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Haaretz.com - News
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Our character is in our hands
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PA: Arrested Hamas activists planned to assassinate Abbas
2 Jul 2009 | 8:21 pmHamas activists arrested by the Palestinian Authority have admitted to tracking the movements of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and to gathering intelligence on his security, PA sources told Haaretz. ... -
Jordan's King Abdullah names teenage son as heir
2 Jul 2009 | 2:08 pmJordan's King Abdullah II named his eldest son as heir to the throne Thursday, ending five years of speculation over his successor. ... -
Lieberman: Settlements issue blown out of proportion
2 Jul 2009 | 12:54 pmForeign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday responded to remarks made earlier by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that Israel's construction in West Bank settlements jeopardized the two-state solution, and said that the world has blown the settlements issue entirely out of proportion. ... -
North Korea test fires four short-range missiles
2 Jul 2009 | 12:51 pmNorth Korea test-fired four short-range missiles on Thursday, further stoking tension in the region that was already high due to Pyongyang's nuclear test and threats to boost its nuclear arsenal in response to United Nations sanctions. ...
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Haaretz.com - Business
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Summer's here and the gouging is easy
2 Jul 2009 | 9:43 pmThe pleasure of seeing Paul McCartney perform live in Tel Aviv last September would have set you back NIS 500, and that's just for one ticket. Yet that isn?t the end of the cost. Adding a mug of beer to wet your whistle so you can sing along would have cost another NIS 25, for a third of a liter, which is a markup of dozens of percent compared with the local grocery. ... -
TA-25 down 1.1% for the day, ?but still up 1.9% for the week?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmThe Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ended its trading week down, with the major indexes falling more than 1%, even though this week it ended one of its best six months ever. ? ... -
Public to pay NIS 10b more in taxes?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmA very long time ago, about five months back, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was still only an MK and campaigning for his present job, he promised to lower taxes. ?Lowering taxes is like jet fuel for the economy,? he said in an interview with TheMarker just 10 days before the election.? ... -
Shrem, Fudim offer investors 20% of Leader in lieu of cash?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmItschak Shrem and Yair Fudim would like to retain a 20% stake in Leader Holdings and Investments, but bondholders have placed a heavy price tag on the two men?s mistakes.? ... -
Eli Reifman ordered to hand over Emblaze shares?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmAttorney Eitan Erez, the court-appointed manager of businessman Eli Reifman?s assets, petitioned the court Wednesday to order Reifman to hand over his shares in the software company Emblaze. Judge Varda Alshech accepted the petition.? ...
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Haaretz.com - Art and Leisure
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Turning the tables
29 Jun 2009 | 7:21 pmCalm down, there's enough of everything. And if something runs out there's a place to take it from." Nana Schreier is holding the shift manager's shoulders last Wednesday afternoon, and speaking to her quietly. They are surrounded by a combination of pandemonium and circus: In two hours from now there will be a wedding with 70 guests at her Nanotchka bar-restaurant, which will be closing two days later. In the evening she opens her new place in the adjacent building on Lilienblum Street in Tel Aviv: two stories of a combination restaurant-bar-entertainment spot. ... -
The bank job
29 Jun 2009 | 7:26 amI had two objections," says artist Nahum Tevet of his weighing whether or not to place his large work, "Ursa," on the wall of the new First International Bank of Israel headquarters on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. Tevet, who has just completed the installation of the work and has included in its new version chairs and boats as well, explains: ... -
A tale of two Golems
28 Jun 2009 | 6:32 pmIt will debut this evening in Prague, in the place where the legendary Golem, built in the 16th century by Rabbi Judah Loew (the Maharal), operated. A British baritone, Czech singers, and choirs of adults and children will perform the debut of a new version of the story of the Golem, to be entered in the pantheon alongside all the other stories of the Jewish community-protecting monster. ... -
Surroundings / Shutter, stop sobbing
24 Jun 2009 | 7:25 pmSometime in the mid-1970s, when Tel Aviv was undergoing a serious urban crisis, with its houses peeling and its residents fleeing from it almost in disgust, "it was easy to think that this city, the one in which 'plaster is falling / a shutter is sobbing / a bus is dying,' is, as the poet said, 'a city without a concept,' a random collection of continuing mishaps, united primarily by the total absence of advance planning," writes architect-sociologist Nati Marom in his excellent new book, Ir im konseptzia, metakhnenim et Tel Aviv ("A City with a Concept, Planning Tel Aviv"). The book, which… -
Wine and Spirits / They come from a land down under
23 Jun 2009 | 6:54 pmBoutique importers come and boutique importers go, but it seems fairly certain that since they first started bringing wines from Australia in 2006, Mersch is here to stay. ...
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Haaretz.com - Diplomacy
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Our character is in our hands
2 Jul 2009 | 9:34 pmWe can offer several arguments for and against the demand to recognize ... -
PA: Arrested Hamas activists planned to assassinate Abbas
2 Jul 2009 | 8:21 pmHamas activists arrested by the Palestinian Authority have admitted to tracking the movements of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and to gathering intelligence on his security, PA sources told Haaretz. ... -
Jordan's King Abdullah names teenage son as heir
2 Jul 2009 | 2:08 pmJordan's King Abdullah II named his eldest son as heir to the throne Thursday, ending five years of speculation over his successor. ... -
Lieberman: Settlements issue blown out of proportion
2 Jul 2009 | 12:54 pmForeign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday responded to remarks made earlier by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that Israel's construction in West Bank settlements jeopardized the two-state solution, and said that the world has blown the settlements issue entirely out of proportion. ... -
North Korea test fires four short-range missiles
2 Jul 2009 | 12:51 pmNorth Korea test-fired four short-range missiles on Thursday, further stoking tension in the region that was already high due to Pyongyang's nuclear test and threats to boost its nuclear arsenal in response to United Nations sanctions. ...
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Haaretz.com - Defense
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Palestinians: IDF tank fire kills Gaza teen
2 Jul 2009 | 3:11 pmA 17- year-old girl was killed in a blast in central Gaza near the Israeli border Thursday, Hamas security officials said, charging that an Israeli tank shell was to blame. ... -
Hamas: Amnesty report accusing us of war crimes is 'unfair'
2 Jul 2009 | 2:24 pmHamas on Thursday criticized a report issued by global human rights group Amnesty International, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza. Hamas said in response that the report was "imbalanced and unfair" ... -
FBI: Saddam told us he lied about having nukes to deter Iran
2 Jul 2009 | 4:18 amSaddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader. ... -
ANALYSIS / Loud-mouthed rabbi reflects IDF's religious bent
2 Jul 2009 | 2:25 amMost Israel Defense Forces generals act like they have taken vows of silence. And then there's the army's chief rabbi, Brig. Gen. Avichai Ronski, the last big mouth at IDF headquarters. Ronski is increasingly perceived as someone who causes himself trouble, particularly on matters that other senior officers have been ordered to avoid by Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi. ... -
IDF chief rabbi says women shouldn't serve
1 Jul 2009 | 8:35 pmWomen ought not to serve in the Israel Defense Forces, IDF Chief Rabbi Avichai Ronski said at a conference two weeks ago. ...
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Haaretz.com - National
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The High Court as a straw man
2 Jul 2009 | 9:00 pmWhen a thief is needed he is taken down from the hangman's noose; the ... -
How much are we paying for Netanyahu's bloated cabinet?
2 Jul 2009 | 8:38 pm"There has never been such a wasteful cabinet. There has never been such a big cabinet for such a small coalition. All over the world, cabinets have been getting smaller, and in little Israel it's getting bigger. So much money has been spent on bloated government ministries." ... -
Netanyahu has public's approval after first 100 days
2 Jul 2009 | 8:09 pmBenjamin Netanyahu's second cabinet will complete its 100th day in power next week, ending what is known as its 'period of grace.' ... -
ANALYSIS / Netanyahu conducted himself wisely to preserve coalition
2 Jul 2009 | 8:06 pmAfter 100 days in power, the polarized coalition which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put together seems solid - for now. ... -
Naomi Klein: Oppose the state, not the people
2 Jul 2009 | 4:51 pmRamallah's intellectual elite, foreigners and curious spectators gathered last Saturday at the Friends School in Ramallah to hear writer and political activist Naomi Klein lecture to a packed auditorium. ...
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Haaretz.com - Opinion
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Our character is in our hands
2 Jul 2009 | 9:34 pmWe can offer several arguments for and against the demand to recognize ... -
The High Court as a straw man
2 Jul 2009 | 9:00 pmWhen a thief is needed he is taken down from the hangman's noose; the ... -
Send the IDF chief rabbi home
2 Jul 2009 | 7:24 pmThe Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces, Brig.-Gen. Avichai Rontzki, has managed once again to stretch his scope of authority to breaking point. "In my personal opinion," he said according to statements obtained by Haaretz military correspondent Anshel Pfeffer, "the service of women in the army is not self-evident." This means, in simple Hebrew, ... -
The Mossad chief as fighter pilot
2 Jul 2009 | 7:23 pmThe resignation of the deputy Mossad head, coming in the wake of an ... -
Madame, start fighting
2 Jul 2009 | 7:10 pmI will not deny that I after meeting Tzipi Livni for the first time, I came away thoroughly impressed. She sports an upright posture, is imbued with a mixture of self-confidence and timidity, and, most important, can express herself eloquently. In later meetings, after she had already been named foreign minister, the shyness melted away in favor of her self-confidence, yet her appearance as well as her speaking abilities remained ...
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Haaretz.com - Anglo file
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Foreign workers head: ?Sending our kids to Africa is sending them to their graves??
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmAfrican families living in Israel are going ?underground? for fear of a controversial plan to deport their children as of next month, the community?s leader told Anglo File. ?Our people now live in fear,? said Swaray Alusine, director of the African Workers Union. He says the raid on Wednesday by immigration officers in the city?s southern neighborhoods illustrated that the government is determined to deport workers and in the future ?send children to a certain death.?? ... -
Whither goest PresenTense projects??
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmDuring its first two years, the PresenTense Institute hosted nearly 30 fellows who launched various projects aiming to ?equip the next generation of social entrepreneurs with the tools and ideas they need to go out into the world and make a difference,? as CEO Ariel Beery put it. These projects range from Web sites teaching Judaism via rap music to programs recruiting Israeli backpackers in India to help local orphans. A number of last year?s fellows, however, seem to have neglected their projects after departing the institute, with their Web sites lying barren ever since.? ... -
Prayer ala carte?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmAharon Varady always dreamed of putting together his own prayer book. Realizing that many people ? including himself ? often see prayer as a dull and robotic exercise in the fulfillment of a religious duty, he thought for years about ways to enable people to create their own prayer book, or siddur, in order to make the most of their experience. ? ... -
Holocaust scholar says Yad Vashem divided over commemorating Bergson Group?
2 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmThe refusal of Yad Vashem to commemorate in its museum Americans who helped save Jews from the Holocaust is creating an internal rift in the ranks of the museum?s leadership, according to a leading Holocaust scholar from the U.S. This rift, according to Rafael Medoff, director of the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington D.C., concerns the honoring of the Bergson Group.? ...
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Haaretz - Rosner's Domain
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One State solution? Let the debate begin
31 Dec 1969 | 4:00 pmIf Palestinians are on the way to changing their goal, and presenting the world with a new vision for their future, Israel shouldn?t be lagging behind -
What killed the campaign for Darfur?
31 Dec 1969 | 4:00 pmThe old-style, activist-driven battle for Darfur is over. Choosing China over Bush is one reason that it ended before it even really began -
Does Israel need American consent to attack Iran?
31 Dec 1969 | 4:00 pmIf Israel declares it would only act with U.S. permission, it risks giving up on the one chip it has in its arsenal. -
On Peter Rodman, Lebanon and Syria
31 Dec 1969 | 4:00 pmI realized that for Rodman the one key message was this: Israel's leaders (and the U.S.'s) should make sure that they not only "make the right decisions, but also that they are making them for the right reasons." -
Obama will take care of it
25 Jul 2008 | 12:00 amIn a predictable outburst of provincialism, the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, has become the fashionable darling of the Israeli left.
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Haaretz.com - Magazine
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Happy landings
2 Jul 2009 | 11:34 amIf I've ever known any moments of joy in my life, one was surely when the looming coastline became visible from the airplane window. The plane I returned on from London landed directly from west to east without having to do a U-turn over Modi'in like most of the flights I've been on in the past two years. I nearly let out a sigh of relief when the wheels touched down, but I decided to hold back until we came to a complete stop. A few people applauded and I refrained from joining them, well aware that such an act is a Third World kind of thing. It's a statistical fact that the odds of a plane… -
Funny girl
2 Jul 2009 | 11:27 amPoking out like a jack-in-the-box from behind Sasson Gabai, a.k.a. Minister Polishuk, is Shiri Gadni in the role of Tkuma the media adviser - a staffer so loyal she sees herself and the minister as a single entity. "We're a minister!" she exclaimed on hearing about his surprise appointment at the start of the series. Polishuk probably could have used a somewhat more experienced media adviser, someone a little pushier and more ambitious (who doesn't just pat herself on the back when she recognizes a successful bit of spin, but could actually come up with some herself). But in Shmuel Hasfari's… -
Breathless
2 Jul 2009 | 11:26 amPARIS - It was only at age 14, when the beloved nanny who had been like a mother to him was on her deathbed, that Alexandre Diego Gary, the only son of acclaimed writer Romain Gary and actress Jean Seberg, discovered his true age. "All of a sudden Eugenia told me the truth; that I was really a year-and-a-half older than I thought. When I was born, my mother was in the middle of shooting a movie and, according to the contract, she wasn't supposed to give birth then, and her divorce from her first husband wasn't finalized yet either, so they just hid the whole thing," says Gary with a broad… -
The Lucy show
2 Jul 2009 | 11:25 amI'm not a wretched Arab woman. How can I whine that I've been deprived?" Lucy Aharish protests. "I like my life just fine, despite all the stinking racism that exists here." Following the remark by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch of Yisrael Beiteinu (he told an undercover detective, "You look like a real Araboosh," using a derogatory word for Arab) she gave interviews to magazines from Germany to Abu Dhabi and had an opinion slot on the current events program anchored by Ofer Shelah and Raviv Drucker on Channel 10 - which she left in a huff a little over a year ago. ... -
Ace of diamonds
2 Jul 2009 | 11:23 amLate one night earlier this year, a private plane landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport, and from it emerged the diamond tycoon Dan Gertler. To his astonishment, he was greeted by officers from the National Fraud Investigations Unit, who asked him to accompany them to the unit's headquarters in Bat Yam. There, Gertler was told that he was suspected of bribing his friend, Avigdor Lieberman, now Israel's foreign minister. The interrogators asked Gertler whether he had conducted business with Lieberman or had ever transferred - by himself or through others - money to companies suspected of…
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Haaretz.com - Jewish World
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University of Vienna honors 2,200 Jews expelled by Nazis
2 Jul 2009 | 8:46 amKurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish. ... -
Austria's 'forgotten' concentration camp in danger of being demolished
2 Jul 2009 | 5:57 amIf the excavations currently under way on a hill near the Austrian village of St. Georgen continue, within a few weeks little will remain of Gusen, one of the most horrifying of the Nazi concentration camps that was located nearby. Austrian officials say the work is necessary to prevent the collapse of underground tunnels on the site. ... -
Jew's Muse / The Iranian mullacracy will never go away
2 Jul 2009 | 5:02 amAs far as I'm concerned, the carefully calibrated observations spouted by professional Iran experts on news channels are about as valid as the opinions of the Shiraz-born proprietors of the Shalom Chai pizza parlor on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Unfortunately, David and Chaim were far too busy serving customers to field questions. Similarly, the Iranian-born ex-wives of two friends couldn't be reached for comment. ... -
Last remaining U.S. Jewish Republican Senator loses seat
1 Jul 2009 | 10:36 pmThe defeat of incumbent Norm Coleman in the drawn-out Minnesota Senate race leaves U.S. Republicans without a Jewish senator for the first time in half a century. ... -
Was Michael Jackson a friend of the Jews?
30 Jun 2009 | 10:15 pmPop legend Michael Jackson's life was full of contradictions, and his relationship to Jews and the Jewish community was no exception. ...
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JPost Front Page Top Stories
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Afghanistan: US soldier feared captured
2 Jul 2009 | 6:43 pmThousands of US Marines launched a major anti-Taliban offensive; troops search for soldier. -
'Jewish Ahmadinejad' blogger arrested
2 Jul 2009 | 5:59 pmMehdi Khazali, who wrote Iran's leader has Jewish roots, reportedly summoned to a special court. -
Israel worries over intense 'legal war'
2 Jul 2009 | 5:58 pmOfficials: Cast Lead war crimes cases part of effort to ensure IDF won't use force against terror groups. -
'IDF will struggle to destroy tunnels'
2 Jul 2009 | 4:51 pmUS experts say Hamas tunnels now very deep; Gaza girl was killed by Palestinian mortar shell, army says. -
Obama 'not reconciled' to Iranian nukes
2 Jul 2009 | 4:48 pmAhead of Moscow visit, US president says he wants to cooperate with Russia to curtail nuclear weapons.
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The tax no one wants to collect
2 Jul 2009 | 6:28 pmWater Authority hopes 'draught levy' wil deter wastefull households. -
Arsonists blamed for wave of wildfiresin North
2 Jul 2009 | 6:17 pmFires come less than 24 hours after 1,000 dunam of growth destroyed by blazes; 2 nabbed for arson. -
Poll: Israel Jews want access to holy sites even under PA rule
2 Jul 2009 | 6:14 pm51 percent favor negotiations with Palestinians without pre-conditions. -
Edelstein: Most Likud ministers would back rebuilding Homesh
2 Jul 2009 | 4:14 pmDiaspora affairs minister responds to suspected desecration by Palestinians of books left in a Homesh yeshiva. -
Israeli artists remember modern dance pioneer Pina Bausch, who has died in Germany at 68
2 Jul 2009 | 3:49 pmIsraeli dancer and choreographer Rina Schenfeld says Bausch "loved Israel."
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JPost In Jerusalem
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A political conflict with a spiritual solution
1 Jul 2009 | 10:52 amInterfaith group fosters tolerance among Jewish and Arab pre-teens from Jerusalem. -
Comic relief
30 Jun 2009 | 11:59 pmJerusalem, a city where everything is political, makes perfect subject for exhibit of caricatures. -
Jerusalem haredi city councilmen to fight parking lot
28 Jun 2009 | 3:40 pmShas councilman quits in protest, while his colleagues refuse to compromise. -
Fateful dates
25 Jun 2009 | 8:01 amHistory teaches us that leaders should check their calendars, but has Nir Barkat learned the lesson? -
The sound of success
25 Jun 2009 | 7:45 amTribute duo Larry Fogel and Moni Arnon are pulling in the crowds in Israel and overseas with their Simon and Garfunkel show.
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JPost Jewish News
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Cheap Glatt at stake in kosher game of chicken
2 Jul 2009 | 6:06 pmRabbi Baruch Roshgold puts his name behind an innovative method which he says cuts costs without compromising kashrut standards. -
Swine flu forces cancellations at US Jewish summer camps
2 Jul 2009 | 4:19 pmThe JTA reported that as of June 23, nine confirmed cases have been reported at Jewish camps in Texas. -
New York museum hosts Jewish ritual exhibit
2 Jul 2009 | 12:43 amVarious media show the "intersections of creative freedom and Jewish life." -
Are Holocaust victims' remains misused?
2 Jul 2009 | 12:01 amRomanian Jewish leaders fear that medical students are using dug-up skeletons of Jews for research. -
US Gov't grants $1.83m. for security at Brooklyn Jewish non-profits
1 Jul 2009 | 10:09 pmFunds will be used for surveillance equipment, bullet-proofing and electronically controlled entries and exits.
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Uncensored News from Israel » feature
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Israel moves to a freeze compromise
2 Jul 2009 | 2:27 amThe Israeli government has basically accepted a three-month freeze on all settlement construction, including natural-growth-related construction. This is a face-saving measure for Obama. The Arabs will fail to deliver anything in response to the Israeli gesture, such as easing the boycott. The construction moratorium will expire without damaging Obama’s reputation for being able to control Israel. On other hand, the settlement freeze undermines Israel’s plans to annex the settlement blocs. By freezing construction, she implicitly accepts the eventual transfer of the settlement… -
Supreme Court engages in prosecution
1 Jul 2009 | 7:00 amThe leftist Supreme Court ordered the prosecution to bring more stringent charges against an IDF soldier who shot an arrested Palestinian rioter with rubber bullets. The judges have became prosecutors. The Kafka-esque court demanded a harsher punishment based on “Jewish and democratic values.” Democracy has nothing to do with the event, but Jewish values are clear: according to the Torah, enemies in the Land of Israel must be killed, even if they have been captured. Shooting the arrested Arabs with rubber bullets is the only way of dissuading them from rioting. Jailing the… -
Christianity is kosher
30 Jun 2009 | 12:19 amThe Supreme Court ruled that a Christian (”Jews for Jesus”) baker from Ashdod is entitled to a kosher certificate for his bakery. It is obscene to see the atheistic court meddling in purely religious matters. The law of kashrut requires the baker to be Jewish, or at least to delegate important tasks to Jews. The Supreme Court has ruled in past immigration cases that conversion to Christianity is incompatible with Jewishness. In practice, the rabbis would accord the Christian baker kosher supervision, but they would supervise him to the death of his business. -
Barak gets the toughest job in America
29 Jun 2009 | 1:38 amJust a day before Barak was scheduled to meet Mitchell and other officials in New York, the Defense Ministry approved the construction of a massive 1,450-unit development in the settlement of Adam. The move amounts to slapping Obama, who demands a settlement freeze, and is even odder coming from Barak, who normally opposes the settlements. It seems that Netanyahu and Barak have become unlikely allies against Obama, whom both despise deeply now that the initial respect and goodwill has faded away. After months of diplomatic fighting, an Israeli freeze on settlement construction would now be a… -
British court: Judaism is racism
26 Jun 2009 | 12:41 pmThe British High Court of Appeal decided that a Jewish Free School discriminated against pupils on racial grounds when it limited admission to Jews only. The case was brought by a woman who “converted” to Judaism under the Reform canon, which involves little more than an Allah Akbar declaration. Her child, naturally, was denied admission into an Orthodox school. The court ruled that the admission criterion was ethnic rather than religious. Then Christian schools are also ethnic, because the pupils are children of Christian parents and made no conscious choice of religion…
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Palestinian swine flu cases rising
2 Jul 2009 | 3:18 pmA Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise. -
Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire
2 Jul 2009 | 2:55 pmThe Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border. -
Clinton, Fayyad meet
2 Jul 2009 | 2:45 pmHillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel. -
Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status
2 Jul 2009 | 1:16 pmStopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. -
U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property
2 Jul 2009 | 12:50 pmA U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.
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Amnesty International Accuses Israel and Hamas of War Crimes in Gaza
2 Jul 2009 | 9:00 pmAmnesty International accused both Israel and the militant Hamas movement that controls Gaza of war crimes during the three weeks of fighting earlier this year. -
Activists Held by Israel for Trying to Break Gaza Blockade
2 Jul 2009 | 9:00 pmNineteen foreign activists of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement were being held in Israel awaiting deportation on Thursday, two days after the Israeli Navy seized control of their boat off Gaza. -
Sarkozy Comments on Israeli Minister Make Waves
30 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmThe French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in private meetings last week called for the replacement of Israel’s ultra-nationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman. -
Human Rights Group Says 29 Civilians Were Killed by Israeli Air Attacks in Gaza
30 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmA report released by Human Rights Watch questions whether Israeli forces had taken “all feasible precautions” to avoid civilian casualties in strikes by drones in Gaza. -
Israel Said to Be Open to Settlement Freeze
28 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmWhile such an offer would fall short of the American demand that all building be halted, it shows that pressure from Washington may be having an effect.
