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Daily Archives: March 23, 2021

Soldiers in the IDF Military Intelligence's combat unit. Photo: Oren Cohen.

Flying under the radar: The women warriors of Israel’s elite combat intelligence unit

Some four years ago, in typical secrecy, the Israel Defense Forces’ infamous Unit 8200 established its first company of female warriors. The company operates within the framework of 8200’s combat intelligence unit, which meshes...
A Tel Aviv polling station for Israelis in COVID-19 quarantine during the elections for the 24th Knesset, March 23, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Israel employs high-tech solutions for elections during pandemic

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The election for the 24th Knesset, similar to the three before it over the past two years, poses many challenges to the Central Elections Committee, mainly due to the trauma of the coronavirus, which...
Andrew Yang speaks with attendees at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 2019. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

New York mayoral candidate Yang says BDS is ‘nonviolent,’ but ‘anti-Semitic’

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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said in a statement on March 19 that although he doesn’t believe the BDS movement is violent, it is anti-Semitic. Yang told The Forward in a statement, “BDS does not...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Bedouin as part of talking with voters prior to the March 23 election, March 7, 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

Could an Arab party play kingmaker in Israel’s election?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to gain Israeli Arab votes by emphasizing his practical policy towards them by aiding with issues that concern them appears to be gaining traction. He has been seen...
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki. Credit: Wikipedia Hebrew.

Israel confiscates Palestinian minister’s VIP pass after he meets with ICC prosecutor

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Israeli authorities confiscated the VIP border pass of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on his return to Judea and Samaria after meeting at the International Criminal Court, a Palestinian official told Reuters on Sunday. “This is the...

March 23, 1900: Erich Fromm, American psychoanalyst and philosopher, was born

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Erich Fromm, (born March 23, 1900, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died March 18, 1980, Muralto, Switzerland), German-born American psychoanalyst and social philosopher who explored the interaction between psychology and society. By applying psychoanalytic principles to the remedy of...