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Hypocrisy thrives among liberal Democrats:
If women are upset at Trump’s naughty words, who in the hell bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray?
Jim Comey answered, "I don’t know," "I don’t recall," and "I don't remember" 236 times while under oath. But he remembered enough to write a book.
President Trump should nominate Hillary Clinton for the next opening on the supreme court. Then he can finally get her investigated.
Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.
SOCIALISM: An idea that is so good that it has to be mandatory. Bernie Sanders walks into a bar and yells... "Free drinks for everyone!" looks around and says "Who's buying?"
What is the difference between an Illegal immigrant and E.T.? E.T. learned to speak English and went home.
President Trump's wall cost less than the Obamacare website alone. Let that sink in, America.
How do you walk 3,000 miles across Mexico without food or support and show up at our border 100 pounds overweight and with a cellphone?
Maxine Waters opposes voter ID laws; She thinks that they are racist. You need to have a photo ID to attend her town hall meetings.
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CRT lies continue:
Secret Dossier Was Kept On Parents By School Board Official
(PresidentialWire.com)- An Arizona school board president has been accused of creating an online dossier that includes the personal information of parents who don’t think that teachers should be indoctrinating their children with “Critical Race Theory” content.
Jann-Michael Greenburg, the president of the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board, accidentally revealed his Google Drive document when he shared a link to the file in a screenshot that he sent to a parent as part of a heated discussion about what is being taught to children.
The file contained sections labeled “Anti Mask Lunatics” and “SUSD Wackos,” among several other categories.
The link Greenburg accidentally shared worked because the document was set to “public,” meaning that anybody who knows the link would see it. However, without that link, nobody was likely to find it – meaning Greenburg presumed it would be safe.
Within those categories were the names of parents including their Social Security numbers, divorce records, and even their financial information. The revelation that such personal information was being collected by a politically motivated, radical president of a school board quickly triggered a huge campaign for his resignation.
Greenburg has categorically denied that he has any involvement with the dossier, despite the fact his computer was accessing the document when he sent the screenshot. He blamed his father, Mark Greenburg, with whom he shares a computer. The school board president has since promised an investigation by “forensic IT staff,” but it’s unclear what really needs to be investigated.
Personal information of parents was being kept on a school board president’s computer, which mocked and berated those parents for opposing mask mandates and the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools.
We’ll update you on whether or not he ultimately does the right thing and steps down.
And:
So Do The Biden Lies:
So Do The Biden Lies:
The Real Biden Bill: At Least $4.6 Trillion
Program by program, here’s how Democrats disguise the real cost of their entitlement blowout.
By The Editorial Board
The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released its “official” cost estimates for the House tax and entitlement bill, but don’t believe it. The CBO gnomes aren’t lying about a 10-year deficit estimate of $367 billion. They’re obliged to score the bill under rules that Democrats have rigged with multiple tricks that disguise the real cost by trillions of dollars.
Democrats phase out the biggest programs in the bill while paying for them with 10 years of tax increases. They phase-in other programs and off-load costs to the states. The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates the House bill would cost nearly $4.6 trillion over 10 years if temporary provisions are made permanent, as most will be.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) pegs the cost at $4.9 trillion if temporary tax credits and programs are made permanent through 2031. This would add $1.5 trillion to deficits over the next five years without additional tax offsets. Let’s take a tour of this budget deception.
• Enhanced child allowances ($3,600 for children under age 6 and $3,000 up to age 17). This is the bill’s most expensive provision at about $130 billion a year, which is why Democrats limit it to one year. Does anyone doubt they’ll extend it in the future?
They may get help from Republicans, who won’t want to be attacked for raising taxes on families. CRFB says making the allowances permanent would cost $1.13 trillion. Based on current law, it would cost $1.5 trillion since the $2,000 tax credit from the 2017 GOP tax reform is set to drop back to $1,000 after 2025. So that’s nearly $1.4 trillion in hidden costs alone.
• Earned income tax credit expansion. The bill nearly triples the maximum EITC value for childless adults—but only for one year. Its $15 billion annual cost would be $135 billion if extended over the decade. The kicker: Individuals can qualify based on their previous year’s earnings, so they technically don’t have to work to get it.
• ObamaCare premium subsidies. Democrats in March extended eligibility to Americans making more than 400% of the poverty line and capped their premium payments for benchmark plans at 8.5% of income. Subsidies for lower earners were also increased so people making 150% of the poverty line don’t have to pay a penny toward their premiums, compared to 4.1% before the change.