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Israel News
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Ross at NSC: New chapter in Obama administration Middle East policy?
2 Jul 2009 | 3:58 amIs the Obama administration about to turn over a new leaf in its relations with Israel? This is a peculiar way of putting it: The post will include responsibility for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the Middle East. The announcement of Ross's appointment came June 25 after a week of speculation in Washington. I always thought Iran and Iraq ARE in the Middle East, didn't you? One possibility is that Ross is really going to implement a more realistic policy. The other possibility is that he was appointed so that a "friend of Israel" could be used to… -
Press Release: Christians for Fair Witness Appreciates Step Forward By UCC on Israel/Palestine
1 Jul 2009 | 2:59 pmFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2009 Contact: Sr. Ruth Lautt, O.P., Esq. (212) 870-2320 Christians for Fair Witness Appreciates Step Forward By UCC on Israel/Palestine Christians for Fair Witness on the Middle East ("Fair Witness") appreciates the step forward on Israel/Palestine taken by the United Church of Christ ("UCC") General Synod this past week in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The UCC held a consultation on Israel/Palestine June 1-3, 2009 in response to the 2007 Resolution and the 2007 Executive Council Action which directed the denomination to, respectively, conduct "ongoing and balanced… -
As expected: Iran Jews gripped by fear in wake of post-election violence
30 Jun 2009 | 5:46 pmLast update - 03:29 01/07/2009 Iran Jews gripped by fear in wake of post-election violenceBy Karmel Melamed, The Jewish Journalhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096985.html During the recent uprisings in Iran following the June 12th elections in that country, I have been approached by dozens of individuals asking me what is going on in Iran's Jewish community today. The simple answer is pure fear, an emotion which is nothing new to Jewish minorities who have lived and somehow survived massacres, pogroms, as well as forced conversions in Iran for the… -
So-called "Arab Jews"
30 Jun 2009 | 11:10 amSo-called "Arab Jews" The term "Arab Jews" (eg see "The Mizrahi('Arab') Jews: The Forgotten Refugees" where the word "Arab" is used ironically) is used in many advocacy articles, such as those of David Shasha, Ella Habiba Shohat and others, referring to Jews who lived in Arab countries, and often extended to Jews who lived in Muslim countries. The term was also used by Prince Turki al Feisal of Saudi Arabia, provoking a debate.Usually "Arab Jews" is employed by anti-Zionists, who are trying to create a mythical Jewish-Arab society where Jews and Arabs lived in peace and harmony, enjoying the… -
Iraqi celebrations of US departure turn into a real blast
30 Jun 2009 | 9:23 amIraqis partied to celebrate the departure of American troops from Iraqi cities, but the terrorists had a different sort of blast in mind - the kind made by car bombs. We could see this coming of course, but nobody wanted to think about it or take the precautions needed to save lives. Deadly market bomb hits Iraq city At least 25 people have been killed by a car bomb at a market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, officials say. The attack came as Iraqis celebrated the withdrawal of US troops from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion. …
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Israel News
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Why Jerusalem? - Israel's Hidden Agenda
2 Jul 2009 | 2:31 pmMuseum drawing of City of David. By Dan Lieberman Jerusalem Three huge granite stones rest comfortably on the top of Midbar Sinai Street, in Givat Havatzim, Jerusalem's northernmost district. -
Martin calls for release of two Irish detained in Israel
2 Jul 2009 | 10:11 amForeign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin today called for the swift release of two Irish nationals currently detained in Israel following the June 30 seizure of a boat en route to Gaza with humanitarian aid. -
Italy's capital gives honorary citizenship to Israeli soldier Schalit held by Hamas in Gaza
2 Jul 2009 | 5:41 amRome has given honorary citizenship to an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants linked to Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas group three years ago. -
Jerusalem to be more attractive and stay undivided
2 Jul 2009 | 1:22 amFrom his sixth-floor suite, Jerusalem's mayor Nir Barkat surely has one of the best views from an office anywhere on this planet. -
Israeli PM says ties with U.S. unbreakable
1 Jul 2009 | 8:52 pmThe close relations between Israel and the United States are unbreakable, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, despite the recent emergence of notable tensions between the two allies over Israel's settlement policy.
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Daily News Alert from Israel - COP/JCPA
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Defiant Iranian Opposition Leaders Refuse to Accept Ahmadinejad Government
[Washington Post] Thomas Erdbrink - Three opposition leaders including leading presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, former speaker of parliament and presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, and former president Mohammad Khatami openly defied Iran's top political and religious authorities Wednesday, vowing to resist a government they have deemed illegitimate after official certification of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection. They called for annulment of the June 12 vote and the continuation of protests. The three made clear that they do not oppose Iran's system of religious… -
Ahmadinejad Unwelcome in Parts of Iran
[New York Post] Amir Taheri - For 30 years, the tradition has been for each newly elected president to travel to the "holy" city of Mashad, to the tomb of Ali bin Mussa, the only one of Shiism's twelve imams buried in Iranian soil. This year Ahmadinejad was forced at the last minute to scrub the trip. The authorities couldn't guarantee the president's safety - let alone deliver the enthusiastic, welcoming crowds that he requires for propaganda purposes. Last Friday, his visit to Shiraz, Iran's cultural capital, was called off on "security grounds." The authorities have had to deploy tens of… -
Defense Minister Barak: Settlements Question Linked to Wider Peace Initiative
[FOX News] Greta Van Susteren - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told FOX News Tuesday: The question of a settlement freeze is "part of a much wider issue, whether together with the United States and our Palestinian and Arab neighbors, we can launch an original peace initiative to be led by the president of the United States. Within this context, many issues had to be addressed. One of them is the settlement issue. And we already said, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in his speech, we are not going to launch new settlements, we are not going to launch new projects or suburbs in the existing… -
Saddam Hussein Faked Nukes to Deter Iran
[Washington Post] Glenn Kessler - Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released Wednesday. -
Gaza Blockade Run Called "Reckless Publicity Stunt"
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Kent A. Miles - Israel on Wednesday sent home two of the 21 people taken aboard a ship that attempted to break through a blockade and deliver supplies to Gaza. Other passengers included former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who campaigned for president in 2008 as the Green Party candidate. Israeli consular officials on Tuesday accused McKinney of a "reckless political stunt."
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Nobel winner seeks UN human rights envoy for Iran
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Endorsing Palestinian apartheid
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Jerusalem is different
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Agreements must be honored
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Time to visit Israel
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The one-state solution
1 Jul 2009 | 7:04 amBy the time we truly aspire for two-state solution, it may be too late
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IDF, gunmen clash in Gaza; Palestinian teen killed
2 Jul 2009 | 2:21 pmGaza sources say a teenage girl killed, 11 people wounded by IDF fire during shootout between Israeli troops, gunmen in Strip -
IDF assessment changes: Gaza girl killed by army
2 Jul 2009 | 2:16 pmArmy officials say teenager killed during Thursday's clash between IDF troops, Palestinian gunmen apparently hit by Israeli mortar shells; earlier, IDF said Palestinian fire killed girl -
Gaza: Hamas imposes 'Koran levy'
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Lieberman: Settlement issue blown out of proportion
2 Jul 2009 | 11:21 amForeign minister slams settlement freeze demand, says Israeli-Palestinian conflict not the gravest global problem -
Obama 'not reconciled' to idea of nuclear Iran
2 Jul 2009 | 10:50 amIn interview with AP, president says nuclear-armed Iran would likely trigger arms race
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Puppets with kippahs
2 Jul 2009 | 4:54 amDirected straight at national religious audience, new children's disc 'Doll of a Family' seeks to create culture reflecting practicality of every day life at home. 'Children compelled to choose between figures from secular world and religious world,' explains Muli Kimmel, disc producer, who also hopes bolstering unique national religious culture will serve as outlet for indirectly raising prickly issues to help shape cohesive community -
Hotels sign modesty code to attract haredi guests
1 Jul 2009 | 10:15 amSome 20 hotels that host vacationing ultra-Orthodox guests sign document detailing modesty code to be kept in order to make sure stringent guests comfortable. Among other things, hotels commit to unplug televisions, disallow looking into pool from rooms, instating modest dress code for female employees. Imposition of code not supported by rabbis responsible for granting kosher certificates -
Organic is the true kosher
30 Jun 2009 | 9:47 pm'After years of living in dark, cold cities of Europe, we lost contact with nature and its produce,' says Phyllis Glazer, guru of the organic kitchen, at Schechter Institute's study day 'Jewish Women Maintain a Healthy Soul.' Glazer calls to return to real kosher – no food coloring, preservatives, cruelty -
Young Jewish leaders gather for global summit
30 Jun 2009 | 1:32 pmYoung Jewish leaders from 29 countries will meet in Ramat Gan as part ROI Global Summit for Young Innovators. 'Participants are all seeking to change the world and to contribute to a dynamic future for the Jewish people,' says summit founder -
Messianic Jew's kashrut certificate revoked
30 Jun 2009 | 2:21 amRabbinate cancels kashrut certificate of two bakery shops after learning owner is a Messianic Jew. 'Apostate cannot be considered trustworthy,' says Rabbinate, but Supreme Court overturns decision
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Report: More for Gaza to Aid Shalit Release Effort
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IDF Allows for that Its Fire Hit Gaza Building
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Lieberman: We Are Always Loved When We Make Concessions
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Lieberman: We Are Always Loved When We Make Concessions
2 Jul 2009 | 2:07 pmFM Lieberman belittled the global focus on Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, and said there would be no more unilateral concessions to the PA. -
IDF Responds to 'Not Credible, Unreliable' Amnesty Report
2 Jul 2009 | 1:02 pmIDF spokeswoman Lt.-Col. Avital Liebovich responds to Amnesty International's allegations, terms group's reports unreliable and inaccurate. -
How to Respond to Amnesty Report
2 Jul 2009 | 12:22 pmINN TV's Yoni Kempinski and legal expert attorney Sigal Horowitz discuss Amnesty International's report on Operation Cast Lead. -
Druze, Circassians Protest in North
2 Jul 2009 | 11:30 amDruze and Circassian Israelis protested Thursday against alleged government discrimination. Roads were blocked between Akko and Carmiel. -
IDF, Gaza Terrorists Trade Fire
2 Jul 2009 | 10:54 amTerrorists fire on IDF soldiers in central Gaza; IDF responds with fire. Arab sources report casualties.
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Know Where Your Yeshiva Boy Is?
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Israel: Don't Blow It Again
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Without the Islamic Republic
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When Aliyah Bullies Attack
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All Quiet on the Western Front
30 Jun 2009 | 2:15 pmThe change Iran's uprising could bring.
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IDF battles swine flu with extra leave
2 Jul 2009 | 2:40 amWhether you call it swine flu or Mexican flu, the number of cases of the virus H1N1 in Israel continues to creep up. Since the flu first reached here in late April, just days after it was identified in Mexico and the US, there have been anything from 300 to 542 confirmed cases, depending on which [...] -
Our first NBA pick
1 Jul 2009 | 11:18 amYou may have read about it already, but I need to express my excitement about Omri Casspi becoming the first Israeli player to be selected in the first round of the NBA draft. Yes, it’s not the final, final stage in this nail-biting process, but hey, it’s the NBA and he’s Israeli and it’s looking [...] -
From high school into the frying pan
30 Jun 2009 | 4:39 amHigh school graduations are a unique creature in Israel. They’re nothing like the solemn mortar board and cape graduation, and rented tux prom that I experienced growing up in the US. And thank God for that. It’s almost like going to a musical. My daughter’s event took place last night at a posh events hall in [...] -
Cafe Birnbaum
28 Jun 2009 | 11:56 pmTel Aviv is a city with many a cafe, and not all of them have appeared in the Aroma/Cafe Hillel stream of the last ten years. One of the best-loved, and with mighty tasty grub, is Cafe Birnbaum, owned the Birnbaum sisters, Penina and Sima. They took over from their father who ran the space [...] -
Nostalgia Sunday - Pop Star
28 Jun 2009 | 9:48 pmDo Israelis know from the Jackson-5? Puh-leez! This is the country whose government banned the Beatles from performing in the early Sixties on the grounds that they were a degenerate influence on the nation’s youth. But they did know Michael Jackson. In the mid-Seventies, with the advent of third radio broadcaster Reshet Gimmel, which played [...]
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Parashat Balaq
2 Jul 2009 | 2:54 pmTorah Tidbits AudioAnd the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was overcome with dread because of the children of Israel. And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.'--And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.-- And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor,… -
Surprise! Dovid and Go'el Call Ron On the Air
2 Jul 2009 | 2:50 pmAliyah RevolutionDovid and Go'el call Ron On the Air... even though Ron doesn't want anyone to know he's making aliyah. Not yet at least.Discuss this topic in the new Forums Section -
Synagogue and Idolaters
2 Jul 2009 | 2:25 pmYishai Fleisher and FriendsBen Bresky finds his old Cleveland synagogue as its members tour Israel and support it. Then, idolatry is alive and well in Italy.Discuss this topic in the new Forums Section -
Angela Merk-Hell
2 Jul 2009 | 2:12 pmYishai Fleisher and FriendsWhy does Yishai have such disdain for Angela Merkel? Why does he foam at the mouth when speaking of her? Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Poupko marries off a son and glows as he speaks words of Torah. Then Yishai and Malkah read your emails including Nixon detractors, Noahides, and almost-immigrants to Israel.Discuss this topic in the new Forums Section -
Cancer Catcher
2 Jul 2009 | 1:51 pmYishai Fleisher and FriendsDr. David Sidransky is the Director of the Head and Neck Cancer Research Division at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Professor of Oncology there. He's one of the most highly cited researchers and was named to Time's list of top-5 world scientists. He joins Yishai and Malkah in the Beit El studios to talk about the future of cancer treatment. But first, why do some rabbis tell their congregants and followers not to make Aliyah?Discuss this topic in the new Forums Section
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Washington: Weakened Ahmadinejad may seek military adventures
2 Jul 2009 | 12:12 pmTwo fundamental conceptions underpinning the Obama administration's Middle East policies have been swept away by the upheaval in Iran: the principle of nuclear negotiations with Iran and the premise that progress on the Palestinian peace front is the key to a US breakthrough with Iran.Sunday, June 28, Washington observers familiar with White House thinking cited insiders as speculating that Binyamin Netanyahu's government is too weak to survive defying the US over the settlements. If it did, Netanyahu would fall and Ehud Barak take over. -
DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals: Iran and Israel eye war options
2 Jul 2009 | 12:12 pmIran and Israel are each thinking about using the fallout of the domestic unrest in Tehran for attacking the other: Iran to flex muscle, Israel to strike a looming nuclear menace. In its next issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly weighs the chances of a clash, discloses how the Obama administration plans to hold the two back from a major conflagration. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE . -
US commander warns: Iran continues to back violence in Iraq
2 Jul 2009 | 12:12 pmParties, processions, a parade in the fortified Green Zone seat of government and embassies, and prime minister Nuri al-Malikii's proclamation of June 30 National Sovereignty Day celebrated the US military's handover of towns and cities to Iraqi security personnel on the way to a full withdrawal by the end of 2011. Yet DEBKAfile's military sources stress that unresolved tensions among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds still simmer and may erupt after the withdrawal of 130,000 US troops to 39 remote rural bases - nowhere near on hand for emergencies. -
First US soldier captured in E. Afghanistan as US Marines launch big anti-Taliban in the south
2 Jul 2009 | 12:12 pmThe US military spokesperson provided no details about the missing US soldier, the first abduction in America's eight-year Afghan war, except to say that he went missing Tuesday, June 30. DEBKAfile's military sources report that big US air bases are located between Herat in the east and the Iranian border. News of the capture broke after 4,000 US marines and 650 Afghan troops launched Operation Strike of the Sword against the Taliban heartland in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. -
Iran setback generated Obama's thaw on Israeli settlement construction
2 Jul 2009 | 12:10 pmIsrael's defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho arrived in New York Tuesday June 30 for talks with US envoy George Mitchell on the settlement construction row between the two governments. Except that while they were airborne, the White House suddenly switched to a new, flexible willingness for compromise. This is explained by sharply altered US circumstances in the Middle East, as DEBKAfile's Exclusive Analysis below explains.
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Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed
2 Jul 2009 | 1:21 pmRumors of his death seem to have been greatly exaggerated. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum Spread the Word: -
The Day In Israel: Thurs July 2nd, 2009
1 Jul 2009 | 7:48 pmClick refresh to see new updates during the day A close political ally of US President Barack Obama has said that Obama was asking Israel for a moratorium on “settlements”, and a relaxing of conditions in the “West Bank” consistent with Israel’s security requirements, in exchange for the palestinians’ adhering to their security conditions and responsibilities, and the Arab world being given a set of responsibilities that has not been given in the past. “And if the Arab world fails to deliver,” Wexler said, “you can rightly say that all… -
HRW Report on IDF – One-Sided and Deceptive
1 Jul 2009 | 11:16 amI just looked a little at the Human Rights Watch report on Israeli drones killing civilians in Gaza. The report was mainly written by Marc Garlasco, who had famously blamed Israel for the very ambiguous Gaza beach blast in 2006 and whose credentials as an expert are equally ambiguous. I didn’t have time to look at the report too carefully, but it follows the normal HRW playbook of doing everything possible to blame Israel for not being perfect. The main example was the famous case of Israel bombing what appeared to be a group of men loading a truck with missiles. To support its… -
The Day In Israel: Wed July 1st, 2009
30 Jun 2009 | 7:51 pmClick refresh to see new updates during the day Ha’aretz on Monday’s meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US special Mideast envoy George Mitchell: Israel, U.S. inch toward deal on settlements Ynet on the same meeting: Barak, Mitchell remain disputed on settlements I guess it’s all about the glass being half empty or half full. Updates (Israel time; most recent at top) 10:45PM: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the fourth of July US Independence Day reception at the American ambassador’s residence in Herzliya: “We have a brave… -
The Day In Israel: Tues June 30th, 2009
29 Jun 2009 | 7:54 pmClick refresh to see new updates during the day The Israeli Foreign Ministry has ripped the Red Cross a new one over a report released yesterday highly critical of Israel and which focused on the plight of palestinians in Gaza. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said it was “scandalous” that the report “completely ignored the detention of an Israeli hostage under absolute isolation for three years, and in breach of every elementary human right.” Palmor said the Red Cross had failed miserably in its responsibility to visit prisoners. “What is more, it evades…
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Reach out and poke someone
26 Jun 2009 | 1:19 pmFor those of you under 30, this post just might not be for you. You lot have always known what a fax machine was, and unless you grew up with a Mac, your computer always came with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Opening and closing virtual windows on your computer comes as natural to you [...] -
My son the observer
18 Jun 2009 | 10:21 pmMy son the observer “Look, Mommy. Bubble crap.” “Ummm, no sweetie. That would be bubble wrap.” ********************** My son the language specialist “Mommy, do you want me to sing the Ben 10 song in English or Hebrew?” my son asked. “In English,” I replied. “You know I always like it when you use your English.” He quickly hums the opening instrumentals, and [...] -
The Greatest Thank You Letters
9 Jun 2009 | 1:04 pmDuring the four years that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve made no secret of the difficult path we traveled in our quest to have a child. Following a series of failed pregnancies and the loss of one son born too prematurely and with too many problems to survive, we turned to egg donation. Amazingly, [...] -
I’ve got the music in me…
5 Jun 2009 | 4:49 amAt the Little One’s brit milah celebration, the Husband surprised me with a birthday cake of my own. My son was supposed to have been born on my birthday, but when the contractions began on the evening of May 26th, 2004, I knew that our birthdays were not going to be the same. He popped [...] -
My son the five year-old
28 May 2009 | 2:00 amThe celebrations began two days ago with a field trip. As the Little One’s birthday falls on Shavuot this year (which begins today), we opted for an alternative sort of birthday party, taking his entire pre-school to the Old Courtyard at Kibbutz Ein Shemer. The kids harvested wheat, made flour (a very practical skill, no [...]
