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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Israel’s Memorial Day YOM HAZIKARON
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Israel’s Memorial Day YOM HAZIKARON (Israel’s Memorial Day) is the day on which Israel pauses to remember all those who have given up their lives fighting for and defending the State of Israel, including victims of ter
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Israeli tech startups raise a record $5.37 billion in first quarter of 2021. The total sum raised in the quarter increased by 89% compared to the fourth quarter of last year and was
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The mezuzah on the Hezbollah tunnel
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why A Bi-Polar Memorial Celebration? It’s Profoundly Jewish
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why A Bi-Polar Memorial Celebration? It’s Profoundly Jewish Israel’s practice of connecting Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) is highly unusual. The U.S. has five weeks between them (last
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 12, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 12, 2021 Due to the Passover festival and additional circumstances, the newsletter is shorter than usual. Apologies if I have omitted any articles sent to me recently. I wiill try to include them in a subs
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Rami Dabbas – A coup attempt in Jordan – A warning to Israel & The United States defends the Ideal Monarchy
Rami Dabbas – A coup attempt in Jordan – A warning to Israel & The United States defends the Ideal Monarchy A coup attempt in Jordan – A warning to Israel The former crown prince to the throne and brother of the king, Hamzah bin H
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UPenn Student Government Rejects Internationally Accepted Definition of Anti-Semitism
The University of Pennsylvania's student government abandoned a resolution endorsing an internationally recognized definition of anti-Semitism, bowing to pressure from pro-Palestinian campus activists who worried the measure would make it harder to critic
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Merriam Webster says Israel was a "kingdom in ancient Palestine"
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Steve Kramer – Iran Hangs Tough (on Conforming to JCPOA)
Steve Kramer – Iran Hangs Tough (on Conforming to JCPOA) One of the important points that candidate Joe Biden emphasized during the presidential nomination sweepstakes was that the US would return to the JCPOA [Iran deal] and negotiate with the Iran
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US to restore UNRWA funding when it gives Palestinians $150m; Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp
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Two Muslim Ambulance Drivers Save The Life Of a Collapsed Neighbor
Two Muslim Ambulance Drivers Save The Life Of a Collapsed Neighbor Jadeidi-Makr – On Wednesday morning, just before 9:00 a.m. in the town of Jadeidi-Makr in the Galilee, Farok Dabas was sleeping after a long ambulance shift the previous night, when
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US Announces $235 Million Aid Package for Palestinians; World Jewish Population Reaches 1925 Level | Honest Reporting
US President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced the restoration of $235 million in US assistance to the Palestinians, including to the
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – The Jewish Heritage & Israel: Tribal Partying
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – The Jewish Heritage & Israel: Tribal Partying “Political Culture” is deep-rooted – sometimes so deep that uprooting it proves impossible. Contemporary Israeli politics and society might seem to be light years away fro
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Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser – The False Claim that Israel Is Bound to Lose Either Its Jewish or Democratic Identities
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser – The False Claim that Israel Is Bound to Lose Either Its Jewish or Democratic Identities Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation
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Lies in the cognitive war against Israel (and how to counter them), pt. 1
A list of the major tropes which serve to perpetuate the false narrative about Israel and how to counter them to yourself and others. Op-ed.
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Lies in the cognitive war against Israel (and how to counter them), pt. 2
A list of the lies spread by anti-Israel activists and how to counter them. Part 2 of 2.Op-ed.
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Cornell West, Campus Politics, and BDS
Widener Library at Harvard University. Photo: Joseph Williams. One of the most notable BDS related developments in March was the …
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Congressional Research Service changed the history of Palestinian nationalism. Twice.
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This Passover, a song of thanks
What do we need more these days than the protection and blessing of God? And what do we need today, more than peace between us, peace with our neighbors and peace with our world?
