After weeks of negotiations within a covert operation, Israeli activists and Jewish organizations have managed to evacuate about 170 Afghans to support their escape from the recent Taliban takeover. In two separate missions, 42 women and children were evacuated to the United Arab Emirates, followed by 125 people who were evacuated to Albania. IsraAID, a…
Last Monday saw The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences from the Nobel Institute granted to Israeli-American professor and economist Joshua Angrist, alongside two others Guido Imbens and David Card. The trio was awarded the esteemed prize for pioneering the use of “natural experiments” or real-life situations, to understand the causal relationship between economic policy and…
For children aged 3-18 who contracted coronavirus, about 11.2% have experienced the effects of long COVID, says a recent survey by the Health Ministry. Ongoing symptoms include illness, fatigue, breathlessness, disturbed sleep, concentration problems, and mental health issues. Ultimately, with isolation, school closures, and the midsummer war, it is uncertain what impact the virus has…
In a recent discovery, a commercial wine complex was found just south of Tel Aviv in Yavne. Four large warehouses were discovered, along with five 225-meter wine presses inside. The wine presses are believed to be about 1500 years old from the Byzantine era, which dates back to the 4th or 5th century. The complex…
Last year it was butter that suddenly disappeared from the shelves of Israeli supermarkets; now it’s milk, which ran out on many shelves during September. The reason for this is that the Israeli dairy market suffers from two things. One is that the market is highly controlled and subject to the complicated requirements of kashrut, the law…
