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Eliana Rudee is a journalist and marketing professional based in Seattle. She spent nearly a decade working as a journalist in Israel, focusing on global Jewry and culinary arts. She is a trained culinary tour guide of Jerusalem, has led culinary workshops and retreats, and has written several digital cookbooks on the intersection of food, culture and Jewish peoplehood.

Among the 3,500-plus photographers participating in the Israeli-initiated challenge were photographers from the Palestinian Authority, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
“Funds are being used for activities that do not appear to involve vital, lifesaving resources and supplies to implement the most urgent and critical activities,” said Becca Wertman, managing editor at NGO Monitor.
“Faith-based diplomacy is the most important weapon we have in our arsenal today,” said Josh Reinstein, president of the Israel Allies Foundation.
The most prominent sector in the city’s tech landscape is biotech and life science, which provides a range of innovative solutions for modern-day challenges posed by COVID-19.
A new program offers inspiration to a small but growing group that focuses on skills, opportunities and inspiration in the face of the coronavirus.
The first step in lifting the coronavirus lockdown was the reopening of various outdoor sites and centers, from the Western Wall to the Machane Yehuda open-air market.
In the last seven years, Fuente Latina has brought 300 Latino journalists and influencers to Israel, and facilitated 35,000 fact-based TV, radio and print stories reaching millions of Latinos worldwide. Their work has also resulted in two TV Emmys wins.
“People don’t realize how many Holocaust survivors are still here, living on their street,” said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hasson-Nahoum. “It is a wonderful connection to the generations to see them face to face.”
The site of a crane collapse in Rishon Letzion on April 22, 2020. Credit: United Hatzalah.
Relief in Rishon Letzion as fears of mass casualties in crane collapse prove baseless
According to Israeli nonprofit Kav LaOved–Worker’s Hotline, there have been 14 construction-related fatalities and 87 injuries, including 16 critical injuries, in the country so far this year.
Israeli medical professionals discussed the effects of the coronavirus on Israeli society and gave a behind-the-scenes-look at the reality in its hospitals, including cutting-edge health-care solutions that are being developed and implemented.
A new ventilator prototype to be used in Israel and beyond can offer a faster and significantly more cost-effective way to produce vitally in-demand medical equipment compared to existing options.
Couples in Israel keep marrying, albeit under duress and with numerous limitations. Then again, the Jewish people have a history of challenges on the way to the chuppah.