My thoughts on politics.
Now that Fox News has apparently turned, Trump supporters are finding it difficult to find unbiased, professional news reportage on the issues they care about, for instance the Hunter Biden scandal and election/voter fraud. Some have turned to Newsmax or OANN, but both these sources offer very little hard information, and they feel second-rate in …
Israeli vaccine trials have begun, with the first Israeli participants having received their injections against the novel coronavirus. One patient was injected at Hadassah Ein Kerem, the other at Sheba Medical Center. Anar Ottolenghi, 34, who received his injection at Hadassah, is an immunology student at Ben-Gurion University. The other participant is Segev Harel, 26. …
Most of us have come to grips with the idea that the coronavirus pandemic is not going away any time soon. Also, it will be a good while before we have a useable, safe vaccine. But Israel is nonetheless going into human trials for its COVID-19 vaccine Brilife, on November 1. Phase one of the …
Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who played Wonder Woman, has now been cast as Cleopatra. But a lot of people are unhappy that an Israeli (read “Jew”) should play an Egyptian ruler. The negative tweets use language we’d rather not amplify, suggesting that an Arab actress would have been more appropriate in the role and …
Trump’s time in the White House has been marked by the shutdown of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, in contrast with Obama’s JCPOA, which fueled those ambitions with pallets of cash to the mullahs, and more. Now Trump has sanctioned 18 more Iranian banks with ties to terror, missile development, and the development of Iran’s nuclear weapons …
Israel started off a winner in the fight against the coronavirus, with a lockdown that worked well to slow contagion. But when the lockdown was abruptly ended, coronavirus got the upper hand. Now Israel has surpassed the U.S. for per capita cases of coronavirus. Last week, Israel saw 8,000 new daily cases of the virus, …
Coronavirus is spiking like crazy in Israel, which had led to tougher lockdown measures just as Yom Kippur is ushered in. From the Jerusalem Post: “The Health Ministry reported Saturday that 8,315 new cases were diagnosed the day before, out of 62,035 people screened for coronavirus, which is a 13.4% positive rate.” Prime Minister Netanyahu …
In Israel, for the first time in 23 years, lakes and underground aquifers are filling up, rising above the arbitrary and somewhat mysterious “green line.” It’s a blessing for a land that didn’t get as large a portion of water and oil, as one might have hoped. But the good news is tempered with the …
Making a peace accord between the UAE and Israel? Check. Getting Kosovo to recognize Israel? Check. Getting Serbia to agree to move its embassy to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital? Check. Good enough reason to give this president a Nobel Peace Prize. Trump had already been nominated for the Abraham Accords, but with Kosovo and Serbia taking …
Serbia announced on Friday that it would move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem by next summer. On the same day, Kosovo announced that Israel and the Muslim-majority state had agreed to establish diplomatic relations. This was after two days of discussion with Trump administration officials that also led to the signing of an economic normalization …