Most of Israel Is Getting Back to Pre-Covid-19 Life. Not This Town. – The Wall Street Journal
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PARDES HANNA, IsraelWith its world-leading vaccination program, Israel has offered other countries such as the U.S.
Israel may toss millions of vaccines. Why won’t it give them to the PA instead? – The Times of Israel
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Israel, aworld leader in COVID-19 vaccination rates, has the kind of problem most countries would love to be facing. In November 2020, while the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was still in its trial phase, Israel contracted to purchase ten million vaccine units from the British-Swedish company.
Israel’s ban on travel to 7 countries over COVID variants takes effect – The Times of Israel
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New regulations banning travel to seven countries over fears of importing COVID-19 variants into Israel went into effect on Monday, the Health Ministry announced. Effective Monday, Israelis cannot travel to India, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, Ethiopia, or Turkey unless they receive special permission. Israelis may take connecting flights through those countries, provided the layover is shorter than 12 hours
Intel to invest $600 mln to expand chip, Mobileye R&D in Israel – Reuters
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An Intel Tiger Lake chip is displayed at an Intel news conference during the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Steve Marcus Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development (R&D) and confirmed it was spending $10 billion on a new chip plant
Israel’s Version of Moving Fast and Breaking Things: The New Cybersecurity Bill – Lawfare
admin | May 8, 2021
The Prime Ministers Office (PMO) of Israel published a new bill in February entitled Cybersecurity and the National Cyber Directorate. If passed by government committee and the Knesset, this law will redefine cybersecurity governance in Israel. The PMO officially tabled an earlier version of the bill in June 2018, but that bill did not advance through the legislative process given the strong objections it raised both in the professional cybersecurity community and among other government authorities.
RIL seeks permission to fly in Israeli experts for training and installation – Mint
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Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has sought special permission to fly an Israeli team of experts to India to train and install a rapid COVID-19 identification solution it acquired from an Israeli start-up for USD 15 million.
‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis – The Guardian
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On Wednesday 3 August 1938, a short advertisement appeared on the second page of the Manchester Guardian, under the title Tuition. I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent Boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family, the advert said, under the name Borger, giving the address of an apartment on Hintzerstrasse, in Viennas third district.
My dad is a Moroccan Jew and I think of him as Arab. But is he really? – Forward
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Bosnian War prosecutor from US tries to help Sarajevo’s Jews survive virus surge – The Times of Israel
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Jewish Journal-Massachusetts via JTA Its been nearly a decade since Phillip Weiner last lived in Sarajevo, where he served as an international war crimes judge. But Weiner has remained in touch with the Bosnian Jews he met there, and when he heard about their plight during the COVID-19 pandemic, he knew he had to do something.
Alphonse Bertillon and the Troubling Pursuit of Human Metrics – The MIT Press Reader
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To measure was to apprehend and be made accountable, and nowhere was this more resonant than in the identification and classification of criminals. Doris Abravaya stood just over five feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds when she graduated from Manhattan Technical High School in 1933. Her time there was documented on a single oversized card, preprinted with basic data entry fields school attendance logged in pencil, family facts registered in ink alongside cryptic acronyms and earnest equations, matriculation dates, and at least seven different addresses.
