Jan 20, 2021
Drs. Avital Beck and Hadas Shatz-Azouly scientists, mothers, entrepreneurs and founders of the company MilkStrip understand firsthand the challenges of owning a business while raising six and five children, respectively.
By Eliana Rudee, JNS
Mastercard’s Index of Women Entrepreneurs announced last month that Israel is ranked as the best country for female entrepreneurs in 2020, rising from fourth place in 2019, with the United States, Switzerland and New Zealand trailing the Jewish state. According to Mastercard, Israel jumped to first place this year due to its increase in support for small- and medium-sized businesses. The company also noted that women have been disproportionality impacted by the coronavirus pandemic with 87 percent of female business owners saying that they have been negatively affected.
By JNS
A French court on Thursday convicted a delivery driver of discrimination against Jews after refusing to accept orders for kosher food.
Dhia Edine D., a 19-year-old Algerian man illegally in France, was sentenced by a Strasbourg court to four-and-a-half months in prison.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that the man will be deported back to Algeria after he completes his sentence.
“I decided to expel from the national territory the food ‘deliverer’ … who said he did not want to handle deliveries to Jewish clients,” said Darmanin.
The conviction occurred two days after a regional Jewish institution, the Israelite Consistory of the Bas-Rhin region, filed a legal complaint that alleged that two kosher restaurants had claimed that drivers working for the online food-delivery service Deliveroo refused to make deliveries on their behalf because they didn’t want to service Jews.
The development of the Abraham Accords has allowed for pro-Israel groups to make the case that the time is ripe for Israel to fall under CENTCOM as well.
Kristen Clarke was involved with an event featuring late professor Tony Martin, author of "The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront."