Daily Archives: November 10, 2020
A doctor without borders
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,...
A man who exemplified what it meant to be a Jewish leader
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...
Exiting Donald Trump’s “Heart Of Darkness”: What Have We Learned?
“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’
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...
Rivlin hosts event marking Kristallnacht with presidents of Austria and Germany
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...
US imposes sanctions on individuals, firms allegedly connected to Iran military
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...
UNRWA says it has run out of funds, cannot pay employees
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...
Netanyahu calls for Jewish-Arab unity at Knesset meeting on violence in Arab society
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...
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat dies of COVID-19 complications
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 politburo chief calls for money and weapons to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem
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...