People ask me how I read so much and I tell them, jokingly, I use the Pelosi method. First I post it, then I read it.
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The Justices Send a Message to Congress
The EPA case doesn’t preclude climate rules. It require lawmakers to enact them.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
It’s tempting to view Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate authority as a missile aimed solely at the bureaucratic swamp. It’s just as much a swipe at that bureaucracy’s enabler: the feckless U.S. Congress.
A Historic Supreme Court Term Ends With a Bang on Climate Regulation
Sweep away the opinion’s numbing technical descriptions, and the ruling is a joy to read. The six conservatives on the court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, have officially declared the “major questions doctrine”—a concept that has appeared in a handful of past court decisions—to be a living, breathing principle. The federal bureaucracy is no longer allowed to impose programs of major “economic and political significance” on the country absent “clear congressional authorization.” Hallelujah.
That’s a bummer for the executive branch—and its army of bureaucrats—which for decades has been acting as if it were king. In this case, the Obama administration was frustrated Congress wouldn’t enact a law empowering it to regulate climate emissions. So it magicked up the authority out of the 1970 Clean Air Act. Democratic administrations in particular are growing brazen in delegating to themselves these new superpowers. The Biden team last year in litigation insisted there existed in a 77-year-old law the authority to impose an eviction moratorium. Just as it found permission in a 51-year-old law to impose a vaccine mandate on the nation’s workforce. The high court struck down both and—just in case Mr. Biden didn’t get the hint—used this week’s EPA decision to lay out stricter rules going forward.
But it’s equally a bummer for Congress, which was essentially just told by the court to get off its lazy backside and resume the people’s work. It’s easy to bash the administrative state, but bureaucrats are simply filling a vacuum created by a legislature that these days can rouse itself to little more than naming a post office. “Federal agencies must have the authority to regulate carbon!” every Democrat wailed in response to this week’s ruling. To which the obvious response is: Then give it to them! Pass a law. Do your job.
Congressional sloth in recent years has hit mind-boggling new lows. It’s partly systemic, rooted in a mandatory spending regime that accounts for two-thirds of government dollars and runs on autopilot. That disconnect now imbues every aspect of governance. In the nearly 50 years since Congress created our current system of budgeting and appropriations, it’s managed to complete the process correctly four times. It last did so 25 years ago. The default is massive omnibus bills that are passed hours after release, minutes before the government shuts down for lack of funds.
It’s a function of power politics. Most high-profile legislation is crafted in a leader’s office or by “gangs”—bypassing committees, debate and amendments in favor of take-it-or-leave-it deals. Conference committees between the two chambers are essentially dead; the House and Senate simply rubber-stamp each other.
But the indolence is mostly a product of political cynicism. This has been a theme of Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who uses his perch on the Judiciary Committee to grill court nominees on the separation of powers. In an interview, he points out that we are supposed to have a “throw the bums out” system in which every few years voters get to “hire and fire those who make the laws.” Yet bureaucrats don’t stand for election, and neither do the judges who defer to the bureaucracy’s supposed expertise. Lawmakers see only benefit in outsourcing the dirty work.
“Politicians on the left are happy to let bureaucrats run everything and to not have to own it, and politicians on the right are happy to blame someone else and not do the work,” Mr. Sasse says. If this opinion forces “Congress to step up,” he adds, “people will have more power and Washington will be a little healthier.”
Conservative Republican legislators report that this cynicism has now reached new heights. They note that their Democratic counterparts routinely write legislation that is deliberately vague, so as to give the administrative state maximum flexibility to impose programs Congress won’t take responsibility for passing. This also ensures that the federal bureaucracy—which largely shares the left’s political ideology—can continue its work even under Republican presidencies and Congresses.
Which helps explain the left’s unhinged reaction to this week’s ruling. It blew up a basket that contained too many Democratic eggs. The merit of statutory law is that it is enduring, but that takes time and compromise. Democrats chose to instead rely on a bureaucracy to impose a purer—albeit lawless—version of its agenda. The court has just thrown a red flag on that entire project. Live by the administrative state, die by the administrative state.
Don’t think the Biden administration will give up easily; its agencies will continue to try to sneak through every opening, and the court will likely have to reinforce and fill out its ruling.
