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IDF – 75 Years of Defending Israel
IDF – 75 Years of Defending Israel 75 years ago today on the Hebrew calendar the IDF was established. Since then, our soldiers continue to give their all in order to protect our country and the civilians within. We are the IDF. Our purpose is to pre
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – From Despair to Hope BEHA’ALOTECHA
Jonathan Sacks z”l – From Despair to Hope BEHA’ALOTECHA There have been times when one passage in this week’s parsha was, for me, little less than lifesaving. No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews is harder still. And spiritual
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Hiddush – For Religious Freedom & Equality is in Jerusalem
Hiddush – For Religious Freedom & Equality is in Jerusalem “The State of Israel … will ensure complete equality of social and political rights of all its inhabitants irrespective of religion … it will guarantee freedom of religion
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David Bedein – View: Two Eulogies – Dee Family vs. the Terrorist’s Family
David Bedein – View: Two Eulogies – Dee Family vs. the Terrorist’s Family POB 71098 Beit Agron International Press Center 37 Hillel Street Jerusalem 94581 Israel Tel. (+972-2) 623 6368 Cell phone (+972-58) 722-2661 David Be
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/29/23
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/29/23 The big Krakowski: Israeli startup Deepdub takes on Hollywood. CEO Ofir Krakowski takes CTech on a Deepdub deep dive behind how his Tel Aviv startup became the first AI dubbing solution to
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Steve Kramer – On the trail of the Sanhedrin
Steve Kramer – On the trail of the Sanhedrin Michal and I had a wonderful tour in the beautiful Lower Galilee recently with friends. We had booked a two night stay at a Lake Kinneret (aka Sea of Galilee) Gomeh resort hotel, part of the large Isrotel
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Barry Shaw – NO to Gelman as US Ambassador to Israel
Barry Shaw – NO to Gelman as US Ambassador to Israel Susie Gelman is absolutely the wrong candidate for US Ambassador to Israel. Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority maybe, but not to Israel. In her role as chair of the Israel Policy Forum (someo
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Blessing of Love NASO
Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Blessing of Love NASO At 176 verses, Naso is the longest of the parshiyot. Yet one of its most moving passages, and the one that has had the greatest impact over the course of history, is very short indeed and is know
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Israel: Photos from Our Kfar Saba, Neighborhood Shavuot Water Event
Israel: Photos from Our Kfar Saba, Neighborhood Shavuot Water Event Except for a few pics, all are from our amazing resident master photographer Dekel Braun
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Judaism and Artificial Intelligence: Shavuot Shows the Connection
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Judaism and Artificial Intelligence: Shavuot Shows the Connection What does Judaism have to “say” about Artificial Intelligence (AI)? The question demands attention with AI algorithms running rampant these days: ChatGPT
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Revolutionizing Agriculture: New Crispr Technology Reveals Hidden Genes in Plants for Targeted Crop Improvement
TAU: This development Expected to Revolutionize How Agricultural Crops are Improved. For the first time and with the help of CRISPR technology: A new large-scale genetic modification method makes it possible to reveal the role and properties of duplicated
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Hiddush – for Religious Freedom & Equality
Hiddush – for Religious Freedom & Equality The full extent of the extortion of the government by its partners, (and mostly by the ultra-Orthodox and national-Orthodox parties) is now being revealed. There is no doubt that a special cry of “Sha
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Israel: National Service for All is a Moral Imperative
Israel: National Service for All is a Moral Imperative The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security Professor Efraim Inbar President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. Colonel (res.) Prof. Gabi Siboni Expert on cyber security, mili
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Howard Epstein – THE DYSTOPIAN FUTURE THAT COULD BE ISRAEL’S
Howard Epstein – THE DYSTOPIAN FUTURE THAT COULD BE ISRAEL’S For the twentieth week in succession, Motzei Shabbat has seen hundreds of thousands protesting against the judicial reforms in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and some 150 other locations the length
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel 5/21/23
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel 5/21/23 The upcoming Jewish festival of Shavuot (Pentecost) celebrates the Revelation at Mount Sinai. Appropriately, Israelis have been revealing more innovations and activities to benefit humanity. Recent medic
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: When Protesting, Less (Topics) is More (Success)
