Sunday, October 23, 2022

Son-In-Law Honored. Liberals Basically Ideologues and Bereft Of Common Sense. Sexy FBI. White Fragility. Hanson On Crime. Ordman.

We Have a New Republican Party 

By Kurt Schlichter

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To Know Who Democrats Are, Look At What They Accuse Republicans Of Being

By Derek Hunter

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A Red Wave is Hitting This Liberal City

By Sarah Arnold

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Liberals are basically ideologues. They are generally not practical nor are they logical. Even those who have good intentions, good hearts are basically stupid because they have little common sense. 

They advocate, believe and/or tolerate:

Get rid of police will stop crime.  Open borders, allow in drugs and criminals is good for law enforcement and America.

Government spending money has no impact on inflation. Welfare builds character.

Weaken education and promote the unqualified also builds character and prepares one for life's rigors.

Stand aside while radicals burn down cities and disrupt commerce.

Allow criminals to roam streets, pillage, rob merchants, torment and get rid of bail.

Catch and release for illegals eventually becomes standard procedure for citizen  lawbreakers.

Help fund family needs but not if father is present. (Moynihan railed against Democrat Welfare Programs and said they would break up the black family and did.)

War on poverty created more poverty, dashed hopes as it raised false expectations.

Cut military funding and training so have money and time to teach CRT.  

Indoctrinate young children in sex before they can read and let them choose their sex.

Keep parents out of the loop when it comes to educating their children.  Pierce Vs Society of Sisters [1925] Case dealt with the ability of states to impose compulsory education requirements for children and right of parents to decide how to educate their children.

Assist Iran in becoming nuclear shut down American energy development and plead with Saudis and Venezuela to drill more.

Look the other way as government imposes sentences on people you may not like and with whom you disagree and disregard their rights under the Constitution.

Apply laws unequally, weaponize politics, destroy people's character and stand aside as you allow people to disrupt lives of those you do not like by parading around their home.

Favor big government and more government spending as part of GDP and downplay patriotism.  Teach our youth to hate America, to reject our constitution and our capitalistic system and then believe they will defend it.

You know the rest.

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We seem to have a very sexy FBI:
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U.S. Senator Confirms FBI Agents Resign in Droves Over Allegations

(presidentialwire.com)- According to documents supplied by a whistleblower, hundreds of FBI agents chose to retire or resign between 2004 and 2020 rather than face penalties for allegations of sexual misconduct.

Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley reportedly received information from a whistleblower about a Justice Department internal report titled, “Retirements and Resignations During Unwelcome Sexual Conduct Adjudications.”

According to the report, 665 FBI employees, including 45 senior executive service-level employees, either retired or resigned after an investigation into misconduct was completed but before the Office of Professional Responsibility could issue a final disciplinary letter.

However, Senator Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that the number could be much higher since the 665 does not include agents who resigned or retired while a misconduct investigation was still underway.

The DOJ’s internal review was conducted in 2020 after the Associated Press reported that there had been “at least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials over the past five years.”

Grassley also received a second document from the whistleblower titled “Inconsistent Adjudication of Non-Consensual Sexual Misconduct.”

This document reveals that low-level FBI officials that were accused of misconduct often faced harsher penalties than those in senior positions accused of misconduct.

According to the document, “higher-graded employees, especially supervisors” were more likely to have their sexual misconduct cases adjudicated under a lesser offense code while “lower-graded employees” had their misconduct adjudicated under a harsher offense code. As a result, the “lower-graded employees” were more likely to face dismissal.

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley requested more information about the FBI’s internal sexual misconduct investigations. He called the FBI’s history of abuse and misconduct against women “outrageous and beyond unacceptable.”

In response to Grassley’s whistleblower disclosure, the FBI released a statement claiming that employees of the bureau who would commit sexual misconduct or harassment “have no place in the FBI.”

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I spent a year searching for my racism and white privilege. Here's what I found

This week on our Substack, Ken Mahanes writes about “an extended period of soul searching since I first read Robin DiAngelo’s best-seller, White Fragility.” He notes that reading DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi led him to “conduct a thorough self-examination, to identify the racism within [himself], confess to it, and seek forgiveness.” What he found was different than what DiAngelo and Kendi might have expected.

