What I find so hypocritical is Obama just advised his fellow Democrats to quit being so Mueller centered , more co-operative and compromising and stop being haughty and arrogant. This from the man who said I have a pen and phone and elections have consequences Obama's middle name should be "chutzpah."
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Investor analyzes AOC and concludes she is financially illiterate. Guess that is why Pelosi placed her on the important finance committee. (See 1 below.)
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Dearborn Academy linked to Hezbollah. (See 2 below.)
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From Buenos Aires to Emory University. (See 3 and 3a below.)
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Ordman and good news from Israel. (See edited 4 below.)
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Israel votes - views of Pomerantz (See 5 below.)
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1) Investor rips Ocasio-Cortez as ‘financially illiterate’ at Sharpton conference
“The people campaigning against the Amazon campus are financially illiterate,” Tracy Maitland, president and chief investment officer of Advent Capital Management, said during a panel discussion at the National Action Network conference in Midtown.
Afterwards Maitland told The Post, “This was a disgrace. I partially blame AOC for the loss of Amazon. She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. That’s scary. We have to make sure she’s better educated or vote her out of office.”
Maitland said the misimpression created by Ocasio-Cortez and other Amazon critics was that the state and city were giving the company a blank $3 billion check.
The reality, he said, is that Amazon was only getting tax credits based on the number of jobs created. Amazon and New York officials estimated a new headquarters in Queens would generate up to $30 billion in tax revenues as well as 25,000 jobs.
Another panelist, CUNY chairman Bill Thompson, said that job opportunities were “snatched away” from the predominately black and Latino students of the City University.
“We were at the table talking to Amazon on how students could get jobs … those opportunities were snatched away,” said Thompson, the former city comptroller.
“Those students look like us … We’re talking thousands of high-paying jobs. It was a disappointment from a CUNY perspective.”Thompson and Maitland spoke on a panel about “The Black Economic Agenda: Driving Capital into the Hands of Black Asset managers and Housing Developers” in the Empire Room of the Sheraton New York.
A couple of hours earlier, Ocasio-Cortez addressed the conference’s main audience in the ballroom across the hall and spoke mainly about inequality. Amazon’s sudden decision to withdraw from Queens — and bring 25,000 high-paying jobs — didn’t come up in that venue.
But former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr., now a New York City businessman, raised it on his panel.
“Creating 25,000 jobs is always a positive thing,” he said. “There’s a multiplier effect.”
Sharpton opened the panel discussion but left before the Ocasio-Cortez backlash erupted.
He said he supports capitalism — as long as there is a level playing field and “access to capital” for minorities.
“We’re not asking for favors. We could also play baseball before Jackie Robinson but we couldn’t get on the field,” he said, referring to the first black Major League Baseball player.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++He also said he spoke to Ocasio-Cortez about the need to “see people” in the minority business community to discuss their concerns.
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Dearborn Islamic School Linked to Iran, Hezbollah Propagandists
Clarion Project has discovered that a private Islamic school in Dearborn, Michigan is linked to diehard supporters of Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. The school teaches students from kindergarten through 9thgrade.
Great Revelations Academy was founded in 2015 by open supporters of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. By their own admission, the school’s founders are dedicated to spreading his message.
Fadlallah was a supporter of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and is considered to be a key inspirer of Hezbollah. Some go so far as to describe him as the terrorist group’s “spiritual leader.”
Fadlallah supported the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines (who were serving as peacekeepers) as well as 58 French troops and six civilians.
In 2005, he reiterated his support for suicide bombings against Israel. When he died in Lebanon in 2010, Hezbollah called for three days of mourning. Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei sent his condolences.
The Academy’s Stated Objective: Teaching a Radical Cleric’s Vision to Children
One of the academy’s founders, Fouad Bayoun, told Arab-American News that one of the purposes of creating the school was to pass along Fadlallah’s teachings to children in America.
