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Good News from Israel (June 27, 2021)

In the June 27, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
–UK National Health Service to trial Israeli cancer treatment test.
–Israeli grandmother is honored for fostering 217 babies.
–Israeli anti-malaria system wins top IBM AI prize.
–Israeli software powers Intel’s 5G microprocessors.
–Israeli sensors can detect when plants are unhappy.
–Three more billion-dollar Israeli companies in one week.
–Israel’s team of 81 Olympic athletes is the largest ever.
–Honduras is the fourth country to open an embassy in Jerusalem. [Michael Ordman]

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Engineer had warned of structural damage before Florida building collapse -NYT

Published by Reuters (Reuters) – A consultant had warned three years before the deadly collapse of a South Florida condominium building that there was evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and abundant cracking and crumbling in the underground parking garage, the New York Times reported early on Saturday.

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Justice Department sues Georgia over new voting law

Published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — The U.S. Justice Department sued Georgia on Friday over a new election law that includes restrictions on voting, setting up a legal showdown over Republican-led changes that President Joe Biden and other Democrats cast as disproportionately harmful to Black voters. The challenge seeks to overturn portions of Senate

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Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22-1/2 years for George Floyd murder

Published by Reuters By Nicholas Pfosi and Jonathan Allen MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -A Minnesota judge sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020 on a Minneapolis sidewalk, video of which sparked global protests. A jury found Chauvin, 45, guilty

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US, France warn Iran that time running out to revive deal

Published by AFP Paris (AFP) – The United States and France on Friday warned Iran that time was running out to return to a nuclear deal, voicing fear that Tehran’s sensitive atomic activities could advance if talks drag on. On the first high-level visit to Paris by President Joe Biden’s administration, Secretary of State Antony

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Families pray for ‘miracle’ with 159 missing in Florida condo collapse

Published by Reuters By Francisco Alvarado SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) -Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials on Friday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine

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The U.S.’s ”Chutzpadik’ Iran Policy

It is the height of chutzpah to assume that others want what you want or want to help you get what you want when it isn’t what they want. Americans do it often, and the result is always the same: good news for those who take our inducements while having no intention of cooperating and bad news for the United States and for those who trust in it. In the case of Iran, first the Obama administration and now the Biden administration have taken the position that diplomacy and money will produce a constructive player in the region—i.e., what we want. [Shoshana Bryen]

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99 feared missing in rubble of collapsed condo in Florida as search, vigil continue

Published by Miami Herald SURFSIDE, Fla. — Search and rescue teams continued the delicate work of picking through a mountain of rubble in Surfside on Thursday afternoon, looking for even the faintest signs of life that might be buried inside the two-story-high remains of the partial collapse of the 12-story oceanfront building, Champlain Towers South

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National Education Association Representatives Should Oppose Anti-Israel Resolutions

By Yael Steinberg SAN DIEGO — From June 29 to July 3, America’s largest labor union, the National Education Association (NEA) will vote on two motions attacking Israel – New Business Item 29 (NBI 29) and New Business Item 51 (NBI 51). NBIs 29 and 51 are part of a larger pattern. In recent weeks, teacher’s union leaders

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Why President Truman’s support for Israel is more relevant than ever

By Dan Elbaum (June 23, 2021 / JNS) It was perhaps the most important meeting in Jewish history, but it was also simply a discussion between two old friends. Harry S. Truman was the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world. Across from him in the Oval Office sat Eddie Jacobson,

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