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Almost every time Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian in the territories, the army announces the opening of an investigation by the Military Police.

Top medic blames ‘irresponsible behavior,’ crowded living conditions; others call finger-pointing ‘borderline racism,’ ascribe surge to yeshivas’ reopening 10 days before schools.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting, in the most cynical fashion, to exploit the coronavirus and the restrictions needed to fight its spread in order to undermine fundamental democratic rights and to suppress the dissent against him and his incorrigible government.

During the first wave of the virus, Israel bought thousands of ventilators because it thought that’s what was needed. Did it recruit or train staff to use them?

To turn the navy into an effective strategic arm, we had to acquire nine submarines: three of them for routine security, three in the shipyard for maintenance, and three to be sent on “secret missions.”

The demonstrators outside his Jerusalem home will soon be known as ‘Balfour Criminals’ – as in ‘November Criminals’

Out of 978,000 Israelis who were quarantined due to the Shin Bet security service’s cellphone tracking over the course of two and a half months, just 19,384 (2 percent) were diagnosed with the virus.

HCQ was banned for Covid patients by the WHO on the basis of late stage trials. But doctors claim it worked in early stage usage. Opinion.

Netanyahu’s advisers find themselves in a pickle with trials and coronavirus.

Overall, the Israel of the second lockdown appears to be a state that brutalizes and oppresses them and doesn’t offer them a future.

Opinion: Imprisoning the Israeli public, who have lost all trust in the prime minister, brings with it all the health and psychological risks that surfaced during the first national closure while being devoid any serious justification for such a measure.

How did Israel become world’s first country reimposing lockdown? It’s not just a story of rising infections, but also of fragile religious-secular relations, nervous politicians.

Israel is a global failure in handling the coronavirus. At present, the only country in the world that has called a second nationwide lockdown. Netanyahu is well aware that his policies are responsible for this situation, but that hasn’t stopped him from lying without a moment’s hesitation.

Fortresses fall when those who are supposed to protect them don’t fight. Now is the time to wake up.

During the first wave of the virus, he boasted that leaders around the world were consulting him. Today, during the second wave, not one leader is calling.

The only logic that can be found in this insanity and chaos is Benjamin Netanyahu’s preference to worsen the crisis so that we’ll have our backs to the wall.