Daily Archives: October 13, 2020
Israeli Health Ministry: More than half of elderly COVID patients are ultra-Orthodox
Although the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Israel has dropped over the course of the country’s second lockdown, a Health Ministry team charged with outreach to the insular haredi community reported on Tuesday that more...
‘We are trying to move Israel up in line for COVID vaccinations’
The beginning of the end of Israel’s current COVID-19 lockdown depends on the public demonstrating unity and discipline, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday afternoon at a Likud faction meeting.
“It also depends...
In Knesset speech, Israel’s president blasts government over budget crisis, disunity
In his address to the opening of the 23rd Knesset’s winter session on Monday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin launched a fierce attack on the coalition government for its failure to pass a state budget...
October 13th, 1983: Ruby Myers, died in Mumbai at 76
India’s silent film star and movie producer, Sulochana, whose real name was Ruby Myers, died in Mumbai at 76 on this date in 1983. Discovered while working as a telephone operator, she became, in...
October 13th, 1925: Lenny Bruce, American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist, was born
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), who stretched the boundaries of free speech with comedy and commentary and taboo subjects, was born in Mineola, New York on this date in 1925. He first became controversial...