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UNPACKED: Watch Zionism: New Goals & Old Struggles – Prof. Gil Troy
UNPACKED: Watch Zionism: New Goals & Old Struggles – Prof. Gil Troy In celebration of Israel’s 73rd Independence Day — Yom Ha’atzmaut — we are sharing professor Gil Troy’s essay “Why I am a Zionist.” Twenty years ago he wrote this affi
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Israel’s Memorial Day YOM HAZIKARON
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Israel’s Memorial Day YOM HAZIKARON (Israel’s Memorial Day) is the day on which Israel pauses to remember all those who have given up their lives fighting for and defending the State of Israel, including victims of ter
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Israeli tech startups raise a record $5.37 billion in first quarter of 2021. The total sum raised in the quarter increased by 89% compared to the fourth quarter of last year and was
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why A Bi-Polar Memorial Celebration? It’s Profoundly Jewish
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why A Bi-Polar Memorial Celebration? It’s Profoundly Jewish Israel’s practice of connecting Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) is highly unusual. The U.S. has five weeks between them (last
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 12, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 12, 2021 Due to the Passover festival and additional circumstances, the newsletter is shorter than usual. Apologies if I have omitted any articles sent to me recently. I wiill try to include them in a subs
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Rami Dabbas – A coup attempt in Jordan – A warning to Israel & The United States defends the Ideal Monarchy
Rami Dabbas – A coup attempt in Jordan – A warning to Israel & The United States defends the Ideal Monarchy A coup attempt in Jordan – A warning to Israel The former crown prince to the throne and brother of the king, Hamzah bin H
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Rav Itzchak Marmorstein: What would Rav Kook say about the holocaust?
Rav Itzchak Marmorstein: What would Rav Kook say about the holocaust? “The shofar of the impure animal is transformed into the shofar of Messiach. Amalek…Hitler and their ilk are awakening redemption.” -Rav Kook-Rosh HaShana, 1933 It is Yom HaZicar
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Steve Kramer – Iran Hangs Tough (on Conforming to JCPOA)
Steve Kramer – Iran Hangs Tough (on Conforming to JCPOA) One of the important points that candidate Joe Biden emphasized during the presidential nomination sweepstakes was that the US would return to the JCPOA [Iran deal] and negotiate with the Iran
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Two Muslim Ambulance Drivers Save The Life Of a Collapsed Neighbor
Two Muslim Ambulance Drivers Save The Life Of a Collapsed Neighbor Jadeidi-Makr – On Wednesday morning, just before 9:00 a.m. in the town of Jadeidi-Makr in the Galilee, Farok Dabas was sleeping after a long ambulance shift the previous night, when
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The Jerusalem Declaration’s Bogus Definition of Anti-Semitism
The Jerusalem Declaration’s Bogus Definition of Anti-Semitism by Gerald M. Steinberg and Asaf Romirowsky The National Interest In 2016, following major attacks targeting Jewish and Israeli targets around the world, and based on earlier text adopted
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – The Jewish Heritage & Israel: Tribal Partying
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – The Jewish Heritage & Israel: Tribal Partying “Political Culture” is deep-rooted – sometimes so deep that uprooting it proves impossible. Contemporary Israeli politics and society might seem to be light years away fro
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Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser – The False Claim that Israel Is Bound to Lose Either Its Jewish or Democratic Identities
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser – The False Claim that Israel Is Bound to Lose Either Its Jewish or Democratic Identities Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation
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UNPACKED – Is Israel an Occupying Power?
UNPACKED – Is Israel an Occupying Power? Israel’s presence in the West Bank, or Judea and Samaria, has a laundry list of labels, many of which have been built on historical assumptions and modern ideas. At the top of this list is one word that has
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Kaltura’s Nasdaq IPO called off due to low demand. The Israeli company had intended to go public at a $2 billion valuation. Is Israeli tech losing its shine on Nasdaq? Read more Next
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Assaf Erez – Photos During Passover Holiday in Israel
Assaf Erez – Photos During Passover Holiday in Israel During Pesach(Passover) holiday Assaf makes the rounds on the highways and byways of Israel.
