Daily Archives: October 1, 2020
Shin Bet to continue COVID phone surveillance for additional 21 days
Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Intelligence Services on Wednesday extended the mandate given to the Shin Bet to trace the mobile phones of coronavirus patients as part of the epidemiological investigations held by the Health...
Israeli minister demands Amazon pull anti-Semitic books
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich on Wednesday called on Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to remove books featuring anti-Semitic content from the retail giant’s platform.
The appeal followed a study by the ministry’s...
Israel delivers Iron Dome defense systems to US Army
The Israeli Ministry of Defense delivered the first of two Rafael-made Iron Dome air-defense systems to the U.S. Army, the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
“As a result of the effectiveness of this system, many...
Palestinians continue to incite terrorism and violence in school curriculum, says watchdog group
A Palestinian student in fourth grade opens his math book and is asked to count the number of martyrs in Palestinian uprisings based on an accompanying photograph of raised coffins at a mass funeral....
October 1st. 2008: Boris Yefimov (Fridlyand), the chief illustrator of Izvestia and a political...
Boris Yefimov (Fridlyand), the chief illustrator of Izvestia and a political cartoonist for more than ninety years, died at 109 (variously reported as 107 and 108) on this date in 2008. Yefimov published his first book...