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Rockets fired at Jerusalem and southern Israel, Israel retaliates

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Tue, 11 May 2021 04:58:19 +0000

Dozens of rockets were fired at Israel on Monday after days of tension in Jerusalem. At least seven missiles, fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, were launched at Jerusalem, where rocket alert sirens sounded.

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Unity government inevitable as Israel’s political drama enters its potentially final chapter

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 06:35:45 +0000

Israel’s electoral odyssey took the most dramatic of turns on Thursday, possibly spelling the final chapter of what seemed like a never-ending story after an unprecedented three elections.

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UK will not burn bodies of Jewish Corona victims after outcry by Jewish community

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:49:31 +0000

The British government has announced it will not burn the bodies of deceased Jewish and Muslim Coronavirus victims after an original announcement was met with fierce opposition by Jewish and Muslim groups.

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Knesset Speaker Edelstein resigns, fourth election now seemingly inevitable

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:40:52 +0000

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein has resigned, the first time a Speaker has voluntarily left his job in the history of the State of Israel.

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Israeli research institution develops system to predict Coronavirus hotspots

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:24:40 +0000

The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot has announced it has developed a method of tracking the spread of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) that may assist health officials and authorities in efficiently coordinating their response to the public health emergency, by being “two steps ahead of the virus.”

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Mossad delivers 100,000 Coronavirus tests to Israel from unknown country

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:27:29 +0000

Israel’s secret intelligence service, the Mossad, has delivered 100,000 Coronavirus test kits to Israel from “a country with which Israel does not maintain diplomatic relations,” Israeli sources say.

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ICC decision on Israel delayed by coronavirus shutdown

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 05:37:42 +0000

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will be forced to postpone its decision on whether to open full court proceedings against Israel for alleged war crimes for at least a month after the court building in The Hague was shut down due to fears of a further spreading of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19).

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El Al scales back operations to 4 flights a day, lays off staff as coronavirus hits industry

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:09:29 +0000

Israel’s national airline El Al has announced it is scaling down its operations to a mere four passenger-flights per day and is placing nearly 80 per cent of its staff on unpaid leave as the Coronavirus crisis hits the aviation and tourism industry worldwide.

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Coronavirus vaccine year-and-a-half away, says Haifa University expert

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:18:01 +0000

A vaccine for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) could be at least one and a half years away, a public health expert from the University of Haifa warned on Sunday.

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‘Jews, Zionists organized and engineered Coronavirus’ – Anti-Semitic rumours spread online

Benjamin Brown - TPS — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:13:19 +0000

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are spreading online and in international media, claiming “Jews and Zionists” have “organized and engineered Coronavirus” as part of a scheme to “design the world, seize countries and neuter the world’s population,” the UK-based Anti-Semitism watchdog Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) reported.

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