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Travellers exit the coronavirus testing area at Ben Gurion International Airport (Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen)

February 26, 2022, 11:37 am

Israel to allow unvaccinated tourists to enter beginning 1 March

Tourists will still need to produce negative PCR tests before and after their flights, while Israelis will only need to take a test upon landing.

By JTA

A medical worker prepares a vaccine against the COVID-19 at a municipality vaccine center in Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec. 31, 2020. (Gideon Markowicz/JINI via Xinhua)

February 20, 2022, 2:36 pm

Israel to end ‘Green Pass’ rules requiring vaccination to enter public venues

Expiration of a vaccination requirement to participate in large gatherings suggests that the country believes the next phase of the pandemic will be its end

By JTA

A streak of light is seen over Ashkelon as Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip earlier this week (Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen)

February 6, 2022, 5:17 pm

Holocaust survivor injured in May conflict with Hamas has died of her wounds

Poland-born Naomi Perlman was hurt when a rocket from Gaza hit her home, spending months in and out of hospitals

By JTA

Planting trees (Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash)

January 31, 2022, 11:12 am

Israel to plant 450,000 trees in cities in bid to counter climate change

The plan is predicted to cost about 2.25 billion shekels, and will be carried out between now and 2040, with the end goal of having 70% of sidewalk shaded by trees.

By JTA

China's flag (Photo by Alejandro Luengo on Unsplash)

January 31, 2022, 10:57 am

China was Israel’s largest source of imports in 2021, surpassing US

Last year, Israel imported £7.98bn in goods from China, compared with £5.74nb in 2020, a nearly 40% increase.

By JTA

January 30, 2022, 1:35 pm

Ahead of Herzog’s UAE trip, editor of Arab Times calls for Kuwait to normalise ties

Israel's head of state was welcomed by the UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan, after flying over Saudi airspace for the historic visit

By Jenni Frazer

January 25, 2022, 2:28 pm

‘Hamas have not proven themselves good for the Palestinians’, James Cleverly warns

Middle East Minister says the terror group's 'aggressive posture and their threats to eradicate Israel have harmed relations' between Israelis and Palestinians

By Lee Harpin

Settlers throw stones at police in Amona outpost in the West Bank (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

January 24, 2022, 12:39 pm

Settlers from West Bank outpost attack human rights activists

The settlers were armed with batons, rocks. and incendiary materials in the attack on Friday and set afire a car belonging to the human rights activists,

By JTA

People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines in central Israeli city of Givatayim, (Photo by Muammar Awad/Xinhua)

January 15, 2022, 11:03 am

Israel cuts Covid isolation time

Health minister Nitzan Horowitz said the new measures would allow Israelis to “live alongside the coronavirus”

By Michael Daventry

A booster coronavirus vaccine is administered at a Covid vaccination centre at Elland Road in Leeds, as the booster vaccination programme continues across the UK. Picture date: Tuesday December 21, 2021.

January 5, 2022, 3:08 pm

Fourth coronavirus jab increased antibodies FIVEFOLD, data from Israel shows

'We’re always ahead of the rest. That’s been the case the whole way. We learned a lot about the third shot before the rest', said the head of Sheba’s infectious diseases centre

By JTA

Empty check-in counters at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, before the first peak of the pandemic

January 4, 2022, 4:25 pm

Israel to reduce travel restrictions but UK, US travellers still barred

Fully vaccinated foreign travellers will be allowed enter the country again - except from countries deemed “red” due to high infection rates

By JTA

January 4, 2022, 4:12 pm

Israel begins administering fourth coronavirus shots

'We’ve been first in the world [with the] booster shots and that policy has protected Israel’s citizens well', PM Bennett said

By JTA

December 22, 2021, 10:22 am

British man complains about treatment at Israeli airport after visiting Arab partner

Greg Baird said he was subjected to around three and a half hours of questioning about his partner, and his previous employment with Emirates, the UAE national airline

By Jenni Frazer

Women and children carry Torah scrolls from an old synagogue building to a new building in Nabagoye, Uganda. (Courtesy of Be’chol Lashon) Via JTA

December 21, 2021, 12:56 pm

Israel rejects Ugandan Jew’s application for citizenship despite conversions ruling

Ministry of Interior denied application from converts to Judaism even after a new rule allowing non-Orthodox conversions

By JTA

December 21, 2021, 12:35 pm

Israeli, 25, dies after his car is ambushed in the West Bank

Yehuda Dimentman, who lived in the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, leaves behind a wife and 9-month old son

By JTA

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