But if the judiciary sticks to its guns and enforces the separation of powers, this week’s decision could prove one of the more consequential in improving the health of the republic
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As I have said many times and Henninger concurs, liberals aren't a happy brood when they don't get their way. So what do they do? It's into the streets!
The Bullhorn Politics of Roe v. Wade
Democrats always seem on the edge of pushing politics into a state of civil unrest.
By Daniel Henninger
Wonder Land: Democrats always seem on the edge of pushing politics into a state of civil unrest. Images: Getty Images/The Boston Globe Composite: Mark Kelly
At times like these, when an issue has pushed American political life to a white heat, some sage often steps forth to restate a truism: All politics is local. Not anymore. Not when Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat from Massachusetts, demands that in response to a “national health emergency,” President Biden set up abortion clinics on federal lands (an idea that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unfortunately called “the babiest of baby steps”).
For the progressives running the Democratic Party, all politics is national. Whether abortion on demand, gun bans, eliminating fossil fuels, whatever, the view of the Democrats is that the locals (rhymes with yokels) are just along for the ride. Get over it. And if progressives don’t get what they want, they head to the streets.
After the demonstrations and end-of-days statements from elected officials following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs case, one almost forgets that the decision came with a reasoned opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, with concurrences by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas. Days before, Justice Thomas provided a 56-page explanation for affirming the Second Amendment.
But who cares about the details of judicial opinions anymore?
Hillary Clinton’s reductio ad absurdum on Justice Thomas this week: “He’s been a person of grievance for as long as I have known him—resentment, grievance, anger.”
After a draft of Justice Alito’s opinion was leaked, sidewalk protesters besieged his and his colleagues’ homes. A high fence rings the Supreme Court building and won’t come down anytime soon. The fence and the site where rioters breached the Capitol building are D.C.’s newest tourist attractions.
We’ll focus on two statements in Justice Alito’s decision that take the discussion past abortion, if that’s possible.
The opinion quotes from Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). Scalia wrote that Roe v. Wade “destroyed the compromises of the past, rendered compromise impossible for the future, and required the entire issue to be resolved uniformly, at the national level” (my emphasis).
Justice Alito described what Roe did to the country’s social cohesion. It “sparked a national controversy that has embittered our political culture for a half century.” That is, Roe caused America’s long culture wars.
“Culture wars” was a term conservatives coined to describe the post-Roe conflict between traditional beliefs and progressive heterodoxy. The previously nonpolitical Christian right emerged. The left has never worried much about the half century of cultural embitterment described by Justice Alito. It has dismissed the battles over the culture as a political invention or an obsession of right-wing extremists (known more recently as the “deplorables”).
A stark irony sits in the middle of this week’s uproar: Obergefell v. Hodges. That is the court’s 5-4 decision in 2015 recognizing the legal validity of gay marriage. Many Americans disagreed with it. But it was accepted. No fence went up around the court. Scalia’s concerns about the death of compromise looked premature. And it won’t be overturned.
But about a month after Obergefell, the transgender rights issue erupted, focusing—incredible in retrospect—on bathroom access. Despite Obergefell’s welcome modus vivendi, the culture war reignited, extending more recently even to primary education. Which is why Justice Alito could cite a bitter politics at 50 years, and still going.
For progressive Democrats, every waking moment is Armageddon. Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, says “the future of the Democratic Party is at stake.” And maybe it is.
Public protests are part of politics in any free country, a First Amendment right repeatedly affirmed by the out-of-favor Supreme Court. But the average American voter must be wondering whether the Democratic Party’s politics is about anything other than these street protests.
The Washington Post reported this week that congressional progressives are upset that Mr. Biden said people should express opposition to the court’s abortion decision by voting in November, which Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush say is inadequate. According to the Post, some Democratic lawmakers and activists “criticize the notion that it is on voters to turn out in November when they say Democrats are unwilling to push boundaries and upend the system in defense of hard-won civil liberties.”
Many Democrats in office today were community organizers. Going into the street to “upend the system” with an apparently unlimited rights agenda is what professional activists do for a living. This now-constant style of bullhorn politics—with its shaken fists and denunciations of normal deliberation and process—is defining the public’s impression of who the Democrats are.
By aligning so closely with street protests and apocalyptic claims about abortion, climate and gender, the Democrats have created a significant perception problem for the party heading into the midterm elections and perhaps for years. With these allies, the party always seem to be living at the edge of civil disturbance. Now they have repudiated the U.S. Supreme Court—in toto.
