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  • Ancient Greek Drug Could Cut COVID-19 Deaths – Israeli Scientist

    By: Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com Prof. Ami Schattner: “Initial results are promising to say the least.” An ancient Greek drug derived from the saffron plant could improve the treatment of people with severe COVID-19 and reduce the COVID mortality rate by as much as 50%, according to a report published earlier this month in…

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  • Israel and India Look to Expand Cooperation, Boost Military Capabilities

    By: Yaakov Lappin – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org “India is interested in a multilateral world, in which [it] is an important country. Israel fits in with this vision,” said Professor Efraim Inbar of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. Israel and India are set to expand their cooperation further just weeks after a historic visit by…

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  • Israel is Prepared to Confront Iran With or Without the US

    By: Chris Mitchell – CBN News; cbn.com JERUSALEM, Israel – The war of words between Israel and Iran is intensifying. The rhetoric comes at a time when the nuclear talks in Vienna to stop Iran’s nuclear program seem stalled.  When Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin last week,…

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  • Jewish Groups Provide Relief, Physically and Emotionally, after Tornado Devastation in Kentucky

    By: Faygie Holt – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org “We would bring stuff to one person and they would say, ‘I’m sure there’s someone who needs it more than me,’ ” relates Rabbi Shlomo Litvin. “Even as they were taking stock of their homes and everything they lost, they were saying their neighbor two doors down…

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  • Big Four Auditors Ditch NGOs Listed as Terror Groups by Israel

    Jewish News Syndicate – jns.org PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited will no longer audit the Union of Agricultural Work Committees or Defense for Children International Palestine. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY), two of the Big Four accounting firms, have confirmed that they will no longer audit two Palestinian…

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  • Double Standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

    By: Melanie Phillips – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact. One of the most obvious characteristics of anti-Semitism is the double standards it perpetrates, through which Jews are singled out for harmful assumptions and treatment directed against no other people in the world. Yet…

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