Mark Weiss
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‘It’s being treated like a war’: Israel’s rapid Covid-19 vaccination drive
- Irish News
- January 4, 2021, 01:00
More than one million of Israel’s population of 9.3 million have now received the first of two doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine. Politic(...)

Ultra-Orthodox schools reopen in Israel in unprecedented act of civil disobedience
- Middle East
- October 19, 2020, 17:32
In an unprecedented display of civil disobedience, ultra-Orthodox schools and seminaries have reopened in defiance of Israeli government ordinances de(...)

Coronavirus: Israel to impose overnight curfews after Netanyahu spurns lockdowns
- Middle East
- September 7, 2020, 18:49
Israel will implement overnight curfews from Tuesday night on some 40 cities and communities hit hard by coronavirus, after prime minister Binyamin Ne(...)

Israel faces unprecedented showdown in row over parliamentary speaker
- Middle East
- March 24, 2020, 18:58
Israel is facing an unprecedented constitutional showdown after the high court of justice ruled that Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein must allow the par(...)

Catholic leaders urge Israel to allow Gaza Christians to visit Bethlehem
- Middle East
- December 20, 2019, 18:03
Catholic leaders in Israel have urged the state to allow Christians in Gaza to visit Bethlehem, in the West Bank, over the Christmas holiday. In a su(...)

Israel’s parties agree March date for third election in a year
- Middle East
- December 10, 2019, 18:01
The Likud and Blue and White parties have agreed to hold Israel’s next general election on March 2nd should the Knesset parliament fail to agree by a (...)

Netanyahu fights for political survival as corruption hearing begins
- Middle East
- October 2, 2019, 19:57
A new stage in Binyamin Netanyahu’s fight for political survival began Wednesday with the start of a pre-trial hearing on three separate corruption ca(...)

Palestinian leaders suspend all agreements with Israel
- Middle East
- July 26, 2019, 17:57
Palestinian leaders have suspended all agreements with Israel in protest over its demolition of Palestinian homes earlier this week in the Jerusalem-a(...)

How Israel used desalination to address its water shortage
- Irish News
- July 18, 2019, 01:00
Water scarcity, heightened by periods of prolonged drought, fuels tensions across the Middle East. Access to water is a major concern throughout the (...)

Israel hit by unprecedented protests over Ethiopian-Israeli teenager’s murder
- Middle East
- July 3, 2019, 19:14
Police mobilised across Israel on Wednesday night to prevent a repeat of incidents the previous night, when much of the country came to a standstill a(...)