Sunday, July 25, 2021

To Win You Must Know Your Enemy. Mark Levin's New Book: "American Marxism." Zito, Ordman and Adams..






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If you want a sober and factual review this is it:

https://www.city-journal.org/panic-pandemic
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Over the weekend I listened to a review of Mark Levin's new book about American Marxism.

He is far more well read than I am, far more articulate.  That said, we are on the same page and what I have been writing is even better explained by him. Most importantly he has put a label on what we both believe is happening. You cannot win against that which you cannot define and tag, Know your enemy.

The Marxists are not only at our gate they have smashed through it.  His book is a call to those who reject the tenets of Marxists. We have two choices:

a) stop it or b) succumb. Which will it be and where do you stand?
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The American labor crisis has hit all the small businesses on this one street 
By Salena Zito

PITTSBURGH — It’s 4:30 in the morning and Raymond Mikesell’s alarm has gone off. 
Within an hour, as the first rays of pink and orange morning light reflect off the skyscrapers in the city, Mikesell is at his restaurant Café Raymond in the Strip District, the city’s Main Street for small businesses. 


Along the way he stops by the food terminals, hoping they will have the produce and stock he needs for the day. But he ends up having to turn away the beverage distributor at his own loading dock. 


“I ordered over $1,000 in bottled water, tea and drinks and he tells me he only has about $100 worth of the supplies I ordered for the day. It’s the third time this week this has happened,” said Mikesell, 55, shaking his head. 


And, as far as workers go, all he can do is hope that everyone shows up for their shifts and that maybe today someone will answer the ad he placed in March looking for servers. 
So far, he said, no one has shown up for an interview for jobs that well exceed the $15-an-hour progressives have demanded all businesses — including small ones — pay employees. 
Joe Mistick, sitting on the balcony of Café Raymond, said the problems small business owners face here in the Strip District are a microcosm of what’s happening across the country. 


“If it is happening here, it is happening everywhere,” said Mistick, former chief of staff to two Pittsburgh mayors and current law professor at Duquesne University. 
There are 30.7 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for 99 percent of all American businesses, according to data collected by the US Small Business Administration. 
And a lot of small businesses in America are facing a crisis right now, stemming from a perfect storm of problems: a shorthanded workforce, a broken supply chain, and inflation that is very real despite President Biden’s dismissal of it as “temporary.”


Click here for the full story.

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Congress Beats Up Charter Schools

A House spending bill cuts funding and adds new political strings.

By  The Editorial Board.

And:


Even the Palestinians get it:

Palestinians accuse Hamas of storing weapons in residential areas

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion that killed 1 and injured 14 on Thursday took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.

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Stephens is enamored with Eric Adams who is going to save New York from Democrats who have run and ruined the city.

Eric Adams Is Going to Save New York
By BRET STEPHENS


Eric Adams arrives for lunch alone, no entourage or media handler. He shows me his new earring — “the first thing,” he says, that Joe Biden “asked to see” when the two met recently to discuss gun violence. He orders a tomato salad with oil on the side, the abstemious diet of the all-but-crowned king of New York.

For some progressives, the prospect of Adams as mayor (he still has to defeat Republican opponent Curtis Sliwa in November) is a nightmare. He’s been a thorn in the side of every institution he’s ever been part of.
He’s a former cop who crusaded against police brutality, a leading Democrat who was once a registered Republican, a machine politician who casts himself as a foe of city bureaucracy, a self-described progressive who’s friendly to charter schools and real estate developers and, most recently, a champion of law-and-order who refutes the idea that a Black leader must also be on the left.

For the rest of big-city America, not to mention the Democratic Party that usually runs it, he’s a godsend.

That’s because Democrats are again becoming the party of urban misrule, just as they were in the 1970s. In Portland and Seattle, progressive mayors have ceded the public square to anarchists and rioters. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, to homeless encampments and addicts. In Chicago and Baltimore, to street gangs and gun violence.

And, in New York, the city that in the 1990s and 2000s led the way in the historic and nationwide reductions in crime, 981 people were shot this year as of Sunday. That includes two women and a 4-year-old girl hit by stray bullets in May in Times Square, in broad daylight.

