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A bumblebee and a honeybee meet on the corner.
The bumblebee says
“Hey, little bro, how’s it going?” and the honeybee says
“Oh, so, so bad. It’s been a horrible summer, hardly any flowers, and there’s next to nothing in the hive.”
“I can give you a hot tip,” says the bumblebee.
“Go half a block south, then fly over the house to the backyard. There’s a bar mitzvah going on and there are more floral displays than you’ve ever seen, and they’ve even got bowls of sugar and glasses of fruit juice – you should make out like a boss!”
“Gosh, thanks!” says the honeybee, and flies off. Hours later, the two bump into each other again.
“Thanks for the great tip,” says the honeybee,
“that’s just about saved the hive.”
“Good,” says the bumblebee, “but… what’s that on your head?”
“That’s a yarmulke,” says the honeybee,
“I didn’t want them thinking I’m a wasp”.
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All It Takes Is One Hero
By J.B. Shurk
Autumn is here. Brisk mornings have returned. The midterms are fast approaching. Electric change saturates the air.
At a granular level, so much in America today is terribly wrong. Inflation, crime, unprotected borders, censorship, political persecution, language codes, and other leftist lunacies grip the nation. From a broader perspective, though, something is right: more and more people in the United States and throughout the West are finally waking up to the sinister machinations of our globalist power brokers and the many miseries they have wrought.
For so many decades, totalitarianism has spread incrementally across formerly free Western nations, and most citizens were either asleep at the switch or too comfortable to be bothered. What's wrong with outlawing speech that's "hateful"? Who could be for hate? What's wrong with letting private bankers manipulate the value of national currencies? They do so only to prevent runaway inflation from ruining the economy. What's wrong with legislatures spending more money than they have? They can always print more banknotes, tax more incomes, leverage the properties of ever more distant generations far from being born. What's wrong with endless wars against amorphous concepts like "terror"? Wars against nameless terror could never mutate into military campaigns against domestic civilians. What's wrong with disarming civilian populations while arming all-powerful central governments to the hilt? In "democracies," after all, "authoritarianism" is not allowed.
Trust your leaders to do "what's best," to do "what's right," and everything will be okay. Believe without hesitation or doubt what the government tells you, and disregard all opposing viewpoints as dangerous lies. Reject religious traditions as archaic falsehoods instilling bigotry, and accept the State's "Great Reset" and "Green New Deal" as certain scientific truths. Support consensus opinion and reject dissent as "extreme." Remember that politically incorrect words and unsanctioned beliefs may be recognized as forms of "violence" requiring official response. Believe the mainstream media. Trust the scientific bureaucracy. Report fellow citizens who think too freely. And no matter what, obey the authorities...for your own good.
The truth is that we have been sleepwalking into this 1984–Brave New World–Fahrenheit-451 nightmare for far too long. And the longer Western societies have refused to acknowledge the direction of our steady march toward dystopia, the more difficult we have made it for ourselves to reverse the accumulating damage. The result is that millions of people are only now awakening to the mounting dangers around them and are left terrified by what they finally see.
Why now? Perhaps it was the unprecedented COVID lockdowns and school closures that ruined livelihoods and educations. Perhaps it was the government's decision to close small businesses in the name of "public health" while permitting big box stores to rake in windfall profits. Perhaps it was the medical community's disjointed "scientific" pronouncements that large crowds protesting "racist" policing during a pandemic were perfectly healthy but that citizens assembling to protest government mandates were somehow not. Perhaps it was the Department of Homeland Security's stealthy open border policies and middle-of-the-night flights of unvaccinated illegal aliens to unsuspecting communities around the country while the Biden administration simultaneously coerced military service members and civilians into taking experimental "vaccines." Perhaps it was the constantly changing government health guidelines that redefined the meanings of "vaccine" and "emergency" for transparently political purposes. Perhaps it was the growing public awareness that the mRNA "vaccines" caused more injuries than citizens were told and created fewer lasting protections than citizens were promised.
Perhaps it was the ballooning recognition that State-funded schools indoctrinate young students with leftist curricula dipped in racism, sexual libertinism, and outright Marxism. Perhaps it was the growing disparity between how the IRS, EPA, DOJ, and FBI treat left-leaning political allies and how they treat their conservative opponents. Perhaps it was the abominable two-tiered criminal justice system giving Black Lives Matter and Antifa foot soldiers slaps on the wrist for years while hunting down J6 political protesters as "domestic terrorists" and abandoning them in due process–free purgatories without trial or prospect of bail. Perhaps it was the increasingly suffocating blanket of government-directed censorship stifling debate, subverting free speech, and justifying politically animated professional punishments and firings.
Perhaps all of this madness has been sitting undisturbed just under the surface of society like a papier-mâché warehouse one match away from conflagration, and the combined effects of out-of-control inflation, plummeting retirement accounts, debilitating despair, and rampant ideological demonization have acted as the inflammable accelerants and final spark setting the whole edifice ablaze. However we got here, the fire is burning now for all to see. It is bright and unpredictable and out of control. Most importantly, it cannot be swiftly put out. It will rage until it burns through decades of corruption, malfeasance, and rot. It will glow and crackle until new roots for civic freedom take hold and grow. It will at times sear and singe, but it will ultimately bring renewed liberty and peace.
While this social revolution burns, it is important to remember two truths: (1) the more vulnerable the globalist totalitarians are, the more vindictive and cruel they will become, and (2) the more destructive they become, the more consequential every single voice will be.