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Kaltura’s Nasdaq IPO called off due to low demand. The Israeli company had intended to go public at a $2 billion valuation. Is Israeli tech losing its shine on Nasdaq? Read more Next
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Report: Biden quietly transferred $75 million to Palestinian Authority - Israel National News
The Biden administration is quietly ramping up assistance to the Palestinian Authority, according to The Associated Press.
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Assaf Erez – Photos During Passover Holiday in Israel
Assaf Erez – Photos During Passover Holiday in Israel During Pesach(Passover) holiday Assaf makes the rounds on the highways and byways of Israel.
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Destination Israel: Travelers May Soon Plan Their 1st Post-Pandemic Trip
After a year of COVID, travelers are looking – and booking – trips they hope to make in the coming months, and Israel is one of the top global destinations.
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03/31 Links Pt1: In return to pre-Trump norm, State Dept report refers to ‘occupied’ territories; IDF’s Point Man on Iran Says Israel ‘Definitely’ Has Capacity to Destroy Nuclear Program
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 31, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 31, 2021 The Passover story is of the journey from bitter slavery to sweet freedom. This Passover, after the bitter pandemic, vaccinated Israelis enjoyed the sweet return to group celebrations. Israel̵
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Winston Churchill in Palestine – 100 years on
“The establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine will be a blessing to the whole world.”
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End Netanyahu-hatred – start advancing Israel’s national interest instead
Netanyahu has the most voter support, while he, Liberman, Sa'ar and Bennett and their voters share common major policies and views. Op-ed.
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Victor Rosenthal -The Invisible War
Victor Rosenthal -The Invisible War I’ve written before about the European Union’s intervention in Judea/Samaria, how our “friends” in Europe pour massive amounts of money into illegal Palestinian development in Area C – the part of the territor
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IsraelSeen Exclusive – From Death To Life in 10 Minutes Early Intervention By Family and First Responders
IsraelSeen Exclusive – From Death To Life in 10 Minutes Early Intervention By Family and First Responders Early Intervention By Family and First Responders, Brings A Cardiac Arrest Patient Back To Life In Less than Ten Minutes Kiryat Gat R
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Charles Abelsohn – Letter from Israel – Israel and Israelis Around the World
Charles Abelsohn – Letter from Israel – Israel and Israelis Around the World Hi again from Israel, I thought it might be a nice idea to look at what Israel as a country or Israelis as individuals have been doing around the world recently. Israel i
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CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Israeli cybersecurity startup Orca achieves unicorn status with $210 million series C. “The way to become the biggest cloud security company is to be out there and that is expens
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Biden Team Quietly Confirms Palestinian ‘Pay-to-Slay’ Terror Funding; Still Plans to Re-Start Aid
A quietly released State Department report was confirmed to Congress by the Biden administration last week revealing that the Palestinian...
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In First, 3 Israeli Nanosatellites Launch Into Space For Geolocation Mission
The nanosatellites will move autonomously on a high-accuracy geolocation mission for search and rescue, remote sensing, and environmental monitoring.
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig Physically emPOWERing Women is the Only Real Way to Stop Violence Against Them
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig Physically emPOWERing Women is the Only Real Way to Stop Violence Against Them. Israel is in the throes of a wave of (mostly) domestic violence against women. Great Britain is in shock over a brutal murder – with massive female d
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 21, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 21, 2021 Life is returning to Israeli streets, parks and entertainment venues as Covid-19 vaccinations protect more citizens. Israeli medical research and products in this week’s newsletter wi
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Israel’s Miraculous Vaccination Campaign
A medical worker prepares to administer a vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as Israel continues its national vaccination drive, …
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Victor Rosenthal – Why You Should Make Aliyah
Victor Rosenthal – Why You Should Make Aliyah Even before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, there were colonies of Jews living outside of Eretz Yisrael. It’s true that they were unable to fulfill the mitzvot that were incumbent upon them
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‘Our History Has Been Stolen From Us’: How South African Community Organizer Clive Mashishi Confronts Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial and Hatred of Israel
South African community organizer and Israel advocate Clive Mashishi. Photo: Cuerius Mosala. “Our history has been stolen from us,” Clive …
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Skidmore College Refuses To Recognize Club Due to 'Troublesome' Pro-Israel Stance, After Recently Recognizing Anti-Israel Students For Justice In Palestine
Skidmore College’s student government refused to recognize a progressive, pro-Israel student group due to its "troublesome" perspective despite recently recognizing the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine.
