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(JNS) The oldest known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, Boris Pahor, died on Monday in the Italian city of Trieste at the age of 108, reported Deutsche Welle. 

(JTA) After Russian shelling intensified last month and a rocket exploded close to the Zhytomyr home of Nina, 76, she fled for Ukraine’s Polish border. When she arrived several days later after a long trip by car with other Zhytomyr residents, Nina was experiencing severe back pain.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) Israel’s Religious Services Ministry has announced it will open slots for female Halachic advisers, who will perform similar duties to community rabbis.

(JNS) Dozens of community leaders from Jewish Federations across North America accompanied 180 Ethiopian new immigrants (olim) on a charter flight to Israel on Wednesday, following a three-day mission in Ethiopia.

(JNS) Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday in Dubai. The deal is the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab state.

(JNS) Climate change appears to be happening faster than predicted, according to a new study released by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.

(JNS) The Israeli government on Sunday approved legislation officially defining the rights of people grappling with a range of disabilities and allocating 2 billion shekels ($595 million) for helping integrate the disabled into the wider community.

(JTA) — During a visit to a synagogue in Belfast, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to fix bureaucratic complications connected to Brexit that have caused kosher food shortages in Northern Ireland.

(JNS) A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Greece confirms for the first time that the Jewish presence in the country dates back to the end of the fourth century B.C.E.

(JTA) — Israel has an ambassador to Chad for the first time in 50 years, adding to Israel’s growing ties to African countries.