Israel, Nepal sign agricultural cooperation agreement
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Wednesday signed a cooperation agreement between the Israeli Agency for International Development and Cooperation and the Nepalese Agriculture Ministry, seeking to bolster cooperation in the field.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry...
Shin Bet to continue COVID phone surveillance for additional 21 days
Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Intelligence Services on Wednesday extended the mandate given to the Shin Bet to trace the mobile phones of coronavirus patients as part of the epidemiological investigations held by the Health...
Israeli minister demands Amazon pull anti-Semitic books
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich on Wednesday called on Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to remove books featuring anti-Semitic content from the retail giant’s platform.
The appeal followed a study by the ministry’s...
Israel delivers Iron Dome defense systems to US Army
The Israeli Ministry of Defense delivered the first of two Rafael-made Iron Dome air-defense systems to the U.S. Army, the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
“As a result of the effectiveness of this system, many...
Israeli Health Ministry instructs hospitals to prepare 1,500 new beds for COVID patients
Some 4,953 Israelis tested positive for the coronavirus since Tuesday, bringing the country’s overall tally since the start of the pandemic to 239,806 cases, the Health Ministry stated, adding that on average, 15 percent...
Knesset passes law curtailing protests during COVID-19 lockdown
Following a heated all-night parliamentary session, Israel’s Knesset on Wednesday passed a law limiting public protests during the national COVID-19 lockdown.
Under the law, Israelis are barred from attending demonstrations more than .6 miles from...
‘Israel has the makings of a cyber superpower’
Walking into the Tel Aviv office of Israel National Cyber Directorate head Yigal Unna, you immediately notice a very specific memento—a very weighty plaque he was awarded by his counterparts in the United Arab...
Israeli Treasury: Lockdown will cost $3.4 billion, not $5.7 billion as projected
Israel’s Finance Ministry on Tuesday issued an updated projection for the economic impact of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown currently in effect, from NIS 20 billion ($5.7 billion) down to about NIS 12 billion ($3.4...
In a first, Israel surpasses US in daily COVID mortality relative to population
Israel’s daily tally of coronavirus deaths per million people surpassed that of the United States on Tuesday for the first time since the onset of the global pandemic.
According to a report by a task...
Israel rolls out super-fast 5G network
Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel announced on Tuesday that three Israeli telecommunications companies had been awarded licenses to operate Fifth Generation (5G) communications networks in the country.
“As of today, there is 5G in Israel....