Posted on: September 15th, 2013

Want to stop smoking? Drink less alcohol? Ask your local government to raise taxes on cigarettes and liquor. It works wonders. Just ask Israelis.

Posted on: September 15th, 2013

Kosovo’s deputy foreign minister, citing his country’s record of ethnic Albanians protecting Jews during the Holocaust, urged American Jewish groups to press Israel for recognition of the country. In a meeting with Jewish officials in Washington, Petrit Selimi also noted that Kozovo’s pro-American tilt made relations between the two countries a natural. “With such a […]

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Posted on: September 14th, 2013

Richard Allen of JCC Watch, evoking the character Johnny Friendly from the Marlon Brando movie, "On the Waterfront" said, "Nothing moves on the NYC Jewish waterfront without John Ruskay's approval."

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Posted on: September 13th, 2013

The IDF is nothing if not innovative. For soldiers who are on the front lines during the Yom Kippur Fast, the army suggests they suck on popsicles to keep their strength without violating to laws of the fast.

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Posted on: September 13th, 2013

Tel Aviv University and China’s Tsinghua University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for strategic cooperation in innovative research and teaching, with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. A new research center in China initially will focus on life sciences and nanotechnology but later will include other sciences and high-tech, Globes reported. The […]

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Posted on: September 13th, 2013

Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

Two terror attacks just occurred near Ofra, resulting in no injuries, according to Hatzalah Yeuda and Shomron. In the first attack, Palestinian Authority Arabs threw paint at a car passing them in the opposite direction. The paint hit the Israeli car’s windshield, but the driver managed to not lose control over his vehicle. In the […]

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

John Kerry says an Israeli-Peace peace pact is “important to “regional security and stability.” ZOA says he is full of nonsense: Arab wars on Israel have nothing to do with their own internal problems.

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

An alert IDF soldier saved lives.

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

A minor earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale rocked Jerusalem and the Dead Sea Thursday morning and was felt in Jerusalem and on the northern edge of the Dead Sea. The Geophysical Institute of Israel said the epicenter of the quake was located north of the Dead Sea. The temblor also was felt in […]

Posted on: September 12th, 2013

Swiss police staged a mysterious raid on the Geneva home Israeli diamond billionaire Benny Steinmetz, according to an anonymous source close to the incident and who was quoted by Bloomberg News. Geneva’s public prosecutor reportedly ordered the raid on the basis of a request by the Guinea government, but no one is making any comments […]

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

Is Assad’s mind so twisted that he used chemical weapons again? Or are the rebels equally twisted enough to gas Assad’s soldiers and then accuse the regime. And does it matter anymore?

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

El Al Airlines has reinstated flights to Eilat, after having cancelled its three daily daytime flights from Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday because of concerns about the safety of new landing and takeoff designed to reduce the chances of a terrorist attack from Egypt. The airline’s nighttime flights, whose routing had not been changed, were […]

Posted on: September 12th, 2013

A Palestinian Authority terrorist opened fire on IDF troops securing Joseph's Tomb.

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

Following the fiascoes where Netanyahu's preferred choices for Bank of Israel governors couldn't be appointedt, the Turkel Committee vetted and approved three new candidates for the job.

Posted on: September 12th, 2013

At first we thought the article in Globes was a joke, but it turns out its not.

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

At 8 AM, a 54 year old, Arab resident of Natzrat Ilit rammed into the gate of the Ramat David Air Force base in northern Israel. The driver had indicated to the guards that he had planned to make a U-Turn, and then ran full speed into the gate, and suffered light injuries as a […]

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

“This is the second largest baby that was born in the 35 years that I’ve worked at Rambam,”

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

A Penn junior studying at al Quds University laments the "worldwide systems of white supremacism and colonialism," and especially Israel as the "settler-colonial apartheid state," but ignores al Quds' glorification of murderers of Israelis, Americans, teenagers and children.

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Posted on: September 12th, 2013

A minor earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale was felt in Jerusalem on early Thursday morning. [Personally, I slept through it and didn't feel a thing.]

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