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ISRAELBRIEFS Record-breaking North American
Aliyah Projected for 2021
ABOUT 5,000 PEOPLE are expected to immigrate
to Israel from North America in 2021, according to
Nefesh B’Nefesh, which coordinates North American
immigration to Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.

That’s about 42% above the annual average.

More than 2,000 olim, including 1,000 in August,
were expected for an Israeli arrival this summer on
40 flights Nefesh B’Nefesh organized. More than
18,000 aliyah applications have been opened since the
pandemic began in March 2020.

Some say the advent of remote work has opened
new opportunities for those who want to keep their
jobs, yet move.

“Young people see Israel as a skills-based society
and are choosing to launch themselves here instead
of staying in North America and following more
conventional career tracks,” said Marc Rosenberg,
vice president for Diaspora partnerships at Nefesh
B’Nefesh. developed, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Oramed CEO Nadav Kidron said its subsidiary,
Oravax Medical, will start clinical trials at Sourasky
Medical Center in Tel Aviv. Oramed received approval for
its study protocol from the hospital’s Institutional Review
Board and now waits for Health Ministry approval.

Oravax has already manufactured several thousand
capsules for use in the trials.

Oramed is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical
company that works with technology developed by
Jerusalem’s Hadassah-University Medical Center. It
teamed with India-based Premas Biotech to form
Oravax and develop the vaccine.

Kidron said the Oravax vaccine works differently
than the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines by targeting
three structural proteins of the coronavirus instead
of a single spike protein.

Three Israeli Filmmakers Return After
20 Days in Nigerian Prison
Three Israeli filmmakers detained in Nigeria for 20
days returned to Israel on July 29, two days after being
Israel to Become First Country to Test
released, The Times of Israel reported.

Oral COVID-19 Vaccine
Andrew Leibman, Rudy Rochman and David
Israel will become the world’s first country to test an Benaim were arrested in a synagogue on July 9 by
oral COVID-19 vaccine that Oramed Pharmaceuticals Nigeria’s Department of State Services — its internal
security agency. The men were arrested on suspicion
of contact with Biafran separatists.

The trio was in Nigerian filming “We Were Never
Lost,” a documentary about Jewish communities in
African counties. In Nigeria, they were focusing on
the Igbo Jewish community.

The men said in a statement that they were cleared
of wrongdoing, but were told by Nigerian government
to leave the country immediately.

Judge Sides with Magen David Adom in Suit
An Israeli judge ordered United Hatzalah on July 29
to pay about $77,405 to Magen David Adom for def-
amation, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Justice Naftali Shilo said United Hatzalah adver-
tised its phone number in a misleading way — one
that caused people to think that it was Israel’s official
emergency first responder instead of MDA.

“It’s about a series of harmful publications that
were part of an organized campaign aimed at raising
the awareness of the public to the services of Hatzalah
through the use of defamation and the humiliation of
MDA,” Shilo wrote.

The judgment was about a tenth of the $805,013
MDA sought. l
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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