[The school] follows the same philosophy, mission and vision of Sayed Fadlallah,” said the school’s principal, Sheila Bazzi-Charara.
On August 9, 2018, the academy posted an advertisement for an event it was holding with the Qaim Project, an organization led by the academy’s head of the Islamic Studies Department, Sheikh Mohammad Ayad (according to Qaim’s website).
In his bio on the academy’s website, Ayad writes:
“Serving as the religious educator at Great Revelations Academy gives me a great pleasure and it is an honor to continue what the Holy scholar Al-Sayyid Mohammad Hussain Fadlollah [sic] started ‘peace and blessings to his soul’. We want to endeavor to implant in the hearts and souls of our children the confidence that makes them proud of their Religion, and to maintain the power that Allah (SWT) has instilled in their souls to make them the leaders of the future–to uphold the flag of Islam.”
“Serving as the religious educator at Great Revelations Academy gives me a great pleasure and it is an honor to continue what the Holy scholar Al-Sayyid Mohammad Hussain Fadlollah [sic] started ‘peace and blessings to his soul’. We want to endeavor to implant in the hearts and souls of our children the confidence that makes them proud of their Religion, and to maintain the power that Allah (SWT) has instilled in their souls to make them the leaders of the future–to uphold the flag of Islam.”
The bio states that Ayad studied Islamic Principles and Studies at Hawzat Arrasoul Al-Akram in Lebanon, an institution sponsored by Iran, according to the respected media outlet Al-Monitor.
Academy Initiative Exalts Youth Members of Hezbollah and Hamas
Ayad’s Qaim Project exalts Hezbollah, the Iranian-sponsored Lebanese terror group, as well as the terrorist group Hamas. Specifically, Ayad exalts the youth members of these two terror groups.
Particularly disturbing is the fact that the Qaim Project has a youth program.
On the project’s website is an article endorsing the Iranian regime, expressing an anti-American worldview and advocating for a Shiite-Sunni jihadist alliance (allied with Iran) against the West.
The article says:
“Consider the current situation of the Muslim countries in the world. Look at the situation of Muslims, who currently make up one fourth of the entire world population. However, their role in world politics, even in their internal affairs, is far less important than the role of foreign governments and superpowers with evil intentions.
“The fact that I constantly advise our people and my audience against foreigners is not just because superpowers are foreigners. Rather that is because they have evil intentions. They seek to dominate us. They seek to humiliate Muslim nations and force them into complete conformity.”
The article celebrates Hezbollah’s performance in the 2006 war against Israel, boasting that “Lebanese resistance forces and the youth of Hezbollah inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Zionist regime.”
The article also urges Shiite-Sunni unity in the jihad against the so-called enemies of Islam, with Hamas being pointed to as a worthy ally.
It celebrates “the victory of the Palestinian Resistance Movement over their Zionist enemies in Gaza. That was a great and glorious victory … In addition, the Zionist regime and its supporters, especially the US, were disgraced in the world. They were publicly disgraced. That was a great victory for all Muslims.”
The Muslim world, it says, faces “two major obstacles to unity and we must think of a way to remove them.” The first obstacle is sectarian divisions. The second is building the capacity to “stand up to these enemies.”
“Global powers are easily and openly trampling on the rights of the Islamic Ummah [Islamic world]. And the Islamic Ummah is not able to defend its rights,” it says.
The Academy’s Radical Guest Speakers
A review of the speakers chosen by the academy to come teach the students shows the same radical pattern.
On February 6, 2019, the academy held an event with Sheikh Usama Abdulghani, a D.C. native, who studied in Qom, Iran.
The Clarion Project published an expose in September that showed how Abdulghani is a fervent supporter of Hezbollah and the Iranian regime and preaches that Muslims should follow them.
On November 9-11, 2017, the academy hosted a series of lectures from Sheikh Amin Rastani, an avowed supporter of the Iranian regime and another student of the regime-friendly religious school in Qom, Iran.
