Times Of Israel
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:47:39 +0000Israel records over 8,500 daily COVID infections as serious cases climb to 559
Monday's tally is highest in current wave; 13 deaths recorded overnight; Labor MK Gilad Kariv hospitalized and getting oxygen at Sheba Medical Center
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:40:20 +0000Wildflowers will go forth from Jerusalem
Named for flower lover Nechama Rivlin, the late wife of former president Reuven Rivlin, a community-based project at Jerusalem's Botanical Gardens aims to save rare flowers
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:25:52 +0000Gordis’s ‘Concise History’ of Israel to become 6-part docuseries
Jerusalem-based author's 2016 National Jewish Book Award winner to be developed for TV with up-to-date additions
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:05:56 +0000Targeted killings, abuse of women reported after Taliban takeover – UN officials
UN envoy says Kabul residents 'living in absolute fear,' reporting door-to-door searches, lootings; at airport, 640 passengers cram into US Air Force cargo plane
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:56:15 +0000US to recommend COVID vaccine boosters for all citizens 8 months after 2nd shot
Sources say US could join Israel this week in administering 3rd dose in attempt to stave of ultra-infectious Delta strain
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:48:16 +0000Firefighters in race to put out dozens of hotspots near Jerusalem ahead of winds
Officials predict decades of rehabilitation for Jerusalem Hills area; residents of 2 communities still can't go home, and some criticize authorities' initial response as too slow
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:52:14 +0000‘We warned them for months’: Pentagon ire mounts over Biden Afghanistan pullout
'The process could have been handled so differently,' senior officer says of State Department's costly delay in setting up ad hoc structure to withdraw US allies to safety
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 03:31:03 +0000Battling COVID, Bennett discovers governing is a little tougher than campaigning
Neophyte PM vowed he'd do better than Netanyahu, notably in the fight against the virus. He even wrote a book about it. Then came reality, the Delta variant and a lockdown dilemma
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 02:51:50 +0000Blinken laments Polish president’s authorization of Holocaust restitution law
US reiterates concerns over legislation that will severely restrict compensation for wrongfully confiscated property, urges Warsaw to develop legal procedure for resolving disputes
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 01:47:46 +0000Arizona is 8th state to weigh sanctioning Ben & Jerry’s over settlement boycott
Treasurer asks ice cream manufacturer’s parent company to comply with 2016 law, which requires state entities to divest from firms boycotting Israel or settlements
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 01:31:13 +0000Afghanistan’s female soccer players call for help amid Taliban takeover
Women’s national team co-founder tells teammates to flee their homes, escape from neighbors who know them as pioneering players, and try to erase their activist history
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 01:16:35 +0000Erased from the public space, Afghan women describe unfolding ‘nightmare’
Prominent women in Kabul take to social media to express their pain for both a country and a way of life stolen now that Islamist militia back in control
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:39:23 +0000Why are we still so obsessed with Hitler? Unconventional docu tries to find out
With 'Meaning of Hitler,' Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker seek to produce film about former German leader without contributing to Nazi Cinematic Universe
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:14:10 +0000Abandoned Bulgarian synagogue to become cultural center and interfaith hub
While the space will not be used for Jewish prayer services, the infusion of $6 million in EU funding may create a new tourist destination
Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:10:54 +0000One year on, here’s how the Abraham Accords are holding up
Degree to which normalization agreements thriving varies by country, and it doesn’t look like there are any imminent new members of the club, but experts say deals here to stay