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: When Protesting, Less (Topics) is More (Success) With the anti-Judicial Reform protest demonstrations continuing well into its fourth month (except for last week’s Gaza campaign respite), more and more voices are
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism “The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews.” On 27th September 2016, Rabbi Sacks delivered a keynote address entitled ‘The Mutating Virus: Understandin
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Mahmoud Abbas’ Foolishness On Center Stage at the UN
Jonathan Feldstein – Mahmoud Abbas’ Foolishness On Center Stage at the UN Israel’s former Prime Minister, Golda Meir, once said that there would only be peace when the Arabs loved their children more than they hated ours. Unfortunately, that is
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/19/23
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/19/23 Secretive Israeli startup reveals AR laptop three years in the making. Sightful’s new laptop, Spacetop, has no physical screen and comes instead with augmented reality (AR) glasses. Read more An
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Torat HaRav Kook In Honor of Yom Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Day
Torat HaRav Kook In Honor of Yom Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Day Torat HaRav Kook In Honor of Yom Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Day “Yerushalayim, and Zion in particular, is a teaching about the return of humankind to its highest status -to the point that all the n
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Sound of Silence BaMidbar
Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Sound of Silence Bamidbar Bamidbar is usually read on the Shabbat before Shavuot. So the Sages connected the two. Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah. Bamibar means, “in the desert”. What then is the con
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Tsvi Bisk – Israel: “Refugees: and Settlers”
Tsvi Bisk – Israel: “Refugees: and Settlers” The Palestinian leadership affirms the “right of return” according to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194. Israel counters that this means the destruction of the Jewish State an
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Mudar Zahran: Jordan should be the Palestinian State
Mudar Zahran: Jordan should be the Palestinian State MIDA.org.il By David Oman Time and again the “Peace Process” falls apart despite all efforts to revive it • For Mudar Zahran – activist, researcher and political exile – this isn”
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Shelly Schreter – How Much Has the Jewish Condition Changed Since 1948?
Shelly Schreter – How Much Has the Jewish Condition Changed Since 1948? The very question provokes indignation, certainly in Israel. 75 years after the founding of the first sovereign Jewish state in almost 2000 years, when Israel is such a success
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Tsvi Bisk – Mitigating the Middle East Conundrum
Tsvi Bisk – Mitigating the Middle East Conundrum The following is condensed from an essay that appeared in World Affairs (Winter 2022), a responsa to Prof. Alon Ben-Meir’s proposed Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation. Let’s be
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May/14/23
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May/14/23 Israel should be the first country to go to for solutions to the world’s biggest problems. In medical matters, its First Aid is second to none. In the latest Positive Israel newsletter, Israeli d
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Reaching the Height(s) to become Prime Minister
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Reaching the Height(s) to Become Prime Minister Israelis today prefer Benjamin (“Benny”) Gantz to Binyamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu as the next prime minister – so show all the latest polls over the past few weeks. Alth
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Jonathan Feldstein - Gazans Should Be Thanking Israel
Jonathan Feldstein – Gazans Should Be Thanking Israel I wrote this article this morning, before just experiencing an air raid siren in my own community. I have started and stopped writing this multiple times. Since Wednesday, Palestinian Arab terror
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Google and Tel Aviv University Launch $1m Program for Ai Research in Sustainability and Education.
Tel Aviv U. & Google Launch program to promote multidisciplinary research in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability and Education Google and Tel Aviv University are continuing their ongoing collaboration and launched a new program for the promotion of
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5-12-23
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5-12-23 Cloud security startup Laminar set to be acquired for $200-250 million. Laminar, which has developed a security solution for early identification of cloud data breaches, is in negotiations
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – Family Feeling BEHAR-BECHUKOTAI
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Family Feeling BEHAR-BECHUKOTAI I argued in my Covenant and Conversation for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic dimens
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Howard Epstein – WILL BIBI INCAPACITATE HIMSELF?