“This stuff can unravel so quickly,” Adams says, referring to social order. His mission is not to let New York go the way of Portland or San Francisco.

The key is the police. In 2019, multiple videos went viral of police officers offering no response after being doused by hecklers with buckets of water. “When I saw that I said we’re going to lose the city,” he recalls. “When you attack that officer, you didn’t attack that individual. You attacked the symbol of safety.”

Adams graduated from the police academy in 1984, another era of diminished faith in law enforcement, not least among cops themselves. The prevailing attitude, he says, was, “You hold on for 20 years, you get promoted, get your pension, nothing you’re going to do about crime.” He rejected that attitude and made his name in the 1990s as a dissident officer fighting police brutality and racial profiling.

But he also believes that effective policing is the basis for justice, not an enemy of it. Well-intentioned liberals, he says, “have piggybacked off of the appealing, attractive conversation. You know, ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Well, if they matter, damn it, then we should be talking about a 13-year-old kid being assassinated in the Bronx.”

He argues for reversing the state bail reforms that treated some robberies as nonviolent offenses, for bringing back the plainclothes police squad disbanded last year by Bill de Blasio and for using stop-and-frisk (or, as he reminds me, “stop-QUESTION-frisk”) as an essential policing tool, so long as it isn’t being unconstitutionally abused to fill a weekly police quota or harass civilians.

As for abolishing the police: “When I get out of that subway station, I want to see that cop at the top of the stairs.”

After rebuking certain progressives for their views on New York’s finest, he turns to their views on New York’s richest. “Sixty-five thousand families pay 51 percent of our income taxes,” he says. “Those income taxes are going to the police, the teachers, Department of Sanitation. We have people who say, ‘Who cares whether the rich leave?’ You’d better connect the dots. I care!”

Adams doesn’t fear the rich leaving town because of sky-high taxes (though he should). But he knows that they’ll flee to safety if they have to fear that their children “can’t walk the streets.”

He also recognizes the harm the city does itself with its results-unfriendly bureaucracy.

“How do you have a Small Business Services that’s trying to get restaurants open, but you have the Department of Buildings that takes a year and half to give someone their C-of-O to get inside?” he asks, referring to a certificate of occupancy. “Try opening a hotel: If you can get their sprinkler system inspected in two years, you’re a miracle maker.”

He plans to do for city agencies what the CompStat program did in the 1990s when it took police units out of their respective silos to make them see the larger picture. It helped bring crime down from historic highs to historic lows, until liberal guilt got the better of pragmatic good sense. At one point he quotes the Chinese aphorism that it doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, “you still have to catch the mouse.” It happened to have been a favorite of Deng Xiaoping.

Listening to Adams hold forth like this for an hour is an enjoyable, even delightful experience, because it’s so refreshingly free of ideological cant. If Adams can govern as he campaigned, he’ll be remembered as the mayor who saved New York from walking itself off a ledge. It probably won’t be the last, much less the highest, office he’ll hold.

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Best regards
Michael

In the 25th July 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include: 
 

 

 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Israel’s oral Covid vaccine. (TY Mickey) Israel’s Oramed will shortly commence clinical trials of its Oravax vaccine - the world’s first oral Covid-19 vaccine (see here previously). Phase 1/2 trials will take place at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky (Ichilov) Medical Center with Phase 3 in countries desperate for a vaccine.
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israel-to-become-first-in-world-to-test-oral-covid-19-vaccine-674563
 
Israeli Covid vaccine can defeat variants. (TY I24 News & UWI) Israel’s IIBR-developed BriLife vaccine (see here previously - now in Phase 2 testing) has advantages over vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna. It recognizes the whole of the spike protein and can be easily adjusted to protect against mutations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCGLJoqh5o
 
Existing treatments combat Covid. (TY WIN) Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists have lab-tested 3 existing therapies successfully against SARS-CoV-2.  Darapladib, Flumatinib and an HIV medicine target the virus’ other proteins, which mutate far less than the spike protein. The study is now to be peer-reviewed.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-existing-drugs-fight-coronavirus-with-almost-100-success-in-jerusalem-lab/
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/14/7/604
 