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Chayyei Sarah
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28 Jun 2009 | 4:12 am
28 Jun 2009 | 4:12 amArtemis PicturesPhotos from Artemis' first weekend with us:Cat with Agatha Christie book, so you can see her size compared to Siggy's. (Siggy was pretty much exactly the size of the book.)Artemis hanging out on roommate's arm:Artemis hiding between my bins of "purim stuff" and "gift wrapping" and "papers to file someday" aka "the contained mess":Artemis doing what she does best, hunting normally inanimate objects around the apartment, in this case a crumpled piece of paper we made into her toy (full video at my Facebook page):Resting after a busy morning of chasing toys and humans: -
26 Jun 2009 | 7:09 am
26 Jun 2009 | 7:09 amIntroducing Artemis!Last night I went to the home of a family in Kiryat Moshe whose cat, Vanilla, had had a litter of kittens. The kittens were now 9 weeks old, recently weaned, and looking for homes. They'd been raised mostly indoors but allowed to wander outside when they wanted.The litter had four kittens in total, but when I got there two were absent: the one female, Spotty -- who had gone AWOL about an hour earlier -- and a male named Blondie who the family were planning to keep, and who was roaming around outside. Since I preferred a male cat (after having been told they are easier to… -
24 Jun 2009 | 6:48 am
24 Jun 2009 | 6:48 amNew Stuff1- First of all, I love this video:2- Still no kitty. Siggy's sibling has been AWOL for days now, so I've given up on adopting him/her. There is a woman in Kiryat Moshe whose cat had kittens 9 weeks ago, so I might adopt one of those. Luckily for me, Liza has decided that we're committed to taking in a cat, whether it's a street rescue or not.3- I joined Twitter! Um, I guess I can't post my username here because I'm still playing the little game of not putting my whole, real name on this blog, even though I know that most of my readers know who I am anyhow. But if you go to Twitter… -
18 Jun 2009 | 12:25 pm
18 Jun 2009 | 12:25 pmQuick Update1- The beginning of this week was very hard, what with Siggy dying. But as the days passed I (mostly) got over it. At this point, more time has passed since he died than the amount of time he was with us here. I'm 99% better.2- On Sunday, I'm scheduled to adopt Siggy's sibling, a stripey cat whose sex is not known to us. Right now, Sibling is living on the street, but is being fed by Liza's friend Yuval and his girlfriend, Ira. Yuval and Ira have been terrific, feeding Sibling formula after the kittens were abandoned by their mother, and now solid food. But Sibling hasn't seen a… -
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17 Jun 2009 | 4:09 amTo My Readers in FloridaA person who is very dear to me, Eric Draper, is running for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Florida office of the National Audubon Society, and has been active with Preservation 2000, Florida Forever, the Council of Sustainable Florida, the Florida Soil and Water Conservation Council, and the Democratic Party.Eric is an expert in environmental and agricultural issues, and is a highly intelligent, humble, respected man who sincerely wants to serve the people. He is extremely talented at building consensus and helping…
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Medvedev approves of Obama’s Muslim outreach
2 Jul 2009 | 8:00 amBarack Obama is making the Russian president happy. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday against attempts to impose Western values on the Arab world, praising US President Barack Obama’s recent efforts to reach out to the Muslims. “There is something to learn from the Arab world,” Medvedev said in an adress at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo. “And therefore mentorship, or democraticising, or all the more so direct involvement from the outside is asolutely unacceptable, in our opinion,” he said in remarks seen as thinly veiled criticism… -
Shame on Dershowitz
2 Jul 2009 | 7:00 amYesterday, Jennifer Rubin asked: Where is the outrage in the U.S. — especially among the 78% of Jews who voted for Obama? Where are the major Jewish institutions that in the past offered rhetorical and political support for a vibrant pro-Israel policy? In answering the question, she, of course, credits Martin Peretz for speaking out against President Obama’s anti-Israel policies. But, I’ve wondered, where’s Alan Dershowitz been? Why doesn’t he speak out. Well now he has, and I wish that he’d remained silent. He answers “Has Obama turned on… -
The “imminent disaster” Gaza meme is back
2 Jul 2009 | 5:30 amIn November of last year, I wrote a post titled “UN on Gaza: An “imminent” disaster years in the making.” In it, I detailed how the UN has declared an imminent “humanitarian crisis” that would lead to mass starvation and death—all the way back to May of 2006. And yet, I must point out, Gaza’s cemeteries have not been burgeoning, Hamas is not displaying corpse after corpse of undernourished children, and, well, the people in Gaza are seemingly getting all they need to survive quite well. Except, of course, if you’re in the United Nations and want… -
Human Wrongs Watch
2 Jul 2009 | 5:00 amYesterday the New York Times reported on a recent Human Rights Watch report that claimed that during its campaign in Gaza Israel killed 29 civilians in six separate attacks. Twenty-nine civilians, including eight children, were killed in what appeared to be six missile strikes by Israeli drones in Gaza in December and January, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. The group questioned whether Israeli forces had taken “all feasible precautions” to avoid civilian casualties. Israel’s military has never acknowledged using the remotely piloted planes to fire… -
The Guardian goat guy and a few questions
2 Jul 2009 | 5:00 amAn article titled No Gourmets in Gaza was posted on June 16, 2009 in Word of Mouth blog of Guardian. The first thing that struck me was a familiar picture under the headline: To start with, the picture was used by somebody else several days ago, also in Guardian: That previous time, as you can see, the Guardian goat guy (GGG) was providing background to a discussion of financial ruin (on one hand) Gaza is experiencing, with a slightly contradictory statement of investment opportunities there on the other hand. Today, it seems, GGG is embracing his goat in support of another topic: Is hunger a…
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Aliyah! Step-by-Step: Making a Life in Israel
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Alice through the screen saver
2 Jul 2009 | 1:27 amWho is that on my computer screen? Wait, what?! This morning I turned on the computer (still without the proper vista or any of my files and I’m pretty furious about that) and went into the kitchen for my first cup of coffee. By the time I came back the computer had gone to the Acer screen saver, showing pictures of vibrantly coloured frogs and so forth in succession. As I leaned back on the sofa, coffee mug in hand, I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye of something on the screen that caused me to do a double take. Then there I was, staring at myself staring at myself in full… -
two little magpies
28 Jun 2009 | 11:47 amMy mother has kewl friends. One of her fellow teachers, a few years younger than me, arrived for her first visit to the region and I got to play her israeli tour guide. While she spent most of her time in Bethlehem helping her best friend from childhood get ready to be married, I got to hang out with her for her last couple of days. And boy did we hang. We clicked immediately and, in between wandering the city, talked and talked literally until the early hours of the morning every single night. On Friday we set off exploring the city at 10 a.m. and ended up walking for almost 13 hours and… -
computer love
24 Jun 2009 | 1:48 pmThe new Acer computer is fantastic. I’m in love. Of course, I’d be in love with anything that allowed me to actually connect to the Internet by now. Everything on this puppy is in hebrew –except I can’t get the keyboard to type in hebrew (ye olde alt shift doesn’t seem to work) so I can’t search around for how to really set things up (that is, my help files are all in hebrew but I can’t access the topics I want because I can only search in english, argh). I find vista confusing thus far –nothing is where I am used to it being. I won’t have… -
bad news coming out of Iran today
24 Jun 2009 | 8:48 amThe eyewitness reports coming in from the protests in Iran today are going from bad to worse. Al Arabiya tv is now reporting that the 19 year old girl who was shot in the neck earlier today has died. Reports are coming in right now via twitter from people who have proved quite reliable in their reporting of what is going on (many of them cited in news reports themselves, others who reported information that hours later was confirmed via news reports) that many many more people have been shot, killed and injured in the last hour. Reports from Lalezar Sq say that there are “murdered… -
computer woes
23 Jun 2009 | 4:03 amTrying to find a computer that comes with xp rather than vista in this country is a near impossibility and when you do, you find that the cost skyrockets by several thousand shekels. Clearly I am going to end up with the cheaper but world’s worst resource hogging freedom robbing blighted piece of operating system crap ever developed. I am so not a fan of windows vista. I am hoping to get a computer by tomorrow. Currently looking at lenovo or acer. Definitely want an extended warranty. I’m hoping I won’t have to pay more than 3,200 sheks. I can’t afford that much but…
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Talk of the Town
22 Jun 2009 | 1:33 pmBY CARMIAMadaTech: Israel's National Museum of ScienceEver since the "Body Worlds" exhibit arrived in Haifa a couple of months ago, it has been the talk of the town. Here, like elsewhere around the world, people are alternately fascinated and grossed out by the idea of plastinated human bodies, stripped of their skin, displayed in various poses.The exhibit has already been hosted by major cities around the world such as Tokyo, Berlin, Los Angeles, and London. It's a bit surprising that little Haifa has been put on the map in this way. Though there have been various controversies surrounding… -
Jimmy Carter's Hamas Delusion
11 Jun 2009 | 1:04 pmBY AMOSJimmy Carter is in Damascus today and had the following to say after his meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and before checking in with Hamas head Khalid Mishal:"I don't believe there is any possibility to have peace between the Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved directly in harmony with Fatah."My own preference is for the United States government to find a way at a very [early] date to have direct discussions with the Hamas leadership."The first step has to be reconciliation between the Palestinian leaders to have a stable foundation to negotiate effectively… -
UNIFIL Hunting Israeli Spies in Southern Lebanon?
11 Jun 2009 | 11:34 amBY AMOSRelatively little has been reported in the Israeli media about the Israeli espionage network allegedly discovered in Lebanon over this past month. The Lebanese have announced several arrests of various figures, including some senior former officers. Now, in a strange episode, the Spanish commander of the UNIFIL forces in Lebanon seems to have inadvertently revealed that Spanish units participated in the hunt in southern Lebanon (Ha'aretz, ABC.es, Ha'aretz English). If this is true, Israel should take immediate measures. Helping the Lebanese security forces hunt down Israeli spies is… -
Obama's Moves
10 Jun 2009 | 7:48 amBY AMOSWatching Obama maneuvering the treacherous terrain of Middle East policy has been a pleasure. History will show that those who regarded him as a naive idealist did so at their peril. Netanyahu is slowly waking up to reality; others might do so too late and find themselves under the White House steamroller. The Obama administration is as serious about its ideals and goals as it is cunning about achieving them. The decision to start off by challenging Netanyahu on settlement construction was nothing short of brilliant. Simply put, Obama and America had nothing to lose by pressuring Bibi… -
Rebbe Sightings
9 Jun 2009 | 2:17 pmBY CARMIAI've spotted pictures of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, aka The Rebbe, in several unusual places, such as in a barber shop in the Lower East Side (open on Saturday) in Manhattan and in falafel joints across Israel. However, I didn't expect to see the former Chabad leader at Art Tattoo, the Russian-staffed tattoo and piercing shop at Haifa's Grand Canyon Mall where this picture was taken. Thanks to Yolanda for noticing.
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Ra'anana Ramblings
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What I've been reading
1 Jul 2009 | 11:15 pmA lot of books by Indian authors, for some reason.It all started a long time ago when I discovered Jhumpa Lahiri. I've read everything she's written and can't wait for her next offering. A few weeks ago, I picked up 2 books at the library that looked good- and both happened to be by Indian authors.Arranged Marriage is a great collection of short stories set both in India and the U.S.Bombay Time is a wonderful novel about the residents of a Bombay apartment complex, most of whom are attending a wedding. The book goes back and forth between the different residents' backstories and what's… -
Yummy
29 Jun 2009 | 5:43 amIf, like me, you are a fan of food porn, check out Bakerella. I just love the look of her "burger and fries" (which really aren't). Would have posted a pic but I wasn't sure whether it would be in bad "taste" (hehe) to do so without permission.And these pancakes? I want them. I want them so very badly. Complete with all the buttery, syrupy goodness. -
I can't win
29 Jun 2009 | 1:16 amI'm a very low-maintenance kind of gal. Unless it's a special occasion, I don't usually wear much makeup- just some eyeliner and maybe a touch of lipstick on a regular day. And moisturizer, of course. One containing sunscreen. The sun is fierce here, girls- you've got to slather it on!Anyway, the other day I had a haircut appointment and decided to do a "full make-up" for a change. I applied foundation, blush, even some mascara that was probably well past its sell-by date (gotta remember to throw it out before I give myself pink eye). I thought I looked pretty good, if I do say so myself.So I… -
Cutting the cord
25 Jun 2009 | 3:35 amLast year, my husband suggested that we get rid of cable. I talked him out of it. I needed cable, or so I thought.But gradually, I began to see that I really didn't need it- none of us did. There's not much on anyway, and sitting there flipping channels in search of a worthwhile program was a very expensive time-suck. So a few months ago, we cancelled cable.I only wish we had done it sooner. How much nicer it is not to have the TV blaring all the time! My kids missed Cartoon Network at first, but it didn't take long for them to pretty much forget about it. If I want to know what's going on in… -
In the mood to smile?
25 Jun 2009 | 3:25 amsee more Lolcats and funny pictures
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This Normal Life
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Hugs and High School
26 Jun 2009 | 1:18 amWhat I’ll remember most about our son Amir’s graduation from 12th grade earlier this week was the hugs. Hugs between the guys. Hugs from the teachers to the graduates while on stage receiving their diplomas. The spontaneous group hug and circle dance the guys did to Mashina’s “Return, Return” at the end of the evening.It was all so sweet. And it got me reminiscing. I don’t remember ever being so affectionate with my male friends when I was in high school, some 30 years ago. On the contrary, I distinctly recall that, after all 400 12th graders received their diplomas in our high… -
Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish
19 Jun 2009 | 3:58 amTwo weeks ago, prior to the "Enhanced Kaddish" ceremony we held for my father, Jody and I attended a very different musical memorial. Together with several thousand Israelis, we trekked to Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, for a special outdoor performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3, also known as Kaddish.The symphony was being performed with a text written and narrated by Samuel Pisar, an international lawyer, author and Holocaust survivor. The text, which Pisar wrote at Bernstein’s instigation, is a heart wrenching review of human cruelty… -
ObamaNation
12 Jun 2009 | 1:31 amLet me preface the following rant by saying I voted for the guy. I had great expectations, not quite bordering on messianic, but in that general direction. His oration; the clear, educated and trained mind – especially compared with his predecessor - was lucidly refreshing.Yes, those of us in Israel were worried that he’d take too soft a stance vis a vis Iran. But, as I wrote prior to the elections, I was sure that those negotiating overtures would come to a quick demise after the Islamic Republic made clear it had no intention of modifying its hard line position.Ditto on Israel. Yes,… -
Kaddish & Kiddush
4 Jun 2009 | 12:26 amSince my father died two months ago, I’ve thought a lot about what is the nature of community and, in particular, what is my place in it. It’s not a simple question. For many years I’ve been what I jokingly call “tefilacally-challenged” (tefilah being the Hebrew for “prayer”). Prayer is not something that’s easy for me to relate to. Yes, I go to synagogue but, more often than not, I use it as a time for introspection, maybe a little light meditation, rather than reading the specific words in the siddur. One of the strong prayer traditions of mourning is to say Kaddish whenever… -
TNL Classic: More Cheese Please
28 May 2009 | 2:04 amThe Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins tonight and I’ve dug up another TNL classic. This one first appeared just before Shavuot in 2005. The kids are, naturally, a bit younger in this story but the learning is just as relevant today. Enjoy…and chag sameach!---------------------------“What are we going to do today?” six-year-old Aviv demanded as he shoveled in his tenth spoonful of cornflakes in as many seconds.It was shortly before Shavuot last year and the kids were off school. Then ten-year-old Merav and twelve-year-old Amir were now looking up from their breakfasts as well, waiting…
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Daniel Pipes Blog
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CAIR Distributes 100,000 Korans; Overtly Proselytizes
29 Jun 2009 | 10:00 pmThe Hamas-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations has long pretended to be a civil rights organization, comparing itself at times to the NAACP, but a close look at its record reveals the real CAIR agenda to be – in common with all Islamists – promoting the Shari'a. This can be achieved two ways. The more circuitous method influences American public opinion through the educational system, the media, the arts, the courts, and the political process. The more direct method converts Americans -
Conspiracy Theories in Iran's Unrest
28 Jun 2009 | 10:00 pm"Iran is the world's most conspiracy-minded country" I declared in my book, The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy. An entire chapter of that study focused on the Islamic revolution of 1978-79, documenting how "Regardless of political complexion, Iranians interpret the revolution not as an act of will but as the manifestation of mysterious forces. They debate less the causes of the upheaval than the identity of those forces." Another chapter took up the Iran-Iraq war. In both cases, I -
Ahmadinejad Threatens Obama
27 Jun 2009 | 10:00 pmNearly lost in the exchange of invective between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Barack Obama is the former warning to put the latter on trial. Thomas Erdbrink and William Branigin offer details at "Iran's President Rebukes Obama; Candidates Reject Election Review" in the Washington Post today. -
The National Jewish Democratic Council and Me
25 Jun 2009 | 10:00 pmBack in February 2008, in the thick of the U.S. presidential primaries, Ira N. Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, the Democratic party's Jewish outreach organization, castigated me in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice as a "conservative flack," called my writings on Barack Obama having been raised a Muslim "ridiculous and offensive," and characterized my work as a "back-alley political mugging." -
Washington to Tehran: You Can't Come to My Birthday Party
24 Jun 2009 | 10:00 pmIranians bravely take the streets by the hundreds of thousands, confronting the police, the Pasdaran, and the basiji thugs of the Islamic republic – and what, other than words, does the Obama administration actually do to respond to these momentous events? It disinvites Iranian diplomats from the July 4 festivities to be held at U.S. embassies, consulates, and missions. I kid you not.
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Good News from Israel
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Israeli Grows World’s Longest Cucumber
2 Jul 2009 | 3:59 pmHi Everyone!Petah Tikva resident Yitzhak Yazdanpana has set the new world record for growing the longest cucumber. Check it out at:http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/israel/things/longest-cucumber.htmEnjoy!Shabbat Shalom,Jacob -
New Israeli Educational Stamps Posted Online
25 Jun 2009 | 1:11 pmHi Everyone!I scanned and posted on my website the new Israeli stamps that were issued in June 2009.I included the stamp itself, the first day cover,and an English and a Hebrew flyer about the stamp.- Quality of the EnvironmentGlobal WarmingGeothermal EnergySolar Energy- The Dead Sea- 50 Years - The International Harp Contest in Israel- 18th Maccabiah- LoveThe new stamps are located at:http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/stamps/index-2009.htmlThe top of the web page should display the date June 25, 2009.If the page has an older date, hold the control key and press the F5 key to refresh your browser… -
Please Help Gilad Shalit
25 Jun 2009 | 6:29 amHi Everyone!Today (Thursday, June 25, 2009) Twitters around the world started a grassroots campaign to push the issue of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit's captivity to the top of the Internet world using the social networking mini-blog site.Twitters will use the hashtag #Gilad to remind the world that Shalit's condition and whereabouts remain unknown after three years in the hands of the Hamas terrorists who kidnapped him. A hashtag is a label that Tweeters add to their messages to categorize them and make them more accessible and popular.If you have a Twiiter account (free), please send out a Tweet… -
23 Jun 2009 | 1:28 pm
23 Jun 2009 | 1:28 pmHi Everyone!Today's hotsites update contains many new additions inthe Twitter section. For your convenience I added the direct web address to each section.Enjoy!JacobIsrael: Jerusalem -- Large new sub-section of Jerusalem pictures on Flickr -- Gush Katif MuseumIsrael: Shopping -- 42 - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books (in English)Jewish: Blogs -- The Jewish Joy of Sex -- Shabbat and Holidays Menus and Ideas -- Going Home - Making the Dream Come True -- Life after 9/11 - Come Back Home With Me -- Marian Lebor's blog -- Rachel Rising: My Aliyah Adventure -- Divest This -- Love of the LandJewish… -
Pictures of the Ma'ale Adumim Anglo Forum
16 Jun 2009 | 3:43 pmHi Everyone!Tonight was the summer kickoff of the Ma'ale Adumim Anglo Forum. I took pictures of the event and posted them online at:http://www.jr.co.il/ma/pic/2009/ma358.htmEnjoy the pictures.Have a good night,Jacob
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BloGiza
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Twitter, Facebook and Real Identities
16 Jun 2009 | 6:48 amTwo interesting events made news in the social media realm last week. The first was Twitter’s announcement that it would start a Verified Account program to prevent identity confusion. The second was Facebook offering customizable URLs for its users. While not directly related to each other, both initiatives go to the heart of how online identities are evolving.Twitter’s Verified Accounts come to deal with the issue of fake celebrities on the service. While @oprah, @aplusk, and @britneyspears are all the real deal (or at least the flacks running Oprah’s and Britney’s social… -
Update on the Cloud
1 Jun 2009 | 6:22 amGiza was one of the sponsors of this year’s IGT Cloud Investment Summit for Virtualization and Cloud/SaaS Based Technologies which was held today in Tel Aviv. The conference brought together startups, investors, and large corporations to get their take on the state of the Cloud. As has been the case in the last couple of years, Cloud Computing is probably the biggest buzzword in the software/IT world. Increasingly, companies are harnessing the power of distributed computers to reduce both IT and development costs. With the rise of Amazon’s Web Services and Google’s App Engine, small and… -
China - A Bird's Eye View
13 Apr 2009 | 12:21 amMy friend Shai Tsur asked me to write few words on China for BloGiza. I do not regard myself as an expert by any means and trust that my views are taken with consideration. China is increasing access to personal computers and the Internet. This combined with domestic companies' increasing use of complex software in day-to-day business operations have spurred significant growth of China's Internet and software companies. Sales in China's software industry have increased over tenfold since 2000 from 59.3 billion RMB to 680 billion RMB in 2008. China's online population surpassed the United… -
Techonomy 2009
31 Mar 2009 | 8:39 amCapping off a mad week of events and conferences surrounding Kinnernet, the Techonomy event kicked off earlier in Tel Aviv. Techonomy is kind of a local answer to industry showcases like the TC50 but with a smaller and more manageable group of presenting companies.Six companies, all of them in the social media space got up and gave brief presentations. Then, a panel of industry experts (which included, among others, Giza MD Eyal Niv) provided their own input to the entrepreneurs presenting.The companies which presented were: Sense of Fashion –an online marketspace for independent fashion… -
Bridging the “Why Hasn’t It Happened?” gap
24 Mar 2009 | 8:43 amLast week, I had the pleasure of attending a talk given by New Media guru Mitch Oscar, who is in charge of televisual applications at the global media agency MPG. (Props to AdsVantage for organizing the event). In his presentation, Mitch focused on how the world of interactive TV is taking shape. Interactive TV is part of the general media industry which is comprised, as it has been always, of three major components: content producers who create the content, advertisers who essentially fund the content, and distribution platforms which bring the content to the end users. The biggest changes…
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Hershell Ezrin: Consider This
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Middle East conference anything but academic
30 Jun 2009 | 8:00 amNote opinion piece in www.theStar.com by a speaker Professor Na’ama Carmi in recent Osgoode Hall conference. Please visit link: http://www.thestar.com/article/658717 -
European funding for the narrative war
29 Jun 2009 | 7:57 amProfessor Gerald Steinberg, writing in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post, raises an interesting point about how European governments’ desire to promote peace and understanding among Israeli and Palestinians sometimes gets diverted into support of confrontational initiatives. His words speak for themselves. ‘One subject consistently avoided in the quasi-official research and conference framework is the massive European funding for radical nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) whose activities fuel the conflict instead of "strengthening the forces of moderation,"…… -
Prime Minister’s Speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University
15 Jun 2009 | 6:11 amPrime Minister’s Speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University June 14, 2009 Honored guests, citizens of Israel. Peace has always been our people’s most ardent desire. Our prophets gave the world the vision of peace, we greet one another with wishes of peace, and our prayers conclude with the word peace. We are gathered this evening in an institution named for two pioneers of peace, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, and we share in their vision. Two and half months ago, I took the oath of office as the Prime Minister of Israel. I pledged to establish a national unity… -
The ‘speech’ debate
11 Jun 2009 | 12:12 pmSunday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will provide his foreign policy vision in front of 300 select Government, diplomatic and academic invitees at the BESA (Begin-Sadat) Center for Strategic Studies. His remarks will be broadcast live around the world by media outlets (and can be watched live, as well, on Bar-Ilan’s website, www.biu.ac.il, beginning at 8:05 PM Israel time, 1:05 PM EDT). It is being billed by some as the Israeli government’s response to President Obama’s Cairo University speech. The Obama presidency has presented a historic number of… -
In Perspective: Protecting the Zionist narrative at last
9 Jun 2009 | 10:03 amThe vigour of Israeli democracy may be messy, frustrating and aggravating but it serves as a refreshing model of free speech and response. Israel’s Yisrael Beitenu party has introduced a number of initiatives from a proposed loyalty oath to the state (now defeated in the Knesset) to a bill about the Naqba. Professor Daniel Gordis of the Shalem Centre has argued that a much greater effort has to be made to promote and reinforce the positive case for Zionism and its historical legacy. His penetrating and illuminating article appeared last week in the Jerusalem Post and is reprinted below.
