Unhappy marriage can be fatal: Israeli study * Airport in spotlight as virus cases surge * Inults fly at ’occupation-apartheid’ Knesset event * 1st Israeli Olympic archer

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Tuesday, June 22, 2021 [Unhappy marriages can be fatal, increasing male death rate by 19%: Israeli study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Misery during marriage is ‘risk factor just like smoking,’ say Tel Aviv researchers, leaving men 69% more likely to die from a stroke]( Live updates [LIVE: Virus czar on rising infections: ‘This is a local, not general, outbreak’]( By [TOI staff]( [Nachman Ash says most contagion is coming from abroad, blames uptick on arriving travelers who break quarantine; Defense Ministry to help set up another testing facility at airport]( [Daily COVID cases surge to 125, the highest figure in months]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Health officials say heavy fines to be imposed on those who visit banned high-infection countries or break quarantine when returning from abroad]( [Israel pushes vaccines for teens as fast-spreading Delta variant stokes fears]( By [Amy Spiro]( [Health chief: Same vaccines rejected by PA being given to our kids ‘right now’]( By [TOI staff]( Reporter's notebook [Nathan Jeffay]( [Back in COVID mode, Binyamina residents fear new wave starting under their noses]( [As Israel returns to post-pandemic life, in this small town quarantine orders keep arriving and masks are back in use amid concerns that celebrations were premature]( [‘Terrorist,’ ‘fascist’: MKs hurl insults at Knesset ‘occupation-apartheid’ event]( By [TOI staff]( [Far-right Itamar Ben Gvir has shouting match with Arab, left-wing lawmakers at gathering in parliament attended by rights groups and co-hosted by coalition’s Mossi Raz]( [Knesset defense panel head calls for designating far-right Lehava a terror group]( By [TOI staff]( [Arab man charged with attempted murder over Acre stoning]( By [Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff]( [20 Palestinians, 1 Israeli wounded in fresh clashes at East Jerusalem flashpoint]( By [TOI staff]( [4 Palestinians arrested as stones, firebombs thrown at Jewish homes in Sheikh Jarrah; police use batons, tear gas, ‘skunk’ water cannons, sponge-tipped bullets to disperse protest]( [Ra’am MK says party will vote against the Palestinian family reunification law]( By [TOI staff]( [Coalition meeting on Palestinian family reunification ends without breakthrough]( By [TOI staff]( Don't miss a thing [Get The Times of Israel on your Google News]( [Catch everything that really matters on Israel and the Jewish world. 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