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FILE - People enjoy the beach front in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 22, 2021. Residents of Israel’s seaside metropolis Tel Aviv have for years complained of how expensive it is, with living costs taking a chunk out of their paychecks. A report released Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research group linked to the Economist magazine, said Tel Aviv has emerged as the most expensive city to live in. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Tel Aviv is priciest city, outranking Paris in new report

By Ami Bentov - Associated Press

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, left, smiles as he speaks to Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid during a special session of the Knesset, whereby Israeli lawmakers elect a new president, at the plenum in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

‘Government of change’: Unwieldy alliance apparently ends Netanyahu’s long reign in Israel

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

People sit in a restaurant in the Jaffa neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Historic Jaffa's rapid gentrification in recent years is coming at the expense of its mostly Arab lower class. With housing prices out of reach, discontent over the city’s rapid transformation into a bastion for Israel’s ultra-wealthy is reaching a boiling point. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

In Jaffa, gentrification stokes discord as Arabs pushed out

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Israeli police scuffle with protesters in Arab neighborhood

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 7, 2021, file photo, people eat in a restaurant as restrictions are eased following months of government-imposed shutdowns, in Tel Aviv, Israel. While Israel provides a glimpse of what may be possible with high immunization rates, it also offers insight into the problems that lie ahead: Workplaces and schools are now grappling with what to do with those who refuse to get vaccinated. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel’s dilemma: Can the unvaccinated return to workplaces?

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center left, tours the Mahane Yehuda market while campaigning a day before national elections, in Jerusalem, Monday, March 22, 2021. The March 23 vote is Israel’s fourth parliamentary election in two years. (AP Photo/Oren Ben Hakoon)

Israel votes: Netanyahu’s fate hangs on Tuesday’s elections

By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

The national flags of Bahrain, Israel and America, flutter in near the Israeli flag carrier El Al plane that will fly an Israeli delegation, accompanied by U.S. aides, to Bahrain to formalise relations and broaden Gulf cooperation, at Ben Gurion airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

US, Israeli envoys fly to Bahrain to advance nascent ties

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

US sells ambassador home in Israel, securing Jerusalem move

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Team members of Israeli artist Itay Zalait, work on an installation depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a mock &quot;Last Supper&quot; at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The installation, placed in a central Tel Aviv square on Wednesday, in the latest twist in a summer of protests against Netanyahu and his lengthy rule. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli artist takes aim at Netanyahu with life-size statue

By ODED BALILTY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 20, 2019, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel. The U.S. State Department has put the ambassador to Israel's official residence outside Tel Aviv up for sale, in a decision aimed at cementing the American embassy's controversial move to Jerusalem. The beachfront mansion in the affluent Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya is going on the market because most of Ambassador David Friedman’s day-to-day activities are based at the embassy in Jerusalem, the State Department said Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Jim Young/Pool Photo via AP, File)

After embassy move, U.S. to sell envoy’s house near Tel Aviv

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

In this Saturday, April 25, 2020 photo, people keep social distancing amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, during &quot;Black Flag&quot; protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel. During the past two weekends, thousands of people have gathered in perfect geometric patterns to comply with public-health restrictions as they express their anger over the continued rule of a prime minister charged with serious crimes. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Chalk marks, discipline aid mass protest in virus-era Israel

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this May 14, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, left, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin unveil an inauguration plaque during the opening ceremony of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Joe Biden: Jerusalem to stay site of embassy in Israel

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 6, 2020 photo, a railway station is deserted after authorities shut down railway service in effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, Israel. The once thrumming city of Tel Aviv, famed for its nightlife and bustling beachfront, has fallen eerily quiet due to Israel's tight movement restrictions to halt the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

AP PHOTOS: In empty Tel Aviv, only the clouds seem to move

By ODED BALILTY - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 photo, a paramedic from the Palestinian Ministry of Health disinfects Palestinian laborers to help contain the coronavirus, as they exit an Israeli army checkpoint after returning from work in Israel, near the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah. The virus outbreak poses a major dilemma for tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers working inside Israel who can no longer freely travel back and forth. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Outbreak poses dilemma for Palestinians working in Israel

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Opera star Placido Domingo listens to applause at the end of a concert in Szeged, Hungary. Despite objections from sexual abuse activists, the Israeli Opera will host a week-long singing competition organized by Domingo in Tel Aviv later this year. Domingo has withdrawn from all U.S. performances since reports by The Associated Press last year detailed accusations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate, sexually charged conduct. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh, File)

Israeli Opera to host Placido Domingo despite protest

Associated Press

In this photo made on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, first ever public bus operated on Shabbat, drives through central Tel Aviv, Israel. Tel Aviv has taken a major step to cement its status as Israel's secular mecca, launching a public transit system operating on Saturdays and redrawing the lines in the Jewish state's culture wars between religious and secular citizens. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Sabbath buses barrel through Israel’s religious-secular rift

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

Rockets are launched from Gaza Strip to Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Israel killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza early Tuesday in a resumption of pinpointed targeting that threatens a fierce round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: 8 die as Israeli planes hit Gaza

Associated Press

People take part in annual Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 14, 2019.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Pride parade kicks off in Tel Aviv with partyers, protesters

By SHAHAR GOLAN - Associated Press

Israeli singer Dana International, left, the winner of the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest and Israeli Netta Barzilai, the winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest perform during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

The Netherlands wins Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Jonida Maliqi of Albania performs during the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest second semi-final in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Eurovision Song Contest decides this year’s final lineup

By ALON BERNSTEIN - Associated Press