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 31, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 31, 2021 The Passover story is of the journey from bitter slavery to sweet freedom. This Passover, after the bitter pandemic, vaccinated Israelis enjoyed the sweet return to group celebrations. Israel̵
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Barbara Rubin – Justice, Justice to the Far and Near The Case for Religious Courts
Barbara Rubin – Justice, Justice to the Far and Near The Case for Religious Courts In the annals of litigation history, many stories attached to judicial forms of responsibility under Mr. Mason’s Bill of Rights in the United States. Unfortunatel
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Victor Rosenthal -The Invisible War
Victor Rosenthal -The Invisible War I’ve written before about the European Union’s intervention in Judea/Samaria, how our “friends” in Europe pour massive amounts of money into illegal Palestinian development in Area C – the part of the territor
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IsraelSeen Exclusive – From Death To Life in 10 Minutes Early Intervention By Family and First Responders
IsraelSeen Exclusive – From Death To Life in 10 Minutes Early Intervention By Family and First Responders Early Intervention By Family and First Responders, Brings A Cardiac Arrest Patient Back To Life In Less than Ten Minutes Kiryat Gat R
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Steve Kramer – The Taming of the Jew
Steve Kramer – The Taming of the Jew Happy Passover to all my readers celebrating this wonderful holiday! Tuvia Tenenbom is an expat Israeli who has lived in Germany and elsewhere for many decades, working as a journalist and author. Holding
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – A 5th Passover Question
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Courage of Identity Crises Tzav 5781
Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Courage of Identity Crises Tzav 5781 Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. The Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust will continue to distribut
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UNPACKED – Did Israel Expel Palestinian Arabs? The Israeli-Palestinian Context
UNPACKED – Did Israel Expel Palestinian Arabs? The Israeli-Palestinian Context This week on Unpacked, we bring you part three of our six-part series, The Israeli-Palestinian Context. Halfway through our series, we come to one of the most contested t
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Charles Abelsohn – Letter from Israel – Israel and Israelis Around the World
Charles Abelsohn – Letter from Israel – Israel and Israelis Around the World Hi again from Israel, I thought it might be a nice idea to look at what Israel as a country or Israelis as individuals have been doing around the world recently. Israel i
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CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Israeli cybersecurity startup Orca achieves unicorn status with $210 million series C. “The way to become the biggest cloud security company is to be out there and that is expens
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Inspiration from Rabbi Sacks for Shabbat HaGadol and Pesach
Inspiration from Rabbi Sacks for Shabbat HaGadol and Pesach Dear Friends, As we approach Pesach we wanted to highlight a number of pieces of content from the teachings of Rabbi Sacks zt”l that you might find inspiring as you prepare for the Seder an
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig Physically emPOWERing Women is the Only Real Way to Stop Violence Against Them
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig Physically emPOWERing Women is the Only Real Way to Stop Violence Against Them. Israel is in the throes of a wave of (mostly) domestic violence against women. Great Britain is in shock over a brutal murder – with massive female d
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 21, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 21, 2021 Life is returning to Israeli streets, parks and entertainment venues as Covid-19 vaccinations protect more citizens. Israeli medical research and products in this week’s newsletter wi
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Victor Rosenthal – Why You Should Make Aliyah
Victor Rosenthal – Why You Should Make Aliyah Even before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, there were colonies of Jews living outside of Eretz Yisrael. It’s true that they were unable to fulfill the mitzvot that were incumbent upon them
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Sins of a Leader Vayikra 5781
Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Sins of a Leader Vayikra 5781 As we have discussed so many times already this year, leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha of Vayikra implies. The real issue is how leaders respond to the
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UNPACKED – Zionism: The Backstory: Was Zionism a Form of Colonialism? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context
UNPACKED – Zionism: The Backstory: Was Zionism a Form of Colonialism? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context This week on Unpacked, we are moving on to part two of our new six-part series The Israeli-Palestinian Context. In this episode we trace the rich
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Fast-charging battery startup StoreDot closing on $3.5 billion SPAC merger. StoreDot’s batteries can currently be used to power drones, electric motorcycles and scooters, and the Israeli co
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Rami Dabbas – Europe and Islam
Rami Dabbas – Europe and Islam Since the Muslims expelled from Spain (Andalusia), the Muslims have dreamed of recovering the lost booty, and the strange paradox between backwardness and dependence on Europe and the dream of Andalusia and the Islamiz
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Franny & Evyatar’s Hebrew/English version of the Sound of Silence
Franny & Evyatar’s Hebrew/English version of the Sound of Silence H/T Israelnationalnews “The Sound of Silence written by Paul Simon, is so relevant to our world today”. Franny & Evyatar perform a cover in Hebrew and English. ‘The
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UNPACKED – Can You Be Zionist and Progressive? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context
UNPACKED – Can You Be Zionist and Progressive? | The Israeli-Palestinian Context This week on Unpacked, we are kicking off our new six-part series The Israeli-Palestinian Context. Over the next six episodes, we will tackle one of the most important
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 14, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 14, 2021This week’s positive Israel newsletter is full of Israeli innovations and activities that benefit the planet. They include positive coronavirus vaccination information, Covid-19 treatments an
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Rami Dabbas – The main conflict in the Middle East is no longer between the Arabs and Iran.
