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HAIFA, Israel - An Israeli start-up is being recognized for an innovative technology that's designed to make hydrogen fuel much more affordable. Israeli startup H2Pro has been named 'best company in the scale-up track' in Royal Dutch Shell's New Energy Challenge competition. H2Pro was one of five finalists, and the only one from Israel. First, a bit of background: Hydrogen […]
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\t While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed the finger at Israel, calling the killing an act of ``\"state terror.''
\t ``Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice _ with serious indications of Israeli role _ shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators,'' Zarif wrote on Twitter.
By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reported Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia for a clandestine meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which would mark the first known encounter between senior Israeli and Saudi officials. The reported meeting was the latest move by the Trump Administration to promote normalized ties between Israel and the broader Arab world and reflected the shared concern of all three nations about Iran. The Israeli news site Walla, followed quickly by other Hebrew-language media, cited an unnamed Israeli official as saying that Netanyahu and Yossi […]
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[East African] Rwanda says it is putting on hold the acquisition of new airplanes for its national carrier RwandAir mainly due to the impact of Covid-19 on business.
Ethiopian Families Together Again
Around 300 Ethiopian immigrants landed on Thursday at Israel's international airport by way of Ethiopian Airlines. Many of them were dressed in traditional Ethiopian robes and some women were holding infants as some waved flags or stopped to kiss the ground upon arrival as they debarked from the aircraft onto a red carpet.
Festive Hebrew songs blasting over loudspeakers in the background complemented the ambience.
Israel’s first Ethiopian-born Cabinet Minister, Pnina Tamano-Shata, travelled to Ethiopia to join them on the flight and a large delegation of Israeli officials welcomed the group upon their arrival.
Questionable Politics?
This was a move by the Israeli government to honour its pledge in 2015 to reunite hundreds of Ethiopian families of Jewish lineage split between the two countries. Community activists have since accused the government of dragging its feet in the implementation of this initiative a nd Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party interestingly repeated the pledge before national elections earlier this year.
The Prime Minister himself had some words on the event, \"My wife Sara and myself were standing there with tears in our eyes. When you see the olim (immigrants to Israel), our brothers Ethiopian Jews, disembark from the plane with baskets, like we remember, as I remember in my childhood, (they) disembark and touch the ground of Eretz Israel and the mother bows down and kisses the ground, carrying a baby girl named Yerushalayim, and another baby girl named Esther. Esther and Yerushalayim come to Jerusalem. This is the essence of the Jewish story, the essence of the Zionist story.\"
Not Jewish Enough
The Ethiopian families — although practising Jews, Israel does not recognise them as Jewish under religious law. As such, they were permitted to enter the country under a family-unification program that requires special government approval.
The Struggle for Ethiopian Aliyah, an activist group that seeks to promote family unification, estimates some 7,000 Ethiopian Jews still remain in Ethiopia — many of whom have been waiting for years to be reunited with their families.
'Are you crazy?' is what probably went through most people's minds after telling them I'd be going to Israel on a gap year - in the middle of a pandemic. I'm sure it seemed outlandish. [...]
