JERUSALEM—Isaac Herzog, scion of a prominent Zionist family, took the oath of office on Wednesday and became Israel’s new president. With one hand on a Bible before the Knesset—Israel’s parliament—Herzog, 60, assumed the largely ceremonial position that is designed to forge national unity and serve as the country’s moral compass. The parliament chamber was festooned…
Israel to Ship 700,000 Pfizer Doses to South Korea in Swap Deal
July 6, 2021
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JERUSALEM—Israel is sending 700,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to South Korea in exchange for a future shipment of vaccines from South Korea to Israel. Under the deal, Israel will transfer the Pfizer vaccines to South Korea in an effort to inoculate more of the Asian nation’s citizens this month. South Korea will send the same number…
Pfizer Jab Effectivity Against COVID-19 Infection Drops to 64 Percent: Israeli Health Ministry
The ability of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine to prevent infections and prevent symptomatic COVID-19 has dropped to 64 percent, the Israeli government announced late Monday. There was also a smaller drop in the vaccine’s efficacy in preventing hospitalizations and more serious illness. The decline in effectivity was observed amid the spread of the Delta variant of the…
Israeli Officials Say Cargo Ship Possibly Attacked En Route to UAE: Israeli Media
JERUSALEM/DUBAI–Israeli defense officials were checking whether Iranian forces were behind a possible attack on a cargo ship under partial Israeli ownership on Saturday on its way from Jeddah to the United Arab Emirates, Israel’s N12 Television News reported. The crew were not hurt and the ship, possibly hit by a missile, was not badly damaged…
Israel Bombs Weapon Manufacturing Site in Gaza After Arson Attacks
A series of incendiary balloons launched by Hamas terrorists towards the southern Israeli border led to an overnight bombing on a manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip, military officials said Friday. The Islamic terrorist group that rules Gaza confirmed that one of its manufacturing sites which focuses on researching and developing weapons was hit in the…
Israel Tells US It Has Serious Reservations About Iran Nuclear Deal
June 28, 2021
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ROME—Israel has serious reservations about the Iran nuclear deal being put together in Vienna, new foreign minister Yair Lapid told his American counterpart. In their first face-to-face meeting since Israel’s new government was sworn in two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Lapid had a very positive and warm discussion, according to…
Half of Adults Infected in Latest COVID-19 Outbreak Were Fully Vaccinated: Israeli Official
About 90 percent of new COVID-19 infections in Israel were caused by the CCP virus’s Delta variant, officials said, while adding that about half of the adults infected in the recent outbreak were fully vaccinated. Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel for the Israeli government, in announcing the finding on Friday, said that…
‘What I Do For a Living’ If I Was Israeli Ambassador to the UN
Commentary In one of our frequent conversations over wide-ranging issues, we asked how the present, or future, Israeli ambassador to the United States and the United Nations might address an audience in the context of the recent events in Israel. We imagined that we were tasked to draft such a speech. Here, then, is the…
Israeli Military Confirms Air Strikes on Hamas Compounds in Gaza
The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed in the early hours of Wednesday local time that its aircraft attacked armed compounds belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attacks were in response to the launching of incendiary balloons from Gaza on Tuesday that caused fires in fields in southern Israel. The Israeli fire brigade reported at…
Biden Welcomes New Israeli Government, Reaffirms Security Support
WASHINGTON—U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States remained committed to Israel’s security and would work with its new government after Israel’s parliament ended Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year run as prime minister on Sunday. In a statement that made no mention of Netanyahu, Biden welcomed the new government coalition led by Naftali Bennett and sought to…
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