Middle East Experience

The United Kingdom is just short of surpassing Italy as the worst hit European country with coronavirus.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: UK shadows Italy as worst hit in Europe: virus death toll passes 28,000

The synagogue was the first in the country to announce that it was reopening after social distancing restrictions connected to the coronavirus pandemic were lifted, according to the Forward.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Atlanta synagogue walks back reopening announcement

Trump’s past equivocations in rejecting support from white supremacists have been the prime driver of Jewish unhappiness with his administration.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Donald Trump campaign aims to gain Jewish American votes

"It appears that certain countries in Europe are paying regard only to the objectives of the propaganda machine of the Zionist regime and the confused US regime."
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Iran condemns Germany's ban on Hezbollah activity

Fire and Rescue teams arrived on the scene and extracted both passengers, who were initially trapped inside the aircraft.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Famed online gambling businessman killed in plane crash, son injured

The coronavirus crisis reveals the dependence of the Palestinian economy on its Israeli counterpart, especially with regard to workers and the sources of income of thousands of families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Coronavirus reveals Palestinian economic dependence on Israel

An Iraqi man is on trial in a German court for human trafficking and genocide against the Yazidis.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Justice for genocide: Yazidis hopeful as Islamic State trial opens in Germany

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca compared Turkey's largest city to Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in China.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Istanbul’s coronavirus outbreak is ‘under control,’ claims health minister

Former Vice President Joe Biden marked Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on Friday with a pledge to back a resolution recognizing the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of more than 1 million mostly Christian Armenians as a genocide.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Intel: Biden vows to back Armenian genocide resolution as president

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry by phone on Thursday to discuss “continued collaboration on key regional issues and bilateral COVID-19 assistance."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Intel: Egypt’s medical aid to US fails to stem outrage over American prisoners