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People shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on December 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Wave will only end 'when everyone who can, gets infected'

Up to a third of Israelis predicted to get COVID in next 3 weeks; tests running out

By Michael Bachner

PM says government trying to find solutions amid huge lines at testing sites, while some health officials say Omicron herd immunity is likeliest outcome of current wave

A drive through COVID testing complex in Ma'ale Adumim, on December 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hours of waiting for COVID tests as sites swamped on New Year’s Day

People shop at a market in the central town of Ramle, December 31, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Health chiefs warn of restrictions and ‘price of herd immunity’ amid COVID surge

Israeli Air Force helicopter fires a missile into Gaza, near the Gaza-Israel border, May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Anti-aircraft missiles fired at IDF helicopters during Gaza strike, but miss

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Military says attack caused no injury or damage; Bennett: We’re not interested in Hamas’s excuses about weather, ‘whoever aims rockets at Israel must take responsibility’

Fire and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 2, 2022, a day after two rockets fired from Gaza landed off the coast of Tel Aviv. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt appeals for calm amid flareup in violence between Israel and Gaza

By AP and Judah Ari Gross

File: Smoke and fire following an airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, early on January 2, 2022. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel carries out airstrikes in Gaza in response to rockets off Tel Aviv coast

By Emanuel Fabian and Aaron Boxerman

A ball of fire and smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2022. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan. 2 – Do rockets from Gaza signify some kind of shift?

Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross and Arab affairs reporter Aaron Boxerman discuss what’s behind the rockets fired from Gaza over the weekend

Representatives of the Chief Rabbinate deliver a kashrut certificate to a local restaurant in central Jerusalem, on December 31, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

First phase of major reform in Israel’s kosher certification system enters effect

Businesses can now choose to be supervised by any local religious council in the country; Religious Services Minister Kahana says plan will boost competition, improve kashrut

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 2, 2022. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Bennett announces approval of 4th vaccine doses for people over 60, medical workers

PM holds press conference amid Omicron wave; ministers okay temporary Green Pass for anyone who gets 1st vaccine shot

7:11 pm

Bennett: I gave my 'full approval' to meeting between Gantz, Mahmoud Abbas
6:55 pm

Bennett: Travel restrictions 'likely' to be eased in coming week
6:45 pm

Bennett says government readying to change testing rules due to surging infections

The outside of the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan. (Talmoryair/Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Artists feud with Ramat Gan museum over painting removed for slur against Haredim

Requiem and resolution: A mental health checklist for 2022

Need a plan to navigate the overall emotional stresses of the pandemic and brace yourself for the future? Here are 7 tools to help you

Nancy Strichman

Top 10 steps to fix the world

Here’s what to do if you want to change the things you can change – using Elifelet, a nonprofit helping children of refugees, as case study

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

Bill on compensation for Meron disaster victims bogs down in ministerial dispute

Justice minister says matter should be resolved by a government decision, not legislation, but finance minister says he will only weigh in once the state inquiry is complete

There are at least eight cannabis-growing companies operating in Israel, along with several others involved in production, marketing and distribution. (Eyal Basson/ Health Ministry)

Israeli startup aims to light medical cannabis patients’ way through hazy system

By Ricky Ben-David

Ra’anana-based Cannbis looks to become go-to information resource and online marketplace for licensed consumers, now numbering over 100,000

Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)

Senior West Bank Hamas official to be charged with incitement, supporting terror

By Aaron Boxerman

Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef has spent years in and out of Israeli jail, mostly under administrative detention; indictment comes as tensions rise between Israel, Hamas

Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man suspected of driving an assailant to the scene of an attempted stabbing attack in the northern West Bank on January 2, 2021. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF nabs another suspected accomplice in Friday’s stabbing attempt

By Judah Ari Gross

A young Palestinian girl recites a poem in honor of Fatah's founding anniversary at a girls’ primary school in Jenin, West Bank, on December 28, 2021. (Screenshot/MEMRI TV)

On official Palestinian TV, young girl calls to liberate the land from Jews

Defense Ministry detonates Syrian munitions from decades-old Golan Heights bunker

By Judah Ari Gross

National mine-clearing organization found the various bombs in an underground bunker in November, decided to blow them up for safety instead of moving them

