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COVID-19 Hospital Visitor Rules: Families Want More Access

COVID-19 Hospital Visitor Rules: Families Want More Access

  MIAMI (AP) — Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees… Read More ›

Pelosi reaffirms support for Israel in meeting with Lapid

Pelosi reaffirms support for Israel in meeting with Lapid

“For many of us, it is in our DNA,” Pelosi said of support for Israel.   Bipartisan support for Israel is a source of pride… Read More ›

Will diplomacy trump health in new Israeli COVID travel policy? – analysis

Will diplomacy trump health in new Israeli COVID travel policy? – analysis

The failure of the previous government to effectively manage Ben-Gurion Airport over the past 18 months played a major role in exacerbating the coronavirus crisis.… Read More ›

Argentine judge exonerates ex-president accused of covering up Iran attack on Jews

Argentine judge exonerates ex-president accused of covering up Iran attack on Jews

Former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner allegedly covered up Iran’s possible role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85… Read More ›

Key things the Facebook whistleblower told a Senate panel

Key things the Facebook whistleblower told a Senate panel

  The Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents indicating the company was aware of various problems caused… Read More ›

Biden administration envoy hopes to continue Lebanon-Israel talks

Biden administration envoy hopes to continue Lebanon-Israel talks

Hochstein, who was born in Israel but has spent his adult life in the US, held a similar envoy position in the Obama administration.  … Read More ›

Ukraine Marks 80th Anniversary Of The Babi Yar Massacre

Ukraine Marks 80th Anniversary Of The Babi Yar Massacre

  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of… Read More ›

Time for Bennett to go to shul in America – analysis

Time for Bennett to go to shul in America – analysis

Some American Jewish groups felt disenfranchised from Israel during Netanyahu’s term due to his haredi parties alliance — Bennett could change that.   For Prime… Read More ›

Congressman files two-states act that restricts Israeli use of US arms

Congressman files two-states act that restricts Israeli use of US arms

The bill would make it US policy to view “the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and Gaza, are occupied territories.”   A bill that affirms… Read More ›

U.S. delay of Iron Dome funds is a serious wake up call for Israel

U.S. delay of Iron Dome funds is a serious wake up call for Israel

Opinion: Holdup of $1 billion to replenish the defense systems is not only a result of pressure from progressives or deterioration of ties under Netanyahu,… Read More ›

Nuclear Iran in a month, regional conflict in two?

Nuclear Iran in a month, regional conflict in two?

On the cusp of nuclear capability, but not quite armed with a bomb, Iran would be able to hold the threat over its rivals’ heads,… Read More ›

Dems nix $1 billion for Iron Dome from budget bill after progressive pressure

Dems nix $1 billion for Iron Dome from budget bill after progressive pressure

Sources say several lawmakers, opposed to money for Israeli defense, threatened to vote against bill that keeps US government funded; missile system set to get… Read More ›

Why, on Sukkos, 12-4 = 27 and not 8.

Why, on Sukkos, 12-4 = 27 and not 8.

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com It seems to be a simple enough halachic question. But is it so innocuous? Or is there something more… Read More ›

Israel must restrain emerging terror wave before it escalates

Israel must restrain emerging terror wave before it escalates

Opinion: Palestinian attacks that result in wounded or dead Israelis usually tend to inspire copycats, therefore security forces must adopt an uncompromising method of dealing… Read More ›

Israeli forces nab last 2 Palestinian fugitives in Jenin, ending jailbreak saga

Israeli forces nab last 2 Palestinian fugitives in Jenin, ending jailbreak saga

Iham Kamamji and Munadil Nafiyat, both members of the Islamic Jihad terror group, arrested in West Bank city nearly 2 weeks after escaping Gilboa Prison… Read More ›

Analysis: Australia’s decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington

Analysis: Australia’s decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington

  For more than 20 years, Australia tried to maintain good relations with both the United States and China. It was good for trade and… Read More ›

Bennett: We want partners against Iran but will act either way

Bennett: We want partners against Iran but will act either way

Bennett: “Remember the presentation of my predecessor with the bomb and the redline? Iran passed it long ago.”   Israel wants to work with its… Read More ›

CDC adds two popular island getaways to ‘very high’ Covid-19 travel risk list

CDC adds two popular island getaways to ‘very high’ Covid-19 travel risk list

  Two tropical islands half a world apart and popular with tourists — Jamaica in the Caribbean and Sri Lanka in South Asia — are… Read More ›

Israelis have become indifferent to deaths caused by COVID

Israelis have become indifferent to deaths caused by COVID

Opinion: With pandemic likely to last a while, Israelis must find their lost value of social solidarity, stay away from mass crowds and act responsibly… Read More ›

‘Unbelievable joy’: In Israeli 1st, doctors separate heads of conjoined twins

‘Unbelievable joy’: In Israeli 1st, doctors separate heads of conjoined twins

Physician tells Times of Israel of ‘beautiful’ moment when formerly connected twins first looked at each other and cooed after ‘massively complex, life or death’… Read More ›