Giorno: 13 Settembre 2021

Other prisoners knew of Palestinian jailbreak efforts at Gilboa Prison

Read More Other prisoners in the cellblock from which six Palestinians escaped last week knew about the tunnel they had dug, but the Prison Service’s intelligence officers failed to learn about it. That was revealed during the questioning of four of the six escapees who were caught over the weekend. A Palestinian source close to […]

Israel’s fluctuating infection rate makes pandemic predictions difficult

Read More Coronavirus infection and illness data for Israel has been very volatile over the past week, making it difficult for experts to determine whether the pandemic is receding or spreading. The infection coefficient – the famous R number, which represents the average number of people that each infected person will infect in turn – […]

How to get to vote in November’s local government elections

Read More South Africans will have the opportunity in just over two months’ time to cast their votes in the local government elections on 1 November. After a number of court cases on whether the vote should take place or be postponed to early next year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the November date has […]

Blinken slammed for testifying virtually: ‘Couldn’t be bothered to come down here’

Post Content Secretary of State Antony Blinken was slammed by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., for electing to testify virtually, rather than in person, in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Perry blasted Blinken for not being at the hearing Monday over the troop withdrawal that saw […]

Blinken pressed on allegation Biden told Afghan President Ghani to lie about the war

Post Content Secretary of State Antony Blinken was pressed to comment on President Biden’s last call with Afghan President Mohammad Ghani after reports alleged that the president pressured his Afghan counterpart to lie about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan over the summer. “I’m obviously not going to comment on leaked, purportedly leaked, transcripts of […]

Israeli PM Bennett meets with Egyptian President el-Sissi

Post Content Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Sharm el-Sheikh. This is the first official visit by an Israeli premier to Egypt in a decade. The meeting lasted for three hours, and the two leaders discussed regional issues, diplomacy, security, and economic issues, said a statement by the […]