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�� Terror Incident: A Palestinian man stabbed two Israelis and was then shot and killed near a light rail station in East Jerusalem yesterday. ��️‍♂️ Promotion: Mossad Deputy Director David Barnea will assume the agency’s top role next week, succeeding outgoing chief Yossi Cohen. �� Incoming: Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly planning a visit to Israel this week to celebrate the retirement of Cohen as head of the Mossad. �� Side Effect: In The Atlantic, Anshel Pfeffer explores how Israel’s Iron Dome saves lives but removes the immediate urgen...

Britain's swift economic recovery following the latest lockdown looks set to prompt the Bank of England's top brass to hike the country's growth forecasts on Thursday. Experts at the EY Item Club think the BoE will bolster gross domestic product predictions for the next few years 'significantly' at its next Monetary Policy Committee meeting. On Friday, Barclays published figures suggesting the economy could grow by 6.5 per cent this year, marking the best rate of growth since records began in 1948.  Decision time: Andrew Bailey and his team of policymakers are expected to hike growth forecas...

By Alec Mattinson2021-04-30T07:55:00+01:00 Unilever sounds price rise klaxon as manufacturers grapple cost pressures. Graeme Pitkethly, the chief financial officer, said that costs related to the pandemic had chipped 90 basis points from the company’s margins. He added: “We’re seeing levels of commodity inflation that we have not seen in a very long time.” (Sky News) Unilever’s underlying sales grew in the first three months of 2021 as locked-down consumers continued to keep their kitchen cupboards well stocked, and China’s economy began to “normalise” (The Guardian). People...

Amid the ocean of corporate profiteering and cronyism during the Covid pandemic over PPE, ventilators, oxygen supplies, and test and trace schemes, AstraZeneca stands out from the crowd. Together with scientists from the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, the Anglo-Swedish firm and its staff are among the true heroes in the battle to control — and ultimately conquer — a devastating disease that has claimed so many lives worldwide. And yet, beyond Britain, it has won few plaudits for its rapid development of a cheap, easy-to-store and transport ‘workhorse’ vaccine on which m...