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Then-US Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool via AP)

The president's itinerary

Iron Dome, Yad Vashem, Maccabiah, Bethlehem: Biden’s 2 days in Israel and West Bank

Biden to tour Israeli security installations, including new laser defense system; is set to become 1st US president to visit a site in Palestinian East Jerusalem outside Old City

US President Joe Biden addresses the nation at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022, following the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Biden staff touch down in Israel as country gears up for US presidential visit

Then-US Vice President Joe Biden (left) with then Opposition chairman Isaac Herzog. in 2015 (Isaac Herzog/Twitter)

Herzog to honor Biden with Presidential Medal of Honor next week

By Lazar Berman

Beitar Jerusalem fans cheer and wave a 'La Familia' flag during a match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on April 23, 2022. (Oren ben Hakoon/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Paying the penalties: The stranger-than-fiction rise and fall of Beitar Jerusalem

The fate of the sharply controversial soccer team hangs in the balance once again after yet another owner becomes embroiled in scandal and legal imbroglios

Photo combination: Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads his first weekly cabinet meeting, July 3, 2022 (left); Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas talks to the media during a press conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, June 14, 2022 (Haim Zach/GPO; Iakovos Hatzistavrou, Pool via AP)

First call for five years between PA chief and an Israeli PM

Rare dialogue: Ahead of Biden visit, Lapid, Herzog hold phone calls with PA’s Abbas

By Lazar Berman

Israeli leaders wish Palestinian Authority president a happy Eid al-Adha, stressing need for cooperation and calm; calls come day after Abbas hosts Gantz in Ramallah

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

Gantz meets PA’s Abbas to discuss security coordination ahead of Biden visit

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank, on June 29, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says shots fired at military posts near Nablus; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo on August 28, 2020. (Franck Robichon/Pool/AFP)

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe assassinated

Abe gunned down while giving a campaign speech in western Japan, dies soon after, sparking an outpouring of shock from world leaders

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touches the stones of the Western Wall during his visit to Jerusalem's Old City, Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli leaders express shock at assassination of ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

From the blogs

Liberal Jews in the Rebbe’s Christian America

As the vision of neutrality in the public sphere is defeated, all Jews – not just Chabad – will need a strategy to compete in the marketplace of religion

Western Wall rabbi denounces violence at prayers, urges ‘all sides’ to respect site

By Judah Ari Gross

The rabbi of the Western Wall spoke out on Thursday against violence at the holy site but appeared to blame "all sides" for the issue, a week after ultra-Orthodox extremists overran the egalitarian plaza of the site, disrupting services. In his statement, which was issued in English, Rabbi... Continue Reading

Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinowitz at the site's plaza in 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabbi Kenneth Brander delivers a lecture (rabbikennethbrander.com)

Orthodox leader pledges to teach pluralism after zealots overrun egalitarian prayers

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A group of Haredi men watch as a firetruck works to extinguish a fire caused by riots at the Bar Ilan Junction in Jerusalem, July 7, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)

Rioting by Haredi extremists causes damage to construction of Jerusalem light rail

By Tobias Siegal

Lapid to IDF officers: Our mission is to restore trust in democracy, IDF, each other

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

In his first speech as prime minister at an official ceremony, Yair Lapid said on Thursday that Israel is “stronger, more sophisticated, and tougher” than its enemies, but that it must work to "restore trust" in state institutions. “Israel is stronger than all its enemies, and we will not hesitate to use force... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Yair Lapid attends a graduating ceremony of IDF officers at Bahad 1, the IDF officers’ school in southern Israel. (GPO/Amos Ben Gershom)

Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Poll shows Netanyahu-led bloc winning 61 seats, enabling government formation

(From left) Meretz's Yossi Beilin, Essawi Frej, Tamar Zandberg and Nitzan Horowitz at a memorial ceremony for assassinated prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Bennett torpedoes Zandberg’s bid to appoint ex-Meretz leader Beilin as parks chief

By Tobias Siegal

MK Yair Golan speaks during a conference hosted by Democrat TV in Jaffa, June 7, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Interview‘Annexation is the end of the Jewish state’

Gunning to lead Meretz, Yair Golan looks to refocus the left around a single flag

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

With progressive causes spread too thin, MK and ex-IDF deputy chief aims to rally around separating from Palestinians, while rehabbing perception of left and its electoral standing

What Biden and Lapid have in common

They share political temperament and policy priorities – but will their chemistry lead to progress on the two vexing issues, Iran and the Palestinians?

Chana Tannenbaum

The mysterious ‘passage of Balaam’

How much has been lost because written works of value never made it from the ancient world to the modern day? (Balak)

The Kaaba at the Grand Mosque during the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Israel asks Saudi Arabia to allow direct flights for Muslim pilgrims on way to Mecca

By Tobias Siegal

Kingdom currently allows pilgrims from Israel but requires them to travel through a third country; direct flights from Tel Aviv would cut costs by half, says Minister Esawi Frej

This photo taken on January 14, 2014, through the window of an airplane, shows the Red Sea's Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Strait of Tiran between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia. (Stringer/AFP)

US aims to close island transfer, Saudi normalization steps before Biden trip

Inside storyCoalition collapse could impede concessions for Palestinians ahead of Biden trip

Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in 'Thor: Love and Thunder.' (Courtesy: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Warning: Spoilers!Verdict - heavy-hitting action, but light on substance

Not even Hebrew hammer Natalie Portman can save Marvel’s ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’

By Jordan Hoffman

Now in theaters, the latest soon-to-be blockbuster is entertaining – but with repetitive jokes and a juvenile tone, it’s not bad that it’s the franchise’s shortest feature in years

Author Faye Kellerman whose latest book, 'The Hunt,' is the last in her Decker/Lazarus series. (Courtesy: Faye Kellerman)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Author Faye Kellerman talks books, crime and characters