Anti-viral nasal spray launched. Israel’s SaNOtize (see here previously) has now begun sales of its Enovid Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) at pharmacies in Israel and Bahrain. It is effective against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and variants Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Final tests for the Delta variant look good.
https://nocamels.com/2021/07/sanotize-covid-nasal-spray-israeli-pharmacies/
 
Israeli doctor advises Canadians about Covid. Israeli-born bioethicist and public health advisor Vardit Ravitsky is Chair of the COVID-19 Impact Committee of the Montreal-based Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. A key influencer was her uncle and Israel Prize laureate philosopher Aviezer Ravitzky.
https://robertsarner.com/israeli-canadian-bioethicist-return-to-pre-covid-normal-would-be-wasted-chance/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-canadian-bioethicist-return-to-pre-covid-normal-would-be-wasted-chance/
 
Home Covid tests. The latest tool to be adopted by Israel against the coronavirus pandemic, rapid home virus-testing kits, is being made available to purchase in Israeli pharmacies as part of a pilot program.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-rolls-out-pilot-for-pharmacies-to-sell-rapid-home-virus-tests/
 
Remote monitoring patients in Alabama. Alabama Regional Medical Services (ARMS) has selected the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system from Israel’s DarioHealth (see here previously) to improve the management of ARMS’s hypertension patients, including large numbers of underserved and uninsured patients.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/dariohealth-chosen-to-provide-remote-patient-monitoring-for-alabama-regional-medical-services-301337191.html
 
Effective burns treatment for children. Israel’s MediWound (see here previously) successfully completed Phase 3 clinical trials of its NexoBrid treatment on children with severe thermal burns. The study evaluated 145 pediatric patients, from newborn to eighteen years of age, across 36 burn centers worldwide.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-mediwound-says-key-trial-shows-pineapple-gel-effective-for-kids-burns/
 
EU funds for Israeli alternative insulin therapy. Israel’s Betalin Therapeutics (see here previously) is to receive capital from the European Innovation Council (EIC) fund. The funding will advance human trials of its biological pancreas that can produce insulin in the body independently, thus making injections unnecessary.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912996,00.html
 
Reprogramming the immune system. This article describes the latest progress of Israel’s Immunai (see here previously) which is mapping the immune system to help develop new life-saving treatments. It acquired US-based Dropprint Genomics and has launched into development of cancer and autoimmune disease therapies.
https://www.israel21c.org/creating-a-google-maps-for-the-immune-system/
 
Support for the immune system. Solabia-Algatech Nutrition based at Kibbutz Ketura has launched BioGlena from whole Euglena gracilis algae grown on the Kibbutz. BioGlena contains over 55% β-glucan polysaccharides, touted as nature's immune-modulator, helping to prime and support natural immunity.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/solabia-algatech-nutrition-launches-whole-algae-sourced--glucan-301338424.html   https://www.algatech.com/algatech-facility-arava-desert/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkFa-Im2maA
 
 
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
 
Upgrading animal refuge. Israeli non-profit For the Wildlife rescues, treats and rehabilitates injured wild animals – more than 70,000 in 2020. The clinic accepts all animals including porcupines, jackals, wild boar and bats. The organization recently launched a fundraising campaign to finance a state-of-the art animal hospital.
https://www.israel21c.org/the-refuge-that-works-wonders-for-wounded-wild-animals/
https://www.forthewildlife.co.il/home   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNujJidYfB4  (Hebrew only)
 
IDF Intelligence unit’s first female deputy commander. Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate (MID) has appointed the first female deputy chief of Unit 8200, the directorate’s main information-gathering unit. Lt. Col. G. will be promoted to full colonel and lead the MID’s artificial intelligence revolution.
https://www.jns.org/idfs-top-intelligence-unit-gets-its-first-female-deputy-commander/
 
