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The woman seriously wounded in a rock-throwing terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf is Rivka Tytell, the wife of Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell, Hebrew-language media reports.
Jack Tytell (right), convicted terrorist, is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on January 16, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Tytell is serving two life sentences and an additional 30 years in prison for murdering two Palestinians, two other attempted murders, placing a bomb next to now-deceased far-left academic Zev Sternhell, and other offenses.
The Israel Defense Forces is encircling the adjacent Palestinian village of Deir Nidham in its attempt to apprehend the suspects, reports say.
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The car driven by Rivka Tytell, from the Neve Tsuf settlement, was pelted with rocks near the Palestinian village of Deir Nidham on Sunday afternoon. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Two of her children who were in the car were unharmed. IDF forces were called out to search for the suspects. Her husband Jack Tytell is serving two life sentences for the murder of two Palestinians and other violent offences. He has applied for permission to visit his wife in hospital.
Tension on the West Bank is running high since Esther Horgen was murdered last month while on a run in a local wood.
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Health Minister Yuli Edelstein expresses optimism about the vaccination campaign and says that any Israeli who wants to be inoculated will be able to by the end of March. However, he adds that with current infection numbers skyrocketing, “there is no avoiding a full-blown lockdown, including closing schools.”
A lockdown entered effect last week but has been slammed as ineffective and full of holes, such as the education system and workplaces remaining open and a lack of enforcement.
“We’re going through a very severe outbreak and are probably in a more dire situation than we were in at the beginning of September,” Edelstein says in Nazareth during a tour of vaccination centers in the country’s north.
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Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group makes a speech marking a year since the US assassination of Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani and a pro-Iran Iraqi militia leader, and threatens that Iran “doesn’t need help” from its allies and will take revenge “when it decides so.”
Nasrallah says Tehran will not ask any other country or body to conduct the strike on its behalf.
“Iran is a strong country and it will decide when and how to react,” he says. “It doesn’t need to rely on others.”
However, he says that Hezbollah will help preserve an “atmosphere of tension” in the region following the assassinations, in addition to the more recent killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, in a strike attributed to Israel.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports stepping up the lockdown restrictions for a week or two to curb rising coronavirus infections, Hebrew-language media reports.
That would include resuming online studies for grades 5-10 and placing more limits on workplaces.
Some members of the Blue and White party reportedly oppose the plan and are insisting that the outbreak is slowing down, reports say. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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