These sweetened subsidies are set to expire after next year, but the bill extends them through 2025 while also allowing lower-income adults in states that opted out of the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion to qualify. CRFB says these subsidies will cost $530 billion if they are made permanent.
• A new child-care entitlement. Households making up to 250% of their state’s median income would qualify for child-care vouchers, and their payments would be capped at 7% of income—less for lower earners. The bill appropriates about $100 billion through 2024 to states and “such sums as may be necessary” from 2025 to 2027.
Spending on this entitlement like all others can be expected to increase on autopilot, especially as providers raise prices to capture more subsidies. States will have to pick up 5% of the cost from 2025 to 2027, which somewhat reduces federal spending but could lead to state tax hikes down the road.
• Universal pre-K. The bill appropriates about $18 billion to states for universal pre-K through 2024 and then “such sums as may be necessary” through 2027. States would be on the hook for about 5% of the cost starting in 2025 and 37% in 2027.
The pre-K and child care entitlements are estimated to cost only $380 billion because they phase in gradually and expire after six years. But there’s zero chance they will expire in 2027. Once the middle-class gets hooked, the entitlements will be impossible to repeal. CRFB estimates the two programs would cost $800 billion if made permanent.
• The current $10,000 limit on the state-and-local tax (SALT) deduction increases to $80,000 through 2030. In 2031 it would return to $10,000. Penn Wharton says this gimmick would lead to $65 billion in additional tax revenue through 2031 though it would cost about $300 billion through 2025. Confused?
Under current law, the $10,000 SALT cap is set to expire in 2025 with most of the 2017 GOP tax cuts. So raising the cap to $80,000 would add to the deficit through 2025 but subtract from it through 2031. This gimmick will make it harder to extend the other expiring provisions of the 2017 tax reform, such as bonus depreciation for business. CRFB says that if the 2017 tax reforms are extended separately, any savings on paper would be erased and replaced with an additional $340 billion in costs.
In sum, the House bill will cost $2 trillion to $3 trillion more than CBO is estimating because Democrats have camouflaged the costs. Penn Wharton estimates the bill’s tax increases and other revenue will yield about $1.8 trillion, but this doesn’t account for how the tax hikes will change the incentives to work and invest.
Keep in mind that CBO this summer projected that annual deficits will already exceed $1 trillion on average through 2030, causing U.S. debt to swell by $12.8 trillion—and that’s before the infrastructure bill or this House bill. When the spending all kicks in, and the rich are all taxed out, the middle class will be hit with a huge tax increase. This is the most dishonest spending bill in American history.
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Perhaps those who strategize our shrunken navy need to see a shrink:
The U.S. Navy’s Range Has Diminished Dangerously
Carrier air wings aren’t prepared to overcome weapons that push U.S. ships away from shore.
By Jerry Hendrix
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro has called China his service’s “most significant” challenge, and he’s dead right. Recent satellite images suggest China has been building a model of an American aircraft carrier in the desert to use as target practice. It’s clear the rising power intends to hit the U.S. Navy’s most visible and valuable ships at sea. Yet the American carrier fleet isn’t set up to strike Chinese targets ashore. Instead of addressing this major vulnerability, the Navy is throwing time, money and energy into a new jet-fighter program.
Not much is known about the “next generation air dominance,” or NGAD, aircraft. Official statements report that it will be a “family of systems,” perhaps a manned aircraft working with unmanned companions, and that it will feature new stealth technologies. Rumors suggest that it will be somewhat comparable to the F-14 Tomcat, made famous by the 1986 movie “Top Gun,” whose primary job was defending the carrier and other ships.
Yet what the carrier air wing urgently needs to compete with China is the ability to project power ashore from a great distance. In 1996 the range of the carrier’s air wing was about 800 nautical miles. By 2006 that figure had dropped to 500 miles. Meanwhile, China has developed anti-ship missiles like the Dong Feng-21, the “carrier killer,” with a range of 1,000 miles.
The reason for the Navy’s “retreat from range,” as I described the situation in a 2015 paper: The Navy retired the A-6 Intruder aircraft in 1997. The Intruder could cover 800 miles fully loaded with bombs and more than 1,200 miles carrying a mix of bombs and external fuel tanks.