We see the first point clearly today as ventriloquist dummy Joe Biden, his financial and political puppeteers, and the permanent bureaucratic Deep State exercising raw power behind the curtain all work together to portray freedom-minded, pro-Constitution Americans as security threats undeserving of free speech, equal protection under the law, holding elective office, or exercising civil rights. We see it when the fake president's speechwriters vilify half the country as racists and when Hillary Clinton slanders worshipful Christians praising God as instead executing a Nazi salute. We see it as Facebook and Twitter openly work with government agents to censor and punish conservative speech. We see it as Big Tech monopolies, Big Media conglomerates, and financial heavyweights work to blacklist, deplatform, and demonetize any entrepreneur not willing to bow before the new "woke" clergy or pay homage to their race-based, trans-obsessed, climate-crusading, Big Government bottom line. Anyone who dares fight back against the globalists' cultural cesspool and New World Order must be destroyed.
Yet it is always in times when such unbridled, evil statism takes hold that lone voices grow louder and start breaking through. Donald Trump is one of those loud voices, of course. Aptly named FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, who has come forward to expose the agency's phony record-keeping inflating "domestic extremism" statistics and excessive force used against misdemeanor J6 defendants, is one of those voices. Businessman Mike Lindell, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Trump administration economist Peter Navarro, and everyone who has refused to self-censor and meekly accept Establishment Washington's assurances that the 2020 election was on the up-and-up are all resounding voices that have broken through the government's information embargoes. One voice at a time, one listener at a time, the tide does turn.
No matter how dark things get, all it takes is one hero to push back. Heroes, after all, are not remembered for following the crowd; they emerge because they run in the opposite direction, often into known danger, and spur others to stop, turn around, and act. It is always the lone voice that inspires a people to rise against the injustices of any age. It is the stubborn persistence of the few who marshal real change. It is the resolute among us who peer at the raging inferno without fear. It is the wise who remember that every waterfall begins with just one drop of rain. It is the hopeful who can look around at today's chaos and see clearly the opportunity for great change.
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There is no diplomatic solution
Israel should declare three no's;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
The Silent Strategic Land War Against the Jewish State of Israel
THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA I KNOW: Dozens of FBI Agents Raid Home of Catholic Pro-Life Activist as Children Scream in Terror https://pjmedia.com/columns/
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SPELL BROWN SHIRTS?
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The Democrat Party appears indifferent:
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Will Rashida Tlaib Get Away with Her Antisemitic Comments?
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
September 23, 2022
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How Civilizations Will Be Decided
by Giulio Meotti
More than half the increase of the global population projected by 2050 will be concentrated in just eight countries, mostly in Africa, according to The Economist: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Tanzania. Nigeria will have more inhabitants than Europe and the United States. Pictured: Spanish soldiers and Guardia Civil members patrol the border fence of the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, on May 18, 2021, and hundreds of African migrants seeking to breech the border stand on the other side, in Morocco. (Photo by Antonio Sempere/AFP via Getty Images)
Fewer babies will be born in all of Europe than in Nigeria alone.
In Europe, "at the rate at which things are going, the population will have halved before 2070, with the continent at risk of losing 400 million inhabitants by 2100," noted James Pomeroy, an economist at China's HSBC bank.
The growth of the world population has already reached its lowest rate since 1950 and Europe's population will continue to contract until the end of the century, noted the Financial Times, citing the United Nations World Population Prospects report.
A collateral question is: where?
In the next four minutes 1,000 children will be born: 172 in India, 103 in China, 57 in Nigeria, 47 in Pakistan -- but in all of Europe, only 52.
India, next year, is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country. India will also be 20% Muslim as well as the world's largest Islamic community. How will this demographic trend impact the fragile coexistence between Muslims and Hindus?
In 2021, Europe's population shrank by 1.4 million, the largest decline on any continent since 1950, when these rates were first recorded. Two-thirds of the world's people live in a country where the fertility rate is below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman. China's population is projected to decline by 6 million per year in the mid-2040s and by 12 million per year by the end of the 2050s, the largest slump ever recorded in a country's history. China's population will halve over the next 45 years and it will become a very old country: its GDP will contract as never before and society will have to manage an aging population it never before encountered.
Japan's unprecedented aging is having a frightening impact on its military. Since 1994, the number of young people between 18 and 26 -- the age for recruitment -- has been dwindling. Between 1994 and 2015, there was a fall off of 11 million, or 40%. "Japan no longer has people to wage war," wrote Forbes. For the first time, the Japanese bought more diapers for adults than for babies. The same holds true for South Korea. "The decline in births in South Korea has become a challenge to national security," the Wall Street Journal reported in 2019.
"[F]ewer young people are around for military service. That is why Seoul officials said that South Korea's army will shrink to half a million, from the current total of 600,000 by 2022."
"Taiwan has long lived with the terrifying prospect of an invasion of China, but one of the biggest threats to its security lies from within: the lowest birth rates in the world", noted the Telegraph. Taiwan today claims the lowest birth rate in the world; by 2050 it will have just 20 million inhabitants, there the average age rising to to 57, from 39 today. Taiwan might be so irrelevant that perhaps China will not even have to invade it.
"As of September 2020, analysts estimate that the number of pets -- 3 million -- exceeded the number of children under the age of 15. Now in the streets of Taipei, prams carry more dogs than children".
