Following Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Missouri) announcement on Wednesday that he would be objecting to certifying the Electoral College vote count on January 6, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) blasted President Donald Trump and his allies on Facebook, writing that continuously pushing to reverse the election results is “playing with fire.” WHAT HAPPENS ON JANUARY 6th In November, […]
Washington (AFP) – The release on Sunday by US media of a stunning audio tape in which President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn his election defeat there to Democrat Joe Biden sent shockwaves across Washington. The tape, a rebel push by scores of Republican lawmakers to challenge
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Washington (AFP) – All 10 living former US defense secretaries, including two Donald Trump appointees, warned Sunday against involving the military in the US presidential transition. In an essay published in The Washington Post, Ashton Carter, Leon Panetta, William Perry, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis and Mark Esper urged the
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On the anniversary of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Chief Qasem Soleimani assassination, Iran was suspected to plan revenge for the killing of one of its most senior officials, N12 reported.UAE intelligence agencies have arrested lately an Iranian squad in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on suspicion of plotting to carry out attacks in the
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Middle East
Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-San Diego) cast her first vote in the 117th Congress on Sunday to reelect Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) as Speaker of the House in a 216-209 victory over Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield). With many members of the Progressive wing of the Democratic party, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) waiting until after the 7th and last group cast their votes, McCarthy was leading Pelosi 194-189. Then Ocasio-Cortez and other members who had not yet voted were given another chance to do so, resulting in a surge of votes for Pelosi and her victory. [Donald H. Harrison]
A month after Israel reached agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the framework of the Abraham Accords — a truly historic moment for the future of the Middle East — US President Donald Trump announced that Sudan was joining the Accords and would establish full ties with the Jewish state. But, there was a catch. The Trump administration, eager to score a political win before the November 3 presidential elections, rushed the agreement. Sudan’s strongman Lieutenant-General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan made it clear that he wouldn’t sign the accords unless the United States removed the East African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and Congress granted Khartoum full immunity from future claims in American courts of law for its role as a state sponsor of international terrorism. [Nitsana Darshan-Leitner]
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International, Middle East, USA
NETANYA, Israel — In the January 3, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
Israeli surgeons used Augmented Reality to repair a patient’s eye socket.
An Israeli NGO brought water and light to 200 African villages in 2020.
Israeli prize-winning technology for hydrogen production.
An Israeli startup is developing floating video phones to keep seniors safe.
The UAE-Israel Business Council now has over 3,000 members .
Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman 1984 is the most successful new release in the pandemic.
Despite the pandemic, more than 20,000 people made Aliyah in 2020. [Michael Ordman]
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On Saturday evening, about a thousand right-wing Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem near a facility for internal police investigations, as protests continue after the death of a 16-year-old settler boy a month ago. Protesters have been demanding an official investigation into the incident. According to police, the demonstrators blocked a central street, threw stones at police
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Middle East
Janet Yellen, 74, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary, earned more than $7 million in speaking fees during 2019-2020, according to financial disclosure forms released Thursday by US Office of Government Ethics and reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).The documents show that Yellen’s speaking engagements included the Bank of America, Google, UBS, Goldman
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USA
For the first time since the founding of The State of Israel, the country’s Jewish population dropped below 74%, according to the Israeli Immigration Policy Center (IPC) who cited data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.Also this year, the number of Jewish immigrants hit a record low of 33.8% of the total number of new
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Middle East
Talk show host Larry King is reportedly hospitalized with COVID-19 in Los Angeles. King, 87, is being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, ABC News reported Saturday. The Brooklyn born King hosted “Larry King Live” on CNN from 1985 to 2010 and more recently, helmed “Larry King Now” on Ora TV. King’s health woes have been
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Pastor Jim Garlow, formerly of Skyline Church of Rancho San Diego, California, is a featured speaker (Garlow now is based in Washington, D.C.) ATLANTA — Hundreds of religious voters flocked to downtown Atlanta on Saturday to pray outside the state Capitol ahead of Tuesday’s runoff elections. The Georgia Prayer March aimed “to encourage people to
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San Diego County, USA
Pam Ferris, president and CEO of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities in suburban Encinitas, says the day that CVS Health administered the first round of Pfizer vaccine shots to staff and residents was also a day of music, deli sandwiches, lollipops and celebratory stickers given to those who were vaccinated. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Joan Micklin Silver (1935-2020) passed away on New Year’s Eve. She belonged to a cohort of pioneering American female directors in the 1970s, many of whom were Jewish. Whereas most of her Jewish counterparts deal with Jewish themes in their films, she repeatedly returned to making distinctly Jewish films earning her the reputation of being the “the mother of Jewish feminist film.” [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]