The new star turns of the people who are supposed to keep the country safe is becoming reminiscent of Berlusconi's Italy – and harming public trust in them ■ Israel is about to face Denmark's COVID dilemma

Some 680 Israelis died from COVID last month, with unvaccinated and partially vaccinated people over 60 making up a highly disproportionate number of cases, despite being only 12% of the overall age cohort

Talk show host Irit Linur said Reform Jews don’t belong in Israel and compared them to the ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor cult. Israel’s liberal Jewish movements are calling on her to apologize or be dismissed

Palestinian residents of Beita demonstrate every week and now more than ever as the Evyatar outpost built on the village’s lands was recently approved for reestablishment