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US / Coronavirus / Sheba Medical Center

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center Joins Forces with America’s NIH to Battle COVID-19

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Sheba Medical Center will supply the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center with blood samples, plasma and the COVID-19 virus itself from infected patients in Israel.

News Briefs / Business and Economy / Coronavirus

Fitch Upholds Israel’s Credit Rating at A+, Leave Forecast At ‘Stable’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Fitch says that the global repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic containment measures will cause Israel’s real GDP to contract by 5.6% in 2020, but projects a rebound in 2021, with GDP growing by 5%.

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Israeli Researchers Convert Tap Water into Powerful Disinfectant Against Viruses

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have developed new methodologies to produce powerful, environmentally-friendly disinfectants, based on tap water, that can eliminate bacteria and kill viruses, including microbes from the coronavirus family.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Arab Arrested for Setting Fire to Jerusalem’s City Hall

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The suspected arsonist had been previously fined by the city for hawking protective masks without a permit.

Iran / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Israeli-Arab Indicted for Spying for Iran

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The spy met with his handlers in Denmark, Paris and Budapest.

Featured / Israel / Coronavirus

Israeli Hospital Testing Effect of Cannabis Extract on Coronavirus Patients

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The study is investigating whether if cannabidiol can slow down the inflammatory process that accompanies the deterioration of severe Coronavirus patients and alleviate the symptoms of the disease.

Antisemitism / Holocaust

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day: Report Shows Sharp Increase in Anti-Semitism Worldwide

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The investigation reveals the coronavirus pandemic is linked to the upswing in anti-Semitism incidents.

Israel / Business and Economy

Coronavirus Creates Labor Shortage – Israeli Robots Pollinate Date Plantations

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Date plantations in the Arava region and Jordan Valley were at risk due to a shortage in labor, but Israeli drones came to the rescue and are efficiently pollinating them from the air.

IDF & Security / Coronavirus

IAF Officer Publishes Open Source Code for Production of Cheap Automatic Respirators

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Haifa Technology Center had joined Israeli Air Force (IAF) Major David Alkahar in developing a computerized automatic respirator and has published the code online for the world’s benefit.

Featured / Israel / Coronavirus

After Recovering from Coronavirus, Father and Son Return to Work at MDA

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Menachem said that after being a patient himself his “outlook is completely different.”

Business and Economy / Coronavirus

Religious Kibbutzniks Rally to Save Unmarketable Flowers Amid Coronavirus Crisis

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Setting up an ad hoc distribution center, the Kibbutz elders sorted the flowers and the youth set up a circulation point, all working 18 hours a day to save the flowers.

IDF & Security / Palestinian Authority / Coronavirus

Israel Passes Corona Testing Kits, Protective Mask to the Palestinian Authority

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The equipment, which was donated by the World Health Organization (WHO), was transferred on Wednesday from Jordan into the PA via the IDF.

Israel / Coronavirus

3rd Israeli Dies of Coronavirus, 2nd in a Day

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

An 87-year-old Israeli man has become the third Israeli to die of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), according to the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Shoots and Kills Terrorist in Rock Throwing Attack

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Arab terrorists were raining down rocks on cars driving on the highway.

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Coronavirus

Wednesday Morning: 427 Israeli Corona Patients; 2 Minister, 2 MKs in Self-Quarantine

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The majority of the patients are in light condition, 10 are in moderate condition and five are in serious condition.

Israel / Chessed and Tzedaka / Interfaith Relations / Coronavirus

IFCJ Create $5 M. Fund to Help Elderly in Israel Amid Corona Crisis

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This fund will primarily support elderly Israelis, some of whom are Holocaust survivors, with packages of food and other essential items.

Featured / Israel / Interfaith Relations / Religion

Chief Rabbi of Tsfat Excited After Pope Calls to Observe Jewish-Style Sabbath

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Rabbi Eliyahu quipped that the Pope would soon endorse building a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.

Featured / Palestinian Authority / Coronavirus

Christian Israelis Deliver Supplies to Coronavirus-Stricken Bethlehem

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Tourists and workers from abroad are being verbally abused, spat at and accused of “bringing Corona to Palestine.”

Ben-Gurion University

Israeli Researchers' Quantum Leap with Revolutionary Technology

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

An experiment at BGU observed a very fundamental and unique effect of quantum mechanics in single isolated atoms, called the geometric phase.

Israel / Global / Coronavirus

7th Israeli Diagnosed with Coronavirus

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The patient, a resident of Migdal Ha’Emek in the north, visited with his family in Milan last week, where he was infected.

