Tag: Coronavirus
![[Former] Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett attends the launch of the Yamina Party campaign, on Feb. 12, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/F200212TN38-e1583655315336-880x495-1-324x235.jpg "MK Naftali Bennett: No guarantee of support for Netanyahu’s Likud in event of new elections")
MK Naftali Bennett: No guarantee of support for Netanyahu’s Likud in event of new...
Former Defense Minister and current Knesset member Naftali Bennett told Israel’s Channel 13 on Monday night that there was “absolutely” no guarantee that he would join a Likud-led government in the event of a new round...
Jewish groups, customers denounce Nazi face masks worn in Minnesota Walmart
Jewish groups have rebuked a couple who was confronted at a Walmart in Marshall, Minn., on July 25 for wearing Nazi swastika-flags on their face masks.
Raphaela Mueller, who was born and raised in Germany...
High-level Israeli delegation in India for mass testing of COVID-19 technology
A high-level interministerial delegation of Israeli experts arrived in New Delhi on Monday to test four new technologies for the rapid diagnosis of coronavirus, the Defense Ministry announced on Sunday.
The delegation, led by Israeli...
Israeli Cabinet moves ahead with $1.9 billion COVID-19 stimulus plan
Israel’s Cabinet on Sunday approved a NIS 6.5 billion ($1.9 billion) plan to grant nearly every Israeli citizen a one-time cash payment to help stimulate the country’s struggling economy, which has been hit hard...
Likud minister threatens to block all non-coronavirus-related legislation
Israeli Cyber and National Digital Matters Minister David Amsalem of the Likud Party said on Friday that no laws would be passed in the Knesset this week other than those urgently needed to help...
Thinking Seriously While There Is Still Time: Classical Economic Wisdom at the Eleventh Hour
“The rich man glories in his riches, because he feels that they naturally draw upon him the attention of the world….At the thought of this, his heart seems to swell and dilate itself within...
Israeli scientists develop hand sanitizer from waste
Hand sanitizers—once the preserve of nurses, mothers and the uber-clean—have now become a ubiquitous accessory found in purses, cars, businesses and offices worldwide.
But the surge in demand as the global coronavirus pandemic rages for...
Ronni Gamzu selected as Israel’s national coronavirus project manager
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center CEO and former Health Ministry director general professor Ronni Gamzu was appointed on Wednesday night to lead Israel’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The appointment, made by Israeli Prime...
Israel’s active COVID-19 cases top a record 31,000
The number of active coronavirus cases in Israel passed 31,000 on Wednesday, the highest figure recorded since the onset of the pandemic in March and a one-week increase of 10,000 cases, according to the...
Mourning in 2020: Tisha B’Av spotlights losses old and new
This year Jews the world over got into the Tisha B’Av mood several months earlier than usual.
During a typical summer, Jewish families and individuals tear themselves away from family vacations, beach outings, amusement parks...