Howard Epstein – WILL BIBI INCAPACITATE HIMSELF? There are lawyers and there are great lawyers. Many of us occupy the first category; few the latter. One name that springs to mind amongst the few is Alan Dershowitz, yet, as we know, many idols (and
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Steve Kramer – The Strategic City of Ma’aleh Adumim
Steve Kramer – The Strategic City of Ma’aleh Adumim Ma’aleh Adumim is a small city in the Judean desert on the outskirts of Jerusalem with a population of more than 40,000 Israelis, including a large American contingent. It’s as close as a 10-
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the Real Catastrophes of Palestinian Arabs: Looking Beyond Blaming Israel
Jonathan Feldstein – The Real Nakba On May 15, Palestinian Arabs and their supporters commemorate what they call the “Nakba,” the catastrophe. This year, sadly, it will even be commemorated in the halls of the US Congress. Indeed, Palestinian
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United Hatzalah Applauds Approval of Bill for Unified Emergency Phone Number in Israel
United Hatzalah Welcomes Government Approval of Bill for a Unified Emergency Call Number United Hatzalah welcomes the Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs’ unanimous approval of the bill unifying emergency phone numbers and dispatch centers. Th
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Jonathan Feldstein – Every Generation’s Story: 75 Years of American Christian Engagement with Israel
Jonathan Feldstein – Every Generation’s Story: 75 Years of American Christian Engagement with Israel If a book were a candy store, and I was a kid, “Every Generation’s Story: 75 Years of American Christian Engagement with Israel” would be my
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 7, 2023
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 7, 2023 This week’s newsletter takes you inside many of Israel’s achievements. Israeli medical successes include the world’s smallest heart pump; a mother and daughter heart transplant; r
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Democracy in a Jewish State? Biblical Precedents
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Democracy in a Jewish State? Biblical Precedents Along with Israel’s recent “Judicial Reform” program is the festering question whether the state can really be democratic as well as Jewish. Actually, the issue isn’t
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TAU: The Jewish Wars? Jewish leaders from Israel and the Diaspora Meet
TAU: The Jewish Wars? Jewish leaders from Israel and the Diaspora Meet In light of the escalating crisis in the relations between Israel and world Jewry International emergency conference at Tel Aviv University: Jewish leaders from Israel and the Diaspora
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CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/5/2023
CTECH: Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News 5/5/2023 Israeli high-tech crisis deepens with hundreds of layoffs in one day. “There is a deep crisis in Israeli high-tech, part of which is due to the global crisis, but part of it is due to what
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United Hatzalah – Surmounting Disability To Save Lives
United Hatzalah – Surmounting Disability To Save Lives EMT with disability responds to emergencies in a wheelchair. Akko – A few weeks ago, a woman in her 50s suffered chest pains in her home in the city of Akko. Her relatives alerted e
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Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: How’s your day going?
Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: How’s your day going? Good morning from the Judean mountains. I slept well last night but when I woke up I realized that just 30-40 miles from my home, for hundreds of thousands of Israelis, it was a horrible night.
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Unveiling the Truth: Documentary Reveals Israel Not Responsible for Journalist's Killing
Lies and Tears by documentary filmmaker Pierre Rehov-Why Israel Was Not to Blame May 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin. Now, Lies and Tears by documentary filmmaker Pierre Rehov provides compe
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Reflecting on Life's Blessings: a Birthday Tribute to Love, Family, and Israel
Reflecting on Life’s Blessings: a Birthday Tribute to Love, Family, and Israel Today is my birthday, and it’s the perfect time to reflect on the things that matter most to me. I am so grateful for the love of my family, the blessings of living
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 30, 2023
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 30, 2023 As it completes its 75th year, Israel continues to build up the modern Jewish State. This latest Positive newsletter contains medical advances to build up the strength of the sick and injured ever
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: Wrongly Framed by the Right
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Israel: Wrongly Framed by the Right Responding to massive protests against his administration’s radical “Judicial Reform” program, PM Netanyahu has once again resorted to what he knows best: throwing a derogatory moni
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CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News April 29, 2023
CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation & Technology News April 29, 2023 Pinecone hits $750 million valuation in $100 million round to build long-term memory for AI. The Israeli startup has seen its valuation increase more than four-fold in one year. Read
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Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: Hijacking Our Memory
Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: Hijacking Our Memory Controversy surrounded Israel’s observance of Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, this week. As much as possible, given the social divisions the past month, political and military leaders of all backgroun
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Courage to Admit Mistakes ACHAREI MOT-KEDOSHIM
Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Courage to Admit Mistakes ACHAREI MOT-KEDOSHIM Some years ago I was visited by the then American ambassador to the Court of St James, Philip Lader. He told me of a fascinating project he and his wife had initiated in 1
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Why ‘Foreign Aid’ to Israel Benefits the United States
Why ‘Foreign Aid’ to Israel Benefits the United States by Yoram Ettinger Algemeiner News Service The US does not give foreign aid to Israel — the US makes an annual investment in Israel, giving US taxpayers a return of several hundred percent. While
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RAV KOOK IN HONOR OF YOM HA’ATZMAUT: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NATION STATE OF ISRAEL
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The Jewish Agency for Israel: Watch Ma Nishma, Israel
The Jewish Agency for Israel: Watch Ma Nishma, Israel The Story. To celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday, The Jewish Agency for Israel and Z3 Project partnered with Shaanan Streett, the frontman of HaDag Nahash, one of Israel’s most popular and influ
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Howard Epstein – END THE PRE-OCCUPATION!
