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Israeli government awards Haifa faculty funding for 18 projects related to COVID-19

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The University of Haifa today announced that its faculty members have been awarded funding from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology for 18 of the 84 coronavirus-related research proposals that the government is...
Students in nonpublic schools who receive special education and related services from New York City will be eligible to apply for a free iPad distribution program, April 2020. Credit: Yachad’s IVDU.

New York City Department of Education offers free iPads to students with special needs

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Teach NYS, a division of the Orthodox Union advocating for equitable government funding for New York nonpublic schools, welcomed the New York City Department of Education announcement that students in nonpublic schools who receive...
Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks of Grants, N.M. Source: Screenshot.

ADL denounces New Mexico mayor’s remarks comparing governor, police to Nazis

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The Anti-Defamation League condemned recent comments made by a New Mexico mayor who comparing New Mexico State Police and New Mexico’s governor to the Nazis. Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks of Grants, N.M., said in an...

Rivlin at the Western Wall marking Memorial Day: ‘This year, we cannot cry together’

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Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism, began on Monday evening with a siren and minute of silence in memory of those who have fallen followed by an official...
Medical teams at work at the new biological emergency unit dedicated to COVID-19 at Jerusalem's Shaarei Zedek Medical Center on March 31, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Israel’s COVID-19 death toll hits 208; infection rate continues to slow

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Four more Israelis died of COVID-19 late Monday and early Tuesday, bringing Israel’s death toll to 208, according to the Israeli Health Ministry. As of Tuesday, there have been 15,589 confirmed cases of infection...
A view of Highway 1, the Ma'aleh Adumim-Jerusalem road, from the West Bank area known as E1, with Jerusalem's Mount Scopus seen on the horizon, Dec. 10, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

‘US prepared to recognize application of Israeli law to areas of the West Bank’

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A U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Monday that the United States remains ready to recognize Israel’s annexation of territory in the West Bank, but expects Israel to continue negotiations with the Palestinians. “As we...
Lebanese protesters in Beirut on Oct. 19, 2019. Credit: Shahen Araboghlian via Wikimedia Commons.

Report: One dead, dozens wounded in clashes as Lebanese currency crashes, food prices soar

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At least one person died and dozens more were wounded in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Monday after protests over Lebanon’s increasingly dire economic situation deteriorated into rioting, Arab media reported on...
Israelis stand still as a siren sounds across Israel to mark the country's Memorial Day, which commemorates fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror, in Jerusalem on April 28, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel marks its Memorial Day under tightened COVID-19 restrictions

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Israel came to a standstill on Tuesday morning as sirens sounded marking Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism. This year’s Memorial Day is overshadowed by the...
U.S. State Department Truman Building. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Bipartisan group of senators calls for increased funding for State Department anti-Semitism envoy

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A bipartisan group of 28 senators have called on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs to increase funding for the U.S. State Department’s office that develops and implements...
White-supremacist protesters carry Nazi and Confederate flags in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. Credit: Anthony Crider via Wikimedia Commons.

Report: Far-right, white supremacists using virus to foster anti-Semitism online

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Far-right activists and white supremacists have used the coronavirus pandemic to spread anti-Semitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, according to a report released this month by the American Jewish Congress. “As the coronavirus crisis spreads, white...