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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Kenny Rosenberg father of El Al controlling shareholder Eli Rozenberg immigrated to Israel today and living in Jerusalem.


 Kenny Rozenberg, the American billionaire father of Eli Rozenberg, who became controlling shareholder in El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL) six months ago, has immigrated to Israel. He touched down at Ben Gurion airport this afternoon on an El Al flight from New York and was greeted by the airline's management and received his ID papers and citizenship.

Kenny Rozenberg financed the El Al deal for his son and has so far Rosenberg's parent company Kanfei Nesharim has invested $160 million in the airline in two rounds of public offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). That amount is expected to grow to $200 million after El Al receives an upfront payment of NIS 1 billion from the Ministry of Finance for fees for aircraft security over the next year. According to the package, the payment will be contingent on the controlling shareholder injecting more money into the company.

Kenny Rozenberg was not able to himself become the controlling shareholder in El Al because he did not hold Israeli citizenship. Today he received his Israeli ID papers and can now in theory become the controlling shareholder in the airline together with his son.

Kenny Rozenberg, a US citizen, submitted a request to immigrate to Israel several weeks ago and he plans living in Jerusalem. He arrived in Israel today accompanied by an entourage, which included senior executives from his US company, as well as other new immigrants.

Sources inform "Globes" that Kenny Rozenberg received special permission from the exemptions committee to fly to Israel and has asked to relinquish his rights to financial support as an immigrant.

Kenny Rozenberg is the founder, owner and CEO of Centers Health Care, which owns and operates dozens of nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and care facilities in North America. His son Eli Rozenberg immigrated to Israel several years ago and lives in Jerusalem.

The Ministry of Aliyah and Integration said, "We cannot provide information about immigrants that do not allow information about them to be provided. But if the report is true then we welcome all immigration and certainly by a person of his status who has contributed to Israel in this difficult time."

Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on March 8, 2021

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Pfizer vaccine effective against Brazilian variant


The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech SE was able to neutralize a new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Brazil, according to a laboratory study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday and cited by Reuters.

Blood taken from people who had been given the vaccine neutralized an engineered version of the virus that contained the same mutations carried on the spike portion of the highly contagious P.1 variant first identified in Brazil, found the study which was conducted by scientists from the companies and the University of Texas Medical Branch found.

The scientists said the neutralizing ability was roughly equivalent the vaccine’s effect on a previous less contagious version of the virus from last year.

In January, it was announced that the Pfizer vaccine is effective against the British coronavirus mutation.

A subsequent study on the new South African coronavirus mutation showed that the Pfizer vaccine is effective against that variant, although the South African variant may reduce protective antibodies elicited by the vaccine.

Pfizer plans to begin testing whether a modified version of the vaccine would neutralize the South African coronavirus mutation.

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In Ramat Beit Shemesh, a new Chabad yeshiva - for English speakers


 A new Chabad yeshiva will be opened in Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel, Kikar Hashabbat reported.

The yeshiva will be the neighborhood's first, and will serve the English speakers.

Attending the Sunday night meeting initiated by the community were Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson, Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Gluckowsky, yeshiva founder Rabbi Chaim Ma'as, yeshiva dean Rabbi Shimon Garboz, and Rabbi Elchanan Cohen.

The yeshiva, which is expected to open soon, will be unique in that it is intended for English speakers and its base will be the children of Chabad emissaries who live abroad.

"This is refreshing news, since the boys who come to study in our developing neighborhood will meet with the community on a daily basis and become part of the outreach community in the neighborhood," Rabbi Mendelson said.

"We are excited and await the opening of the yeshiva and the arrival of the precious students who will come live near us."

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 A few weeks ago, 11-year-old Zvi Ben-David from Be’er Sheva was on family trip to Nahal HaBesor when he caught sight of an unusual object.

On picking it up, he saw it was a pottery figurine of a woman. His mother, Miriam Ben-David – a professional tour guide – realized that it was an important ancient find and contacted Oren Shmueli, district archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority in the western Negev.

