Month July 2020
Former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton was interviewed on Army Radio on Tuesday. Topics ranged from Israel’s national security, uncertainty over future U.S. leadership in the upcoming elections… Read more » The post Bolton: Ideal Time for Israel… Continue Reading →
The Israel Airport Authorities announced on Monday that the date for a re-launch of air travel has been postponed once again. Current restrictions will remain in place until Sept. 1.… Read more » The post Aviation, Tourism Sectors Face Record… Continue Reading →
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people… Read more » The post Shots Heard as Bus Passengers… Continue Reading →
The Knesset’s Coronavirus Committee voted Tuesday morning to reject new government rules banning indoor seating at restaurants and to allow restaurants to reopen and serve up to 20 people indoors… Read more » The post Gov’t Closes Restaurants, Knesset’s Coronavirus… Continue Reading →
While Israel is facing another wave of the coronavirus, about a hundred young people, students and graduates of the Gymnasia Rehavia in Yerushalayim, held graduation event Sunday evening in contrast to… Read more » The post Gymnasia Rehavia Holds Graduation Party… Continue Reading →
The Knesset plenum on Monday night gave final approval to a bill authorizing the Shin Bet to assist in the national efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.… Read more » The post Knesset Approves Cellphone Tracking of… Continue Reading →
Asian shares were mostly higher Tuesday on rising hopes for an effective vaccine to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Scientists at Oxford University reported that their experimental coronavirus vaccine prompted a… Read more » The post Asia Shares Rise on Vaccine… Continue Reading →
The University of Oxford‘s possible COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty that will happen, the lead developer of the… Read more » The post Oxford: Possible – But Not… Continue Reading →
European Union leaders clinched an “historic” deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-throttled economies in the early hours of Tuesday, after a fractious summit that lasted almost five… Read more » The post EU Reaches ‘Historic’ Deal on… Continue Reading →
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Nurses across Israel went on strike on Monday at 7 a.m. after talks between the nurses’ union and the Finance Ministry ended without an agreement on Sunday. Nurses will work on a minimized “Shabbat mode” schedule during the strike at… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Monday that he is putting Russia and other foreign governments “on notice” that he would act aggressively as president to counter any interference in U.S. elections. The statement came hours after… Continue Reading →
New York City moved to what was supposed to be the final phase of its coronavirus reopening Monday, but with indoor service at restaurants and bars still banned, malls and museums shuttered and theaters still dark amid concerns about the… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to once again take center stage in the government’s coronavirus response after a White House debate over how best to deploy its greatest and most volatile asset — him — played out… Continue Reading →
Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York say that an existing FDA-approved drug has the potential to reduce the danger of the coronavirus into nothing worse than a common cold or even… Continue Reading →
New Jersey parents will be allowed to opt-out of in-person education and choose all remote learning for their children when schools reopen this fall, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. The Democratic governor said state education officials will be releasing guidance… Continue Reading →
BOSTON (AP) — Whole Foods Market discriminated against its employees when it barred them from wearing Black Lives Matter face coverings while on the job, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Boston. The supermarket chain disciplined, intimidated and… Continue Reading →
Recent reports in Yemenite media outlets and an Egyptian newspaper that the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen has rounded up the country’s few remaining Jews as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign may be completely false, The Jerusalem Post… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the first game of Major League Baseball’s pandemic-delayed regular season. The Washington Nationals announced Monday that Fauci — a self-described… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – In the past few weeks, several celebrities have faced a backlash for sharing statements from Louis Farrakhan. But one star seems to have escaped notice: Madonna. On July 4, Madonna posted a video to her Instagram account that… Continue Reading →
The desperate race to corral the coronavirus pandemic took on even greater urgency Monday as a burgeoning economic crisis collided with political turmoil. Even as the latest experimental vaccine appeared to show promise, politicians in Washington seemed far apart in… Continue Reading →