15 October 2020 Jewish News
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Demos renew / Peace meeting / Tributes paid / Teacher rehired / World News
Israelis protest in their thousands Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated against Benjamin Netanyahu in hundreds of sites across Israel last Saturday, renewing a movement halted by a sharp second wave of the coronavirus. The country’s second lockdown kept Israelis from going far from home, so many smaller protests erupted in different locales. For instance, fewer than 100 people gathered in Jerusalem’s Paris Square, the site of large past protests, while a group of people were fined for trying to ride in front of Netanyahu’s private home in Caesarea. But as they did regularly for months earlier in the year, the protesters decried the prime minister’s botched coronavirus pandemic response, his handling of the economy and his alleged involvement in multiple corruption scandals. Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv, including many in Rabin
Protestors in Jerusalem against Netanyahu
Square and Habima Square. Police claimed there were several injuries owing to protester violence. Israel is in the midst of a strict second nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the virus, which some say is expected to last for months.
Foreign ministers ISRAEL’S OLDEST in historic meeting MAN DIES, AGED 117 In a historic meeting, the foreign ministers of Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) met in Berlin and visited the city’s main Holocaust monument together. Less than a month after signing a peace deal that normalised relations between the Middle Eastern neighbours, Israel’s Gabi Ashkenazi and the UAE’s Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan walked through the large monument of concrete blocks symbolising the Jews killed by the Nazis in a meeting that was both symbolic and productive – according to reports, the pair discussed trade and tourism issues. The two diplomats toured the monument along with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who said the meeting and the peace deal shows “that peaceful coexistence in the Middle East is possible.” Israel also signed an agreement with the Arab nation Bahrain on the same day at the White House.
‘Can’t prove Shoah’ teacher back
A headteacher who told a parent he “can’t answer questions about them. say the Holocaust is a factual, historical Latson sued, saying he had been event” will be rehired after a vote by the wrongfully terminated, and in August, school board that fired him. a judge concluded he should have been William Latson (pictured) made the reprimanded but not fired. comments to a parent in 2018 and was later The board voted to rehire him rather removed from the Boca Raton high school in than face a protracted and costly legal battle. Florida. Last October, the school board voted 5-2 He will be given an administrative job rather toHALF fire him, citing also the fact Latson refused to than16:04 one with students. PAGE ADVERT JAN 2020:Layout 1 09/01/2020 Page 1
Israel’s oldest man, Shlomo Sulayman, has died at the age of 117. Sulayman died on Sunday with is family by his side, according to Ynet. He is survived by six children as well as “dozens of grandkids, great and great- Shlomo Sulayman great grandkids”. Sulayman was living on his own and his mind was clear until the very end, according to his grandson Gil Radia, who said confinement to his home in recent months due to the coronavirus pandemic did his grandfather “harm.” “Until the pandemic, he would go to the synagogue, even at the age of 116. He was a very modest man, which is why everyone loved him. But I guess the isolation at home contributed to his health deteriorating,” he added.
BEATRICE POSTS HER BALLOT We are less than a month away from what’s likely the most significant American election of our lifetimes, and people are mobilising to get out the vote. Among them is a 102-year-old Jewish woman named Beatrice Lumpkin. A photograph of Lumpkin mailing in her absentee ballot – while wearing a homemade anti-virus hazmat suit – went viral on social media.
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