Lockdowns, pandemics, elections − oh my! 5781 was chock-full of dramatic events. Here is a look back at the most popular stories among Israel Hayom readers since last Rosh Hashanah 2020.
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Another excuse not to get vaccinated
As if getting chipped weren't bad enough, a rabbi declared that getting vaccinated against COVID could give you really great fashion sense.
Grab a calendar
On a more serious note, there was some concern that the COVID vaccine could wreak havoc with women's menstrual cycles.
Politics are a snooze
Social media was all atwitter at reports that US President Joe Biden, whose Afghanistan withdrawal was not going as planned, dropped off while meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Benentt.
If it's not in Jerusalem, how can it be in danger?
There was also some discussion about Al-Aqsa Mosque actually being a bit to the east, near the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps Waze could help?
He was blind, but now he sees
While all eyes were on COVID, Israeli startup CorNeat saw huge success with its artificial cornea implant, bringing hope to the millions of people worldwide who suffer from corneal blindness.
She's super-bendy
After winning pretty much everything for a year, Israel's Linoy Ashram won the country's second gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics. Then she sat down with Israel Hayom to share her story.
Israeli cybersecurity 1, hackers 0
Hackers breached servers of over 1,300 organizations to mine digital currency and collect information. Security researchers Liad Mordekovitz and Ophir Harpaz from the cybersecurity firm Guardicore identified the attack, and Guardicore put out recommendations for cybersecurity chiefs.
It's an alligator gar, not a spotted gar!
A woman out for a day of shopping encountered a predatory fish in a decorative pool at a shopping center in central Israel. (Can we say she was "malled"?) We don't know what the fish was doing there, but we do know that at least one ichthyologist was quick to correct us on Facebook when we misidentified the fish.
A horse is a horse, of course… but not in Tokyo
Israeli equestrian Daniel Bluman had to miss the Tokyo Games over what he said was a clerical error identifying his horse as "American" rather than "Israeli." Can it make aliyah?
Jonathan and Esther, a love story
In an exclusive interview ahead of Passover 2021, Jonathan Pollard describes the decision to hand over classified information to Israel, the brutal expulsion from the Israeli Embassy, the war for survival in prison, the love story with Esther, and the moment he arrived back home, in Israel.
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