The gurus of contemporary anti-racism admonish white men to confess their racism and seek forgiveness. Yet, in my self-reflection, I have come to realize that prejudicial or discriminatory behavior towards others have never been a part of who I am. Though I never expressed it then, I now recall that even as a child I knew deep-down that racial and class discrimination was not right. These convictions blossomed in my adult years as a husband, a father, and a pastor. My experience living in poverty, working, and worshiping alongside my black brothers and sisters indicate a far deeper bond than those superficial traits that supposedly divide us.

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Ruth King posted article about Hanson and his comments regarding crime:
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The Unmentionable, Unspeakable, and Unutterable. Part Two Victor Davis Hanson

By Ruth King

Crime Everywhere

Now we come to the current crime wave.

We see weekly YouTube videos of the knock-out game, of Saturday night Al Capone-gangland massacring, of vulnerable joggers raped and killed, of a mother and her daughter carjacked, of a woman at a rail crossing murdered, of a petite woman pushed to death under a subway car, of an innocent young man simply executed on the streets, of an ax-wielding-nut terrorizing the helpless, of subway monsters assaulting with impunity all whom they please. Walking up to a stranger, slugging him in the temple, inflicting brain damage, all that is now a sort of blood sport.

Drug stores and food minimarkets in big cities are either of two sorts: one, they have been looted and ransacked; or, two, in fear of that fate, they have put almost all their goods behind protective wire or glass, cut back their nocturnal and morning hours, multiplied their security cameras, and hired guards.

There is also a growing, but again muted sense that inner-city, black-on-black gangland killing is now moving to the suburbs. Such violence is beginning more to target random strangers, often solitary drivers, pedestrians, and joggers.

And the reaction?

Zilch, except for a periodic rant from Joy Reid, Al Sharpton, the Obamas, or the Biden racialists about “racism,” as if a projectionist, unsubstantiated, Mark Milley/Lloyd Austin-like charge of “white rage” will preempt any American from saying out loud what millions of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and whites know to be true: that about four percent of the population (black males from ages 12-30) are committing over 50 percent of the violent assaults, rapes, and murders—that are reported.

Second, the additional truth that we dare not speak is that this two-year-long, post-George Floyd rampage is entirely predicated on three simple subtexts:

One, the black leadership—an Al Sharpton, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Louis Farrakhan, the Obamas, Oprah, LeBron James—who are so eager to talk of collectives, such as “whites” and “white people” as 230 million indistinguishable citizens who act as mindless racial automatons (as if George Soros, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Tucker Carlson by reason of their similar hue, can be predictably stereotyped) will never address this asymmetry. And if others do, they will seek to mute anyone by charges of racism! Do they have a duty to?

Only if in the past they have talked in collective terms about “blacks” and “whites” as monolithic groups. In that context, yes, if they have fashioned their careers as racial commentators, then they need to explain whether the black crime wave is important, irrelevant, so-so, due to racism, structural problems in the black community, government policies, etc.—anything that clarifies the striking asymmetrical crime statistics.

Two, the post-May 2020 climate of defunding the police, the new assertiveness of the Soros state and city attorneys, the culture of the lying Jussie Smollett, the smearing of the Covington kids, and the serial Duke pseudo-charges of racism, the prevalence of critical legal and critical race theories, the constant harangue of media elites on network news and cable television blaring out supposed pandemics of “white rage” and “white privilege,” and the utter racist screaming of prominent African American television talking heads from Ellie Mystal (“White people haven’t improved; I’ve just been able to limit my exposure to them.”), to Joy Reid (“In America, there’s a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male, white tears. Really white tears in general, because that’s what Karens are, right? They can Karen-out and then as soon as they get caught, bring waterworks.”), to one of the many Pentagon diversity officers, to the current Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina—all have proverbially lowered the bar of acceptable racism.

That is, a young criminal correctly senses that if he commits a crime, he will likely not be arrested, if rarely arrested, not prosecuted, if even more rarely prosecuted, not convicted, and if even more rarely still convicted, not jailed, and if even more rarely again jailed, almost immediately released.

More disturbingly, the criminal also distills and digests the popular discourse—the media narratives, the professional sports rants, the message of hip-hop music, the wild charges of the progressive political industry, the pontifications of teachers and professors—and rightly concludes that somehow his violence is contextualized, if not seen as reparatory.

Killing a jogger, hijacking a young female’s car, or blowing out the brains of a random pedestrian is a sort of a comeuppance for “white privilege” and payback for “systemic racism” and retribution for “white rage.” Swarming the Wawa market, looting it, while a twerker does her performance art is not driven by poverty or racism but supposedly by a larger sense that it is permissible.

