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Schools across the country are celebrating national “Black Lives Matter at School” week which teaches students about “restorative justice,” “globalism” and to be “trans-affirming,” according to the curriculum.

Israel reportedly carried out a drone strike targeting an Iranian munitions factory Sunday as tensions grow between the two countries.

At least seven people were killed in a shooting at a synagogue in Jerusalem, with three also being wounded.

At least five school districts, most in the northeast of the country, have reinstated mask requirements for students amid an uptick in COVID-19 infections, and two requested that students be tested for the virus before returning to school from winter break.

Medical experts Yoav Yehezkelli and Amnon Lahad wrote a letter to the Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ) addressing mask mandates.

The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation announced days before the new year that the Pool of Siloam, a biblical site cherished by Christians and Jews, will be open to the public for the first time in 2,000 years in the near future.

Biblical archaeology is a slow process.

Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel's most right-wing and religiously conservative government, pledging settlement expansion, subsidies for ultra-Orthodox allies, and judicial reform.

An Israeli professor claims that a recent translation of an eighth-century B.C. inscription containing the name of Judean King Hezekiah in Jerusalem's City of David is "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Israel of all time."

The relative effectiveness of the fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the elderly was negligible within months, according to a new study.