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Delta opens winter season with new leisure collection

Winter 2025–26 leisurewear, soft textures, and a variety of new sets are joining Delta's shelves. Alongside the launch, new products this week also come from Max Brenner, L’Occitane, and more.

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Transportation Minister Miri Regev met with Senior officials from United Airlines to plan the resumption of flights to Tel Aviv from Chicago and DC.

United Airlines to resume flights to Tel Aviv from Chicago, Washington DC

A B-52 STRATOFORTRESS prepares for refueling during a close-air-support mission.

Delta jet aborts landing to avoid B-52 in North Dakota

 British archaeologists find ancient city of Imet in Egypt's delta.

British archaeologists find ancient city of Imet in Egypt's delta


Omicron variant less severe due to milder effect on lungs - study

Recent data suggested that the Omicron coronavirus variant is milder than Delta and other variants.

 People queue to be tested for COVID-19 in Times Square, as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, US, December 20, 2021.

‘Israel could be completely unprotected against COVID-19 in a month’ - report

“Within a month or two, the protection in Israel could be almost back to where it was before vaccines,” reads a report.

A Clalit health worker fills a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine at Cinema City in Jerusalem.

Israeli tourist arrested in Thailand after breaking COVID-19 quarantine

Ohad Baruch fled his hotel before the results of his COVID-19 test came back - which was positive for Delta. However, he has since tested negative three times, meaning he recovered.

Male hands arrested with handcuffs in Criminal concept (illustrative)

Global stocks rise sharply with investors' renewed risk appetite

World shares had fallen earlier in the week after Omicron infections multiplied around the world.

 A trader in a face mask works on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, US, December 20, 2021.

Israeli thought to have died from Omicron actually had Delta

Doctors considered him to be highly suspicious of carrying the Omicron variant, but the Health Ministry corrected the report.

 Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear work in the Coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2021.

Omicron variant could outcompete Delta, disease expert says

Puren said it was too early to say whether Omicron was displacing Delta in South Africa, since local scientists have only produced 87 sequences of Omicron so far.

 People wait in front of an "Appointment Desk" for quarantine and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test appointments inside Schiphol Airport, after Dutch health authorities said that 61 people who arrived in Amsterdam on flights from South Africa tested positive for COVID-19, in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Omicron poses severe political problem for Bennett - analysis

Now that the worrying new Omicron variant, which may potentially bypass some of the protections provided by COVID vaccines, appears to be spreading, Bennett again faces difficult options.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett looking over his shoulder from his seat at the head of the government table in the Knesset plenum.

No matter how old you are, two shots of Pfizer vaccine don’t last – study

People’s ages had no effect on the vaccine’s waning, meaning that the vaccine waned for everyone and not just older people.

A healthcare worker hands over doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a doctor at Messe Wien Congress Center, which has been set up as coronavirus disease vaccination centre, in Vienna, Austria February 7, 2021.

Israel's COVID vaccine works against Delta variant - new data

EXCLUSIVE: Israel’s BriLife vaccine, a vector-based vaccine rather than a mRNA vaccine, is effective against certain Coronavirus variants.

Photo of Prof. Zeev Rotstein, head of Hadassah-University Medical Center, being screened for eligibility to be vaccinated on Monday as part of the Phase II trial of the Israeli vaccine candidate Brilife. December 20, 2020

Israel successfully completes COVID-19 ‘war game’

The “Omega Exercise,” as it was called by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, was meant to prepare for a hypothetical, new COVID-19 variant.

Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is seen following the completion of the COVID-19 'war games' exercise.