The more that privileged white and minority bicoastal elites lie that the country is utterly and perniciously racist, the more these protected aristocrats encourage a logical reparatory settling of scores.

This redirection of “black rage” is de facto aimed at the grandmother who ventures to the market, the lower-middle-class mom in a car with her daughter, the penniless white student, the Asian immigrant struggling to get to work, the Hispanic gas station worker, or the Hasidic Jewish mom with her stroller.

Three. The elite effort “to do something” does not entail moving into the inner city and setting up charter-school academies (cf. the Martha’s Vineyard mindset). It does not mean reintegrating the schools or firing criminally incompetent union teachers.

It does not mean a national campaign of reform from rappers, NBA superstars, and stand-up comedians all advising the fatherless to marry their children’s mother, to take on the responsibilities of the nuclear family, to serve as a model to whites, Asians, and Hispanics that blacks can offer superior instruction about the invaluable role of nuclear families and engaged fathers. Instead, it is to level 24/7 charges of racism, so that the wealthier and more privileged careers become, the more their trajectories are accelerated by charges of racism.

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Thwarting arms shipments:

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Damascus airport targeted again in alleged Israeli airstrike on Syria

The incident comes one month after the last alleged Israeli airstrikes in Syria.

Syrian air defenses intercepted an alleged Israeli missile attack over the capital Damascus and the southern region late on Friday and explosions were heard in the capital's vicinity, state media reported.

No information was immediately available on damages or casualties.

The target of the attack was the Damascus International Airport, according to international reports.

This attack comes after over a month without any alleged Israeli attacks in Syria. The last alleged Israeli strike in Syria happened on September 17th, and it also allegedly targeted the Damascus International Airport.

Why is Israel allegedly attacking Syria?

Israel has been accused by the Syrian government of conducting airstrikes for over a decade. The strikes come as part of the Israeli campaign of "war-between-wars" (known in Hebrew as MABAM), and its purpose is to disrupt the smuggling of advanced weapons from Iran through Syria and into the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israel has been trying to prevent the establishment of an Iranian outpost on its border ever since the Syrian-Iranian alliance was formed.

Anna Ahronheim contributed to this report.

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Ordman and Good Deeds Israel.

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Health and Sustainability are two key themes of the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles) that Jews just finished celebrating. They also feature heavily in my latest positive Israel newsletter.

Recent medical innovations include protecting heart function, aid for dyslexics, trauma therapy and delivering healthy babies. Technical innovations help capture more solar energy, remove carbon dioxide from the air, and recycle everything from shoes, and old phones to construction materials. Israeli businesses are producing food from seaweed, pollinating tomatoes, manufacturing efficient electric motors, and desalinating seawater. Israeli startups are making a global impact with a World Sustainability award and the world's first sustainability database.

Read about Israel's successes in breeding rare species, the bird sanctuary in the heart of Tel Aviv, and unusual sea creatures visiting Eilat's coast. Finally, Israel again proves it will always come to the aid of victims of natural and humanitarian disasters.

The photo is of grapes growing alongside the path next to the children's playground near my home in Israel - a healthy environment for children to grow.

Please recommend www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com and forward this email to friends, family and colleagues and especially to any individuals who you think need to know about the good work that Israel does.


ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Diagnosing irregular heart rates in high-risk patients. Prof Mahmoud Saliman of Rambam Health Care Campus is the first in Israel to insert an ultrasound device through a vein (without anesthesia) to safely diagnose a patient suffering from atrial fibrillation (AFib). High-risk patients cannot have anesthesia or blood thinners.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-718736
 
The secret to a healthy heart. Scientists at Israel’s Assuta Ashdod Medical Center found why patients with a high-risk of coronary heart disease (e.g., some diabetics and smokers) have healthy arteries. Their endothelial progenitor cells have longer telomeres and greater function. It can help in developing preventative medicines.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-719269  https://journals.lww.com/coronary-artery/Abstract/2022/11000/Identification_of_protective_biologic_factors_in.4.aspx
 
OrCam for dyslexics. OrCam Learn (see here previously) is a voice-activated, interactive handheld device designed for people with learning challenges. It combines AI with a high-resolution visual sensor, and laser capture. It reads text aloud from any surface, listens to the reader and provides feedback. And much more.
https://learn.orcam.com/en/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuNvoQGB4VU  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JeNTpAUDE
 