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UNPACKED – Zionism: The Backstory: Was Zionism a Form of Colonialism? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context
UNPACKED – Zionism: The Backstory: Was Zionism a Form of Colonialism? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context This week on Unpacked, we are moving on to part two of our new six-part series The Israeli-Palestinian Context. In this episode we trace the rich
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Fast-charging battery startup StoreDot closing on $3.5 billion SPAC merger. StoreDot’s batteries can currently be used to power drones, electric motorcycles and scooters, and the Israeli co
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Fast Company Lists 7 Israeli Companies Among World's 'Most Innovative' In 2021
US business magazine Fast Company listed over 460 companies and organizations across 29 countries, including 7 Israeli companies.
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The Washington Post Uses Bad Social Science to Push Anti-Israel Propaganda
Just as polling can be corrupted by, for example, the wording of questions, journalism can be corrupted by “scientific polling,” particularly when it substantiates a publication’s anti-Israel bias. In two recent pieces, the Washington Post touts surveys r
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Anti-Semite-in-Chief
ZOA writes a letter to the publisher of Obama’s “A Promised Land”.
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Israel to Deploy New Laser, GPS-Guided Mortar Shell
The Israel Defense Forces are set to deploy a newly developed laser-guided mortar artillery round after a wildly successful testing phase...
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Elder Of Ziyon - Cornel West blames Zionists for his choice to leave Harvard. His tenure story doesn't add up.
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Franny & Evyatar’s Hebrew/English version of the Sound of Silence
Franny & Evyatar’s Hebrew/English version of the Sound of Silence H/T Israelnationalnews “The Sound of Silence written by Paul Simon, is so relevant to our world today”. Franny & Evyatar perform a cover in Hebrew and English. ‘The
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Monster Ahlam Tamimi celebrates Interpol's removal of her "red" status
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Top 3: How Israel, the UAE, and the UK Have Driven Vaccine Success
This guest post by the head of innovation at Israeli startup Air Doctor looks at the strategies behind the countries with the highest vaccine rates.
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Jared Kushner Breaks Silence After Leaving White House
Former Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner has made his first public remarks since departing the White House ...
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"Progressive" members of Congress’ breathtaking lies about vaccines and Israel
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 14, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 14, 2021This week’s positive Israel newsletter is full of Israeli innovations and activities that benefit the planet. They include positive coronavirus vaccination information, Covid-19 treatments an
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Stealth Antisemitism at Harvard: Cornell West
How deprive Jewish Israelis of the insulation of victimhood? By accusing them of apartheid against the ever-aggrieved Palestinians. Op-ed.
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IDF Said to Be First Army to Achieve Herd Immunity Against COVID-19
US Army General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General …
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UCLA Student Government stealthily passes a resolution accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing" - and then apologizes
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Israel haters start to attack Stevie Wonder for winning the Wolf Prize
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In Israel, all Jews are family. That's what the haters want to end.
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“Our Common Goal Is Saving Lives”- Jewish and Muslim EMTs Leave Training Class To Save A Life
“Our Common Goal Is Saving Lives”- Jewish and Muslim EMTs Leave Training Class To Save A Life Moshav Ram-On – On Monday night at 9:30 p.m., four United Hatzalah volunteers were participating in an advanced EMT training class. Three of them were
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Investigation Reveals Iran’s Al Quds Force Behind IED Blast Outside Israeli Embassy in India
A terror attack targeting the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, has been linked to the Iranian Al Quds forces investigators said...
