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Palestinians: Fighting coronavirus and rumors

Palestinians: Fighting coronavirus and rumors

A PA security crackdown on rumor mongers also helped curb the spread of fake news, MADA said.   The Palestinian Authority’s daily briefings on the… Read More ›

Five more fatalities from COVID-19 in 24 hours bringing the toll to 252

Five more fatalities from COVID-19 in 24 hours bringing the toll to 252

The Health Ministry reports 23 new cases of virus a 0.14% rise from Saturday with 16,477 Israelis now having been infected, 4,795 currently ill, 65… Read More ›

Israel eases isolation hotel requirement for incoming travelers, reopens parks

Israel eases isolation hotel requirement for incoming travelers, reopens parks

Government also lifts Ramadan commerce restrictions in Arab-majority areas as virus numbers keep going down, but keeps children’s playgrounds and beaches shut   Israel is… Read More ›

Ukrainian Police Official Requests List Of Jews In Western City Of Kolomyya

Ukrainian Police Official Requests List Of Jews In Western City Of Kolomyya

UKRAINE (JTA) – A Ukrainian Jewish group accused the nation’s police force of “open anti-Semitism” after a high-ranking police official requested a list of all… Read More ›

‘Like nothing that has ever been seen before’: Here’s what 4 economists said about Friday’s April jobs report

‘Like nothing that has ever been seen before’: Here’s what 4 economists said about Friday’s April jobs report

  Friday’s April nonfarm payroll report from the Labor Department was dismal — the US economy lost a record 20.5 million jobs, and the unemployment… Read More ›

Preschools and daycares to reopen as active coronavirus cases decrease

Preschools and daycares to reopen as active coronavirus cases decrease

Some parents take their anger to the streets * Number of active cases continues to decline   Preschools and daycares are resuming activities on Sunday,… Read More ›

What Israelis can learn from the coronavirus crisis

What Israelis can learn from the coronavirus crisis

Opinion: Now is the time to have faith in ourselves, to be proud and to understand that while things will be different, it is our… Read More ›

Poll: 74% of Israelis approve of Netanyahu’s health response to pandemic

Poll: 74% of Israelis approve of Netanyahu’s health response to pandemic

Public more critical of PM’s economic handling of crisis, with 53% approving, and 57% worried about their financial future   A clear majority of Israelis… Read More ›

US Approves New Coronavirus Antigen Test With Fast Results

US Approves New Coronavirus Antigen Test With Fast Results

  WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up… Read More ›

Fauci to begin ‘modified quarantine’

Fauci to begin ‘modified quarantine’

  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, tells… Read More ›

Bibi ‘Houdini’ does it again – analysis

Bibi ‘Houdini’ does it again – analysis

It may not be the government of his dreams, he might have to switch places with Benny Gantz in the middle, but Thursday’s Knesset vote… Read More ›

High Court was right to let Netanyahu serve as PM

High Court was right to let Netanyahu serve as PM

Opinion: The decision to let the PM form and lead the next government is a return of the rule of law, and while the judges… Read More ›

‘World War Z’ author/West Point teacher: Disasters are averted in pre-production

‘World War Z’ author/West Point teacher: Disasters are averted in pre-production

Preparedness is no joke to comedy legend Mel Brooks’ son Max, a writer and US military advisor, who lauds Israel’s COVID response and says global… Read More ›

Arrests Made In Shooting Death Of Black Man After Outcry

Arrests Made In Shooting Death Of Black Man After Outcry

  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son Thursday and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of… Read More ›

Where are the bodies? Missing remains mean no peace for grieving families in Ecuador

Where are the bodies? Missing remains mean no peace for grieving families in Ecuador

  When Flavio Ramos was wheeled into the hospital room, he was gasping for air and slipping in and out of consciousness. So it was… Read More ›

Opposition pulls 1,000 amendments in marathon Knesset session

Opposition pulls 1,000 amendments in marathon Knesset session

“We are finally ending the political dead end,” said Blue and White MK Eitan Ginzburg.   The Knesset plenum had been set to vote all… Read More ›

Israel bans all Lag BaOmer bonfires due to coronavirus outbreak

Israel bans all Lag BaOmer bonfires due to coronavirus outbreak

Traditional lighting of bonfires banned in private homes and gardens due to fears of another mass spike in infections and possible house fires; pilgrims not… Read More ›

Court rejects petitions against Netanyahu, coalition deal, clears path to gov’t

Court rejects petitions against Netanyahu, coalition deal, clears path to gov’t

Judges find no legal justification to prevent PM from leading new gov’t; say accord ‘raises serious difficulties’ but intervention inappropriate; coalition to be sworn in… Read More ›

3 Russian Doctors Fall From Hospital Windows During Pandemic

3 Russian Doctors Fall From Hospital Windows During Pandemic

  MOSCOW (AP) — Two Russian doctors have died and another was seriously injured in falls from hospital windows after they reportedly came under pressure… Read More ›

The Wuhan lab at the center of the US-China blame game: What we know and what we don’t

The Wuhan lab at the center of the US-China blame game: What we know and what we don’t

Hong Kong – Questions surrounding the origins of the novel coronavirus have sparked a war of words between Washington and Beijing — and threatens to… Read More ›