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In the news, main stories and points of interest

Coming Up This Week

20-Jul-08

Exclusive: News headlines from the future!

Monday: Barack Obama arrives in Jerusalem. A new state’s witness is claiming he saw Senator Obama handing PM Olmert a fat white envelope.
Tuesday: Gilad Shalit’s IDF comrades disposed today of their olive uniforms after 3 long years, as they reenter civic life. Nothing funny to say about this.
Wednesday: In their [...]

Know and Remember

17-Jul-08

All hearts face North, not West

15-Jul-08

According to well-informed predictions, the highly anticipated prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah is set to take place tomorrow morning (Wednesday, July 16) in Rosh Ha’Nikra - Israel’s northernmost border post along the Mediterranean Sea.
Rosh Ha’Nikra
Recent speculation, initiated by Lebanese newspapers, says that one of the two Israeli captives might be alive. Although many official reports [...]

Fireball Seen by Thousands both in LA and in Tel Aviv

09-Jul-08

Wednesday, July 9, Last Updated 10:00 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel — Last night, a massive fireball crossed the Israeli nightsky at around 8pm local time (18:00 GMT), traveling in an East-to-West bearing and disappearing above the Mediterranean Sea.
Police received tens of emergency calls regarding the mysterious object starting at 8pm in the Sharon province (6 miles [...]

Daily Israeli - Weekend Recap

29-Jun-08

Pressure is mounting on PM Olmert and his Ministers to make a decision regarding the captive soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. After long two years, a swap deal with Hezbollah has finally been drafted, and the only thing that’s required for its immediate execution is the government’s approval. Ehud’s wife, Karnit Goldwasser, made a [...]

This month in Video - News Podcasts - Courtesy of HooQs

26-Jun-08

Be Proud of Jerusalem

26-Jun-08

Yesterday the Chords Bridge was inaugurated in Jerusalem in a massive celebration that cost 2 million shekels.

Many people think the new bridge doesn’t fit the local atmosphere and is actually an attempt to try and make Jerusalem seem more European. The local Haredi (ultra-orthodox) population had threatened to boycott the event when it was [...]

Sarkozy Under Fire

25-Jun-08

Yesterday French president Nicolas Sarkozy was unexpectedly rushed into his airplane during the farewell ceremony, hosted for him by Israeli president Shimon Peres.
It was Mr. Sarkozy’s first visit to Israel, and he was accompanied by his beautiful third wife Carla Bruni
The reason for yesterday’s incident had been a soldier that apparently committed suicide, not [...]

Religious Tribute to George Carlin

24-Jun-08

George Carlin dies this week very unexpectedly. The man that had such great hits like seven words you can’t say on TV and countless comedy shows that personally were some of the best I have heard is gone.
A little religious tribute seems fitting considering the context of the clip and the fact that if [...]

2008 Elections - Israel should follow American example - Debate the issues

24-Jun-08

Tomorrow, unless something truly extraordinary happens, the Knesset will vote to disperse itself, setting the scene for November 2008 elections in Israel. As we all know, the American public is scheduled to go to the polls in November 4th, but unlike their Mid-Eastern counterparts, they’ll be doing it willingly.
It’s been said time and time again [...]