The planned replacement, the A-12 Avenger, a stealthy flying wing design, would have been ready to carry 6,000 pounds of bombs nearly 1,000 miles. But Defense Secretary Dick Cheney canceled the program in 1991 because of delays and cost overruns. At the time, the American military had no peer competitor.
The Navy consolidated its offensive capability in the F/A-18 Hornet and later the Super Hornet variant, with a combat radius of about 500 nautical miles. The Navy did well with the F/A-18s over the past generation, operating over places like Iraq and Yugoslavia, which posed no threat to the fighter’s home carriers, which could thus sail close to land.
But China and Russia have fielded anti-access/area-denial weapons, and that is likely to push carriers 1,000 miles offshore, well beyond the reach of F/A-18s. The F-35B and C variants, now halfway through their delivery schedule, can reach targets only roughly 400 and 625 miles, respectively, from the carrier.
Unmanned tankers that can fly off the carrier, like the Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray program now in development, could mitigate the problem. But those drones don’t exist in large enough numbers and carry less fuel than their manned predecessors did. Air Force tankers have enough fuel, but they are based on land and thus too vulnerable to Chinese long-range weapons to be of use.
This problem is especially urgent given the Navy’s plans to continue building aircraft carriers—the $13 billion, 100,000-ton Ford-class supercarrier—even as it lacks the ability to strike deep in enemy territory.
The Navy missed an opportunity to resolve this issue. Fifteen years ago, the Navy and industry designed and built two stealthy unmanned aircraft, known as the X-47B, with a flying radius of 1,050 miles. The aircraft flew from, and recovered aboard, Navy supercarriers in 2013 and 2014. The aircraft even refueled from an airborne tanker without difficulty. That prototype could have easily been scaled up to carry 4,000 pounds of ordnance to targets 1,500 miles away, in repeated cycles, without concern for pilot proficiency or fatigue. Yet the program was terminated at the direction of the Navy’s uniformed leadership in 2015.
In 2015 Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said that the F-35 would be the Navy’s last manned aircraft, citing the evolving strategic environment. Yet naval aviation waited out its civilian leadership and appears intent on not only keeping human pilots in the seat, but continuing to build fighters amid an obvious strategic need for attack aircraft.
Unless long-range, penetrating strike aircraft, manned or unmanned, are put into air wings soon, carriers will be unable to make a meaningful contribution to deterring and, if necessary, winning a conventional conflict with China over Taiwan or other flash points. To avoid that unfortunate outcome, civilian leaders, including lawmakers and the Navy secretary, will need to step in to get naval aviation back on target.
Mr. Hendrix, a retired U.S. Navy captain, is a vice president of the Telemus Group.
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Good News Israel (edited):
Ordman returns:
[Ironically, my father served as the attorney for the Cherokee Tribe in Northeast Alabama and his fee was a handcrafted pine basket which my oldest daughter possesses. He was an ardent Zionist and would be pleased]
The Cherokee stand with Israel. The Tribal Council of the Northeast Alabama Cherokee has recognized the “sovereign Jewish nation” of Israel, with Jerusalem as its “eternal undivided capital.”
I'm so pleased to be back in Israel, although I'm still catching up with reporting all the good news.
Hot topics in recent positive Israeli news include the Israeli-led discovery of hot spots in cancer cells that can be exploited to destroy tumors, plus dozens of other hot medical innovations and breakthroughs. International news includes more examples of warming relations between Israel and the Arab world. Israeli tech hot topics include Intel's (Israeli-developed) fastest microprocessor, several solar power energy projects and innovations, and four of the world's best inventions of 2021. Record investments are fueling Israeli startups; two "fired-up" Israeli women won gold medals in judo and there are many heart-warming stories to celebrate life in the Jewish State.
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Best regards
Michael
Hot topics in recent positive Israeli news include the Israeli-led discovery of hot spots in cancer cells that can be exploited to destroy tumors, plus dozens of other hot medical innovations and breakthroughs. International news includes more examples of warming relations between Israel and the Arab world. Israeli tech hot topics include Intel's (Israeli-developed) fastest microprocessor, several solar power energy projects and innovations, and four of the world's best inventions of 2021. Record investments are fueling Israeli startups; two "fired-up" Israeli women won gold medals in judo and there are many heart-warming stories to celebrate life in the Jewish State.
Please click here, to donate a small or large amount to help me publicize VeryGoodNewsIsrael.
Best regards
Michael
In the 21st Nov 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Breakthrough Israeli-led research has located multiple weaknesses in cancer cells.
