admin | July 19, 2021
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak, on January 6, 2021. JACK GUEZ | AFP | Getty Images Israel will allow adults with severe pre-existing medical conditions to receive a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19, making it the first country in the world to do so.
admin | July 19, 2021
The road to Tokyo ran straight through Aberdeen Monday night. The Israeli baseball team was in town for an exhibition game.Team Israel took the field at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen Monday.
admin | July 19, 2021
The ministers met for several hours on Friday, only completing their meeting shortly before Shabbat, and agreed on several principles, the first of which was to ensure that Israel maintains a continuous inventory of vaccines and that vaccination efforts be stepped up. According to Segal, only around 4,000 people were vaccinated last week not enough to help move Israel back toward herd immunity. The government also said it would evaluate the need for a third shot of the vaccine, at least for the elderly
admin | July 13, 2021
JERUSALEM, July 11 (Reuters) - Israel will withhold $180 million in tax revenue it collect last year on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, or about 7% of the PA's total tax revenue, to offset stipends paid to militants and their families, the Israeli cabinet said on Sunday. Under a 2018 law, Israel calculates each year how much it believes the Palestinian Authority has paid in stipends to militants, and deducts that amount from the taxes it has collected on the Palestinians' behalf
admin | July 13, 2021
A well-known Israeli businessman was charged Monday with contact with a foreign agent and passing information to the enemy.
admin | July 13, 2021
Team Israel plays NY Boulders in tune-up for olympics After a rain delay, the New York Boulders played Team Israel in a baseball exhibition game at Palisades Credit Union Park in Pomona July 12, 2021. Team Israel is preparing to play in the Tokyo Olympics
admin | July 13, 2021
British MPs vote to cut $5.5 billion in foreign aid British lawmakers have voted to support a contentious cut to the United Kingdoms foreign aid budget, a move that has slashed billions from programs helping some of the worlds poorest people. The decision came in a 333-298 House of Commons vote that saw some members of Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Conservative Party join with the opposition against the government. Johnsons government announced in November that it would cut the share of national income set aside for foreign aid from 0.7% to 0.5%, citing the blow to Britains economy from the coronavirus pandemic.
admin | July 13, 2021
For 67 years, key documents in the history of the Israeli LGBTQ community were tucked away in the countrys state archives. One of them, bearing the unusual title Castration Surgery, is a legal opinion submitted by Attorney General Haim Cohen to the Health Ministry in 1954.
admin | July 5, 2021
Israels parliament is set to vote on Monday on whether to renew a temporary law first enacted in 2003 that bars Palestinian citizens of Israel from extending citizenship or even residency to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Critics, including many left-wing and Palestinian Israeli legislators, say it is a racist measure aimed at restricting the growth of Israels Palestinian minority, while supporters say it is needed for security purposes and to preserve Israels Jewish character. The law creates an array of difficulties for Palestinian families that span the largely invisible frontiers separating Israel from the occupied territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip territories it seized in the 1967 war that the Palestinian leadership wants for a future state.
admin | July 5, 2021
It was the end of the 1980s and the Guardians Middle East correspondent, Ian Black, was talking shop with his competitor at the Sunday Times, the late Marie Colvin. We were discussing when there might be a Palestinian state, Black recalls of their conversation in Jerusalem. We thought maybe it would happen in two or three years
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