Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21C
• Published September 27, 2021
Many organizations work to defuse tensions and promote understanding between Israel’s 74% Jewish majority and 21% minority Arab population.
But few address the big divide between secular Jews and the 13% minority of ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews.
A...
(JTA) — Hundreds of Iraqi civic leaders and activists attended a conference calling for the country to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
But Iraq’s government rejected the call and is now seeking to arrest the leaders of the conference...
Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms recently received an investment from a particularly glamorous source: Hollywood actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio.
Aleph Farms has developed a technology that creates cultivated meat...
(Israel21c) - A year and a half of lockdowns, school closures and social distancing caught adolescents at a vulnerable time in their emotional development, says Dr. Shelly Ben Harush Negari, a physician specializing in adolescent medicine.
Many kids...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published September 23, 2021
Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from St. Louis, was among the Democrats who voted against a bill Thursday to provide $1 billion in funding to Israel for its Iron Dome missile defense system.
In a tweet Thursday afternoon, Bush described Israel as an apartheid...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published September 22, 2021
(Israel21c) - Avital Elyakim’s 10th-grade daughter prepared for her matriculation exam in civics in an unusual way: She and her classmates in a Jewish high school in Tel Aviv had study and project sessions with peers from a high school in the Israeli...
(Israel21c) - Vanilla is a paradox. One of the world’s most popular flavors is among the least studied.
And that’s why Oren Zilberman, CEO of the Israeli startup Vanilla Vida, sees the largely, uncharted territory of the great bean as a “blue...
(Israel21c) - Our kids being the tech mavens that they are, you’d think that they’d know all about cyberattacks and how not to fall prey to one. They don’t. And for a very simple reason: No one talks to them about it.
“Parents aren’t aware...
Yori Yalon, Israel Hayom
• Published September 20, 2021
(Israel Hayom) — Israeli officials and bereaved families gathered at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl on Sunday to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
“Something within us changed 48 years ago,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali...
Across the world, people are bemoaning the end of summer and the beginning of a long, dark winter. In Israel, however, a loud collective sigh of relief can be heard as the blistering heat waves that have been tormenting us finally make way for cooler,...
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has made Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, and his Arab-Israeli coalition partner Mansour Abbas thinks he knows why.
“It all comes down to courage,” Abbas, the...
(Israel21c) - When Covid-19 first broke out, a telltale sign of catching the nasty virus was loss of smell. Almost two years later, it turns out that it is likely having long-term effects on the sense of smell of recovered patients.
A study by the...