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The Muqata
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MaDA Fashla
2 Jul 2009 | 6:08 amMaDA (n) Magen David Adom, organization, Israel emergency medical and rescue. 15,000 nationawide volunteers, 1000 paid employees. fashla (n) screw up (Hebrew slang)So my father-in-law sends me an email entitled this morning: "Chovshim, bah" (A Chovesh is an EMT). Knowing I'm a volunteer EMT, and my 2 oldest kids are spending their summer vacation as Jr-EMTs riding on ambulances, he thought of bringing this story to my attention.The story is all over Israel; the internet, radio, TV, newspaper.An 84-year-old man gave emergency personnel a shock Wednesday when he came back to life after being… -
Up to $10000 in scholarships and grants
2 Jul 2009 | 5:30 am-- Advertisement --With so many girls seminaries that have advertised here, it's about time a guy's yeshiva graced these pages.And that Yeshiva is... Yeshivat Hamivtar in the town of Efrat, in Gush Etzion.Hamivtar is currently advertising their one year program, for young men ages 20 to 30.And for added incentive Hamivtar is offering up to $10,000 in grants, scholarships and loans to help you make your year in Israel possible and affordable.Besides learning, the program includes 3 meals a day, trips, dorms, and of course the beautiful atmosphere of a very nice and established settlement.So,… -
Simultaneous Irreciprocity
2 Jul 2009 | 1:06 amWith Mitchell back to talk to Bibi in two weeks time, there’s talk that Netanyahu may give in to US pressure and “temporarily” freeze settlement expansion (as he defines it to mean construction – I assume and hope our wives won’t be required to undergo abortions as George Mitchell understands ‘Natural Growth’).Israel administration officials have been mentioning more and more lately that the US can’t expect Israel to take this serious action unless it sees some reciprocal movement on the Arab side.As Obama has tied His peace process to a more regional comprehensive Arab… -
Caption Needed
1 Jul 2009 | 5:27 amPick one:Al-Quds: Zionist Army Soldiers prepare to eat Palestinian child's pet bird.Haaretz: IDF Soldiers prepare to behead Palestinian child's pet bird.YNET: IDF Soldiers Capture Endangered Bird in Palestinian VillageArutz Sheva: IDF Soldiers Liberate Endangered Bird in Palestinian VillageNYTimes: Rare Bird killed by IDF troops. (Note: they change their story the next day -- see photo in link on the right)Or add your own...I'll post the real story later.Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael -
Iranians walk out on "Rabbi" Shimon Peres?
1 Jul 2009 | 2:31 amClaiming that Shimon Peres is not a religious leader, the Iranian delegates to the World Interfaith Conference in Kazakhstan walked out when Peres got up to speak.Peres lectured the forum, "Together with all the Arab leaders, we can realize your vision, our vision and the vision of all the leaders and all believers in our shared god of peace and justice."Iranian delegates stormed out of the conference hall as Peres began to deliver his speech, and returned only after he finished speaking."Peres is not a religious leader; he is a man of violence," one of the Iranian delegates said. (YNET)I…
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Green Prophet
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IDF Says Birds, Not Guns in Northern Reserve
2 Jul 2009 | 7:17 amShare According to Haaretz, the Israeli army has decided to limit its activities in the Hermon Mountain nature preserve in the country’s North to give local animals and flowers a break. We’ve written on these pages about the IDF’s bleak environmental record and its previous attempts to go green. A Hermon park ranger told Haaretz that the army’s move was important because in the summer, “the flowers no longer blossom and they start to dry up and spread their seeds…This is also a critical period for the animals. The reptiles, mammals, and birds who have… -
15K Israelis Retrofit Hotrods, Cars and Trucks To Power With Propane
1 Jul 2009 | 10:19 pmShare It’s much less expensive than regular refined gasoline, and they won’t let your car into a below ground shopping mall parking lot if you have this installation, but at least 15,000 cars and trucks in Israel have already been converted to run on liquefied propane gas, otherwise known as LPG. From an environmental standpoint, using bottled LPG gas in your car is also much cleaner, with virtually no emissions, as compared to even unleaded gasoline. So what’s involved with doing this and, how much does it cost? This information was revealed on a consumer magazine… -
A Natural Breathmint Made From Coffee?
1 Jul 2009 | 10:04 pmShare We all know why coffee shops like Arcaffe, Aroma and Starbucks puts boxes of breath mints close to the cash register. Your morning latte can create a startling aroma in your mouth, strong enough to startle your co-workers too. But intriguing new research from Tel Aviv University by renowned breath specialist Prof. Mel Rosenberg of TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine finds that a coffee extract can inhibit the bacteria that lead to bad breath. New laboratory tests have shown that the extract prevents malodorous bacteria from making their presence felt — or smelt. The news… -
Untreated Wastewater Poses Huge Threat to West Bank Palestinians
1 Jul 2009 | 9:37 pmShare A report published Sunday by the Israeli human rights group B’tselem, titled, “Foul Play: Neglect of Wastweater Treatment in the West Bank” found untreated wastewater to be a major source of pollution in the West Bank. 91 million cubic meters (mcm) of wastewater is produced each year in Israeli settlements, parts of Jerusalem, and Palestinian communities, says the report (for perspective: this amount is the equivalent of 36,400 Olympic-sized pools). The majority of this sewage goes untreated, dishcarging directly into the environment, causing severe health hazards and… -
Red-Dead Canal Announcement Stirs Controversy
1 Jul 2009 | 8:30 pmShare The global contest for the Seven New Wonders of the World is not the only reason the Dead Sea is making news this week. Last Saturday, Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom announced that the World Bank agreed to finance a $1.25 billion feasibility study on the Red-Dead Canal plan. The plan, a joint venture supported by Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian officials, proposes a 180 kilometer (110 mile) pipeline between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea. The pipeline will transfer 200 billion cubic meters of water to the Dead Sea, half of which will be pumped to the rapidly receding…
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the big felafel
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Get Your Fourth of July Party on in Jerusalem!
1 Jul 2009 | 12:06 amIf you’re a former U.S. citizen, you know that even though you live in Israel, giving up certain American holidays is not easy. Case in point: the Fourth of July, Independence Day. While July 4th celebrations mirror those of Israel’s Independence Day, not celebrating the actual day, Fourth of July, is just too much! I can b-b-q any day of the year (not really, but I could try and find someone that would b-b-q for me everyday of the year) but there is something that makes the meat a little juicer on Fourth of July. I could watch fire crackers go off almost everyday throughout the summer,… -
Beware of Craigslist Jerusalem West Africa Scam
24 Jun 2009 | 11:59 pmMy blood is boiling right now. And not because it’s a hot Israeli summer day without air conditioning. I am in apartment hunting mode – and I really mean hunting – vest, rifle, and all. I search at least 10 apartment websites every day and am desperate to find a good deal before someone else does. One of the sites I check is Craiglist and I saw a listing for ILS 2000 for a fully furnished 1 bedroom apartment on King George st. The pictures attached looked a little too stock photography/hotel – esque but when you’re desparately apartment hunting in Jerusalem and… -
Freedom of Speech: Israel Isn’t Iran or is it?
24 Jun 2009 | 4:40 amIt’s in the news, it’s on twitter and even CNN is using Youtube to get their information about the latest and breaking news in Iran as their citizens battle for freedom of speech and right to fair elections continues. But here in Israel news of freedom of speech being denied doesn’t seem to make the headlines around the world, on social media or even in Israel’s own media. Last week Islamic Movement Northern Branch Leader Sheikh Raed Salah was finally granted permission to speak at Haifa University. Sheikh Salah is an Arab-Israeli and the former mayor of Umm el-Fahm. He was imprisoned… -
A New Taste of the Jerusalem Food Scene
17 Jun 2009 | 6:08 amI tend to use this blog as place to rant and rage about the frustrations of daily life in Israel. Whether it’s dealing with the special customer service providers, crying about bureaucratic offices or sulking over lack of food choice in Jerusalem, it’s normally me and not my skinny friend and co-blogger Rebecca who uses this as a forum for complaint. But today the only tears you will find are those of great joy. What could make me feel this way? Did I hear you say food? That’s right, I’m giving you two reasons to put the frustration aside and literally eat up the good news. Reason #1:… -
CNN World Report: Jerusalem’s YMCA Preschool
2 Jun 2009 | 2:02 pmThis week my piece for Israel21C on Jerusalem’s YMCA Preschool was on CNN World Report. It starts around 9 minutes. I love this show because it takes news stories from around the world to show what’s going on in those countries, as opposed to what the media thinks is most relevant in those places. Copyright � 2008 The Big Felafel.Want more felafel? Visit The Big Felafel for more goodness! Tell people about it:
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What social media marketing is NOT – my presentation at Affilicon 2009
6 Jun 2009 | 3:00 pmFor the second year running I had the opportunity to be on a panel at Affilicon, the Affiliate Marketing Conference & Exhibition that took place last week in Israel. Like last year, this year I was on the social media panel, and I decided to take a devil’s advocate approach to my presentation: to talk about what social media marketing is NOT. The reason I took this approach is that you can find lots of information out there about how fabulous social media marketing is for promoting your business, organization, or other goals. However, with all this hype I fear that people are a)… -
Are press releases relevant in a world of social media conversations?
28 May 2009 | 4:58 amPublic relations (PR) is as relevant as ever. Getting good coverage for your company or organization can be key in generating new leads and strengthening brand awareness. But is PR the same thing today as it was five years ago? What I mean is, to achieve the goals of PR, does that still involve traditional activities like press releases? On the one hand, I can’t believe that companies would continue to invest so much in traditional PR activities if it is irrelevant. They must be seeing results if they continue to pour their marketing dollars into the PR pit. On the other hand, many of… -
How PayPal really works for Israelis and Shekels
5 May 2009 | 3:06 pmThere always seems to be confusion regarding how Israelis can use PayPal – can they use it in their currency, i.e. Shekels? Can they withdraw funds? Are there limits they should know about? Almost a year ago I blogged about an announcement on the PayPal blog regarding new PayPal currencies, one of which was the Israeli Shekel. Despite that post, some questions still persisted, and the accuracy of the information was doubted. Well, I’m happy to say that I now have the latest info regarding PayPal and Israel straight from PayPal! The following information was provided by Nissim Ohayon, Sr. -
Innovate!Europe is looking for Europe & Israel’s top startup…
23 Mar 2009 | 7:24 amThis is an amazing opportunity for Israeli startups. Innovate!Europe will be holding a free workshop and networking event in Israel, and one startup will be selected to participate in Guidewire STUDIO, an in-residence business accelerator in the heart of Silicon Valley valued at over $30,000. But the deadline is March 25, so better hurry! Please pass this on to people who you think might benefit from it. Read on for more… Innovate!Europe is a competition to indentify Europe and Israel’s most promising startups and accelerate their drive into global markets. During this unique… -
Upcoming Events and Conferences in Israel for March 2009
2 Mar 2009 | 8:30 amHere are some upcoming events posted on our Israeli hi-tech and business events calendar. Check out the calendar to see a full list of all the events and conferences in March 2009. March 2, 2009. Avenue, Airport City, Israel. GameIS2009 – 5th Yearly Israeli Game Convention. This is a full day event about interactive entertainment and the people who make it all happen. They will cover everything from high end international business trends to how to get in the industry. March 2-3, 2009. Tel-Aviv, Israel. IPv6 Forum Israel Day Conference at ISOC. The agenda includes speakers from the…
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Internet Marketing and SEO Israel Blog on Optimization Strategy
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Website Testing – are website owners the only ones who don’t want to test?
11 Jun 2009 | 5:05 amOne of the most challenging parts of my job is to convince people of the importance of AB, multivariate, and usability testing on their website. Initially, most companies want to focus on getting traffic through SEO and Google Adwords. For new sites this is understandable–you can’t do AB testing on sites with no traffic. However, websites with traffic should start multivariate testing immediately. It doesn’t interfere with increasing traffic through SEO or PPC. And it can improve conversions significantly. Dan Ariely wishes his nurses would have been open to testing… -
Google Adwords Weather Tips Update
9 Jun 2009 | 11:24 pmYou now know why you should test increasing bids during unseasonably good weather–read the previous post if you don’t know why. However there are local exceptions. Yesterday I caught the middle of an interview on the BBC. The interviewee explained that whenever there is good weather in Iceland, people take time off from work. If this is the case–increasing bids may not help since no one will be online. Good weather can influence the success of your Google Adwords campaign. However you may have to turn your strategy upside down in Iceland. Photo credit: Martino! Further proof… -
Google Adwords Performance and the Weather
7 Jun 2009 | 12:34 amAnother great insight from economics guru, Steve Levitt in his book Freakonomics. With competition growing daily everyone is always looking for ways to improve Adwords performance. Can a bagel man help us here? Steve describes how Paul Feldman sheds light on human behavior. Feldman sells bagels on the honor system and keeps meticulous records. He knows who pays and who cheats. Improve your Adwords performance by studying bagels. Photo credit: bitmask. By analyzing his records Steve has found lots of good stuff. And I even found something that even Google Adwords Professionals don’t… -
What Every Web Site Marketer Should Read
4 Jun 2009 | 5:38 amI recently read an interesting book based on the following ideas: “Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life” Many websites use this fact of life by offering free products, free trials or free information. “The conventional wisdom is often wrong” That is why we always test our new website ideas. You do test don’t you? “Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle causes” This is why we test small things like: the design of the call to action button, headlines, promotion code field, etc. ” ‘Experts’ from criminologists to… -
Bing Search Engine and Global/Local Search
2 Jun 2009 | 6:04 amHow does Microsoft’s new search engine—Bing–deal with search in different countries If you are wondering why I am comparing Bing in different countries—see my previous blog post. The first thing I like to do is see what a search engine thinks of itself. Even though there are a lot of Bings (Bing Crosby, Bing Energy Drink, etc) it is expected that the search engine will rank first which it does. However in the News section right below, Mayor Bing of Detroit, outranks it. Bing results for Bing are also populated by Bing’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. Bing Shows all…
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ebizQ Business and IT Agility News
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Progress Software Launches FUSE Forge to Simplify the Development of Open Source Integration Projects
1 Jul 2009 | 12:35 pmProgress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global provider of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today launched FUSE Forge, a collaborative environment for developing ... -
Cisco May Offer Web-Based Office Software
1 Jul 2009 | 10:31 amCisco Systems Inc is considering offering Web-based alternatives to Microsoft Corp's popular Office software as the networking giant expands on the Internet. ebizQ received the following: Cisco Senior Vice President Doug Dennerline said ... -
Unisys Moves to Break Through Barriers to Adoption of Cloud Computing
1 Jul 2009 | 10:18 amUnisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today moved to overcome CIOs' concerns about security of data in the cloud, cited by organizations and industry analysts as the top impediment to adopting cloud computing for business needs. ebizQ received ... -
New Report: BPM: Global Trends to 2013
1 Jul 2009 | 9:57 amReportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the IT Services industry is available in its catalogue. ebizQ received the following: More information regarding this report: Business Process Management: Global ... -
Oracle Launches Oracle SOA Suite 11g
1 Jul 2009 | 8:55 amAs part of today's Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite 11g, which helps customers and partners to lower costs, improve efficiencies and increase ...
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VC Cafe
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Kampyle Adds User Feedback To Google Analytics (CEO Interview)
30 Jun 2009 | 12:29 amShopping websites are extremely sensitive to deserted shopping carts. In some cases, 60-70% of their users would add items to their cart but suddenly close the window – leaving the site owner with little information about their reasons for leaving and more importantly, without revenue. Kampyle, the Israeli start up developing SaaS feedback analytics, offers an easy integration of fully-branded and customizable feedback forms for website owners. The feedback forms are displayed to the user either by clicking on a feedback button, or automatically pop up when the user is leaving the… -
VMWare Behind You: Neebula Raises $5 Million for Virtualization Software
29 Jun 2009 | 2:34 pmNeebula Systems, developer of management tools for virtual computer environments, has raised a first round of $5 million for from Genesis Partners and Pitango Venture Capital. Jonathan Saacks, a partner at Genesis, joined the company’s board as a result of the investment. Neebula was founded in 2009, and still doesn’t seem to have a website. One explanation for this unusual early stage investment at a time when most first round companies are struggling to raise funding is the founding team. Neebula was co-founded by CEO Yuval Cohen, the former CEO of Marvell Israel and the… -
Exclusive: TodaCell Raises $1 Million for Mobile Ad Optimization Platform (Interview with CEO Moshe Vaknin)
26 Jun 2009 | 1:34 amToda!cell (www.todacell.com), an Israeli ad optimization platform, has raised an A round of $1 million led by Afterdox (see previous coverage on VC Cafe) the Fore Group and several other angels. The company had previously raised an undisclosed seed round, when it was founded in March 2007. TodaCell’s platform matches premium mobile ad campaigns with users, based on territory, carrier, timing, user response, pricing and other parameters. The company is currently present in Israel and Tokyo and plans to expand to the US next. VC Cafe had a chance to get some comments from CEO Moshe… -
Today Boxee Starts Competing with Hulu, On Windows
24 Jun 2009 | 2:09 pmWe told you about Boxee’s app dev challenge a few weeks ago, where 40 apps were developed with great innovation. Yesterday the results have been unveiled in San Francisco but the big winner was… Boxee! The Israeli media center start up is loved by the open source development community and is about to roll out some major league upgrades today, including (drum roll please…) Boxee for Windows. The Windows version not only opens Boxee to a much larger market, but also gets the media center software into the living room. Unlike Apple TV users, most media center PC users hook up… -
Twitter Apps Bug Battle: uTest Uncovers 317 Bugs On Twitter Desktop Apps
24 Jun 2009 | 9:39 amReal-Time Bugs? uTest, the world’s largest QA marketplace, announced the results of its “Twitter Apps Bug Battle”, a week long contest for 600 of its 17,000 crowdsourced QA professionals. The mission: find the as many bugs as possible in the five most popular Twitter desktop apps – Tweet DeckSeesmic DesktopTwhirl, Tweetr and Twitteroo. The results of the test are noteworthy: uTest community members found 317 bugs in a week long competition for $4000 cash prize. 20% of the bugs were classified as “show stoppers” or defects in need of immediate attention. The testers…
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Janglo - Calendar
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Midreshet Yeud Summer Seminar
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A "Trip" to Broadway, musically speaking ...
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Broadway Showstoppers
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Summer Session Torah & Healing Seminar in Bat ...
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Gush Friday Activities
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Israel Venture Capital 2.0
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Milk and Honey and High-Tech
28 Jun 2009 | 1:05 pmIn 1993 I was barely half way through my BA studies at Tel-Aviv University, highly focused on improving my pool game. I didn’t realize it was one of the more important years of my life – Gemini opened it’s doors on January 1st, 1993, lead by Ed Mlavsky, one of the key people in the history of the local high-tech. Ed’s story is an amazing one. Born and raised in the UK, he moved to the US and held key executive positions in companies like Tyco and others. He landed in Israel in 1979, almost by accident, planning to stay for no more than 2 years. Plans changed, and Ed lead the Bird… -
Gemini Round Table - Robert Swerling from Google
24 Jun 2009 | 6:48 amYesterday we hosted another round table event at Gemini. We have done these round tables in the past (Few examples include: Cloud Computing, Future of the Internet, and many many others). Our main guest today was Robert Swerling, New business development principal at Google. I never met Rob before, but it turned out he is a great guy, with a great sense of humor. He has also been an entrepreneur in the past, so he related to the crowd, which mostly consisted of current Internet entrepreneurs (Or in other words, young and very energetic). Overall we had a great turnout, with almost 40 people… -
IVA 2009 Business as Usual?
