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Israeli Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel (center), Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Zvi Hauser (right) and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman meet in Jerusalem, May 26, 2020. Credit: Matty Stern, U.S. Embassy in Israel.

Report: Israel plans to reject Chinese bids to set up its 5G network

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Israel is likely to reject Chinese bids for the building of 5G networks in the country, due to U.S. pressure and because of security concerns, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Tuesday. This comes as U.S. Ambassador to...
The Israel Navy congratulates the Chinese Navy on docking at the Haifa port. On Aug. 13, 2012, the Chinese vessels arrived at Israel in order to celebrate 20 years of cooperation between the Israel Navy and the Chinese Navy. RADM Yang Jun-Fei was welcomed by the Haifa base commander, Brig. Gen. Eli Sharvit, upon his docking. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Report: US scrutinizes Israeli academic ties with China

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The United States has been scrutinizing Israeli academic ties with China, reported Bloomberg on Monday, citing two sources familiar with the matter. This development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to have Israel reduce its ties with...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Chinese president Xi Jinping, in Beijing on March 21, 2017. Photo by Haim Zach / GPO

China’s coronavirus coverup and the implications for Israel

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Growing calls for an investigation into China’s handling and possible coverup of the coronavirus outbreak have observers debating the potential implications for both Israeli and U.S. policy on China. In Israel, there was concern over...
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

China’s official Arabic-language TV: Coronavirus came from the US

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China’s official Arabic-language TV station last month aired a video arguing that the coronavirus pandemic originated outside China, and likely in the United States. In an episode of “China View” that aired on March 17...
Magen David Adom medical team members handle a coronavirus test sample at a drive-through testing site in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Report: Israel-China corona-lab deal stalls over DNA database access

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Israel’ largest health-care provider, Clalit, has decided not to cooperate with a Chinese government company on coronavirus testing for fear that it would compromise the DNA data of its 4.9 million members, the N12 news site...
Technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in a lab at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, on March 30, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israel inks deal with Chinese firm to enable 10,000 daily coronavirus tests

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Israel has signed a NIS 90 million ($25 million) deal with Chinese firm BGI to procure equipment that will allow it to increase its daily coronavirus testing capacity to at least 10,000, the country’s...
An Israeli medical worker at the coronavirus critical-care unit of the Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat on April 2, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

First of 11 planes bringing vital medical supplies from China to Israel touches down

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The first in a convoy of 11 El Al planes carrying tons of critical medical equipment to Israel from China touched down at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Monday morning, as the nation continues to...
President of China Xi Jinping with Iran's leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 2016. Credit: Official Khamenei website via Wikimedia Commons.

Lies, Transparency and Pandemics

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Has the world ever been this perfectly synchronized? Whether you wake up in an isolated hamlet in one part of the globe or a teeming city in another, whatever your language or your time...
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich has stayed behind in Beijing, China, though his family evacuated to safety overseas. While much of the expatriate Jewish community has left China, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are still hard at work, helping local residents. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

As global health crisis worsens, Chabad of China asks for help

As the coronavirus, or COVID-19, continues its worrisome spread around the globe with more than 80 affected countries and territories, China, where the virus originated in late December, has been deeply impacted with more...

From China to Mexico, Message at Chabad Women’s Banquet Was Love

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Two weeks ago to the day, as the COVID-19 coronavirus was rapidly spreading through the Chinese city of Wuhan, Rochel Kalmenson and her husband, Rabbi Yekutiel Kalmenson, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ningbo, China, and their three young children, boarded...