admin | February 26, 2020
Despite the fact that Wednesdays Democratic debate in Las Vegas was the first debate to feature both Jewish presidential contenders, the word Jewish was not mentioned once. On top of that, neither Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders nor former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg took the opportunity to discuss their very different relationships to their American Jewish identities, and how it has affected their politics. But make no mistake: There was still a very Jewish moment in the debate, and it was a moment that shows just how much and how little Jewish politics has changed in the past decades.
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admin | February 26, 2020
Shas chairman Arye Dery said on Tuesday he will support Netanyahu in the upcoming elections, even if it comes at the cost of a fourth election. Bernie, Bibi and the brutal occupation: Listen to Gideon LevyHaaretz Weekly Ep. 64 "We are natural partners in keeping the Jewish character of the state,"Dery said in a Channel 12 interview.Asked whether he would also support Netanyahu at the cost of the country having to go to a fourth election, Dery replied "yes, unless we persuade Gantz to enter a broad coalition with a rotating premiership." Dery said he had already sought to build a similar arrangement in the previous election and that "if they had listened to me, Gantz would have been prime minister in just a few more weeks." Support for Netanyahu was in line with the wishes of the Shas electorate, Dery added.
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admin | February 26, 2020
ESCAPE Bio, Inc., a clinical stage company developing novel, precisely targeted therapeutics for genetically defined neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that Julie Anne Smith, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Cowen 40th Annual Health Care Conference on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Presentation details Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020Time: 10:30 a.m
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admin | February 26, 2020
Benny Gantzs campaign to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu centers on a single word: mamlachtiyut. Coined by Israels founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, it is the Hebrew term for civic virtue, for putting the good of the state above sectarian divisions and personal interests above everything. It is the central pillar of Gantzs Blue and White party, which otherwise offers only a vague platform.
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admin | February 26, 2020
Conventional wisdom has it that all the world loves a wedding; but even more than a wedding, all the world loves a scandal. For the past year or so, the Israeli media by and large have been drooling over the possibility that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz might become the next prime minister, replacing Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served even longer than founding prime minister David Ben-Gurion
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admin | February 23, 2020
As in the case of the two previous election campaigns in the last year, the current one is being held largely around schools of red herrings, allegedly pertinent to the elections, but in fact, ploys to divert attention from the real issues.For example, the sudden preoccupation with two old affairs. The first concerning a company that no longer exists called The Fifth Dimension, that engaged in the development of artificial intelligence for military and law enforcement intelligence applications, which in 2016 provided the police with a pilot of a system the latter was interested in, and for which it received NIS 4 million. Benny Gantz was chairman of the companys board of directors at the time.The second concerns the so-called Harpaz Affair of 2010, around the appointment of a new chief of staff after the approaching retirement from the position of Gabi Ashkenazi (today one of the quartet leading Blue and White), which ended with Benny Gantz being appointed to the job rather than Yoav Gallant today a government minister from the Likud Party.The case of The Fifth Dimension emerged as a result of the publication of the State Comptrollers Report in March 2019, which inter alia dealt with irregularities in the procurement mechanism of the police, of which The Fifth Dimension was an example.
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admin | February 23, 2020
Recordings of phone calls from a decade ago released by Channel 13 news on Sunday night shed new light on Attorney General Avichai Mandelblits uncomfortable position in the so-called Harpaz affair. The scandal broke in the press in August 2010 amid the bitter race to succeed outgoing IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi as army head.
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admin | February 23, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received good news from two polls on Sunday that indicated that his Likud party had passed up its rival Blue and White for the first time in this election campaign.Channel 12s survey, conducted by pollster Mano Geva, predicted a Likud victory of 34 seats over 33 for Blue and White, which beat Likud by two seats, 35 to 33, in Gevas last poll on February 19. The new Channel 12 poll predicted 13 seats for the Joint List, 10 for Labor-Gesher-Meretz, eight each for Shas and United Torah Judaism and seven each for Yamina and Yisrael Beytenu.A Kantar Institute poll taken for KAN 11 found that Likud is leading Blue and White 35 to 34.
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admin | February 23, 2020
Pity the poor pickled herring. The small preserved fish sold in jars in the refrigerated section of most delis gets no respect.
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admin | February 23, 2020
The Central Elections Committee (CEC) is working on preparing up to 20 polling stations for Israelis exposed to the coronavirus, CEC head Orly Ades said on Army Radio on Sunday morning.The special polling stations will be separate from others and will be intended for voters during their 14-day isolation period. The CEC is awaiting more instructions from the Health Ministry regarding those in isolation ahead of next Monday's election.A CEC spokesman said the committee was looking for locations for the polling stations and for staff to man them. Interior Minister Arye Deri said in an interview with KAN Radio that there was no chance of postponing the election due to the virus.
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