In compliance with current Covid-19 restrictions, Oren met Zvi and his family in their garden where they handed him the figurine, which will now be researched and kept in the National Treasures collection. Zvi was awarded a certificate of appreciation for good citizenship by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

According to Oren Shmueli and Debbie Ben Ami, curator of the Iron Age and Persian periods in the Israel Antiquities Authority, “The figurine that Zvi discovered is rare and only one such example exists in the National Treasures collection. It was probably used in the sixth–fifth centuries BCE, at the end of the Iron Age or in the Persian period (the late First Temple period, or the return to Zion). The figurine, 7 cm high and 6 cm wide, was made in a mold. It shows a woman with a scarf covering her head and neck, schematic facial features and a prominent nose. The woman is bare-breasted and her hands are folded under her chest.”

Shmueli and Ben-Ami explain, “Pottery figurines of bare-breasted women are known from various periods in Israel, including the First Temple era. They were common in the home and in everyday life, like the hamsa today, and apparently served as amulets to ensure protection, good luck and prosperity. We must bear in mind that in antiquity, medical understanding was rudimentary. Infant mortality was very high and about a third of those born did not survive. There was little understanding of hygiene, and fertility treatment was naturally non-existent. In the absence of advanced medicine, amulets provided hope and an important way of appealing for aid.”

The figurine was delivered to the National Treasures collection and is currently being studied by Oren Shmueli and Debbie Ben-Ami of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in collaboration with Raz Kletter from the University of Helsinki in Finland.

The archaeologists say, “The exemplary citizenship of young Zvi Ben-David will enable us to improve our understanding of cultic practices in biblical times, and man’s inherent need for material human personifications.”

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Bus driver attacked in Beit Shemesh by Yeshiva Boys


 A bus driver was physically assaulted in Beit Shemesh Monday night, after he refused to allow a passenger to board the bus with an electric bicycle.

The incident occurred on a line 14 bus in Beit Shemesh operated by the Superbus company, when the driver refused to allow the passenger to get on the bus with his bike.

The passenger and several of his friends forced the doors of the bus open and tried to tear them out from the bus.

After the passenger and his friends managed to force the doors open, one of the suspects brought a stick to beat the driver, while his friends made sure the doors remained open.

One of the suspects verbally assaulted the driver and threatened him.

When the driver refused to respond to the threats, he was physically attacked. Thanks to the barrier installed to protect bus drivers, the driver was not injured in the attack.

The driver claimed that one of the assailants tried to take control of the bus, endangering the lives of the passengers.

"Once again we see how bus drivers have become the scapegoats of lawbreakers," said the bus drivers' union in a statement. "This violence will stop only when bus drivers are recognized as public workers. It is unthinkable for us to go back to seeing this kinds of images on a daily basis. Now more than ever we are in danger of having a driver be murdered at the wheel."

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Little Girl Really Misses Her Mother

 


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Instead of Looking for Criminals The FBI is on the hunt for red MAGA hats

 

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New Israeli Navy Captain’s Ancestor Was a German U-Boat Commander

 

Benny graduated from the Israel Navy’s ship captain’s course last week and will join the crew of a new German-made warship,

Remarkably, the uncle of Gerloff’s grandmother was a German U-boat commander in World War 2, Ynet reported Monday.

Gerloff was born and raised in Israel, however his non-Jewish parents are of German and Czech descent and arrived in the Jewish state 25 years ago. As a permanent resident, Gerloff is required to enlist in the IDF, and his family are no strangers to national service.

His brother served as a platoon commander in the Kfir Brigade and his sister was a combat fighter in the IDF’s Oketz canine unit. Benny himself was drafted into the Navy’s elite Shayete 13 commando unit – the equivalent of the U.S. Navy Seals – but when he washed out in the final rounds he reached back to the distant skipper genes from his family and was accepted to the Navy’s prestigious seamanship course.

