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SBS News in Hebrew 14.6.2020

What is the connection between Coronavirus and the Digital world? What do you know about the New Digital World?  Meet the expert Craig Levy, senior partner at Deloitte who heads the Digital business at this prestigious firm to discuss the new digital world that is here to stay...

Have you watched Unorthodox on Netflix? I will talk about this miniseries today that took the world by storm and will bring you an interview with a very unorthodox lady, Abby Stein a transgender lady raised in the Chassidic ultra-Orthodox community in New York and her unique journey (Hebrew interview)

What is the latest in the Jewish community around Australia? Listen to Shane Desiatnik chatting with Nitza Lowenstein 14.6.2020

Twenty-nine Jewish Australians were awarded honours in the Queen’s Birthday honours’ list this week, a number that represents 3% of all honoured Australians on that list, a commendable achievement considering that Jews make up only 0.4% of the total Australian population.

Most important events of the week in Israel, with Prof Rafi Mann reporting from Jerusalem

Twenty-nine Jewish Australians were awarded honours in the Queen’s Birthday honours’ list this week, a number that represents 3% of all honoured Australians on that list, a commendable achievement considering that Jews make up only 0.4% of the total Australian population.

The Covid-19 pandemic has also brought with it a huge growth in anti-Semitic and racist blame and conspiracy theories on the internet, aimed at recruiting isolated and lonely young people to extremist causes and groups, a phenomenon that is being monitored and fought by a group calling itself “All Together Now”, which aims at creating fairer and more equal Australian society.

The Australian Jewish “Hadassah” health philanthropic organisation that aims at building understanding between Israelis and Palestinians through health, has answered the urgent call by the Palestinian Authority for hospital ventilators, sorely needed by the Palestinians facing a catastrophe due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and donated 150 hospital ventilators that were sent via Israel to Ramallah and which will be distributed in medical facilities in the West Bank territories and Gaza.

An Israeli Technion laboratory funded by Australian philanthropists Robert and Ruth Magid, has developed a microscope that can record the flow of light, with scientists predicting it could be used among other key advances, to greatly sharpen the resolution of screens on mobile phones, TVs and other devices.

SBS News in Hebrew 7.6.2020

This is a very disturbing report. You won't find it in the general Australian media. Unfortunately it is happening and you should find out about it. Hebrew

Find out about the quiet revolution in medical/health services in Australia and Israel during the Covid-19 crisis, such as meeting your doctor on-line and staying at home instead at the hospital.   Experts say these changes will stay with us.