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As of midnight Sunday, a new set of rules will take effect at Ben Gurion Airport in the government’s effort to contain the Omicron variant: In order to stem the spread…
Israel’s chief of public health services, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, warned Sunday that the potential for infection with the new COVID variant Omicron is “very high,” but stressed that in cases…
Israel will institute severe new travel restrictions due to the Omicron coronavirus variant, barring all foreign visitors and mandating quarantine for returning citizens. The new regulations will take effect at midnight…
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog lit the first candle of Chanukah on Sunday night in Chevron. Speaking at Maaras Hamachpeleh, Herzog declared that “the historic connection of Jews to Chevron, to the…
Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar expressed his dissent from the cabinet decision to impose emergency restrictions following detection of the Omicron variant in Israel. Sa’ar, who voted against the majority, said…
The ever-strong shekel showed it was not immune to turmoil in international markets caused by, among other things, the emergence of a rapidly spreading coronavirus variant called Omicron. The Bank…
Israeli Wanted in Italy Cable Car Custody Case ArrestedHamodiaPolice in Cyprus have arrested an Israeli man wanted by Italy for having helped spirit the 6-year-old lone survivor of a cable car accident out of Italy and to Israel,…
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Not long before a 19-year-old North County nursing student opened fire in a Poway synagogue, a hate crime that killed a congregant and wounded three others, he espoused ideology that…
Ship’s Master Said He Spent 50 Hours Sleepless Before CrashHamodiaAn oil tanker hit an offshore oil platform at night off Louisiana because its Turkish operating company didn’t give the ship’s master time to recover from days of sleepless travel,…
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The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart became the latest to…
Taiwan said 27 Chinese aircraft entered its air defense buffer zone on Sunday, the latest in a long series of incursions as part of Beijing’s pressure on the self-ruled island.…
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Four members of Congress, led by Representative Ritchie Torres, are asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to explore if Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, needs to amend its regulatory…
Tom Suozzi announced he would not take a role in New York City government, days after it was reported mayoral-elect Eric Adams was considering the Long Island Congressman for the…
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It’s never too early to talk about the race for the White House, or is it? A Republican-friendly poll released Tuesday shows former President Donald Trump leading current President Joe…
A unanimous Supreme Court on Monday rejected a claim that the Memphis, Tennessee, area has been taking water that belongs to Mississippi from an underground aquifer that sits beneath parts…
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Thirty thousand high-end snow globes are trapped in California’s San Pedro Bay, split between two shipping containers on two ships in the idle flotilla offshore. One ship arrived in late…
On a day when investors needed a place to hide, one alternative area of the market wasn’t providing any refuge: Bitcoin. The world’s largest cryptocurrency had its worst day in…
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The name of a newly identified variant of the coronavirus has had some social media users scratching their heads about the World Health Organization’s system for labeling certain versions of…
The new Omicron coronavirus variant – identified first in South Africa, but also detected in Europe and Asia – is raising concern worldwide given the number of mutations, which might…
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