Lapid, a 58-year-old former TV news anchor, ousted Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving leader, last June Israel has seen a record-setting cycle of elections since April 2019 as parties time and again failed to secure enough seats to form a governing coalition EDITOR’S PICK Ohanaeze Reveals Why Nnamdi Kanu Was Denied Bail Drama As PDP … Read more
Florona is a double infection of COVID-19 and influenza, Arab News said on Friday EKO HOT BLOG reports that after Corona, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron, yet another variation of the deadly COVID-19 virus has been detected in Israel. Florona was first found in a pregnant woman at the Rabin Medical Center, an Israeli … Read more
2022: Primate Ayodele Releases Shocking Prophecies On Presidential Jet Crash, Release of Igboho, Nnamdi Kanu, AFCON, Other Key Issues EKO HOT BLOG reports that the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has issued a series of prophecies for the coming New Year 2022 one of which is that a presidential jet will … Read more
…Bennett reiterated that he would continue to restrict travel in order to avoid further lockdowns. EKO HOT BLOG reports that Israel’s health ministry Sunday recommended banning Israelis from travelling to the United States and added several European countries to its Covid “red list”, aimed at containing the Omicron variant’s spread. Barring US travel for Israeli … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister meets UAE Crown Prince in Abu Dhabi in historic visit EKO HOT BLOG reports that for the first time in history, an Israeli Prime Minister has paid an official visit to the United Arab Emirates. According to Bennett’s office, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed … Read more
Bennett, a right-wing Jewish nationalist and former tech millionaire, will take over at the helm of the eight-party bloc… US President Joe Biden on Sunday congratulated incoming Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett after an alliance of parties ousted Benjamin Netanyahu and formed a new government. “I congratulate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Alternate Prime Minister and … Read more
…Netanyahu’s opponents broke out in cheers and launched into an evening of joyous celebrations, having rallied in recent days… A motley alliance of Israeli parties on Sunday ousted Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, and formed a new government in a seismic shift in the country’s turbulent politics. Naftali Bennett, a right-wing Jewish nationalist … Read more
The attack came during a May 10-21 military escalation, with Hamas firing rockets into Israel in response to what it considered provocations Israel alleged Tuesday that a Gaza media building it destroyed was used by Hamas to jam air defenses as it offered to help the Associated Press rebuild its bureau. Israel’s ambassador to the … Read more
The Israeli presidency exerts little power, primarily meeting with party leaders after legislative elections and tasking candidates with forming governments… Israel elected the even-keeled Labor veteran Isaac Herzog as its 11th president Wednesday, a parliamentary vote that coincidentally fell as opposition lawmakers scrambled to forge a coalition to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu. Herzog, 60, beat former … Read more
The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war. The conflict continues to the present day on various levels The termination of the British mandate over … Read more
The UN says 10,000 Palestinians have been forced out of their homes in the Gaza Strip The death toll from Israeli strikes on the enclave reaches 137 Israel continued to bombard the Gaza Strip with air raids and artillery shells on Saturday, as it stepped up the deployment of troops and tanks near the besieged … Read more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that a US envoy would travel to the Middle East to seek to calm tensions as he implored Israel to avoid civilian deaths. Hady Amr, the deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of Israeli and Palestinian affairs, was leaving Wednesday and will meet both Israeli and Palestinian … Read more
Popular Nigerian Disc Jockey, DJ Cuppy has taken to social media to update all her followers about her legal case with Israel Afeare who she threatened to sue for defamation. The DJ said she has decided not to proceed with the case since he has apologized. She tweeted: “Update: Following the public apology of Isreal … Read more
Israel, Syria Syrian air defenses responded to an Israeli missile attack that targeted the western Masyaf area in Hama Governorate after midnight Thursday. Syrian state TV broadcast images of the air defenses intercepting Israeli missiles in the sky over Masyaf. The Syrian army said that the Israeli missile attack was launched from the Libyan capital … Read more
Israel Demands CNN, Amanpour Apology Over Nazis’ Kristallnacht-Trump Comparison Ekohotblog, November 16, 2020 Israel has demanded that CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour apologize after comparing a deadly night at the start of the Holocaust to President Trump’s four years in the White House. Amanpour said during a segment commemorating 82 years after Kristallnacht that the … Read more
Israeli health authority on Monday launched a new robot-aided COVID-19 test. With the integrated robotics, the Israeli-developed PCR testing process will be shortened from eight to four hours. In current PCR tests, it takes about an hour for the sample to be transferred to another test tube, whereas in the new test a robot will … Read more
US President, Donald Trump Has Annnounced That Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalise relations. A joint statement by Mr Trump, Israeli PM abu abi Crown, Prince Mohammed Al Nahyan said they hoped the “historic breakthrough will advance peace in the Middle East”. As a result, they added, Israel would suspend its … Read more
Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, a leading member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to re-enter precautionary quarantine, officials said Thursday. Netanyahu’s previous quarantine, imposed earlier this week after one of his staffers tested positive for the novel coronavirus, had ended Wednesday night, his office said. … Read more
Israel evacuated 274 of its citizens from Nigeria on Sunday. The move was not unconnected to the exploding cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Israelis were evacuated via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Tel-Aviv, Israel. The flight, operated with the Air Peace’s Boeing 777-300, left Lagos … Read more
Researchers from Galilee Research Institute have announced a major breakthrough vaccine against the Coronavirus disease for poultry, and are only three months away from testing the vaccine on humans. The Institute claimed that the vaccine they have been developing for the past four years could be modified for use in humans within three months, News … Read more