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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 20, 2020. Source: IDF via Twitter.

IDF records zero positive coronavirus cases for first time since onset of pandemic

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The Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday that for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic reached Israel in March 2020, not a single soldier had tested positive for the virus. The military credited its...
Dr. Chen Kugel, chief pathologist of the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court, Dec. 1, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘It’s impossible to identify 45 bodies in 6 hours’

The director of the Israel’s Abu Kabir Forensic Institute has rejected claims that the identification of the bodies of those who died in Thursday’s deadly stampede at Mount Meron had been delayed. Responding to complaints...
An Iranian judo player at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

International Federation imposes four-year judo ban on Iran over discrimination

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The International Judo Federation suspended Iran on Thursday for attempting to prevent its athletes compete against opponents from Israel, reported The Associated Press. The IJF imposed a four-year ban that prevents Iranian judokas from competing at...

Miami imam: ‘We will take back Palestine, the Jews will run like mice’

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Miami Imam Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi said in a recent sermon that Israel is the “land of Islam” and that Israelis would “run like mice” when Muslims come to take it back, In a Friday...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu donates blood at Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem, April 30, 2021. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Israelis make more than 2,200 blood donations to help Meron victims

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Following the tragedy at Israel’s Mount Meron on Thursday night in which 45 people were killed and many more injured, blood donation sites were set up nationwide on Friday. The public answered the call, and...