Tara Kavaler 02/08/2021
Partnership between Kountable and ProofMarket is hoping to reach one billion women worldwide, and provide them with health identification information protection
Kountable and ProofMarket have partnered to deliver COVID-19 tests to women in East Africa, using technology that also creates a digital health identification with information over which women have autonomy. They hope to grow their program to reach one billion women, with plans to expand next to the Middle East and further throughout Africa.
Women have been disproportionally impacted by the coronavirus pandemic globally. In the Middle East, women have had less access to health care services than men.
Marvelous Miracles Occurred for Many in the Middle East This Year, Including Camels (with VIDEO) Tara Kavaler 12/14/2020
In the shadow of a global pandemic, we recount eight unusual events as Israel celebrates the Jewish festival of lights
The Hanukkah holiday, which Jews around the world are observing this week, celebrates two different miracles: the overthrow of Greco-Syrian control over Judea and the discovery in the Temple in Jerusalem of a sealed vial of oil that is said to have burned for eight days instead of one.
“In the Bible, when miracles happen, they happen for a reason,” Rabbi Yosef Ote, the community rabbi of the Orthodox Hazvi Yisrael synagogue in Jerusalem, told The Media Line. For example, he said: “The ten plagues in Egypt happened because of what was going on with slavery, and we needed to escape, so God split the sea.”