“The people of Israel in the Land of Israel have a significant part in our faith,” Gerloff, who is Christian, told Ynet. “My great-grandfather was a priest during World War II, with the Germans who opposed Nazism and was therefore persecuted by the Nazis and imprisoned for it.”

“Great-grandfather on the other side helped his Jewish friend send food parcels to his relatives in the concentration camps, and to this day we have some of the letters of thanks he sent him. From there, from those days, my love for Israel was rooted in my family and my father came here at the age of 18 to volunteer,” he explained.

“In our eyes, the people of Israel and the Land of Israel are part of God’s plan and that is why I serve in the IDF and it is important for me to defend the country,” he said

In the black-and-white photo he and his parents keep to this day, Lieutenant Gerloff’s unique story takes on a fascinating meaning: the photo shows his family at a wedding held in southern Germany in the early 1940s, featuring an officer wearing the black uniform of the German navy. That was his grandmother’s uncle, who had been a doctor by profession, but was drafted into the German navy after the outbreak of the war and commanded a submarine that was eventually sunk, apparently by the British navy.

“I don’t know much about him, other than the fact that he was required to enlist,” Gerloff said. “My grandmother always emphasized that he was not a Nazi.”

Most of Gerloff’s family members still live in the area of ​​the town of Neuenberg in the heart of the Black Forest on the French border.

His relatives watched the graduation ceremony via Zoom where Defense Minister Benny Gantz pinned his new officer’s bars on his shoulders, and he said they were very excited.

“Most of them live in Germany and grandparents in particular were happy to see me with navy uniform and officer’s rank,” he said, adding his 89-year-old grandmother in Germany always prays facing towards Jerusalem.

Lieutenant Gerloff will serve as a shift officer on the command bridge of a new Navy ship Saar 6 warship scheduled to arrive in the coming months from the port of Kiel in northern Germany.

“It can definitely be a personal and meaningful closing of a circle for me,” he admits.

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Media Slobbering Over Cuomo Didn't Age Well

 

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"Go to Shul Already"

 

Hilarious as Trump Had Meghan Markles's number

 

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Saudi Shocker: Temple Mount is Jewish, Muslims Should Pray Toward Mecca....

 Saudi Twitter users have recently been pushing a new line of thought that plays up the importance of Muslims praying towards the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, while downplaying the importance of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Israel National News(INN) reported Sunday.

The controversial campaign appears to be designed to push the message emphasizing the importance of the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina as the holy places of Islam, and to eliminate the importance of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount for Muslims, thereby decreasing any Islamic authority the Palestinians have over the site.

One of the messages reportedly comes from well-known Saudi cartoonist Fahd al-Jabiri, who tweeted that “the direction of the prayers of the Jews is not important to us, what is important to us is only our homeland.”

Another English-language tweet is by a Moroccan user named Ibtissam Zegiga whose profile says he studies Hebrew and wants peace, and calls on “dear brothers and sisters” to join in the movement.

“This recent Saudi twitter movement believes that there is no importance of the temple mount to Muslims, and the waiting for the [Jewish] third temple. A new era, one of peace.”

According to the report, the Saudi campaign is in response to the Palestinian insults online and chants against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia heard at at demonstrations at the Temple Mount after prayers on Fridays. The Saudis have quietly supported the recent Abraham Accords the established peace between four Arab countries and Israel, and that has infuriated the Palestinians.

The reaction of the Saudis is to emphasize that the Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem is simply a mosque like all mosques, but the direction of prayer for all Muslims no matter where they are on the planet is only towards to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

One tweet from the account Saudi Arabia In Numbers said Muslims were not religiously obligated to help the Palestinians by fighting for Jerusalem, where the Palestinians constantly emphasize that the Al Aqsa mosque is the “third holiest site in Islam.”

“Our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did not leave us with a commandment, even with one word, that Jerusalem must be liberated,” the tweet read, adding, “The only two holy mosques are in [the Saudi cities of] Mecca and Medina.”