- Tel Aviv University is ranked world’s fifth best for entrepreneurship.
- Four Israeli products in TIME Magazine’s best inventions for 2021.
- Three major solar energy success stories.
- Record month for investment in Israeli startups.
- Gold medals for two Israeli judokas.
- Bar and Bat Mitvah celebration for 700 Israeli orphans.
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Targeting cancer hotspots. A team of researchers, led by Israel’s Weizmann Institute, used algorithms to find neoantigens - “hot spots” on tumors - that provide access to current immunotherapies for multiple cancer patients. The scientists then engineered T cells from healthy individuals to completely destroy the tumors.
https://www.jpost.com/health-
https://www.jci.org/articles/
App lowers blood pressure. A 3-year study of the digital health app from Israel’s Hello Heart (see here previously) shows that over 84% of participants with stage II hypertension achieved a reduction in their systolic blood pressure. It was the largest multi-year efficacy study of a digital therapeutic to control hypertension.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://jamanetwork.com/
11 more projects for precision medical research. 11 new projects have been granted a total of NIS 32 million in the 4th annual round of the Israel Precision Medicine Partnership (see here previously). They include AI for cancer and Crohn’s, discovery of new disease genes, and treatments for rare disorders.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
New AI innovation lab for personalized treatment. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Merck and Teva have opened AION Labs - a new Israeli innovation lab for startups to develop cutting-edge AI-based technologies for personalized treatments. Startups will use computational biology to discover and develop patient-centric precision medicines.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.jpost.com/health-
Testing new treatments for safety. Israel’s Quris has launched a “patient on a chip” - the world’s first AI platform for predicting which candidate medicines will work safely in humans. Quris’s leadership team includes Israel’s Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover and Dr. Robert S. Langer, co-founder of Moderna.
https://jewishbusinessnews.
https://www.quris.ai/
Roche partners Ibex for AI cancer detection. Roche has entered an agreement with Israel’s Ibex Medical Analytics to jointly develop an embedded image analysis workflow. It will allow pathologists to check biopsies using Roche's NAVIFY & uPath software while seamlessly accessing Ibex’s AI algorithms, insights, and tools.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Hospital counters obesity with computer game. Israel’s Sheba Medical Center has launched a smartphone gaming-based program to help overweight children adopt a healthier lifestyle. They are using the Rumble app from Israel’s UVTAL (see here previously), and a smartwatch to monitor sleep, heart rate and physical activity.
https://www.jns.org/sheba-
A faster Aliyah for medical professionals. A new Israeli government program will speed and support the Aliyah process for Jewish health professionals. It will benefit some 3,000 Jews, mainly from the former Soviet Union, the US, Canada, France and Argentina and overcome the shortage evident during the Covid pandemic.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.
Surgeons rebuild soldier’s shattered face. Two weeks after an IDF captain was shot in the head, surgeons at Rambam Hospital used 3D technology to rebuild his face. A bullet hit the officer near his brain, eyes, and tongue, shattering his jaw. But with the exception of some scarring, it will soon be completely restored.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Global network for Israeli businesswomen. (TY Robert) Orly Carmon, head of Canada’s Orca Global Leadership and Networking, has established a network of 31,000 Israeli business or professional women across the world. Members connect socially and professionally, while Orca also offers development training courses.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
First woman to head elite Navy defense unit. Captain Ophir Huri is the first-ever female commander of the Israeli navy's Northern Snapir unit. The unit, of which 40% are women, is responsible for securing Israeli civilian and military ports and protecting them from threats on land, sea. underwater and from the air.
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Welcome to the Kotel. A delegation of nine Bahrainis, in traditional dress recently visited the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem. They recited prayers and left notes in the wall. Jews, both young and old, embraced the Bahraini visitors, with some greeting the guests in Arabic. (See some of the unique photos.)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Coronavirus aid to Romania. Israel has sent 40 oxygen concentrators to Romania, which is confronting its worst wave of Covid-19 infections since the pandemic started nearly two years ago. The devices were made possible with help from AFI Europe Romania and Israel’s Elbit Systems.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
More water to Jordan. Israel is to double, to 50 million cubic meters, the amount of freshwater it provides to neighboring Jordan, one of the world’s most water-deficient countries.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
The Cherokee stand with Israel. The Tribal Council of the Northeast Alabama Cherokee has recognized the “sovereign Jewish nation” of Israel, with Jerusalem as its “eternal undivided capital.” They expressed solidarity with the Jewish community and compared the Jewish experience with that of native tribes in North America.
https://www.jns.org/alabama-
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Israel mediates in Sudan. Sudanese media have reported that an Israeli delegation that visited Sudan recently mediated between military leader Al-Burhan and ousted Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.
https://www.