In 2014, Rastani spoke at the Imam Khomeini Conference in London, named in honor of the original founder of the Islamic revolution in Iran. He praised Khomeini as the “complete package” to look for in a leader.
“Imam Khomeini shook the world and freed the world as we know it, he freed the masses,” he said.
Throughout his speech, Rastani was flanked by two giant pictures of Khomeini and Iran’s current leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.ep. AlThis picture was “liked” by Wafaa Beydoun, the academy’s daycare lead teacher. Her page indicates she is from Beirut, Lebanon.
What are students learning from the Great Revelations Academy?
For example, on February 16, 2018, a picture was posted to the Academy’s Facebook page that showed a student in a room with a picture of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei on the wall behind him.
Links to Holocaust Denier
The committee that founded the academy was from the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization, an organization that the academy holds fundraisers for.
Arab American News describes the academy as “the first Al-Mabarrat school of the west.”
The bio for one Arabic teacher at the academy, Maha Samhat, even refers to the Great Revelations Academy as “Almabarat G.R.A.”
Founded in 1992, Al-Mabarratt in America has Sayed Hassan Sobh listed as its principal officer.
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By JEREMY SHARON
A Star of David is seen outside the former Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina at an event to commemorate the 25th anniversy of the building's destruction by a car bomb, March 2017 (photo credit: REUTERS/MARCOS BRINDICCI)
The attack was staged against worshipers leaving the Mikdash Yosef synagogue in the Palermo neighborhood of the city, as people were leaving following the end of the Friday night Shabbat service.
Several people were wounded on Friday night outside a synagogue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when two assailants attacked them with knives and other objects.
The attack was staged against worshipers leaving the Mikdash Yosef synagogue in the Palermo neighborhood of the city, as people were leaving following the end of the Friday night Shabbat service.
One of the assailants also threw rocks at the congregants and a security guard, and reportedly shouted antisemitic epithets during his attack.
He was stopped by a security guard who sprayed him with pepper gas and arrested by the police.
According to the Enlace Judio Jewish news website and forum, one of the assailants cried out “Jews, they have to die, they have to be killed.”
The community leader Rabbi Uriel Husni sustained cuts to his arms during the attack which reportedly required stitches.
"I never thought that something like this could happen. I had terror. Together with security we were able to stop it,” Husni told the news website Vis a Vis, adding that the synagogue would now ask for police protection at the entrance to the synagogue.
The attack was staged against worshipers leaving the Mikdash Yosef synagogue in the Palermo neighborhood of the city, as people were leaving following the end of the Friday night Shabbat service.
One of the assailants also threw rocks at the congregants and a security guard, and reportedly shouted antisemitic epithets during his attack.
He was stopped by a security guard who sprayed him with pepper gas and arrested by the police.
According to the Enlace Judio Jewish news website and forum, one of the assailants cried out “Jews, they have to die, they have to be killed.”
The community leader Rabbi Uriel Husni sustained cuts to his arms during the attack which reportedly required stitches.
"I never thought that something like this could happen. I had terror. Together with security we were able to stop it,” Husni told the news website Vis a Vis, adding that the synagogue would now ask for police protection at the entrance to the synagogue.
