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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 29, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 29, 2024 On the Jewish New Year festival, Rosh Hashana, 100 blasts on the Shofar (ram’s horn) are blown to summon the people to prayer. This newsletter was compiled before the latest news from Lebano

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 22, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 22, 2024 I believe that the world is beginning to get the message that Israel is not an ordinary country! The highlights include: Overseas doctors share their experiences of volunteering in Israel. Positiv

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 15, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 15, 2024 This issue is dedicated to all the Israeli superheroes featured in this newsletter The photo is of Israel’s Walter Bingham, the world’s oldest journalist, who celebrated his 100th birt

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Aug. 25, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Aug. 25, 2024 Thanks to Sharon for the photograph of Jerusalem at night. The highlights include: Israeli saved hundreds on Oct 7, now gives new skills to ex-soldiers . Israelis give cancer–killing cells a

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 7, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 7, 2024 There are many signs that Israelis are continuing with their work to make a better world, despite the continuing war on many fronts.  The wounded returning to work, Oct 7 victims opening cafes, new

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 30, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 30, 2024 f you want to be depressed by stories about violence, tragedies, and lies about Israel, there are many websites you can link to and email groups you can join.  But if you want the truth about the

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 23, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 23, 2024 Despite the war, nothing can stop Israelis from completing activities and innovations that make the world a better place. The photo (TY Sharon) is part of the border barrier that Israel hoped its N

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 16, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 16, 2024 The photo is of our local flame tree (delonix regia) which are prolific in Netanya. Every year they transform from their barren state, re-igniting into blooms of fire. They remind us of how the peo

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 2, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 2, 2024 Israelis might not have the wisdom of King Solomon, but some of their inventions, innovations, and achievements are extremely clever. Israeli electronic sensors can restore the sense of touch to dam

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 26, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 26, 2024 One of the traditional International ways to show respect to someone is to remove your hat on greeting them. So the expression “Hats off to Israel” is very appropriate for those who appr

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 19, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 19, 2024 There were so many positive Israeli news articles for public consumption last week, but you had to look beyond the negative front-page headlines.  Which is why you read this newsletter, of course.

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 14, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 14, 2024 As you probably know, Israel and its allies have just defended the Jewish State from hundreds of drones and missiles launched by Iran.  The good news is that there were no Israeli fatalities and

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Sanity Report: The Real World – Israel’s Positive News 7th Apr 24

Sanity Report: The Real World – Israel’s Positive News 7th Apr 24 With so many false accusations, distortions, and propaganda in the Mainstream Media, it is only possible to see the “real” Israel in a newsletter such as this. I recommend t

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 24, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 24, 2024 Jews around the world have just heard how Queen Esther saved the Jewish people from annihilation over 2,000 years ago. This week, the positive Israeli news is full of the achievements of Israeli wo

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 10, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 10, 2024 Five months after Oct 7, Israel is certainly Up and Running – even stronger than before.  Residents have returned to battered communities in the south and rehabilitation hospitals and charit

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel 3/3/24

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel 3/3/24 Not even a war can stop Israel from building on its 75 years of success in rebuilding a Jewish State. Israel continues to build up its basket of subsidized medical treatments, create new remedies for glo

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 18, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 18, 2024 Future proof is when something has been designed to anticipate and minimize the effects of unwanted future events.  This could apply to so many Israeli achievements and even to its current war aga

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War Jan. 7, 2024

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War Jan. 7, 2024 As we welcome in 2024, I think we would all welcome a better year than 2023. Parents of IDF lone soldiers have been flown to Israel to give a surprise welcome to their children. And a support

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/31/23

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/31/23 As 2023 comes to an end, I unashamedly write this introduction with much emotion. There are now definite signs that Israel is winning the war against Hamas in Gaza. It cannot fail, thanks to a w

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/24/23

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/24/23 It’s clear in last week’s positive news that Israeli forces are steadily clearing Hamas terrorists from Gaza. We learned that on Oct 7, another Israeli hero gave dozens of survivors a clear e

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/17/23

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/17/23 So many positive news articles last week focused on regenerating life for individuals, communities and in other areas. Medical regeneration involved rehabilitating wounded IDF personnel; reunitin

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/10/23

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel at War 12/10/23 As we light the candles to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, we hope to soon see a bright future after these dark days of war. Meanwhile, there are many more illuminating Israeli achieve

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Israel at War: This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 3, 2023

Israel at War: This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Dec. 3, 2023 American Israelis (and other Anglos) celebrated Thanksgiving just over a week ago. In Israel last week there was much to be thankful for – the release of many hostages, temporar

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Israel at War: This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 26, 2023

Israel at War: This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Nov. 26, 2023 As some of Israel’s hostages, kidnapped by Hamas, are returning to freedom, thousands of Israelis have been returning from overseas to help fight terrorism or to give support t

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Israel at WAR-This Week’s Sanity Report Nov. 19, 2023