The same downturn is expected in Italy, where the population will reportedly halve in 50 years. This year in Italy, 121,000 fewer students will enter school than last year, and 2,300 classes will disappear. Last year, there were 100,000 fewer students and 196 schools were closed. The previous year, 177 schools were shuttered, and 124 the year before that. Every year Italy loses 1-2% of its pupils. From 7.4 million students (latest available data: 2021), the number will supposedly drop by 2034 to 6 million in "waves" of 110-120,000 fewer students each year. During the last eight years, according to data published by the ministry, 1,301 schools have shut, representing 13.3% of the 9,769 schools that are still active.
This crisis is not a projection, it is happening right now. By 2050, 60% of Italians will have no brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles or aunts. The Italian family, with the father who pours the wine and the mother who serves the pasta to a table of grandparents, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, will be gone, as extinct as dinosaurs.
Yemen, on the other hand, a failed country in the middle of a terrible civil war, will show a population increase that is double Italy's.
In the north-central African Sahel region, the population is expected to reach 330 million, seven times its population of 2000. Egypt will reach 190 million. Algeria will go from the current 42 to 72 million (most of whom will likely head for Europe). Morocco will grow from 36 million to 43 million.
So, the "old Europe" will find itself facing a North Africa of 318 million inhabitants, not counting those residing beneath the immense sub-Saharan plateau. In France today, 29.6% of the population aged 0 - 4 is of non-European origin, compared to 17.1% percent aged 18-24. Non-Europeans are also 18.8% percent in those aged 40 -44; 7.6% aged 60-64, and 3.1% for those over 80, according to the national statistics institute, Insee. The institute also recently examined the last three generations in France: 16.2% of all children between the ages of 0- 4 are children or grandchildren of North African origin; 7.3% are from the rest of Africa, and 4% are from Asia.
George Soros' Open Society Foundation, which provides financial support for immigration to Western countries, disclosed as early as 2011 that in Marseille, the second-largest city in France, "between 30 and 40 percent of the population is Muslim". It is not difficult to assume that by now, the symbolic threshold of 50% has already been exceeded, even if there are not yet official reports. The monthly Causeur bluntly states: "Well over 50 per cent of the Marseille population is North African and black African".
Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish exclaves on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, form the only land border between the European Union and Africa. In Ceuta, two parallel fences, six meters high and topped with razor wire, run for eight kilometers along the border with Morocco. In Melilla, similar fences run 12 kilometers along the border. Nets, cameras, noise and motion sensors, spotlights and surveillance posts help to monitor it. Every year, tens of thousands of migrants, hundreds at a time, try to cross the barriers of Ceuta and Melilla. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais:
"In 1887 there was only one Muslim registered in Melilla, he was originally from Casablanca and worked as a servant; today Muslims exceed 40 percent of the population and are approaching the majority".
"We are a first observatory of what is happening in other cities of Europe", said Jesús Vivas, president of the Ceuta Assembly. A local newspaper reported:
"Only in Ceuta, between April 1960 and today, 49 per cent of the population is Muslim, even if the real figure is significantly higher. Miracle? No, the incompetence and stupidity of the stormy nationalization process started between 1985 and 1990".
Ceuta and Melilla are what most of Europe's cities will look like in 20-30 years. Melilla is now the first Spanish city that has surpassed a 50% Muslim population due to immigration, family reunification and a high birth rate.
This expansion was foreseen by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former UN secretary general, an Egyptian Copt who, on May 22, 2007, outlined his view of the future of Europe:
"The unprecedented collapse of the population of Europe and its accelerated aging contrast with the still very rapid population increase in the southern and eastern Mediterranean. This will result in very acute imbalances!.... Immigration without precaution risks imploding Western societies at the cost of very serious problems (culture shock, neo-colonial structures, unemployment, etc.)"
Pakistan will become a young cauldron of 403 million people, almost the same as the population of the entire European Union (448 million); and its youth will go to the "stans" that will have been created around Europe. Afghanistan, one of the largest geopolitical black holes after the US withdrawal last summer, will double its population to 64 million.
What will Poland build to keep out the mass of people who will press on the external borders of the EU? Eastern Europe will collapse in a terrifying picture. Romania will lose 22% of its population, followed by Moldova (20%), Lithuania (17%), Croatia (16%) and Hungary (16%). Le Monde cries that today Central and Eastern Europe are "confronted with the anguish of disappearance". The UN's figures are impressive:
"Bulgaria, which went from 9 million inhabitants in the 1990s to 6.8 million in 2022, could have only 5.2 million in 2050. Serbia had 8 million inhabitants in collapse [sic] of the iron curtain. It currently has 7.2 million and could drop to 5.8 million in thirty years. Over the same period, the population of Lithuania could plummet from 3.8 million to 2.2 million, that of Latvia from 2.7 million to 1.4 million."
Germany as we know it is, according to Die Zeit, disappearing: "22 million people, or more than a quarter of the population, are from another country or have parents born outside Germany". Germany is poised to become a "country of legal immigration" after it has long been a de facto one -- but with major political and legislative breakthroughs, according to Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Christian Doleschal of the CSU denounced the open immigration plan of the German government: "This will destroy Europe in the long term", he warned.
