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American evangelicals, Israeli settlers and a skeptical filmmaker
The documentary filmmaker Maya Zinshtein in Tel Aviv on Feb. 23, 2021. Her new film, Til Kingdom Come, illuminates what the director calls an unholy alliance that sharply altered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Trump administration. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times.
by David M. Halbfinger
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The bear hug between former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their governments was a partnership like no other the two countries had seen. For four years, Israel was Washingtons favorite foreign policy arena and Jerusalem its best friend, and the brash new U.S. approach to the Middle East dominated Israels national security discourse and its politics.
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Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
Bhutanese and Israeli chess players in a friendly online chess match on January 21, 2021 just weeks after the two countries agreed to diplomatic relations Courtesy Chess4All)
It’s only been about six weeks since Israel and Bhutan agreed to formal diplomatic relations, and the two countries are already engaged in chess tournaments.
There were more than 170 participants in the first-ever, online friendship chess competition played between the countries last Thursday, with 29 chess players from Bhutan.
“Chess is a communication tool between people of our countries,” said Russian-born Israeli chess player Boris Gelfand, just ahead of the Bhutan-Israel match.
Abstract
The year 2016 marks the centenary of the death of Elie Metchnikoff, the father of innate immunity and discoverer of the significance of phagocytosis in development, homeostasis and disease. Through a series of intravital experiments on invertebrates and vertebrates, he described the role of specialised phagocytic cells, macrophages and microphages, subsequently renamed neutrophils and polymorphonuclear leucocytes, in the host response to injury, inflammation, infection and tissue repair. As a vigorous proponent of cellular immunity, he championed its importance versus humoral immunity in the so-called antibody wars. By 1908, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elie Metchnikoff and Paul Ehrlich, this debate was not yet resolved. Even earlier, Metchnikoff had turned his research interests to the process of ageing and the possible link to intestinal auto-intoxication, giving rise to the current interest in the microbiome of the gut and the use of probiotics to promote health a