World class entrepreneurs. Tel Aviv University was ranked fifth in the world in the 2021 ranking of Startup Genome - a world-leading innovation policy advisory and research firm. TAU was the only non-US university in the top 10. It followed Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. 1,300 TAU alumni have founded startups.
https://english.tau.ac.il/
https://startupgenome.com/
From the Moon to cancer detection. Yonatan Winetraub was one of the three Israelis who initiated SpaceIL’s project to send an Israeli spacecraft to the Moon. He has just won an Early Independence Award and funds from US National Institutes of Health to detect cancer without biopsies, using optical coherence tomography (OCT).
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The best inventions of 2021. (TY UWI) Four Israeli inventions feature in TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inventions for 2021. They are OrCam’s Read (text to audio), Percepto’s AIM (drone software), SupPlant’s plant irrigation sensors, and ElectReon smart road. All have been featured previously in this newsletter.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Intel launches Alder Lake. As previously predicted here, Intel has finally launched its Israeli-developed Alder Lake microchips, including its best gaming processor the Core 19 12900K. Intel say it is its most ambitious project in the last decade, with 1,000 Israelis working for three years on the entire processor lineup.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.calcalistech.com/
The largest solar field in the US. (TY WIN) Israel’s Doral Energy (see here previously) is building what will become the largest solar field in the United States. Indiana’s Mammoth Project will ultimately produce 1.3 gigawatts of electricity – sufficient to power over one hundred and seventy thousand households.
https://www.
Israel’s largest floating PV field. Israel’s Shikun & Binui Energy (see here previously) and the Hof Harcarmel Water Association have inaugurated Israel's largest floating photovoltaic (PV) solar energy field. The 51,500 panels cover 112+ acres of the Habonim reservoir and can produce 23 megawatts of electricity.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Cooling without electricity. Israel’s SolCold (see here previously) has developed paint that uses solar energy to trigger a cooling process without air-conditioners. Its eco-friendly double-layered coating absorbs the sun’s heat and re-emits it as cold. Each coat lasts up to 15 years and can be applied almost anywhere.
https://jewishbusinessnews.
Recycling buildings. Israel’s female led Criaterra creates sustainable building materials to build office and residential buildings that can be recycled and later even reused. Their production emits only 20% of CO2 and some 10% of energy, compared to standard products. Their thermal insulation is 600% better.
https://jewishbusinessnews.
https://www.criaterra.com/ https://www.youtube.com/
Emergency communications network. Israel’s Commtact has unveiled a real-time wireless communications network for first responders. CommNet is also designed for large events and command-and-control center teams. The software-defined radios operate in rugged conditions over a wide range of radio frequencies.
https://www.jns.org/wireless-
https://commtact-systems.com/
Israel to import tech workers. Israel is to allow foreign students studying engineering subjects in Israel to receive a visa to continue working here. Also, foreign tech experts will be granted visas, in order to meet the government's target of 15% of Israel's work force employed in the tech sector by 2026.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
Vertical take-off air taxi is revealed. After four years of operating in secret, the Israeli startup AIR (see here previously) has unveiled its AIR ONE electric vertical takeoff and landing self-driving vehicle. The two-seater plane will have a range of 100 miles and a maximum speed of 155 mph. Production target is 2024.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Israel approves air filtration system. Israel’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that the air filtration system from Israel’s Aura Smart Air successfully neutralizes nearly 100% of Covid-19 viruses in an enclosed space. Aura will now market the system to Israeli institutions, especially in the health and education sectors.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Sushi beer & ice cream by air. The Israel National Drone Network Initiative (see here previously) entered its 3rd phase (of eight) with drones delivering sushi, beer and ice cream orders to the waiting media. The 10-day demonstration tested drone flights above urban areas in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Ramat Sharon, Herzliya and Hadera.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Non-stop checkout in central London. Israel’s Trigo (see here previously) is powering the first autonomous checkout-free grocery store. Tesco Express in High Holborn central London has ceiling cameras that customers to take items and walk out without stopping at the checkout. Payments and receipts are settled digitally.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Investors keep coming. Israeli tech firms have raised a staggering $17.8b so far this year - almost double the total for the same period last year, and over 70% more than for the whole of 2020. October’s $3 billion investments were an all-time record.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.israel21c.org/
