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Police scuffle with Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member of the Joint List, an alliance of Arab parties in Israel's Knesset, during a protest against planned evictions in east Jerusalem on Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Video shows Israeli police beating lawmaker at protest

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Israel rejects ICC probe, saying it lacks jurisdiction

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March. 24, 2021, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters after the first exit poll results for the Israeli parliamentary elections at his Likud party's headquarters in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel’s Netanyahu sees prospects fade as his trial resumes

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Kosovo’s top diplomat calls Jerusalem embassy ‘a done deal’

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Kosovo opens its embassy in Jerusalem, Israel

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this March 8, 2021 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, speaks to journalists after meeting the Israeli citizen, who is the 5 millionth person to be vaccinated in Israel, at a ceremony in Tel Aviv. An Israeli official says Netanyahu will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, March 10. It will be Netanyahu's first official trip to the Gulf Arab nation after the two countries established diplomatic relations. (Miriam Alster/Pool via AP)

Israel’s Netanyahu cancels UAE trip in pre-election setback

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate after getting drunk during the Jewish holiday of Purim, in the Mea Shearim ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Purim celebrations threaten fresh virus outbreak in Israel

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FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2021 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to the media during a visit to the Fitness gym ahead of the re-opening of the branch in Petah Tikva, Israel. Israel's attorney general says a plan by Netanyahu to ship surplus coronavirus vaccines to diplomatic allies has been frozen. In a statement, Thursday, Feb. 25, the attorney general says he's conducting a legal review in response to queries from various officials. (AP Photo/Tal Shahar, Yediot Ahronot, Pool, File)

Israeli plan to share vaccines frozen by legal questions

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Israeli actress Carmit Mesilati Kaplan, right, during a visit to the Khan theater ahead of the re-opening of the culture sector, in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool Photo via AP)

For Israel’s allies, road to vaccines runs through Jerusalem

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Leumit Health Care Services vaccination facility and meets Theodor Salzen, the 4 millionth person in Israel to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Netanyahu says Equatorial Guinea will move its embassy to Jerusalem in the latest sign of improving ties with African nations. It would become the third country to move its embassy to the contested city, after the United States and Guatemala. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool via AP)

Israel says Equatorial Guinea to move embassy to Jerusalem

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File - In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 file photo, Israeli police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews in Ashdod, Israel,. Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with Israeli police officers dispatched to close schools in Jerusalem and Ashdod that had opened in violation of coronavirus lockdown rules, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox reject criticism, defy virus rules

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

In this Jan. 13, 2021, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a coronavirus vaccination facility in the northern Arab city of Nazareth, Israel. (Gil Eliyahu/Pool via AP, File)

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pleads not guilty as corruption trial resumes

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2017 file photo, Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. International Criminal Court's decision authorizing its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes investigation against Israel could soon be reverberating in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. While any potential probe could look at Israeli military campaigns in the Gaza Strip, Israel's half-century campaign of building settlements on occupied lands appears to be especially vulnerable to prosecution. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

EXPLAINER: Israeli settlements may face new scrutiny

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 28, 2018 file photo, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICC says its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, appearing to clear the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions. Bensouda, said in 2019 that there was a “reasonable basis” to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip as well as Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. (Bas Czerwinski/Pool file via AP, File)

ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Abraham Twerski, Hassidic rabbi and psychiatrist, dies at 90

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

A Kosovo police officer walks across a red carpet prior to a ceremony held digitally, in the capital Pristina, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. Kosovo and Israel formally have established diplomatic ties in a ceremony held digitally due to the pandemic lockdown. Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla and her Israeli counterpart Gabriel Ashkenazi on Monday held a virtual ceremony signing the documents. The two countries considered it as “making history” and marking “a new chapter.” (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo, Israel establish diplomatic ties

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participate in funeral for prominent rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. The mass ceremony took place despite the country's health regulations banning large public gatherings, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Thousands join in Jerusalem funerals, flout pandemic rules

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE - This June 30, 2020 file photo, shows the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim in the Jordan Valley. West Bank Jewish Population Stats, a pro-settler group says Israel’s West Bank settler population has grown at a far higher rate than the country as a whole over the last four years, a period coincides with the Trump administration’s unprecedented acceptance of settlement activity. The Palestinians and much of the international community view the settlements as illegal and an obstacle to peace. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Report: Israeli settler population surged during Trump era

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Palestinians ask Europe to send monitors for elections

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Root vegetables are displayed at the Union Square Farmers Market in New York on Jan. 8, 2021. Carrots, parsnips and other root vegetables are the stars of the farmers' market during the middle of Winter, and a great way to add variety and nutrition to your cold weather meals. (Katie Workman via AP)

Warm meals for cold times: Getting to know root vegetables

By KATIE WORKMAN - Associated Press