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Israel is vaccinating at a much faster rate than the UK and is set to overtake it in a matter of days, a new graph showed, with experts predicating that the country will have achieved herd immunity by Passover.

While the imminent dissolution of Israel’s Knesset was keeping the country on tenterhooks Tuesday, another smaller, but arguably no less significant, development was taking place in its Supreme Court. For the first time ever, the court debated the legality of a Basic Law — essentially challenging its own constitution — in a move that has been denounced as the “quiet death of democracy.”

Israel’s nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign began on Sunday, with health officials estimating the country will be the first to vaccinate its entire at-risk population.

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters his second day of quarantine after meeting with a coronavirus carrier, his strategic advisor Aaron Klein told i24NEWS the Israeli leader’s policy is to purchase as many vaccines as possible.

The Kingdom of Bhutan, a small Himalayan country with a majority Buddhist population, became the latest country to establish full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel on Saturday, just days after the Kingdom of Morocco did so.

Rev. Raphael Warnock told his congregation in 2015 that Israel would become an “apartheid” state, and attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “clever politician” who used “racist” language.

Israel’s first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines landed on Wednesday amid pomp and ceremony with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailing it as a “great holiday” and saying he would volunteer to be the first to be vaccinated.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday marked the third anniversary of U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by thanking President Donald Trump and hanging a copy of the American president’s proclamation on the wall of the cabinet room beside a 1948 proclamation by then-president Harry Truman recognizing the new State of Israel.

Israel could declare the coronavirus pandemic over as early as March 2021, thanks to Operation Warp Speed vaccines.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government on Thursday urged its citizens to avoid travel to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, citing threats of Iranian attacks.

The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday passed a bill to dissolve itself, paving the way for the fourth round of national elections in two years.

Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Saturday joined Tehran in lamenting the assassination of Iranian nuclear program scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, describing it as an illegal and provocative move designed to subvert diplomacy.

Following Iran’s announcement that the head of its nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated on Friday afternoon, Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan set off a storm after criticizing the “criminal” killing.

Former President Barack Obama’s new book about his eight years in the White House is a “revisionist” account of Israel’s history that proves he is “anti-Israel,” a former Knesset member said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was nominated Tuesday for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the recent normalization deals between Israel and Arab states.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in what would mark the first known encounter between leaders of the two countries, Israeli media reported.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged self-proclaimed president-elect Joe Biden not to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, saying Israel would push back against American efforts to do so.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday visited an Israeli winery in the West Bank, becoming the first secretary of state to ever visit a Jewish settlement in a move that drew Palestinian protesters to demonstrate and throw stones

The United States will designate the “cancerous” Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel “anti-Semitic” and immediately begin penalizing groups affiliated with it, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday during a visit to Israel.

The Palestinian leadership has blasted U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s planned visit to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank during his visit to Israel next week as a “provocation.” They added it was an “act of aggression” that proves the U.S. is “complicit in the occupation.”

The Israeli Right gained more support following last week’s U.S. election, according to a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew-language Maariv sister publication on Thursday.

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday notified Congress of its plans to sell 50 stealth F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a wider arms package worth over $23 billion, with the goal of deterring Iran.

The chairman of the Republican Party in Israel, Marc Zell, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about President Donald Trump’s chances in turning over a “premature” victory for Joe Biden.

Facebook on Friday announced it had taken down a network of accounts linked to Iran for violating foreign intervention policy, including campaigns targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and supporting Israeli protests against him.

After hours of silence, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin issued statements early Sunday morning congratulating Joe Biden on a presumed victory in the 2020 presidential elections.

While Jewish Israelis are overwhelmingly hoping and praying for a Trump re-election, the Palestinians have long awaited a Trump defeat which could reverse much of the strong policies that the Biden campaign has indicated it would not seek to uphold. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin responded Tuesday to the fatal terrorist attack in Vienna a day earlier, with the Israeli leader calling for the world to defeat the “savage” Islamist terrorism.

Dubai — If you had asked Israeli businessman Yehonatan Ben Hamozeg earlier this year where he’d be pitching his palm tree saving technology in October, there was no chance he would have said the United Arab Emirates.

Videos of a motorcade featuring dozens of motorbikes supporting U.S. President Donald Trump in Jerusalem’s Old City went viral over the weekend, marking the fourth Jewish “Trump train” within a week. Clips of the Hell’s Angels on Twitter received more

Two days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the U.S.-Israel alliance has “never been stronger” and expressed hope America’s current Middle East policy would continue.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan shatter existing myths from the left that peace can only be achieved through “painful and dangerous” concessions on Israel’s part.

Aaron Klein, a political adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Wednesday that the corruption charges against Netanyahu are like the “Russia collusion” hoax against President Donald Trump in the United States.

Israel and the U.S. on Wednesday signed an agreement on Wednesday extending scientific cooperation to apply to Israeli institutions in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, in a move that is being seen by some as a precursor to U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday praised President Donald Trump for securing three peace deals in six weeks between Arab countries and Israel, and expressed his hope that under the next U.S. administration more agreements would follow.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain prove the Arab world is not beholden to the Palestinians anymore, and the latter no longer hold a veto over peace.

With recent successful Middle East peace deals brokered by the Trump administration exposing years of failed Democrat policies, former Secretary of State John Kerry sought to claim his part in making the epic deals a reality.