Your Daily Spiel For August 9

Israeli-Kenyan runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter won the women’s 10,000-meter at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. Wikipedia.

Since last night, more than 180 rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel, reaching as far as Beersheba. Thirty were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system. The Israel Defence Forces targeted over 150 Hamas military sites in response.

Rekovelle, an Israeli biotechnology firm based in southern Israel, has developed a new-generation fertility treatment that manipulates human cells to create a personalized hormone that can boost the chances of patients who are trying to get pregnant.

Israeli-Kenyan runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter won the women’s 10,000-meter run at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin yesterday, completing the race in 31 minutes and 43.29 seconds. Salpeter is the first Israeli to be crowned European champion.

Around 100 people showed up at a rally at the Talmud Torah School in Edmonton on Aug. 7, after a swastika was found on the school’s basketball court on Aug. 2. Swastikas were also found spray painted elsewhere within the vicinity of the school, including a bus shelter a few blocks away.