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Aspirin may protect against COVID-19, Israeli research finds
People who take small doses are 29% less likely than others to test positive, researchers say; those who do get COVID recover faster, and with reduced aftereffects
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Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld z”l – Israel’s Multifaceted Power
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld z”l – Israel’s Multifaceted Power BESA Center Perspectives Paper The following is the final Perspective Paper submitted to the BESA Center by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld before his passing on February 25, 2021. May his me
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Elder Of Ziyon - 03/09 Links Pt2: Jews are the forgotten minority in the march towards wokeness; Coronavirus improves Israeli Arab view of the IDF; Stealth Antisemitism at Harvard: Cornell West
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner – The Insanity of Political Naivete
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner – The Insanity of Political Naivete History shows that hate groups are only emboldened when given legitimacy, and Biden’s return to the UNHRC will be a current example of that truth. H/T Israelnationalnews.com It has be
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Women’s Day 2021 | “They have this image of a successful entrepreneur… and then along comes a woman.” CTech spoke with 10 women in the VC space to learn some of the ways th
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Exclusive - BDS network exposed as front for Islamic terror groups
Exclusive - umbrella BDS group is front for radical Islamist terror groups - seeking to spread their poison into our homes
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BDS groups from US and Europe team up with Iran and Hamas against Israel - The Jerusalem Post
Over 60 organizations took part in the Gaza event, organized by The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine, a broad network including many BDS groups.
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Assaf Erez – Explores Central Israel in Photos
Assaf Erez – Explores Central Israel in Photos As the country opens up Assaf makes his way through the side streets and highways of central Israel.
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The grotesque myth of Jewish privilege
Some Jews are very successful, but others suffer serious deprivation – as well as discrimination.
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Converting the Torah
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Converting the Torah The latest Israeli pre-election brouhaha revolves around the High Court of Justice’s ruling that non-Orthodox conversions are legitimate for eligibility regarding the Right of Return, i.e., automatic
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 7, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 7, 2021 Well over half of Israeli citizens have now received at least one vaccination against Covid-19. This milestone coincided with Israelis celebrating International Women’s Day and the Jewish Fes
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IsraelSeen Exclusive – “We Are Here To Help, Today Is No Different”
IsraelSeen Exclusive – “We Are Here To Help, Today Is No Different” EMTs respond quickly to save seriously injured motorcyclist after a major crash. Early one Friday afternoon in the middle of February, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Netanel Moya
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Biden Administration to Restart Payments to Palestinians
In a move that tempts being illegal, the Biden administration has indicated it will resume US taxpayer-funded aid to the Palestinians...
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Iran Commits Act of Ecological Terrorism with Major Oil Spill Off Israel’s Coast
The Israeli government has confirmed that there was Iranian involvement in a massive oil spill that hit the country’s coast last month...
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Steve Kramer – The Street of the Prophets
Steve Kramer – The Street of the Prophets Israel is coming back to life slowly. (Unfortunately, this doesn’t pertain to air travel, which may be in hiatus until after Passover – but we don’t know anything for sure.) To celebrate coming out
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IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving A Life Amid Purim Rush
IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving A Life Amid Purim Rush On Tuesday afternoon, volunteer EMT Chezy Roth was at his store in central Jerusalem, tending to his customers who were going about their last-minute Purim shopping when his communications device
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CTECH – The Latest Israel Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israel Technology and Innovation News Three young cyber companies are about to join Israel’s stable of unicorns. The oldest of the companies eyeing a billion-dollar valuation has been around for less than three years. Rea
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Report: Obama offered Syria an Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights
Just a few months before the Syrian civil war erupted in March of 2011, the Barack Obama administration offered
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We recognize Haman. But where are Mordechai and Esther?
This week’s festival of Purim provided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an irresistible analogy. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook
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Who’s Legitimizing the Antisemitic Vaccine Blood Libel?
