Tag: Beijing

Sheina Vaspi still made history, becoming the first Israeli to compete in the Winter Paralympic Games when she finished the women’s giant slalom.

Rabbi Shimon Freundlich, the Chabad-Lubavitch shaliach to Beijing, China speaks of the dangers of congregating in minyanim due to the rapid spread of the highly contagious Coronavirus. He addresses the issues of assembling outdoor minyanim and said that those are strictly prohibited as well.

This crisis couldn't have come at a more opportune time for El Al, which will divert the planes from its Asian destinations to its European and American routes, just in time for the lucrative Passover season.

There have been no deaths as a result of a coronavirus infection outside China.

The collection, curated by Avi Muller, will be open to the public for three months in Jerusalem before shipping to Beijing.

An armed Uyghur Salafist jihadist group from China is fighting in the Syrian Civil War.

Roundtrip fares will start from $622 in tourist class, and $2582 in business class. The flight will last for almost 11 hours on Boeing Dreamliners.

"I cannot say that this matter has been settled ... "It remains to be seen what decisions will be made by the Russian leadership and Syrian officials."

It was the ”innovation and openness to new ideas” in Tel Aviv that attracted Z-Park to open its 11th overseas liaison office here, company officials said.

"I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man."

The most serious meaning of the PA's acceptance is that they will now be receiving sensitive information related to the war on terror.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs cautions Israeli citizens not to travel to North Korea for any purpose whatsoever."

In the last year, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of tourists and business people visiting Israel from China.

On Wednesday, Netanyahu told Israeli reporters in Beijing that construction in eastern Jerusalem has not been part of the negotiations with the White House on restricting settlements construction.

The institutes will select cutting-edge application technologies from advance disciplines that can be industrialized.

On paper, Herzog could cobble a new government with relative ease, should such a vote of no-confidence succeed and the Netanyahu coalition government be toppled – even without new elections.

Pilots are still ignoring the back-to-work order by the Tel Aviv District Labor Court. A new hearing is set for Feb. 22.

The link between the Israeli and Chinese peoples is an ancient one, dating from the Jewish community in Kaifeng a thousand years ago.

U.S. and other Western embassies issue security alerts for citizens in the Sanlitun district of Beijing on December 25.

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko's, 25, won a silver medal in the women's triple jump finals in the world championship competition in Beijing Monday. Her performance set an...

Apple may have handed the Chinese government access to the software used in its iPhones.

Israeli windsurfer Shahar Zubari won a gold medal at the Sailing World Cup in China, finishing first in in the men’s RS:X on Saturday...

Chinese media have reported Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s current visit as secondary news, reflecting China’s distance from the Israeli-Palestinian Authority issue. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas...

Israeli Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro finally brought Israel its first medal in London. Pezaro, 25, took a bronze in the 50-meter freestyle final in the...

China assaults the senses with a cacophony of sounds and colorful sights amid its teeming masses. As we arrived for a month’s trip in October the noxious smog of vehicle-packed Beijing assailed our nostrils. But the past still dwells in the shadows of the modernized capital. At dusk a row of elderly stooped men shuffled along the road beneath our apartment in Mao-style uniforms. We would see the same gray men plodding by in the morning.