European approval for bone augmentation material. (TY Atid-EDI) The Ivory Dentin Graft™ dentin graft material from Israel’s Ivory Graft has just received the European CE Mark for use in the repair or augmentation of bone defects. Its similarity to bone makes it an ideal grafting material, e.g., in dental procedures.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/ivory-dentin-graft-the-first-and-only-dentin-graft-receives-ce-mark-301629353.html   https://ivorygraft.com/
 
Animal Assisted Therapy – a win-win. HAMA (see here previously) is among the pioneering organizations in AAI – Animal Assisted Intervention in Therapy and Education in Israel. Many of the animals are rescued from abuse and neglect, and have in turn enriched humans suffering from trauma, deep loss, and abandonment.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/mind-and-spirit/article-719815   http://hama-israel.org/
 
Detecting fetal anomalies. (TY UWI) More details about Israel’s IdentifAI Genetics (see here previously) and its Hoobari blood test invented by Tel Aviv University’s Professor Noam Shomron. The test separates the DNA of a 10-week fetus from that of its mother and then checks it for mutations. Much safer than amniocentesis.
https://www.israel21c.org/new-blood-test-may-detect-fetal-abnormalities-at-week-10/
 
Miracle baby. (TY UWI) Before aggressive chemo, Tzvia had ovarian tissue frozen. 20 years later, doctors at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital defrosted and re-transplanted some of the tissue. It reversed her menopause and Tzvia has now given birth to a healthy baby girl – the longest ever time for a successful post-cancer transplant.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-gives-birth-after-menopause-reversed-with-transplant-of-20-year-frozen-ovary/  
 
 
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
 
3 successful Israeli women. Interesting interviews with Jasmin Inbar, VP Corporate Development at Israel’s ASTERRA (see here previously; also, Adva Amir, CEO & Co-founder of Direct and an airline pilot for Skywest Airlines; finally, Yael Ben Arie, CEO of Octopai, which helps companies to control their data.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1h1kzlqs
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk4npiymo
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/symtsgnmo  https://www.octopai.com/
 
Hiring skilled underprivileged workers. Israel’s female-founded TaTiO uses AI to recruit employees based on skills rather than resumes. It aims to hire from the estimated 27 million underprivileged workers in the US who lack the credentials or education sought by recruiters, rendering them “invisible” to the job market.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjhqxus7j  https://www.tatio.io/
 
Fighting poverty in Africa. Israel’s Tzippora Nusbaum has been helping women in Northern Tanzania add to their income by growing and selling mushrooms. She is now replicating her “Entrepreneurs vs. Poverty” project across Africa. The mushroom farms simply need sterilized agricultural waste, buckets, and dark places to grow.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/women-grow-mushrooms-to-beat-poverty-in-africa/
 
Treating hurricane victims one survivor at a time. There are several first-hand accounts on the Internet of Israeli NGO United Hatzalah treating survivors from Hurricane Ian in Florida USA.
https://israelrescue.org/blog/treating-the-trauma-of-hurricane-ian-one-survivor-at-a-time/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-719203
https://themedialine.org/top-stories/help-for-hurricane-ian-survivors-comes-from-israel/
 
Saving species. (TY WIN) Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo just celebrated the birth of a rare southern three-banded armadillo, classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as “near threatened.” Their flexible bands allow them to curl into tight balls to defend themselves. Link below lists other species the Zoo conserves.
https://www.israel21c.org/jerusalem-zoo-welcomes-armadillo-and-giraffe-babies/
https://www.jerusalemzoo.org/eng/israel-nature-conservation
 
World Sustainability Award. Israel’s HomeBiogas see here previously) has been awarded the World Sustainability Award in the field of Circular Economy. One judge described it as: “an astonishing innovation, which opens up a new era of possibilities for the under-developed world but also the developed one.”
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1o2krsxo
 
The 5th most educated country. (TY Rhoda) The Erudera education search platform rates Israel as the fifth most educated country in the world, with over half (50.12%) of people having completed tertiary education. The top four are Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, and South Korea. The OECD average is 39%.
https://erudera.com/resources/worlds-most-educated-countries-their-main-common-characteristics/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-719719
 
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 
Intel’s Israeli-developed 13th gen processors. Intel has unveiled 'Raptor Lake' - its 13th generation Intel Core family of processors. It includes the Core i9-13900K - the world’s fastest desktop processor. For the first time, the official launch was held in Israel, with 90 senior tech journalists coming from abroad for the event.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-intel-unveils-israel-developed-raptor-lake-processors-1001425667
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/13th-gen-core-launch.html#gs.g2ly0q
 