More Muslims join the IDF. There has been a sharp rise in Muslim recruitment to the IDF. Some 606 Muslim Arabs drafted to the IDF in 2020, compared to 489 in 2019 and 436 in 2018. More than half of the new recruits opted for combat roles. Dropout rates and unauthorized leave rates have also decreased.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/exclusive-idf-sees-sharp-increase-in-muslim-draft-674227
 
100,000 Muslims pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque. (TY WIN) Arab media stated that some 100,000 worshipers prayed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Israel’s President, Prime Minister and Defense Minister issued festival greetings to all of Israel’s Muslim and Druze populations.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/100000-muslims-pray-at-al-aqsa-mosque-on-eid-al-adha/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jD5aCiRQX8
 
A tale of two communities. The Israeli city of Yerucham and Bedouin village of Rachme show what true coexistence and peace looks like.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swUMHvbSa68
https://unitedwithisrael.org/unity-jewish-town-and-arab-village-provide-beacon-of-israeli-coexistence/
 
Cybersecurity agreement with Morocco. The Israel National Cyber Directorate has signed a cybersecurity cooperation agreement with Morocco in Rabat - the first cyber-defense accord between the two countries since the start of relations last year. It covers operations, R&D and the sharing of information and knowledge.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-morocco-sign-accord-for-cybersecurity-cooperation/  
 
Seeing Israel clearly. Israel's UN Ambassador, Gilad Erdan, gave 10 international ambassadors a better perspective of Israel’s situation by taking them to see key sites in Israel. Meanwhile non-profit ELNET brought 40 French Parliamentarians to see Israel’s challenges first-hand and discuss topics of mutual interest.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309947
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310225
https://www.jns.org/bonhomie-from-france-parliamentary-delegation-visits-israel-meets-top-leaders/
 
80 Latin Americans discover Israeli tech. Despite travel restrictions, 80 young Central and South American Jews arrived to spend five months getting to know Israel’s tech ecosystem. The Discover by Israel Innovation Experience program aims to provide participants with skills and tools to set up their own successful startups.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/latin-american-young-adults-visit-israel-for-hit-of-local-alta-tecnologia/
 
Israeli drones to protect World Expo. Israeli drone startup Airobotics will help Dubai police make the city a safer place for residents and visitors ahead of World Expo 2020 Dubai beginning in October and running for six months. Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum personally unveiled Airobotics’s Drone Box.
https://worldisraelnews.com/israeli-drones-to-keep-dubai-safe-during-world-expo/
 
Aid for Germany. (TY UWI) Israeli humanitarian agency IsraAID is sending staff members to areas of Germany devastated by flooding, to provide much-needed clean-up and disaster-relief assistance.
https://www.jns.org/israaid-assistance-on-way-to-germany-after-country-recovers-from-deluge/
 
 
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 
More US-Israeli projects. The Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD) is investing $6 million into six joint US-Israeli projects including cybersecurity, depression therapy and satellite tracking. The Israeli startups are Cyberint, GrayMatters Health, Over-Sat, Sensifree, Skillreal, and YonaLink.  
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-fund-to-invest-6-million-in-six-new-joint-projects/  
https://cyberint.com/  https://www.graymatters.health/  https://over-sat.com/  https://www.skillreal.com/
https://yonalink.com/
 
Desert center for food security. Israel’s Ben-Gurion University has established the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Food Security in the Desert. It will focus on water conservation, treatment and recycling. President and CEO of Watergen and Vertical Field Dr. Michael Mirilashvili is a key partner for the center, named after his father.
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/news/CenterforFoodSecurity.aspx  
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309932
 
Turning food waste into plastic. Israel’s TripleW converts organic waste into bioplastics via a lactic acid that can be used in manufacturing many products. TripleW has received a €2.2 million grant from the European Union as part of a consortium of companies that are part of WASTE2FUNC, a Horizon 2020 program.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912891,00.html  https://www.triplew.co/
 
Jupiter’s cyclones. Researchers from Israel’s Weizmann Institute have used data from NASA’s Juno space probe to reveal the mysteries of Jupiter’s massive polar cyclones. They explained why Jupiter’s storms, as opposed to the earthly variety, do not disperse and rarely change.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/jupiters-super-polar-cyclones-are-here-stay
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00781-6
 