The celebrated German writer Uwe Tellkamp also criticized his country's immigration policy. "While respecting other cultures, I would still like to preserve mine. I do not want to be like Frankfurt," he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung, referring to the German city where the majority of the population is no longer native German. In Frankfurt, the first German city where Germans became a minority, 15% of the population is of Turkish origin.
The Western world has provided more wealth and convenience to more citizens than any other civilization in history. We are practically inundated with resources, but we are running out of people, the only truly indispensable resource.
Russia is the most obvious example: it is the largest country on earth, it is full of natural resources, yet it is dying: its population is declining disastrously. Vladimir Putin will no longer be Russia's president when his country will have lost approximately 15 million inhabitants, and a third to a half of those remaining will be Muslims.
"Is Russia afraid of disappearing?" was the question asked in the weekly Le Point by Bruno Tertrais, the scholar author of the book Le choc démographique and vice-president of the Foundation for Strategic Reseacrh in Paris. "Behind the conflict over Ukraine loom Russian demographic anxieties about the increase in Muslim immigration".
Kamil Galeev, a researcher at the Washington DC-based Wilson Center, recently posted a map of Russia:
"Let's talk about Russian demographics. As you can see, vast spaces in Siberia and European Russia are depopulating. There are two factors behind it. First, low fertility. The only places with natural growth are the Muslim areas..."
The official Russian news outlet, Pravda, posed the same question: "Islam to become Russia's predominant religion by 2050?"
Janis Garisons, Latvia's defense secretary, just offered Politico among potential scenarios after Putin's eventual fall, "an internal war... the disintegration and fragmentation of Russia, with pockets controlled by militias and warlords."
In that eventuality, Islam will have a unique opportunity to fulfill its dream of a caliphate by creating an unbroken chain of Muslim entities from Pakistan and Afghanistan to the North Caucasus and the Volga. In the worst-case scenario, the situation could get out of control. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, weapons of mass destruction began to spread around the world, posing a threat to human existence itself. Nobody knows what will happen if Russian missiles and high-tech weapons fall into the hands of the "caliphs" or "emirs" of the new Islamic Russian states.
By 2050, more than half the increase of the global population projected will be concentrated in just eight countries, mostly in Africa, according to The Economist: Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines and Tanzania. Nigeria will have more inhabitants than Europe and the United States.
In addition, Islam will have overtaken Christianity as the largest religion in the world. The Islamic population of the European Union, depending on the migratory flows, could reach 75 million within a generation -- like an entire Muslim Germany or, if one prefers, like Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Portugal and Sweden combined. Does that sound better?
"They have not managed to change us. It is we who will change them," Norwegian imam "Mullah Krekar" told the newspaper Dagbladet.
"Look at the development of the population in Europe, where the number of Muslims increases like mosquitoes. Each Western woman in the E.U. produces, on average, 1.4 children. Each Muslim woman in these same countries produces 3.5 children. By 2050, 30% of the European population will be Muslim... Our way of thinking in Islam stands in opposition to the Western way of thinking. Today it is our way of thinking that comes in and shows itself stronger than theirs...."
Already today, Islam is the leading religion in Brussels.
Algerian author Boualem Sansal recently said on French radio:
"France has made deals with Islamists: in France there were once 10 mosques, today there are 3,000 and Arabia and Qatar finance the Islamization of suburbs. The French government has been overwhelmed".
"Islam is a growing social force in Britain's second city," headlined The Economist, referring to England's second-largest city after London, Birmingham, where the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer. A small portrait of a conquered city:
"In the city's 200 mosques, Muslims come not only to pray, but also to buy books, receive instructions, marry, divorce and bury their dead. Every year hundreds of people approach its 'sharia council', which administers family law."
When Birmingham's annual Eid Festival began in 2012, it was attended by 20,000 worshipers. In 2014 there were 40,000. In 2015, 70,000. In 2016, 90,000. In 2017, 100,000. In 2018, 140,000. Then Covid stopped all large gatherings. Now they are resuming.
The population of Birmingham will soon be half Muslim. "Muslims in Birmingham in 2018 amounted to 27 per cent of the population," noted the Birmingham Mail . "The number of Muslims increased from 21 percent in 2011". Business Live revealed that the number of Muslim children in the city has surpassed the number of Christian children:
"In addition to Birmingham, Islam is now the dominant religion among children in Leicester, Bradford, Luton, Slough and the London boroughs of Newham, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets."
The recent clashes between Muslims and Hindus in Leicester have now moved to other British cities, including Birmingham, where a Hindu temple was attacked with the cry of "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is the greatest"). Sectarian and religious hatred "can spread all over England". The clashes between Muslims and Hindus at the birth of India and at the partition with Pakistan have now reached the multicultural enclaves of Europe.
According to Hungarian journalist Károly Lorán in the newspaper Magyar Hirlap:
"[T]he United Nations estimates that world population will reach a peak of 11 billion people in 2100, three billion more than today. The increase will come from the sub-Saharan region. The Asian population will change little. The population of North America will grow by 120 million and that of the European Union will decrease by 60 million, due to Poland, Germany, Italy and Spain. If we fail to change the birthrate of 1.5 that characterizes the European Union and the current immigration of 1 million people per year remains, by the end of the century the share of the Muslim population will reach 40 percent on average. Some Western European countries will already have a Muslim majority. If we want to replace the declining population with immigrants, we will need 1.5 million immigrants a year and, by the end of the century, 60 per cent of the population of the European Union will be Muslim".
