Iran Could Be Planning to Strike at the U.S. in Latin America
Aiming for the soft underbelly.
March 13, 2020
Israel Seems to Have Blunted the Medical Effects of the Coronavirus, but Economic Costs Still Loom
Meet Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, the economist coordinating the Jewish state’s public-health measures.
For the past several weeks, the Jewish state has been among the countries taking the strictest measures to protect against the spread of CORVID-19. Coordinating this response is Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, the director general of the health ministry, who—unlike all of his predecessors—is not a physician but an economist who cut his teeth working for the finance ministry. Haviv Rettig Gur assesses Bar Siman-Tov’s performance thus far:
March 13, 2020
Israel Seems to Have Blunted the Medical Effects of the Coronavirus, but Economic Costs Still Loom
Meet Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, the economist coordinating the Jewish state’s public-health measures.
Is Poland’s Jewish Revival an Expression of Philo-Semitism, or Something Else?
“It’s fashionable to have a Jewish friend—the way it’s fashionable to have a gay friend.”
Contrary to Islamic Law, Yemen Plans to Destroy a Jewish Cemetery
Erasing the last remnants of an ancient community.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Translation of Jonah
And one verse of Isaiah.