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Daily Archives: January 24, 2022

Jews pray at the grave of Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi in Tzfat, July 2006. Photo by Haim Azulay/Flash90.

500-year-old letter offers rare look into the life of a legendary Kabbalist

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The National Library of Israel is making available to the public for the first time a 500-year-old letter shedding light on the life of one of the most influential kabbalists in Jewish history. The letter,...
Sheina Vaspi. Credit: Courtesy of International Paralympic Committee.

Israel’s first Winter Paralympics athlete is an alpine skier

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Downhill skier Sheina Vaspi, 20, will be Israel’s sole competitor at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing from March 4 to March 13. Although Israel has always sent a team to the Summer Paralympics, this marks the first...
Former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor during a meeting of the Meron Disaster Inquiry Committee in Jerusalem, Dec. 1, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former Israeli Supreme Court president Miriam Naor dies at 74

Former president of Israel’s Supreme Court, Justice (ret.) Miriam Naor, passed away on Monday at the age of 74. Naor was appointed head of the committee charged with probing the Mount Meron stampede last autumn. Naor was born...

The Tuskegee Airmen and the bombing of Auschwitz

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The death of Charles E. McGee last week occasioned an outpouring of tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black units of American military aviators of whom McGee was one of the last surviving members....
A pro-Palestinian rally at Arizona State University in June 2021 held by Students for Justice in Palestine. Source: Facebook.

Pro-Israel groups see more hostile campuses fueled by ‘woke’ ideology, anti-Zionist faculty

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Pro-Israel groups working on campus agree that the situation for Jewish students is growing steadily worse. Just this fall, anti-Semitic incidents erupted at campuses across the country—from vandals desecrating a Torah scroll at George Washington University...
The University of Haifa, April 11, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

University of Haifa to launch graduate school following ‘transformational’ gift

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The University of Haifa announced plans on Monday to establish a new graduate school, following receipt of one of the school’s largest-ever single gifts. The Bloom School of Graduate Studies, named after Boston-based businessman and...

Netanyahu plea deal rumors send Likud Party into a flurry

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Talk of a possible plea bargain for opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has lit a fire under members of his Likud Party; such a deal could see Netanyahu forced out of politics for several years. Camps...
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai at the Knesset, Nov. 15, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Israel, Diaspora must join forces in battle against anti-Semitism’

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Israel has a “moral obligation” to assist Diaspora communities faced with rising anti-Semitism both online and in the public sphere, according to Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai. The minister presented a report prepared by...
Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett (center), Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) and Justice Minister Gideon Saar in the Knesset assembly hall, Jan. 17, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Lapid meets with PA civil affairs minister

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh met on Sunday evening, according to the P.A. official. The two discussed “political and bilateral issues,” al-Sheikh tweeted. “I highlighted the need for a...
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. Source: Twitter.

Albert Bourla to Israel: Pfizer working on annual COVID vaccine

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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is working on developing a one-shot annual vaccine to replace its current vaccine, which loses its efficacy after three to six months and requires multiple booster shots, company CEO Albert Bourla...