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Airlines Plan To Ask Passengers For Contact-tracing Details

Airlines Plan To Ask Passengers For Contact-tracing Details

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. airline industry is pledging to expand the practice of asking passengers on flights to the United States for information… Read More ›

Analysis: Boris Johnson’s government is ‘gaslighting’ Britain about the realities of Brexit, critics say

Analysis: Boris Johnson’s government is ‘gaslighting’ Britain about the realities of Brexit, critics say

London – Andy Trust has been exporting fish from Cornwall to continental Europe for 20 years. However, the past seven weeks have given him cause… Read More ›

Coronavirus: Sheba says Pfizer vaccine 75% effective after one dose

Coronavirus: Sheba says Pfizer vaccine 75% effective after one dose

“This is the first study assessing effectiveness of a single vaccine dose in real life conditions and shows early effectiveness, even before the second dose… Read More ›

Relationship between Haredim, non-Haredi Jews at breaking point

Relationship between Haredim, non-Haredi Jews at breaking point

In-depth: Pandemic exacerbates long-existing tensions that, according to one expert, can only be quieted through political resolution with leaders abandoning personal and sectoral interests for… Read More ›

Israeli woman who crossed into Syria returns to Israel on flight from Moscow

Israeli woman who crossed into Syria returns to Israel on flight from Moscow

Civilian who had been held by Syrian regime arrives in Tel Aviv after Israel frees 2 shepherds it nabbed at border; Netanyahu thanks Putin for… Read More ›

In Britain, Jews Are Leading The Fight Against The Oppression Of China’s Uighur Muslims

In Britain, Jews Are Leading The Fight Against The Oppression Of China’s Uighur Muslims

  LONDON (JTA) — As the leader of British Jewry’s main human rights group, Mia Hasenson-Gross regularly hears personal stories of loss, grief and helplessness.… Read More ›

Allegations of shackled students and gang rape inside China’s detention camps

Allegations of shackled students and gang rape inside China’s detention camps

In the first day of her new teaching job at a Chinese government-run detention center in Xinjiang, Qelbinur Sidik said she saw two soldiers carry… Read More ›

Biden: White supremacists are ‘the most dangerous people’ in America

Biden: White supremacists are ‘the most dangerous people’ in America

Biden has tapped Merrick Garland, a Jewish judge, to be his attorney general.   President Joe Biden, saying domestic terrorism was the “greatest threat” in… Read More ›

Bringing the IDF into the 21st century, at last

Bringing the IDF into the 21st century, at last

Analysis: While the years-long delay in making decisions on military procurement constitutes a security scandal, the hard-won approval for recommendations put forward by the military… Read More ›

Iran’s supreme leader demands ‘action’ from US as condition for nuke deal

Iran’s supreme leader demands ‘action’ from US as condition for nuke deal

IAEA head to visit Tehran, ahead of Iranian intention to end snap inspections; Merkel voices ‘concern’ to Rouhani over Tehran’s non-compliance   Iran’s supreme leader… Read More ›

Muddled Promises On Schools Pose Political Problem For Biden

Muddled Promises On Schools Pose Political Problem For Biden

  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is in a political firestorm over how and when to get more schools open amid the coronavirus pandemic,… Read More ›

Texas grid was ‘minutes’ from failing, lawmaker says

Texas grid was ‘minutes’ from failing, lawmaker says

A winter storm and lengthy cold snap have crippled power facilities in Texas and caused about 2.4 million outages as of Wednesday evening, leaving residents… Read More ›

Let it snow! Jerusalem residents get ready for a winter wonderland

Let it snow! Jerusalem residents get ready for a winter wonderland

It is still unclear exactly how strong the snowfall will be in Jerusalem.   While Jerusalemites may have gotten used to the unseasonable spring-like weather… Read More ›

Israelis need carrot not stick to get COVID vaccinated

Israelis need carrot not stick to get COVID vaccinated

Opinion: After year of dubious laws that have eroded civil rights in the name of fighting the virus, the government must now convince people to… Read More ›

White House: Biden’s first call to Mideast leader will be to Netanyahu

White House: Biden’s first call to Mideast leader will be to Netanyahu

US press secretary says ‘stay tuned,’ conversation will happen ‘soon’; touts ‘important strategic security relationship’ between the countries   US President Joe Biden’s first phone… Read More ›

Captain Pleads Not Guilty To Manslaughter In Boat Fire

Captain Pleads Not Guilty To Manslaughter In Boat Fire

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The captain of a scuba diving boat that burned and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, pleaded not… Read More ›

Trump rips McConnell in lengthy statement after being acquitted in impeachment trial

Trump rips McConnell in lengthy statement after being acquitted in impeachment trial

Former President Donald Trump went after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, calling him “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” in a broadside… Read More ›

Netanyahu: In talks to establish Moderna, Pfizer vaccine plants in Israel

Netanyahu: In talks to establish Moderna, Pfizer vaccine plants in Israel

“I am negotiating with them to build two plants in Israel that will turn Israel into an international center in the fight against coronavirus.”  … Read More ›

Have you had your coronavirus vaccine yet?

Have you had your coronavirus vaccine yet?

Opinion: Israel is in a race to vaccinate 5.5 million people before being overrun by the spread of new and more potent COVID-19 strains; public… Read More ›

PM on US ties: Whoever endangers us, on Iran nukes for example, I oppose that

PM on US ties: Whoever endangers us, on Iran nukes for example, I oppose that

Netanyahu says he’s not bothered by lack of phone call from Biden, touts ‘wonderful ties’ with Democrats; calls graft trial ‘absurd,’ acknowledges speaking with key… Read More ›