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BRIEFS After three elections over a year, Israel has a government
By Harold M. Halpern

am writing this column on April 1.
AMERICANS AREN’T SO way to fight anti-Semitism is to pass on northern Bedouin village of Basmat You will not read it until a month or
EAGER TO RETREAT FROM the responsibility to European govern- Tab’un, and went through basic and I more later. It is difficult to foresee
THE MIDDLE EAST ments.” investigation training at the National now what the Israeli government and
According to a January 2020 poll by In the early 2000s, when anti- Police Academy. its policies will look like.
the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Semitism began to intensify in Europe, “I want to convey a message to The election
a majority of Americans support main- some community leaders sought to dis- all other religious Muslim women like on March 2 did
taining (45%) or increasing (29%) the tance themselves from Israel, not want- me,” she said. “The police is a good not end the dead-
ing to be equated to the Jewish state,
home for us. The organization lets you
lock between the
U.S. military presence in the Middle
EASY East; fewer than a quarter (24%) say popular among their non-Jewish neigh- and feel equal.” (Israel Moskovitz, Right led by Ben-
climb up the ranks, to prove yourself
which was becoming increasingly un-
jamin Netanyahu
reduce. Asked which region is most
bors, particularly Muslim immigrants.
Ynet News)
important to the security interests of
and the Center-
“But now, everyone knows that anti-
Left led by Benny
the U.S., 61% of Americans name the
DUTCH JEW WHO
Zionism is anti-Semitism,” said Mar-
Gantz. Netanya-
STEPS Middle East, up from 50% in 2018. golin. (Jacob Magid, Times of Israel) RESCUED 100S IN only 58 votes and not the needed 61.
hu could muster
No other region comes close, includ-
Harold M. Halpern
VICHY, FRANCE,
ing Europe (15%), Asia (12%), Latin
TEL AVIV IS HOME
FINALLY RECOGNIZED
The parties supporting Gantz had 62
America (7%) and Africa (1%).
TO OVER 100
In August 1942, as the Nazis’ net grew
The percentage who say that Iran
elected Members of the Knesset. This
In 2019, 16 new development centers
France, Dutch diplomat Salomon (Sal-
How To Stay is the country that poses the greatest MULTINATIONALS ever tighter around the Jews of Vichy, included the members of the Joint List
of the Arab Israelis. Three members of
threat to the U.S. has increased from
opened in Tel Aviv courtesy of multi-
ly) Noach walked into Lyon’s Palais
the Center-Left announced they would
10% to 34% since February 2019. The
nationals on the hunt for Israeli talent,
Up-To-Date percentage of Americans who say that joining the established 91 centers of de Justice and successfully demanded not vote for Gantz as they wouldn’t
the release of 118 prisoners being held
Iran’s nuclear program is a critical
sit in a government dependent on the
giants such as Amazon, Google, Face-
there.
votes of Israeli Arabs.
threat to the U.S. has increased to 61%
On Your from 57% in 2019. At the same time, book, eBay and Alibaba. Iris on the outskirts of the city where government led by him as Prime Min-
He then appeared at the Stade des
Gantz was also unable to form a
Those centers employed 10,250
2/3 of Americans say the wars in Iraq
Jewish and Afghanistan were not worth the people, up from 9,663 in 2018, and Jews were being detained and issued ister. Netanyahu reached out to Gantz
6,624 in 2016.
false papers to 432 people, registering
cost. (Dina Smeltz and John Cookson,
Forty-four percent of these com-
Community The Hill) panies are in the enterprise software them as Dutch and thus securing their to join a Unity government. Gantz
escape from near-certain death.
agreed. However, about 20 members
sector, especially cyber and business
LOST 1,000-YEAR-OLD
The feature-length documentary
of the Center-Left coalition refused to
analytics, while 24% operate in e-com-
1 STEP ONE HEBREW BIBLE FOUND merce, online advertising and social Forgotten Soldier, released last year, go along with Gantz. They broke away
lifts the veil on a man who never re-
and announced they would sit in the
IN CAIRO SYNAGOGUE
networks. (Billy Frenkel, Calcalist)
ceived the recognition he undoubtedly
Opposition. Avigdor Leberman, leader
In 2017, Israeli historian Yoram Meital
deserved during his lifetime.
Using fake documents supplied
well as the Joint List also will be in the
biblical codex in the Karaite Moussa
Hourly stumbled upon a handwritten 1028 CE HIJAB AND HANDGUN: by the resistance (which supposedly of Yisrael Beiteinu, and his party, as
ISRAEL’S FIRST MUSLIM
Social Media: While we don’t always Der’i Synagogue in Cairo. FEMALE DETECTIVE proved the inmates weren’t Jewish), Opposition.
post hourly, we do post often. What do we At 616 pages, the Zechariah Ben It appears that the Unity govern-
post? Time-sensitive news, alerts, items of ‘Anan Manuscript is one of the most Police Master Sergeant Sabrin Sa’adi, he entered prisons and holding centers ment will likely have about 75 mem-
interest, and more. Follow us on Facebook, complete examples of the “Writings,” an investigator for the juvenile division with the aim of securing the release bers of which approximately 20 will
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and more! the concluding section of the Hebrew in the Israeli Arab village of Kafr Kan- of as many refugees as he could. He be from Gantz’s Center-Left coalition.
Find us by searching for “JFEDSRQ.” Bible. It had been lost to scholars for na, will become the first hijab-wearing greased the process with bribes and There is not yet an agreement deter-
gifts for the guards and police. (Robert
religious Muslim female to be a police
mining who will hold cabinet positions
almost 40 years. (Amanda Borschel-
2 STEP TWO Dan, Times of Israel) investigation officer. Philpot, Times of Israel) or the policies to be pursued by the
Sa’adi was born and raised in the
Unity government.
EUROPEAN JEWISH
We do know that Netanyahu will
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