Top Headlines from Israeli News Outlets
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JPost Headlines
- About two million Israelis live below the poverty line - report
- Joe Biden’s inauguration was anxiety-inducing, and a lot of it was Jewish
- Nurses are helping Israelis bend the rules to get COVID-19 vaccines
- Haredi autonomy needs to stop so Israel can beat COVID-19
- Some hospitals to stop receiving ambulances due to financial woes
- Zero cases of influenza, RSV in Israel
- Anti-vaccination coercion doctor launches party to ‘heal’ Israel
- Netanyahu's right-wing reign suffers three blows in one week
- Joe Biden begins term with series of executive orders
- JReady: Jewish Agency program helping communities amid COVID and beyond
Haaretz Headlines
- Biden moves to require international arrivals to quarantine in bid to thwart COVID-19
- Netanyahu’s lawyers in unprecedented request to delay bribery trial again
- Like a dog!
- Bibi, who’s to blame for the 4,000 dead?
- In Tunisia, freedom of expression doesn’t pay the rent
- Palestinian child injured by stones thrown by settlers
- Israel rearrests Palestinian teen who was released by a military judge
- Haaretz Cartoon
- Coronavirus Israel live: Strained public hospitals say they will refuse ambulances starting Sunday
- The three issues Netanyahu can use to create an early crisis with Biden
Times of Israel Headlines
- At odds on Iran and settlements, Netanyahu and Biden can still avoid a brawl
- Senior health official: UK virus variant putting pregnant women at greater risk
- Facebook to let oversight board decide on future of Trump ban
- Defense minister to take army out of Army Radio, approving longtime IDF request
- Tunisian president denies claims he made anti-Semitic remarks
- Bedouin women’s activist who backed polygamy joins Ya’alon’s Telem
- Standard of living dives as middle class pummeled by virus — government report
- ‘Maybe we should bomb Damascus?’: Yom Kippur War deliberations declassified
- Virus czar predicts national lockdown won’t be extended into February
- With kids unvaccinated, Israeli tech aims to detect and prevent school outbreaks
JTA Headlines
- Biden names Massachusetts transportation secretary, Steph Pollack, to senior roads post
- Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel, a net neutrality champion, as acting FCC chair
- Roberta Kaplan is crushing white supremacists in court — and she wants America to start taking them more seriously
- Chuck Schumer is now the highest-ranking elected Jewish official ever. He wants to make more history.
- Joe Biden’s inauguration was replete with anxiety, and a lot of it was Jewish
- Israelis are bending the rules to get COVID-19 vaccines — and nurses are helping them do it
- Yehuda ‘Yudi’ Dukes, Hasidic father of 6, is dead after 10-month battle with COVID
- Avril Haines is Biden’s first confirmed Cabinet member as director of national intelligence
- Watch: Rabbi Sharon Brous calls for ‘a new America’ at National Prayer Service
- Diego Schwartzman launches professional esports team at Buenos Aires Jewish sports club
Globes Business Headlines
- TASE down sharply at end of positive week
- Standard of living in Israel fell 22.7% in 2020
- American Airlines to fly New York-Tel Aviv from May
- Shekel depreciates over 5% in a week
- Israeli co StoreDot unveils 5-minute recharge battery
- Elbit Systems wins $137m UK precision target deal
- Underwriters exercise options to buy Playtika shares
- Israel's Covid-19 R number falls below 1
- JP Morgan takes 4% Melisron stake from Ofer as collateral
- UAE fund to invest $100m in clean energy in Israel
Walla News Headlines (Hebrew)
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Ynet Headlines (Hebrew)
- משרד הבריאות החליט: בני נוער בגילים 18-16 יחוסנו מפני קורונה
- תורי הענק במוקדי החיסון: "אין ספק שהיו שם הדבקות רבות"
- ביידן נלחם במגפה: נוסעים לארה"ב ייכנסו לבידוד
- מהומה בנתב"ג: השבים מדובאי פונו בכוח למלוניות
- הכורים לכודים: "ייקח שבועיים להגיע אליהם"
- עימותים בבני ברק: עשרות תקפו רכב ופצעו שוטרת, פשיטה על ישיבה
- בת 67 בחל"ת: "מחקו אותנו, לוקחת הלוואות מאמי בת ה-90"
- ניסיון חיסול בלוד: פצוע קשה מאוד בפיצוץ מכונית בחניון בניין מגורים
- "פעם זאת הייתה המחלקה הכי שמחה, עכשיו גם היולדות חטפו מכה"
- מחאה על ריבוי המפלגות בשמאל; מאיר שלו: "משאירים את הזירה לימין חשוך ומסוכן"
Maariv Headlines (Hebrew)
- ד"ר פאוצ'י: "החיסון עדיין יעיל, גם נגד המוטציות הבריטית והדרום אפריקאית"
- מנכ"ל משרד הבריאות אימץ את המלצת ועדת התעדוף לחסן בני 18-16
- ח"כ אשר: "המשטרה פועלת תחת לחץ התקשורת ונגררת לעימותי רחוב"
- לפיד על תקיפת השוטרים בבני ברק: "חבורת אנרכיסטים שצריכה לסיים את הלילה במעצר"
- השר אוחנה: ״האלימות הפרועה בבני ברק - פשע נבזי וחילול השם בידי נבלים ברשות התורה"
- השעיית חשבון הפייסבוק של טראמפ תבחן מחדש על ידי ועדה מפקחת מטעם החברה
- ביידן: "בחודש הבא נגיע לחצי מיליון מתים. יקחו חודשים להתאושש"
- הסתיימה ללא תוצאות פגישת מנהלי בתי החולים הציבוריים עם האוצר
- ילד בן 8 נפצע בינוני כשנפגע מאופנוע בירושלים
- ליברמן: "רק שלילת תקציבים ממוסדות החינוך שמפרים את ההנחיות תחזיר את הסדר למדינה"
IsraelAM News Summary
News Update
The Health Ministry reported 8,511 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. The infection rate is at 9.2%. There are currently 1,113 people hospitalized in serious condition and 308 on ventilators. There have been 4,142 coronavirus related deaths since the start of the pandemic. The cabinet has voted to extend the nationwide lockdown until the end of July. Meanwhile, thousands of ultra-orthodox students went to school in Bnei Brak, in violation of the lockdown.
Over 2.2 million Israelis have already received the first dose of the vaccine. Over 500,000 have received the second dose. Anyone over the age of 35 is now eligible for the vaccine.
Israel approved the construction of 2600 new homes in the settlements yesterday, just as President Trump leaves office. According to Peace Now, Israel approved or advanced construction of over 12,000 settlement homes in 2020, the highest number in a single year since it started recording in 2012.
President Trump pardoned former Israeli General Aviem Sella, who was one of the handlers of Jonathan Pollard. Sella was indicted in absentia by a federal grand jury in 1987, and faced up to life imprisonment and a $500,000 fine.