admin | August 9, 2021
Theres no need for a Military Police investigation to know that the soldiers who killed a child, Mohammed al-Alami, in his home village of Beit Ummar last month violated our most basic ethical expectations for the armys operations in the heart of a civilian population. Its still too early to know whether the soldiers who raced after a pickup truck carrying a man and three children and shot deadly fire at it will receive backing from their commanders, or whether theyll be punished in some way and if so, how. Will a punishment be imposed simply to cover military rear ends, or to make the value of a Palestinian childs life clear to all soldiers?
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admin | August 7, 2021
When tensions rose with the US, UK and Israel after the attack, Iran shifted the frontline to Lebanon and Gaza, targeting Israel with rockets last week. When Israel responded, Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired more than 10 rockets from southern Lebanon at Israel on Friday.
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admin | August 7, 2021
JERUSALEM Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, claimed responsibility for firing a volley of rockets over Israels northern frontier on Friday, the latest in a spate of tit-for-tat cross-border attacks that have ratcheted up regional tensions. The salvo was significantly larger than a few previous rocket launches from Lebanon in recent weeks, and the first to be claimed by Hezbollah in many years
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admin | August 7, 2021
Three and a half years ago a government report said longer and more-intense heat waves appear to be our countrys most problematic issue, but the ministry tasked with tackling the problem has come up short, sources say. As a result, many of the poor, ill and elderly are suffering because of the failure to implement the plan, the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change. During exceptional climatic events, the employees of the Social Affairs Ministry must be in daily contact with all the people in risk groups ..
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admin | August 7, 2021
Israel has recorded 3,290 new coronavirus cases since Tuesday, with 234 in serious condition, data from the Health Ministry revealed Wednesday, one day after a slew of tightened gathering restrictions were announced. Israel has recorded a slight drop in the percentage of positive tests, with 3.35 percent of coronavirus tests returning positive. Over 205,000 Israelis have received their third coronavirus vaccine dose, according to Israel's health ministry.
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admin | August 7, 2021
In order to avoid a lockdown and fully celebrate the Jewish holidays, Israelis have to go out and get vaccinated, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Thursday. The future of the Jewish holidays depends on vaccination numbers, Bennett stressed, addressing the Israeli public on his Facebook page in an interactive briefing. The prime minister strongly urged both Israelis over the age of 60 to go and get a third shot and younger individuals who have not gotten jabbed at all to do so immediately.
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admin | August 7, 2021
The government is implementing new or reinstituted coronavirus restrictions in an attempt to flatten the curve of infections and reduce the number of seriously ill hospitalized patients.There has been a rise in morbidity and the start of the fourth wave of coronavirus infections in Israel, with over 3,000 new cases being registered every day for several consecutive days.
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admin | August 7, 2021
Veteran political negotiator and brother of President Isaac Herzog, Michael Herzog, is Prime Minister Naftali Bennetts leading candidate for ambassador to the US, a senior source in Jerusalem said on Thursday. Bennett hopes to bring the nomination to the cabinet for approval on Sunday. cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); Currently a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Herzog had a long IDF career including as head of strategic planning, and retired a brigadier-general
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admin | August 7, 2021
JTA In 2016, Beatie Deutsch placed sixth in the Jerusalem half marathon. Watching Deutsch, an Israeli born in the United States, you would have never guessed that she had taken up running only four months earlier. The following year she ran the Tel Aviv Marathon while seven months pregnant with her fifth child
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admin | August 1, 2021
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights in Israel are considered the most developed in the Middle East.[1] Although same-sex sexual activity was legalized in 1988, the former law against sodomy had not been enforced since a court decision in 1963. Israel became the first country in Asia to recognize unregistered cohabitation between same-sex couples, making it the first country in Asia to recognize same-sex unions in any capacity.
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