3a)Anti-Israel students target Emory University dorms with mock eviction notices
Atlanta now has its own Berkeley. Must we have the definition of ant-iSemitism adopted by Georgia’s legislature. . Read the response from the Hillel Director. Unforgivable.Anti-Israel students target Emory University dorms with mock eviction noticesIn a Tuesday post on social media, a Jewish and Zionist student leader on campus said she received dozens of messages from peers who woke up to the “abhorrent” flyer.By Shiri Moshe, The AlgemeinerMock eviction notices were left outside dorm rooms at Emory University in Georgia by an anti-Zionist group seeking to criticize Israel, in a stunt that has disturbed multiple students and raised concerns over the intrusion of personal space.Emory Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) left the fake notices in residence halls and on dorm doors as part of its “Israeli Apartheid Week” program, which coincides with Emory Eagles for Israel’s ongoing “Israel Week.” The flyers shared allegations, disputed by Israeli officials, that Israel “routinely” gives Palestinians eviction notices “for no other reason than their ethnicity,” and is attempting to “ethnically cleanse the region of its Arab inhabitants.”In a Tuesday post on social media, a Jewish and Zionist student leader on campus said she received dozens of messages from peers who woke up to the “abhorrent” flyers, and that some Jewish students whose rooms had mezuzahs – small cases with scrolls placed at the entrance of a Jewish home – had observed that “their doors had these papers while their neighbors didn’t have the notices.” The student clarified that she could not confirm whether only Jewish students were targeted.
Both Emory University and Emory Hillel said they found no evidence that Jewish students were targeted by the flyers, with Emory Hillel director Dave Cohn telling The Algemeiner on Wednesday that he was “not prepared to reach a definitive conclusion” on the matter.“While we support the right of every student in our community to express themselves freely, foremost in our response has been defending the safety of our students from this intrusion on their privacy and security,” Cohn wrote in an email to the Hillel community.In its own statement, Emory noted that “while a student group received permission to post the flyers, they did not comply with posting guidelines and the flyers were removed.” The violations appeared related to leaving the flyers on the doors of students without their consent.
“The Office of Student Conduct will review the incident and determine appropriate next steps,” the statement continued. “Emory University does not tolerate any behavior that threatens members of our community.”
4) Israel reached new heights this week when SpaceIL's Beresheet spaceship went into lunar orbit. Appropriately, the skies above Israel are full of migrating birds, new airline services and visiting diplomats.Paul Marthers, interim vice president for campus life, acknowledged in an email sent to the campus community that his office heard “from a number of Emory students who were upset and concerned by flyers they found posted on their doors and in other areas of campus.“While we want to create an environment where the free expression of ideas and open, vigorous debate and speech are valued, we must also recognize that the manner in which we communicate can have consequences,” he wrote. “While the flyers have been removed from unapproved areas, it does not erase their impact.”SJP did not immediately answer The Algemeiner‘s request for comment.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Preventing strokes without excessive bleeding. Biotech eXithera is a portfolio company of Israel’s Clal Biotechnology. It has developed an anti-coagulant which has successfully completed Phase 1 trials. The treatment delays coagulation rather than prevents it and its effects cease quickly when the treatment stops.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
European funds for depression therapy. (TY Atid-EDI) I reported previously (see here) on the brain analysis system developed by Israel’s elminda. The EU has just awarded elminda a 2-year grant through its Horizon 2020’s phase 2 program. It will help elminda develop and trial its BNA-PREDICT product for depression.
https://elminda.com/multi-
Same microbe different effect. Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have developed algorithms that can identify structural variants in the genomes of human gut microbiomes. People with a certain variant were much thinner than those who had the same microbe but not the variant. The variants can also pinpoint disease factors.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.
https://www.nature.com/
Technion printer for human tissues. (TY Nevet) Israel’s Technion Institute has set up a 3D center for the printing of cells, tissues and organs. Its purpose is to enable Technion researchers to develop tissues containing blood vessels or 3D scaffolds that quickly connect to the patient’s own blood vessels.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Bio-inspired robots. (TY WIN & i24 News) Researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University have created tiny robots that could soon become part of medical procedures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Rare pediatric double organ transplant. 13-year-old Hila Amram received a new liver and pancreas at Petah Tikva’s Schneider Children's Medical Center. The double transplant saved her life and freed her from insulin dependence. The op was even more complex due to the donor’s internal organs being reversed - a rare anomaly.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Israeli bio-techs merge. I reported previously (see here) on Jerusalem-based immunotherapy company Enlivex Therapeutics. Enlivex has merged with Tel Aviv-headquartered Bioblast (see here), which is developing treatments for rare genetic diseases.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Snow on Mt Hermon – good news for cancer patients. During the winter, Israeli charity Ezer Mizion often takes oncology clinic kids on a trip to Mt. Hermon. And if their blood count results are anything to go by, the benefits to the children last long after they return from the “sledging, tobogganing and fun, fun, fun!”