Do we fantasize that immigration at this rate will be able to integrate happily into host societies and that the migrants will become like us? Do we hope that before long, Europeans will return to having more children? What if we are wrong and these projections become reality? Are we resigned to the disappearance of our civilization?
In 1996, Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations:
"The balance of power between the various civilizations is changing: the influence of the West is decreasing; Asian civilizations increase their economic, military and political strength; the Islamic world is experiencing a demographic explosion with destabilizing consequences for Muslim countries and their neighbors; non-Western civilizations in general reaffirm the value of their own cultures"
"What do you leave behind?", asked Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair.
It's the demographics, stupid.
"Great demographics, great power", Nicholas Eberstadt, the American political economist summed up in Foreign Affairs. Crumbling demographics, crumbling powers....
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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Ordman "Good News Israel" (edited.)
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In recent weeks newsletter readers cannot fail to have noticed that Israel has been calling out to the world to adopt the many life-changing and life-saving innovations that its citizens have been developing. And indeed the world has heard the call and is responding. With an Israeli-led consortium for cancer treatments; a US-Israel partnership for neuroscience research; an international legal conference; delegations from India, Pakistan and Japan; visits from senior officials from Morocco and Indonesia; a new science hub for Israeli startups in New York; Israeli science lectures in Belgian bars; remote Israeli training for Ukrainian teachers; increased availability of Israeli vegan meat throughout Europe, international acclaim for Israeli wines; and less global food waste thanks to Israeli technology. Finally, see the massive influx of immigrants responding to Israel's call to begin a new life in the Jewish State.
Wishing all who celebrate it, Shana Tova u'Metuka, a Very Good 5783 and Gmar Chatima Tova.
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In the 25th Sep 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Israeli scientists lead Europe’s fight to beat cancer.
- Three examples of coexistence between Israeli Arabs and Jews.
- Four major international delegations and conferences in Israel.
- Scientific cooperation between Israel & the US has never been closer.
- Israeli robotics replaces the tasks that nobody wants to do.
- Israel’s economy is growing at the fastest rate in the developed world.
- Aliyah in 5782 was the highest in two decades.
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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Israeli-led European cancer consortium. Professors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hadassah Cancer Research Institute are leading CanceRNA - a European consortium working to develop novel immunotherapy treatments for cancer. The consortium will initially focus on treating acute myeloid leukemia.
https://www.jns.org/israelis-
Turning cancer into a chronic disease. Ofer Shalev, Founder & CEO at Israel’s New Phase (see here previously) spoke at CTech’s Mind the Tech NY Conference. New Phase’s hyperthermic therapy reduces cancer from Stage 4 to Stage 2 so patients can live with a better quality of life. Clinical trials have started.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
The full picture of cancer diagnosis. (TY UWI) The death of his mother led Dean Bitan to found Israel’s Imagene (see here previously). The startup has developed tech that can conduct a full molecular analysis on a digitized biopsy image in real time and give a result in minutes, instead of the current situation of a few weeks.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Finding the right antidepressant. Israel’s Genetika+ is developing a precision tool to determine if a particular antidepressant will work for an individual. It will also apparently highlight any side effects. (See also Taliaz.)
https://nocamels.com/2022/09/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Algae for mind and body. A recent clinical study has shown that AstaPure Arava® by Israel’s Solabia- Algatech Nutrition benefits the immune system and lowers stress. It boosts the gut microbiome while lowering the stress hormone cortisol. The result is a much better resistance to infections.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/
A new center for neuroscience. Israel’s Sheba Medical Center is partnering with Thomas Jefferson University in the USA, to promote neuroscience research and clinical treatment at both institutions. It includes construction of a cutting-edge neuroscience center on Sheba’s Tel HaShomer campus, targeted to open in late 2024.
https://www.jns.org/sheba-
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Arab Israeli scouts march through Jaffa. (TY UWI & Stand With US) Jaffa was the venue for the largest ever Arab Israeli scout march. The Israel Arab Scouts Association was founded in 1956 and is based on values of community service and volunteering. It also promotes coexistence and integration into Israeli society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A day in the life of a Muslim EMT in Jerusalem. (TY UWI) Muslim Ramzi Batesh lives Beit Safafa, Jerusalem. He works at the dispatch center of United Hatzalah and as one of the organization’s volunteer EMTs and ambucycle drivers. In one day, he (and his Jewish colleagues) saved a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian.
https://www.jns.org/opinion/a-
Arab women’s beehives on Jerusalem roofs. Arab Israeli Tareq Nassar and Jewish Israeli Liel Maghen have founded the Sinsila Center for Urban Sustainability. It has empowered 115 Arab women to each maintain two beehives on Eastern Jerusalem roofs. An additional 200 Arab women have joined the program for 2023.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Woman head of IDF innovation. (TY UWI) Lt. Col Michal Frenkel is the Head of Innovation at the IDF’s Innovation & Combat Methods Division. Her background is in anthropology, organizational sociology, and behavioral sciences. After her mandatory service, she worked at tech giant Intel Corp, before rejoining the IDF.
https://www.algemeiner.com/
Switzerland’s fleet of Israeli UAVs. (TY Hazel) The Swiss Air Force is to counter threats using its new fleet of Hermes Starliner unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) manufactured by Israel’s Elbit Systems. The systems will be mainly used for intelligence gathering, including dealing with illegal infiltrations into the country.
