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No date confirmed for meeting with Israelis, White House says – Israel News
The White House said it is still working to reschedule its meeting with the Israeli delegation who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled from meeting with the US following its abstention in the United Nations Security Council ceasefire resolution vote. “The tone throughout here has been businesslike and it’s been professional and we expect that it’s …
Israelis Prepare to Celebrate the Year’s Holiest Days Under Lockdown
JERUSALEM — As Israelis prepare to celebrate the holiest days on the Jewish calendar under a fresh lockdown, organizing prayer services is proving to be more of a mathematical brainteaser than a spiritual exercise. Rabbis are having to arrange worshipers into clusters of 20 to 50, separated by dividers, determining the number and size of …
In Jerusalem, coronavirus gives Israelis and Palestinans something else to argue about
Israeli officials, in turn, contend that the Palestinian Authority, which governs the adjacent West Bank, is exploiting the outbreak to meddle in Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods. The acrimony belies corona-cooperation in other areas, where Israeli and Palestinian agencies have worked together to distribute testing kits and control movement of people in the West Bank and facilitated …
Israel turns to anti-terror technology to counter coronavirus
Israel’s government approved on March 15 emergency regulations that would enable the Shin Bet to perform mass surveillance of phones belonging to Israelis who contracted COVID-19. These measures are not designed to monitor quarantined people but to retroactively track the movements of those found to be carriers of the novel coronavirus in order to see with …
These Israelis are breaking the silence on getting married in Israel – Israel News
Vitaly Paperin moved to Israel from Kiev at age 9 in 1990. He would eventually change his name to the more Israeli-sounding “Tal,” rebel against his ultra-secular family by becoming religious, and marry and divorce. Three years after that divorce, Paperin fell in love with another woman and was ready to marry again. And so, …
Israelis return to the polls in the election that nobody wanted | World news
Israeli diplomats across the world began voting last week, kicking off the second national election the country has held in just six months. About 3,500 staff and their families in more than 95 embassies and consulates cast their ballots early. The votes will be sent in sealed envelopes back to the country ahead of election …
Israelis call for education minister to resign over gay conversion remarks | World news
Hundreds of demonstrators have called on Israel’s new education minister to resign after the far-right politician said he supported gay conversion “therapy” and had even attempted it himself. Ministers and other politicians also condemned Rafi Peretz, a former chief military rabbi who heads a religious nationalist party, who was asked by local Channel 12 news …
