Daily Archives: November 19, 2020
Shalva Band to be honored with top media award
The Shalva Band will be granted a special citation for fostering Israel-Diaspora relations through the arts, as part of the B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism, Israel Hayom has learned.
Formed in 2005 by the Shalva...
WZO chairman Avraham Duvdevani elected global chairman of KKL-JNF
The newly elected board of directors of the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund has voted in World Zionist Organization chairman Avraham Duvdevani as KKL-JNF’s new global chairman.
Duvdevani, who has served as WZO chairman for the...
Watershed Moment for the Middle East
Israel’s new agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, new agreements for airline overflights of countries with which Israel has no new peace or economic pacts, a new aviation agreement with Jordan...
How Nuremberg’s universalism undermined its noble aims
This weekend marks 75 years since the start of the Nuremberg tribunals, which tried leaders of Nazi Germany for their part in the Holocaust and other war crimes.
A clear line links these tribunals to...
Gulf states concerned over possible Biden overtures to Iran, Muslim Brotherhood
While President-elect Joe Biden has yet to fill out key cabinet and foreign-policy positions for his next administration, top U.S. allies in the Arab Gulf are voicing concerns over a return to a more...
Despite reinstatement into party, Corbyn not welcome back as Labour MP
Despite being reinstated this week by the British Labour Party, former party leader Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour member of the British parliament, according to current leader Keir Starmer.
Starmer’s decision on Wednesday came one...
Leader of ‘Crime Minister’ protests compares Netanyahu to Hitler
Sadi Ben Shitrit, one of the leaders of the so-called “Crime Minister” protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, elicited a harsh response from Defense Minister Benny Gantz for comparing Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
Demonstrating...
Netanyahu lauds Pompeo, Trump administration for ‘unprecedented heights’ of US-Israel alliance
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his “personal friendship and everything that went along with it.”
Emerging from what he called a “very intimate and productive...
Netanyahu: Israel in talks with Moderna to increase coronavirus vaccine supply
Israel is working to increase the number of coronavirus vaccine doses it is set to acquire from drugmaker Moderna, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, noting he had spoken with Moderna CEO...
IDF reveals: Iranian Quds Force’s Unit 840 behind Golan Heights bombing attempt
The Iranian Quds Force’s Unit 840 was responsible for the roadside bombs discovered by Israeli forces on Tuesday in the southern Golan Heights, the Israeli military revealed on Thursday. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the...