Israel / US / Elections / Antisemitism

Hundreds of Rabbis Reject Bernie Sanders’ ‘Outrageous Comment’ Against AIPAC

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

347 rabbis from across the US rejected Bernie Sanders “outrageous comment accusing AIPAC of fostering bigotry.”

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Discovers Bomb Intended to Hit Israeli Worshipers in Shechem

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Some 2,000 Jewish worshipers attended the special prayer sessions held once a month.

Israel / Politics / Elections

For First Time in Months, Likud Leads in the Polls Against Blue&White

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Several polls published in the last 24 hours project that Likud is in the lead with 35 seats, and Blue and White is right behind with 34 seats.

IDF & Security / Palestinian Authority / Video of the Day / Pallywood

PALLYWOOD: PA TV Reporter Caught Fabricating Altercation with Israeli Soldier on Live TV Broadcast

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The officer told the "journalist" to move as he was going to get run over by passing cars. The "journalist" reported that "Palestinians" aren't allowed on the road.

Headline / Government / Asia

Plane on Way to Retrieve Israelis on Corona Ship in Japan

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Despite several scares, Israel itself has yet to contend with a patient suffering from COVID-19, as coronavirus is officially named.

Headline / Eye on "Palestine" / Ukraine

Israeli Firm Exposes Cyber Attack on Phones of Senior PA Officials

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“We suspect MoleRATs are carrying out these campaigns to obtain sensitive information from its victims to leverage for political purposes.”

Gaza / Business and Economy / The Environment

Israeli Water Tech Deployed in Gaza to Ease Water Crisis

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The pilot is a cooperative effort between Watergen, Israel’s Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the Damour NGO and Abasan al-Kabira.

IDF & Security / Science and Tech

Israel Successfully Tests ‘Drone Dome’ Laser Interceptor

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Drone Dome was successful in intercepting multiple maneuvering targets with laser technology and achieved 100% success in all test scenarios.

Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Police Shut Down Illegal Fatah Event in Jerusalem

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Dozens of Arab rioters threw stones and bottles at the Israeli forces as they were leaving the site.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Video of the Day

Balloon Bomb Attacks Continue Despite Reports of Hamas, Islamic Jihad Ceasing Strikes

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

On Monday, 35 Balloon bombs were sent over to Israel from Gaza. These attacks continued into Tuesday.

Israel / Jewish

First Woman Awarded the Israel Prize for Talmudic Studies

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Professor Vered Noam is a Talmudic studies lecturer at Tel Aviv University.

Israel / Science and Tech / Canada

Israeli Researchers Find Human Tumor Resembles One Found in Dinosaur’s Tail

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israeli scientists have found rare and benign tumor, called LCH, in a young dinosaur that roamed the plains of southern Alberta, Canada, over 60 million years ago.

Israel / Iran / News Briefs

Netanyahu Pokes Fun at Iran’s Failed Satellite Launch

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

For good measure, Netanyahu threw in, "they also fail to deliver weapons to Syria and Lebanon because we operate there all the time."

Israel / The Environment

Moderate Earthquake Shakes Israel’s North

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The last major earthquake to hit the region was in 1927. Israel experiences devastating earthquake approximately every 100 years.

Headline / Government / Asia / Coronavirus

Israelis Quarantined on Ship Off Japanese Coast after Coronavirus Discovered On Board

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel's Foreign Ministry stressed that at this stage, Israelis are not among those suspected of having the virus.

Judea & Samaria / Settlements

In First Since 2012, Growth Rate of Israeli Population in Judea and Samaria on the Rise

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Israeli population in Judea and Samaria at the end of 2019 stood at 463,901 residents in 150 communities and towns.

Police and Crime / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Police Expose Explosives Hidden in Kid’s Room in Arab House

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Police found two stun grenades inside one of the doorposts in the house, two fireworks racks in the children’s room, and an FN handgun and ammunition were found hidden inside an electric device.

Israel / Business and Economy

‘Confidence in the Israeli Economy’: S&P Ratify’s Israel’s High -AA Rating

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This is the highest rating Israel has ever had, putting it on par with the Czech Republic and Qatar and among a relatively small list of 17 countries, and above others such as China and Japan.

IDF & Security

IDF Launches Drill that Simulates War on Multiple Fronts

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The drill will emphasize collaborations, multi-system planning and operating in emergency situations.

Israel / Palestinian Authority

Abbas Slammed for Saying Israeli Ethiopians, Russians are Not Jews

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Netanyahu said, "Our brothers and sisters, our flesh, Jews from birth who have dreamed in exile for generations on the return of Zion and have fulfilled their dream."

Israel / Police and Crime / Archaeology

Arab Antiquities Thief Caught with 232 Ancient Coins

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Excavating in antiquities sites without a license and destroying such sites constitute severe violations of the law in Israel, for which the law prescribes up to five years in prison.

