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Creative Commons Professor Moshe Brawer, Israel Prize laureate, founder of the Department of Geography and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and considered by many to be the father of modern Israeli geography, passed away on Monday at the age of 101. Brawer’s life work was writing and editing the atlases used by generations of Israeli students and which were often called the Brawer Atlas. Brawer was born in Vienna in 1919 and immigrated with his family to Jerus...

0 shares 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 Al...

2 shares 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,” ...

35 shares 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....

1 shares 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 Isr...

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Israel Prize winner Prof. Moshe Brawer dies aged 101 Ynet | Prominent Geographer and Israeli Prize winner Prof. Moshe Brawer passed away Monday aged of 101. Throughout his career Brawer worked at the Bar-Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities, where he was also dean of the Faculty of Humanities. Brawer was also a visiting professor in universities all over the world. In 2002 he was awarded the Israel Prize for his contribution to the field of geography. comment

It says 3,508 were recorded on Sunday, when 4.9 percent of tests returned positive. According to the ministry, there are 36,888 active coronavirus cases, with 602 people in serious condition, 147 of them on ventilators. The death toll stands at 3,247. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But its full of beauty and meaning. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their wo...

8 shares Iran warns Israel not to cross its “red lines” in the Gulf in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency and following a reported Israeli submarine deployment. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stresses the Islamic Republic would defend itself against any American military “adventure” in the runup to the January 20 handover of power in Washington. The statement comes a week after the US Navy announced a nuclear submarine was being deployed to the Gulf, in a ...