https://www.jpost.com/
Law and Order. (TY Hazel) Judges from 71 countries came to Tel Aviv for the 64th conference of the International Association of Judges. It gave the Israeli representatives the opportunity to emphasize that the State of Israel is a unique beacon of democracy in the Middle East.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-
Delegations from Indonesia and Pakistan. Recent visitors to Israel included officials from Indonesia and Pakistan – two countries that do not have diplomatic relations with Israel. The arrival of a top official from Indonesia was being kept relatively secret. Annual bi-lateral trade with Indonesia totals some $500 million.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-
Defending the world. For the first time in history, Inspector General of the Moroccan Armed Forces, Lt.-Gen. Belkhir El Farouk arrived in Israel, to participate in the IDF’s International Operational Innovation Conference. He joined the commanders of some 25 armies around the world.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
Israel welcomes Indian business delegation. A delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) NGO came to Israel on a business mission, hosted by Tel Aviv University (TAU). The CII represents over 300,000 Indian enterprises. TAU will also host the 15th India-Israel Forum in December.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Breakthrough research. The Israel Science Foundation (see here previously) has awarded Breakthrough Research Grants to eleven outstanding scholars. They include for therapeutics for deafness, link between sleep disorders and brain diseases, the energetic state of proteins, big data, bacteria to fight viruses, and blood aging.
https://www.
50 years of US-Israel scientific partnership. (TY UWI) The U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), has helped fund breakthroughs in robotics, cancer diagnostics and therapies, brain defect reversal, space exploration, and chemical warfare protection. Scientists in BSF programs have won Nobels and Turing Awards.
https://www.jns.org/us-and-
The most US patents. With 63 approved US patents, Israel’s Technion Institute is 40th in the world and number one in Europe. It ranks higher than the University of Oxford, Princeton University, and other well-established and well-known universities. Tel Aviv University was ranked at number 68.
https://www.technion.ac.il/en/
Climate tech hub in NYC. Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) has several projects in New York City (see here previously). Now it has inaugurated a first-of-its-kind global center for startups focusing on climate tech, but including clean energy, transportation, water treatment, food tech, waste reduction, and the supply chain.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Science lectures in Belgrade bars. Scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute brought their unique “Science on tap” lectures in bars (see here previously) to the bars and taverns of Belgrade Serbia. They partnered Serbian scientists on Serbian National Science Day, to make science accessible over a glass of beer and Balkan raki.
https://www.jpost.com/365days/
Teen wins silver medal at computer Olympiad. Israel’s Eitan Elbaum, 17, won a silver medal at this year’s International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A total of 346 students from 90 countries took part. Eitan studies at Jerusalem College of Technology’s Torah U’Mada Yeshiva High School.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
Ultrasonic technology for fabrics. The innovative ultrasonic technology from Israel’s Sonovia (see here previously) makes fabrics antibacterial, water resistant, and flame resistant with less pollution than current methods. The technology is being integrated into the fabrics made by Israeli textile company Delta Galil.
https://www.jpost.com/
Turning polluted water into fertilizer. Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University have developed an industrial wastewater cleaning process for water polluted with phosphoric acid. Following selective electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, and neutralization, the extracted phosphates are used by the fertilizer industry.
https://nocamels.com/2022/09/
https://www.jpost.com/science/
Eco-friendly metal recovery. Israel’s Tenova Advanced Technologies is now part of the Italian Tenova metals processing giant. It provides solutions for the mining and chemical industries, including metal extraction and phosphate processing from ore to purified phosphoric acid and salts.
https://tenova.com/about-us/
Road safety. (TY Hazel) When a sink hole appeared in Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway, the highway authority called in Israel’s Exodigo (see here previously) to perform an underground scan. The multi-sensing artificial intelligence platform helped identify corrective actions to reinforce the road against further subsidence.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Recycling wood in 4D. (TY UWI) Remember Israel’s Daika Wood (see here) that recycles waste wood, molding, or 3D-printing it into “impossible” shapes? Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have now developed paste from recycled wood that can be molded in 4 dimensions - shapes that change over time.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The inside view. Some 20% of food is wasted between harvesting and distribution. The hyperspectral-powered AI scanning technology from Israel’s Neolithics can reduce that wastage by at least one third. Neolithics inspects fruits and vegetables from the inside out - in the orchard, in the packing house, and in the store.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A better meat alternative. Israel’s Meala FoodTech produces “functional proteins” for plant-based meat alternatives. They replace methylcellulose and other hydrocolloid and gums widely used in meat alternatives as binding and gelling agents. The result is a more natural product, but with a better meat-like texture and taste.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/
Distance learning for Ukrainian teachers. Israeli-founded Viber (see here previously), owned by Japan’s Rakuten, has developed “Teach the Teachers”- a chatbot to support remote education of Ukrainian teachers and students. The free 10-module course includes organizing homework, motivation, and monitoring attendance.