Rami Dabbas – The main conflict in the Middle East is no longer between the Arabs and Iran. While the Arab world was the political heart of the Middle East, non-Arab powers now play a major role in the region. For a long time, the main conflict in t
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Celebrate Vayakhel-Pekudei 5781
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Celebrate Vayakhel-Pekudei 5781 If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they are capable of great things, and then they must celebrate their achievements. That is w
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“Our Common Goal Is Saving Lives”- Jewish and Muslim EMTs Leave Training Class To Save A Life
“Our Common Goal Is Saving Lives”- Jewish and Muslim EMTs Leave Training Class To Save A Life Moshav Ram-On – On Monday night at 9:30 p.m., four United Hatzalah volunteers were participating in an advanced EMT training class. Three of them were
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Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld z”l – Israel’s Multifaceted Power
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld z”l – Israel’s Multifaceted Power BESA Center Perspectives Paper The following is the final Perspective Paper submitted to the BESA Center by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld before his passing on February 25, 2021. May his me
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner – The Insanity of Political Naivete
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner – The Insanity of Political Naivete History shows that hate groups are only emboldened when given legitimacy, and Biden’s return to the UNHRC will be a current example of that truth. H/T Israelnationalnews.com It has be
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Women’s Day 2021 | “They have this image of a successful entrepreneur… and then along comes a woman.” CTech spoke with 10 women in the VC space to learn some of the ways th
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Assaf Erez – Explores Central Israel in Photos
Assaf Erez – Explores Central Israel in Photos As the country opens up Assaf makes his way through the side streets and highways of central Israel.
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Converting the Torah
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Converting the Torah The latest Israeli pre-election brouhaha revolves around the High Court of Justice’s ruling that non-Orthodox conversions are legitimate for eligibility regarding the Right of Return, i.e., automatic
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 7, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 7, 2021 Well over half of Israeli citizens have now received at least one vaccination against Covid-19. This milestone coincided with Israelis celebrating International Women’s Day and the Jewish Fes
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IsraelSeen Exclusive – “We Are Here To Help, Today Is No Different”
IsraelSeen Exclusive – “We Are Here To Help, Today Is No Different” EMTs respond quickly to save seriously injured motorcyclist after a major crash. Early one Friday afternoon in the middle of February, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Netanel Moya
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – How Leaders Fail Ki Tissa 5781
Jonathan Sacks z”l – How Leaders Fail Ki Tissa 5781 Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will continue to distribute these weekl
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Steve Kramer – The Street of the Prophets
Steve Kramer – The Street of the Prophets Israel is coming back to life slowly. (Unfortunately, this doesn’t pertain to air travel, which may be in hiatus until after Passover – but we don’t know anything for sure.) To celebrate coming out
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IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving A Life Amid Purim Rush
IsraelSeen Exclusive – Saving A Life Amid Purim Rush On Tuesday afternoon, volunteer EMT Chezy Roth was at his store in central Jerusalem, tending to his customers who were going about their last-minute Purim shopping when his communications device
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CTECH – The Latest Israel Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israel Technology and Innovation News Three young cyber companies are about to join Israel’s stable of unicorns. The oldest of the companies eyeing a billion-dollar valuation has been around for less than three years. Rea
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Rami Dabbas – Is Jordan against Saudi-Israeli peace, or is it a game of interests?
