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An illustration of a cyber attack. Credit: F8 studio/Shutterstock.

US Treasury partners with Israel to combat ransomware

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The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Sunday that it was expanding cooperation with Israel to combat the threat of ransomware. The bilateral cooperation will take the form of a U.S.-Israeli Task Force on Fintech Innovation...
View of the city of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert, Oct. 23, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israeli Cabinet approves $160 million plan to strengthen Negev communities

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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a $160.8 million plan to strengthen the communities of the Negev, the Prime Minister’s Office reported. The plan, which comes in the framework of the relocation of Israel Defense Forces bases to...
Ronen Bar, the newly appointed head of the Shin Bet security services, leaves his home in central Israel, Oct. 11, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Shin Bet chief visits Cairo to discuss regional security matters

Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Director Ronen Bar headed to Cairo on Sunday at the head of an Israeli delegation to meet with senior Egyptian security officials. The two sides discussed, among other things, tightening...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Nov. 14, 2021. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Bennett: Israel ‘doing everything’ to secure release of couple arrested in Turkey

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that everything possible was being done to secure the release of the Israeli couple arrested in Turkey on Friday, who face charges of political and military...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addresses a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on Nov. 8, 2021. Photo by Oliiver Fitoussi/Flash90.

Lapid condemns ‘horrifying anti-Semitic incident’ in Poland

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Nationalist protesters called for Jews to be killed or expelled from Poland at a rally in the central Polish city of Kalisz on Thursday. Protesters at the rally, held to mark Poland’s Independence Day, blasted...
Exterior of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue building in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. Credit: Courtesy of “A Tree of Life” documentary.

Documentary on worst anti-Semitic attack in America shows courage under fire

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SWAT teams rushing to a synagogue to save people from a shooting? That was something most people thought they’d never see. But that’s what happened at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue when Gregory Bowers opened...
Dani Dayan. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Dani Dayan on what Holocaust taught about extremes and how anti-Semitism persists

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In his first visit back to the United States as chairman of the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, former Israeli Consul General in New York Dani Dayan seek to impart a sense of...
Exterior of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue building in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. Credit: Courtesy of “A Tree of Life” documentary.

Documentary on worst anti-Semitic attack in America shows courage under fire

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SWAT teams rushing to a synagogue to save people from a shooting? That was something most people thought they’d never see. But that’s what happened at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue when Gregory Bowers opened...

Tel Aviv Opera Produces a Truly Magical ‘Magic Flute’Dorot

A performance of ‘The Magic Flute’ in the evening led us to spend a day in Tel Aviv, enjoying the view of the sea from the restaurant on the sun-drenched promenade, partaking of the...

The Perfect Dose by Jack Rubinstein

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Passionately written science meets the human condition in this occasionally raunchy, at turns hilarious and ultimately illuminating novel. The Perfect Dose follows a run-of-the-mill Midwest physician as he throws himself into a headlong fight...