Monthly Archives: April 2020

​Official ​Palestinian Communications During CoronaVirus

David Bedein Director Israel Resource News Agency Center for Near East Policy Research   ​​1.4.20 Prisoners of Palestine & new campaign against prisons and Corona. Throughout the rapid spread of the CoronaVirus around the world, and the death it reaps, prisons...

Tune in to a webinar on Zoom with David Bedein, Director, Israel Resource News...

Skype: david.bedein2 Inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Webinar - David Bedein, Journalist: "Blood Libel: How PLO & UNRWA Accuse the Jews of spreading CoronaVirus.” Time: Apr 12, 2020 04:20 PM Jerusalem Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6954162172?pwd=bWxmTytLYUZPcjZXZmQwSE1VVEtiQT09 Meeting ID: 695...

Ma Nishtana – “How is this night different from all other nights?”

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today, the eve of Passover, we would like to share with you a very special tune for "How is this night different from all other nights?" We learned this tune from...

The story Jews repeat on Passover is the secret of their survival

As Jews around the world celebrate the festival of Passover this week, the ironies are painful. The festival celebrates the pivotal biblical event that followed Pharaoh's refusal to free his Hebrew slaves. The last and...

Behind The Scene with David Bedein: April 7th, 2020

Behind The Scene With David Bedein from Israel – April 7th, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK9X7xyUUeo

Do not let Corona kill your simcha

A blogger wrote this week that she does not want to say Chag Sameach because of Corona. During the Yom Kippur War, fairly new to Israel and fairly new to being observant, I had trouble...

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas Fight COVID-19: the First Month Overview and Initial Insights

The objective of this study is to present an overview and initial insights regarding the preventive measures taken by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas to check the spread of COVID-19 during the first...

Annexation and Sovereignty. Enough with Ideology. Consider Reality

Too often, annexation of territory to Israel is lost in a useless debate between warring ideologies that will never be resolved. Such debates avoid a discussion of reality on the ground where no dispute exists. Take,...

Gaza and Corona: The NGO Preemptive Blood Libel Campaign

The following report, dated March 31, 2020,  is sourced in NGO Monitor, an organization which keeps tabs on humanitarian organizations that operate in the Palestinian Authority, which operates under the authority of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The COVID-19...

When a crisis throws the middle class off the charts, anywhere in the world

On the 11th of Nisan, the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Joseph Caro, it is my custom to visit Tzfat, a city which I love, which thrives on education and on tourism. With both industries gone haywire,...