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Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai will unveil his new dovish political party on Tuesday evening, according to Hebrew media reports.
“Hundreds of thousands of Israelis feel they don’t have a political home in this election,” says Huldai.
Israel goes to national elections on March 23. Huldai, 76, has been the mayor of Tel Aviv for the past 22 years.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai attends the annual international Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90) I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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The Israel Prize-winning geographer and cartographer Moshe Brawer, who compiled dozens of atlases and helped delineate Israel’s border with Jordan, has died at 101.
Brawer’s world atlas is widely used in Israeli schools.
“He was involved in setting borders, and among other things was among those who determined the border with Jordan. He was a lecturer in university and people from around the world would call him to consult on these issues. He was a man of great stature,” Brawer’s daughter, Orit Brawer Ben David, tells the Ynet news site.
Brawer is survived by his wife, Rina, 91, four children and eight grandchildren, according to Ynet.
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Top health officials say they’re reconsidering a government order to force all Israelis arriving in the country to self-isolate in state-run hotels. The order aimed at preventing the British variant of the virus from spreading in Israel has not been strictly enforced.
“I’m not sure there’s a need for the quarantine hotels [to continue]. We’re weighing whether to continue with this,” Health Ministry director Ggneral Chezy Levy tells the Kan public broadcaster.
Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch tweets: “In light of the reasonable assumption that the vaccines are effective against this mutation as well, it seems right to move to home quarantine and stop the quarantine in hotels.”
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More than NIS 1.5 million ($465,500) has been invested over the past year to collect some 8,300 cubic meters of olive mill wastewater for treatment, from around 37 Palestinian olive presses in the West Bank, the Civil Administration has reported.
This is 40 percent more than was collected during a pilot project last year, and will stop the wastewater, which is full of contaminants, from blocking sewage facilities and polluting the a-Shaer and Alexander streams, which run into Israel, as well as the shoreline at Beit Yannai, on the northern Mediterranean coast.
The treated wastewater was used as a fertilizer for agricultural fields.
The Civil Administration is an Israel Defense Ministry body that forms part of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit that regulates much of the daily life in the West Bank.
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