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Shouting and shoving is no evidence of bad morals and lack of scruples, nor are good manners evidence of ethical behavior. Still…

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’ 12-hour procedure.

The part the late Justice Ginsburg played in the injustice meted out to Jonathan Pollard is unknown to many.

Israel has highest 7-day rolling average of cases for its population size; daily positive tests pass 11,000 for 1st time; education minister says “schools may be forced to adapt”.

State Comptroller says there was no proper procedure during past virus waves to monitor then-PM and his cabinet, finds decisions were made without government deliberation.

The Middle East is doomed to remain brutal, repressive and culturally Islamist. Regional powers, including Israel, must come together to guarantee stability.

Criticism of the media is of course legitimate, but when it is done by a news channel operated by someone the IDF hired as an adviser for psychological warfare on the social networks, it is impossible not to see the IDF as the source of the criticism.

Some Israeli experts side with the World Health Organization and claim current policy is both morally and epidemiologically wrong.

Volunteering the Israeli population as guinea pigs wasn’t invented by Netanyahu or/and Pfizer.

Bennett might succumb to pressures regarding a lockdown, despite his previous objections. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is more interested in criticizing the new PM than in paying for his own hotel.

The same failures are clear once again: results of coronavirus tests coming in slowly, difficulties in supplying vaccines and delays in evacuating and isolating the sick. And all this is accompanied by a staffing shortage.

While medical facilities could approach capacity in 20 days, the benefits of booster shots and restrictions may kick in, and there’s a hopeful precedent abroad.

New coronavirus restrictions require unvaccinated Israelis who haven’t recovered from COVID in the past to present negative test results to access certain venues. But what’s the difference between the two kinds of tests?

The king must realize that the only solution is redrawing the border of the two successor States to the British Mandate.

It should be made clear to Israel’s partners in the Eastern Mediterranean that any (unlikely) improvement in Jerusalem’s relations with Turkey will not come at their expense.

When Iran resorts to direct attacks against Israeli targets in response to belligerent Israeli actions against it, that is not another war between wars, it’s the beginning of war.