Moon mission for oxygen production. Japan’s ispace missions to the Moon in 2023 and 2024 plan to carry the Lunar Extractor payloads of Israel’s Helios (see here previously).  Helios aims to demonstrate the production of oxygen and metals on the lunar surface. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912810,00.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/helios-to-hitch-ride-on-japan-lunar-lander-in-bid-to-make-oxygen-on-moon/
 
More than just space for Arab & Jewish teens. Moona – a Space for Change (see here previously) began as an extracurricular program for Jewish and Arab Israeli high school students to learn space technology, robotics, drones etc. It has now added advanced vision and IoT technologies, plus hi-tech job-specific training.
https://www.israel21c.org/where-arab-and-jewish-teens-learn-tech-skills-together/
 
DNA tests to keep streets clean. Tel Aviv’s municipality will require dog owners to provide a DNA sample from their pets to be kept in a city-run database. Inspectors will match these to samples from uncollected dog droppings left on the street and offending owners will be fined. Tel Aviv is world number 3 for dog ownership.
https://worldisraelnews.com/tel-aviv-announces-dog-poop-dna-tests-to-track-down-owners-who-dont-pick-up-after-their-pets/   https://www.israel21c.org/tel-aviv-ranked-3-most-dog-friendly-city-in-the-world/
 
A self-driving car in New York City. Israeli-founded Mobileye is proving “if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere” with an autonomous car pilot in Manhattan. A car with Mobileye’s technologies negotiates congested streets, pedestrians, cyclists, double-parked vehicles, construction, emergency vehicles and more.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/if-you-can-make-it-there-mobileye-self-driving-car-plies-new-york-city-streets/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50NPqEla0CQ
 
Preventing male chick slaughter. A fifth Israeli startup has a technical solution to the problem of preventing the hatching of unwanted male chicks (see here previously).  NRS Poultry, a research group at Israel’s Volcani Institute, is developing a way to stop a hen’s male-producing Z chromosome being transferred to the egg.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-aims-to-block-hatching-of-billions-of-male-chicks-fated-for-culling/
 
High-speed fiber for the periphery. Israeli PM Naftali Bennett and Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel dedicated the first “fiber-optic connection” in Ma’alot-Tarshiha in the north of the country. Hendel said that fast Internet was vital for Zionism and that other countries would see no profit in connecting remote communities.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-premier-communications-minister-inaugurate-fiber-optic-cable-in-maalot-tarshiha/
 
 
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
 
Big in Japan. At Tel Aviv’s “Big in Japan” conference Israeli and Japanese entrepreneurs and businesspeople looked beyond the coronavirus crisis and the potential for cooperation between Israel and Japan. Interestingly, shortly after, Japan’s Softbank appointed former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen to head its Tel Aviv Office.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-big-in-japan-conference-highlights-israel-japan-tech-cooperation-1001378349  
 
Managing ads for NBC. (TY JNS) NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Israeli ad provider Innovid (see here previously) to provide ad-management solutions for its presentation of the Tokyo Olympic Games. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/07/15/nbc-chooses-israeli-ad-manager-innovid-for-production-of-tokyo-games/  https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/13/2262043/0/en/NBC-Olympics-Selects-Ad-Management-Provider-For-Its-Production-of-Tokyo-Olympics.html
 
Book travel tickets around the world. Israel’s Bookaway is confident that travelers are ready to use its platform to search, compare and book bus, ferry and train tickets around the world. Investors must also be confident, as Bookaway has just raised $35 million in funding.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3913014,00.html   https://www.bookaway.com/
 
Nas raises $11 million. Nas Academy, a Singapore-based platform founded and led by Israeli-Arab Nuseir Yassin of Nas Daily (see here previously) has raised $11 million of funds to build tech tools. Nas Academy helps developers create their own academies. It offers courses on entrepreneurship, storytelling and editing.
https://nocamels.com/2021/07/nuseir-yassin-nas-academy-11m-creators-tech-tools/
 
