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Polish chief rabbi slams probe into journalist who wrote of Poland's complicity in Holocaust: 'The state should not be a side in the historical debate, and especially it should not support historical untruths or hatred'
Follow Feb. 8, 2021 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty as he appeared Monday at the Jerusalem District Court to respond to the corruption charges against him. Netanyahu, who is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three cases, confirmed the written answer his defense team submitted to the court on his behalf in January, arguing he was not guilty in all the charges against him. Netanyahu's attorney Boaz Ben Zur requested that the evidentiary phase be postponed by three or four months, so it would begin only after the March 23 election. “The case is not re...
Scheiner had also taken a very strict stance regarding the coronavirus guidelines. He received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine a month ago, but contracted the virus before receiving the second dose. His condition deteriorated quickly and he died on Sunday at Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem, near Jerusalem. In his last public letter, written at the start of the third wave of the pandemic in Israel, Scheiner encouraged the public to observe the coronavirus restrictions and to get vaccinated. “It’s nearly a year that the Holy One, Blessed be He, has sent to the world a di...
Jan. 31, 2021 Elie Klein and Barry Wendell have little in common other than both being Jews who grew up in Baltimore. Klein is 40, works for a non-profit and now lives in Beit Shemesh, a commuter town halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Wendell is 71, semi-retired and lives in Morgantown, West Virginia. But the two men – separated by 6,000 miles – both just received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Israel’s success with its vaccine rollout has made international headlines. But West Virginia’s is much less known and more surprising – an ingenious solution that took advantage of the r...
Follow Jan. 29, 2021 The hearing the Education Ministry held on Thursday for the principals of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, after they had invited B’Tselem’s director to talk to students, was intended more than anything else to deter other principals and teachers. The message is loud and clear: principals and teachers must shut up, avoid any discussion of the reality they and their pupils live in. There must be no fact-based discussion, not even thinking about it. Like silencing lawsuits meant to reduce the freedom of speech, the silencing hearing is to ensure teachers reduce themsel...