19 May 2009 | 1:30 pmMy last IVA conference was 3 years ago, back in Spring 2006. Since then, A lot has changed for me personally, mostly on the gain side (gain more companies, and probably more weight). Still, everything looked very familiar at the 2009 IVA today, and pretty much as expected. In other words, business as usual Why do I say that? It was pretty much the same ritual, entrepreneurs looking for money, VCs discussing existing deals and some new deals. We had guests from the US and Europe, journalists writing and taking pictures, and even some active twitter postings. Overall, the eco-system is holding… -
Nahum 2 Weeks After
13 May 2009 | 12:00 pmIt's been 2 weeks since the accident, and a week since the Funeral of Nahum and Nava, and I have been thinking about them a lot. Clearly, Nahum was not a close friend of mine. We interacted a lot around eSnips, and some point (late 2008) we spoke on a daily basis. However, there is much I didn't know about him. Still – his sudden death made me think about his legacy, and I now know that I have learned a lot from Nahum. Not all things can be written, but still, there are few things I took from him that will always be with me. First of all, Nahum looked at the business in a very unemotional… -
Back
12 May 2009 | 12:44 pmI left Silicon Valley on April 1st. I travelled through the Northwest, visiting California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. I spent a few days in Atlanta (mostly shopping). I landed in Israel 2 weeks ago, and been running around trying to organize our new life, and get back into the work action. But today I decided to make it official. I am back. Going forward, it will be much easier to write about Israel Venture Capital 2.0.
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MYBLOG by Ouriel
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My Top free iphone apps
2 Jul 2009 | 9:14 amClick on any of those free Apps to install them on your iPhone (with AppsFire.com of course :) )- sorry for the size. we're working on it -
AppsFire: less than 24h later
1 Jul 2009 | 4:50 amYesterday pm (europe time) we launched AppsFire. (a service that allow iPhone owners to share their favorite iPhone apps) Less than 24h later here is a quick summary of what already happened640 downloads of Appsfire (we re closing at 1k) for about the double in traffic (good ratio)272 iphones regitered (Many could not for bug and because limited to osX 10.5+) 5000+ different apps listed (wow)2300+: # times widgets (virtual iphones) have been seen (via email, widget or link)1500+ clicks generated to iTunes AppStore (compelling!)800 youtube views for our how to (compelling!)100 followers… -
No more teasing. Introducing AppsFire, a new way to share your favorite iPhone apps with anyone
30 Jun 2009 | 8:36 amHow do you find interesting iPhone apps to install, among 40k and growing?Once you bought an iPhone and got familiar with the amazing iPhone software, it is highly likely that one of the first questions you ll ask yourself will be around which apps you want/should download from Apple AppStore. A natural way to solve this issue is by checking out the AppStore itseft and browse the most downloaded sections.But since Apple's iTunes merchandising is a black box, in addition to be a painful browsing environnement this is not enough. A second natural way to solve that issue is by asking your… -
Free idea of the day: a service for Friendly Terms and Privacy
28 Jun 2009 | 3:09 amTerms of services and Privacy Policies as legal documents are a pain for everyone. When you create a web service you must offer those declarations (like in the screenshot below) and have your users agree with you before going any further. This protects you as a company and them against any misuse or abuse of your service and is an opportunity to lay transparently your practices in terms of data collection, data privacy, conflict resolution etc...The only problem? no one really cares to read them. And even worse, it is a real pain for the startup executives to write them. Usually those are… -
iPhone - codename AF launching soon
27 Jun 2009 | 9:35 pmI am about to launch codename AF, a new iPhone service that should change a little the game if all things go well.i won't say much here, but those who have seen it, understood immediately the relevance and necessity of the service.If you want to be notified on the launch you can register the alpha list here http://bit.ly/codenameAFsorry for the suspense, but we prefer to keep it for the last minute :)Technorati Tags: iphone
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VC Cafe
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Kampyle Adds User Feedback To Google Analytics (CEO Interview)
30 Jun 2009 | 12:29 amShopping websites are extremely sensitive to deserted shopping carts. In some cases, 60-70% of their users would add items to their cart but suddenly close the window – leaving the site owner with little information about their reasons for leaving and more importantly, without revenue. Kampyle, the Israeli start up developing SaaS feedback analytics, offers an easy integration of fully-branded and customizable feedback forms for website owners. The feedback forms are displayed to the user either by clicking on a feedback button, or automatically pop up when the user is leaving the… -
VMWare Behind You: Neebula Raises $5 Million for Virtualization Software
29 Jun 2009 | 2:34 pmNeebula Systems, developer of management tools for virtual computer environments, has raised a first round of $5 million for from Genesis Partners and Pitango Venture Capital. Jonathan Saacks, a partner at Genesis, joined the company’s board as a result of the investment. Neebula was founded in 2009, and still doesn’t seem to have a website. One explanation for this unusual early stage investment at a time when most first round companies are struggling to raise funding is the founding team. Neebula was co-founded by CEO Yuval Cohen, the former CEO of Marvell Israel and the… -
Exclusive: TodaCell Raises $1 Million for Mobile Ad Optimization Platform (Interview with CEO Moshe Vaknin)
26 Jun 2009 | 1:34 amToda!cell (www.todacell.com), an Israeli ad optimization platform, has raised an A round of $1 million led by Afterdox (see previous coverage on VC Cafe) the Fore Group and several other angels. The company had previously raised an undisclosed seed round, when it was founded in March 2007. TodaCell’s platform matches premium mobile ad campaigns with users, based on territory, carrier, timing, user response, pricing and other parameters. The company is currently present in Israel and Tokyo and plans to expand to the US next. VC Cafe had a chance to get some comments from CEO Moshe… -
Today Boxee Starts Competing with Hulu, On Windows
24 Jun 2009 | 2:09 pmWe told you about Boxee’s app dev challenge a few weeks ago, where 40 apps were developed with great innovation. Yesterday the results have been unveiled in San Francisco but the big winner was… Boxee! The Israeli media center start up is loved by the open source development community and is about to roll out some major league upgrades today, including (drum roll please…) Boxee for Windows. The Windows version not only opens Boxee to a much larger market, but also gets the media center software into the living room. Unlike Apple TV users, most media center PC users hook up… -
Twitter Apps Bug Battle: uTest Uncovers 317 Bugs On Twitter Desktop Apps
24 Jun 2009 | 9:39 amReal-Time Bugs? uTest, the world’s largest QA marketplace, announced the results of its “Twitter Apps Bug Battle”, a week long contest for 600 of its 17,000 crowdsourced QA professionals. The mission: find the as many bugs as possible in the five most popular Twitter desktop apps – Tweet DeckSeesmic DesktopTwhirl, Tweetr and Twitteroo. The results of the test are noteworthy: uTest community members found 317 bugs in a week long competition for $4000 cash prize. 20% of the bugs were classified as “show stoppers” or defects in need of immediate attention. The testers…
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BloGiza
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Twitter, Facebook and Real Identities
16 Jun 2009 | 6:48 amTwo interesting events made news in the social media realm last week. The first was Twitter’s announcement that it would start a Verified Account program to prevent identity confusion. The second was Facebook offering customizable URLs for its users. While not directly related to each other, both initiatives go to the heart of how online identities are evolving.Twitter’s Verified Accounts come to deal with the issue of fake celebrities on the service. While @oprah, @aplusk, and @britneyspears are all the real deal (or at least the flacks running Oprah’s and Britney’s social… -
Update on the Cloud
1 Jun 2009 | 6:22 amGiza was one of the sponsors of this year’s IGT Cloud Investment Summit for Virtualization and Cloud/SaaS Based Technologies which was held today in Tel Aviv. The conference brought together startups, investors, and large corporations to get their take on the state of the Cloud. As has been the case in the last couple of years, Cloud Computing is probably the biggest buzzword in the software/IT world. Increasingly, companies are harnessing the power of distributed computers to reduce both IT and development costs. With the rise of Amazon’s Web Services and Google’s App Engine, small and… -
China - A Bird's Eye View
13 Apr 2009 | 12:21 amMy friend Shai Tsur asked me to write few words on China for BloGiza. I do not regard myself as an expert by any means and trust that my views are taken with consideration. China is increasing access to personal computers and the Internet. This combined with domestic companies' increasing use of complex software in day-to-day business operations have spurred significant growth of China's Internet and software companies. Sales in China's software industry have increased over tenfold since 2000 from 59.3 billion RMB to 680 billion RMB in 2008. China's online population surpassed the United… -
Techonomy 2009
31 Mar 2009 | 8:39 amCapping off a mad week of events and conferences surrounding Kinnernet, the Techonomy event kicked off earlier in Tel Aviv. Techonomy is kind of a local answer to industry showcases like the TC50 but with a smaller and more manageable group of presenting companies.Six companies, all of them in the social media space got up and gave brief presentations. Then, a panel of industry experts (which included, among others, Giza MD Eyal Niv) provided their own input to the entrepreneurs presenting.The companies which presented were: Sense of Fashion –an online marketspace for independent fashion… -
Bridging the “Why Hasn’t It Happened?” gap
24 Mar 2009 | 8:43 amLast week, I had the pleasure of attending a talk given by New Media guru Mitch Oscar, who is in charge of televisual applications at the global media agency MPG. (Props to AdsVantage for organizing the event). In his presentation, Mitch focused on how the world of interactive TV is taking shape. Interactive TV is part of the general media industry which is comprised, as it has been always, of three major components: content producers who create the content, advertisers who essentially fund the content, and distribution platforms which bring the content to the end users. The biggest changes…
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The Radical Moderate
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Wheels
1 Jul 2009 | 7:00 pmTwo of 'em actually, not the typical four.More and more, it looks like I'll never get my lift from Israel. So, I postponed getting a bicycle. It would have made things easier for getting to the grocery store, and all the DART buses have bike racks on their fronts, but there's no real place to keep it inside and the weather would waste it outside.So, a month ago, I to the Texas DPS approved motorcycle course. I trained on a scooter, since they're classified as a type of motorcycle. Then I began shopping. I didn't want to buy the very inexpensive Chinese bikes, because I didn't want to support… -
Wow, Coleman finally did the right thing
30 Jun 2009 | 1:49 pmNo, not Gary.Norm Coleman announced that he's conceded the race to Al Franken. It's much too late but, as I mentioned before, he could have kept going to the Supreme Court. It's nice he didn't do that.I'm pleasantly surprised. Nice going, Mr. Coleman! -
Surprise me, Republicans
30 Jun 2009 | 12:50 pmThe Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Al Franken be certified for the Senate seat he won last year. The Republicans would not accept repeated recounts and the Governor has not wanted to give the Democrats a 60 seat majority in the Senate.What I expect now is that the Republicans, who always claim that States Rights is what really matters, will appeal this to the US Supreme Court. What I'd love is for them to surprise me and prove me wrong. -
A funny one on marriage
30 Jun 2009 | 12:34 pmA study was just released saying that Americans have an 80% chance of marrying by age 40. The funny part is who did the study: The CDC. Yup, the Center for Disease Control. Well, a subgroup dedicated to US health statistics. Still, that the CDC tracks marriage is an interesting statement. :) -
Bernie Madoff isn't the disgrace
29 Jun 2009 | 9:57 amMadoff was sentenced to 150 years for his financial scam. The DMW calls him "disgraced".Nope. The real disgrace is that only Madoff and Stanford are being prosecuted. They're individuals. They did much less damage than the head of the Wall Street financial institutions that knowingly and egregiously put together idiotic derivatives, sold them, made millions, destroyed the economy, then sucked down bailout money while refusing to cut bonuses at their firms.The problem is that Madoff and Stanford are individuals. The US is no longer "of the people, for the people, by the people." 'People' in…
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IsraelityBlog
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IDF battles swine flu with extra leave
Whether you call it swine flu or Mexican flu, the number of cases of the virus H1N1 in Israel continues to creep up. Since the flu first reached here in late April, just days after it was identified in Mexico and the US, there have been anything from 300 to 542 confirmed cases, depending on which [...], Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:57 +0000 -
Our first NBA pick
You may have read about it already, but I need to express my excitement about Omri Casspi becoming the first Israeli player to be selected in the first round of the NBA draft. Yes, it’s not the final, final stage in this nail-biting process, but hey, it’s the NBA and he’s Israeli and it’s looking [...], Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:18:23 +0000 -
From high school into the frying pan
High school graduations are a unique creature in Israel. They’re nothing like the solemn mortar board and cape graduation, and rented tux prom that I experienced growing up in the US. And thank God for that. It’s almost like going to a musical. My daughter’s event took place last night at a posh events hall in [...], Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:39:20 +0000 -
Cafe Birnbaum
Tel Aviv is a city with many a cafe, and not all of them have appeared in the Aroma/Cafe Hillel stream of the last ten years. One of the best-loved, and with mighty tasty grub, is Cafe Birnbaum, owned the Birnbaum sisters, Penina and Sima. They took over from their father who ran the space [...], Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:56:44 +0000 -
Nostalgia Sunday - Pop Star
Do Israelis know from the Jackson-5? Puh-leez! This is the country whose government banned the Beatles from performing in the early Sixties on the grounds that they were a degenerate influence on the nation’s youth. But they did know Michael Jackson. In the mid-Seventies, with the advent of third radio broadcaster Reshet Gimmel, which played [...], Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:48:31 +0000
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Six Kids and a Full Time Job
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Do We Really Make Our Own Decisions?
25 Jun 2009 | 12:21 amKoby at Seeking Alpha forwarded me this fascinating video of Dan Ariely's talk at the TED conference this year. I highly recommend watching it. -
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
24 Jun 2009 | 7:06 amEsther Levanon, CEO of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, gave the below interview on CNBC this morning. A few comments:1. If Israel wants to attract serious foreign investment and liquidity to the TASE, it needs to get the liquidity up in the big companies and that means loosening the grip of the "Tycoons" on the big companies. We need a carrot approach that gives tax relief to tightly controlled companies to sell their stock to the public. This would also help retire a lot of the debt they have on the books.2. Getting more liquidity on the TASE and the deal with the NYSE could possibly help… -
Kiteboarding VCs and Entrepreneurs
2 Jun 2009 | 2:07 amHere is a shout out to my partner Arad, and CEO of Tunewiki Rani Cohen, Kitesurfers extraordinaire and great partners!**Update - My Partner Arad sent over two pictures of himself KiteBoarding!*** Update 2 - Dave Yovanno, CEO of Gigya, Sent over a video and picture of Himself Kiteboarding nearly horizontal with a big wake and Rani Cohen, CEO of Tunewiki, sent one of himself airborne.Dave Y. Emma Wood Kiteboarding from 1wave on Vimeo. -
Stanley Fisher's Dollar/Shekel Dilemma
1 Jun 2009 | 10:30 pmAs the Dollar weakened over the last 2 weeks against the Israeli Shekel, per my prediction, Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fisher is up against a difficult dilemma. Fisher managed to lower the value of the shekel by dropping interest rates and buying up dollars on the open market. But he is running out of choices because interest rates are already very low and I do not think he wants to get stuck holding a currency (Dollar) that is rapidly devaluing due to US inflation fears. The Chinese are facing this dilemma NOW. Printing shekels like the US has done to the dollar is also not an… -
Watch Lebron and Superman Tonight With ALL of Your Friends!
20 May 2009 | 12:47 amFor a long time I have been arguing that the social network is an unnatural place to connect with your friends. In real life, i have different friends in different contextual settings. There are Synagogue friends (no chatting there), Baseball buddies, Political colleagues, Poker buddies (not mine) etc. Today the social world though has much duplication and is a blunt tool. I use Linkedin for business, Twitter (full disclosure: Benchmark company) for link sharing and Facebook for more casual friends but there is a lot of overlap and no context except my status update. What we have always…
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VCinJerusalem
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19 Comments And Counting: the "power" of Facebook
8 Jun 2009 | 1:34 amI have writing a blog now for almost 2 years. From time to time get comments, sometimes an email (or even an old fashioned phone call, usually from Elie Wurtman) complimenting me on a blog posting. The feedback is nice, reminds me that I am not only writing for myself (which I am) but also for others. While I am not the world's greatest fan of Facebook, or its bloated valuation, it definitely has created a public commons, a place where people feel free to express their opinions. Perhaps, like Wikipedia, it should be turned into a massive non-profit. Throw a search box in there, share the… -
Packing Up "Stuff"
26 May 2009 | 5:22 amIn part of my professional life I spend a lot time talking about, and dealing with, virtual stuff. Web sites, avatars, twitter feeds, blogs, etc., lots of virtual/digital stuff. In my "real" life I am overwhelmed just now by physical stuff. The real kind. Right now in the process of packing up our "stuff," in advance of our move to the Galil (don't mean to shock loyal readers of this blog, which obviously has Jerusalem in the title...more on this subject in posting to come!). Only a little bit into the process, and already can't believe how much stuff we actually have. Do we "need" all this… -
Fred, You got it right. Things will pick up again. Question is when...
6 May 2009 | 6:37 amFred Wilson gets it head on in his posting (see below) on the coming revival of the IPO market for "venture backed companies," which for me is a euphemism for young companies starting to show promise but not controlled by a single investor (who could simply live off profits/dividends). The exit path for investors, option holders, etc. has traditionally been IPO, and M&A (if acquired for cash or by a public company with liquid shares). I completely agree with Fred's analysis, but like many messianic prophecies, the question is not if, but when. On behalf of all of us in… -
Living History in the Moment
21 Apr 2009 | 6:57 amReading through reports of Ahmadinejad's appearance at the UN sponsored event in Geneva yesterday, and of course reflecting on Yom Hashoa and it's juxtaposition to Pesach, I thought back to another "world leader" who attempted to us the UN to whitewash his true face. I am talking about Kurt Waldheim, an unrepentant Nazi who managed to shield himself so well that he rose to the position of UN Secretary General and President of Austria before concerned members of the human race began to unmask him (I had the honor of being one of those concerned humans). On Pesach we are… -
If A Man is Killed in Jerusalem, Do We Care?
8 Apr 2009 | 5:00 amAs usual, the Israeli government and security apparatus, in their infinite wisdom, chose the day before Pesach to finally carry out the destruction order on the house of one of the "tractor" terrorists in the village of Tzur Bacher, just 2 kilometers from my house, on the Southern edge of Jerusalem. Putting the issue of the timing (I can't even begin to write about that), and even putting aside the proven uselessness of house demotion as a deterent against future terrorism (numerous ISRAELI GOVERNMENT panels have concluded hosue demolitions have zero deterant value), want to…
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Blonde 2.0
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Traveling Geeks Are Going to London!
30 Jun 2009 | 7:55 amAlthough I just recently returned from Internet Week New York, I’m about to set foot on another exciting, new adventure. From July 5 to July 10, I’ll be traveling around London together with my Geeky friends. aka The Traveling Geeks. The TG’s are a small informal group of technology bloggers and influencers who like to travel to various regions around the world, collaborate with technology innovators and leaders on interesting projects and then share everything with the rest of the world via blogs, videos, podcasts and social networks. On this trip, we’ll be on the hunt for… -
DoNanza.com Launches
29 Jun 2009 | 2:05 amIn a time of extreme economic downturn and rocketing unemployment rates, it’s nice to see a clever startup launching just in time to fill the needs of those hungry job searchers. DoNanza.com is a search tool specifically designed for freelancers and enthusiasts looking to find online jobs or projects that they can do from anywhere, in exchange for money and professional exposure in their field. With the combination of a simple interface and user-friendly filters, anyone can easily search through hundreds of thousands of projects from countless sites, all on one page. During the last 2 years… -
How Larry the Bird Became Twitter’s Mascot
25 Jun 2009 | 2:44 amHave you heard the story of how Larry the bird became Twitter’s mascot? Larry’s owner got fired from his job and could no longer afford to keep him. The little blue bird was forced to flee his home, briefcase in wing, and find a job. He tried all the traditional routes: employment agency, newspaper job listings, online classifieds, but nothing worked. Then he signed up for a Facebook account and everything changed from there. Just like Larry found out, the best way to find a job these days or find employees is through Web 2.0 tools like social networks. This is what we call… -
Speaking with SpeakLike
23 Jun 2009 | 8:44 amMy Internet Week NY review continues today with a brief interview video I’d like to share, featuring Sandy Cohen, CEO of SpeakLike. For a minute and 49 seconds, Cohen beams endearingly into the camera and tells us all about NY based startup, SpeakLike, a fantastic new language translation Web service which cleverly translates messages, emails, blogs, RSS and Twitter feeds, in real time. Essentially, the product allows you to communicate with others in 30 different languages without having to use clumsy, copy-paste methods. Cohen explains how SpeakLike is really ideal for businesses that… -
Fred Wilson Reveals Probable Twitter Business Model
22 Jun 2009 | 2:02 amMy Internet Week NY review continues on Blonde 2.0 with installment #3. In the midst of my NY hustle, I had the chance to watch influential VC, Fred Wilson speak at The Millennium Broadway Hotel during the CM Summit organized by John Battelle and his guys over at Federated Media. Just a note on the CM Summit - it was absolutely an amazing two day event with many case studies of companies using social media and I thought one of the most well organized and educating conferences I have been to this year. Anyway, back to Fred. Wilson is the Co-founder of Union Square Ventures, blogger of AVC…
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Roi Carthy :: Product Launch Consultant
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Looking for a Freelance Project Bonanza? Look No Further than DoNanza!
