Tuesday, 8 March 2022 | Today marks International Women’s Day (IWD), a day set aside every year on March 8 to commemorate the plight and celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women throughout the ages. The theme of the 2022 IWD is #BreakTheBias, chosen as a rallying cry to inspire a gender
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 8 March 2022 | Israel could expect to see the arrival of a total of 15,000 Ukrainians by the end of the month if it continues to allow entry to refugees fleeing their war-torn country at the current pace, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told the cabinet during its weekly Sunday meeting. “Since the outbreak
Continue Reading »Monday, 7 March 2022 | Israel—with unique connections to both Ukraine and Russia—is actively trying to mediate Europe’s largest conflict since World War II, but it isn’t just their special link to both sides that is spurring Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to get involved. “Even if the chance is not great—as soon as there
Continue Reading »Monday, 7 March 2022 | Israel shot down two Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that were making their way to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military confirmed Sunday night. “In March 2021, the Iranian regime launched two UAVs toward Israeli territory. The UAVs were successfully intercepted by the Israeli Air Force’s F-35i ‘Adir’ aircraft,” a
Continue Reading »Monday, 7 March 2022 | About 150 Jewish immigrants from the northwestern Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr—including some 60 children rescued from a local orphanage—landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday as Russian forces pressed with their offensive on Ukraine. In total, about 400 Jewish Ukrainian immigrants were expected to land in Israel on Sunday, with
Continue Reading »Monday, 7 March 2022 | Israel is scrambling to send a field hospital to relieve besieged Ukrainians amid the continuing Russian invasion. The Jewish state is dispatching a medical delegation to Ukraine next week from Israel’s ministries of health and foreign affairs to establish the field hospital, the health ministry announced on Saturday. The hospital
Continue Reading »Friday, 4 March 2022 | Russia’s relentless shelling of cities around Ukraine, killing an estimated hundreds of civilians, is merely a “special military operation” to “denazify” the country, according to Moscow. The Kremlin comparing the Ukrainian government, headed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—a Jew—was condemned by the head of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. “It is
Continue Reading »Friday, 4 March 2022 | An Israeli man was stabbed Thursday morning in a small Palestinian town outside Jerusalem, less than 24 hours after another Israeli was stabbed there. The 40-year-old arrived at a military checkpoint outside the town of Hizma, having suffered a stab wound. He said he was stabbed by a Palestinian man
Continue Reading »Friday, 4 March 2022 | Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will visit Tehran on Saturday, hinting at possible progress on reaching a nuclear deal. “They will discuss outstanding safeguards issues with a view to address(ing) them,” the IAEA said, reported Reuters. An Iranian official told Reuters on Thursday that negotiations
Continue Reading »Friday, 4 March 2022 | Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said Israel could become “a potential ally” if the conflict with the Palestinians is resolved, Saudi state news agency (SPA) reported on Thursday. “We look at Israel as a potential ally but before that it should solve its problems with the Palestinians,” said Salman,
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