“In the end, it is becoming increasingly clear that the main obstacle to achieving the realization of the cry ‘the Temple Mount is in our hands,’ is us ourselves,” Tom Nissani, CEO of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, told INN.

“Now the Saudis and Moroccans also emphasize the strong connection of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount and the diminution of its importance to Islam,” Nisani noted. “This is a historic opportunity to expel the hostile Waqf from the Temple Mount and transfer it to full Israeli management that will allow full freedom of access and religion to the mountain in cooperation with the Emirates, Saudis and Moroccans, Jews and non-Jews who will attain shared goals.”

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Two Boys Sneak Into "Bnos Chava" Seminary ..Get Stuck in Elevator for Hours

 

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Crazies Now Sell Masks "Kosher for Passover"

 

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Meghan Markle’s sister says estranged sibling has ‘narcissistic personality disorder’

 

Meghan Markle’s half-sister said Monday that her estranged sibling suffers from “narcissistic personality disorder” — while Markle’s hubby Prince Harry is the victim of Stockholm syndrome.

“I definitely see a narcissistic personality disorder. I’m not diagnosing her. She needs to see a counselor,’’ Samantha Markle told the Australian radio show “Fifi, Fev and Nick’’ the day after Meghan and Harry’s bombshell TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.

“I feel sorry for Harry,’’ Samantha said. “She pulled him away from his family, all of his friends, the life that he knew.

“He reminds me of one of those kidnap victims who eventually starts to believe that their life was so horrible and they’re in love with their captor.”

In addition to taking on the royal family during the sit-down with Winfrey, Meghan ripped into Samantha, dousing shade on the half-sister’s new “tell-all’’ memoir, “The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister Part 1.’’ 

“I think it would be very hard to tell all when you don’t know me,” Markle said.

Meghan claimed that the last time she saw Samantha “must have been at least 18, 19 years ago’’ and referred to herself as “an only child.”

She had said, ‘I haven’t hadn’t seen Samantha for 19 years.’ Well, she was at my graduation from my bachelor degree — there was so many photos in the media that are … about that, and that was 2008, so don’t know about you, but if you do the math, 2008 to now is not 19 years!” Samantha said.

“To suggest that she was an only child was really delusional,’’ the sibling added of Meghan.

Samantha also challenged Markle over presenting herself as absolutely clueless about the royals before she met Harry.

Meghan told Winfrey, “I didn’t grow up knowing much about the royal family. … I never looked up my husband online.’’

Samantha claimed, “She’s been seen in several photos in front of Buckingham palace!

“She idolized Diana,’’ the sibling said, referring to Princess Di, Harry’s mother. 

“In fact, Meghan went to great lengths to study Diana, to mimic her clothing, to mimic her body language and to wear Diana’s perfume on their first date! Don’t tell me my sister didn’t know who Harry was!”

Meghan claimed Samantha only changed her married name back to Markle after the now-royal began dating Harry — but Samantha said, “First of all, I did an interview, and I held up my college degree — my name’s been Markle since 1964 – it’s on my college degree!”

Meghan also publicly accused her dad of “betrayal’’ by selling her out to the tabloids and lamented to Winfrey, “I’ve lost my father.”

Samantha, who has the same father, Thomas Markle, said their dad watched the interview and, “He’s very hurt.

“And for her to say, ‘I lost my dad,’ I felt like, oh, my God, and the Oscar goes to, ‘I lost my dad!’

“[Oprah] needs to get Dr. Phil on my sister,’’ Samantha said, referring to Winfrey’s favorite TV psychologist, Dr. Phil McGraw.

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Biden's Dogs Banished From White House After Biting Security ...


Is Biden next? Kamala can't wait until he croaks 

They’re in the dog house now.

President Biden’s two German shepherds have been moved out of the White House after one of them showed some ruff behavior, reports said Monday.

First dogs Major and Champ were sent back to the Biden family home in Wilmington, Delaware last week, CNN and TMZ reported.

