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Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital team members in the coronavirus ward in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Nearly 4,000 new cases as virus surge brings rise in serious patients, transmission

Daily cases nearly triple in a week; PM said to warn surge may leave hospitals on verge of collapse; Pfizer pill shipment set to arrive; 1st case recorded of both COVID and flu

Airport workers unload packages of Pfizer’s COVID-fighting Paxlovid pill at Ben Gurion International Airport on December 30, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel gets first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-fighting Paxlovid pill

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A health worker takes a swab sample of a traveler to test for COVID-19 at a train station in Mumbai, India, December 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

World hits record average of 1 million new COVID cases per day

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israeli police officer stands guard as a religious Jew in army uniform visits the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 3, 2021. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Abbas said to warn Gantz changes on Temple Mt. could lead to ‘unstoppable’ violence

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP/Collage)

World cheers Gantz-Abbas meeting, hopes for continued cooperation in 2022

Gathering the carcasses of wild cranes killed by avian flu at the Hula Lake Nature Reserve in northern Israel, December 27. (Hadas Kahaner, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Some 700,000 birds have been culled

Avian flu killing birds in Israel could jump to humans, warns epidemiologist

By Nathan Jeffay

Prof. Amnon Lahad calls prospect of virus crossing species ‘very concerning,’ as Health Ministry advises Israelis to avoid sick birds and not to buy unregulated chicken, eggs

Covid-19 is making Israel seem farther than ever before — until now

SRUGIM, MUNA, ONE on One and a new feature film every Friday, all part of the IZZY content catalog for 2022. Discover IZZY today with free episodes that are one click away.

Image taken from footage aired by Iranian state television shows a rocket that Iran announced it launched on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. (Iranian state television via AP)

Iran claims to have launched rocket with satellite carrier into space

By Nasser Karimi

Illustrative: Likud supporters protest outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2021. (Flash90)

Report: Aiming to sow chaos in Israel, fake accounts target Likud activists online

This satellite photograph taken by Planet Labs PBC show the smoldering wreckage after an alleged Israeli strike on the port at Latakia, Syria, Dec. 29, 2021 (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite images show smoldering wreckage at Syria port after alleged Israeli strike

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A child gets tested for COVID-19, in Modi'in, on December 26, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Explainer

What a herd immunity policy would look like, and why it may be premature for Israel

So-called Swedish model, reportedly being mulled by Israeli health officials, could be far less risky with vaccines and Omicron, but data is still lacking, says top epidemiologist

Health care workers test Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with the coronavirus in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry allows use of antigen tests to exit quarantine after exposure

Medical staff at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital wear safety gear as they work in the hospital's newly reopened COVID ward in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Close to 2,000 hospitalized with flu in Israel, says Health Ministry

A father holds the legs of his baby girl in Jerusalem, December 30, 2020. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Israel approaches 9.5 million residents on eve of 2022

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men work at a high tech start-up in an office in Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Nearly two-thirds of Haredim are online, COVID driving them to tech training – poll

By Stuart Winer

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on January 23, 2020. (Alexander NEMENOV / various sources / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

PA chief Abbas to Putin: West Bank poised for ‘explosion’

Palestinian leader cites land confiscation, ‘settler terrorism’ as reasons for rising anger in the territory

7:52 pm

Netanyahu ordered to return 30 gifts given to him during his time as premier
7:50 pm

US children hospitalized with COVID in near-record numbers
7:27 pm

Health Ministry adds mask requirement to outside gatherings, doesn't tell anyone

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández. (courtesy)

Interview'The relationship is between nations, not leaders'

Outgoing Honduras president: Christians, parliament will protect strong Israel ties

By Lazar Berman

Shortly before he leaves office, Juan Orlando Hernández, a close ally of Israel, says his left-wing successor will face resistance if she tries to move Jerusalem embassy

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid; US Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan. (AP/Collage)

Israeli, Saudi FMs take part in virtual meeting on Omicron hosted by Blinken

US State Department, Foreign Ministry decline to confirm rare participation of Yair Lapid and Faisal Bin Farhan in the same video conference call

An aerial view of the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's (EAPC) oil terminal at Israel's southern Red Sea port city of Eilat, February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Environment minister says oil deal with UAE ‘cannot be realized’

By Tia Goldenberg

The ‘wicked problem’ of opening schools during Omicron

Compared to setting a 70% vaxxed minimum in order to operate a school, using the Green Pass system is the less bad solution

Let my sisters come

America is now ’red’ for corona: I never in a million years considered that my sisters and brothers-in-law would not be with me for my wedding

ToI Podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 30 – Knesset ministers opine and Teva takes on cannabis

Tech Israel’s Ricky Ben David talks about Teva’s cannabis entry and the Facebook bill, as US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses his interviews with Nachman Shai and Merav Michaeli

Op-ed/Photo essay

Is the prime minister’s vacant residence in danger of becoming a metaphor?

Shouldn’t Naftali Bennett, figuratively speaking, be a little more clearly in residence?