http://www.ezermizion.org/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Free transportation so everyone can vote. (TY Janglo) All buses and trains between Israeli cities will be free of charge on Election Day (April 9th). The aim is to give everyone the opportunity to vote, even those far away from their designated voting station. The cost for this gesture is NIS 3 million.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-
The world’s largest accessible historical site. I reported previously (10th Mar) that Jerusalem had spent millions of shekels on improving the Old City, including access to the sites. The work has paid off, making Jerusalem the largest accessible historical site in the world. There is even a mobility app in eight languages.
https://www.jns.org/old-city-
https://www.jpost.com/In-
Empowering Druze women. The Beyahad (“together”) program at Ono Academic College provides aspiring Druze women with the opportunity to advance their professional careers while maintaining their traditional lifestyle. Israel has female Druze researchers, engineers and doctors and the program aims to encourage more.
https://www.jns.org/program-
What goes around, comes around. Four years ago, Palestinian Arabs Imad and Ayoub rescued Dr. Eitan and his son when they accidentally drove into a PA village and were attacked by a mob. Recently, Imad’s sister-in-law was severely injured in a vehicle accident. Dr Eitan transferred her to Israel’s Sheba hospital for treatment.
https://www.prweb.com/
Breath of life in Nepal. Israeli Bedouin Ishmael Khaldi is Israel’s Ambassador to Nepal. He has teamed up with local Chabad Rabbi Hezkl Lifshitz, to provide trekkers with mini oxygen tanks to rent, for protection against altitude sickness. Khalidi said the project was “where Bedouin and Jewish values meet”.
https://jewishnews.
Joint Israeli, Palestinian Arab firefighting exercise. (TY Hazel) Israeli and Palestinian Arab firefighters participated in a joint firefighting and rescue exercise in Samaria. The firefighters extinguished simulated fires in four locations, using six Israeli firefighting airplanes, six Israeli firetrucks and two Palestinian firetrucks.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Israel opens embassy in Rwanda. (TY WIN) After years of diplomatic ties, Israel has opened its first embassy in Rwanda. Israeli Ambassador to Rwanda Ron Adam presented his credentials to Rwandan President Paul Kagame in February. Rwanda’s national airline, RwandAir, is expected to start direct flights to Israel soon.
https://www.jns.org/after-
Clean drinking water for Sierra Leone children. Israel;s Watergen has supplied one of its GEN-350 “water from the air” generators to the St. Joseph’s girls’ school in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown. Its 900 liters per day of fresh drinking water is saving the schoolchildren from the many endemic diseases in the country.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
Wheelchairs for Montenegro children. (TY UWI) I reported several times (see here) on Israel’s lightweight Wheelchairs of Hope for disabled children. Montenegro President Milo Đukanović has been in Israel meeting with the country’s leadership. His “going home” present was a gift of dozens of the wheelchairs for his country.
https://www.jns.org/
Rebranding Israel to the world. I’ve reported previously (see here) on Vibe Israel and here on its former name Kinetis. Its mission is to re-brand Israel to accentuate the positive. Joanna Landau, Vibe Israel’s founder and CEO, was featured in the UK Jewish News, She has organized some 40 tours for people from 30 countries.
