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Pixellot’s smart unmanned device follows and films a game for it to be broadcast and analyzed. Photo by Shai Pardo

Thanks to this Israeli startup, you can now watch almost any sports match in the world

Naama BarakPublished August 4, 2021

(Israel21c) - The last few weeks have been incredibly thrilling for soccer fans, who spent their evenings religiously glued to the Euros and the Copa América. Aside from hijacking our TV sets every night, what these two leagues have in common is that...

50 positive stories this week from Israel

50 positive stories this week from Israel

Michael Ordman, Very Good News IsraelPublished August 4, 2021

NETANYA, Israel –In the August 4, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:  An Israeli device enables people without hands to operate electronic devices. Two Israeli families and one from the UAE exchange kidneys. ...

IDF shells targets in Lebanon following rocket fire on Israel’s north

Published August 4, 2021
Two of the projectiles landed in Israel, while a third came down in Lebanese territory, according to the Israeli military.
Israel begins offering Covid booster shots, but is it wise?

Israel begins offering Covid booster shots, but is it wise?

Published August 2, 2021

With rising Covid-19 cases caused by the Delta variant and concerns about how long the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine remains effective — and how effective it is against Delta – the Israeli government decided on July 29 to make a booster shot available to...

Tel Aviv’s Sherry Herring sandwich shop to open on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Tel Aviv’s Sherry Herring sandwich shop to open on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Published August 2, 2021

(JTA) — If there was any doubt that the Upper West Side of Manhattan was a Jewish neighborhood, a new herring shop opening in the area should seal the deal. Sherry Herring, a Tel Aviv sandwich shop offering herring sandwiches — served with a shot...

Hannah Senesh. Credit: Jewish Virtual Library.

Do you know this Jew? Why Israeli paratroopers just honored her

Yaakov Lappin, The Jewish News SyndicatePublished August 1, 2021

(JNS) Israeli paratroopers have described being deeply moved last week by their experience in a commemorative expedition in Slovenia, held to honor the memory of Hannah Senesh (Szenes) and other Jewish paratroopers who parachuted into the same area of...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a cabinet meeting at the Foreign MInistry in Jerusalem on July 25, 2021. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Israeli premier: Iran behind fatal strike on Israeli-managed ship in Arabian Sea

Jewish News SyndicatePublished August 1, 2021

(August 1, 2021 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett blamed Iran on Sunday for the attack that left two dead on the Israeli-managed oil tanker in the Arabian Sea on Thursday night. Speaking during the weekly Security Cabinet meeting, Bennett...

Saudi Arabian Judoka Tahani Al-Qahtani (left) playing in a match against Israeli Raz Hershko at the Tokyo Olympics Games on July 30, 2021. Source: Twitter: @saudiolympic.

Israeli judoka praises Saudi opponent for ‘bravery’ in face of calls to boycott match

DOR HOFFMAN, Jewish News SyndicatePublished August 1, 2021
“I’m glad the sport won out,” says Raz Hershko, who beat Tahani al-Qahtani, but went on to be eliminated from the Tokyo Games.
Marathoner Beatie Deutsch. Photo by Kinneret Rifkind

Nothing is impossible for Israel’s most unlikely marathon champ

Lisa KlugPublished August 1, 2021

(Israel21c) - It’s not every day that Europe’s largest sportswear manufacturer features an ultra-orthodox Jew on a billboard. But that’s precisely what happened when Adidas portrayed Israeli national marathon and half marathon champion Beatie...

Though many if not most leading psychoanalysts at the time were German-speaking Jews, they offered very few public attempts to psychologically analyze Hitler. (Image: Dutch anti-Hitler propaganda, ca. 1940s / Public domain)

What did ‘America’s Freud’ think about Hitler?

Zack Rothbart, The National Library of IsraelPublished August 1, 2021
Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn't...
Israel's hottest real estate is 6 miles from Gaza

Israel’s hottest real estate is 6 miles from Gaza

Published August 1, 2021

Debbie Gross Steinberg heard the news while driving home to Ashkelon from her job in Jerusalem on July 13: Ashkelon leads Israel in new apartment sales. Between February and April alone, 951 new homes were sold in this coastal city of about 150,000...

Israel becomes first country to begin giving third COVID vaccine shots

Ben SalesPublished August 1, 2021

(JTA) — Israel is the first country to start giving a third dose of the COVID vaccine shot to its population in an effort to stem the spread of the Delta variant. Those older than 60 are the first to get the booster from health care providers. President...

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