25 Jun 2009 | 1:31 amSome of you may be growing tired of hearing about companies described as the “Kayak of _____” but if the analogy fits, we might as well abuse it. So without further ado, I give you DoNanza, the Kayak of online freelance project search. With 70,000 projects on offer, there’s a high chance there’s something for you as well so you should consider giving it a whirl if you’re looking to make some extra money on the side in these tough times. The one thing you have to keep in mind about DoNanza is that it keeps clear of offline gigs, so if you’re looking for an office job, DoNanza… -
Colnect Is A No-Frills Collectibles Marketplace And Wiki. Someone Wake Up David Cowan!
16 Jun 2009 | 12:19 amThe granddaddy of all venture capital funds, Bessemer Venture Partners, keeps a tally of the mega-successes it passed on in a list known as the Anti-Portfolio. In it, renowned VC David Cowan is attributed for passing up on eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding,” thought Cowan. “No-brainer pass.” Good news David, lightening may in fact strike twice for you because here’s your chance to invest in Colnect, a community site for collectors of coins, banknotes, stamps, phone cards and bottle caps. And no, I’m NOT kidding at all. Colnect (Collect+Connect) is a… -
Why is Sequoia Looking Into Associative Browsing Add-on SimilarWeb?
6 Jun 2009 | 3:45 amYahoo’s purchase of FoxyTunes for a rumored $30M legitimized the add-on play as a product strategy for Israeli startups.I see new startups in this category almost weekly. We’re bearish on add-on plays because the “get them to download, install and use” parts are tricky - and monetizing those users is nearly impossible. In recent months, though, SimilarWeb’s name keeps popping-up and the reason may be the technology it’s spent two years building out. Sequoia Capital Israel, we’ve heard, is spending extra time looking into it and your typical add-on play doesn’t normally make… -
my6sense Raises $2M for Digital Intuition, Native iPhone App Imminent
3 Jun 2009 | 5:02 ammy6sense is announcing it has raised $2 million in Series A financing from private investors. The company is pioneering ‘digital intuition’, artificial intelligence designed to assist everyday users separate the signal from the noise. This is a problem that has grown in magnitudes of severity since the introduction of blogs and RSS into our lives, and compounded even further by the recent rise in popularity of streams (thank you Facebook & Twitter). In my initial review I tested my6sense’s technology which they chose to apply on an iPhone web app that basically acted like an… -
Another $10.5M Unloads on Peer39’s Dock
28 May 2009 | 4:55 amSemantic ad technology providerPeer39is announcing the closing of its Series C round to the tune of $10.5M, pushing the total amount of funding raised toover $22M. The round was led by Israeli VCEvergreen Venture Partnersand was joined by the company’s existing investors Canaan Partners, Dawntreader Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and JP Morgan. Since taking anin-depth look at Peer39nearly a year ago, the company has shifted its focus from developing its own ad network to leveraging its semantic ad platform to transform publishers’ remnant ad inventory into a premium one. The company…
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Sabra at heart
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Part of the Important Pro Zionist Lobby
24 Jun 2009 | 6:24 amRecently I was going through my blog statistics and came across a link to my blog that I did not recognize.The link opened up to a wikipedia style website that "documents the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and the public relations industry engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SpinProfiles also includes profiles on think tanks, front groups funded by industry and industry-friendly experts who work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of transnational corporations or other special interests."I have been placed in… -
ROTFLMAO
11 Jun 2009 | 12:37 amYes folks, the tile of this post is ROTFLMAO (rolling on the floor laughing my ass off)- as it should be. Last night I went to "Comedy for Koby" and I spent the evening ROTFLMAO. Avi Liberman an American comic living in LA gathers together his friends and fellow comics and brings them to Israel to raise money for the Koby Mandell Foundation and help us remember what it is like to laugh until tears stream down our faces at a live comedy show. Rabbi Seth Mandell (Koby's father) opens up the show each year with a few corny jokes that for some reason has the whole audience in fits of laughter. He… -
taptap " Is This Thing On? "
1 Jun 2009 | 6:51 amI have been very frustrated lately with the discussion of twitter here in Israel. It is quite frustrating to read articles or hear about a tv segment discussing twitter by those who are non-users who really do not get the power of twitter and like to dismiss it b/c they don't get it. I swear if I hear one more person describe twitter to non-twitter users as "you know you have your facebook status update..well its kinda like that" i am going to *hit them hard* in the nose. It is time for the Israeli business community to take a look at Twitter as a very serious tool that will enhance their… -
Frustrated by the lack of Chit Chat
31 May 2009 | 12:16 amFor any of you who have have met me offline you know that I love to chitchat*gab*schmooze*network*blabber*yammer or any other word to describe talkative. Picture by JimmyRocBut I just feel so inadequate chitchatting in Hebrew. Urgh. It is not just the words and the grammar. I feel like I just cannot express myself in any way shape or form that reflects my personality when speaking in Hebrew. This is all bizarre for me because I didnt feel this type of language barrier when speaking in American Sign Language and that too is a totally different language than English. Granted there is a lot of… -
Rita's Cheesecake
25 May 2009 | 1:01 amIt is that time of year... my favorite time of the year. It is time for Rita's Cheesecake. Doing a little dance (trying to get my metabolism up so that my body can handle the incoming food I plan on eating) Rita's cheesecake is simply my favorite cheese cake bar none. The recipe is from Rita, an old friend of my mother's from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn (circa 1984) and it is part of the menu for Shavuot. This cheesecake and pink blintzes is the essence of the holiday menu. Without one or the other the holiday just feels half-assed. I am sure you are wondering what exactly is pink…
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Jewlicious
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Who Are You?
1 Jul 2009 | 1:10 pmAre you a Jewish American or an American Jew? Tell us why @ http://tinyurl.com/cool4th and enter to win the Cool Jew 4th of July Gift Box. This prize package–valued at $100–contains: * A Rotem Gear diversity t-shirt that reads, “It takes all of us to make the land bloom,” from Jean Roth * Alan Orich’s latest Jewish Hero Corps comic book * “We Can Rise” music CD by Chana Rothman * Cool Jew book by Lisa Alcalay Klug * “No Limit Texas Dreidel” game invented by Jennie Rivlin Roberts and Webb Roberts * “Salud!” Dreidel Drinking Game… -
Ach, the anticipation!
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A Taste Of Jewlicious On Oprah Radio
30 Jun 2009 | 10:27 amIf you’ve never listened to XM/Sirius Radio, you can get a free trial here. Why would you bother? Because they have awesome programming, including a certain segment tomorrow you may find worth your time. It’s a conversation between a poet laureate and a daughter of Jewish immigrants who also happens to be a three-time presenter at Jewlicious Festivals. The topic? American Jewish identity… just in time for the 4th of July. The show airs tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1st, at 1 pm or 7 pm EST at XMRadio.com. Tune in to Channel 156, Oprah Radio, and hear Dr. Maya Angelou discuss how… -
Philip Roth: The Jewish Shouting Club Remix
30 Jun 2009 | 12:55 amLast September in the LA Times, James Marcus interviewed 75 year-old author Philip Roth about his new book, “Indignatgion.” During the conversation, Marcus and Roth discussed movie adaptations of his novels: Indignation will be the fifth of Roth’s novels to be made into a film. I ask what he thought of the earlier adaptations, and he gives high marks to Jack Klugman and Ali MacGraw in Goodbye, Columbus, while ruefully acknowledging the cartoonish tone: “A little vulgarity goes a long way, and they did lay it on pretty heavily.” And what about Ernest… -
ROI Summit: This week in innovation
28 Jun 2009 | 3:59 amThe annual ROI Summit is set to begin today. One hundred and twenty young Jewish innovators from Israel and around the world will get together near Tel-Aviv for 5 days of brainstorming, networking and skill building sessions. There’s much talk in the organized Jewish community about fostering innovation, but gosh darn it, for the past 4 years the Schusterman Foundation has put its money where it’s mouth is. The Jewlicious Festival has received funding from the Schusterman Foundation for the last 2 years and Jewlicious.ru, our Russian language site, is itself a project that evolved…
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Jerusalemite blog
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Beating the summer heat
28 Jun 2009 | 11:43 pmSure, the relative height of the Judean Hills and the occasional mountain breeze means that during the hot months Jerusalem residents suffer less than their compatriots in the Levantine bayou that is summertime Tel Aviv - but when it's 90 degrees and there hasn't been a cloud in the sky since March and the desert sun is glaring fiercely off the glowing white Jerusalem stone, the difference can seem at times to be mostly academic.... -
Boom Pam brings tuba to the Bass
14 Jun 2009 | 8:12 amOn June 23, celebrated low-fi jammers Boom Pam, who are signed to Frankfurt's Essay Recordings and often traverse Europe with their concert tours, are scheduled to play downtown Jerusalem party venue Bass.... -
People from the fringes on display
4 May 2009 | 12:31 amAlso known as the Musrara school, The Naggar School of Photography is beloved among Jerusalemites for its edgy cultural endeavors. The school's social issues-themed exhibition room is currently hosting All of Israel Are Friends, an appropriately provocative collection of photographs from 13 different artists, as curated by Daphna Ichilov, showing through June 26. -
What to do this Independence Day in Jerusalem....
23 Apr 2009 | 9:28 amJust because this year's Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) celebrates 61 years of the Zionist state - as opposed to last year's number, which had the advantage of ending with a zero - doesn't mean the celebrations will be meager.... -
Meir Ariel to be remembered at the Submarine some ten years later
19 Apr 2009 | 6:20 amJerusalem is made of many things. Most famously, it's made of gold, but here at Jerusalemite, we've written about a few other ingredients to the city (see the "Related" links below). Beloved, gloriously Jew-fro-ed Seventies singer-songwriter Meir Ariel (pictured), however, had a different vision of the city, writing his own "Jerusalem of Iron," as an iconic rebuttal to the Nami Shemer hit. Ariel's version was written from the perspective of a paratrooper who had actually liberated the Old City in 1967....
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JobMob
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21 Tips To A Better Handshake
1 Jul 2009 | 12:30 pmYour handshake is a convenient personal branding accessory right in the palm of your hand, so use your handshake to leave a great impression. Here’s how. Handshaking is important for personal branding People shake hands all the time. Unless your handshake is particularly bad, people will rarely react negatively to it and they’ll ignore the occasional jitter or semi-clasp. But if your handshake is particularly good, you will stand out and people will remember you. Ultimately- since a handshake is such a basic thing, expectations are relatively low for results. Which also means that… -
At The Last Minute: Where To Find Summer Jobs on Twitter
29 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pmSummer’s just begun and lots of people are still scrambling for summer jobs. Here’s how you can use Twitter to find the summer jobs that are still available. Twitter feeds for summer jobs @SummerJob - all kinds of summer jobs & contracts, not only for students @getsumcampjobs - jobs at summer camps across the USA @SummerWorkation - helping teachers in the USA to continue working throughout their summer vacation @ocsummerjobs - summer jobs in Orange County, California @SummerJobsUK - all kinds of summer jobs in the UK, mostly intern/entry-level or other types of jobs for… -
Top 105 Beautiful Job Search Company Logos That Will Wow You
24 Jun 2009 | 3:30 pmThese are the most beautiful job search, human resources or recruiting company logos on the Web right now. The top company logos in job search #105 #104 #103 #102 #101 #100 #99 #98 #97 #96 #95 #94 #93 #92 #91 #90 #89 #88 #87 #86 #85 #84 #83 #82 #81 #80 #79 #78 #77 #76 #75 #74 #73 #72 #71 #70 #69 #68 #67 #66 #65 #64 #63 #62 #61 #60 #59 #58 #57 #56 #55 #54 #53 #52 #51 #50 #49 #48 #47 #46 #45 #44 #43 #42 #41 #40 #39 #38 #37 #36 #35 #34 #33 #32 #31 #30 #29 #28 Designed by Liora Blum #27 #26 #25 #24 #23 #22 #21 #20 #19 #18 #17 #16 #15 #14 #13 #12 #11 #10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 Special thanks… -
Job Search Q&A #4: Twitter for Finding Jobs in Israel
22 Jun 2009 | 2:00 pmIn this fourth Q&A session, I take a look at some of the questions about Twitter that Israelis are asking me. Reminder I always try to get the questions and answers as close as possible to the actual conversation but in some cases I’ve changed things to protect the reader’s identity or I’ve given a longer answer than what was possible at the time due to the fact that Twitter - where many of these questions are coming from - only allows 140 characters per message. Relevant in Israel Is Twitter relevant for Israelis? Do you think we can also use it to find a job or it is not yet… -
Want A Sneak Peek Inside The Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide?
18 Jun 2009 | 3:00 pmMembers of the Job Tips Newsletter are going to get a peek inside The Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide next week. When I announced my Job Tips Newsletter and the free Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide e-book, I mentioned that: “Early-bird subscribers to the Job Tips Newsletter will be able to download the Guide first, one week before its official release on JobMob. There may also be some other surprises for subscribers until then.” Well, one surprise is coming next week. This isn’t the first piece of the Guide that I’ll be sharing; yesterday’s 375+ Twitter Feeds…
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Israeli Wine Direct
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I Want this for Wine
28 Jun 2009 | 5:40 pmCan you imagine how different the wine world will be when we can do this for wine? OMG I love finding ways to shrink the time between the Urge to Acquire something we value and the actual Ability to Acquire that something down to, well, nothing. This starts to do that. And you know Amazon is launching an online wine retail shop, right? Hhhhmmmmm… Tweet This Post -
Where in the World is our Israeli Wine?
28 Jun 2009 | 7:41 amGood news! Our next shipment of wine from Israel left the port of Haifa last week bound for California in a refrigerated container! A refrigerated container costs me A LOT more but it’s the only way to ensure the quality of the wine we bring to you. You should be asking other people you buy imported wine from if their wines are shipped in a “reefer”. The shipper tells us the wine should arrive on or around July 26 into Oakland and then take a couple of days to clear Customs and get into the warehouse in Benecia, just south of Napa. We intend to hold a series of New Wine… -
Meet Jim Veal: An Israeli Wine Evangelist in Texas
23 Jun 2009 | 7:34 amI have had for some time now the great pleasure of knowing one of the front-line heroes pushing forward the re-emergence of the Israeli wine world in the US. His name is Jim Veal and he is the Director of Trade and Investment Promotion for the Government of Israel’s Economic Office in Houston. He works tirelessly to re-brand Israeli wines in the minds of everyone he meets. He understands the power of wine to bring people together from different backgrounds and countries. I recently sat with him for an interview so you could get to know him a bit like I have. Here’s how our chat… -
Israeli Wines in Travel + Leisure’s Top 50 Best New Restaurants
20 Jun 2009 | 6:24 pmI am proud to have Israeli wines from our growing premium portfolio on the wine menus of 2 of the Top 50 Best New Restaurants in the US, according to the folks at Travel + Leisure. Zahav in Philadelphia and Terroir in Manhattan Tweet This Post -
Buy Israeli Wine then Take it to Your Favorite BYO Place
19 Jun 2009 | 7:00 amThis new site lets you search for BYO places in your favorite large city and bring your favorite bottle with you. Here’s some basic BYO etiquette though: 1) it’s extremely rude to bring a bottle BYO that’s on the restaurant’s wine menu 2) it’s extremely rude to bring a cheap bottle in – No 2 Buck Chuck, No Yellow Tail 3) it’s proper to bring a decent bottle, something special and then share a taste with your server It’s a good idea to order something unique directly from a special winery or your favorite importer and bring it in along with a…
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Hirhurim - Musings
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One or the Other: Rabbi Yishmael Omer
2 Jul 2009 | 6:43 pmI recently received an e-mail asking about the proper text in the "Rabbi Yishmael Omer" passage we recite at the end of the korbanos section of the morning prayers. The standard text in most prayerbooks is (translation from the new Koren Sacks Siddur):כל דבר שהיה בכלל ויצא לטען טען שהוא כענינו יצא להקל ולא להחמירכל דבר שהיה בכלל ויצא לטען טען שהוא כענינו יצא להקל ולהחמירWhen a particular case, though included in the general statement, is expressly mentioned with a provision similar to the general… -
Parashah Roundup: Chukas-Balak 5769
1 Jul 2009 | 6:59 pmby Steve BrizelZos Chukas HaTorahR Michael Rosensweig emphasizes the role of Chukim in Torah study and commitment: linkR Avigdor Nevenzal elucidates what it means to sacrifice one's self for Torah: linkR Zvi Sobolofsky explains why Parah Adumah represents the limits of human understanding and represents man's subjecting himself to the Divine Will: linkR Eli Baruch Shulman discusses why we need the Parah Adumah: linkR Shlomoh Riskin, based upon the teachings of Rav Soloveitchik ZTL, explicates the unique nature of Parah Adumah: linkClick here to read moreDeath and ClosureR Yissocher Frand and… -
Wearing a Watch on Shabbos
1 Jul 2009 | 6:49 pmI. Yes and NoAre you allowed to wear a regular (i.e. not gold) watch on Shabbos where there is no eruv (like in Brooklyn)? The standard answer in English manuals is no, but there is something on which the lenient can rely. For example:Some permit an ordinary wristwatch with an ordinary band as well. However, a Ben Torah and one who is meticulous in observance of the Sabbath should refrain from doing so. (R. Gersion Appel, The Concise Code of Jewish Law, vol. 2 p. 302 n. 8)Click here to read moreAccording to leading poskim, an ordinary wristwatch, even if not functioning, is technically a… -
Post-Denominational Outreach
30 Jun 2009 | 7:45 pmI recently read Dr. Jonathan Sarna's outreach book, A Time to Every Purpose, and I saw something brilliant there that I have not seen in any other outreach book. Dr. Sarna is a leading scholar of American Jewish history and a professor at Brandeis. This book is written as letters to his daughter but that is clearly just a literary device for letters intended for uncommitted Jews. The main theme of the book is that the holidays throughout the year raise significant theological and existential issues. As each holiday passes, Dr. Sarna writes a letter that discusses the relevant subjects. While… -
The Three Heroic Drug Smugglers
30 Jun 2009 | 6:57 amThanks to a local organization, I received a free copy of Mishpacha magazine this week. I've never read it before but I've heard great things about it. This week's cover story is about a group of activists who are working tirelessly to free three yeshiva boys who were caught smuggling drugs into Japan (link - PDF).When I read newspapers and magazines, it is usually online articles from secular sources. Maybe that's why this article bothered me so much. The language was so superlative and laudatory, the issues were so black and white. It's nauseating. One picture caption refers to an activist…
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Cross-Currents
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Designated Drivers
2 Jul 2009 | 12:53 pmby Doron Beckerman Clearly, the J-blogs have arrived. No event of any significance escapes their scrutiny. Public discourse is shaped, often even created, by those possessing a keyboard, internet access, and a way with words. Unpoliced and unrestricted, the information superhighway, shared by the cautious, the reckless, and the intoxicated, is not going away. A crossroads is rapidly approaching. Perhaps, nay, likely, we are already there. And there are weighty decisions to be made. A wrong turn spells disaster. To the right lies a path of passivity, where no questioning or criticism is… -
Fear of G-d’s Name
2 Jul 2009 | 12:49 pmNo, it’s not what you think. I am not referring to a healthy (and Biblically-mandated) fear of G-d and his Ineffable Name, but an aversion to mentioning G-d as a motivating force in our lives. Joel Alperson, a past national campaign chair for United Jewish Communities, wrote about this in a recent Op-Ed entitled “Don’t fear ‘G-d,’ ‘Torah’ and ‘Judaism’” published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He writes: I’ve collected the mission statements of the largest 17 Jewish federations in North America, and not one mentions “G-d,” “Torah” or “Judaism.”… -
Charitable Giving and the Recession
28 Jun 2009 | 4:05 pmThe deep global recession has forced many to reconsider the way they give their tzedakah. It is more than likely that some changes will stay with us even after the health of the world economy is restored, BE”H. We can’t speak of a silver lining to storm clouds so ominous and dark that they have kept bread (literally!) off the tables of children. Nonetheless, we must note with admiration that the Baltimore community has once again scooped the rest of the country, and come up with a protocol worth considering and copying. The innovation is somewhat radical. Community rabbonim are urging… -
Filling an Imagined Void
26 Jun 2009 | 2:00 pmRabbi David Mark of Temple Sholom in Pompano Beach, Florida, is anxious to fill a void. “There was a need out there among the public for something like this,” he said. “It hurt me so much to my very core that I could not help these people.” Perhaps more to the point, though, Rabbi Mark was very anxious to help his Temple away from the old, stodgy, tradition-laden Conservative movement. The Temple “recently shed its ultra-conservative image” and now calls itself “progressive conservative.” I think there’s a confusion there between… -
Hardened Criminals and Newborn Babes
26 Jun 2009 | 6:22 amLiberian dictator Charles Taylor, believed to be responsible for the murders and maiming of untold numbers of innocent African men, women and children, is now Jewish. Well, at least in his own mind – and according to his wife Victoria, who also told the BBC that her husband still believes in the Christian savior. Still, Mr. Taylor’s claim raises an interesting question, and at least one thoughtful reporter, the Forward’s Rebecca Dube, in a recent report, decided to ask it: What if a non-Jew with a criminal record genuinely wanted to become a Jew? Would he properly be considered for…
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Streaming Israel
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On Vacation
17 Jun 2009 | 12:58 pmI'm currently on a summer vacation in the United States, visiting family. I have some old video and photos that I have not yet posted to the site, but in general, I will not be updating this site much until I return to Israel in September. In the meantime, enjoy your summer (or winter, if you happen to be in the southern hemisphere). I leave you with words from US Senator Bob Menendez (D, NJ) about the history of Israel and the relationship between Israel and the United States. -
Getting Ready for Passover
30 Mar 2009 | 8:23 amAbout this time in the US, stores and malls are full of Easter decorations and goodies. Here in Israel, the focus is Passover. This is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the liberation of the Jews from Egypt in the time of Moses. On the first night of the holiday here in Israel, and the first and second nights outside of Israel, there is a special meal called the seder. The seder is a ritual meal during which the story of how the Israelites became slaves in Egypt and how they became free is told. There is a text which is read, called the Hagada (lit. the telling) in which the main story is… -
The Green Mountains of Israel
29 Mar 2009 | 10:51 amLast week I took a trip up to Metulla to meet with Carol Hasday, general secretary at the Israeli Ice Skating Federation, and find out information about local competitions, getting my students into clubs, and what is required so that I will be allowed to coach my students on the big ice up there from time to time and serve as their official coach at tests and competitions. Of course, while I was up there, I also enjoyed skating on the large ice surface and went swimming with my son in the deliciously heated pool at the Canada Center. When you think of Israel, you probably don't imagine… -
More from the elections
18 Mar 2009 | 8:34 amAfter I posted the last video with the ads from the national elections here in Israel, I got a mail from Joel Alan Katz of Religion and State in Israel saying that he and his wife had made a video of their voting experience this year. At the beginning of the video you see them each with their national ID cards and their voter registration cards. Then they go to the front desk where their names are checked off of the voter rolls. Each one takes their turn to go back behind the blind and then they come back out with their ballots in the little blue envelopes and put them in the ballot box. -
Ads from the national elections
18 Mar 2009 | 4:01 amThis video is a bit old, since I took it on 11 Feb 2009, right after the national elections here. Still, I thought it might be interesting to some to see this busy intersection and highway entrance with its edge to edge political ads. The white squares that look like pieces of paper with one, two or three letters on them are examples of what that party's ballot looks like. When you vote here, you walk behind a blinder (like a cardboard school diorama stand) where there is a box with square holes. Each hole holds a set of these white pieces of paper with one, two or three letters, representing…
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Elder of Ziyon
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Why Jews cannot become citizens of Jordan
2 Jul 2009 | 12:13 pmI received an email today from someone asking me about any restrictions I was aware of against Jews having Jordanian citizenship or owning Jordanian land. I responded My understanding is that Jordan specifically excluded Jews from its citizenship even if they adhered to all the other requirements when they allowed Palestinian Arabs to become citizens in 1950. See page 73 of this.As far as land ownership is concerned, I don't know of any specific law banning sales to Jews, but it appears that the rules for transferring land in Jordan are sufficiently restrictive against non-Jordanians that… -
Quick PalArab news
2 Jul 2009 | 4:01 amThere are reports that Gaza Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar secretly visited Switzerland and met with Swiss officials. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan charges that some Israeli produce sold in Jordan is grown in West Bank farms, and calls for a boycott.For those wondering, the Red Cross regularly visits Arab prisoners in Israeli jails. It announced its July visit schedule. Egyptian forces yet again killed Somalis trying to get into Israel. -
Why are there still "refugee camps" in the PA?
