Giorno: 16 Gennaio 2022

It’s un-Jewish to be too optimistic. But in Israel, there’s now faint cause for hope

Read More This time last year, Israel faced a nearly perfect storm. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s no-holds barred attempts to remain in office, at virtually all costs, had shaken the very foundations of Israeli democracy. The economy was in a tailspin and unprecedented domestic tensions threatened to rend the national fabric, raising the horrific specter of […]

‘A weird new sort of fascism’

Read More Why are editors and academics running scared of the controversy around the status of transgender people? To outsiders it seems like a feminist family quarrel — but it has become dangerously radioactive. The fight is centrally about whether trans women, who are physiologically male but experience themselves as women and have undergone “gender […]

Last minute deal needed to keep UK-issued Visa credit cards working on Amazon

Read More Millions of people’s credit cards will stop working on Amazon’s UK website from this week – unless there is an 11th-hour resolution to a bitter dispute between the retailer and payments giant Visa. In November, Amazon told customers that from 19 January it would stop accepting payments made with UK-issued Visa credit cards, […]

Paul Myners, ‘tower of strength’ in financial crisis, dies aged 73

Read More Paul Myners, the City grandee and former Labour minister brought in to government to tackle the 2008 financial crisis, has died at the age of 73. Regarded as an influential figure in both the square mile and politics for his time advising the former prime minister Gordon Brown on the historic bailout of […]

Coronavirus nel mondo, Covax: distribuito un miliardo di vaccini nel mondo, 49% della popolazione senza prima dose

Read More Un miliardo di vaccini distribuito in 144 Paesi: questo l’obiettivo raggiunto e superato da Covax, il programma internazionale lanciato nel 2020 dall’Organizzazione mondiale per la sanità (Oms) per assicurare una diffusione più equa e vasta possibile dei vaccini anti-Covid specie nei Paesi più poveri. I responsabili del programma hanno comunque sottolineato che c’è […]

Israeli femtech firm hopes to revolutionize market with new smart tampon

Read More Hilla Shaviv’s workroom in her home near Jerusalem is a sort of museum, reflecting her passion for her line of work. It abounds with vagina models of different sizes, rare tampons and other feminine hygiene products that are no longer available. Shaviv is a biomedical engineer and an experienced entrepreneur. The last product […]

This filmmaker dares to question the figure of 6 million Jewish victims in WWII

Read More Six million. This number has been present in our lives now for over seven decades. It is always there hovering above us – an inseparable part of our historical memory, permanently weighing upon the collective subconscious of this place. How could it be otherwise, really? The Nazi death machine in World War II […]

‘Encouraging signs’ plan B Covid measures may soon be lifted in England

Read More Ministers are seeing “encouraging” signs that plan B coronavirus restrictions in England could be lifted in 10 days’ time, the co-chair of the Conservative party Oliver Dowden has said. Current measures in England, including guidance to work from home and the widespread use of face coverings, were imposed in early December to help […]