Howard Epstein – END THE PRE-OCCUPATION! The Palestinian people – whose greatest enemies are their leaders – lament the “Occupation” and ask when it will end. Their complaint is that the war of annihilation launched against Israel by
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Tsvi Bisk – Israel: Reflections of a Dejected Optimist
Tsvi Bisk – Israel: Reflections of a Dejected Optimist On the one hand, I haven’t been as proud of the Israeli people as I have in the last several months. The massive, immediate recognition of what is at stake, and the resoluteness in refusin
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Steve Kramer – Israel: Time for Reflection
Steve Kramer – Israel: Time for Reflection If you ever wondered how the US would react should another Nazi Germany threaten the democratic world, stop wondering. You’re seeing it right now in the Middle East… Let’s jump back to 1932, when the
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: Israel-1776, 1948, 2022: Who Wins Wars of Independence?
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: Israel-1776, 1948, 2022: Who Wins Wars of Independence? As Mark Twain once (didn’t really) say: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Israel’s 1948 War of Independence and the Ukraine’s 2022 War to
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UN Watch – Murderous Dictatorships Exposed at UN Human Rights Council
UN Watch – Murderous Dictatorships Exposed at UN Human Rights Council Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran and Cuba spoke at the United Nations Human Rights Council to reiterate their commitment to promoting and protecting human rights. UN Watch Executive
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Jonathan Feldstein – Russia is Not Healthy for Jews and Other Living Things
Jonathan Feldstein – Russia is Not Healthy for Jews and Other Living Things When I read about the arrest of American Jewish Wall Street Journal Reporter, Evan Gershkovich, in Russia on March 29, my mind went back to the 1980s. In July 1985, I
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Jonathan Sacks z"l - The Plague of Evil Speech TAZRIA-METZORA
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Jonathan Sacks z”l Watch-Israel at 75: Home of Hope
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יוסף חדאד – Yoseph Haddad What does it look like when young Arab Israelis arrive for the first time in Auschwitz?
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 19, 2023
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News April 19, 2023 NSO’s Pegasus spyware found new ways to hack iPhones. Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto found that phones of Mexican human rights activists were infected with Pegasus b
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Watch Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l – On The Holocaust
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Israel: Remembrance Day for the Holocaust Approaches this Evening
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Steve Kramer – Israel’s reaction to Iran’s plan to destroy the Jewish State
Steve Kramer – Israel’s reaction to Iran’s plan to destroy the Jewish State Israel is currently in an interim period of religious and national holidays which will be over by the end of May. The Knesset is on vacation while hopefully intense nego
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 16, 2023
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 16, 2023 It’s hard to be positive when a tragedy occurs such as that to Lucy (Leah) Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina. All I can report is that the organs Lucy donated have benefited five Israelis
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – What’s No Longer in Israel: Good Riddance!
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – What’s No Longer in Israel: Good Riddance! Israelis and Jews in general love to complain – about what their homeland doesn’t have, or what it has “too much” of. But sometimes it pays to step back and offer two che
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Lia Baram – My Recent Photos from Kfar Saba Israel
Lia Baram – My Recent Photos from Kfar Saba Israel Lia is ten years old and loves taking photos of her environment. Enjoy her latest ones.
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Jonathan Sacks z”l – The Dangers of Enthusiasm SHEMINI
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CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News
CTECH – Latest Israeli Innovation & Technology News Israel’s cyber infrastructure vulnerabilities exposed in recent wave of attacks. 85 cyberattacks have been reported since the beginning of the month, most of them attacks on institutional we
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IDF – Operational Recap of the Last 5 Days in Israel
IDF – Operational Recap of the Last 5 Days in Israel We are the IDF. Our purpose is to preserve the State of Israel, to protect its independence, and to stop its enemies from disrupting everyday life for Israel’s citizens and residents.
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Jonathan Feldstein: My latest article Personal and Raw-Why, What For?