https://jewishnews.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Beresheet achieves Lunar Capture. Amazing scenes as SpaceIL broadcast live the crucial maneuver that successfully placed Israel’s Beresheet spaceship into Lunar orbit at around 17:25 Israel time on 4th April. At its closest, Beresheet is just 460km (about the length of Israel) from the Moon, preparing to land on 11th April.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Upgrading calls to emergency services. (TY TIP) I reported previously (18th Nov) on Israel’s Carbyne and its C-Now app for contacting emergency services. Carbyne is now partnering with one of its competitors, RapidOS, to integrate its location tracking technology and other data with the Israeli company’s platform.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Breathe in before answering. Weizmann scientists have discovered that people who inhaled when presented with a visuospatial task were better at completing it than those who exhaled in the same situation. They conducted tests based upon the hypothesis that the brain prepares to process new information upon inhalation.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.
https://www.nature.com/
Augmented Reality in the classroom. Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have developed a prototype to bring augmented reality (AR) into mathematics and science instruction. Students wearing special glasses can view objects overlaid with graphs, symbols and tables describing their movement in real time.
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/
Test site for future city tech. Tel Aviv’s CityZone project is a mini-city-within-the-city at the 20-acre Atidim High-Tech Park. It is where advanced technological solutions for smart city ventures are vetted and tested. The project is run in partnership between Atidim, the Tel Aviv Municipality, and Tel Aviv University.
http://nocamels.com/2019/03/
Environmentally friendly plastic. Israeli chemical engineer Sharon Barak has produced a product that looks and feels like plastic but dissolves in water within minutes, and the water is drinkable. See Nas Daily’s video.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Supermarket scanning without mistakes or theft. I reported previously (Aug 2016) on the supermarket shopping scanning system from Israel’s SuperSmart. The system uses cameras, sensors and AI algorithms and is installed at Israeli chain Osher Ad. Walmart abandoned its own system and is now looking at SuperSmart.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
https://supersmart.me/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Post-workout vegan hot protein shake. Israel’s Matok V’Kal has launched Fit4style Protein Cup - a hot protein beverage to enjoy after exercising in cold weather. The lactose-free, soy-free vegan protein shake’s formulation prevents coagulation when heated - a problem with other protein drinks currently on the market.
https://fit4.style/en/protein-
Zeroing in on refined sugar. Israel’s Gat foods has launched Fruitlift, a real-fruit-based ingredient that can replace refined sugars in RTE (Ready to Eat) breakfast cereals. Fruitlift offers a wide range of fruits and can either give a fruity flavor or can be blended into a cereal brand’s signature flavor.
https://fruitliftsolution.com/
A better-connected tomorrow. I reported previously (see here) on the Artificially Intelligent smartphone service called “Eve” from Israel’s TechSee that resolves technical problems from a distance. Here are two new entertaining videos from TechSee that demonstrate this exciting innovative technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
18 of Europe’s 100 most promising startups are Israeli. Every year, the editorial team of Red Herring magazine / news service selects the 100 most promising tech and life-sciences companies for the United States, Europe and Asia. 18 Israeli companies made the Top 100 Europe list for 2019.
https://www.israel21c.org/18-
China is Israel’s second biggest export market. China has now bypassed the U.K. as Israel's second largest export market. $2.6 billion worth of electronic components were shipped from Israel to China over the past year – 80% more than in 2017. Intel exports most of its Israel-manufactured components to China.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Investing in social innovation. Israel’s Innovation Authority (IIA) has issued grants of up to NIS 1 million to the winners of its “Grand Challenges Israel” program. Hargol, Senecio, OKO, Soapy Care, Jacob’s Well, Amaizz, Farmster, ZZappMalaria and Sharp Mentoring have all taken on humanitarian and health challenges.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Tech growth from South to North. (TY Sharon) Jerusalem’s Biohouse hosted a delegation of business leaders from Global New York, visiting Israeli technology advances in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheva. Meanwhile, JVP hosted the Forbes Under 30 Global Women's Summit, highlighting technological growth in Israel’s North.
https://baltimorejewishlife.
