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A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. | Public domain. Each year Conn Hallinan gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make reading the news a daily adventure. These are the awards for 2020. The Golden Lemon Award goes to Lockheed Martin for its F-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter, at $1.5 trillion the most expensive weapons system in history. The plane currently has 883 “design flaws,” including nine “category 1” flaws. The latter “may cause...

The election of Israel’s 24th Knesset will be the first in the country’s history in which the two parties with the best prospects of forming a coalition are both right-wing

43 shares Ronen Plot attends an Economy Committee meeting at the Knesset on May 20, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90) The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Tuesday named Ronen Plot to serve as its acting chairman, a spokesperson said, amidst an ongoing stalemate and controversy over the appointment of a new chairperson. The decision to appoint Plot, technically to the position of deputy chairman, came as the Knesset was dissolved Tuesday night, sending Israel to fresh elections. The fall of the ...

(JTA) — As the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywiński and his staff rarely intervene in matters that don’t concern their imposing institution. They even sit out debates that do concern them, such as Poland’s controversial outlawing in 2018 of rhetoric that blames the country for Nazi crimes. But Cywiński decided to speak out this week about the controversy surrounding Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, and Prime Minister Benjam...

55 shares Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a press conference in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2020. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE) JTA — As the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywiński and his staff rarely intervene in matters that don’t concern their imposing institution. They even sit out debates that do concern them, such as Poland’s controversial outlawing in 2018 of rhetoric that ...

Follow Dec. 20, 2020 Earlier this month, for the first time in three years, the Knesset held a "Diaspora Day," under the direction of Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevitch (Kahol Lavan). It was a joke, of course. A sad joke. There’s nothing personal here. I don’t know Minister Yankelevitch, and it may be that she is a sincere person with the best of intentions. According to press reports, her agenda was to give world Jewry a voice in the deliberations of Israel’s government. To acco...

Yad Vashems Hall of Names The head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has become the latest prominent figure to speak out amid the proposed appointment of a controversial former general as the new leader of Yad Vashem. Historians and survivors have condemned Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to appoint Effi Eitam, a hawkish retired general and politician, to the helm of Israel’s national Holocaust museum. A growing number of critics say he has used racist rhetoric against Arab Isr...

December 18, 2020 11:37 am Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at a press conference in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 26, 2020. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — As the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Piotr Cywiński and his staff rarely intervene in matters that don’t concern their imposing institution. They even sit out debates that do concern them, such as Poland’s controversia...

Effi Eitam (Photo: Juda S. Engelmayer/Wikimedia) For nearly 70 years Yad Vashem, the world-renowned Holocaust museum established in Jerusalem, has bolstered Israel’s claim to act as guardian and interpreter of the lessons of the Nazi genocide that destroyed much of European Jewry during the Second World War. Before the pandemic, more than a million visitors passed annually through its doors, and the museum was considered an all but mandatory stop for world leaders visiting Israel.  Re...

Outgoing Yad Vashem chair ‘ready to work with any successor’ Outgoing Yad Vashem chair ‘ready to work with any successor’ Avner Shalev says he’s less worried about a “revolt” by researchers over a controversial appointment for his successor than he is about donations drying up due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Omer Lachmanovitch Yad Vashem chair Avner Shalev at the museums exhibition “Flashes of Memory” in Jerusalem on Jan. 24, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90. Spread the w...