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Israelis recieve a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a health center in Katzrin, Golan Heights, December 12, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Bennett: Pioneering move to help us get through Omicron wave

In world first, Israel set to give 4th COVID shot to over 60s, at-risk groups

Hailing recommendation by panel of health experts, Bennett orders swift roll-out of extra vaccine booster for people over 60, immunocompromised and health care workers

Health care workers test people for COVID-19 in Jerusalem on December 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Omicron case tally doubles to 341 in single day as Bennett urges ‘easy restrictions’

Travelers seen at Ben-Gurion International Airport on December 21, 2021. (Flash90)

Knesset panel okays US travel ban from midnight in race to curb Omicron spread

By AFP

Underwater treasures

1,700-year-old coins, Jesus ‘Good Shepherd’ ring, found in shipwrecks off Caesarea

Divers’ discoveries include gold ring with green gemstone carved with Christian image of the ‘Good Shepherd’ – an early depiction of Jesus – and carved image of ‘David’s Harp’

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Maariv conference in Herzliya, on December 7, 2021. ( Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Liberman tells cabinet ‘Omicron no worse than flu,’ draws ire of top health official

In leaked recordings, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis says new fast-spreading variant could cause major problems for more than a million Israelis who do not have booster shots

Sandile Cele, a researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, works on the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus Wednesday Dec. 15, 2021. South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country's dramatic Omicron-driven wave has passed its peak, medical experts say. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Sharp case drop could indicate South Africa’s Omicron peak has passed

By ANDREW MELDRUM

People at the Hadar Mall in Jerusalem on December 16, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Full text: New COVID rules at schools and malls approved by ministers

Illustrative image: a coronavirus patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Israeli study urges ‘rethink’ of COVID’s nature, indicates antioxidants may help

By Nathan Jeffay

Ben Gurion University geneticists suggest illness primarily targets the immune system, not the lungs, and say if the hypothesis is true, it may open up a new treatment possibility

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

Netanyahu exits quarantine following Omicron exposure, after 2 negative tests

A sign warns people of measles symptoms in the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

Fighting anti-vaxxers among Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews, nurses write 140-page rebuttal

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When wounded IDF soldiers need rehabilitation, they all go to Israel’s National Center For Rehabilitation of injured soldiers, at SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 22, 2021. (Wafa)

Live updates (closed)

Meeting Biden’s security adviser, Abbas urges closer US-Palestinian ties

Jake Sullivan stresses American support for two-state solution, as PA chief calls for halt to ‘unilateral Israeli practices that undermine’ such an outcome

7:15 pm

Meeting Biden's security adviser, Abbas urges closer US-Palestinian ties
6:57 pm

Leading South African doctor to Israeli TV: Far fewer deaths from Omicron than Delta
6:34 pm

Shipment of Pfizer's anti-COVID pill to reach Israel in coming week -- TV

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) meets with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem on December 22, 2021. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Meeting Bennett on Iran, Biden envoy says US, Israel must develop ‘common strategy’

In shadow of Vienna talks, Jake Sullivan tells PM two countries need to find a joint way forward to face major security issues; Bennett downplays reported snub by White House

President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony for graduates of the Israeli Air Force's pilot course, at the Hatzerim airbase in southern Israel, on December 22, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Herzog: With or without a deal, Iran’s nuclear program ‘must be neutralized’

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (L) meets with President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem on December 21, 2021 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Biden said ignoring Bennett’s request for phone call, as US officials meet Herzog

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 22 – Is the US listening to Israeli warnings on Iran?

US correspondent Jacob Magid on Israel’s influence over Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna; and political reporter Tal Schneider on Aryeh Deri’s get-out-of-jail-free card

Robert Malley, US Special Envoy for Iran, is shown in Vienna, Austria, June 20, 2021. (Florian Schroetter/AP)

US negotiator warns of ‘escalating crisis’ if no Iran deal in next few weeks

By AFP

Far-right MK Ben Gvir pulls gun on Arab security guards in clash over parking

By Stuart Winer

Lawmaker says he felt his life was in danger as one guard threatened him with violence; video clips show guard and MK trading threats in underground Tel Aviv lot

Screen capture from video of MK Itamar Ben Gvir, with a pistol in his right hand, during an altercation with Arab security guards at the Expo Tel Aviv conference center, December 21, 2021. (Twitter)

MK Meir Porush attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting in Jerusalem on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police arrest suspects months after beard-cutting attack on Haredi lawmaker

Audrey N. Glickman

Packing our parents in wool

If your aging mother starts making burnt noodle sandwiches, she may need some help, but talk to her about her lifestyle before you swoop in to change it

ToI VideoWhere did Jerusalem's Christians go?

