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Housing Revolution Rocks On in Tel Aviv Tent City

The housing revolt is in full swing. The atmosphere is amazing. Finally there is a social uprising. Israel’s version of the Tahrir Square riots. Bibi will have his hands full with this one. It’s not going to just go away. …

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Housing Demonstrations

Can Tent City Revolutionize Social Standings?

Wow. Just wow. I mean, there are protests and then there are pro-tests, testing the professionalism of the political demonstration industry. Saturday Sunday and Monday was that. 1,000

Ashkelon Coal Power Stations

As Bibi Jettisons Oil Spike, Coal Prices To Shoot Up and more…

Coming soon, a spike in coal taxation will lift the sum to NIS 1b in 2012. The excise hike at NIS 66 per ton of coal will see

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Building in Judea and Samaria; Petitioning at the Security Council

Israel is reportedly looking to build 336 new apartments in Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. That is 42 apartments in Karnei Shomron and 294 apartments in Betar

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Brush Fire in Zion

"The dry heat combined with a light wind" caused the Jerusalem forest "blaze to spread quickly as eight firefighting crews along with two planes attempted to gain control

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Candle in the Wind

On Sunday, the final witness, then-commanding officer in the region, Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz, was heard in the trial surrounding the death of poor Rachel Corrie,

East 85th Inferno

Upper East Side Inferno

Last Monday, a ferocious four-alarm fire all but destroyed the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun synagogue on East 85th Street on the upper East Side in Manhattan. The blaze

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New Anti-Boycott Bill

Knesset is reportedly trying to pass a law, sponsored by Ze'ev Elkin, formerly of Kadima, which in effect would ban Israelis from calling for consumer, academic or cultural

Jordan's King Attacks Targeted Jordanians

Dear Mr. Abbas: Good Luck in September Before the General Assembly

Abu Mazen said it! He means it! Go to the General Assembly in September and fight fight fight for statehood! I hope he wins. Meanwhile, too many hash smoking Hashemites

Maritime Media Spectacle Part Two

This week in Athens, Greece, blockade runners conducted a training session on how to thwart Israeli efforts to enforce their Gaza blockade. At

The Hope for Gaza

The IDF has permitted Gaza to receive the entry of construction material for two housing projects and 18 new schools. Starting last June, Israel cautiously permitted the entry

Not Discounting Jewish Terrorism

No one is paying the price for price-tagging but the settlers. Period. Four female Jews, three of them minors, were arrested on suspicion of torching Palestinian vehicles in

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Chillin’ in the Hood: Russell Crow

A proposed ban last November on circumcision in San Francisco is not restricted to just the city on the Bay. Santa Monica could actually be the first American

Yeshiva Scandal Will Work In Favor Of Yeshiva Bachors

According to a recent report from the Ministry of Education, a state-funded yeshiva recorded nearly 10,000 "ghost workers" on whose behalf the yeshivas received scholarships. According to Treasury

The Palestinian Authority: How It Looks From Here

Perhaps it is time for the Palestinian Authority to call off suicide picketing and get to work on life in their own borders. They will find this is

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