By: Tamar Sternthal May 25, 2021
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Anyone who has experienced the terrifying sirens in Israel warning of incoming rocket fire understands that this trauma is not something that you ever “get used to.” Thousands of rockets launched by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip have battered residents of southern Israel in recent years. That makes them
experienced with running for safety in less than 15 seconds before impact; it doesn’t make them “used to it.”
But that’s precisely what Agence France Presse claimed yesterday.
The people of the agricultural collective, founded in 1982, long ago got used to cross-border rockets, mortar fire and spikes in heavy bombardment, which often ends as rapidly as it starts.
A new report says military families are relying more on food banks and other emergency aid, partly because military spouses lost their jobs or had their hours cut during the pandemic.
Kentuckians thought they would get a break from the weight of political campaigns in 2021, but in one western Kentucky county, a surge of candidates are
Unseen to people walking on the street, a series of solar panels lie on the roof of the apartments, converting the sun’s rays into clean, renewable electricity. The electricity then gets channeled into a power grid operated by Pepco (the for-profit utility serving Washington, D.C.), and the value of that electricity is split up among all 100 Maycroft residents, appearing as a credit on their electricity bill. Some downtown buildings have also agreed to donate the value of their solar power to Jubilee Housing residents. The project is supported by Jubilee Housing’s partnership with New Partners Community Solar Corp., a D.C. nonprofit, under the District’s “Solar For All” Initiative.
May. 6, 2021
A set of reforms intended to overhaul government services for disabled Israeli army veterans is set to be presented to the cabinet for approval, three weeks after the self-immolation of a veteran set off protests calling for urgent action, according to a joint statement Thursday by the Israeli government and a veteran association.
The reforms took shape during extensive discussions between the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization non-profit and representatives of the Defense and Finance Ministries. They reforms include the allocation of a budget of 300 million shekels ($92 million) for the immediate treatment and rehabilitation of veterans of the Israel Defense Forces and defense agencies, “with an emphasis on post-trauma victims,” the ministries and veterans organization said in a statement. The Defense Ministry s veterans rehabilitation agency had initially requested 350 million shekels.