The bestselling crime writer discusses ‘The Hunt,’ the last in her Decker/Lazarus series

Roy Moore is interviewed by Sacha Baron-Cohen on 'Who is America.' (YouTube screenshot)

Laughing matter

US court rejects Roy Moore’s $95 million lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen

By Kim Chandler

Judges say Jewish comedian’s use of ‘pedophile detecting device’ on Alabama judge accused of misconduct was ‘clearly comedy’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at a Conservative Friends of Israel event in London, Britain, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell)

Belfast, a broken menorah, listening to survivors: Johnson’s notable Jewish moments

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The outgoing PM proved warmly disposed to UK Jews and a friend of Israel, changing Britain’s voting pattern at the UN

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks back into 10 Downing Street in central London on July 7, 2022 after announcing his resignation (Daniel LEAL / AFP)

UK’s Johnson digs in for final weeks as potential successors jostle for position

By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA

Prime Minister Boris Johnson enters 10 Downing Street, after announcing his resignation, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Who could replace Boris Johnson as UK’s next prime minister?

By Jitendra Joshi and Joe JACKSON

Jewish men in the street near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Ukraine warns Israelis against Uman pilgrimage this fall amid Russian invasion

Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it is ‘premature’ to make any final decisions, while ultra-Orthodox figures defiant that traditional Rosh Hashanah gathering will go ahead

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)

‘I could not remain silent’: Moscow’s chief rabbi says he left over war in Ukraine

By ToI Staff and JTA

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, attends a meeting at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, July 8, 2022. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken shuns Lavrov at G20 summit, demanding Russia ‘let the grain out’ of Ukraine

By Shaun Tandon

In this file photo taken on December 5, 2010, director Francis Ford Coppola (L) presents an award to actor James Caan during a tribute to the latter's career at the 10th Marrakesh International Film Festival in Marrakesh. (Abdelhak Senna/AFP)

'I'm Jewish, not Italian; was denied in a country club once'

James Caan, ‘Godfather’ and ‘Misery’ star, son of German Jews, dies at 82

By AP, ToI Staff and JTA

Oscar-nominated actor toured Etzion Bloc in 2016, urged Israel not to withdraw to 1967 lines; in 2019’s ‘Holy Lands,’ played retired cardiologist who moves to Israel to raise pigs

Analysis

Diphtheria in Australia, like polio in Israel, is collateral cost of pandemic

Polio. Diphtheria. After two-plus years of the COVID pandemic, childhood vaccines are taking a hit and diseases long gone from the West are once again rearing their heads. In chilling news from New South Wales, Australia, reports emerged in recent days that two children have been hospitalized with diphtheria. The disease had been absent in... Continue Reading

Illustrative image: a young child receives a vaccine. (dimamorgan12 via iStock by Getty Images)

Illustrative - A child being vaccinated at a children's medical center in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, September 10, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry touts 99% polio vaccination rate among babies

By ToI Staff and Nathan Jeffay

Analysis

Without budging on Iran or Palestinians, Macron offers Lapid an important gift

At first blush, Yair Lapid should have had an easy time coming out of his initial trip abroad as prime minister with tangible accomplishments. It was a one-day trip to Paris to meet with his close friend, French President Emmanuel Macron -- the diplomatic equivalent of a layup. Lapid and Macron have a warm personal relationship stretching back before either of... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Yair Lapid (R) embraces French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 5, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

A Palestinian demonstrator blocks the road in front of Israeli soldiers in the Masafer Yatta area in the West Bank, which has been at the center of a protracted legal battle, July 1, 2022. (Mosab Shawer/AFP)

EU envoy calls for ‘international pressure’ to halt evictions of Palestinians

By AFP

More Headlines

Baruch Lanner's mugshot and the exterior of the Interior Ministry building in Jerusalem. (Public domain; Flash90)

Israel grants residency visa to US rabbi convicted of sexually assaulting students

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

President Isaac Herzog (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential complex in Ankara, on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Herzog calls Erdogan with holiday blessings, lauds warming ties between nations

The Merthyr Tydfil synagogue, which opened in 1877, has been out of use since 2006. (Chris Andrews/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

UK grants $600,000 lifeline to turn old Welsh synagogue into Jewish cultural hub

By MADELINE FIXLER

Shehadeh Abu Alqian, 25, who is charged with spying for a Gaza-based terror group, is seen wearing an Israeli military uniform in May 2022. (Courtesy)

Father of Bedouin charged with espionage: ‘If he did it, he should be punished’

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Police in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Man shot to death in northern town amid unrelenting deadly crime wave

Illustrative: weapons seized by security forces near Neve Ur in northern Israel, after an alleged gun-smuggling over the border with Jordan on July 8, 2022. (Israel Police)

IDF, police bust gun-running operation on Jordanian border, seize 12 handguns

By Emanuel Fabian

Hadas Klein, aide to Arnon Milchan, arrives to a court hearing in the trial against former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the District Court in Jerusalem on July 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Key witness at Netanyahu trial files police complaint against journalist for doxxing

An aerial view of Gamla on the Golan Heights. (AVRAMGR, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Planning committee approves two new Jewish villages on Golan Heights

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh arrives for the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021. (Phil Noble/Pool/AFP)

PA premier Shtayyeh claims Israel conducting ‘lab experiments’ on Palestinian bodies

Fidaa Kiwan. (Courtesy)

UAE court hands Israeli woman life imprisonment after death sentence struck down

Polish officials found to be targeted with Israeli NSO group’s spyware

By AP

A plate of hummus at the Hummus Hagiva restaurant at the French Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Legume doomHold your hummus: Global chickpea supply could drop 20% this year

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

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