https://nocamels.com/2022/09/
Intelligent automated responses. Israel’s Tymely has developed an AI-based outsourced contact center that sends intelligent tailored responses to customer correspondence. It even follows company policies on compensation or discounts when processing customer complaints, freeing employees to focus on new business.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Robotics as a service. Israel’s 1MRobotics is developing small, automated, robotic dark stores that can meet the requirements of companies who wish to provide “last mile” delivery and distribution services to customers. 1MRobotics’ storage and retrieval operations require a minimal (often zero) workforce.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Robotic farming. At Calcalist’s Mind the Tech 2022 Conference in New York, Eyal Desheh, of Tevel Aerobotics Technologies (see here previously) explained why automation was essential in front line agriculture. “People just don’t want to do work in agriculture anymore”, he stated.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Economy grows by 6.8%. Israel's GDP grew 6.8% on an annualized basis in the second quarter of 2022 thanks to recoveries in the tourism, aviation, hospitality, restaurant, and transport services sectors. GDP is 7.4% higher than at Jun 2021 - the highest growth recorded of any OECD country.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
https://www.jns.org/israels-
Training for 10,000. Palo Alto Networks, Insight Partners, and executives from across the high-tech industry are establishing PLACE-IL - a new platform for recruiting and training employees. Its goal is to train 10,000 high-tech workers from underrepresented Israeli sectors such as Arabs, ultra-Orthodox, Druze and Ethiopians.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.calcalist.co.il/
R&D priorities. Israel’s National Council for Research and Development has added food tech, renewables, bioengineering, space tech and blue tech to its 14 civilian R&D priorities for the next five years. They already included AI, data science and quantum computing. It will distribute NIS 180 million a year in research grants.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Clean energy. Three Israeli solar panel cleaning startups have been reported previously in this newsletter. Bladeranger, Ecoppia, and NaanDanJain. Now there’s a third - Airtouch Solar, which uses an air blower to lift and push the dust forward horizontally along arrays of panels. The dust falls into the gaps between clusters.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://vimeo.com/497887933
Redefine Meat is going places. Plant-based New-Meat from Israel’s Redefine Meat (see here previously) is now available in over 500 restaurants, hotels and other foodservice locations across Israel and eight European countries including the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and (just recently) Finland.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Preventing food waste in seven countries. Latest news about Israel’s Wasteless (see here previously). It is now saving supermarkets in seven countries from throwing out expired food by using its AI to reduce prices dynamically as the expiry date approaches.
https://nocamels.com/2022/09/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Travelling together, so book together. Israel’s Joyned (see here previously) has launched Joyned Booking, a travel tech solution that enables travelers to engage with friends while booking their trips. It turns travel websites into an interactive F&F booking experience.
https://www.traveldailynews.
Exits, takeovers and mergers to 25/9/22: Google has acquired Israel’s Breezometer (an app I frequently use) for over $200 million. US cybersecurity CrowdStrike has acquired Israel’s Reposify.
Investment in Israeli startups to 25/9/22: Deep Instinct raised $62 million; AccessFintech raised $60 million; 4M Analytics raised $30 million; CytoReason raised $20 million; Noble (BeNoble.ai) raised $18 million; 1MRobotics raised $16.5 million; BioBetter raised $10 million; Pente Networks raised $10 million; Tymely raised $7 million; Nilos raised $5.2 million; TULU raised $5 million;
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
Israeli wines have a bright outlook. (TY Nevet) Two prominent articles on Israeli wines in the latest issue of the prestigious Wine Spectator magazine.
https://www.winespectator.com/
https://www.winespectator.com/
Stay safe, get tough. (TY UWI) Israel’s Natan Levy (see here) uses his physical skills to fight antisemitism. He is competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship martial arts competition. He says, “In Israel, you don’t get antisemitism in school or the workplace, but every Jew in the world should learn the art of self-defense.”
https://www.thejc.com/news/
THE JEWISH STATE
Outstanding immigrants. Seven Olim received the 2022 Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Prize for their contributions to the State of Israel (see previous years). They include Prof. Eidelman (Neonatology and much more), Prof. Hartstein (Opthomology in Ethiopia), and Asher Friedman (Israeli-Emirati Forum).
https://www.
A kosher hotel in Jerusalem. Nothing surprising here, you may think. But this building in the Old City of Jerusalem was once a Jewish kosher hotel, right up to the 1930s as can be seen from the grooves where mezuzahs used to be. And after renovations, it hopefully will be a kosher hotel again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Japanese Christian supporters. (TY UWI & Stand With US) Members of the Makuya Japanese Christian group came to Jerusalem to show support for Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Preparing for the New Year in Jerusalem. (TY Sharon) The Real Jerusalem Streets were filled last week with the sounds of pre-New Year prayers (Selichot). They take place not only at synagogues but also at the International Conference Center and even in Jerusalem’s public parks.
http://rjstreets.com/2022/09/
Aliyah increased by 128% in 5782. (TY UWI) The Jewish state absorbed 60,000 new citizens during the Jewish year 5782 - a 128% increase compared with 2021, when 28,500 Jews came on Aliyah. The majority went to the cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya, and Jerusalem.
https://www.jewishpress.com/
209 Ethiopians arrive. A flight carrying 209 olim (new immigrants) from Ethiopia, including 41 children and toddlers, landed at Ben Gurion Airport as part of Operation Tzur Yisrael (Rock of Israel) to bring Ethiopia’s Jewry to Israel. They will celebrate Rosh Hashanah together with their relatives in Israel (see 2nd link below).
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
https://www.