Saturday Night Live cast member Michael Che in a sketch accused of being antisemitic, Feb. 20, 2021. Photo: Twitter. JNS.org …
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Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Purim: A Holiday for the Jewish People but NOT for Judaism
Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Purim: A Holiday for the Jewish People but NOT for Judaism Despite its very festive nature, the holiday of Purim based on the Book of Esther is an object lesson of what can happen when we become too comfortable with a traditional
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This Weeks Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 28, 2021
This Weeks Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 28, 2021 Dozens of Israeli innovations, products and programs were launched in the two weeks since the last newsletter. Even the very first VeryGoodNewsIsrael zoom presentation. But the important launches included
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Biden Appoints Another Israel-Hater: Uzra Zeya
First, there was Maher Bitar, a Palestinian-American and anti-Israel BDS activist, whom Biden has appointed to be the senior director of intelligence programs at the National Security Council. In this key intelligence role, Maher Bitar will be ideally sit
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The Palestinians Compare Israel to the Nazis, But They Were the Real Collaborators With Hitler
The mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, meets with Adolf Hitler in 1941. Photo: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons. …
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Now the Israel Haters Turn on Facebook
Linda Sarsour. Photo: Festival of Faiths via Wikimedia Commons. You can say you don’t like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, …
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Shelly Schreter – A Berkeley Jewish Radical, Fifty Years Later in Israel
Shelly Schreter – A Berkeley Jewish Radical, Fifty Years Later in Israel An old friend from my Berkeley days asked whether my political opinions and values had changed since we were students in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was only asking for
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The disingenuousness of Mitchell Plitnick and the critics of Facebook eying the word "Zionist”
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IsraelSeen Exclusive: PLAYING DETECTIVE WITH FAMILY LORE
IsraelSeen Exclusive: PLAYING DETECTIVE WITH FAMILY LORE A Fascinating Read—Just Published! Back in October 2020 when 75 year-old Daniella Weiss Ashkenazy (born in the USA, who immigrated to Israel in 1968 in her early twenties) landed in
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'We need to BDS them': Mark Levin on how to handle media hostility towards Israel and US
Mark Levin, the conservative Jewish American radio broadcaster with more than 14 million daily listeners, has a gloomy forecast
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Saturday Night Live's Anti-Israel Covid Blood Libel | HonestReporting
With a reputation for lampooning politicians and public figures, Saturday Night Live remains a must-watch show for millions of Americans. But there
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why is Lapid Beating Saar and Bennett?
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why is Lapid Beating Saar and Bennett? The past weeks have seen some dynamic change in Israel’s election polls, mostly within the Right/Center camp. Lapid’s Yesh Atid is up by several seats (approaching twenty), while S
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It wasn't funny, Michael Che - Israel National News
All Israelis whether Muslim, Christian or Jew, are equally eligible for vaccine Almost 70% of Israeli Arabs over 60 were vaccinated. Op-ed.
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Jewish Leaders and Groups Slam ‘Saturday Night Live’ Over Skit About Israel’s Vaccination Drive
Saturday Night Live cast member Michael Che in a sketch accused of being antisemitic, Feb. 20, 2021. Photo: Twitter. Jewish …
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Rami Dabbas – Interview with Arab Muslim Journalist about Islam and Science.
Rami Dabbas – Interview with Arab Muslim Journalist about Islam and Science. In an attempt to conduct a press interview with a religious Muslim about Islam and science, as he refused to do the interview with an Israeli newspaper for religious reason
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Temple University Must Take Action Against Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill. Photo: Karga Fantasma. JNS.org – Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, who was fired from CNN in …
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The hatred of the stupid for the smart
Why do so many student activists hate Jews? It’s a mix of racism and envy.
