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Daily Archives: November 10, 2020

Israeli orthopedic surgeon Dr. Elhanan Bar-On, head of the Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response. Credit: Sheba Medical Center.

A doctor without borders

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Micka, 23, was the last person rescued from under the rubble of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and brought to the Israel Defense Forces field hospital in Port-au-Prince. Though one leg had to be amputated,...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Credit: Office of Rabbi Sacks (rabbisacks.org/about-us/).

A man who exemplified what it meant to be a Jewish leader

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You didn’t have to agree with everything Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said or wrote to understand the value of what he was trying to teach. The former chief rabbi of Great Britain who died of...
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Exiting Donald Trump’s “Heart Of Darkness”: What Have We Learned?

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“It ain’t over till it’s over,” we learn from New York Yankee great Yogi Berra. Now that Donald J. Trump has been defeated at the polls and is on his way out, this defiling president...

Dark humor, intrigue in ‘Bye Bye Germany’

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Bye Bye Germany is a touching post WW2 dark comedy about a band of Holocaust camp survivors who become door-to-door salesmen hawking linens to unsuspecting Germans. The 2017 film is currently streaming on Amazon (pay...
An event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, hosted by Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, marked 82 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, Nov. 9, 2020. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Rivlin hosts event marking Kristallnacht with presidents of Austria and Germany

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Monday that while anti-Semitism was a more difficult virus to deal with than COVID-19, a vaccine must be found for it. Speaking at an event at the President’s Residence...
Iranian flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

US imposes sanctions on individuals, firms allegedly connected to Iran military

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The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it has imposed sanctions on six individuals and four companies for allegedly working with an Iranian military firm. Those sanctioned allegedly facilitated the procurement of sensitive goods. These include...
A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

UNRWA says it has run out of funds, cannot pay employees

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday that it has run out of funding to pay the salaries of its staff across the Middle East. The U.N. agency...
Arab Israelis protest against violence, organized crime and killings in their communities, in the town of Majd al-Krum, northern Israel. Oct. 3, 2019. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Netanyahu calls for Jewish-Arab unity at Knesset meeting on violence in Arab society

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday issued a message of Jewish-Arab unity while warning against complacency with regard to the dangers of COVID-19. During a meeting of the Knesset Committee on Combating Violence in...
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in Jericho on Feb. 15, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat dies of COVID-19 complications

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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat died Tuesday of complications related to COVID-19. He was 65 years old. Erekat was diagnosed with the coronavirus in early October. Having undergone a lung transplant in 2017, he was...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the Rafah Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 23, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas politburo chief calls for money and weapons to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem

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Hamas political bureau head Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday called for supporters’ “full cooperation” to “liberate Palestine and Jerusalem” in the form of money and weapons. In remarks at the First Electronic Pioneers Conference aired on...