Construction Software of the Year. Israel’s Buildots (see here previously) won the “Construction Software of the Year” award at the 2022 London Construction Awards at London Build, the UK’s leading construction and design show. It was also a finalist in the “Product Innovation” and “Technological Innovation” categories.
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-ai-product-named-construction-software-of-the-year/
 
Reducing traffic accidents at Ben Gurion airport. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s SaverOne (see here previously) prevents car accidents by disabling mobile phones while driving.  Israel Airports Authorities, operator of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, is to pilot SaverOne’s technology for drivers of vehicles in its operational areas.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/israel-airports-authority-announces-installation-of-saverone-systems-to-fight-traffic-accidents-301625210.html
 
Solar panels track the Sun. Israel’s SolarGik tilts solar panels throughout the day with a “smart PV tracker” so they catch more sun and produce up to 25 per cent more energy than standard, fixed panels. The trackers can be installed any place a fixed-tilt panel can be installed.
https://www.solargik.com/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBQpCtlTHE
 
Removing CO2 from the air. (TY Israel21c) Israel’s RepAir Carbon Capture has developed an electrochemical device that utilizes (renewable) electricity to separate CO2 from the air cost-efficiently and ensures that the CO2 captured from the atmosphere is economically viable.
https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/company_page/repair-d-a-c  https://repair-carbon.com/
 
Bio-degradable shoes. (TY NoCamels) Israel’s Belena has developed BioCir™ a compostable and biodegradable thermoplastic material. Belena’s first product is BioCir™ Slides – fashionable, easy to wear, sandals that are fully compostable. Belena even supplies addresses where any worn-out slides can be recycled.
https://balena.science/   https://balena.science/products/il-biocir-slides
 
Your old smartphone has value. (TY NoCamels) Israel’s Refurbished Smartphone Revolution has automats in Tel Aviv where you can pop in your old smartphone to receive either money, or a gift card redeemable at major retailers and service providers, or a refurbished phone on the spot.
https://get-re.com/
 
Sustainable quality wall tiles. (TY NoCamels) Israel’s female-led startup Criaterra Earth Technologies (see here previously) is one of 10 companies chosen to represent Israel at COP27, the United Nations Climate conference, at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November. Criaterra’s tiles are 100% recyclable and biodegradable.
https://criaterra.com/  https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3919838,00.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-new-housing-starts-must-now-go-green-with-energy-efficiency-labels/
 
The world’s largest sustainability database. Israel’s Continue AI has developed a sustainability intelligence platform to help leading companies reach their environmental goals. The platform utilizes AI to synthesize millions of data points to provide recommended actions that enable corporations to achieve sustainable goals.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjkrr7nmo  https://www.continueai.com/
 
Join the Technion UK (virtually) on its Israel tour. Register for free to join (virtually) the Technion UK’s "Out of This World" Israel trip (Oct 24-28). Hear from Technion Professors and entrepreneurs; See museums, Iron Dome, and more. Save the date (Jun 4 - 8 2023) for the Israel 75 trip.
https://technionuk.org/israeltrip/
 
Israeli involvement in diverted asteroid mission. (TY UWI) NASA’s DART mission successfully diverted an asteroid showing it potentially can protect the Earth. Israel’s Ramon.Space (see here previously) provided an important computer processor for the Italian satellite that captured vital images of DART’s impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EqB2Z1emc4
 
Jerusalem’s new water system is completed. After six years of work (see here previously) and some NIS 2.5 billion, Israel’s National water company Mekorot has inaugurated the new 5th water transmission system for Jerusalem. It will be the main water artery for the towns surrounding Israel’s capital city until 2060.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-718939
 
 
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
 
More offshore gas discovered. (TY WIN) Energy producer Energean has announced the discovery of 7 - 15 billion cubic meters (BCM) of natural gas at its Hermes exploration well in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-energean-declares-gas-discovery-in-hermes-field-1001426242
 
An Israeli desalination plant on the Caspian Sea. (TY Hazel) The 'Azerbaijan Investment Company' has signed a memorandum of understanding with Israel’s 'I.D.E. Water Assets Ltd' (IDE Technologies - see here previously) to establish a plant for desalinating Caspian Sea water in Azerbaijan.
https://www.azernews.az/business/200587.html
 
