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Interview
In Haifa coronavirus ward, a US-trained rabbi helps Muslims keep the faith
By
Nathan Jeffay
Mike Schultz, Rambam hospital’s spiritual care chief, tends to the non-medical needs of patients suffering from loneliness on top of COVID-19, whether they be holy or mundane
First person
David Horovitz
Vaccinated in Israel, I feel incredibly appreciative, and I’m daring to hope
A chain of wise and wonderful people, abroad and here, inside a year, managed to find a counter to COVID and have now started to deliver it. May the rest of the planet follow suit
Inside Story
Small wonder: How Israel rolled up its sleeves and became vaccination nation
By
Nathan Jeffay
MK warns of spiritual side effects as vaccination drive continues on Shabbat
By
Nathan Jeffay
2020 in review
Bye-bye 2020: ToI writers share important stories from a year of crisis and hope
By
TOI staff
While the coronavirus pandemic caused the world to grind to a halt this year, some things have been business as usual: Israel is headed to yet another election, the environmental crisis continues unabated, traffic safety is still a major issue on Israeli roads... Thankfully, the show must go...
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Times of Israel Podcast
PODCAST: ToI’s top 11 countdown of Jew-ish TV, songs, movies and books of 2020
By
Jordan Hoffman
Times of Israel Podcast
Pop in your earbuds, it’s the top 5 Times of Israel podcasts from 2020
By
Amanda Borschel-Dan
From the blogs
Voices of 2020: The blog posts that helped us through the chaos
By
Miriam Herschlag
Analysis
Haviv Rettig Gur
Israel’s center-left collapsed over the past 20 months. Where did it go?
In April 2019, Zionist parties that did not self-identify as ‘right’ won a combined 49 Knesset seats. They now poll at 26. Where did 47% of the center-left disappear to?
Israeli elections 2021
Likud scraps primaries; polls show Huldai party taking votes from Lapid, Bennett
By
Raoul Wootliff
ToI investigates
Arab communities shattered, as organized crime fuels a skyrocketing murder rate
By
Aaron Boxerman
With illegal weaponry rampant in Israeli Arab towns, 2020 is now officially their deadliest year in recent memory; a government plan to stop the violence seems to have been shelved
Netanyahu signals intention to campaign hard for Arab votes in March election
By
TOI staff
and
Tal Schneider
Exclusive
Set to amend ‘pay to slay,’ PA hopes Biden will shun law deeming PLO ‘terrorist’
By
Jacob Magid
Officials concerned by low vaccination rate among Arab Israelis
By
Aaron Boxerman
From the blogs
I’m a former CIA agent: Iran was behind Lockerbie and should be made to pay
By
John Holt
Eat my dust: Israeli scientist shows plants grab nutrients off dust in the wind
By
Sue Surkes
Researchers find some desert plants sprinkled with motes manage to absorb phosphorous on their leaves, and grow stronger; breakthrough could open door to reduced fertilizer usage
Pandemic will worsen already high poverty, inequality in Israel, report says
By
Shoshanna Solomon
Newly trained, young Haredi women ready for bold foray into tech world
By
Shoshanna Solomon
Rafael seeks to outfit IDF with drones, robots that spot threats by themselves
By
Judah Ari Gross
2020 in review
As COVID hit, archaeologists turned to futuristic labs to dig up ancient history
By
Amanda Borschel-Dan
From dental tartar studies to the use of police forensics techniques and AI to discern which scribe wrote the Bible, cutting-edge science beat out shovels for uncovering the past
Stone found in Israel is oldest known tool in world used for ‘delicate’ abrading
By
Stuart Winer
First person
Double tragedy: Survivor’s nephew uncovers fate of Polish Jews who fled to USSR
By
Bernard Dichek
‘Deported. Exiled. Saved.’ uncovers dramatic new information with implications for descendants of the largest Polish survivor group — including the family of this writer
London college refunds student who left due to ‘toxic anti-Semitism’
By
Stuart Winer
Holocaust
In Poland, new Sobibor museum memorializes victims through unearthed belongings
By
Matt Lebovic
Facing 1900s New York anti-Semitism, a banker built this castle; you can visit
By
Matt Lebovic
Far from being curtains, pandemic ushered in new audiences for artists
By
Jessica Steinberg
If you think event-planning for a massive crowd is hard, try planning for an event without one. In the nine months since the pandemic first forced Israel to lock down, Shabi Mizrahi, deputy director of the Culture and Arts Department for the Tel Aviv municipality, has moved the city's annual piano festival online,...
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Lockdown entertainment
Culture will never die in Tel Aviv, festival organizers vow
By
Jessica Steinberg
Web whirl
Dance isn’t simple to show online, but Vertigo troupe tries it
By
Jessica Steinberg
Not just cheerleaders: Journalists’ role in covering UAE-Israel normalization
By
Ben Lynfield
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