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Follow Mar. 8, 2021 Two years of political chaos will end after Election Day, March 23, with the formation of a stable government that has a clear vision and priorities. Or not. The results of the next election and the composition of the next government look increasingly unclear. All options are open. But the inescapable fact is that whatever government is formed will have to decide on what socioeconomic model Israel is going to have in the post-coronavirus era. Ostensibly, the model was decide...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio Over the past three days, U.S. officials have held feverish discussions about this issue, both among themselves and with their European partners in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. U.S. President Joe Biden’s stated position is that sanctions won’t be removed until Iran ceases its violations of the deal and resumes full compliance. Iran, in contrast, insists that sanctions must be lifted before the sides can even start talking. How muc...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio It was signed by the head of the Sharia Supreme Judicial Council in the Strip, Hassan al-Jojo, who is also the president of the Sharia Supreme Court in the coastal enclave. The first section of the circular is considered relatively positive and is meant to prevent children from being forcibly removed from the care of their mothers. It prohibits the father from traveling with his children without their mother’s permission (when the child...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The Defense Ministrys Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced the policy change on Thursday, allowing workers to come into Israel daily. Israel has refused to vaccinate any of the Palestinian workers. A Health Ministry statement from February 10 says that Palestinians working in Israel legally or not will not be vaccinated against COVID. Most of these workers are employed in the construction industry....

Feb. 15, 2021 High-tech executives are warning that the Israel Tax Authority could undermine the work of many of the hundreds of multinational research and development centers in the country if it goes through with plans to revise the way many of them are taxed. The authority is weighing a plan to stop calculating taxes based on the cost-plus system, in which a fixed rate of profit is derived from the center’s costs. Instead, it would tax them based on their parent company’s global profits ...

Clinging to Antarctic rock, a small sedentary animal was discovered where none were thought to be able to survive

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The team, which will soon be joined by seven new employees, follows mainstream and social media alike. Webpages or Facebook groups found to disseminate false and harmful information are taken down within hours or a day after being detected, backed by the Justice Ministrys cyber unit and with cooperation from some of the companies involved. “This is an arena we cannot abandon, we have to put up a fight on social media, as well as dissemi...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio A psychological investigation on Sunday deemed Raz fit to stand on trial.  Attorney Moshe Alon,who is representing Raz in court, said after Sundays hearing that he pleaded self-defense: "He was questioned twice: one the day of the incident, when he was in a mentally unfit condition and not grounded in reality; and during his second interrogation, he made a claim that should be examined by the unit investigating police misconduct." Open g...

Israeli Health Ministry's operation center, dedicated to tracking and countering false reports and forgeries about the coronavirus vaccine, has its sights set on those hesitant to inoculate

Follow Feb. 12, 2021 On November 5, 1942, the Germans destroyed the Drohyczin Jewish ghetto in the Bialystok region of Poland. About 1,500 of its residents were loaded onto trains and sent to the Treblinka death camp. The night before the ghetto’s destruction, Estera Siemiatycka fled with her toddler son, as well as with her sister and her sister’s daughters. Initially, they found refuge with a Polish acquaintance and then fled into the forest. According to Siemiatycka’s testimony, one da...