Articles by: JewishNews-David

The leaders of the world’s most powerful tech companies — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google — will be speaking in front of Congress this week. Here’s what we’re expecting, and why it’s a huge deal.

The leaders of the world’s most powerful tech companies — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google — will be speaking in front of Congress this week. Here’s what we’re expecting, and why it’s a huge deal.

  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook will all face questioning from… Read More ›

US fighter jets near Iranian passenger plane over Syrian airspace

US fighter jets near Iranian passenger plane over Syrian airspace

Israel and the United States have long accused Mahan Air of ferrying weapons for Iranian-linked guerrillas in Syria and elsewhere.   Several passengers on an… Read More ›

Knesset passes coronavirus law, weakening its oversight of government decisions

Knesset passes coronavirus law, weakening its oversight of government decisions

Law approved 48-35 gives cabinet wide-ranging powers to set virus restrictions, sidelines Yifat Shasha-Biton’s combative coronavirus committee   The Knesset in the early hours of… Read More ›

Second hearing of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trial to occur on Sunday

Second hearing of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trial to occur on Sunday

Timing of when witnesses will be called is considered crucial   By Saturday night, it was clear there would be no last-minute emergency coronavirus announcement… Read More ›

IDF reopens facility in Ashkelon for soldiers sick with coronavirus

IDF reopens facility in Ashkelon for soldiers sick with coronavirus

Total of 663 service members have been diagnosed with the virus; military says troops on furlough can’t meet in groups of over 5 people  … Read More ›

Netanyahu cannot buy Israelis’ silence

Netanyahu cannot buy Israelis’ silence

Opinion: The prime minister is worried about a dip in his popularity and thinks that putting cash in our bank accounts can jump-start a shattered… Read More ›

2 arrested as ultra-Orthodox protest neighborhood lockdowns for second night

2 arrested as ultra-Orthodox protest neighborhood lockdowns for second night

Demonstrators knock down barriers, set dumpsters on fire and pelt police with eggs to protest against alleged discrimination in coronavirus closures   At least two… Read More ›

Thousands of enraged protesters gather in Tel Aviv: ‘No more games!’

Thousands of enraged protesters gather in Tel Aviv: ‘No more games!’

Politicians were told not to come as thousands gathered in Tel aviv, to warn government not to let them down during COVID-19 financial crisis. Blue… Read More ›

Iran’s unstable foundations are wobbling

Iran’s unstable foundations are wobbling

Opinion: Not every explosion or fire in the Islamic Republic is result of deliberate sabotage, but this exceptional sequence of incidents can only serve to… Read More ›

In the COVID-19 sea, Israel is a ship without a rudder

In the COVID-19 sea, Israel is a ship without a rudder

Like the captain who does not want to go down with the ship, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was conspicuously missing from Tuesday’s press briefing.  … Read More ›

Analysis: Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th

Analysis: Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th

On a very different Fourth of July holiday, when many Americans are wrestling with the racist misdeeds of the country’s heroes and confronting an unrelenting… Read More ›

Trump has no time for West Bank annexation

Trump has no time for West Bank annexation

With coronavirus cases breaking daily records, president beginning to realize he is culpable for his administration’s mishandling of crisis, and faced with prospect of November… Read More ›

Israeli and Emirati firms sign ‘historic agreement’ to jointly combat COVID-19

Israeli and Emirati firms sign ‘historic agreement’ to jointly combat COVID-19

Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael ink deal with UAE’s Group 42 in commercial breakthrough between countries, which do not share diplomatic ties   Companies from… Read More ›

Canadian company Medicago develops plant-based coronavirus vaccine

Canadian company Medicago develops plant-based coronavirus vaccine

The company has developed a unique method of creating a vaccine by letting plants do the work. “We’re using plants as mini factories,” said Natalie… Read More ›

UK Shadow Minister calls for settlement goods ban if Israel annexes West Bank lands

UK Shadow Minister calls for settlement goods ban if Israel annexes West Bank lands

Lisa Nandy called on the British government for ‘concrete action’ in response to Israel’s annexation drive, calling the situation ‘urgent’ saying the move would require… Read More ›

Trump set to make decision on annexation

Trump set to make decision on annexation

The peace team plans to discuss what to do if Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do not… Read More ›

Israel’s coronavirus closure failed and now the clock is ticking

Israel’s coronavirus closure failed and now the clock is ticking

Opinion: The resurgence caused by reopening schools shows there is no coexisting with this pathogen; the government must act quickly, using all its high-tech and… Read More ›

As Protests Rage, Popular Mechanics Publishes Guide on How to Take Down Statues

As Protests Rage, Popular Mechanics Publishes Guide on How to Take Down Statues

  WASHINGTON (Newsmax) – Statues honoring members of the Confederacy, known racists, and slave owners are being torn down by protestors across the country as… Read More ›

Bolton book bombshells: Trump asked China’s Xi for reelection help and told him to keep building concentration camps

Bolton book bombshells: Trump asked China’s Xi for reelection help and told him to keep building concentration camps

Washington – Former national security adviser John Bolton has leveled a stunning accusation against his former boss, claiming in his new book that President Donald… Read More ›

Police have released bodycam footage showing the struggle before the fatal shooting of Black man Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police

Police have released bodycam footage showing the struggle before the fatal shooting of Black man Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police

  Police have released bodycam and dashcam footage of the events before the fatal shooting of Black man Rayshard Brooks by a white police officer… Read More ›