admin | January 20, 2022
The Environmental Protection Ministry is working to produce a detailed, interactive map of climate risks to enable Israeli communities and local authorities to better prepare for disasters such as floods and heatwaves, the ministrys chief scientist said Wednesday. Noga Kronfeld-Schor spoke during a four-hour video conference held to update almost 120 representatives of government ministries and state bodies on progress made since Novembers United Nations COP26 climate confab in Glasgow.
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admin | January 20, 2022
Last Thursday, thousands gathered in the Naqab region (Negev), southern Israel, to protest the dispossession of Palestinian Bedouin communities and the response from the Israeli state was brutal. Heavily-armed Israeli police showered crowds with tear gas launched from drones, while opening fire with rubber-coated metal bullets.
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admin | January 20, 2022
A Nebraska lawmaker wants the state to take a stand against any business or organization that boycotts Israel.State Sen. Julie Slama calls LB 845 an act of anti-discrimination
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admin | January 20, 2022
Confined to the Gaza Strip for more than two decades, Yosef Nassar was unable to say goodbye to his mother as she died. After finally being given an Israeli ID card, the 67-year-old now hopes he can travel from the coastal Palestinian enclave.
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admin | January 11, 2022
Bennett: Economy will stay open as much as possible in Omicron wave Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says that despite skyrocketing COVID cases in the country, he is working to ensure the economy stays open. Omicron is a variant that infects more than all the other variants put together, says Bennett in a live press conference ahead of a scheduled meeting of the COVID cabinet this evening
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admin | January 11, 2022
Millions of Israelis are defined as others by religious law. Israels statistics bureau is now set to define them as extended Jewish. In Israel, nearly half a million citizens are defined as others a category for those who are neither Jew nor Arab
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admin | January 11, 2022
While the rest of Israels coronavirus testing network is straining to cope with massive demand, the situation in the countrys Arab community is entirely different: The resumption of classes following the school winter break has led to a small uptick in requests for PCR testing and for more rapid antigen testing administered by medical personnel, but many community COVID coordinators report very limited demand on the whole for testing in the countrys Arab locales. As of Monday, data from the Arab Emergency Committee, a panel of public health experts and public figures that was established at the beginning of the pandemic, pegged 22 Arab communities as red the highest rate of infection and another 21 just one notch lower at orange.
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admin | January 11, 2022
Israeli leaders are likely looking at the unrest and power struggles in Kazakhstan with trepidation. Although the Central Asian republic rarely enters the public discourse and ties seem so marginal that there are no direct flights between the two countries, Kazakhstan is an important source for imported oil and a lucrative market for Israeli arms
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admin | January 11, 2022
The Israeli government does not intend to freeze the Western Wall deal, which was meant to provide the Conservative and Reform movements with a proper egalitarian space and official status at the Jewish holy site. But neither does it plan to push ahead with it at full force. This conflicting message was conveyed to leaders of the non-Orthodox movements, as well as to representatives of the government and Jewish communities in the Diaspora, at a meeting held on Monday with Cabinet Secretary Shalom Shlomo
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admin | January 11, 2022
OPINION: Historians usually date the start of the Holocaust to June 1941 when German troops invaded the Soviet Union, identified Jewish civilians, lined them up and shot them by the thousands.
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