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Amid COVID and other challenges, hoping for a year of energy, humility, health
In the deadly shadow of COVID-19, Israel sent its children back to school on Wednesday morning.
Contagion levels of the virus have reached an all time high, with more than 11,000 new cases recorded on Monday, and close statistical…
Wagner: How we (finally) quelled an American scourge | Chroniclers
In October, in just 90 days, yellow fever killed more than 3,200 people in Norfolk and Portsmouth, around one in three people left behind. The young progressive mayor has passed away, along with the postmaster, the chief of police, the…
Four mega-trends that condemn the West to irreversible decline
So that's it: the British troops will be out in a few days, and the Americans shortly thereafter. There will be no delay, no extra time to get more citizens or refugees out, no mercy. Why? Because the Taliban say so and they, rather…
Location, location? Not anymore. Israel, Azerbaijan and the globalization of entrepreneurship
As one of the rarest countries, Azerbaijan has achieved positive results in the successful implementation of the UN “Millennium Development Goals” under the supremacy of the great leader Heydar Aliyev from 2000 , and for its contribution…
Ministers approve compromise to lower age of exemption for ultra-Orthodox IDF
Government ministers on Sunday approved a plan to lower the age at which members of the ultra-Orthodox community can be exempted from military service, pushing through a compromise to potentially end part of a legislative standoff…
House Democrats return to Washington deeply divided
The moderates have also allied with the Shield PAC, founded by Democrats ousted in November from Republican-leaning districts, to push back efforts to smear all Democrats with left-wing slogans. Some have backed a new pro-Israel group, the…
Israel’s tech boom will include Arabs
A small satellite called Ramadan will soon be launched to track the moon and detect the start of the lunar month which determines the start of many holidays. This is an initiative of a historic plan by the Israeli government to…
Biden hires Dallas lawyer Marc Stanley as ambassador to Argentina
President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Dallas attorney Marc Stanley as ambassador to Argentina, a coveted post for a longtime Democratic fundraising powerhouse.Buenos Aires is the Paris of South America, and the Ambassador's residence is a…
BDS activist explains pressure on Ben & Jerry’s, calls on other companies to boycott…
A pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist wrote an op-ed in The Guardian explaining how the BDS movement pressured Ben & Jerry's to stop doing business in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory”.
Mark Hage, a member of…
Three myths about Europe in one sentence: bravo, General Barak and Sir Max
When does a cliché become a myth? Answer: when it is spoken by a Very Important Person and repeated by another VIP in an official journal. There is a good example today Times (behind a paywall). Sir Max Hastings, visiting…