An Israeli MS competitor to Teva. I reported previously (22nd Apr) on Israel’s Mapi and its long-lasting Glatiramer Acetate treatment for Multiple Sclerosis patients. Mapi is now building a production plant in Jerusalem for the product, called GA-Depot, which will compete with Copaxone from Israel’s Teva.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Israeli IT company acquires Belgium IT company. Israel’s Priority Software has acquired Belgium-based Optimize Group as part of its European expansion. Priority develops enterprise resource planning software for 75,000 companies in 40 countries. Optimize provides IT services for the steel and beverage industries.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Tel Aviv to Budapest and Nuremberg. Ryanair will launch a 4-flights per week service from Tel Aviv to Budapest and 2-flights per week to Nuremberg – both starting in late October. Ryanair already operates 17 routes between Tel Aviv and Europe plus 15 routes from Eilat to European destinations including to Budapest.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
Isrotel is building 5 new hotels in Tel Aviv. Isrotel has announced that it will increase the number of hotels it operates in Israel from 19 to 30 by 2025. Isrotel is currently building 5 hotels in Tel Aviv – a city that it says “combines business and tourism and is becoming a strong international brand.”
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
Alibaba buys second Israeli startup. I reported previously (see here) on Israel’s Infinity Augmented Reality and that Internet giant Alibaba had invested in the startup. Alibaba has now gone further, acquiring InfinityAR and merging it into its Israeli machine vision laboratory. Alibaba bought Israel’s Visualead in November.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Smart sensors for Deloitte. I reported previously (see here) on the sensor technology of Israel’s PointGrab. Now, accounting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has selected Israel’s PointGrab.to install its smart sensor systems to monitor activity at its U.K. and northwest Europe headquarters in London.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Helping to sell more. Israeli-founded retail analytics company CB4 uses pre-existing point of sale data to identify demand for specific products in brick and mortar stores. When a product fails to sell to predicted demand levels, CB4 sends an alert to the store manager, highlighting the issue and suggesting ways to fix it.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT
The Mount. An exhibit entitled “The Mount: A Photographic Journey to Temple Mount,” has opened at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem. It incorporates images from the beginning of photography in 1836 all the way through to the virtual reality (VR) of today.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
Watch skies and roads for the birds. There are huge numbers of pelicans migrating through Israel on the way to their nesting grounds in Romania. Meanwhile (TY Anne), strong winds blew Shulman the flamingo out of Ramat Gan safari. He then ran along Israel’s busy Route 4 before being rescued and returned to his enclosure.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Hatikvah in Qatar. (TY Hazel) Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, was played in Doha, Qatar after Israeli gymnast Alexander Shatilov won the gold medal for the floor exercise during the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series. The Arab nation has no diplomatic relations with Israel.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-
Hapoel Jerusalem reaches Euro hoops finals. Israel’s basketball champions Hapoel Jerusalem beat Spain’s CEZ Nymburk 75-73 to finish second in their Euro Basketball Champions League qualifying table. Their 12 wins are joint-best for BCL newcomers. They play 2017 champions Iberostar Tenerife in the quarter-finals.
https://www.eurohoops.net/en/
THE JEWISH STATE
Historic visit by Brazilian President. Almost the first words that President Jair Bolsonaro spoke on arriving in the Jewish State were “I love Israel” (in Portuguese). He also made the first visit by a foreign leader to the Kotel (Western Wall) accompanied by an Israeli PM. He then opened a new Brazil-Israel trade mission in Jerusalem.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.ynetnews.com/
First Temple seal discovered in Jerusalem. A bulla (seal impression) and a 2,600-year-old stamp dating back to the First Temple have been found during archaeological excavations in the City of David. The bulla has the words “Nathan-Melech, Servant of the King” - the name of an official of Judean King Josiah (Kings II 23:11)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
2000-year-old Jewish settlement in Beer Sheva. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Jewish settlement from the Second Temple period at the north entrance to Beer Sheva. They found part of an oil lamp decorated with a nine-branch menorah, vessels used by Jews for ritual purity and tunnels to evade the Romans.
https://www.jewishpress.com/
Israeli space mission may have had help from above. Watch from 1hr 5 mins as the SpaceIL team celebrates Lunar Capture. Then keep watching as Morris Kahn and the Arutz 7 article below suggest some extra-terrestrial reasons for the good progress of the mission. https://youtu.be/T-ullrNON-g?
http://www.israelnationalnews.
