Israeli government approves country’s first climate bill
(JNS) Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved the country’s first climate protection bill, which aims to shift the country towards a zero-emissions economy by 2050.
(JNS) Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved the country’s first climate protection bill, which aims to shift the country towards a zero-emissions economy by 2050.
(JNS) A number of Israeli cities on Monday announced that they would cancel fireworks shows on the eve of Independence Day on Wednesday, a day after the Tel Aviv Municipality announced that it would take such a move to prevent suffering for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
(JNS) Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday accused Israel of supporting “the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv,” deepening a controversy he sparked two days earlier by claiming Hitler had “Jewish blood.”
(JNS) Nearly 80 years after the end of the Holocaust, the world’s oldest hatred continues to rise at alarming rates, despite an increased attempt to stem the tide of hate and the passage of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism by more than 800 entities, including governments worldwide.
(JNS) The global Jewish population remained lower in 2020 than it was on the eve of the Second World War, according to statistics released on Monday by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.
(JTA) — Refugees from Ukraine are scheduled to join the March of the Living commemoration event at Auschwitz.
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron won a second term Sunday, receiving 58% of the votes according to exit polls.
(JNS) More than a thousand people gathered in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on April 15 to celebrate the Passover seder, the largest one to ever take place in the UAE.
A new Israeli startup nonprofit initiative made up of olim (immigrants to Israel) is democratizing the fight against online antisemitism to get hate speech recognized and removed from social media platforms.
(Israel21c via JNS) The world has taken little notice of the civil war that has been raging in Ethiopia for the last two years.