizabeth cancels traditional Christmas celebration due to virus outbreak
7:25 pm

Libyan education minister arrested over lack of school textbooks

To love another person is to see the face of God

I’ve prayed at sunrise on Masada. I’ve cried at the Western Wall. But my holiest prayer was in a crowded room in the hospital where my grandson is in the NICU

The courageous, historic decision to halt gas exploration

In pausing the search plans, Energy Minister Elharrar recognized the dire threat of greenhouse emissions. Now we need a ‘Climate Law’ to set longterm targets.

Police at the scene where a large tree fell on a man and seriously wounded him in Netanya, December 20, 2021 (Flash90)

Man badly injured by falling tree as storm sweeps in with strong winds and rain

Pedestrian suffers serious head injury in Netanya incident; snow falls on Golan Heights; IDF cancels navigation exercises

United Hatzalah volunteers check their rescue gear in the northern city of Safed on December 19, 2021, as emergency crews were on high alert ahead of winter storm 'Carmel.' (David Cohen/ Flash90)

Israel braces for arrival of major winter storm ‘Carmel’

Marijuana oil (iStock via Getty Images)

Israeli study gives encouragement, and guidance, to cannabis-for-autism efforts

By Nathan Jeffay

Scientists say their work may cause a pivot in research, as it suggests THC is the more promising cannabinoid than CBD

Tomer Weingarten, CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, at the New York Stock Exchange, June 30, 2021 (Courtesy)

Unhurt, 'tech stocks have... even thrived in the pandemic'

2021 was a bumper year for Israeli tech. What will 2022 bring?

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli tech firms scouting globally for acquisition deals will be a key feature of next year, while shaky capital markets may put a damper on valuations, experts predict

Israel's Anastasia Gorbenko poses with her gold medal -- alongside France's silver medalist Brill Gastaldello (left) and Russia's Maria Kamaneva, the bronze medalist -- after winning the 100-meter individual medley on December 19, 2021, at the World Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi. It was Gorbenko's second gold at the championships (Israel Swimming Association)

Israel’s Gorbenko wins astounding 2nd gold at World Swimming Championships

‘This is the best time I’ve ever done,’ says 18-year-old swimmer after taking top spot in 100-meter individual medley at Abu Dhabi, 2 days after snagging first-ever Israeli gold

During the pandemic, Navah Perlman Frost pivoted from being a professional musician to running her own cake business. And yes, those are cupcakes -- not flowers. (Courtesy photos/Design by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)

'Like music, it's more art than science'

Switching keys after COVID, Jewish pianist in NYC designs cakes that strike a chord

By Rachel Ringler

Navah Perlman Frost’s ‘extraordinary’ buttercream creations have to be seen to be believed, and have made her an instant hit in the Big Apple’s competitive baking scene

Head of the Mossad Yossi Cohen, seen at Glilot military base near Tel Aviv, March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Report: Ex-Mossad chief had affair, shared state secrets with woman and her husband

‘He told lots of stories, including about Mossad,’ says spouse of flight attendant with whom Yossi Cohen was allegedly involved romantically

Nurse Sheena Davis administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pennsylvania, Dec. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Moderna says its booster likely protects against Omicron

By AP

Lab tests show half-dose booster shot increased by 37 times the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies able to fight new strain of coronavirus

ExplainerWhy antibodies aren’t the only defense against Omicron

Fauci warns of stark winter with Omicron ‘just raging around the world’

US doctors warn Omicron may sideline two leading anti-COVID drugs

By MATTHEW PERRONE

Uwe Mader with the Torah scroll fragments he handed over to the city of Görlitz, December 16, 2021. (Pawel Sosnowski via JTA)

83 years after Kristallnacht, sections of lost Torah scroll resurface in German town

By Toby Axelrod

Protestant minister in Görlitz turns over segments of Torah that had been in safekeeping since the anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938

Jewish family from Thessaloniki, Greece seen in 1917. (Wikimedia Commons)

Greek Jewish archives stolen by Nazis returned after nearly 80 years

By David I. Klein

More Headlines

A priest checks the damage after a man poured out flammable liquid inside the Church of All Nations at the Garden of Gethsemane, in East Jerusalem, on December 4, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)

Jerusalem church leaders: ‘Radical’ Israeli groups driving Christians from Holy Land

By Stuart Winer

Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tel Aviv teen suspected of sexual assault of other students to be charged with rape

Presidential candidate Gabriel Boric, of the "I approve Dignity" coalition, waves to supporters at a polling station during the presidential run-off election in Punta Arenas, Chile, December 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Andres Poblete)

35-year-old leftist Gabriel Boric beats far-right opponent in Chile election

By Patricia Luna and Joshua Goodman

Rev. Meredith Mills delivers a sermon from the pulpit for some 30 attendants during the second service of the day in the sanctuary at Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, Dec. 12, 2021. (Michael Wyke/AP)

Sapped by COVID, Jewish and Christian houses of worship strain to rebuild attendance

By AP and ToI Staff

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson steps out of 10 Downing Street to welcome the Sultan of Oman, Haitham Bin Tarik Al Said, in London, December 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK’s Johnson walks tightrope between political scandal, COVID surge

By DANICA KIRKA

Dozens of clown fish populate one of the tanks in the Jerusalem aquarium (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Aquarium at Jerusalem zoo evacuated amid fears of possible chemical leak

A general view of the Prime Minister's Office building in Jerusalem (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

‘Educational tour’ for staff at PM’s office featured ‘escape room’ games, party

Mahmoud Ezzat, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader, left, and Mohammed Badie, leader of Muslim Brotherhood leave a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, on May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt hands life sentence to Muslim Brotherhood leader for Hamas espionage

By AFP and ToI Staff

Eve Babitz gives an interview in 2011 (Screen grab/Hammer Museum)

ObituaryWriter Eve Babitz, a Hollywood bard, muse and reveler, dies at 78

By Hillel Italie

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