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Covid-19: Snowstorm Disrupts Vaccinations Across Northeast Last Updated Feb. 17, 2021, 5:54 p.m. ETFeb. 17, 2021, 5:54 p.m. ET The spread of the virus is slowing in U.S. nursing homes. Republican senators who want to scale back aid in the next coronavirus relief package will meet with President Biden. Here’s what you need to know: -0:00 New York City Postpones Vaccine Appointments Ahead of Storm Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would postpone Covid-19 vaccinations scheduled for Monday and ...

A visitor looks at the display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on the international Holocaust remembrance day Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. The International Holocaust remembrance day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Jan. 27, 1945. | AP Photo/Dan Balilty On this day 76 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp where Nazi forces murdered more than 1.1 million people, the vast majority of them Jews. Greeted by starving prisoners r...

What Zoom Does to Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Free Speech As battles over Israel and the Palestinian territories have migrated online, technology has scrambled the debate. Clashes erupted in 2018 at a student celebration of Israel in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.Credit...Mack DeGeurin Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Feb. 10, 2021 Leila Khaled is a two-time hijacker, a member of a Palestinian group on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. So it came as a shock to J...

Israel By Hamodia Staff YERUSHALAYIM - Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 1:56 pm | ו שבט תשפ"א Israel’s Sorek desalination plant in Rishon Letzion, where a major cyber attack attributed to Iran, was thwarted in May 2020. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File) Israel has been successfully defending against a mounting number of cyberattacks from Iranian sources, Globes reported on Tuesday. Since early December, Israeli targets in Israel and abroad have been targeted, but most were contained ...

US-Israeli Intelligence Reportedly Closely Coordinated ‘Massive Air Strikes’ on Syria https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202101141081762954-us-israeli-intelligence-reportedly-closely-coordinated-massive-air-strikes-on-syria/ Israeli warplanes carried out a series of intense air strikes near the Syrian towns of Deir ez-Zor, Mayadeen and Boukamal along the border with Iraq on Wednesday, amid heightened tension in the region, driven by fears of retaliation for the US killing of Iran’s Revolu...

236 shares An Israeli teacher receives a COVID-19 vaccine, at Shamir Medical Center in Beer Yaakov, on December 30, 2020. (Avi Dishi/Flash90) Low coronavirus vaccination rates among Arab Israelis have raised concerns that Israel’s conservative minority may be immune to calls to get shots against the novel coronavirus — but experts say it’s more complicated than that. While a few vaccination centers have been erected in Arab towns and cities, many facilities reported that most of tho...

Israeli Election, Take Four: Conservatives vs. Conservatives After the center-left failed in three elections to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the fourth one is shaping up into a contest among right-wing leaders. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has survived three electoral challenges in a row from the center-left. Now he faces two challengers from the right.Credit...Pool photo by Yonatan Sindel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a chance of a sixth term, . JERUSALEM — For three...

To Understand Red-State America, He Urges a Look at Red-State Israel An Israeli sociologist argues that Trump voters, like Netanyahu supporters in Israel, have legitimate reasons to find liberal values threatening. Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a rally in Beit She’an, a town with a large Mizrahi population.Credit...Dan Balilty for The New York Times Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 23, 2020 JERUSALEM — Liberals were confounded. The right-wing incumbent’s ...

177 shares Health Minister Yuli Edelstein gives a press conference at a coronavirus vaccine center in Tel Aviv on December 13, 2020. The slogan behind him reads: "Here, were beating coronavirus." At right is Maccabi health fund head Ran Saar. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/Pool) Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday criticized Israelis who spread fake news and unverified claims about coronavirus vaccines, saying it could cause people to die if they take their advice and refuse to vacci...

An Epic Israeli TV Drama Exposes War Wounds Old and New Grappling with the traumatic opening of the 1973 war, when Israel feared destruction, the series “Valley of Tears” has prompted a national outpouring of emotion. Israeli soldiers during the war in 1973.Credit...Rolls Press/Popperfoto, via Getty Images Published Dec. 12, 2020Updated Dec. 23, 2020 JERUSALEM — A new Israeli television series based on true events from the 1973 war, when the country was caught off guard on the holiest day...