Europe / Jerusalem

Austrian President Deletes Jerusalem as ‘Capital of Israel’ from Instagram Post

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"The original wording in this Instagram posting has been corrected because it was open for misinterpretation.”

Israel / Russia

Putin Receives 2,000-Year-Old Coin Uncovered in Jerusalem

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Unlike Naama Issachar, Putin won't be arrested for trying to take the coin out of Israel.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs

Balloon Bombs Land in Ashdod, Gaza Border

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

One of the bombs was inside a soccer ball. Another landed near a shopping mall.

Israel / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy

PA Partially Pays Electric Bill, Reduces Half-Billion Dollar Debt to Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The debt reached approximately half a billion dollars before the PA began paying some of it off

IDF & Security / Judea & Samaria

IDF Collects Dozens of Illegal Weapons in Mass Sweep

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The forces seized 13 handguns, 25 Carlo submachine guns, two M16 assault rifles and ammunition.

Israel / Business and Economy

Israel Officially Approves Privatization of Haifa Port

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel has yet to find a buyer for the port, although the Chinese have reportedly expressed interest in the issue.

US / Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS

Anti-BDS Act Introduced in Congress

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The act protects American companies from being coerced to provide information to international organizations for the purpose of furthering boycotts against Israel.

The Knesset

Laptop Sets Off Bomb Scare inside the Knesset

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A Knesset guard came across the unattended bag near some offices.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech

Israel’s Hi-Tech Saw 1,210 Exits Totaling at $111.3 Billion in Past Decade

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israeli tech ended 2019 with a record high of $8.3b in capital funding. The number of transactions in 2019, 522 funding deals, remained at the same level as 2018.

Video of the Day

WATCH: Israel’s Rafael Unveils Upgraded Lightweight SPIKE SR Weapon System

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Designed as a portable, fully disposable munition, the SPIKE SR carries a powerful High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) warhead, joined with a frontal precursor for clearing of Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) tiles.

Politics / Government / Elections / Left vs. Right / The Knesset

Knesset’s Legal Advisor: Edelstein Can't Block Committee Formation to Rule on Immunity; Edelstein: Convening the Committee is ‘Grave Mistake’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Likud believes that the Knesset Advisor has a conflict of interest, as his wife participated in the state prosecution’s ruling on Netanyahu’s cases.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Israel’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Swell

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel’s foreign currency reserves rose nearly 10% from $115.279 billion to $126.023 billion in 2019.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Anti-Israel NGOs / European Union

Erekat Rejects EU Requirement that 'Palestinian NGOs' Renounce Ties to Terrorism

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel released a series of reports exposing ties between supposed human rights organizations and terrorist groups.

The Temple Mount

Number of Jewish Worshipers Visiting Temple Mount Passed 30,000 in 2019

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Temple Mount activists noted that these numbers include only Jews who came to pray or show a Jewish presence at the holy site and not groups of Israeli tourists.

Politics / Government / Elections

Netanyahu Resigns from All Ministerial Positions (except Prime Minister)

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Besides his role as prime minister, Netanyahu served as the health minister, social welfare minister, Diaspora minister and agricultural minister.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Seeking Clean Energy, Israel to Build Hundreds of Wind Turbines up North

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This is part of a series of projects to develop renewable energy sources for Israel.

Terrorism / Holidays & Observances / Judea & Samaria

Israelis Light Chanukah Candles at Ancient Hasmonean Site, Arabs Riot

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Beit Tsur was an ancient town on the road between Hebron and Jerusalem where the last Hasmonean battle took place before they vanquished the Greeks, liberated the Temple and purified it.

IDF & Security / Gaza / News Briefs

IDF Expands Number of Travel Permits for Gazans Ahead of Xmas

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The IDF was initially hesitant of issuing further permits due to the possible security threat. The Hamas terror organization, which rules the Strip, is notorious for exploiting Israel’s humanitarian permits for terrorism.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Netanyahu Welcomes Closer Relations with Arab States: ‘The Time Has Come for Normalization and Peace’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Netanyahu tweeted the statement both in English and in Arabic, aiming his message towards the Arab world.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine"

Senior PA official: It’s a Palestinian ‘Value’ to Murder Israeli Men

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“Not only does the Palestinian Authority itself support the murder of women and children, but they have successfully transmitted this ideology to their population.”

IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Rockets from Gaza

Gaza Terrorists Fire Rocket at Israel, IAF Retaliates

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The rocket was intercepted mid-air by the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System.

