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Daily Archives: January 19, 2021

A houbara bustard bird in Israel. Photo by Dr. Haim Shohat/Flash90.

Israel, UAE give wing to preservation of rare desert bird

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The Abraham Accords recently signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is good news not only for the people of the region, but also for its birds. More specifically, for an endangered houbara bustard...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2017. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.

Iran stripped of General Assembly voting rights over $16.2 million debt to UN coffers

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Iran is among seven countries that have lost their right to vote in the U.N. General Assembly because of unpaid dues, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement on Monday. Along with the Islamic...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video conference with world leaders on Jan 18, 2021. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu urges world leaders to ‘pool’ scientific, economic efforts amid pandemic

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on world leaders on Monday to work together to promote scientific research and economic growth amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Prime Minister’s Office said. “We all have research and...
A staff member receives a second dose of Pfizer's BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, on Jan. 10, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

High level of antibodies after second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Israeli study shows

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More than 98 percent of people who received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have developed antibodies that neutralize the virus, according to the results of a serological study conducted by Tel Aviv’s Sheba...