Bibi seems to be finished. But he’s still trying, now to complicate the task of those with the President’s mandate. One can imagine that President Reuven Rivlin intended this to happen; that he gave Bibi Netanyahu the first chance to form a government, with the intention or hope that he would fail. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Published by DPA The situation in Jerusalem’s Old City came to a dangerous head over the weekend, with medics saying around 300 Palestinians have been injured in violent clashes with Israeli security forces since Friday evening. The violent clashes continued into Sunday. An Israeli police spokesman said Sunday morning that confrontations took place at the
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Middle East
In the May 9, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
-New Israeli treatment allows multiple myeloma patients to get bone transplants.
-Israeli kidney specialist donates his own kidney.
-Israeli leaders host Muslims for Ramadan events.
-Israel’s next astronaut will supervise 44 Israeli space experiments.
-An Israeli startup is recycling worn out car tires.
-An Israeli consultancy is project managing a new industrial zone in Dubai.
-Unique videos, photos and a new discovery to help celebrate Jerusalem Day.
[Michael Ordman]
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, The World We Share, USA
Published by DPA The Israeli army struck a Hamas military post in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Sunday in retaliation for a rocket attack. “Terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket toward Israel earlier tonight. In response, our aircraft just struck a Hamas military post in southern Gaza,” the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
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Middle East
The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego has compiled a vetted list of organizations providing aid and support to the victims of the growing Covid-19 crisis in India. [Jewish Community Foundation news release]
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – One is a centre-left avowed secularist who says the Palestinians should get a state. The other is a firebrand of the religious hard right who wants to annex most of the occupied West Bank. Meet the men from Israel’s opposite political poles who could topple Benjamin
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Middle East
Some fifty years ago the International Piano Master Competition honoring pianist Arthur Rubinstein was established in Israel. Every three years (four years in 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic), young pianists from all over the world compete in front of audiences in Israel for the prizes awarded by an international jury in the framework of the competition. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sports & Competitions
Published by DPA Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has tasked the former opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid (Future) party with forming a coalition, the presidential office said on Wednesday. The move was expected after caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so following inconclusive elections in March. Earlier, Rivlin held talks with
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Middle East
Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s deadline for forming a new Israeli government expired early on Wednesday, with the country’s longest-serving prime minister having failed to break more than two years of political deadlock. There was also no guarantee that, after the conservative incumbent was unable to assemble a new
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Middle East
South Africa’s apartheid laws mandated Black South Africans to use separate, often inferior facilities like public restrooms, public transport, beaches, schools, et cetera. B’Tselem claims that a comparable system of inequality exists between Arabs and Jews, both within Israel proper and the disputed territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This is simply false. [Benjamin Zaghi]
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe Jewish Community Foundation issued the following notice to its donors and others interested in helping the victims of the Mt. Meron stampede, in which some 45 people were killed and many more injured. [Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego Press Release]
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Middle East, San Diego County
The student government of Pomona College successfully pushed through a resolution that would compel student clubs to participate in a boycott of targeted companies doing business with Israel. [Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D]
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
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 IDF – like the United States military – has an admirable record. Occasionally however, military officers glide off into politics. A group of retired Israel officers, Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS), appears to be doing that – which normally would be an issue only for Israelis and their government. But this group is asking the United States to create circumstances they believe serve their country but are not being pursued to their satisfaction by their own government. [Shoshana Bryen]
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
HOD HASHARON, Israel (Press Release)– San Diego Jewish Academy high school seniors were among the first students traveling to Israel again to continue learning and touring the country through the Jewish National Fund-USA Alexander Muss High School in Israel program (AMHSI). The spring semester abroad in Israel is a regular part of the SDJA experience,
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