Deficit reduced. Israel’s cumulative fiscal deficit for the twelve months to the end of October 2021 narrowed to NIS 47.1 billion. It represents 5.5% of GDP, which is far less than the 7.2% at the end of September.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
Oracle opens huge data center. Tech giant Oracle has inaugurated its new data center in Jerusalem, which will function as a cloud provider for Israeli clients. The facility covers thousands of square meters, over four floors and over 50 meters underground. Oracle also announced plans to launch a second Israeli data center.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
7-Eleven, but not on Shabbat. US mega-chain 7-Eleven is to open hundreds of Israeli stores. However, unlike other locations, they will be closed on Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, from Friday evening until Saturday night. Local company Electra will invest NIS 60 million in setting up the stores over the next three years.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
New Unicorns. Israel’s Hibob (see here previously), the company behind human resources management platform 'bob', is raising $150 million at a $1.65 billion valuation. Meanwhile Israeli biotech startup Immunai (see here previously) has raised $215 million at a valuation of just over $1 billion.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Investment in Israeli startups: Deel raised $425 million; TripActions raised $275 million; Wiz raised $250 million; Immunai raised $215 million; Cato Networks raised $200 million; Hibob raised $150 million; Hailo raised $136 million; Arbe Robotics raised $118 million (IPO); SeaLights raised $30 million; Karma raised $25 million; Insurights raised $22 million; Metrolink raised $22 million; At-Bay raised $20 million; Navina raised $15 million; Better Health raised $10 million; Quris raised $9 million; Valence Security raised $7 million; Futora raised $6 million; X-trodes raised $4.5 million; LetsTok raised $1.5 million;
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
Enjoying a return to life in Jerusalem. (TY Sharon) People are slowly coming back onto the Jerusalem streets, like bears emerging slowly from hibernation, lumbering up from deep in their caves. What a pleasure it is to reunite and speak to people in real life, rather than via a computer screen.
http://rjstreets.com/2021/10/
Israeli judokas strike gold. Israeli women judokas won two gold medals and a bronze at the Paris Grand Slam, finishing 3rd of the 45 nations in the medals table. Gefen Primo won the gold medal in the under-52 kg category. Raz Hershko won gold in the +78kg category. Inbar Lanir won bronze in the -78kg category.
https://www.israelhayom.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
THE JEWISH STATE
World’s largest Byzantine winepresses. A huge complex of 1,500-year-old winepresses has been uncovered by archaeologists in the city of Yavne, south of Tel Aviv. The 4th-5th century CE facility could produce some two million liters of wine a year and is the largest known example from the period.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
14th century hand-painted scroll of ancient Israel. The Israel Museum has unveiled the Florence Scroll. The 11-meter hand-painted 14th century parchment is the focus of “Painting a Pilgrimage,” an exhibit depicting the earliest known visual travelogue to the Land of Israel by a medieval Egyptian Jew from Cairo.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Crusader relics. An ancient Crusader encampment has been uncovered in the area of the Tzipori Springs in the Galilee. Also, an Israeli scuba diver found a meter-long Crusader sword on the seabed off the Carmel Coast. The Crusaders initiated several military campaigns in the Middle East between the 11th and 13th centuries.
https://www.jpost.com/
https://www.jpost.com/
Israel marks Aliya Day. (TY Sharon) 13th Oct was Aliyah Day and the number of new Olim (immigrants to Israel) from North America are on track to top 4,500 in 2021 - the highest in 20 years. Most new arrivals are coming from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida and California.
https://baltimorejewishlife.
https://www.jns.org/feeling-
235 Bnei Menashe arrive. 235 new immigrants from the Bnei Menashe community in Manipur, Northeast India landed in Israel on Aliyah Day. More than 4,000 Bnei Menashe already live in Israel. They claim descent from one of the ten Lost Tribes of Israel that was exiled by the Assyrian Empire more than 27 centuries ago.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
https://blogs.timesofisrael.
Bereaved children celebrate Bar & Bat Mitzvot. Over 700 children, who had lost a parent to illness or other tragedy, celebrated their Jewish religious “coming of age” together. The event at the Superland amusement park in Rishon Lezion included Jewish arts & crafts, rides, food, and a concert by Israeli pop star Eden Hasson.
https://www.
