While soldiers receiving their richly deserved raises, the cost of living sharply rising alongside it. The public utilities authority announcing a 5.7% rise in electricity tariffs, this month. And that’s on top of gas, and food prices – among others – rising as well.
Attorney general Avichai Mandelblit concludes his 6-year term, on Sunday. And appointed by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2016. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett now sending him off with a massive ‘Thanks’.
The 2022 Winter Olympics set to begin, this weekend, in Beijing with Israel sending six athletes – along with their coaches, managers, and delegation-head – to the games.
Another interesting find, in light of world Holocaust Remembrance Day, last Thursday. An international team of historians and excavators finding several pendants at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland, inscribed with the Hebrew prayer ‘Shema Israel’ or “Hear me, oh Israel.”