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6) As Israel Goes to the Polls….A Thought for Tuesday
By Sherwin Pomerantz
Israel will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect members of the 21st Knesset. In our parliamentary democracy the President of Israel will, after the votes are tallied, decide who to invite to form the next government based on his judgement as to which of the leading vote getting parties has the best chance of doing so.
Given the closeness of the race between the Likud (headed by the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu) and the Blue & White party (headed by newcomer to politics former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz) the President really will become kingmaker more so this time than normal.
The question then becomes, for those of us entering the polling stations, what should determine how we vote? Should the governing issue be security? Economics? International relations? The occupation? The list is endless.
The real question would seem to be who will make the best leader of Israel as we move into the last years of the first quarter of the 21st century? Who is it that can successfully address the major unsolved problems that Israel faces while concurrently maintaining the positive aspects of this society that has made Israel the envy of the world, particularly its role as the Start-Up Nation?
To many of us, the most pressing issue that faces Israel today is, as it has always been, how best to deal with the challenge of two peoples claiming this land as their own? Logic would dictate that the current situation, which, more or less, has been in place since the amazing Israeli victory in 1967’s Six Day War, simply cannot go on forever.
Israel tried to approach the problem first with the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the follow on 1993 agreement, but they did not prove particularly successful given the recalcitrant attitudes of the Palestinian leadership. Peace agreements were developed a number of times after that all of which were refused by the Palestinians. The Sharon government even tried a total divorce from Gaza in 2005 but nobody here calls that a success. The expected maturation of the leadership there was a total bust and the withdrawal simply created an unfriendly neighbor lobbing rockets at us from the south. So clearly a unilateral withdrawal is not the solution.
More recently, Micah Goodman, author of Catch-67 has developed eight steps to shrink the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he expounds in the current issue of The Atlantic (https://www.
It seems that while we continue to blame the Palestinians for not wanting to make peace, oftentimes it is also our reluctance to take another chance on some action that might make the lives of all of us better by directly confronting the challenge.
So that brings us back to Tuesday. For whom do we vote? Celebrated author Amos Oz, when he was alive, had an interesting take on what the country needs most in a leader. He is reported to have said that a good leader – not one who thinks he is the mightiest in the world, but one who knows that his job is to persuade people to do things they don’t want to, or are afraid to do, or would like to delay doing – can achieve peace. Oz liked to describe Israel as a shared two-bedroom apartment where the bedrooms were private spaces but where both parties had to figure out how to use the bath and kitchen facilities.
That may be the best description of the kind of person Israel needs in the political leadership and one description of how the candidates should be evaluated. That would eliminate all of the single or limited issue candidates (e.g. a commitment to build the third temple, a promise to legalize marijuana, etc.) as well. It is certainly not clear at this point, which of the primary candidates best fits Oz’s model. However, it is certainly a question each of us should ask ourselves before selecting the slip of paper that will cast a vote for the party of our choice.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sherwin Pomerantz is a native New Yorker, who lived and worked in Chicago for 20 years before coming to Israel in 1984. An industrial engineer with advanced degrees in mechanical engineering and business, he is President of Atid EDI Ltd., a Jerusalem-based economic development consulting firm which, among other things, represents the regional trade and investment interests of a number of US states, Ontario and Hong Kong. He is a past national president of the Association of Americans & Canadians in Israel and has held a number of leadership roles in the community. His articles have appeared in various publications in Israel and the US.
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