Aliyah at 101. Another example of it never being too late to make Aliyah. Stellah Rokoff is 101 years young. Born in Jerusalem, her family left pre-state Israel for the USA in 1926, when she was five. Israel has changed a bit in the last 96 years! Welcome back Stellah. https://www.
https://www.ynetnews.com/
Population statistics. Israel’s population grew by 187,000 (2%) in the last Jewish year, including some 177,000 babies. The average life expectancy for males is now 80.5 years, whereas for females it is 84.6 years - one of the world’s highest. https://www.ynetnews.com/
Five red heifers. Many religious Jews have been waiting for the rare appearance of a red heifer – a cow with entirely brownish red hair, required for the purification process prior to service in the final Temple. Five kosher red heifers have just arrived at Ben Gurion airport – the gift of a Christian Zionist in Texas.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
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Rabid Democrats support Fetterman and attack Herschel:
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THIS JUST IN: According to polling website FiveThirtyEight, if Dr. Oz wins the Pennsylvania Senate race, Republicans will win a Senate majority in 73 out of 100 simulations...
Richard, the stakes couldn’t be higher than THIS race.
Plain & Simple: the path to ENDING Pelosi and Schumer’s MADNESS lies in Pennsylvania. If we can win this race AND take back the House, Biden’s radical agenda is dead in the water.
We know these past two years have been tough, but there is light at the end of the tunnel – it just requires IMMEDIATE action.
We’re less than 50 days out from election day Richard. Early voting has already begun. The time for inaction is OVER. Are you going to leave this election to chance? Or will you step up today to SAVE Pennsylvania and SAVE America from the left’s socialist grip:
Obama still wants to bond with Iran and is doing so though Biden who is bringing back all of Obama's lieutenants:
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Iran Escalates Use of Force, Expands Internet Blackout to Break Protests
Security forces have used live ammunition and threatened that crackdown could intensify
By David S. Cloud and Benoit Faucon
At the same time, authorities heavily disrupted access to the internet in an attempt to block the social-media networks on which the protesters have relied to express dissent and rally support. On Friday, posts and videos on the protests were down to a trickle.
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini late last week in police custody for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code sparked protests across the country, in one of the toughest challenges yet for the one-year-old government of President Ebrahim Raisi. While mostly peaceful, some protesters have clashed violently with the security forces who used batons, water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds.
As the unrest grew, the security forces have increasingly used live ammunition against the protesters. Men wearing police uniforms, some riding on motorbikes, shot at people in Valiasr Square in Tehran’s central business district late Tuesday, according to videos posted online and confirmed as authentic by Storyful, which is owned by News Corp, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal.
Another verified footage Wednesday shows a man wearing the dark green uniform of the Basij, a paramilitary force tasked with the defense of the Islamic Republic, firing toward protesters in the city of Esfarayen who were tearing down a portrait of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
With the tight restrictions on communications in recent days, it is difficult to say how widespread the use of live ammunition has been or how many casualties have resulted from gunfire. Iranian state television said late Thursday that 26 demonstrators and police have died in the clashes, though the Oslo-based nongovernment group Iran Human Rights said at least 31 civilians had been killed.
Iranian authorities warned Friday in the sharpest terms yet that the crackdown could intensify further if the protests continue.
To counter Tehran’s internet blackout, the Treasury Department issued Friday a license that authorizes U.S. companies to offer Iranian citizens secure Internet platforms and services. A license is needed as that technology is otherwise banned under an economywide sanctions program.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Ms. Amini’s death an “appalling and egregious affront to human rights.” She said the White House stands “with brave citizens and brave women of Iran, who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights.”
“Women in Iran should have the right to wear what they want, free from violence or harassment,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said.
The response fits a playbook often used by Iranian authorities trying to stop protests that threaten the regime’s grip on power. In 2019, authorities used force to break nationwide economic protests that left more than 100 dead. The crackdown is usually accompanied by an information blackout that not only helps curb the demonstrations, but also makes it difficult for outsiders to know what is happening inside the country.
Who Is Mahsa Amini, and Why Did Her Death Spark Protests in Iran?
Clashes between protesters and security forces since her death in police custody have left scores of people dead and injured.Photo: ozan kose/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Iran’s army said Friday it was prepared “to deal with the various plots of the enemies and defend the security and interests of the Iranian nation against the conspiracies.”
The head of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Esmail Khatib, issued a separate warning, condemning what he called “domestic and foreign seditionists,” according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Meanwhile, pro-regime demonstrators in multiple Iranian cities held counterprotests on Friday, according to IRNA, Iran’s government news agency. In downtown Tehran they marched after Friday prayers from the University of Tehran to Enghelab Square, chanting denunciations of protesters who “broke Islamic laws” by “desecrating the Islamic dress code of women,” IRNA reported.
In a report Thursday, Amnesty International said security forces had fired metal pellets at protesters, citing witness accounts and videos of the protests. The human-rights organization said it had established that three men and one woman died from fatal injuries and a 16-year-old also died in the same part of the country from shots by security forces, though it is unclear what ammunition was used.
A Kurdish human-rights group, Hengaw, said that assault rifles and shotguns had been used in these incidents. Unverified footage of police shooting at protesters in Tehran and western Iran on Thursday has been posted on social media.
Hengaw, which focuses on western Iran’s Kurdistan region, said it knew about at least 15 deaths throughout Iran since the protests started. The group warned that it was struggling to update its information due to the internet shutdowns. The authorities have acknowledged the deaths of five protesters in western Iran and a security officer in Shiraz, central Iran, according to Fars. They blamed the killings on “enemies” of the regime.
Ian Talley and Catherine Lucey contributed to this article.
Write to David S. Cloud at david.cloud@wsj.com and Benoit Faucon at benoit.faucon@wsj.com
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