Rami Dabbas – Is Jordan against Saudi-Israeli peace, or is it a game of interests? There are serious concerns in Jordan about the conclusion of a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia at the expense of Jordan’s interest, and Jordan’
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Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Purim: A Holiday for the Jewish People but NOT for Judaism
Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Purim: A Holiday for the Jewish People but NOT for Judaism Despite its very festive nature, the holiday of Purim based on the Book of Esther is an object lesson of what can happen when we become too comfortable with a traditional
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This Weeks Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 28, 2021
This Weeks Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 28, 2021 Dozens of Israeli innovations, products and programs were launched in the two weeks since the last newsletter. Even the very first VeryGoodNewsIsrael zoom presentation. But the important launches included
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Shelly Schreter – A Berkeley Jewish Radical, Fifty Years Later in Israel
Shelly Schreter – A Berkeley Jewish Radical, Fifty Years Later in Israel An old friend from my Berkeley days asked whether my political opinions and values had changed since we were students in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was only asking for
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IsraelSeen Exclusive: PLAYING DETECTIVE WITH FAMILY LORE
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why is Lapid Beating Saar and Bennett?
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Why is Lapid Beating Saar and Bennett? The past weeks have seen some dynamic change in Israel’s election polls, mostly within the Right/Center camp. Lapid’s Yesh Atid is up by several seats (approaching twenty), while S
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UNPACKED – Are The Abraham Accords The Middle East Peace Deal That Ends the Israeli-Arab Conflict?
UNPACKED – Are The Abraham Accords The Middle East Peace Deal That Ends the Israeli-Arab Conflict? For over seven decades, peace in the Middle East, and the relationship between the Arab world and Israel, has been at the center of foreign policy. Th
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Rami Dabbas – Interview with Arab Muslim Journalist about Islam and Science.
Rami Dabbas – Interview with Arab Muslim Journalist about Islam and Science. In an attempt to conduct a press interview with a religious Muslim about Islam and science, as he refused to do the interview with an Israeli newspaper for religious reason
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UNPACKED – How Mizrahi Music Took Over Israeli Pop
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CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Waze CEO on his decision to leave Google: “I was just worn down by the nature of the beast.” The CEO shares a personal and critical post about what led him to leave the world of Co
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Rami Dabbas – Is the problem in Islam or Muslims?
Rami Dabbas – Is the problem in Islam or Muslims? Renewal was the slogan of the European Renaissance, while the current slogan of the Islamic Renaissance is a return to the medieval ages and to Religious factors, that is, ignoring the present and wh
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Barbara Roslyn Rubin – The National Democratic Socialist Party Another Communist Manifesto
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 15, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 15, 2021 The highlights include: Israel’s latest Covid-19 treatment has received worldwide acclaim. Two Israeli innovations could see the end to invasive biopsies. An Israeli hi-tech training NGO gives
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Assaf Erez – Israel on His Mind: Photos of His Daily Journey
Assaf Erez – Israel on His Mind: Photos of His Daily Journey Once again Assaf takes us on his journey through Israeli streets, roads, highways and homes.
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Israeli Start Up Excellent Brain signs a mutual distribution agreement with Macrotellect
Israeli Start Up Excellent Brain signs a mutual distribution agreement with Macrotellect – Excellent Brain Ltd., the Israeli start-up developer of the most innovative direct-to-consumer Neurofeedback platform has announced today that it signed a mutual
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Camera – Media Highlights: Accuracy in Reporting Israel in the Media
Camera – Media Highlights: Accuracy in Reporting Israel in the Media CNN’s Kiley Parrots B’Tselem Slanders February 8, 2021 CNN’s Kiley was a pass-through for B’Tselem charges, questioning nothing. He ignored the ordinary norm
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Steve Kramer – The Iranian JCPOA(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) Conundrum
Steve Kramer – The Iranian JCPOA(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) Conundrum President Biden’s administration is zealously dissociating itself from Trump’s agenda and accomplishments. One important goal for Biden is to return to the Iran deal,
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Israel Seen Exclusive – Finding the Motivation To Keep Going, Even When We Don’t Succeed
Israel Seen Exclusive – Finding the Motivation To Keep Going, Even When We Don’t Succeed On Wednesday afternoon in Givat Ze’ev, a young boy just under two years old was playing in his backyard when he tripped and landed on the family’s jacuzzi
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Vision and Details Mishpatim 5781
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Vision and Details Mishpatim 5781 Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will continue to distribute these we
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CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – The Latest Israeli Technology and Innovation News Israel’s 2021 Cyber landscape: Which sector will the new unicorns emerge from? 120 companies from 14 industry sectors made it into Glilot Capital Partners and IVC’s Israeli Cyberse
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Fighting or Righting Extremism in Israel and the World
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Fighting or Righting Extremism in Israel and the World Right-wing populist extremism has increased dramatically in the past few years. Governments have begun to comprehend the threat to democracy and are fighting back. Unfo
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Rami Dabbas – Why do Israelis expect crises with the Biden administration?