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UNPACKED – How Mizrahi Music Took Over Israeli Pop
UNPACKED – How Mizrahi Music Took Over Israeli Pop Why did Mizrahi artists have such a hard time breaking into Israel’s mainstream music scene? Over just a few decades, Mizrahi music crossed cultural and social boundaries, introducing Israel’s d
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Malaria-Fighting Israeli Startup A Finalist For $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE
ZzappMalaria is working to eradicate malaria using an AI-powered app that helps locate hotspots and eliminate the risk.
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Will Biden Take On the New Anti-Semitism?
On February 1, State Department official Kara McDonald announced that the Biden administration “embraces and champions the working definition” of...
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New hate-mongering scandals at UN agency that Biden means to send millions
President Biden, in his obsession with reversing every Trump policy, means to reinstate funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year for an agency that teaches Palestinian children to hate “the E
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More lies in Marc Lamont Hill's book
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CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Waze CEO on his decision to leave Google: “I was just worn down by the nature of the beast.” The CEO shares a personal and critical post about what led him to leave the world of Co
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Biden Nominee for Top State Dept Post Contributed to Book About How 'Israel Lobby' Controls American Politics
President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top State Department position played a key role in assembling a book on the nefarious influence of the “Israel lobby” while working for an organization that promoted claims about Jewish media control and dual loyalty to
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Behind Israeli Startup CorNeat’s Vision to Help People With Corneal Blindness See Again
Following the 1st human implantation of CorNeat's synthetic cornea, the company is gearing up for more surgeries and clinical trials in other countries.
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Barbara Roslyn Rubin – The National Democratic Socialist Party Another Communist Manifesto
Barbara Roslyn Rubin – The National Democratic Socialist Party Another Communist Manifesto Here in America, the Republicans like to talk about ‘values’ and the Democrats, ‘compassion’. Our present-day confusions of politics with morality req
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 15, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 15, 2021 The highlights include: Israel’s latest Covid-19 treatment has received worldwide acclaim. Two Israeli innovations could see the end to invasive biopsies. An Israeli hi-tech training NGO gives
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Is Joe Biden Looking to Take Obama's Place as the Most Anti-Israel President in History?
Barack Obama’s antipathy toward Israel during his two terms was unprecedented at the time, but it looks like Joe Biden is going to give him a run for his money....
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Israeli Study Finds 94% Drop in Symptomatic COVID-19 Cases With Pfizer Vaccine
A medical worker gets her second vaccination injection against the coronavirus disease as Israel continues its national vaccination drive during …
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Assaf Erez – Israel on His Mind: Photos of His Daily Journey
Assaf Erez – Israel on His Mind: Photos of His Daily Journey Once again Assaf takes us on his journey through Israeli streets, roads, highways and homes.
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Marc Lamont Hill Says That Black Lives Matter ‘Explicitly’ Looking To ‘Dismantle’ Israel and ‘Embrace’ BDS Movement
On February 6, the Democratic Socialists of America hosted an online panel discussion titled “DSA, BDS, and Palestine Solidarity.” One of the panelists
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Israeli Start Up Excellent Brain signs a mutual distribution agreement with Macrotellect
Israeli Start Up Excellent Brain signs a mutual distribution agreement with Macrotellect – Excellent Brain Ltd., the Israeli start-up developer of the most innovative direct-to-consumer Neurofeedback platform has announced today that it signed a mutual
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Camera – Media Highlights: Accuracy in Reporting Israel in the Media
Camera – Media Highlights: Accuracy in Reporting Israel in the Media CNN’s Kiley Parrots B’Tselem Slanders February 8, 2021 CNN’s Kiley was a pass-through for B’Tselem charges, questioning nothing. He ignored the ordinary norm
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WATCH: Psaki Asked If Israel Is Important Ally Of U.S.; She Doesn’t Answer
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked flat-out if Israel was an important ally of the United States. Psaki would not give an answer to that question.