Come November, I expect most voters will elect not to live in a state of constant political rage and moral chaos.
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DUH! FAIR Articles:
Parents should have the right to know what their children are being taught, argues life peer
For GB News, FAIR Advisor Inaya Folarin Iman writes about the “growing chorus of voices demanding greater transparency in education when it comes to what school pupils are being taught about politically contentious subjects.” Iman notes the struggles of parents who had “come up against several different roadblocks when seeking further information from their schools about teaching materials and lessons on contentious subjects,” and the larger issue of transparency in the education system.
Parents frequently reported that when lessons are provided by outside organisations, the commercial interests of the company are cited as a reason why they cannot view the materials. Parents often expressed being made to feel bigoted or backwards-looking when they raised concerns about materials. This comes as former Education Secretary Baroness Morris of Yardley proposed an amendment to the Schools Bill, the Government’s flagship reform legislation currently going through Parliament, which would mean parents have the right to know what their children are being taught in schools.
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Why understanding America’s exceptional history builds self-reliance
For Deseret News, FAIR Advisor Ian Rowe writes about the critical importance of an appreciation of America’s founding ideals in our youth, and the ways overly negative visions of America, such as those expressed by the 1619 Project, have a crippling effect. “One building block of agency in young people is that they must believe that they live in a good country, if not a great one; a country that is not hostile to their dreams and that, however flawed, is still full of possibilities that will reward you with great works in return for your great work.”
Building agency in the next generation will depend partly on teaching our young people to appreciate and embrace America’s founding principles rather than teaching them to denigrate and reject those ideas as somehow illegitimate because they have been too often violated in practice. Those principles have been a pathway to success for legions of marginalized groups who have shouldered “ev’ry burden, ev’ry disadvantage.” That is why we must oppose distorted histories that paint America as an irredeemably racist or inherently unjust nation.
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Palestinian Authority capitulates, will hand over bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist
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US is playing risky game with Saudi Arabia and Iran
BY LAWRENCE J. HAAS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
“This summit,” Khaled Al-Suleiman, a Saudi Arabian columnist, wrote of President Biden’s upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia, “may be a golden opportunity for the American president to restore the [regional countries’] faith in America as a trustworthy historical ally with a solid policy that can be relied upon.
“For the alternative,” he warned, “is that these countries will actually change the map of their international alliances in order to safeguard their interests and enhance their ability to overcome the miscalculations of some of their traditional Western allies regarding the need to defend them from the threat of Iran, whose aggression is known to all and which never stops threatening and igniting fires and wars in the region!”
As Riyadh was planning to seek Biden’s assurances that Washington remains a reliable partner in confronting Iran’s regional expansionism, U.S. and Iranian officials met in Doha in hopes of reviving the 2015 global nuclear deal with Iran — the very deal that Riyadh opposes because it won’t prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons over the long term and because it would do nothing to curb Tehran’s terror sponsorship and other destabilizing regional activities.
For Washington, the question is whether it can have its cake and eat it too — reassure a leader of Sunni Arab nations that seek to contain Shia Iran and reach a nuclear modus vivendi with the latter. The risk, of course, is that Washington will lose on both fronts — fail to revive the nuclear deal and feed more concerns among Saudi officials that Riyadh may need to reconsider its heavy reliance on Washington for regional security.
To be sure, Biden faces an unusually complicated global landscape that has forced him to backtrack on his campaign promise to make Riyadh a “pariah” over human rights, particularly over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi that the U.S. intelligence community believes was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).
The unprecedented sanctions that Washington and its allies have imposed on Russia, along with the growing military arsenal they have sent to Ukraine, have not forced Vladimir Putin to re-think the aggression that has shaken the post-war order. After stalling elsewhere on the ground, Russia’s military is making progress in capturing territory in Ukraine’s eastern region while shelling civilian sites in hopes of demoralizing Ukrainians and prompting Kyiv to surrender.
Moreover, sanctions on Russia’s oil sector have sent global oil prices much higher. That, and decisions by China and India to buy more Russian oil, have enabled Moscow to make more money from oil sales than before it invaded Ukraine. At the same time, U.S. consumers are paying much more at the pump, helping to drive inflationary pressures that prompted the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates dramatically. That move, in turn, is threatening to spark a U.S. recession.