Israel at WAR-This Week’s Sanity Report Nov. 19, 2023 This week’s Positive Israel newsletter highlights that despite the ongoing war, Israel’s citizens, its organizations, and its many global friends are steadfast in their desire to reco

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 16, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 16, 2023 This newsletter edition is entitled “Chai-Tech”, merging the term “Hi-Tech” with “Chai” – the Hebrew word for “Living” / “Lives”. T

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 9, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 9, 2023 This week’s newsletter theme is “connections”.  It was prompted by the news that Israel is building infrastructure to establish the Jewish State as a communications and solar ener

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 2, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 2, 2023 As last week’s Torah portion stated, Israel dwells alone – it is unique.  Certainly the innovations, activities, and achievements in this latest newsletter are “something elseR

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 18, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 18, 2023 Ben Gurion Uni is working together with Israel’s OncoHost on a cancer biosensor; Tel Aviv Uni has got together with UCLA to treat memory loss; Israel’s BioNanoSim is marketing its eye d

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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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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 19, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 19, 2023 Many readers will be busy cleaning their homes for the upcoming Jewish festival of Passover. I noticed a fresh, clean theme connecting many of the recent articles in this issue of my positive Israe

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 12, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 12, 2023 We thank Michael Ordman for all of his amazing weekly “Good News” reports. I was watching a jazzy performance of the song “The Rhythm of Life” last week precisely at the tim

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 15, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 15, 2023 There has been so much more happening in Israel recently.  A higher number of Israeli startups than ever were on display at CES Las Vegas, which handed out more CES awards to Israeli innovators. T

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 1, 2023

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 1, 2023 We leave 2022 looking forward to another year of Israeli innovations, discoveries and positive achievements. This newsletter publicizes new Israeli therapies that allow us to look forward to eradica

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 4, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Sept. 4, 2022 It’s great to return to Israel after 3 weeks in the UK. And despite most Israelis only now getting back to work, to school, and to studies, this latest newsletter shows that the summer break

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 10, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 10, 2022 It may be the start of the summer holidays, but the busy pace of Israel’s positive activities remains at the highest level. Israeli scientists and medics have been busy kick-starting the immu

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 3, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 3, 2022 Israel is making the world a much safer place. This week’s newsletter includes Israeli solutions that could save humanity from all dangerous viruses, aggressive prostate cancer and congestive

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 22, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 22, 2022 As a regular newsletter, readers know, that Israel has a huge positive impact on the world. This week’s news includes an Israeli Covid-19 treatment that also helps cancer patients; super-fast

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May, 1, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May, 1, 2022 Israel’s 74th birthday, on Weds evening and Thursday, follows another week of positive news from the Jewish State.  More research on preventing serious Covid-19 infections; innovative medical

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 18, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 18, 2022 This Passover, an Israeli astronaut is passing over our heads experiencing a unique view of the Cosmos. He is working 400km above the Earth on groundbreaking experiments to benefit humanity.  Mea

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 3,2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel April 3, 2022 Israelis continue to “run up” many more successes in trying to make the world a better place. Israel’s life-saving field hospital in Ukraine is now up and running. There are curre

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 13, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Mar. 13, 2022 A large proportion of this week’s newsletter is focused on two themes. Ukraine is of course the main news item and Israelis have been focused on saving the lives of Ukrainians in Ukraine, or

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 6, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 6, 2022 The news that Israel’s Prime Minister reached out on the holy Sabbath to try to mediate the Ukraine conflict, came too late for my newsletter. However, Israelis have been reaching out all thi

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 27, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 27, 2022 While most of us may be catching our breath at this difficult time, Israel continues to breathe new life into its positive activities. In medicine this includes a portable device for lung function

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 13, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 13, 2022 This week’s newsletter will hopefully give you a good sense of Israel’s positive impact on the world. Medical innovations to sense the early onset of Alzheimer’s, Covid-19, and ki

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 7, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 7, 2022 This week’s positive newsletter is full of Israel’s work to sustain the planet. Treatments to combat diseases such as ALS and cancer (appropriate for World Cancer Day) plus innovations t

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 30, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 30, 2022 Things are really looking up in Israel.  This week’s newsletter includes medical technology to diagnose brain disease by looking in the eye. And the latest statistics show that more Israelis

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 16, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 16, 2022 These are very exciting times, as Israeli innovations are literally lifting-off. Dozens of Israeli children watched eight of their school-built nano-satellites being launched into space, and there

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 9, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 9, 2022 Israel has just re-opened its gates to overseas visitors who can once again experience the Start-up / Scale-up Nation at first hand. Those who are not yet ready to travel can read here about the 

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This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 2, 2022

This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 2, 2022 At the start of a new calendar year, Israelis continue to bring new innovations into the world to benefit humanity. A new heart implant, a new treatment for Parkinson’s, a new sleep quality an