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Steve Kramer – The Iranian JCPOA(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) Conundrum
Steve Kramer – The Iranian JCPOA(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) Conundrum President Biden’s administration is zealously dissociating itself from Trump’s agenda and accomplishments. One important goal for Biden is to return to the Iran deal,
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Israel Seen Exclusive – Finding the Motivation To Keep Going, Even When We Don’t Succeed
Israel Seen Exclusive – Finding the Motivation To Keep Going, Even When We Don’t Succeed On Wednesday afternoon in Givat Ze’ev, a young boy just under two years old was playing in his backyard when he tripped and landed on the family’s jacuzzi
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Israeli Hospital Adopts Nanofiber Artificial Skin Burn Treatment System
Haifa's Rambam Hospital is the first Israeli care center to use the novel Spincare system to treat wounds and burns without touching the skin.
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CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Israel’s 2021 Cyber landscape: Which sector will the new unicorns emerge from? 120 companies from 14 industry sectors made it into Glilot Capital Partners and IVC’s Israeli Cyberse
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ZOA Praises U.S. Senate for Passing Amendment to COVID Budget Res. to Keep the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, Chair Mark Levenson, Esq., and Director of Government Relations Dan Pollak released the followi
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Biden Will Return U.S. To Anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council
On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden administration will return the U.S. to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Blinken
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ZOA: Biden’s Depty Secy State Nominee Wendy Sherman: Hostile to Israel, Pro-Iran Deal
Zionist Organization of America President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq., released the following statement: ZOA is deeply concerned about anoth
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Biden Puts Anti-Israel BDS Activist in Charge of NSC Intel
From calling for the destruction of Israel to the National Security Council.
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‘Jews Don’t Count:’ Former New York Times Editor Bari Weiss Breaks Down Antisemitism on Left and Right in Megyn Kelly Interview
Bari Weiss on ‘The View.’ Photo: Screenshot. “Right now, Jews are in a very precarious and strange position,” said author …
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Israeli EMS Roll Outs COVID Rapid Tests With Biotech Startup Nanosynex
Nanosynex's founders coordinated a donation of some 200 rapid testing kits as part of a pilot initiative with United Hatzalah.
Science & Technology | Technology
In a first, successful artificial cornea transplant restores Israeli man's eyesight
Israel medical tech startups have recently delivered breakthroughs in the field, including use of AI to amplify success of IVF procedures. The synthetic cornea was created out of non-degradable material by CorNeat.
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Biden Team Already Talking To Iran About Resuming Nuclear Deal, Possibly In Violation Of Logan Act
President-Elect Joe Biden’s team is reported to have opened up back-channel communications with the Iranian regime regarding the return of
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‘EPIC hypocrisy’: Ted Cruz has all the receipts and fact-DROPS AOC in heated back and forth after she accuses him of ‘excusing’ Neo-Nazis
Not sure why AOC decided to pick a fight with Ted Cruz but here we are.
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Iran starts enriching uranium to 20% - because it understands that it can push Europe and Biden around with impunity
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Jonathan Pollard, Spy for Israel, Gets Hero’s Welcome From Netanyahu: ‘You’re Home’
Mr. Pollard, who gave a range of classified documents to Israel starting in 1984, recently completed his parole. His case was a longstanding irritant to American-Israeli ties.
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"Intersectionality" includes Palestinian Arabs but not minorities persecuted by Arabs
'Intersectionality' does not include minorities persecuted by Arabs like Yazidi in Iraq, the Copts in Egypt or the Bantus in Somalia. Op-ed
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UPDATED: “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP): What the Media is Concealing | CAMERA
What is 'Jewish Voice for Peace'? It is an anti-Semitic hate group that masquerades as a Jewish social justice, peace-promoting organization and the mainstream
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Bob Dylan’s ‘Neighborhood Bully’ Gets Memory-Holed
Me, I romp and stomp/Thankful as I romp/Without freedom of speech/I might be in the swamp
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Interfaith Humanitarian Organization Donates Emergency Medical Kits to Volunteers in Israel
Interfaith Humanitarian Organization Donates Emergency Medical Kits to Volunteers in Israel The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) donated 160 emergency medical kits to United Hatzalah of Israel, a volunteer emergency medical
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'Esther was murdered with monstrous cruelty' - Inside Israel - Israel National News
52-year-old mother of six Esther Horgan, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist while jogging, will be laid to rest this morning.