2 Jul 2009 | 3:13 amThe culture of entitlement that pervades the Palestinian Arabs continues unabated.Yesterday, leaders of a Nablus "refugee" camp declared a series of escalating actions protesting the reduction of some services by UNRWA, including forcing UNRWA not to be able to work at all.Today, UNRWA in Nablus responded - by shutting down almost completely, except for three health clinics. UNRWA stated (in Arabic only, these events never make it to the Western press) that they none of their workers would "put their lives at risk," meaning that the threats were much more serious than they were portrayed.The… -
Egyptians refuse Jewish references in music festival
1 Jul 2009 | 6:00 pmFrom the Forward:Wendy Sternberg was thrilled when the organization she founded, Genesis at the Crossroads, was invited to perform at the eighth annual International Music Festival at Egypt’s Alexandria Library. She looked forward to achieving the goals of her group, which seeks to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and prides itself on stellar musicianship and cross-cultural dialogue.Yet, despite her dream of the festival as a perfect fit with Genesis’s aims, Sternberg pulled out on June 4, after her group was barred from performing in Hebrew and from describing the religious… -
Thank you open thread
1 Jul 2009 | 8:03 amWith the year half over, I have well over 300,000 page views - more than I had in all of 2008.So thanks for visiting!Here's an open thread for the sheer hell of it.(Sometimes, Yahoo News links to this blog, but the stories they choose are not always the ones I think should be publicized. Open threads have been known to pop up there as well. Very weird.(On the other hand, CNN is now linking a Shmuley Boteach/Michael Jackson story to one I wrote yesterday.)UPDATE: Sure enough, this is the posting of mine that Yahoo chose in it Mideast Roundup blog listings. Sigh.
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FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו
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US to Israel: No part of Jerusalem belongs to you
30 Jun 2009 | 6:10 pmA few weeks ago, I wrote (”US State Department agrees with Hamas“) about the continuing refusal of the US to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I explained that this has nothing to do with territory occupied in 1967, because West Jerusalem, where the seat of Israel’s government is located, became part of Israel in 1948. I said, West Jerusalem was not included as part of the Jewish state in the partition resolution of 1947 — all of Jerusalem was supposed to be under UN control. But when the armistice agreements were signed in April 1949, Jerusalem was divided… -
Obama going hands-on with Israel
29 Jun 2009 | 9:54 pmSome of the worst disasters in American foreign policy have been caused by attempts to intervene in the politics of other nations, about which US policymakers almost invariably have zero understanding. For example, in 2003 the US military crushed Saddam’s forces almost as fast as our vehicles could drive — and then handed the country over to an ‘authority’ which had no clue about the basic ethnic politics of Iraq, had few Arabic speakers, and based its decisions on imaginative wishful thinking. The ensuing chaos could have been predicted. Sometimes the meddling takes a… -
The Czechs weren’t invited to Munich, either
26 Jun 2009 | 11:24 amNews item: Foreign ministers of Group of Eight countries urged Israel to halt all settlement construction in the West Bank Friday, during a meeting in Italy largely focusing on recent events in Iran. They also called on Israelis and Palestinians to renew direct negotiations over all disputed issues. Also meeting Friday on the sidelines of the summit is the Mideast Quartet - the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations - to try to help move the Israeli-Palestinian peace process forward… A range of Arab League nations will join in a follow-on session Friday… -
Understanding Palestinians and Zionists
25 Jun 2009 | 11:28 pmI once had a teacher of French who tried to motivate his students to read literature in the original. He liked to say, “there are three kinds of translators: those who do not know French, those who do not know English, and those who know neither English nor French.” Similarly, I think that with a few exceptions there are three kinds of Western Middle East experts: Those who do not understand Arabs Those who do not understand Jews Those who understand neither Arabs nor Jews Martin Indyk, who was Ambassador to Israel twice and a Mideast specialist on the National Security Council… -
Who controls the Temple Mount?
23 Jun 2009 | 6:36 amDuring the 19-year Jordanian occupation, Jews were not allowed to visit Judaism’s holy places in the West Bank and, in particular, in East Jerusalem. Since the Palestinian Authority (PA) insists that East Jerusalem and especially the area of the Temple Mount must become part of ‘Palestine’ if there is a peace agreement, there is naturally some concern that an agreement would bring a return of these restrictions. Given that the PA insists that while Arabs may reside in Israel, all Jews must be evacuated from the Palestinian state, it’s not wholly paranoia to worry about…
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כלכלה - nrg.co.il
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מנכ"ל האוצר לשעבר: "הממונה על שוק ההון מייצר רק ניירת"
1 Jul 2009 | 11:15 pmפרופ' בן ציון זילברפרב תקף את רפורמת בכר ואת אגף שוק ההון באוצר: "מכל גופי הפיקוח הקיימים - אגף שוק ההון והביטוח הוא החלש ביותר - אין מספיק פיקוח" -
ניסיונות פשרה בין שר האוצר וראש הממשלה לישראל ביתנו
1 Jul 2009 | 11:08 pmלקראת ההצבעה על חוק ההסדרים והתקציב, תיערך היום פגישה בין שר האוצר, יובל שטייניץ, לשר התיירות, סטס מיסז'ניקוב. הרקע: הצהרת ישראל ביתנו כי תצביע נגד התקציב, בעקבות כוונת האוצר לבטל את הפטור ממע"מ על תיירות נכנסת -
תשובה: "יצאנו מחוזקים מהמשבר"
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לא רק בת"א: הישראליות בחו"ל הכו את הנאסד"ק במחצית הראשונה
1 Jul 2009 | 10:53 pmהמניות הישראליות בנאסד"ק המריאו וסיימו את המחצית הראשונה של 2009 בתשואה ממוצעת של יותר מ-30%. בלטה במיוחד: מניית בקווב של ניר ואלי ברקת שזינקה ב-2,300% -
הדור הבא: נסיעת מבחן ראשונה במאזדה 3 החדשה
1 Jul 2009 | 10:38 pmהמכונית, שראויה למקום הראשון בראש טבלת המכירות וככל הנראה גם תשמור עליו, חושפת עיצוב אגרסיבי, נסיעה נוחה ומרחב פנימי גדול. מנגד, המתלים קשיחים מדי
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גלובס - הבורסה בת"א
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פולקסווגן וכי"ל הגיעו להסכמה לגבי מפעל המגנזיום
2 Jul 2009 | 9:53 pmפולקסווגן וויתרה על 35% ממניות המפעל שהיו בבעלותה - המפעל אמור לעבור לרווחיות לאחר שיעבור להיות מופעל על ידי גז טבעי בשנה הבאה -
מליסרון מחפשת מנכ"ל; פנתה למנכ"ל קב' עזריאלי
2 Jul 2009 | 6:21 pmמנכ"ל קבוצת הקניונים והנדל"ן העסקי מליסרון, יוסי פרי, יפרוש מתפקידו בספטמבר ■ לבד מפאר נדיר, מנכ"ל קניוני עזריאלי, הוצע התפקיד גם למנכ"ל קניוני ישראל, משה רוזנבלום -
בכירים במודי'ס: התערבות היתר של פישר מדאיגה
2 Jul 2009 | 5:57 pmלא צפויה הורדה בדירוג של ישראל ■ גורם במודי'ס: "הם לא מבינים איך הוא ייצא מתוכנית רכישות המט''ח והאג''ח, ועד מתי המשק הישראלי יוכל להחזיק ריבית אפסית לאור האיומים האינפלציוניים הניכרים" -
תשובה הגיש הצעה לרכישת 700 תחנות דלק ביוון
2 Jul 2009 | 5:56 pmשלק אירופה תתמודד במכרז הענק מול לוקאויול הרוסית וחברת "מוטור-אויל" היוונית כש-Shell היא בעלת התחנות הנוכחית ■ ההצעות במכרז נמוכות מ-400 מיליון אירו -
דירוג האג"ח של לידקום ירד לדרגה אחת מעל חדלות פירעון
2 Jul 2009 | 5:29 pmשער האג"ח צונח ב-20% ■ לפני יומיים הודיע מנכ"ל החברה על פרישתו ■ בעקבות הורדת הדירוג ב-11 דרגות, תועלה הריבית על האג"ח הנסחרת בבורסה בת"א
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חדשות - nrg.co.il
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רגע לפני סגירה: הצצה נדירה לכלא גואנטנמו
1 Jul 2009 | 11:30 pmנעלי בית וסודוקו לעצירים, חדרי חקירות מצוחצחים ושומר צמוד שמסייר בלי הפסקה. מבט מבפנים על המחנה הנודע לשמצה -
הצעת חוק: עורכי דין זרים יוכלו לייצג בארץ
1 Jul 2009 | 11:22 pmועדת החוקה תדון בחוק לפיו עורכי דין מחו"ל יוכלו לייצג לקוחות בישראל. פרקליטים בכירים יהיו חשופים לתחרות מול כוכבי משפט בינלאומיים -
ברק מנע פגישה בין רה"מ נתניהו לרמטכ"ל אשכנזי
1 Jul 2009 | 10:29 pmלראשונה מאז נכנס לתפקידו, יזכה בימים הקרובים ראש הממשלה לפגישת עבודה בארבע עיניים עם הרמטכ"ל גבי אשכנזי. הסיבה: שר הביטחון אהוד ברק משתמש ברמטכ"ל כקלף בניהול יחסיו עם נתניהו, ורק עכשיו הסיר את התנגדותו לקיום פגישה מסוג זה -
נתניהו: הקשר שלנו עם ארה"ב הוא בלתי שביר
1 Jul 2009 | 6:39 pmעל רקע המשבר ביחסים בעקבות המחלוקות בנושא ההתנחלויות, השתתף אמש רה"מ בקבלת פנים שנערכה בבית שגריר ארה"ב לכבוד יום העצמאות האמריקאי שיחול בשבת. "יש לנו קשר אמיץ עם ארה"ב, הנשיא אובמה הגדיר אותו כבלתי שביר והוא אכן כזה" -
דוח אמנסטי: צה"ל גרם ל"הרס זדוני" בעזה
1 Jul 2009 | 5:34 pmדוח של ארגון זכויות האדם מאשים את ישראל בהרס לא מוצדק ומכוון בעופרת יצוקה ושולל הטענות שחמאס עשה שימוש בפלסטינים כמגן אנושי
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ספורט - nrg.co.il
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מנצ'סטר יונייטד רוצה את הונטלאר
1 Jul 2009 | 11:33 pmאחרי שאיבדה את רונאלדו לריאל וראתה את בנזמה חותם גם הוא בברנבאו, אלופת אנגליה מנסה להחתים את ההולנדי שעוזב את מדריד בתום עונה בינונית. הבעיה: עוד 9 קבוצות במירוץ אחריו -
דיווחים: בן גורדון וצ'רלי וילנואבה מצטרפים לדטרויט
1 Jul 2009 | 10:58 pmתזוזות משמעותיות ראשונות בעונת 2009/10: השוטינג גארד משיקאגו יקבל בפיסטונס 55 מיליון דולר לחמש שנים, והפורוורד המגוון ממילווקי יסתפק ב-35 מיליון לאותה תקופה -
חשש: שפעת החזירים הגיעה לווימבלדון
1 Jul 2009 | 3:14 pm28 אנשי צוות, בהם מביאי כדורים ומתנדבים, נשלחו להסגר בביתם בשל חשד שנדבקו בנגיף, כמו גם שני טניסאי זוגות. דובר הטורניר: "הנושא בבדיקה" -
אליפות ישראל באתלטיקה: גזאצ'ו, קרויטר ולנסקי ניצחו
1 Jul 2009 | 3:04 pmרץ ה-1,500 זכה בתואר אלוף ישראל עם 3:45.30 ד'. הקופץ לגובה קבע 2.19 מ'. האתלטית השוותה את שיא האליפות עם 13.06 ש' ב-100 מ' משוכות. ביתה סיימה שלישית בריצה ל-100 מ', בו ניצחה ריטה פוגרלוב. רותם בטאט האלופה בקפיצה לרוחק, סיוון ג'אן בדיסקוס -
מכבי חיפה ערכה אימון ראשון באוסטריה. אלישע: "מרוצה מהשתלבות הצעירים"
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תרבות - nrg.co.il
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מירוץ מכור? טענות קשות נגד הגמר של המירוץ למיליון
14 Jun 2009 | 7:19 amמקורבי מיה ועמיחי, הזוג שהגיע למקום השני ב"מירוץ למיליון", טוענים: ההפקה העדיפה את שי וגיא -
הסרט השלישי של הרובוטריקים בקיץ 2011
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22 Feb 2009 | 9:04 pmבתום לילה ארוך ומותח התברר כי הסרט הישראלי ואלס עם באשיר לא זכה בקטגוריית הסרט הזר הטוב ביותר ובכך שוב הוחמץ פסלון האוסקר הישראלי הראשון. את הפרס הפסיד הבמאי ארי פולמן לסרט היפני "פרידות" של יוג'ירו טקיטה -
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19 Jan 2009 | 5:32 amמסעדת הבשר בגונן מזמינה לסוף שבוע של תאוות בשרים, בסחנה חוגגים עם מרקים של חורף, וחג ההודייה מגיע מאמריקה לחיק מסעדות תל אביב -
דיוויד בואי בנעלי בלט: הכוריאוגרף אדוארד לוק מגיע לארץ
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רכילות - nrg.co.il
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מיה ועמיחי מתפצלים
1 Jul 2009 | 2:33 pmמיה קרמר ועמיחי גת שרצו למיליון רק כדי להגיע למקום השני המבאס, ממשיכים במסורת חילוקי הדיעות ביניהם: השניים כבר לא ירוצו יחד לאותה סוכנות -
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1 Jul 2009 | 4:56 amהאם אנה קורניקובה ניצלה את כישורי החבטה שלה במועדון לילה? על פי פרסומי הצהובונים, הטניסאית לשעבר היתה מעורבת בקטטה -
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1 Jul 2009 | 3:21 amאסף וגיל, השיפוצניקים הגאים מהבלוק, חוגגים חמש עשרה שנות זוגיות ולרגל המאורע הם מחפשים לוקיישן מרווח לחגוג בו את המאורע -
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1 Jul 2009 | 2:11 amאחרי שצבר גדיש חימם את הכיסא בקוקפיט של "נשות הטייסים", זוהר ליבה כנראה יתפוס את מקומו. וגם, לאן מיהר ג'ובאני רוסו בשעות הקטנות של הלילה? המבזק היומי מהביצה -
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30 Jun 2009 | 11:43 pmעידן יניב חזר מהופעה בצרפת, ואיבד את המזוודות בדרך. וזאת כבר הפעם שנייה
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הרשת - nrg.co.il
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היורש של גייטס מצהיר: "יש לנו כבוד לגוגל"
1 Jul 2009 | 10:26 pmבביקורו הראשון בארץ מודה ריי אוזי, היורש של גייטס במיקרוסופט, שהוא מצטער שלא הכיר את ישראל עוד קודם. לצד ההערכה, הוא גם מנצל את הבמה כדי להזהיר את גוגל: "מי שמנסה לאתגר אותנו - נחזיר לו טובה" -
בסין חגגו את עיכוב הפצת מסנן הרשת
1 Jul 2009 | 7:18 amלבושים בחולצות הלועגות לתוכנית המכונה "הסכר הירוק", הגיעו כ-200 תושבי בייג'ינג בשעות הבוקר כדי למחות על הצנזורה של ממשלת סין -
צוות מיוחד יבחן את הסדרת הפיקוח על שידור תכנים באינטרנט ובסלולר
1 Jul 2009 | 6:56 amמשרד התקשורת ומועצת הכבלים והלוויין הודיעו על הקמת צוות שבראשו יעמוד המנכ"ל החדש של משרד התקשורת -
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1 Jul 2009 | 12:52 amהקולקציה שהציגה אתמול ענקית הטלוויזיות סאמסונג מסמנת את התחלת עידן מסכי ה-LED. המסכים הללו מקבלים קונטרסט טוב יותר, מציגים תמונה באיכויות שלא הכרתם וחוסכים בחשמל -
מנכ"ל AOL: "לו היינו מתנהלים כמו AOL ישראל - מצבנו היה טוב יותר"
30 Jun 2009 | 11:15 pmמנכ"ל החברה, טים ארמסטרונג, אמר בביקורו בארץ: "נמשיך לרכוש חברות ישראליות". הודיע כי בכוונתו , ולהקים קרן השקעות חדשה אשר תסייע לחברות סטארט-אפ ישראליות בתחומים המעניינים את החברה
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ברנז'ה - nrg.co.il
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התפוצץ המשא ומתן בין משרד האוצר לרשות השידור
1 Jul 2009 | 7:09 amבמשרד האוצר מאשימים את עובדי רשות השידור: "נראה כי אין רצון כן מצדם לסיים את המו"מ ולחתום על הסכמי עבודה חדשים" -
"ברווז עיתונאי" הפריע לנאום הנשיא אובמה
30 Jun 2009 | 6:19 amקול של ברווז נשמע במהלך נאום שנשא נשיא ארה"ב בבית הלבן. בירור קצר גילה כי מדובר ברינגטון הטלפון הנייד של אחת העיתונאיות -
מה חושבים בארגון יוצאי תימן על יו"ר רשות השידור?
30 Jun 2009 | 12:41 amהביורוקרטיה במיטבה: לפני כל מינוי למליאת הרשות חייב השר הממונה להתייעץ עם 139 גופים ציבוריים -ביניהם כאלה שלא קשורים בשום צורה לעולם התקשורת. במינויים לרשות השנייה יש לשר התקשורת חיים קלים: הוא צריך להתייעץ עם "רק" 67 גופים. חלק מהגופים: "הדבר הזה מגוחך לחלוטין. ממילא לא מקשיבים לנו" -
רשות השידור מאיימת בהחשכה
29 Jun 2009 | 12:26 amעיצומי הוועד המשולב של הרשות השידור נמשכים קרוב לשבועיים. בהנהלה מתכננים להודיע על סכסוך עבודה ובתוך שבועים להחשיך את מסך ערוץ 1. מנכ"ל רשות השידור: "תמוה בעיניי על מה ולמה נמשכים העיצומים ואף מוחרפים" -
אריה ב-140 תווים
27 Jun 2009 | 12:58 pmביז סטון, ממייסדי טוויטר, גנב השנה את ההצגה בפסטיבל הפרסום בקאן. עם רוח גבית חזקה מהמהומות באיראן, הוא תיאר איך 50 עובדים בלופט ניו יורקי יכולים לשנות את העולם
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יהדות - nrg.co.il
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פורעים שרפו ספרי קודש בישיבה הגבוהה שביישוב חומש
1 Jul 2009 | 3:08 pmראש הישיבה, הרב אלישמע כהן: "המראה היה נורא, עשרות ספרי קודש – גמרות, חומשים וסידורים היו שרופים לחלוטין" -
הציבור הדתי-לאומי מתחיל להתמודד עם הגידול במספר הרווקות
1 Jul 2009 | 5:19 amלמרות שהנושא הוא מקור לאינספור בדיחות, בישיבה של סיעת "הבית היהודי" עסקו בעניין בצורה רצינית להפליא -
ביגמיסט על חמור לבן: ההרמון של שלום בר נתן
30 Jun 2009 | 7:49 amהחזון של שלום בר נתן מקדיתא "לחיות כמו דוד המלך ולשאת כמה נשים" התרקם במוחו לפני שלושה עשורים, כשנדד עם אשתו במסע רוחני על חמור לבן. צעירה בת 24 שעוזרת לו עכשיו להגשים אותו עומדת במרכז הסערה: בני משפחתה טוענים שעברה שטיפת מוח והרבנים חוששים שתתפתח כת חדשה -
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29 Jun 2009 | 3:18 pmהשופטים ביקרו בחריפות את הרבנות שסירבה לתת תעודת כשרות לקונדיטוריה באשדוד כיוון שבעלת המקום המירה את אמונתה ליהודיה משיחית -
תמונת מצב: סידור חדש ומצולם לילדים
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ירוק - nrg.co.il
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אשדוד: קובלנה פלילית נגד אגן כימיקלים
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משרד החקלאות: עיריית ת"א התרשלה בטיפול בעצים באבן גבירול
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זהירות, סחר לא הוגן בבעלי חיים
1 Jul 2009 | 2:27 amמבריחי הכלבים מחו"ל מתייחסים לחיית המחמד כאל סחורה, ובהתאם לכך גם מעבירים אותם לארץ בתת תנאים. כך תגלו ממי אתם רוכשים את האהובים, ולא תעודדו התעללות בהם -
ים המלח יחזור לרשימת שבעה פלאי עולם
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איך לשפר סרטוני וידיאו באיכות ירודה
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כך תיצרו סרטון דמו מהיר ואיכותי
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האם יש צורך ב-Talker?
