Daily Archives: May 6, 2020
In midst of global pandemic, Israeli defense company quietly changed face of hospitals
The arrival of the coronavirus global pandemic came as suddenly for Israel’s Rafael defense company as it did to many other companies, yet it took very little time for Rafael to spring into action...
Israel extends phone-tracking surveillance for three weeks
A Knesset panel extended the mobile phone-data tracking system by the Shin Bet security service until May 26, giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu less additional time than he had wanted.
Netanyahu’s cabinet will present...
May 6, 1856: Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born
Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939), founder of psychoanalysis, was born on 6 May 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, in the Austro-Hungarian empire (later Príbor, Czech republic), the first of the seven surviving children of Jacob Freud (1815–1896), wool trader, and...
Major upheavals due to coronavirus pose challenges for US-Israel relationship
As the world’s attention has been focused on combating the spread of the coronavirus for the past two months, presidential primary campaign politics in the United States has been put on the backburner. Former...
Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” in Yiddish
In a new video produced by the Forverts, Berlin-based Yiddish singer and songwriter Daniel Kahn performs his own recent Yiddish translation of Bob Dylan’s 1967 song, “I Shall Be Released”.
Kahn, lead singer of the...