Daily Archives: April 20, 2020
Yom Hashoah ceremonies to be observed online-only due to coronavirus crisis
Though Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations usually include large ceremonies and events attended by thousands, the somber occasion will be marked this year exclusively in digital format for the first time ever, due...
Israeli Holocaust survivor’s testimony to be aired via Facebook live
While official in-person ceremonies are canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Jewish Agency for Israel will host two virtual Yom Hashoah events, bringing Jews around the world together to hear from Holocaust survivor...
Global Jewish population still short of pre-Holocaust figure
Eighty-one years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population is still short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the war in 1939, with Israel’s Central Bureau of...
Remembering the Holocaust in a post-‘sacred survival’ era
For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the generation that arose in the aftermath of World War II, the Shoah was the...
To my Holocaust-survivor grandmother, who had a penchant for Wimbledon
My grandmother, Reggie Richman, passed away on April 10 at the age of 92 from complications due to the coronavirus (she also had pneumonia).
She was a Holocaust survivor, a teacher, a mother, grandmother and...
Netanyahu, Gantz ink deal to form new government after year-long political impasse
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz have signed a new coalition agreement to form a “national emergency government” ending a political deadlock that lasted more than a year.
“I...
Israeli Olympian shares training regimen, raises money for coronavirus relief
Israeli Olympian Sagi Muki is sharing his home-training regimen online to help motivate those in isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, and dedicating his time to projects to raise money for coronavirus relief.
Muki is...
Report: Palestinians launch diplomatic offensive to prevent Israeli annexation
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that he was in talks with various international parties about the need to “preserve the two-state solution” in the face of possible annexation by Israel of territory...
Interior Ministry: Half-a-million Israelis have flown home since start of pandemic
Since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some 500,000 Israelis have returned home from abroad, according to the country’s Interior Ministry.
Approximately 15 percent returned after an “extended stay” abroad, the business daily Globes reported on...
Israeli unity negotiations blow up as Gantz walks out
Two hours of talks to finalize a deal for a unity government fell apart Monday morning after Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz walked out of the meeting with incumbent Israeli Prime Minister...