In recent weeks, Israelis breathed a collective sign of relief as the country’s world-leading vaccination initiative brought Covid infection rates down and enabled the country to dramatically reduce pandemic restrictions. However, the return to some semblance of normal life didn’t last long. By to ... Continue Reading
Archives for May 2021
Rocket strikes on Israel kill five people in separate incidents Tuesday, including a teen, and injure dozens more
Israel’s conflict with terrorists in Gaza took a more ominous turn Tuesday when five people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl, in separate rocket strikes that left many others injured, three of them critically. Early in the day, two women were killed in Ashkelon when rockets separately s ... Continue Reading
MDA Responds
Following the massive barrage of missiles at Israel in the last hour, a number of hits have been reported throughout the country. MDA teams are now treating casualties in various cities whose condition has been defined as mild. Missiles which struck Petah Tikva hit residential building mildly ... Continue Reading
Israel in chaos: Police arrest hundreds in Jewish-Arab violence across country
Riots spread across several cities throughout Israel with mixed Arab and Jewish populations. Some 374 people were arrested throughout Israel following intense Jewish-Arab violence and riots that erupted across the country on Wednesday, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas in the ... Continue Reading
Magen David Adom Before Mount Meron Tragedy: ‘Every Year We Came Back With a Sigh of Relief No Disaster Happened’
Volunteers at Israel’s national ambulance and disaster-relief organization, Magen David Adom — who were the first to come to the rescue at the mass-casualty incident, which took lives of 45 people on the eve of Lag B’Omer at Mount Meron in the Galilee — had feared that a disaster happening at the sit ... Continue Reading