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IDF records zero positive coronavirus cases for first time since onset of pandemic
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday that for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic reached Israel in March 2020, not a single soldier had tested positive for the virus.
The military credited its...
‘It’s impossible to identify 45 bodies in 6 hours’
The director of the Israel’s Abu Kabir Forensic Institute has rejected claims that the identification of the bodies of those who died in Thursday’s deadly stampede at Mount Meron had been delayed.
Responding to complaints...
International Federation imposes four-year judo ban on Iran over discrimination
The International Judo Federation suspended Iran on Thursday for attempting to prevent its athletes compete against opponents from Israel, reported The Associated Press.
The IJF imposed a four-year ban that prevents Iranian judokas from competing at...
Miami imam: ‘We will take back Palestine, the Jews will run like mice’
Miami Imam Dr. Fadi Yousef Kablawi said in a recent sermon that Israel is the “land of Islam” and that Israelis would “run like mice” when Muslims come to take it back,
In a Friday...
Israelis make more than 2,200 blood donations to help Meron victims
Following the tragedy at Israel’s Mount Meron on Thursday night in which 45 people were killed and many more injured, blood donation sites were set up nationwide on Friday.
The public answered the call, and...
Poems of Natan Alterman, Zelda, to be performed May 4
Two famous Israeli Poets, Natan Alterman and Zelda, will be featured at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, in a salute to Jewish Poets of the Past. The evening presented by Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices, under the...
Debut Novel Takes Us to a Dystopian Planet
The Melody of Memory by Cheryl Brin, (c) 2021, ISBN 9781953-034694; 307 pages, available on Amazon.
The action in this debut novel by San Diego County resident Cheryl Brin occurs sometime in the distant future on a...
Israeli Ministry of Health Awards Jerusalem College of Technology Nursing Instructor for Outstanding Contributions...
Dr. Chedva Levin, a leading instructor in Internal Medicine at the Jerusalem College of Technology’s (JCT) Department of Nursing and an intensive care nurse at Sheba Medical Center, is among the recipients of a...
Anti-Israel candidates run for citywide NYC offices
Jewish New Yorkers could be governed by two anti-Israel candidates now running for citywide offices.
A mayoral candidate who dubbed Israel “an apartheid state” last December, Dianne Morales, was afforded a measure of legitimacy by...
Begging for American interference
Military officers in democratic countries have a difficult mission: to protect the people and to wage war at the command of their governments. It isn’t easy, and the Israel Defense Forces, like the U.S....