Daily Archives: December 21, 2020
On UAE visit, Israel’s chief rabbi certifies new Jewish school, inspects kosher food
During a visit this weekend to the United Arab Emirates’ Jewish community, Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef inaugurated the first certified Jewish school in the Gulf states and invested Rabbi Levi Duchman as rabbi of the Emirati...
Gush Etzion’s ‘Lone Oak Tree’ plaza rededicated in festive ceremony
After two years of renovations, Gush Etzion’s “Lone Oak Tree” plaza was rededicated on Monday at a ceremony attended by Israeli Agriculture Minister Alon Schuster, Tourism Ministry director-general Amir Halevi, Gush Etzion Regional Council...
Red-state Mizrahi Israelis don’t want liberal sympathy or solutions
Liberal American Jews are generally confused when it comes to Israelis. On the one hand, they claim to have empathy and support for Jews of color. But in order to inflate the number of...
At tree-planting ceremony, Kushner says Jerusalem ‘core of solution’ to Mideast peace
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said that Jerusalem is not a source of division, but rather the key to peace in the Middle East, at a tree-planting ceremony at the...
Violence in Israel’s Arab sector claims 111 lives since early 2020
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee in Israel this weekend called an emergency meeting over the spike in violence in the sector with 111 murders having taken place since early 2020.
Since the beginning of the...
Israel’s chief rabbi, IDF chief of staff roll up sleeves for COVID-19 jab
In an attempt to persuade Israelis to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a number of public figures in the country—among them Chief Rabbi David Lau, Bnei Brak Mayor Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein and Israel Defense...
Iranian hacker group claims to have penetrated IAI subsidiary
Iranian hacker group Pay2Key on Sunday claimed to have successfully breached the computer system of Israel Aerospace Industries’ subsidiary company Elta Systems, which developed the radar used in the Iron Dome missile defense system,...
El Al to operate first direct flight from Israel to Morocco
El Al Airlines announced on Sunday that it would operate its first flight to Rabat, Morocco on Tuesday.
The flight will carry a joint U.S.-Israeli delegation, reported Reuters.
The direct flight should take around six hours and...
US dollar in freefall against Israeli shekel
Although the U.S. dollar rallied somewhat against the shekel on Monday morning—hitting NIS 3.426 after plummeting to NIS 3.23 on Friday—the current exchange rate marks the lowest point for the United States currency since...
Netanyahu opens TikTok account, promotes COVID-19 vaccine
Moments after being the first Israeli to be inoculated against COVID-19 on Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined TikTok by posting his first video outside the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv where he received the vaccine.
“While...