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FILE - Members of Women of the Wall gather around a Torah scroll the group smuggled in for their Rosh Hodesh prayers marking the new month, at the Western Wall where women are forbidden from reading from the Torah, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. When Israel's new government took office last June, it indicated it would press ahead on an egalitarian prayer site at Jerusalem's Western Wall — a sensitive holy site that has emerged as a point of friction between Jews over how prayer is conducted there. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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Future of prayer site in doubt under Israel's fragile govt
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Tue,01/04/22-12:06AM , 185 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel's new government took office last June, it indicated it would press ahead on an egalitarian prayer site at Jerusalem's Western Wall — a sensitive holy site that has emerged as a point of friction between Jews over how prayer is conducted there.
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An Israeli health worker tests an unvaccinated ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary student for COVID-19 at a coronavirus testing center in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. The student, who declined to give his name, said he didn't want to get vaccinated because he previously had COVID-19. Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel have yet to receive their COVID shots. The group has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country despite being pummeled by the virus throughout the pandemic. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Hard-hit by COVID, Israel's ultra-Orthodox slow to get shots
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Tue,12/28/21-1:04AM , 181 Reads
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Yossi Levy has repeatedly booked and canceled his coronavirus vaccine appointment. The 45-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew recovered from the virus earlier this year, as have his eight children and wife. But a combination of lethargy and procrastination has prevented him from following through and getting inoculated.
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Israel's Bennett makes first official visit to UAE
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Sun,12/12/21-2:41AM , 237 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday made a historic trip to the United Arab Emirates, the first visit by an Israeli premier, as part of a blitz of regional diplomacy against the backdrop of struggling nuclear talks with Iran.
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Israeli police questioned on Palestinian attacker's shooting
By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press
Sun,12/05/21-1:53AM , 146 Reads
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's Justice Ministry said Sunday that two police officers were brought in for questioning following the shooting death of a Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli man in east Jerusalem.
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