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Former Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Media polls show Yamina to grow, Likud and Blue and White to slip

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Media polls released on Thursday show that if Israeli elections were held today, Yamina would grow, while the Likud and the Blue and White parties would slip. Channel 13 News projected that Likud would win 30...
A total of 140 new arrivals from France landed at Ben-Gurion International on Aug. 3, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Citing anti-Semitism in Europe, 140 French Jews move to Israel

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A total of 140 new olim (“immigrants”) from France arrived in Israel earlier this week and were welcomed at Ben-Gurion Airport by Pnina Tamano-Shata, Israeli Minister of Immigration and Absorption, and the president of the International...
U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support future cooperation and exchanges between the United States and Israel on biodiversity conservation, protected areas and the protection of cultural and historical heritage, Aug. 5, 2020,. Credit: U.S. Department of the Interior.

US, Israel sign MOU to boost cooperation on conservation, nature preservation

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The United States and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support future cooperation and exchanges on biodiversity conservation, protected areas and the protection of cultural and historical heritage, announced the U.S....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a videoconference with Israel Institute for Biological Research director-general Professor Shmuel Shapira. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu congratulates Israeli vaccine researchers ahead of human trials

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Israeli coronavirus vaccine researchers ahead of the start of human trials. “I am pleased to hear about the progress and I want to congratulate you on it. Continue on...
Participants in the Zoom graduation of the Birthright Excel 2020 summer program, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2020. Credit: Israel Birthright.

One of Jewish world’s ‘most prestigious summer programs’ marks online graduation

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The Birthright Excel 2020 summer program concluded this week with a special broadcast directly from Birthright Israel’s Innovation Center at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange building. Zohar Zisapel, prominent Israeli entrepreneur and president of the...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz pays a visit to Leah and Simcha Goldin, parents of fallen IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin, as they attend a passive protest outside the military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 2, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Gantz: Israel to begin human trials on COVID-19 vaccine in September

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Thursday that the Jewish state will soon begin human trials on a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Gantz, who visited the Israel Institute for Biological Research earlier in the day...
Then-Director-General of Israel's Health Ministry professor Roni Gamzu attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on Jan. 7, 2014. Photo by Flash90.

Israel must get morbidity down by Sept. 1 to avoid lockdown, says national task...

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Israel’s National Coronavirus Project Manager Roni Gamzu said on Wednesday that if the country’s COVID-19 morbidity levels don’t decline by Sept. 1, local or national lockdowns will have to be considered. Following a meeting of...
View of the sunset in the border area between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights on Feb. 20, 2019. Photo by Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90.

Netanyahu warns Hezbollah after Israeli retaliatory strikes in Syria

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah on Tuesday that Israel would take the necessary measures to defend itself after Israel launched airstrikes against targets in Syria. “We hit a cell,...
Joint Arab List Knesset member Sami Abou Shahadeh and a Balad delegation present convicted terrorist Anis Saffouri with a plaque following his release from prison. Source: Official Balad Facebook page.

Joint Arab List MK participates in celebration for released terrorist

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Israeli Knesset member Sami Abou Shahadeh of the Joint Arab List’s Balad faction participated in a recent event celebrating the release of convicted terrorist Anis Saffouri, who was sentenced in 2009 to 14 years...
Ancient stone tools uncovered at a flint-knapping site near the city of Dimona in Israel's Negev Desert. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority.

Israeli youths help uncover evidence of first human migration from Africa

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The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday that it had uncovered evidence of an advanced flint-working technique at tool “factory” in the Negev Desert, supporting the hypothesis that the Negev was on the early...