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“Young Jews don’t need safe space; they need brave space—an understanding of what it means to engage with Israel. But we can’t ask them to be advocates until they know something,” said Rachel Fish, founder of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.
“The developments that gave Israel prestige in areas such as defense, health and green energy were created by engineers who studied physics at the onset of their careers,” said Benni Milgrom, academic coordinator of the Olympiad.
Co-founder of Foretellix Gil Amid said a healthy dose of Israeli chutzpah helped his company define the automotive industry standard for the verification of safety for automated driving systems in an industry set to dominate the coming century.
Americans Against Anti-Semitism noted that the online retail giant “is presently the world’s largest purveyor of [such] films—something Hitler and Goebbels would surely have been grateful for.”
Palestinian tourist agencies have been taking advantage of a breach in the security fence to offer trips to various destinations in the country.
“We will not leave citizens to deal with this alone. The state will help carry the burden,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Even though Israel is now allowing in tourists, “people are still cautious. It will take a few years” before Israel returns to pre-coronavirus numbers, which, in 2019, stood at a whopping 4.5 million tourists, said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahum.
“Its uniqueness lies in its use of ethical hacking techniques, rather than the more commonly used simulation method,” according to a report.
The final approval of the One Zero Digital Bank “is further good news for competition and innovation in the banking and financial industry,” says Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron.
“Think how many things you are doing now virtually that you didn’t do two years ago. In a way, COVID-19 accelerated the growth of Israeli companies in the software sector,” Ohad Cohen, director of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Ministry of Economy and Industry.
A subsidiary of Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s announced in mid-July that it plans to stop selling its ice cream in “Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
The new regulation, to go into effect immediately, is meant to improve the health of Israelis.