Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Editor David Horovitz and health reporter Nathan Jeffay join host Amanda Borschel-Dan in today's podcast.

This Thursday, will host our first Times of Israel live-streamed event, “Israel’s Judiciary: Reform or Ruin?” We hear what’s on the program.

Preliminary voting is expected to begin Monday on three bills that are key to the makeup of the next government. Likud MK Yariv Levin is also expected to become the new speaker of the Knesset at 16:00. What are these bills and what are their consequences?

Yesterday it was announced that a Libyan man suspected in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan Am passenger jet that killed all 259 people aboard the plane was taken into US custody. The suspect is called Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi. How does his arrest influence the leading narratives of the bombing's perpetrators?

COVID is on the rise again here in Israel, but so are two other viruses, Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV, and common influenza. What did Sheba Medical Center pediatrician Prof. Moshe Ashkenazi have to say?

And finally, we hear about a world first in which Israeli scientists have derived male and female stem cells from the same person. What is significant about harvesting these almost identical cells, aside from their sex?

Discussed articles include:

Join ToI’s live event: Reform or ruin? The next coalition’s plans for the judiciary

Incoming coalition’s 1st legislative blitz begins Monday as Levin takes speakership

Lockerbie bomb suspect announcement puts spotlight back on decades-old investigation

RSV hospitalizations jump 31% in a week, stoking ‘tripledemic’ fear

In world first, Israeli lab derives male and female stem cells from same person

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IMAGE: Unidentified crash investigators inspect the nose section of the crashed Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 airliner in a field near Lockerbie, Scotland, December 23, 1988. The plane crashed two days before, killing more than 270 people. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)

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