As of November 1, tourists who are vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 will be able to enter Israel for the first time since April 2020. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitsan Horowitz made the announcement last Thursday, as the country’s numbers continue to decline from the most recent wave of coronavirus. For Israeli…
At least nine hospitals and other health organizations have been targeted by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Health recently announced. The attempted cyberattacks, also called ransomware attacks, aimed to halt the Israeli hospital systems, making it almost impossible for operations to continue and the medical staff to serve their patients. One hospital in particular, the Hillel…
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…
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…
For the first time ever, an EgyptAir aircraft laid with the Egyptian flag landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday, October 3. The landing was the first kickoff of a new commercial flight between Israel and Cairo which will run four times a week. While travel has occurred between the two neighbors since the 1980s,…