A group of Israelis read the plaque on the wall of Beit Aghion, the official Prime Minister's Residence, Jerusalem, December 24, 2021 (David Horovitz / Times of Israel)

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman during the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 29, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

In recording, ex-cabinet chief admits shredding docs before Netanyahu departed as PM

Lawmakers argue at the Knesset, December 29, 2021 (Knesset Spokesperson/Noam Moskowitz)

Government loses vote as Likud MK emerges after hiding in Knesset parking lot

Illustrative image: A woman in a conversion court. (Flash90)

Liberman issues warning to chief rabbi as Knesset vote on conversion reform delayed

Finance minister tells Lau he must fulfill terms of his job or could be ousted; plenum vote on bill pushed off two weeks due to lack of support

Jewish worshippers pray at the gravesite of the Baba Sali during the annual pilgrimage held in his memory in the southern Israeli town of Netivot on January 30, 2017. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

In U-turn, police to allow religious festival despite Omicron, deadly Meron disaster

Jewish worshippers pray at the gravesite of the Baba Sali during the annual pilgrimage held in his memory in the southern Israeli town of Netivot on January 30, 2017. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Police bar annual mass memorial at kabbalist’s grave over safety concerns

Walid Mansour, center, handcuffed, reenacts his alleged stabbing of an Israeli man at a building site in Rosh Ha'ayin. (Channel 12 news)

Palestinian gets 21 years in jail for stabbing man in Rosh Ha’ayin terror attack

In plea deal, Walid Mansour admits that he stabbed Refael Levi at construction site in August 2020; will also pay fine

A neighborhood in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, July 5, 2017. (AP Photo/ Nasser Nasser/ File)

2 Israelis enter Qalqilya to retrieve stolen motorbike, are attacked, rescued by IDF

Israeli soldiers near the site of where a civilian was injured by gunfire from the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, December 29, 2021 (Flash90)

In sign no Gaza escalation expected after shooting, IDF lets farmers work by border

In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, center, sits in the courtroom during a discussion about a note from the jury, during her sex trafficking trial, December 29, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of grooming teenage girls in Epstein sex abuse case

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

British socialite faces years in prison after being convicted of five of the six charges against her, following harrowing testimony by 4 women who described being abused as teens

Yotam Okon (center) arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, on December 30, 2021. (Screenshot/Walla)

Tel Aviv teacher convicted in rape of 12-year-old student

Danny Tenenbaum files his first bill as a representative in the Montana state legislature in Helena, on January 6, 2021. (Twitter/via JTA)

'My philosophy is to not hide and to be proud of who I am'

Jewish Democratic Socialist Danny Tenenbaum is a rare breed in Montana government

As a religious minority in a US state legislature that’s two-thirds Republican, the progressive member of the lower house finds opportunities for cultural and political outreach

NY mayor-elect to be sworn in on Friday night, after Shabbat-friendly event scrapped

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Former MK Ruth Calderon at the Rabbi Kook Museum in Jerusalem on March 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid nominates former Yesh Atid MK Ruth Calderon to head Jewish Agency

By ToI Staff and Tal Schneider

Outrage, boycott calls grow as food giant Osem announces price hikes

Screen capture from video of the scene of a deadly shooting in the port city of Jaffa, on December 29, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 13 News)

Man shot dead in Jaffa, becoming the 3rd Arab murder victim this week

An illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport on September 3, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Here for 7,978 more yearsAustralian claims he can’t leave Israel until 9999 due to unpaid child support

Screen capture from video of John Scott-Railton of the Citizen Lab watchdog group, November, 2020. (YouTube)

Polish use of NSO spyware against gov’t opponents is ‘tip of the iceberg’ — expert

By AFP

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match against FC Barcelona in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Abramovich claim of Sephardic descent to get Portuguese citizenship draws scrutiny

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Barak Ben-Ami at the Lod District Court on December 29, 2021. (Flash90)

Man who murdered infant daughter, tried to kill wife and child, gets life sentence

A visitor explores art works at an exhibition titled 'Vienna Falls in Line. The Politics of Art under National Socialism' showing Nazi artifacts at the city's Vienna Museum in Vienna, Austria, on November 9, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Vienna seeks to confront its past with exhibition of art created under Nazi regime

By Julia ZAPPEI

Men bathe at Hammam al-Qawas, a traditional Turkish bathhouse, in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on December 16, 2021. (Photo by AFP)

With no hot showers, Syria power crisis sends men to centuries-old Aleppo bathhouses

By Youssef Karwashan

This file photo taken on November 28, 2013, shows former former Persepolis player Mehdi Mahdavikia (R) and former AC Milan player Gennaro Gattuso vying for the ball during an exhibition soccer match at the Azadi stadium in Tehran. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran soccer federation defends player who wore jersey with Israeli flag

By AFP

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl's face appeared on millions of TV screens when she was part of a 'Jeopardy!' clue, December 29, 2021. (Screenshot via JTA)

What is to kvell?What is rabbi? Angela Buchdahl becomes ‘Jeopardy!’ clue

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Amar'e Stoudemire attends the Pegasus World Cup Championship horse racing event in Hallandale Beach, Florida, Jan. 23, 2021. (Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for The Stronach Group via JTA)

Ball's in his courtAmar’e Stoudemire says he’s looking for a Jewish wife

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