Not surprisingly, Biden hopes to convince Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to increase oil production in hopes of lowering prices and, with mid-term congressional elections looming, giving himself a political boost.
Riyadh, however, seems emboldened by Biden’s decision to scrap the “pariah” talk and visit the kingdom.
“[T]he Biden administration must prove that its renewed interest in the Gulf states is not [just] circumstantial and is not just a constraint imposed by the need for oil,” the pro-government Al-Riyadh newspaper wrote in an editorial. “Moreover, it must prove with deeds, not just with words, that it is still committed to the security of the Gulf and [recognizes that] the Gulf [states] have urgent needs that must be considered.”
Biden’s hopes of strengthening U.S.-Saudi relations is just one more reason to wonder why the administration still wants to revive a nuclear deal that, at best, would constrain Iran’s nuclear pursuits only until the deal expired in the coming years.
As the Saudis, other Gulf nations, and Israel have complained relentlessly, a revived deal would do nothing to constrain Iran’s nuclear-related ballistic missile program or force Tehran to change its regional behavior.
Nor would it force Iranian officials to cooperate with nuclear inspectors any more than they did before President Trump withdrew the United States from the deal in 2018. After the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution in early June to urge Tehran to fully cooperate with inspectors who were probing suspected nuclear activity at three undeclared sites, Tehran responded that it would disconnect 27 cameras at nuclear-related sites that were designed to monitor its compliance with the nuclear deal.
All in all, Biden’s commitment to reviving the nuclear deal is not only problematic in terms of curbing Iranian nuclear activity, but it also threatens to undercut his effort to restore relations with Riyadh that have become increasingly important to U.S. strategic interests.
Lawrence J. Haas, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, is the author of “The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America’s Empire,” from Potomac Books.
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Yes, this needs to be done but why broadcast it before the fact? It would also go faster if they used the same good old American way. The same tactics the Democrat Schiff radicals used in the J6 investigation. No cross examination of any witnesses.
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GOP Ready To Investigate Hunter Biden When It Takes Power
(PresidentialHill.com)- In light of new emails and videos unearthed from a laptop that President Joe Biden’s son Hunter left at a Delaware computer repair shop, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said on Wednesday that Republicans in Congress are “ready to retake the gavel” and look into the matter.
Comer, a member of the House Oversight Committee, stated on the “Chris Salcedo Show” that the Democrats dominate the committee hearings because they’re in the majority. Still, Republicans are well prepared to regain the gavel, ideally after the midterm elections in January.
The Kentucky representative said they’re still gathering information, and he’s startled by how much of it now clearly demonstrates that Joe Biden was aware of many of the questionable business dealings and shady business figures that Hunter allied himself with.
The material on the laptop, according to Comer, “evidences” that Hunter and his father, who was the vice president at the time, were closely connected, sharing bank accounts and business connections all around the world, including in China and Ukraine.
Comer noted the video where Hunter said his father would “do anything” for him. He believes that by that point, we have heard the sales pitch that Hunter Biden would deliver to the Chinese Communist Party, the Ukrainian energy companies, and the Russian billionaires. When Joe Biden served as vice president, Hunter Biden had business dealings with these unsavory organizations.
Comer claimed that by giving Hunter access to the same account and enabling him to make deposits and write checks on his father’s behalf, Joe Biden may have broken federal banking regulations.
He said he believes this is an ethics violation in and of itself, as the vice president of the United States is on an account that he never publicly revealed in his financial disclosure form. He also signed alongside Hunter Biden on a few memos and accounts, with his name appearing on a few. A number of these accounts are against federal banking regulations.
According to Comer, 150 reports of “suspicious behavior” have been made against a number of Hunter Biden’s checking accounts.
He added that they’ve already shown that 150 suspicious activity reports were submitted under several Hunter Biden checking accounts. Joe Biden was involved in several of these accounts, which is very significant.
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Ordman's Good News Israel (edited.) Israel is a truly tiny nation in terms of size but it is an amazing country when one considers it's accomplishments in science, health, athletics and building trust etc.
Those who attack it physically and label it an apartheid nation have an axe to grind. Jimmy Carter remains angry that in pursuit of a second term his Jewish support melted so he set about on his vindictive course.
One of my dearest friends, who worked with him and whose professional background gave him tremendous insights into the man, told me he would one day seek to destroy Israel.