Jonathan Feldstein: My latest article Personal and Raw-Why, What For? Throughout the streets of Efrat, the Judean mountain town of about 12,000 in which I live, on Sunday afternoon, thousands of people stood silently, in reverence and grief, to provide co
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Finding Hope and Renewal in the Midst of Terrorism: A Passover Reflection
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Barry Shaw – The Death of Maya and Rina and the Cover Up
Barry Shaw – The Death of Maya and Rina and the Cover Up Rina and Maya Dee are to be buried today as their mother continued to fight for her life in the hospital after being gunned down by Arab terrorists. The sisters’ mother, Lucy 45, remains
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – A Repeating Story: Israel Divided & United
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Steve Kramer – Israel’s Surmountable Challenges
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HOWARD EPSTEIN – A PASCAL LETTER FROM ISRAEL
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Rav Kook's Impassioned Pesach Message: the Foundation of Freedom is Loyalty to Our Inner Essence
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WHAT WOULD RAV KOOK ZT”L SAY TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL TODAY?
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Tel Aviv U – Demonstrates Innovative Technology Alternative for Psychiatric Meds
Tel Aviv U – Demonstrates Innovative Technology Alternative for Psychiatric Meds An innovative technology-driven treatment was found to be as effective as psychiatric medications like Cipralex A new clinical trial conducted at Tel Aviv University ha
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Israeli National Guard Proposal Threatens Democracy and Civilian Safety, Warns Former Police Chiefs" (70 Characters)
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CTECH: Israel’s Latest Innovation and Technology News April 2, 2023
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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 2, 2023
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 2, 2023 It’s all go in Israel. As if to answer the Biblical demand to “Let My People Go”, Israelis have certainly been “on the go” since my last newsletter. In fact I had to g
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: Israel 2023 is Beating Back 1984
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: Israel 2023 is Beating Back 1984 The protesters’ recent (temporary) “victory” i.e., halting the Judicial Reform legislative process, was accompanied by another sort of success. Israelis are no longer willing to tolerate most
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the Choreography of Love: Understanding the Significance of Sacrifice in Judaism Today
Jonathan Sacks z”l – Understanding Sacrifice TZAV One of the most difficult elements of the Torah and the way of life it prescribes is the phenomenon of animal sacrifices – for obvious reasons. First, Jews and Judaism have survived without t
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Researchers Uncover Groundbreaking Discovery: Plants Emit Distinct Sounds Under Stress, Potentially Unlocking a New World of Information for Farmers and Animals Alike.
TAU: First-of-its-kind study resolves an old controversy: Plants emit sounds! The sounds emitted by plants are ultrasonic, beyond the hearing range of the human ear. Plant sounds are informative: mostly emitted when the plant is under stress, they contain
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Remembering the Heroic Christian Arab Israeli Police Officer Who Sacrificed His Life in Terror Attack
Jonathan Feldstein: One Year Later – the Murder of a Christian Arab Israeli Hero It’s been a year. I was in Houston, about to go into a TV interview on CTN, and got a text message from my wife. “Did you hear what happened?” It was an unnerving
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UNPACKED: Watch-4 Things The BDS Movement Doesn’t Want You To Know
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Howard Epstein: ISRAEL: DEATH SPIRAL, CIVIL WAR – OR DELIVERANCE
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IDF Shorts: Watch: This is What Drives our Soldiers
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Meet the Hybrid Micro-robot: Innovative Technology Only 10 Microns Across the Size of a Biological Cell
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Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Judicial “Reform”: Israel’s Right-Wing Forever?
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig – Judicial “Reform”: Israel’s Right-Wing Forever? The Israeli Government’s so-called Judicial Reform holds within it a likely, future, revolutionary scenario that isn’t on the public’s radar. First, some backgroun
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Israeli Bill Sparks Controversy over Proselytizing: Understanding the Sensitivity and Concerns Behind the Proposed Legislation
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Discovering Meaning: the Key to a Fulfilling Life Beyond Happiness
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Breaking Barriers: Celebrating Women's Equality in the Israeli Military with the Idf
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Discover the Magic of Living in Israel: Exploring Its Rich History, Vibrant Culture, and Deep Connections to Nature and Religion
Steve Ornstein – Why Live In Israel? Living in Israel is a unique and special experience that cannot be compared to living anywhere else in the world. Whether you are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, there is something truly magical
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Revolutionary 'super Seaweed' Produces Natural Health Compounds from the Sea: a Breakthrough in Marine-derived Medicine and Cosmetics
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Israelis Protest for Their Rights: Can It Lead to Success?" - Insights from a Renowned Scholar
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