Monthly Archives: March 2020

Brooklyn: “At funerals, people no longer shoveling dirt on their loved one’s casket—no one, including the gravediggers, were allowed to touch the shovels”

TABLET MAG America’s Largest Population of Holocaust Survivors Is Endangered by the Coronavirus as Crown Heights and Borough Park Shut Down by Armin Rosen March 24, 2020 …Closing a synagogue is no small matter—even in the darkest moments of World … Continue reading

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“A further glance at the signatories reveals that at least 20 are socialists, reflecting their parties’ frequent significant incitement against Israel and sympathy for the repressive, corrupt, anti-democratic, and murderous Palestinian leadership”

BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES 50 European Political Has-Beens Oppose Trump’s Peace Plan by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld March 23, 2020 Fifty former senior European politicians have published a letter against the Trump peace plan in the Guardian. Many signatories can … Continue reading

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“Employment Service says new applications slowing after ebbing of initial wave of layoffs in travel, service industries, but more expected as pandemic affects other industries”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel’s jobless rate surges to 16.5% as virus puts 500,000 out of work by Staff March 22, 2020 The unemployment rate in Israel has skyrocketed to 16.5 percent, with over 500,000 people losing their jobs since the … Continue reading

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Soros: “For defending themselves, the Jews are getting what they deserve”

AMERICAN THINKER Soros’ Anti-Israel Funding by Rachel Ehrenfeld March 22, 2020 George Soros seems to have developed a special dislike of the State of Israel. He has rewritten Middle Eastern history to better jibe with his idea of the “poignant … Continue reading

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“The failure of the Chinese Communist Party to protect the world from COVID-19 is likely to reverse China’s recent gains in power and prestige”

THE AMERICAN INTEREST The Geopolitics of the Coronavirus by Michael Mandelbaum March 24, 2020 Throughout history, great wars have overturned the international order, making and breaking entire countries and their political systems while increasing the power and status of some … Continue reading

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Bibi: “I will leave office on the agreed date; there will be no shticks and tricks. Millions of Israelis are waiting for us”

JERUSALEM POST Netanyahu implores Gantz to join gov’t, vows to rotate as PM without tricks by Gil Hoffman March 22, 2020 Imploring Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party to join the Likud in a national unity government, Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading

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A solidarity message from Israeli Foreign Ministry to its Arab neighbors: “We are all human beings; we are all brothers”

ALGEMEINER Coronavirus Crisis Brings Israel and Arab World Together, at Least Online by Benjamin Kerstein March 18, 2020 The Israeli Foreign Ministry has been receiving messages of solidarity from across the Arab world as the coronavirus crisis intensifies, including messages … Continue reading

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Echo Chamber redux: “In echo of Iran regime propaganda, Obama era critics falsely claim U.S. sanctions target food and medicine”

FREE BEACON Ayatollah’s American Allies Seize on Pandemic in Fresh Push for Sanctions Relief by Adam Kredo March 19, 2020 The architects of the Obama administration’s self-described pro-Iran echo chamber have used the coronavirus outbreak to argue that U.S. sanctions … Continue reading

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“Teva, the giant Israeli pharmaceutical company, has announced that it will donate more than six million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets”

JERUSALEM POST Teva donates potential coronavirus treatment to hospitals across the US by Staff March 21, 2020 …Recently, Israel’s Health Ministry has approved multiple experimental treatments, and companies worldwide are attempting to determine what could be used to treat the … Continue reading

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“CAMERA’s Israel office today prompted correction of Gideon Levy’s March 6 error-ridden Haaretz article “

CAMERA BLOG Haaretz Corrects: Israel Didn’t Deny Entry to Gazans Whose Daughter Died From Cancer by Hanan Amiur and Tamar Sternthal March 15, 2020 In Ha’aretz, Gideon Levy falsely alleged that the parents of young cancer patient Miral Abu Ambsha … Continue reading

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