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Weird! Jacobin journo really wants Americans to think that Israel is effectively stealing their COVID relief money
You’re probably pretty upset about the $10 million allocated for “gender programs” in Pakistan, and you’ve got every right to be.
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Victor Rosenthal – Birthright and Jewish Continuity
Victor Rosenthal – Birthright and Jewish Continuity Since 2009, the Jewish Futures Project at Brandeis University has been following participants in the Birthright Israel program to try to see how the program affected their Jewish identity. Since th
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Obama’s Latest Autobiography Rewrites Israeli History to Make You Hate the Jewish State
As Obama’s dotty old puppet prepares to enter the Oval Office, this is not a good sign for America’s alliance with Israel, or for peace in the Middle East.
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GEORGIA: Dem Senate Candidate Warnock Tells Followers ‘Jesus Was A Poor Palestinian’
As Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – the same church where Dr. Martin
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Misguided American Jews hiding in plain sight - Opeds - Israel National News
Dear American Progressive Jews, do not cower. Do not cling to your enemies. Hiding in plain sight, “passing,” will not save us. Opinion.
History | History
השבועה לירושלים - עקיבא נוף עם ג'ון לנון ויוקו אונו
מילים ולחן: עקיבא נוףשנת הקלטה: 1969הסיפור: ב-1969 כאשר היה סטודנט אלמוני בהולנד, זכה עקיבא נוף לפרסום כעיתונאי הישראלי היחיד שזכה לשוחח בראיון ע
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Western Wall Hanukkah candle lighting to continue amid COVID-19 pandemic
Tours of hanukkiot in Jerusalem will also take place throughout the holiday – both in person according to Health Ministry guidelines and online.
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Trump Administration Plans to Release List of BDS Groups
Signs at a pro-BDS protest in New York. Photo: Reuters / Carlo Allegri. JNS.org – The Trump administration plans to …
Science & Technology | ISRAELI TECH
Israel plans 2024 moonshot after first unmanned lander crashed
Israel is planning to launch another unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024. Last year, Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashed while attempting a lunar landing.
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Sheldon Schreter - The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel
Sheldon Schreter – The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel Many Jews and non-Jews, both friends and enemies of Israel, assume that Israel was founded as a result of the Shoah of European Jewry. While the Shoah was indisputably an important
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Banner Over Busy Tehran Street Reads, ‘Thank You, Mossad’
An Israeli flag draped over a sign in Tehran that reads: “Thank you, Mossad.” Photo: Twitter. JNS.org – In what …
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Elder Of Ziyon - Peter Beinart's dishonest defense of Rashida Tlaib's hate
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Israel: Obama’s revisionist ‘Promised Land’
In his new memoir, the former U.S. president misleads readers in a way that will forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.
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Arabs Warn Biden: Do Not Embrace Islamists
Several Arab political analysts and columnists, particularly in the Gulf, have voiced similar sentiments. The message they are sending to Biden and the Democrats: We do not want to go back to the bad old days when the US administration aligned itself with
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Former Navy analyst convicted of spying is expected in Israel soon, says Netanyahu
Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, sold military secrets to Israel while working at the Pentagon in the 1980s.
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Purim B7MX jam ISRAEL
Annual bmx jam in be'er sheva thanks to the locals of the south, Nightrider and BSD.
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Democrats, Media Stand On The Graves Of European Jews To Hit Trump
The Left’s exhausting and obscene obsession with comparing conservatives to Nazis reached inexcusable lows this week after Donald Trump and his
