Son of Bobov Rebbe holds massive wedding ceremony in Brooklyn in secret, flouting coronavirus limits, drawing guests from Europe and Israel.

Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kish told Kann Reshet B that, "Yesterday, 8,511 Israelis tested positive for COVID.""The percentage of positive tests dropped to 9.2%," he added."We are in a very complex stage of the process. The new mutations are much more contagious. In families where Ine person got infected and others remained healthy, the entire household is getting sick at this point..."

IDF tanks attacked military positions of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip In Tuesday night.The IDF Spokesperson"s Unit said the attack was carried out in response to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory earlier in the evening.Read more

Hagit Moshe gives victory speech after winning the election for the leadership of the Jewish Home Party.

i24NEWS goes inside a coronavirus ward at Rambam Medical Center in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) In Tuesday accused Israel of racism due to its failure to offer to distribute coronavirus vaccines to Palestinian Arabs."I think it"s really important to understand Israel is a racist state and that they would deny Palestinians, like my grandmother, access to a vaccine, that they don"t believe that she"s an equal human being that deserves to live, deserves to be able to be protected by this global pandemic," the congresswoman, who is of Palestinian Arab descent, told Democracy Now.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz warns in an interview with Israel Hayom that relations between Washington and Jerusalem will now be particularly fragile, mainly because the incoming administration poses significant security challenges to Israel."I think the biggest security threat to Israel from the Biden-Harris administration is their attempt to re-establish the devastating agreement with Iran," Cruz said. However, he added: "For eight years I have worked as Israel's leading defender in the US Senate, and I intend to continue doing that. I hope that a significant bipartisan coalition will remain that will stand by Israel."

According to Israel's health authorities, more than 2,272,000 Israeli citizens have received the first vaccine dose, and over half a million have gotten their second injection. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said: "Continue to follow health guidelines even after receiving the vaccines. A little more and this will be behind us."