3D-printing of parts for Boeing. (TY Hazel) Back in 2018, Israel’s Assembrix (see here previously) protected Boeing’s intellectual property during the 3D-print manufacturing of parts. Assembrix has now signed an agreement with Boeing to develop a platform that physically prints airplane and space station parts.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-719033
 
Israeli electric motors for Japan. (TY NoCamels) Israel’s EVR Motors (see here previously) has partnered with Tsukasa Electric to bring EVR’s breakthrough electric motor to Japan. The motor is suitable for electric vehicles, construction equipment, agricultural machinery, industrial robots, small boats, and much more.
https://www.startuphub.ai/israels-evr-motors-partners-with-tsukasa-electric-to-bring-its-breakthrough-electric-motor-to-japan/  
 
Electric partnership for Nigeria and Ghana. Israel’s SixAI (see here previously) is partnering Japan’s Musashi Seimitsu to produce and lease millions of battery-powered motorcycles and auto-rickshaws in Nigeria and Ghana. The cheap, environmentally friendly vehicles will then be rolled out to the rest of Africa.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-719035
 
Polly goes to Finland. Israel’s Arugga AI Farming (see here previously) has won its first European contract. Agrifutura Oy, the Finnish producer of tomato brand Nams, will deploy Arugga’s robot tomato pollinator on its 4.6 hectares of greenhouse tomatoes. Arugga’s “Polly” pollinator is already in use in the USA and Australia.
https://www.arugga.com/news/arugga-to-start-deploying-pollination-robots-in-finland
 
Seaweed to Canada and Italy. Israel’s Seakura (see here previously) has launched its seaweed-based products in nine Canadian supermarket chains. They include organic seaweed falafel mix and various seaweed pastas with lentils, corn, or quinoa. Seakura also supplies Italian frozen food manufacturer Rispo with fresh seaweed.
https://www.israel21c.org/get-ready-for-the-next-superfood-high-protein-seaweed/
 
Dutch government selects Israeli travel platform. The government of the Netherlands has selected Israel’s Atriis as their global managed travel technology platform for the next eight years. The Dutch government will use the Atriis platform to book business travel for more than 12,000 travelers worldwide.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1r4yxemi   https://www.atriis.com/
 
Cost of living moves Israelis into hi-tech. Israelis are finally getting the message that they do not need to slave away at low-paid, dead-end jobs when there are thousands of well-paid hi-tech jobs available. A survey by Practicum Israel showed over 60 per cent of respondents moving into the hi-tech sector due to high living costs.
https://nocamels.com/2022/10/cost-of-living-drives-israelis-to-hi-tech-careers/   https://practicum.com/en-isr/
 
From camel rancher to hi-tech developer. Here is one example of an Israeli embarking on a completely new career. Shlomo is a full-stack developer for the fintech firm Capitolis. But just five years ago, he was a camel rancher with little-to-no technical experience.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-718889
 
Exits, takeovers and mergers to 23/10/22: Israeli semiconductor startup Banias Labs was acquired by UK’s Alphawave IP for $240 million. Israeli-owned BrainPOP was acquired by Lego’s holding company KIRKBI A/S for $875 million.
 
Investment in Israeli startups to 23/10/22: TripActions raised $300 millionIronVest raised $23 millionSecuriThings raised $21 millionClassiq raises an extra $16 millionCipia raised $9 millionTres.finance raised $7.6 million;  Kubiya raised $6 millionContinue AI raised $5.7 millionTaTiO raised $5.3 million;
 
 
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
 
A bird sanctuary in the center of Tel Aviv. The Rosh Tzipor (Bird’s Head) Forest is situated in HaYarkon Park in the heart of Tel Aviv. Inside is the new Ganei Yehoshua park bird watching center at the junction of the Ayalon and Yarkon rivers. It covers 8 acres of trees, green areas, streams and ponds with many species of birds.
https://www.israel21c.org/where-birds-find-a-restful-oasis-in-urban-tel-aviv/  https://park.co.il/en/about-us/
https://www.kkl-jnf.org/tourism-and-recreation/forests-and-parks/rosh-tzippor-birdwatching-center/
 
