admin | June 27, 2024
Taylor Swifts detachment from contentious global conflicts is a hallmark of her superstardom. For some fans in Israel, its also a selling point. Michal Paz-Klapp, the Young Adult editor at Israels prominent Modan Publishing House, snatched the opportunity to publish a Hebrew-language edition of Who Is Taylor Swift?, by Kirsten Anderson.
admin | June 27, 2024
Police and 25 firefighter teams are operating in areas surrounding Mount Scopus in eastern Jerusalem following a fire that broke out, according to a police spokesperson report on Tuesday. Furthermore, the fire broke out in an open area near the "Oferit" military base and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
admin | June 27, 2024
When I turned twelve, my dad decided that it was time for me to go to Hebrew school and get bat-mitzvahed. This was a surprising reversal, as my parents, much to the disappointment of our extended family, had never been particularly observant. (As a child, I sent my grandmother into a fit when I announced that my favorite food was ham.) The decision was especially striking because it came from my father, a man so laissez-faire about my education that it was a miracle I finished elementary school
admin | June 27, 2024
JERUSALEM (VINnews) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah raised the belligerence of his rhetoric, publishing a video on Saturday night in which he addressed the possibility of a war with Israel and assured that the group would fight without restraints if necessary. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email In case an inclusive war is imposed on Lebanon, the resistance will fight without restraints, Nasrallah said. Whoever thinks of a war against us will regret it, he concluded
admin | June 15, 2024
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian professor at a prominent Israeli university, first waded into the debate over the Gaza war by joining academics worldwide in signing a letter that called for a cease-fire. It branded Israels assault on the territory a genocide and the leaders of her university responded by urging her to resign.
admin | June 15, 2024
Three new books written in English by Yael Van Der Wouden, Jessica Jacobs and Toby Lloyd feature Hebrew in them. This article originally appeared in The Forward. In the past few months, I have encountered three new English-language books that all have Hebrew in them.
admin | June 15, 2024
GynTools and HydroX both won the prestigious Asper Prize 2024 Hebrew University Rising Startup Award presented at the 87th Hebrew University Board of Trustees meeting. Established by the university's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with the Asper Foundation, the competition featured over forty startups, with GynTools and HydroX both emerging as the winners after presenting to a global panel of judges. For the first time, this year, it was decided to award the prize to two start-up companies instead of one, due to the excellence and extraordinary breakthroughs presented by the companies.
admin | June 15, 2024
Israeli-born Gideon (Gidi) Markuszower, 46, has been appointed deputy prime minister and immigration minister of the Netherlands for the right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) under Geert Wilders. Markuszower, who holds Israeli citizenship, was born in Tel Aviv and graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
admin | June 15, 2024
Treatment for type-1 diabetes insulin injections several times daily has been known and used since it was invented by University of Toronto scientists 103 years ago.
admin | May 21, 2024
Middlebury has named Adi Raz as the new co-director of theSchool of Hebrew. She will begin her position on September 1, succeedingYaronPeleg Raz is currently the director of the Modern Hebrew Language Program at the University of Michigan in the department of Middle East Studies
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