Rami Dabbas – Why do Israelis expect crises with the Biden administration? The Iranian nuclear program and the Palestinian issue constitute the most prominent potential contentious issue between Israel and US President Joe Biden, who intends to foll
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Victor Rosenthal – Israel: Has Joe Forgotten Joseph?
Victor Rosenthal – Israel: Has Joe Forgotten Joseph? Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph – Ex. 1:8 Ever since the day there arose a Pharaoh in Egypt who “did not know Joseph,” the dialectic of the Jewish people in diaspo
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 7, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 7, 2021 The highlights include: In trials, an Israeli treatment cured 89% of severely ill Covid-19 patients in under a week. Israeli scientists have discovered that camels can help fight cancer. Kosovo and
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True Future – Episode 8: Israel: Dr. X-Ray Will See You Now
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – A Nation of Leaders Yitro 5781
Jonathan Sacks – A Nation of Leaders Yitro 5781 This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to constitute a study in contrasts. The first is in chapter 18. Yitro, Moses’ father-in-law and a Midianite Priest, gives Moses his first lesso
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UNPACKED – How Israel Reshaped Jewish Culture
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Israel Seen Exclusive – Saying Thank You 13 Years Later
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Two Roads Taken Towards Israeli Integration: Arabs & Haredim
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Assaf Erez – Presents Once Again His Unique Photos on Israel
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 1, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 1, 2021 The highlights include: Almost one third of Israelis have received their first vaccination against Covid-19. Breakthrough Israeli alternative to antibiotics gets European funding. Israeli voice tech
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UNPACKED – Watch The Unique Phenomenon of the IDF’s Lone Soldier?
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Tsvi Bisk – Deplatforming Seditionists is Not Censorship
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True Future TV – Israel: Episode 7: Vocalizing Your Health
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Steve Kramer – The Media Is Not Trusted
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Israel Seen Exclusive – A Miraculous Delivery On Route 1 Israel
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Rami Dabbas – Hezbollah is involved in the drug trade in Damascus and other countries in the Middle East
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Asaf Romirowsky – The True Nature of Tolerance
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Camera – Is B’Tselem Israel’s Leading ‘Human Rights Organization?’
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
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UNPACKED – Watch The Surprising History of the Star of David
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Barry Shaw – A View from Israel
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 24, 2021
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 24, 2021 The scourge of Covid-19 is hopefully on the way out as the world publicizes the news that Israel’s mass vaccination program is working. In other news, Israeli medical innovations are showing
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Israeli Startup Nanosynex Aims to Bring Rapid COVID-19 Test Kits To Israeli Markets
Israeli Startup Nanosynex Aims to Bring Rapid COVID-19 Test Kits To Israeli Markets Nanosynex, a startup whose mission is to save lives by speeding up diagnostic processes, is working to bring a new inexpensive rapid testing kit that will successfu
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Israel Seen Exclusive – “Not Only Do We Deliver… We Deliver”
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The Jerusalem Center – Conspiracies, Jews, and the Jewish State
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Far Horizon Bo 5781
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Unpacked – How Israel Reshaped Jewish Culture & Who Decides Who is a Jew?
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UN Watch – “The Arc of History in the Middle East Bends Toward Peace”
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CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News
CTECH – Israel’s Latest Technology and Innovation News Meet the Israeli company that has ballooned to a valuation of $1.4 billion despite nano-sized sales. 3D printer company Nano Dimension barely has any revenue, but it has completed n
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