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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - September 21, 2020
Mazal tov to Hannah and Methuselah on their 111 miracle babies! The proud parents are date palms grown from ancient seeds uncovered in archeological excavations in Israel.
These dates, recently picked at the Arava Institute at Kibbutz Ketura in southern Israel, are a type that hasn’t been tasted since the times of Jesus and the Maccabees.
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By: Eve Young - September 21, 2020
The city of Tel Aviv has partnered with ElectReon and the Dan bus company to start a new Tel Aviv pilot program that will enable special electric buses to drive in Tel Aviv.
The pilot will include the installation of 600 meters of wireless electronic road in the two-kilometer stretch between the Tel Aviv University train station and Klatzkin terminal in Ramat Gan.
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By: Luke Tress - September 24, 2020
The deputy administrator for the US Agency for International Development said on Wednesday that Israel has a key role to play in the organization’s efforts to combat food insecurity and poverty in developing nations.
Israeli cybersecurity technology, and its private sector, will help the aid agency with its planned implementation of 5G technology in the developing world, Bonnie Glick told The Times of Israel while on a visit to the Jewish state.
Jerusalem’s normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will also open avenues for the countries to collaborate on aid projects, she said.
Read More: Times of Israel
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By: Hannah Brown - September 23, 2020
A masthead found in a shipwreck off northern Israel sheds new light on sailing and shipbuilding during the Late Antiquity period, according to a new paper just published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
Maayan Cohen, a PhD candidate at the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa, and Dr. Deborah Cvikel, a researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and a senior lecturer at the Department of Maritime Civilizations – both at the University of Haifa – are the authors of the paper, titled, “Rigging of the Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck (7th–8th centuries AD): new finds.”
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By: Raphael Ahren - September 21, 2020
More than a dozen senior communication professionals, journalists and academics from the Arab world, including countries with no formal ties to Israel, on Monday took part in an unprecedented online forum to discuss with Israeli journalists and several senior government officials the role of the media in forging peace in the Middle East.
Participants hailed not only from Israel’s new peace partners — the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — but also from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria, where any action seen as “normalizing” ties with the Jewish state is still considered a crime.
“This is a historic conversation,” Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis said early in the webinar. “Just like last week’s signing of the peace agreement with the UAE and Bahrain was historic, this meeting is historic. It’s joyous, momentous occasion.”
Read More: Times of Israel
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By: Luke Tress and TOI Staff - September 21, 2020
Honduras will move its embassy to Jerusalem this year, and Israel will open an embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement released early Monday.
The two new embassies will open by the end of 2020, the statement said.
The announcement followed a Sunday conversation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
“With their flags flying in the capitals of the two countries, Israel and Honduras declare their intention to complete the action plan before the end of the current year, with a mutual opening and inauguration of their embassies in the national capitals, Tegucigalpa and Jerusalem,” the statement said.
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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - September 21, 2020
When Israeli Flying Aid delivered several shipping containers full of donated medical equipment and food to refugees and orphans in Chad last October, IFA founder and CEO Gal Lusky said they would be back.
Last week, despite the pandemic, a Hercules military transport aircraft took off from an Israeli military base in the south, filled to capacity with items donated by IFA and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) — 2,000 six-person tents, personal protection equipment (PPE) for medical teams, backpack sprayers to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitos, and more.
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By: Cody Levine - September 18, 2020
The Israeli Tourism Ministry's annual survey on the state of the industry has revealed record highs in revenue and tourist satisfaction prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, which has brought the industry to a standstill, according to Tourism Ministry 2019 Inbound Tourism Survey released on Wednesday.
According to the survey, 94.4% of tourists ranked their visit to Israel as good to excellent, with 51.6% of those asked having stayed in a hotel or holiday village. Excluding flight costs, NIS 23 billion was generated in revenue from tourism, with an average expenditure per tourist of 2,424 as part of an organized group and $1,079 per stay for an independent tourist
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By: Kit Ramgopal - September 16, 2020
A nationwide survey released Wednesday shows a "worrying lack of basic Holocaust knowledge" among adults under 40, including over 1 in 10 respondents who did not recall ever having heard the word "Holocaust" before.
The survey, touted as the first 50-state survey of Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Generation Z, showed that many respondents were unclear about the basic facts of the genocide. Sixty-three percent of those surveyed did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, and over half of those thought the death toll was fewer than 2 million. Over 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos were established during World War II, but nearly half of U.S. respondents could not name a single one.