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הג'מייל המושלם - למה גוגל לא מקדמים את זה?
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נו מתי הטוויטר הזה יתפוס בארץ?
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ONE
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הנבחרת האולימפית ניצחה 70:82 את ברזיל
3 Jul 2009 | 2:55 pmחניכיו של אדלשטיין עשו צעד חשוב בדרך לשלב הבא באוניברסיאדה עם ניצחון לאחר הארכה. 18 נק' ו-8 ריב' ליוני ניר, 12 נק' ו-12 ריב' לאלישי כדיר -
ג'ון קולמה נפגע בראשו, לוי: היום נראה מה מצבו
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מכבי ת"א תפתיע את כולם
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שאק הוצג בקליבלנד: לברון הוא המלך ואני אגן עליו
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Niv Calderon
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על שיווק ומיתוג בטוויטר
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הטוויטר יוניברס של יעל בר טור
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רשתות חברתיות יהיו כמו אוויר
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איך לגרום לטוויטים שלכם לקבל יותר ריטוויטים?
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הבעיה שלי עם טוויטר
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מערות ופחדים
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סיפוק מיידי
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לינק בייטינג
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22 Jun 2009 | 10:10 pmלאור בקשת הקוראים הוצאנו למכירה 200 כרטיסים בהנחה של קרוב ל-40%. מחיר כרטיס הנחה הינו 199ש"ח ועל מנת לקנות אותו כל שעליכם לעשות הוא למלא את הטופס הבא ונציג של גלובס יחזור אליכם ע"מ להשלים את הרישום. מהרו לשריין לכם מקום. -
טיפים להגשת מועמדות ל-TWS2009
21 Jun 2009 | 2:49 amנכון לזמן כתיבת שורות אלו הגישו מועמדות ל-TWS2009 מספר עשרות של סטרטאפים. ממעבר על הרשומות מצאתי מספר בעיות שחוזרות על עצמן שוב ושוב אשר יכול בסופו של דבר להשפיע על אופן בו השופטים ידרגו את החברות. אני ממליץ בחום (אולי בגלל שיש לי מידע פנים) לאותם הסטרטאפים אשר כבר הגישו מועמדות וכמובן לאלו שעוד מתכננים לעשות זאת, לקחת המלצות אלא… -
הסטארטאפ השקוף: מהו ויקידו ודילמת ההשקעות שלנו
19 Jun 2009 | 2:17 am(מפורסם במקביל ב- ynet) לתקשר עם ההורים שנמצאים בעבודה (שימו לב, 34 מיליון אמהות אונליין, ומבט זריז בקהילות ההורים יבהיר לכם בדיוק למה אנו מתכוונים) והכל כמובן באזור בטוח לחלוטין, בבקרת הורים. אנחנו לא דפדפן, אנחנו כלי תקשורת ומדיה לילדים צעירים. זה ויקידו. את הסכום הראשוני להתנעת הפעילות קיבלנו מחבר תעשיה. היתה זאת השקעת אמון של…
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וול סטריט הופתעה מנתוני התעסוקה וסגרה את שבוע המסחר בירידות שערים חדות: S&P 500 איבד 2.9%
2 Jul 2009 | 11:24 pmאמדוקס נחלשה ב-2.8%; אלווריון ירדה ב-3.6%; גיוון אימאג'ינג השילה 5.2%; אורכית איבדה 5.9% -
אובמה: "התאוששות כלכלת ארה"ב תדרוש יותר מכמה חודשים"
2 Jul 2009 | 10:14 pmנשיא ארה"ב הביע דאגה עמוקה מנתוני התעסוקה שפורסמו היום; הביע בטחון בהתאוששות הכלכלה בטווח הקצר -
מחיר הנפט השלים שבוע שלישי של ירידות: נסגר מתחת ל-67 דולר לחבית - שפל של חודש
2 Jul 2009 | 10:14 pmהנפט נפל היום בקרוב ל-4% בעקבות דו"ח התעסוקה בארה"ב; מחר לא יתקיים מסחר בניו יורק לרגל חג העצמאות -
דירת הפנטהאוס של מיידוף במנהטן חולטה; רעייתו רות אולצה לעזוב
2 Jul 2009 | 9:53 pmמיידוף עזבה הדירה בצהריים לאחר שאנשי רשויות החוק הגיעו לדירת הפאר ששווייה 7 מיליון דולר -
מאמצי הבנק הפדרלי נושאים פרי: הריבית על המשכנתאות בארה"ב ירדה ל-5.32%
2 Jul 2009 | 9:19 pmבשבוע הקודם היתה הריבית 5.42% לפי נתוני ענקית המשכנתאות פרדי מאק
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גלובס - הבורסה בת"א
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פולקסווגן וכי"ל הגיעו להסכמה לגבי מפעל המגנזיום
2 Jul 2009 | 9:53 pmפולקסווגן וויתרה על 35% ממניות המפעל שהיו בבעלותה - המפעל אמור לעבור לרווחיות לאחר שיעבור להיות מופעל על ידי גז טבעי בשנה הבאה -
מליסרון מחפשת מנכ"ל; פנתה למנכ"ל קב' עזריאלי
2 Jul 2009 | 6:21 pmמנכ"ל קבוצת הקניונים והנדל"ן העסקי מליסרון, יוסי פרי, יפרוש מתפקידו בספטמבר ■ לבד מפאר נדיר, מנכ"ל קניוני עזריאלי, הוצע התפקיד גם למנכ"ל קניוני ישראל, משה רוזנבלום -
בכירים במודי'ס: התערבות היתר של פישר מדאיגה
2 Jul 2009 | 5:57 pmלא צפויה הורדה בדירוג של ישראל ■ גורם במודי'ס: "הם לא מבינים איך הוא ייצא מתוכנית רכישות המט''ח והאג''ח, ועד מתי המשק הישראלי יוכל להחזיק ריבית אפסית לאור האיומים האינפלציוניים הניכרים" -
תשובה הגיש הצעה לרכישת 700 תחנות דלק ביוון
2 Jul 2009 | 5:56 pmשלק אירופה תתמודד במכרז הענק מול לוקאויול הרוסית וחברת "מוטור-אויל" היוונית כש-Shell היא בעלת התחנות הנוכחית ■ ההצעות במכרז נמוכות מ-400 מיליון אירו -
דירוג האג"ח של לידקום ירד לדרגה אחת מעל חדלות פירעון
2 Jul 2009 | 5:29 pmשער האג"ח צונח ב-20% ■ לפני יומיים הודיע מנכ"ל החברה על פרישתו ■ בעקבות הורדת הדירוג ב-11 דרגות, תועלה הריבית על האג"ח הנסחרת בבורסה בת"א
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הנבחרת האולימפית ניצחה 70:82 את ברזיל
3 Jul 2009 | 2:55 pmחניכיו של אדלשטיין עשו צעד חשוב בדרך לשלב הבא באוניברסיאדה עם ניצחון לאחר הארכה. 18 נק' ו-8 ריב' ליוני ניר, 12 נק' ו-12 ריב' לאלישי כדיר -
ג'ון קולמה נפגע בראשו, לוי: היום נראה מה מצבו
2 Jul 2009 | 3:05 pmמכבי חיפה תערוך הערב ב-19:30 משחק אימון מול ספרטק מוסקבה, הקשר סובל מזעזוע מוח. ניר דוידוביץ': "נכנסים לקצב" (יעל מרגלית, שליחת ONE אוסטריה) -
מכבי ת"א תפתיע את כולם
2 Jul 2009 | 2:11 pmדעה: דווקא אחרי השנה הקשה והקיץ הבעייתי בהנהלה, מכבי ת"א יכולה לעשות עונה מפתיעה מכיוון שהציפיות בריצפה ובזכות הבאה אפשרית של בנאדו -
ליאור אליהו עבר בדיקות רפואיות בטאו ויטוריה
2 Jul 2009 | 1:53 pmהפורוורד הישראלי כבר התחיל לקבל פידבקים ברחוב מאוהדים: "התגובות והתמיכה שקיבלתי הפתיעה אותי. כיף להגיע למקום ולקבל יחס כזה" -
שאק הוצג בקליבלנד: לברון הוא המלך ואני אגן עליו
2 Jul 2009 | 1:50 pmהסנטר הוותיק קיבל את הגופיה מס' 33 ואמר: "עדיין אין לי כינוי חדש. אשתלב כמו שצריך". על ג'יימס: "הילדים שלי אוהבים אותו יותר, אני קצת מקנא"
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כלכליסט - דף הבית
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נתוני האבטלה הפילו את המדדים בוול סטריט; דאו ג'ונס ירד ב-2.6%
2 Jul 2009 | 2:36 pmבסיכום שבועי הדאו ג'ונס והנאסד"'ק ירדו ב-1.8% ו-2.4% בהתאמה; טבע השילה כ-1%; שיעור האבטלה עלה ל-9.5% כשבחודש יוני נגרעו 467 אלף משרות -
הנפט ננעל בירידה חדה של 3.7%
2 Jul 2009 | 1:43 pmדו"ח התעסוקה הוריד את הנפט ל-66.7 דולר בלבד, הזהב נחלש ב-1%; הכסף והנחושת ירדו ב-1% כל אחת -
מערכת הבריאות של ישראל במקום ה-28 בעולם
2 Jul 2009 | 1:38 pmמחקר מקיף של ארגון הבריאות העולמי דירג את איכות שירותי הבריאות בעולם. צרפת ראשונה, ארה"ב רק במקום ה-37 -
השוטרים פשטו על הפנטהאוז ורות מאדוף נאלצה לעזוב
2 Jul 2009 | 1:31 pmמרשלים פדרליים החרימו בצהריים את כל תכולת הפנטהאוז שנאמד ב-7 מיליון דולר ומשתרע על פני שלוש קומות וכ-17 אלף מ"ר -
עורכת דין בחופשת לידה? תדאגי למחליף
2 Jul 2009 | 1:11 pmלאחר שהתבקשה לקבוע אמות מידה מנחות בנוגע לבקשות של עורכות דין לדחיית דיונים עקב חופשת לידה קבעה נשיאת בית המשפט העליון כי למרות שיש לכבד את זכותה של עו"ד לחופשת לידה, הרי שראוי לבחון את האפשרות להחליפה בעורכי-דין אחרים לצורך הדיון שנקבע בתקופת חופשת הלידה
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כלכליסט - טכנולוגי
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Play: הנסיכות של דיסני במצבים לא מוכרים
2 Jul 2009 | 11:48 amוגם: מדריך Wired לאתרי וידאו, אתר שישפר את סגנון הכתיבה שלכם באנגלית, איורים בסגנון סיני עם טאץ' מודרני ו-Sims: גרסת ההומלסים -
איגוד תעשיות התוכנה עתר נגד מכרז החשכ"ל
2 Jul 2009 | 9:54 amדורש לפצל את המכרז לשתי רשימות של ספקים שיתחרו בנפרד: רשימת בתי תוכנה ורשימת חברות כוח אדם -
איך להעביר קבצים גדולים ברשת
2 Jul 2009 | 8:17 amהמייל שלכם לא יעשה לכם חיים קלים כשתבקשו להעביר בו קבצים שנפחם עולה על מגות בודדות. מה עושים? הנה כמה פתרונות מומלצים -
012 סמייל החלה לשווק שירותי סלולר על גבי WiFi
2 Jul 2009 | 7:53 amהשירות יינתן במחיר זהה למחיר שיחה מטלפון קווי של החברה. בעל השליטה בחברה, שאול אלוביץ', מתמודד על רכישת פרטנר -
המודל החדש של פייראט ביי: מכירת רוחב הפס של המשתמשים
2 Jul 2009 | 7:35 amמנכ"ל החברה החדש רוצה להפוך את אתר השיתוף הפופולארי לפרת מזומנים. השיטה: שימוש בקהילת המשתפים כדי לצמצם עלויות העברת נתונים ואכסון
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Gruvr.com: Israel Concerts
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Map of Israel concerts
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Saturday 4th: Manu Chao Mataró at Festival Cruilla de Cultures
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Friday July 10th: Groundation Tel Aviv at Tel Aviv Muzik City Festival - Israel
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Wednesday August 19th: LEE VAN DOWSKI Tel Aviv at Cadenza Æther.@High Speed Rock Festival
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Friday July 24th: Deep Dish Tel Aviv at Sharam@ Nitzanim Beach
2 Jul 2009 | 7:36 pmSharam@ Nitzanim Beach Tel Aviv
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Coolil.com Israeli Designs Blog
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Liad's Custom Silver Jewelry Studio
18 Jun 2009 | 8:02 pmFounded by chance, the Liad Custom Silver Jewelry Studio was born out of a creative urge, curiosity and time on a young designer's hands. The young designer, Liad Wischnia Nemeth came to the United States 12 years ago on a vacation from Israel. In the months that followed, Liad met a man who would soon become her husband, got married and decided to call the United States her home. Children were soon to follow and, as is the unfortunate case with many mothers, Liad's creativity and personal goals got pushed down her list of priorities as she raised them. -
Osi Gilboa, From Foreign Affairs to Fashion Design
2 Jun 2009 | 4:37 pmDesigner Osi Gilboa's love for fashion can be traced back to the roots of her family tree. Born in Israel to a father who worked in the clothing industry and a mother who worked as a seamstress, Gilboa was given a first-hand glimpse into the colorful world of design as a little girl. Gilboa grew up interested in other cultures and always had a creative mind due to her upbringing. After serving in the Israeli Defense Force as a young adult, Gilboa went on to study Middle East and African History at Tel Aviv University. She grew interested in developing a career in foreign affairs and seemed to… -
Israeli Fashion Designers Carve Their Own Niche
16 May 2009 | 10:31 amYael Rosen reached the height of her success when her Kisim handbags made it into the Sex and the City movie two years ago, but she isn't the only Israeli designer who has achieved extreme success. Israeli fashion designers have certainly carved their niche in the global fashion arena, with a few notable designers gaining fame for their creative vision.One of them is Yigal Azrouel. Recently profiled in W magazine, Azrouel went from the youngest of eight children living in Israel with no formal fashion design training to a high-end fashion designer with two retail stores in New York,… -
10 Mother's Day Gifts Suggestions
29 Apr 2009 | 8:43 pmOriginally started by a young woman who wished to honor mothers after her own passed at an early age, Mother's Day grew from a small observance in just the state of Virginia to a worldwide holiday. Falling on Sunday, May 10th this year, this day also marks the second highest gift-giving holiday in the United States, coming behind only Christmas. From taking care of scrapes and bruises and teaching you from right and wrong to helping with school projects and being there whenever you need a shoulder to cry on, you mother is, and will always be, your biggest cheerleader. Show her how much you… -
T-Shirts Galore at Israel's T-Market
16 Apr 2009 | 7:23 pmHave nothing to wear? Just throw on a t-shirt. You probably already own quite a few. Mostly everyone has a drawer stuffed of t-shirts, many that could tell their life story. The drawer is probably likely full of ones made in preschool, to grade school pride day tees, family vacation memorabilia or t-shirts that bring back memories of crazy college days.The t-shirts that are collected in your drawer are perhaps the simplest form of personal expression. Easy and inexpensive to create, just about anyone can put artwork or words on the front of a cotton shirt to get their point across. The…
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Daily Alert
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Defiant Iranian Opposition Leaders Refuse to Accept Ahmadinejad Government
[Washington Post] Thomas Erdbrink - Three opposition leaders including leading presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, former speaker of parliament and presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, and former president Mohammad Khatami openly defied Iran's top political and religious authorities Wednesday, vowing to resist a government they have deemed illegitimate after official certification of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection. They called for annulment of the June 12 vote and the continuation of protests. The three made clear that they do not oppose Iran's system of religious… -
Ahmadinejad Unwelcome in Parts of Iran
[New York Post] Amir Taheri - For 30 years, the tradition has been for each newly elected president to travel to the "holy" city of Mashad, to the tomb of Ali bin Mussa, the only one of Shiism's twelve imams buried in Iranian soil. This year Ahmadinejad was forced at the last minute to scrub the trip. The authorities couldn't guarantee the president's safety - let alone deliver the enthusiastic, welcoming crowds that he requires for propaganda purposes. Last Friday, his visit to Shiraz, Iran's cultural capital, was called off on "security grounds." The authorities have had to deploy tens of… -
Defense Minister Barak: Settlements Question Linked to Wider Peace Initiative
[FOX News] Greta Van Susteren - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told FOX News Tuesday: The question of a settlement freeze is "part of a much wider issue, whether together with the United States and our Palestinian and Arab neighbors, we can launch an original peace initiative to be led by the president of the United States. Within this context, many issues had to be addressed. One of them is the settlement issue. And we already said, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in his speech, we are not going to launch new settlements, we are not going to launch new projects or suburbs in the existing… -
Saddam Hussein Faked Nukes to Deter Iran
[Washington Post] Glenn Kessler - Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released Wednesday. -
Gaza Blockade Run Called "Reckless Publicity Stunt"
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Kent A. Miles - Israel on Wednesday sent home two of the 21 people taken aboard a ship that attempted to break through a blockade and deliver supplies to Gaza. Other passengers included former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who campaigned for president in 2008 as the Green Party candidate. Israeli consular officials on Tuesday accused McKinney of a "reckless political stunt."
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Middle East Strategic Information Daily Update
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Hamas Tells Fatah Detainees Told to Bring Own Food
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmHamas's security forces in the Gaza Strip have asked Fatah detainees to bring their own food and drink with them, Fatah officials said on Wednesday. The officials said that at least 500 Fatah supporters have been detained by Hamas security forces over the past few days in one of the biggest security crackdowns in recent years. Some of the Fatah activists who were summoned for questioning by phone before they were detained said Hamas security officers told them to bring their own food and drink. -
Iranian Majlis Member Ghodratollah Alikhani in Majlis: The People's Trust in This Country's Regime and Leaders Has Been Fractured
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmFollowing are excerpts from an address to the Iranian Majlis by Majlis member Ghodratollah Alikhani, on June 16, 2009. Part of the address, in which Alikhani distances himself from the riots and issues anti-West declarations, was aired on Iranian Channel 1 on June 18, 2009. The rest of the address, in which he expresses his pro-Mousavi stance, was posted on the Internet. -
Egypt Police Kill Two Somalis at Israel Border
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmEgyptian police shot dead two Somali migrants Thursday who tried to slip across the Sinai desert border into Israel, security sources said, as violence against migrants picked up at the sensitive frontier. The killings bring to at least six the number of African migrants killed since mid-May at the border. -
Iran and the World: A War of Words and Images
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmIran – which never got used to respecting the sovereignty of others but rather mastered interfering in the Arabian Gulf, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq where Iranians do what they want without any supervision or accountability – is having a taste of its own medicine today but only with regards to the media. -
Iran Government Not Legitimate: Mousavi
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmOpposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has said that most Iranians will not consider the new government to be formed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as legitimate, his website reported yesterday. “The majority of the society to which I belong will not recognise the legitimacy of the (future) government,” Mousavi said, according to a statement posted on his website.
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Ice hockey in Israel? Oh yes!
2 Jul 2009 | 4:46 amAs temperatures soar and the humidity levels reach breaking point in Israel, there is, of course, only one sport on your mind - ice hockey. What?! Oh yes, if you fancy a bit of a break from the heat of Tel Aviv or even further down south, and you love a bit of puckery goodness, [...] -
Israel - the only place to be this summer!
1 Jul 2009 | 1:52 amAs summer officially kicks in, I hope you’re not still penned into your office cubicle while daydreaming of holidays in the sun, lying next to a softly lapping ocean, with perhaps a day trip squeezed in here and there for checking out some great tourist attractions. If you are, it’s time you stopped dreaming and started thinking about [...] -
The One Shekel music festival
28 Jun 2009 | 10:03 pmThis summer looks like being one of the best and most expensive ever for music fans in Israel, with a huge range of big names, such as Madonna, Leonard Cohen and the Pet Shop Boys, performing throughout the months of July, August and September. Tickets for these shows aren’t cheap; Madonna’s last leg of her Sticky [...] -
Leonard Cohen confirms September date with Israel…and the Palestinians
27 Jun 2009 | 10:05 pmLeonard Cohen finally confirmed his long-scheduled date with Israel last week. In a much anticipated announcement, the sponsors of the concert - Israeli bank Bank Discount - finally put their backing behind the show on September 24th, even though Leonard Cohen himself had already included Tel Aviv as the final date on his world tour and [...] -
Top 5 foods you have to taste in Israel
24 Jun 2009 | 10:05 pmOh yes, Israel is one heck of a place to come if you’re into eating good food! There is just such a variety of amazingly delicious foods available in Israel (largely due to the huge melting pot of culture and immigrants from, yes, 120 different countries!), you’ll be spoilt for choice. So put that drooling tongue away and [...]
