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Despite stormy split, Lapid and Gantz said likely to reunite for election run
Despite their acrimonious split last year, Benny Gantz’s Blue and White and Yair Lapid’s Yesh

After users flee in backlash, WhatsApp delays data sharing change
SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducts long-range anti-warship missile drill
Ballistic projectiles, said to have range that could hit Israeli targets, fired at ‘hypothetical hostile

Complete Nuremberg Trials recordings online for the first time
JTA — At the opening of his trial in Nuremberg, Julius Streicher made several uncharacteristically

Iranian Guard holds anti-warship ballistic missile drill
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a drill Saturday launching anti-warship ballistic missiles at

Mayim Bialik named as a ‘Jeopardy!’ guest host
JTA — Mayim Bialik. The correct answer is: Who is the upcoming Jewish guest host

Downton Abbey author’s new mystery stars real-life Hitler-loving Mitford sisters
Over the course of the smash hit British television drama Downton Abbey‘s six seasons, author

US says Bahrain, UAE are ‘major security partners’ after normalizing Israel ties
White House says agreement with Jerusalem ‘reflects their extraordinary courage, determination and leadership’; notes 2

Flo Milli samples ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ in new track
JTA — The rapper Flo Milli uses part of the classic “Fiddler on the Roof”

Group aims to give hikers emergency wifi, no matter how far off the beaten path
Nearly three years ago, a group of 25 teenagers who were set to enter a

‘A terrible amount of death’: Global virus toll passes 2 million
AP — The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold

Abbas Announces Palestinian Elections After Years of Paralysis
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Top official: Israel in ‘final stages’ of COVID, showing world an exit strategy
Ex-virus czar says with a quarter of population having received 1st shot, country seeing clear

Court halts sales in new East Jerusalem neighborhood amid discrimination claims
Israeli authorities opened bidding on 1,257 housing units in Givat HaMatos — but a judge

Palestinian Authority sets dates for legislative and presidential elections
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday announced it will hold its first national elections

After nearly 170,000 get second COVID shot, study shows no major side effects
With nearly 170,000 Israelis already receiving the second shot of the coronavirus vaccine by Friday,

AG slams Ohana, says he won’t defend order in court to not vaccinate prisoners
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit lambasted Public Security Minister Amir Ohana’s directive not to vaccinate prisoners

Scottish court upholds conviction of Lockerbie bomber, family to appeal
EDINBURGH, United Kingdom (AFP) — Five judges at Scotland’s highest court of criminal appeal on

UAE aims to vaccinate over half of population
DUBAI: The UAE is now second in the world only to Israel in coronavirus vaccine

Vaccinate, so that you can be fruitful and multiply
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the fastest and safest vaccines in the history of

Israel frees Lebanese shepherd detained in disputed border area
The Israeli military on Friday released a Lebanese shepherd it detained this week in a

Israel to start vaccinating citizens aged 45+ Sunday
All Israelis over the age of 45 will be eligible to receive the first COVID-19

Would the real new year for trees please stand up?
Scientists or not, we have all turned into exceptional lab rats. Surveys conducted around the

Israel studies new forest home for endangered mountain gazelle
AFP — Israel is one of the last places where the endangered mountain gazelle roams

Whatever gets your pox off: What the press is saying about COVID, shots and Iran
With virus numbers remaining at record levels, there’s plenty of doom and gloom alongside vaccine

Covid: What are the new UK travel rules?
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As Iran edges toward a bomb, an Israeli preemptive strike looks likely
With no appetite in the US for military confrontation, Israel may aim for nuclear installations