Israeli Jazz. Paris-based photographer Raphael Perez is displaying his collection of 80 photos of 65 Israeli jazz musicians from Oct 13-30 at the ZOA House (Beit Ziyonei America), in Tel Aviv. He plans to publish his book of the photos plus biographies of the musicians, in English, French and Hebrew in Feb 2023.
https://www.israel21c.org/french-photographer-spotlights-israeli-jazz-musicians/
 
After the Chag at Center Stage. Upcoming events at Center Stage in Raanana (Israel’s only professional English language theater) include Eli and the Chocolate factory (25 Oct - Jazz), Iris Bahr’s Comedy Nite (26 Oct), Sorcerers Night (31 Oct), Songtalk (9 Nov), and Chorale Vie Nouvelle (29 Dec – Congolese in Israel).
https://www.centerstageisrael.com/
https://www.centerstageisrael.com/chorale.html
 
Street musician plays on stage with Maroon 5. Israeli singer-songwriter Coral Bismuth was performing on a Tel Aviv beach when spotted by Adam Levine, lead vocalist of Maroon 5 who were in Israel prior to the band’s concert in Yarkon Park. He invited Coral to join the band on stage and play to 70,000 Maroon 5 fans.
https://www.israel21c.org/the-tel-aviv-beach-musician-discovered-by-maroon-5/  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuFfcN5zKno
 
“False killer whales” sighted near Eilat. A pod of ten “false killer whales” (Pseudorca crassidens) made a rare visit to the Gulf of Eilat. Israel Nature and Parks Authority maritime ranger Omri Amosi swam with them and documented them. The dolphin species is so named because they have skulls like killer whales (Orcas).
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/10/06/pod-of-false-killer-whales-makes-rare-visit-to-gulf-of-eilat/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_killer_whale
 
Maccabi Haifa beats Juventus. (TY Hazel & JNS) Maccabi Haifa beat top Italian soccer team Juventus 2-0 in their UEFA Champions’ League group match in front of some 30,000 ecstatic fans in Haifa. Maccabi Haifa’s first win in Europe’s top competition keeps alive their slim chance of qualifying for the final stages. 
https://www.timesofisrael.com/maccabi-haifa-soccer-sinks-juventus-2-0-ending-two-decade-champions-league-drought/
 
 
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Israelis rescue survivor from Ukraine. Two volunteers from Israeli NGO United Hatzalah rescued a wounded 86-year-old Shoah survivor from the fighting in the Ukrainian city of Lyman. Alexander and Vadim traveled over 2,500 km to bring the woman to the Slovakian border, where she received medical treatment.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israelis-dodge-bullets-to-save-holocaust-survivor-in-ukraine/
 
Surfside to twin with Samaria. (TY UWI) Surfside, Florida is to establish a twin city relationship with Israel’s Samaria Regional Council. Its purpose is to thank Israel for its help its help in the search and rescue operation at the site of the collapse the 12-storey Champlain Towers South condominium last year.
https://www.jns.org/surfside-site-of-deadly-condo-collapse-approves-twin-city-pact-with-samaria-regional-council/
 
“Hakhel” at the Kotel. Some 50,000 people attended the once-in-seven-years’ “Hakhel” communal ceremony at the Kotel (Western Wall in Jerusalem). Israel’s President Isaac Herzog participated with Israeli religious and political leaders in the dedication of three Torah scrolls. In Biblical times the King read the whole scroll.
https://www.jns.org/once-in-seven-years-hakhel-celebration-held-at-western-wall/
https://youtu.be/7jgKjyhRYyg?t=3139  
 
The Bible Marathon. Nearly 4,000 men and women ran in this year's International Bible Marathon. The 42.2km race began and finished at Ancient Shiloh, where the original Biblical Tabernacle was sited on entering the Land of Israel over 3,300 years ago. The race always takes place during the Jewish feast of Tabernacles.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361186
 
Sukkot on the Real Jerusalem Streets. Sharon captured the colors and crowds of Sukkot (Tabernacles) in Jerusalem; at the Kotel, at the President’s residence and almost everywhere in between. Meanwhile some two million people visited the Western Wall during the holidays.
http://rjstreets.com/2022/10/16/jerusalem-colors-and-crowds-of-sukkot/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLkw7w1pobM   https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361274
 
They shall all come to Jerusalem. (TY Stuart Palmer) The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) held its annual Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) for 2 nights by the Sea of Galilee and the next 5 days in Jerusalem. The event was attended by more than 1,700 Christians from over 70 countries.
https://haifadiarist.blogspot.com/2022/10/international-christian-embassy.html
https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-719040

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