State of Jerusalem: The Christian Community

In this second part of our three-part miniseries, we explore Jerusalem’s Christian minority

Jewish Israelis grounded by Omicron turn to Nazareth for Christmas vacation

By Daniella Cheslow

Introducing ToI’s Tech Israel

By Ricky Ben-David

The Israeli tech industry has changed dramatically in the near-decade since The Times of Israel launched; this section’s new name recognizes that journey

McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook announcing the acquisition of Israeli AI company Dynamic Yield, on March 25, 2019. (Courtesy-McDonald’s)

Mastercard to buy Israeli tech firm Dynamic Yield from McDonald’s

By Ricky Ben-David

A medical worker in the coronavirus ward of Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on September 15, 2020. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Hospital reverses course, says COVID-linked death was Delta, not Omicron

After several days of rising infections, new cases tick slightly downward as the number of those getting a first vaccine dose trends upward

Medical personnel wearing protective equipment treat a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care ward that has been converted from underground parking, at Rambam Hospital in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, December 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel records first Omicron death, but it’s not clear that’s what he died of

Illustrative: Medical staff working in in the coronavirus ward of the Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, on July 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Another COVID wave unstoppable, Bennett says as ministers spar over new curbs

Driver killed in fiery wreck after suspected West Bank ramming attack

Body of alleged attacker pulled from burning, crashed vehicle after incident near settlement; Hamas praises ‘new act of resistance’

First responders at the scene of an attempted car ramming in the West Bank, on December 21, 2021. (Rescuers Without Borders)

A worker on a lift adjusts the EU flags in front of EU headquarters in Brussels, on June 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Study accuses EU of failing to push PA on terror stipends, incitement

A gazelle walks in the protected reserve of Tsvaim forest, next to Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Early humans repeatedly killed off the biggest beasts around, Israeli study finds

After running out of large prey, prehistoric hunters gradually turned to smaller animals and eventually agriculture, researchers say after analyzing bones from sites around region

Nostromo's Icebrick system for energy storage based on modular ice cells for commercial and industrial buildings. (Nostromo)

Energy Ministry directs $6.3 million in grants for 16 energy storage prototypes

A Palestinian worker looks for batteries among other electric waste at a warehouse in Jebaliya, Gaza Strip, December 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

25,000 tons of old batteries in Gaza pose risk to health, environment

California activist Zahra Billoo. (Screenshot/YouTube)

US Muslim activist continues attacks on ‘Zionists’ as she begins sabbatical

Zahra Billoo claims she is in the ‘middle of a prolonged Zionist onslaught’ after criticism of comments she made about American Jewish organizations

Pedestrians walking in the campus of Duke University on May 14, 2011 (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

US watchdog demands action as Duke University pro-Israel group denied recognition

Offerings by Israeli home cook Liri Haram on the Israeli-founded app WoodSpoon, in New York City. (courtesy)

Israeli startup WoodSpoon app connects home chefs with hungry New Yorkers

Platform provides certification, advertising, payment system for cooks; Israelis, other immigrant communities find niche on application

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Rabbi Jacob Werchow presents geese slaughtered by his team in Csengele, Hungary on September 29, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)

'It's a lucrative local tradition'

Hungary leads Europe in kosher foie gras production — to Viktor Orban’s advantage

By Cnaan Liphshiz

During the COVID era, Hungarian kosher meat production ramped up. Between the appearance of religious tolerance and the many jobs created, there’s a net gain for the government

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

Israeli-made documentary on Nazis in US shortlisted for Academy Award

People hold posters picturing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and candles during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, on October 25, 2018. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)

NSO’s Pegasus used to target Khashoggi’s wife before his murder — Washington Post

A construction site of a new residential neighborhood in Herzliya, on March 27, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Israel’s rising housing prices will ‘moderate’ in 2022, says finance minister

By Ricky Ben-David

Scholars Beth Berkowitz (left) and Christine Hayes walk and talk during the 53rd Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference, held at the Sheraton Grand Chicago, December 19, 2021. (Joe Underbakke/ via JTA)

Jewish scholars gather under shadow of Omicron, heartening many, rankling others

FILE -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Nir Hefetz arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting held in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Dec 13, 2009 (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Ex-Netanyahu aide says at trial: ‘He shredded everything, even grocery lists’

The gaping window of bus from which two girls fell, seriously injuring one and moderately injuring the other, December 21, 2021. (Israel Police)

Girls, aged 5 and 9, injured falling from bus window in Negev

By Stuart Winer

Baruch Levine speaks at Yale Divinity School in October 2004. At left is his commentary on the book of Numbers. (YouTube; Yale University Press via JTA)

ObituaryBaruch Levine, NYU Judaic studies professor and Bible scholar, dies at 91

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)

Reigning the name gameMuhammad and Maya top list of Israeli newborn’s names in 2020

By Stuart Winer

Psychologist Yuval Carmi, accused of sexually assaulting clients (Courtesy)

Psychotherapist convicted of sexually abusing client in plea deal

Visitors walk around a memorial for victims of COVID-19 at the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles, Nov. 19, 2021. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

US life expectancy dropped by nearly 2 years in 2020 due to COVID

By AFP

Singer Oshi Masala will perform December 28, 2021, at the 12th Hullageb Festival celebrating Ethiopian culture (Courtesy Oshi Masala)

All her rootsThis musician sings ballads with electric guitars and masenqos

By Jessica Steinberg

Pammy Brenner and David Frisch got engaged this weekend at the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research in the Center for Jewish History on 15 W. 16th St. (Courtesy/ via JTA)

A 'zissel' love storyMan proposes to fiancée in NY Yiddish library

By julia GERGELY

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