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By: Gil Hoffman, Anna Barsky/Maariv - September 16,
An Italian lawmaker nominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday in recognition of his efforts to achieve peace with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The nomination was submitted by Paolo Grimoldi, an Italian member of Parliament who is considered a friend of Israel and who has visited many times, but he has never met Netanyahu. Grimoldi got confirmation from the prize committee that his nomination had been received. In his proposal, Grimoldi said Netanyahu deserved to win because of the agreements he had fostered with the two countries and because he developed ties with Saudi Arabia.
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By: TOI Staff, Jacob Magid, and AP - September 15, 2020
Israel is inking historic diplomatic deals with two Arab nations at the White House Tuesday, its first in over a quarter century, which could herald a dramatic shift in Middle East power dynamics.
At 7 p.m. Israel time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to sign normalization accords with the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain before hundreds on the White House South Lawn, only the third and fourth peace accords with Arab nations in Israel’s 72-year history.
The normalization of relations with the UAE and Bahrain follow Israel’s treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - September 10, 2020
This week, a series of fires decimated the overcrowded Moria Refugee Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos where Israeli non-governmental humanitarian organization IsraAID has provided medical, psychological and educational support for the last five years.
Moria was teeming with more than 12,000 Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees – around four times its official capacity.
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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - August 27, 2020
The historic announcement of full diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Republic already has brought numerous medical, scientific, business and cultural collaborations in its wake.
And it has brought to light many off-the-radar deals between the two countries that started well before the Abraham Accord was announced on August 13.
Here are six unusual things happening between Israelis and Emiratis that you may not have heard about…
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By: Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters - September 11, 2020
Bahrain has joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalize relations with Israel, President Donald Trump said on Friday, a dramatic move aimed at easing tensions in the Middle East.
Trump tweeted out the news after he spoke by phone to both Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said.
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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - September 11, 2020
The Panamanian government and Israel’s Innovation BaseCamp company will collaborate on a high-tech park project aimed at transforming Panama into one of Latin America’s leading countries in terms of innovation.
BaseCamp was behind the development of the Gav Yam Negev high-tech park in Beersheva and various projects in other countries. Recently, BaseCamp has taken a role in running Klika Qasem Hub in the Arab-Israeli city of Kfar Qasem, a place for Jewish and Arab Israelis to work together.
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By: Aaron Reich - September 9, 2020
Israeli researchers are developing a medication to treat retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable genetic eye disease that causes retina degeneration and blindness at a young age, by recreating a supplement derived from a natural ingredient that no longer exists in sufficient quantities.
Retinitis pigmentosa is believed to affect around 1.5 million people globally, with 2,000-3,000 patients in Israel. The disease first manifests early in life, with late onset symptoms appearing in early- to mid-adulthood. A patient's vision will continue to decline as the disease gets progressively worse, which can lead to complete blindness.
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By: TOI Staff - September 9, 2020
US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the landmark normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, a Norwegian lawmaker who nominated him said Wednesday.
“For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees,” Christian Tybring-Gjedde, who heads Norway’s delegation to NATO, told Fox News.
Tybring-Gjedde wrote in his nomination letter to the Nobel Committee that “as it is expected other Middle Eastern countries will follow in the footsteps of the UAE, this agreement could be a game changer that will turn the Middle East into a region of cooperation and prosperity,” the report said.
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By: NoCamels (REPOSTED WITH PERMISSION)
This article was first published by The Times of Israel and is re-posted with permission. (Shoshanna Solomon)
In a bid to get recently unemployed tech professionals to set up startups, the Tel Aviv Municipality along with Google and Microsoft and other industry players will be holding what they say is Israel’s “biggest 24-hour online bootcamp” in which mentors will work with fledgling entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to fruition.
The aim is to generate over 100 startups in one day, the organizers of the bootcamp said. The overnight event, #100StartupsChallenge, is set to take place on September 15-16, starting at 6 p.m.
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By: AP and TOI Staff - September 4, 2020
WASHINGTON — Serbia announced Friday that it would move its embassy to Jerusalem, while Muslim majority Kosovo is to recognize Israel. The moves come as part of US-brokered discussions to normalize economic ties between Belgrade and Pristina.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the moves and said Israel would establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo.
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By: TOI Staff - September 3, 2020
Archaeologists have uncovered majestic column heads from a First Temple-era palace at Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv promenade, with the remnants of the ancient building going on public display for the first time on Thursday.
The owner of the lavish Jerusalem mansion — which would have enjoyed a monumental view of the Old City and the Temple — remains a mystery, but archaeologists were able to date the finds back to the era of the Judean kings, due to the proto-Aeolic features of the soft limestone architecture.
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