Hundreds of African refugees were evacuated yesterday from a bomb shelter in South Tel Aviv. In the last few months, about two hundred and fifty refugees have faced inhuman conditions. They have been staying in over- crowded, deserted structures often flooded with no drinking water or electricity. They receive no medical care and are frequently [...]
In a way, one might feel sorry for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as his weekend Arab Summit in Damascus was rampant with “no-shows”, including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki of Iraq all boycotting it, to name a few. Some leaders, who [...]
Israel environmental activists, together with government officials are hoping to bring young Diaspora Jews closer to their Israeli counterparts. Young Diaspora Jews in North America have shown less interest in giving support to Israel, and this trend will hopefully be reversed by sponsoring environmental awareness projects that will help young people in both Israel [...]
On Saturday, an Israeli man accidentally ran over his friend’s 3 year old son, apparently in front of the father’s eyes. The child is now hospitalized in critical condition.
This weekend has taken its toll as part of this horrible routine: a 17 year old was killed in a motorcycle accident and another 22 [...]
I heard lots of talk about Fitna the Geert Wilders film about the Koran and its broadcasting recently on the Internet. You will notice that the movie was removed from LiveLeak with a statement saying something about threats and fear being the cause for the removal.
I tried to visit the movie website but nothing was [...]
On the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s send visit to Israel so far this year, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has expressed fears that Ismail Haniyeh’s radical Hamas organization could wind up taking control of the West Bank from Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction, either by force or arms, or by democratic election. [...]
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Picture Hat Tip: Anat Mosberg Ynet
700,000 light bulbs were turned off yesterday on a Tel Aviv night between 8 and 9 o’clock as part of the Earth Hour, a global campaign to fight energy waste. Launched last year in Sidney Australia, the Earth Hour campaign has recruited aboard many major cities across the world. The [...]
Strange and often gruesome things happen in this world, but one of the strangest occurred in May, 2007, in the city of Galveston Texas. It appears that a young man named Joshua Mauldin put his own baby daughter into a microwave oven, and turned in own full blast for about 20 seconds. The child lived, [...]
Yesterday Noam Shalit, father of the kidnapped soldier Gilad, passed a harsh critique of the government’s recent actions. Shalit is pointing a blaming finger at the Prime Minister Ehud Olment for not taking instant initiatives to release his son from Hamas captivity. According to Shalit, his son is paying the price for Olmert’s hesitation.
“I [...]
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In a mode that could clearly say: “I told you so”, critics of America’s involvement in Iraq are now saying that the U.S. Administration sent the troopers there for one primary reason: to shore up a reliable source of crude oil that would keep flowing into American storage facilities, and hence into [...]
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