Gaza

In First, Israel Facilitates Export of Strawberries from Gaza to UK, Gulf States

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

About five tons of strawberries were shipped on Tuesday to England via Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Headline / UK

UK’s Jenny Tonge Under Fire for Blaming ‘Pro-Israel Lobby’ of Winning Elections by ‘Lying About Jeremy Corbyn’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

In 2003 she compared conditions in Gaza to those in the Warsaw Ghetto, for which she was criticized by the chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

Israel / Business and Economy / Science and Tech

Israel’s Elbit Awarded $35 Million Contract to Equip Montenegro With Remote Control Weapon Stations

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel and Montenegro on Sunday signed their first-ever defense agreement, awarding Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s leading weapons manufacturers, a contract of approximately $35 million to supply Montenegro’s Armed Forces with Remote Controlled Weapon Stations (RCWS). The contract was signed by Montenegrin Minister of Defense Predrag Bošković and General Director of Israeli Ministry of Defense, […]

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Woman Arrested for Setting Fire to Jerusalem Synagogue

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The suspected arsonist lives in the area where she started the fire.

Israel / Health and Medicine

A First in Israel, Cardiac Catheterization Conducted Using Sound Waves

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem successfully performed a cardiac catheterization using sound waves to treat a complex case of severe arterial congestion.

Middle East / Levant / History / Jerusalem

Assyrians from Around the World Gather in Jerusalem to Discuss the Future of Aramaic

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The ancient Semitic Aramaic language once dominated the Middle East, and today is spoken by only a few and read by those who study the Talmud, which is written in pseudo-Aramaic.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Israeli Researchers Develop Treatment that Prompts Self-Destruction of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The treatment reduced the number of pancreatic cancer cells by 90% in the developed tumors a month after it was administered.

Israel / US / Iran / News Briefs

Netanyahu, Trump Discuss ‘Threat from Iran’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The White House said the two leaders discussed “the threat from Iran, as well as other critical bilateral and regional issues."

Featured / Eye on "Palestine" / Video of the Day

WATCH: Israeli Left-Wingers and Anti-Zionist Neturei Karta Exchange Shouts in Ramallah

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A PA official attempted to mediate between the two sides and silence them, as a general sense of embarrassment was felt in the room.

Terrorism / IDF & Security

IDF Demolishes Home of 4 Terrorists Who Murdered Yeshiva Student Dvir Sorek

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The demolitions at Beit Kahil were carried out after the High Court of Justice rejected petitions filed by the terrorists’ families against the demolition order.

Boycott / BDS / Judea & Samaria / European Union

Netherlands Challenges EU Order to Label Israeli ‘Settlement’ Products

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel’s Ambassador to The Netherlands Naor Gilon on Monday thanked Voordewind “and all the supporters of this motion.”

Israel / On Campus / Education

Israeli Teens Return Victorious From Yale’s Debate ‘Tournament of Champions’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The delegation included 16 students from two Israeli schools located in Petah Tikva.

Terrorism / US / The Courts

Victims of Terror File Suit Against US Charity for Funneling Donations to Hamas and Other Terror Groups

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The lawsuit alleges that USCPR has materially supported the terror groups responsible for incendiary terror balloons and kites launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Israel.

Israel / UK / Elections / Antisemitism

UK Labour Candidate Withdraws After Comparing Israel to Nazis and Child Abuser

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Kate Ramsden said, "to me the Israeli state is like an abused child who becomes an abusive adult."

Terrorism / Israel / Interfaith Relations

Emergency Responders in Gaza Area Receive Hundreds of Protective Vests from Christian Friends of Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The campaign was arranged in coordination with the IDF’s Home Front Command and the heads of authorities in relevant areas.

Israel / News Briefs

Survey: 44% of Israelis Are Concentrated in 16 Cities

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Jerusalem is Israel's largest city with 919,438 residents.

IDF & Security

IDF Tests New Advanced Warning System

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The test alerts will be conveyed by siren, on TV channels, websites, radio stations and the Home Front Command app.

South America / Sports / Holocaust

Israeli Minister Thanks Brazilian Football Club for Show of Solidarity on Kristallnacht Anniversary

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is one of Brazil’s most successful football clubs and is estimated to have over 30 million supporters.

US

Nikki Haley: 'Israel is Not Going Away - When World Recognizes That, Peace Becomes Possible'

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Haley’s tenure at the UN saw the United States moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Israel / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Netanyahus Files Complaint over Death Threats

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“Tzvika Sabag” called on the police to “prepare to direct traffic for the funerals of Benjamin, Sarah and Yair Netanyahu.”

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Appoints First Female Officer to Head Command’s Intelligence

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Major General N. was appointed to head the Central Command’s intelligence division,

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