Daily Archives: January 2, 2019
2018 report shows Israeli unemployment rate low, though cost of living high
Israel’s cost of living is rising more slowly than that of other developed countries, but still maintains a high cost of living.
According to a report published on Monday by the Taub Center, Israeli unemployment...
Israel, U.S., amid similar political soap operas
Chaos in both of my countries.
Israel’s government collapses, and calls an election for April 9th.
The US government is wrapped up in a dispute about the wall, pull out from Syria, and several other claims...
Netanyahu: Trump won’t roll out Mideast peace plan before Israeli election
The Trump administration will not present its long-awaited Middle East peace plan before the Israeli election, set for April 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
The rollout for the plan,...
Eyeing Likud primaries, Housing Minister Gallant quits Kulanu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Yoav Gallant as immigration and absorption minister on Monday. The move followed Gallant’s announcement that he was leaving the Kulanu Party.
Netanyahu’s decision aims to allow Gallant, formerly...
Who knew? Hebrew could be the basis for many English and European words
English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished dictionaries, articles and books.
According to the English Oxford...
At the start of 2019, Israel’s population nears 9 million
With the start of 2019 approaches, Israel’s population is 28,000 away from 9 million people, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Monday.
The count of 8,972,000 is 174,000 more people than the previous year,...
In 2018, more than 3,500 North Americans made Israel their new home
Following the publication of the official year-end statistics by the Jewish Agency for Israel, Nefesh B’Nefesh assisted a total of 3,546 new immigrants (olim) from North America in cooperation with the Jewish Agency for...
Israel announces that it is officially leaving UNESCO
Israel will officially no longer be a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, on Tuesday.
“Israel will not be part of a body that continually rewrites history, including by erasing the Jewish...
Cleveland Clinic medical resident fired for online anti-Semitic statements
The Cleveland Clinic announced on Monday that it fired a medical resident amid reports of her making anti-Semitic remarks online, such as tweeting in 2012 that “ill purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds.”
“This individual...
Terrorism as Power over Death
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Opposing terrorism, especially jihadist terror, has become a continuous security obligation of the US, Europe, and of course Israel. Still, too little serious analytic attention has been directed towards identifying remedies for...