National exhibit of “secret” Jewish genius. The National Library of Israel is to display the notebooks of “Mr. Shushani,” or “Monsieur Chouchani,” who taught Elie Wiesel and the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. He had a photographic memory of the Bible and Talmud and traveled the world while keeping his real identity secret.
https://www.jta.org/2021/10/
Late delivery. 56 letters penned by a fretting wife to her husband on the frontline, during the Yom Kippur War have finally been delivered, 48 years after they were mailed to him. They eventually reached Baruch “Buki” Snir, who had endured three months of war without hearing a word from his wife.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
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Why hasn't Biden destroyed the Abraham Accords as he has every other achievement Trump engineered?
The Abraham Accords: A successful call to the region to change the record
At the end of a diplomatically interesting week, the crisis with Turkey ended successfully thanks to the current government. Meanwhile, a visit to the Emirates proved that peace with the Gulf was an enormous achievement.
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Perhaps I am a dullard and slow to learn but how does fighting racial issues by segregating children work and achieve harmony? Oh, perhaps the goal is not harmony but race baiting.
Segregating kids by race — even as a class exercise — will only fuel endless racial conflict
In the aftermath of the Virginia gubernatorial election, which was largely decided by a parents’ revolt against critical race theory indoctrination in the public schools, the left claimed the issue was a hoax. MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace summed it up for many in the media when she asserted that such teaching “isn’t real.”
That was a classic case of gaslighting. Yet if there was any doubt about just how real CRT is, New York’s school system is providing another example that demonstrates just how wrongheaded and toxic these ideas are.
This coming week, 7th and 8th graders at the Lower Manhattan Community School will spend two days immersed in exercises designed to “undo the legacy of racism and oppression in this country that impacts our school community,” as a message to parents reads.
Teaching about America’s troubled past of slavery and segregation is absolutely necessary. But that isn’t what’s happening at this junior high school. Instead, the children are going to be separated and divided into groups along racial lines prior to lessons about how “racial identities influence our experiences.”
African-Americans and Hispanics will be put in one group, while whites, Asians and multi-racial students will each have their own. A fifth group will be provided for those who choose to opt out of what amounts to a racial-selection process.
The ostensible purpose is to increase sensitivity to race. But kids understand that people from various backgrounds have different experiences. After all, the school has a population that is 44 percent Asian, 29 percent white, 15 percent Hispanic and 8 percent black.
Public education in a country committed to racial equality would not, however, seek to reinforce the notion that race is what defines us as individuals. And it would never pressure a diverse group of students to essentially re-enact the shameful racial segregation that was once commonplace in American schools.
To the woke ideologues behind such tactics, race is the only thing that matters. They seek to divide everyone into two groups: the oppressed and the oppressors. The latter are those with “white privilege” who must atone for this sin even if they are themselves poor or lacking influence, while the former group must be compensated via “equity,” even if they are among society’s wealthiest and most privileged people.
This is a formula for endless racial conflict, something the race-baiting hucksters selling it have no problem with.
Many liberals have gone along with this because of their desire to virtue-signal their wokeness and sensitivity to minority concerns. But when you send a message to children that they are defined primarily by their skin color or racial background, you’re fostering the sort of intolerance and divisiveness that Americans have labored long and hard to transcend.
The United States in 2021 isn’t perfect, but it has made enormous progress toward equality. Those seeking to indoctrinate kids with this race obsession either ignore or discount those advances to trash America as an irredeemably racist nation.
The program at Lower Manhattan Community School didn’t come out of nowhere. Since the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, some teacher training has incorporated many of CRT’s tenets. An “anti-racist community meeting” sponsored by the city’s Department of Education in June 2020 had teachers go through the same exercise of being divided by race. Though this farce perpetuated racial stereotypes, it’s clear that many educators have embraced the practice.
For a school with a record of achievement in promoting academic excellence and a diverse population to drag students down the CRT rabbit hole is a tragedy. And that’s exactly why we need the city’s educators and politicians — starting with Mayor-elect Eric Adams — to find the courage to speak out and ensure that it isn’t repeated elsewhere.
It’s time for New Yorkers to come together, regardless of race or partisan affiliation, to reject race-based practices that drive us further apart rather than bring us together to celebrate an American future that rests on equal opportunity and racial harmony.
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