IntSights exits for $335 million. Israeli cybersecurity IntSights (see here previously) has just been acquired by Boston-based cybersecurity Rapid7 for $335 million. IntSights, founded by ex-IDF intelligence officers, alerts external cyber threats by monitoring the dark web, among other measures. Rapid7’s R&D will remain in Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-cybersecurity-firm-intsights-to-be-acquired-for-335-million/
 
Investment in Israeli startups: Kaltura raised $150 million (IPO); UVeye raised $60 million; Tailor Brands raised $50 million; Bookaway raised $35 million; Sweetch raised $20 million; Lightico raised $14 million; Jones agency raised $12.5 million;
 
 
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
 
Israeli opera season. The New Israeli Opera has announced its 2021-2022 season, with eight new operas at the Tel Aviv Opera House. They include The Magic Flute (Nov), Eugene Onegin (Dec/Jan) and La Traviata (Jan/Feb).  https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-opera-announces-its-2021-2022-season/
 
Israel to host Miss Universe 2021. (TY WIN) Israel is to host the 70 Miss Universe competition in December in Eilat. The 3-hour event will be broadcast live in the US and viewed in 180 countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aRFpq1Z858
 
Israeli TV series. Netflix has purchased nine episodes of the new Israeli suspense series “Hit and Run”.  It is Netflix's first brand new Israeli series, having previously only hosted proven hits. Meanwhile Israel’s hit series Fauda has been dubbed into Farsi by London based Manoto TV, which reaches 30% of households in Iran.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310316
 
Record Skydive. Twelve Israelis accomplished an exhilarating feat, plummeting at some 270km per hour to soar past Israel’s previous skydiving record of ten linked people. An Israeli was also a member of the 164-person linked skydivers world record in 2015.  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310231 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTr2nejN7o  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogIXrea6A4
 
Israel’s Tour de France. Israel Startup Nation finished in the top 10 on nine stages and the top five on three occasions in this year’s Tour de France cycle race. One team member, Canadian Michael Woods took the King of the Mountains jersey on stage 14.  And team member, Andre Greipel came fifth in the final stage.
https://www.jns.org/allez-allez-shouts-of-enthusiasm-encouragement-as-israelis-tackle-tour-de-france/
 
Euro softball medals. Israeli softball teams won medals at the European Championships held in the Czech Republic. The under-16 boys' team finished as the European runners-up with the silver medal and the under-18 youth team made the podium with the bronze medal.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310187
 
5 Golds for Linoy. Israeli gymnast Linoy Ashram won five gold medals at the latest Rhythmic Gymnastics Grand Prix in Tel Aviv. Ashram won the ball, hoop, clubs, ribbon and all-around contests at the international competition.  The Israeli team also picked up two gold medals - in the ball and all-around contests
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-gymnast-linoy-ashram-picks-up-5-gold-medals-at-tel-aviv-tourney/
 
 
THE JEWISH STATE
 
Underneath the Temple. (TY JNS) Although the Jerusalem Temples have long been destroyed, some 49 underground cisterns and 42 channels beneath Temple Mount still exist. A new book by journalist and Temple Mount researcher Arnon Segal, “Habayit” (“The Home”), provides a near “virtual” visit to the cisterns.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/07/18/49-cisterns-tell-the-story-of-the-destruction-of-the-temple-and-much-more/
 
Huge increase in Aliya from France. Israel has seen a 137% jump in the number of new immigrants from France so far during 2021 compared to the same period last year. 160 new French immigrants to Israel arrived on a special flight from Paris. They included doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers and 42 under-18s.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310323
 
The IDF’s first Haredi Negev Commander. First Lieutenant Shmuel Kirsch has been promoted to Company Commander in the Negev Battalion at the Nevatim Air Force Base. Kirsch is a member of the Chabad Hasidic movement and the first Haredi commander of the Negev Company.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310312
 
From sadness to love. (TY Sharon) Within the space of six days, the Jewish calendar moves from the saddest day (9th Av – Tisha B’Av) to the most romantic day (15th Av – Tu b’Av) which this year coincided with Shabbat and 15 years to the day that Sharon made Aliya to the “Real Jerusalem Streets”.  http://rjstreets.com/

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