Knesset Economic Affairs Committee chairman Michael Biton leads a meeting of the committee at the Knesset on December 7, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset member tests positive for COVID-19

Michael Biton, chairman of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, spent hours in the parliament on Thursday holding multiple hearings and meetings

Health care workers take test samples in COVID-19 testing complex in Ma'ale Adumim, on December 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Flurona’: Israel records its first case of patient with COVID and flu at same time

People shop at the market in the central town of Ramle, on December 31, 2021.(Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Top health expert: Omicron unlikely to cause more serious cases than Delta

British Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Elizabeth Pierce listens to speakers during a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

UK warned it would recognize Palestine if Israel annexed West Bank, book reveals

Weeks before Netanyahu’s July 2020 target for controversial move, British envoy to US surprised American counterparts with threat, said it would lead to others following suit

Left: Then-Defense Minister Benny Gantz, on July 14, 2021; Right: Then-Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar, on March 7, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister: Gantz-Abbas meeting unnecessary, but of little significance

Israel Amir interviewed by Channel 12's Uvda in a report that aired on December 30, 2021. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Man who escaped anti-Zionist Jewish cult returned to Guatemala in search of his son

As Lev Tahor leadership sought to transport group to Iran, Israel Amir and team of ex-Shin Bet agents traveled across globe to search for 2-year-old boy

A training grenade that was hurled toward a home in Sderot, January 1, 2022. (Courtesy)

Man hurls training grenade at senior defense official’s home over parking spat

No damage caused by small explosion in Sderot; ministry figure said to have previously alerted police about feud with neighbor

Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator

Gertrude Pressburger speaks during a 2016 Asutrian presidential campaign. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Austrian Holocaust survivor who spoke out against nation’s far right dies aged 94

By Kirsten Grieshaber

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Sudanese demonstrators rally in the al-Daim neighborhood in the capital Khartoum on January 2, 2022, amid calls for pro-democracy rallies in 'memory of the martyrs' killed in recent protests. (AFP)

Sudan security forces fire tear gas, deploy to block anti-coup rallies

By AFP

A Citroen ad accused of promoting sexual harrasment, which aired in December 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Citroën panned for car ad in Egypt in which singer photographs woman without consent

Britain's Prince Andrew attends a Sunday service in, Windsor, England, April 11, 2021. (Steve Parsons/Pool Photo via AP, File)

US court rejects Prince Andrew’s attempt to halt sex assault lawsuit

By Larry Neumeister

Illustrative: Syrian refugee Ayesha al-Abed, 21, right, prepares food as her Husband Raed Mattar, 24, left, plays with their daughter Rayan, 18 months old, before they break their fast on the first day of fasting month of Ramadan, at an informal refugee camp, in the town of Bhannine in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

4 Syrian refugees die after burning coal for heat in southern Lebanon

By Sarah El Deeb

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during the opening of the World Health Organization Academy in Lyon, central France, Sept. 27, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP)

WHO chief ‘confident’ world can end pandemic in 2022, but only with global effort

Illustration: African migrants walk past the Tel Aviv central bus station. (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)

2 foreign workers arrested on suspicion of raping woman with special needs

Image provided by Pfizer in October 2021 shows the company's COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. (Pfizer via AP)

Health officials reportedly fear new Pfizer COVID pills will end up on black market

Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (Stringer/AFP)

9 said killed in shootout between ‘armed bandits’ and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

By AFP

Nadine Kalache Maalouf (center), Celine Elbacha, and Elbacha's daughter Morgane (right) stand on a deck at the seaside in eastern coastal resort of Paralimni, Cyprus, on December 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

As Lebanon’s crisis spirals, thousands of affluent families find sanctuary in Cyprus

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

This November 19, 2015 file photo shows a general view of a petrochemical complex in the South Pars gas field in Asalouyeh, Iran, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Platform at Iran’s largest gas field out of service after leak in Gulf waters

By AFP

Members of the House of Representatives gather in the chamber to vote on creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, on June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

After months of work, House panel probing Jan. 6 insurrection readies to go public

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Fake oranges filled with illegal Captagon pills at the Beirut port in Lebanon, on December 29, 2021. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Forbidden fruitLebanon seizes shipment of drugs hidden in fake oranges

By AFP

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