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Israel Evacuates More Than 200 Ethiopians From Conflict Region
Ben Sales (JTA) — Israel said it has evacuated more than 200 people from a northern province of Ethiopia where a militia is fighting government forces. The evacuees include 174 people from the city of Gondar in the Amhara province, which has historically been a gathering spot for people waiting for authorization to move to…
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Israel’s Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Law Limiting Its Power, Potentially Teeing Up Constitutional Crisis
By Ben Sales TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli Supreme Court has announced that it will hear petitions challenging a new law that limits its ability to strike down government decisions. The challenges won’t have their day in court until September, but the announcement paves the way for a possible constitutional crisis in Israel. That’s…
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Speaking to Congress, Herzog Laments Growing Divides in U.S.-Israel Relationship
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — In his speech to a joint session of Congress, Israeli President Isaac Herzog made sure to repeatedly laud the warm ties between the United States and Israel. And he got the response Israeli leaders have traditionally received from U.S. lawmakers, earning at least 16 bipartisan standing ovations. But one…
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Jewish Quotas Were at the Heart of Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — Harvard’s 20th-century antisemitic Jewish quotas were a key part of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action on Thursday, as the winning litigant and two conservative justices cited them in the landmark case. The 6-3 decision Thursday, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, bars universities from using race…
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Germany Agrees to Record $1.4 billion in Annual Holocaust Reparations As Survivors Age
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) – Conditions didn’t seem favorable in early May as Stuart Eizenstat entered annual negotiations with the German government over reparations for the estimated 240,000 remaining Holocaust survivors around the world. Eizenstat had served as the special negotiator for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany since 2009, and had analyzed the…
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Avertto Wins Hebrew University’s Asper Prize Startup Award For 2023
Press Release First prize of NIS 100,000 awarded to Avertto for developing a system to prevent and heal strokes Avertto, a startup in the health field, emerged victorious in this year’s highly competitive Asper Prize startup award. The award, presented by ASPER-HUJI Innovate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and the Asper…
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Avertto Wins Hebrew University’s a Prize Startup Award For 2023
Press Release First prize of NIS 100,000 awarded to Avertto for developing a system to prevent and heal strokes Avertto, a startup in the health field, emerged victorious in this year’s highly competitive Asper Prize startup award. The award, presented by ASPER-HUJI Innovate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, and the Asper…
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Israel Advances to Second Round of Men’s Under-20 World Cup With Dramatic Last-Minute Defeat of Japan
By Juan Melamed BUENOS AIRES (JTA) In its first-ever appearance in the tournament, Israel’s under-20 men’s soccer team advanced to the second round of the FIFA U20 World Cup with a last-minute goal against Japan on Saturday. Israel was an underdog going into the match, but the victory was made even more improbable by something…
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Biden Plan To Combat Antisemitism Demands Reforms Across the Executive Branch and Beyond
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden unveiled a multifaceted and broad strategy to combat antisemitism in the United States that reaches from basketball courts to farming communities, from college campuses to police departments. “We must say clearly and forcefully that antisemitism and all forms of hate and violence have no place in America,” Biden said…
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