Major, who made history as the first rescue dog in the Executive Mansion, is said to have bitten a member of White House security, according to the reports.

The 3-year-old pooch has also reportedly been barking and lunging at staff and security.

He was adopted by the president and First Lady Jill Biden from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018. Joe Biden fractured his foot while playing with Major back in November.

Champ is the older of the two at 13 and has been part of the Biden family since 2008.

The pooches officially moved in to the White House on Jan. 25 after spending the first week of the Biden administration at the Delaware home.

They’ve been allowed to roam the grounds around the complex and have been included in Oval Office photos.

The White House didn’t return a request for comment from The Post. 

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“Burqa Ban” – Swiss Vote To Ban Face Coverings In Public

 

Swiss voters narrowly approved on Sunday a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.

The measure will outlaw covering one’s face in public places like restaurants, sports stadiums, public transport or simply walking in the street. It foresees exceptions at religious sites and for security or health reasons, such as face masks people are wearing now to protect against COVID-19, as well as for traditional Carnival celebrations. Authorities have two years to draw up detailed legislation.

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Biden Deteriorating Daily... Forgets Name Of The Pentagon And The Name Of The Secretary Of Defense


President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of the Pentagon and the name of the Secretary of Defense on Monday.

It happened when Biden was announcing the nominations of two female generals for promotion to four-star commands, hailing the nominees as “two outstanding and eminently qualified warriors and patriots.”

“And I want to thank the sec – the, the, ah former general. I keep calling him general, but my, my – the guy who runs that outfit over there,” Biden said.

“I want to make sure we thank the secretary for all he’s done to try to implement what we just talked about. And for recommending these two women for promotion.”

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Monday, March 8, 2021

Third stimulus check calculator: See how much money you could receive from relief bill

 Millions of Americans can expect to receive a third stimulus check after Senate Democrats approved President Biden's "American Rescue Plan" on Saturday, clearing the way for another $2 trillion injection of federal aid intended to boost the economy's recovery.

The cash payments included in the nearly $2 trillion stimulus bill are the largest yet, with individuals earning $75,000 or less eligible to receive the fully promised $1,400. Couples earning $150,000 or less will receive a check worth $2,800. Households will receive an additional $1,400 for each dependent child claimed on their most-recent tax filings.

As with previous rounds, Americans who earn more than the threshold line will still receive a partial check. But the money will phase out faster than previous rounds, cutting off payments for roughly 16 million Americans who qualified for previous relief payments, according to a preliminary analysis published by the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

Individuals making $80,000 a year or more and couples making $160,000 a year, or higher, no longer qualify for the checks. That means individuals earning between $80,000 and $100,000, and couples earning between $160,000 and $200,000, are newly excluded from a partial check under the legislation.

You can use this free stimulus check calculator from Omni to determine how much money you will likely receive from the latest relief bill. If you've already filed your 2020 tax return, the payment will most likely be based on that income. If you haven't, the government will likely use your 2019 return to calculate how much you're owed.

Stimulus check eligibility emerged as a major point of contention during relief negotiations between different ideological factions of the Democratic Party. The party could not afford to lose the support of even a single Senate Democrat, as it needed all 50 members to pass the measure via simple majority with a procedural tool known as budget reconciliation and bypass a filibuster by Republicans.

President Biden pledged to pass $2,000 stimulus checks ahead of the Georgia Senate runoffs in January, which Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won. His administration views the $1,400 payments as a supplement to the $600 checks that Congress approved in December.

Lawmakers are racing to send the legislation to Biden's desk before March 14, when more than 11 million Americans will lose their jobless aid when two key federal jobless aid programs created a year ago under the CARES Act — and extended in the $900 billion relief package that Congress passed in December — lapse.

The American Rescue Plan also extends unemployment benefits at $300 a week through August, expands the child tax credit to offer parents up to $3,600 per child, includes $350 billion in funding for state and local governments and allocates billions of dollars for vaccine distribution.

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