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People will be given a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a Covid-19 mass vaccination center on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday January 4, 2020.Kobi Wolf | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19…

Two women with face masks walk down a shopping street in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on April 19, 2021.Francois Nel | el Getty Images News | Getty ImagesVaccination campaigns in several Middle Eastern countries are racing ahead of the rest…

Last Wednesday a message appeared on a new WhatsApp channel called "Death to the Arabs". The embassy urged the Israelis to join a mass brawl against Palestinian citizens of Israel.Within hours, dozens of other new WhatsApp groups appeared…

WASHINGTON - Stuart Force says he found solace on Facebook after his son was stabbed to death by a member of the Hamas militant group in Israel in 2016. He turned to the website to read hundreds of condolences on his son's page.But just a…

Mr. Shanks died on February 5th at his Washington home. He was 90 years old.His daughter Elizabeth Alexander, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, said the cause was complications from Covid-19.Mr. Shanks made it…

Palestinian students wearing face masks stand in line to enter their school after personal training, interrupted as part of the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) measures, resumed for elementary and secondary school students in the Gaza…

JERUSALEM - Israel, das weltweit führend bei der Impfung seiner Bevölkerung gegen das Coronavirus ist, hat einige ermutigende Neuigkeiten hervorgebracht: Frühe Ergebnisse zeigen einen signifikanten Rückgang der Infektion nach nur einem…

A health care worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak on January 6, 2021.JACK GUEZ | AFP | Getty ImagesIsrael was praised for deploying what is currently the fastest…

Despite its early success with the introduction of the Covid-19 vaccine, Israel is quickly facing a third national lockdown amid the spread of the virus. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his cabinet blame a faster spread,…