As for the Palestinians they have held themselves back because of lousy and corrupt leadership that is hate based have kept their people from making progress and having a better life.
How sad and unproductive is hatred based on self-denial, religious enmity and lying to ones self for your own failures and actions.
The U.N has perpetrated a lot of the backwardness in order to keep their staff workers employed, well fed, and financed by world contributions. It is a flawed organization that has failed it's mission and charter.
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Israel is making the world a much safer place. This week's newsletter includes Israeli solutions that could save humanity from all dangerous viruses, aggressive prostate cancer and congestive heart failure; plus a new training center where paramedics "save lives" in simulated emergencies. Israelis are providing a safe environment for Ukrainian refugees, helping the UN protect women from discrimination, warning the US of cyber-attacks on power stations, and even providing humanitarian aid to Afghan earthquake victims. New Israeli technology keeps bike riders safe, stops ships from colliding, saves water resources from drying out and fertile land from becoming desert. Israeli startups prevent accidents at construction sites and on our roads; Israelis are developing a defibrillator that flies to an emergency and a camera to save infants left inside a car. - Please click here, to donate (a small or large amount) to help me publicize VeryGoodNewsIsrael.(Please note that the donate link is now working and a PayPal account is not necessary!)
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
A platform to eliminate all viruses. Hebrew University startup ViroBlock has reported preliminary success of its platform for rapidly generating anti-viral therapies. Its channel blockers inhibit proteins expressed by current and emerging viruses, including COVID-19 and variants, influenza, Zika, West Nile, Hepatitis B and more.
https://www.pharmiweb.com/press-release/2022-06-27/viroblock-a-hebrew-university-startup-announces-preliminary-success-of-its-anti-viral-drug-platform-in-new-study
EU funding for cardiac implants. Israel’s Restore Medical (see here previously) been awarded a €2.5 million grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC). Restore Medical is conducting human trials of its ContraBand implant to treat Congestive heart failure. 1,093 global companies applied for EIC funds; only 74 received them.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjejifvqq
New skin for old. Scientists at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus and Israel’s Technion Institute reversed the aging of skin cells by grafting aged human skin in lab tests. The skin rejuvenated - even generating new blood vessels and improving age-related biomarkers. It represents a breakthrough for research into aging.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-710319 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CyWiiR6cOc
Wake up and smell the coffee. (TY UWI) After last week’s article about dogs sniffing to detect cancer (see here) this article summarizes many of the Israeli innovations related to scents and odors.
https://www.israel21c.org/why-scent-is-the-next-frontier-for-technology/
Breakthrough prostate cancer therapy. Israel’s Alpha Tau Medical (see here previously) has successfully treated a patient with aggressive prostate cancer using alpha-radiation - injecting a radioactive isotope into the tumor. Alpha DaRT (Diffusing Alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy) destroys a tumor by breaking its DNA.
https://nocamels.com/2022/06/israeli-researchers-use-breakthrough-tech-to-treat-prostate-cancer-for-first-time/
Ready for anything. Israeli emergency medical organization Magen David Adom has established a new center at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, designed to simulate real-world emergencies. 23 senior MDA paramedics recently received training there and there are plans to train 100 more over the next few months.
https://www.jns.org/mda-paramedics-gain-hands-on-experience-in-new-emergency-training-course/
Force for good. (TY UWI & I24 News) In Israeli hospitals, the Israel Outpost of the 501st Legion villains of “Star Wars” are actually a force for good, bringing joy to sick children. They also perform at events to raise money for sick children. Watch them pay a visit to Safra Children's Hospital in Israel’s Sheba Medical Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T3qBWmtrE4
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Empowering female entrepreneurs. Israeli NGO Yozmot Atid empowers women from Israel’s geographical, social, and economic periphery. Its training program helps some 1,000 women each year start businesses and become financially independent. The NGO took dozens of senior Israeli executives on a tour of the businesses.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s19tsjevu https://yozmotatid.org.il/en/
No more building of chicken cages. Israel is among the first countries in the world to ban chicken cages for egg-laying hens and to move to non-cage systems. Israel’s new regulations also include providing regular care for chickens and bans on the practice of induced molting and beak trimming.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355425
A school for coexistence. (TY WIN) Jalal Toukhi trained as a lawyer in Tel Aviv municipality and has a Social Studies master’s from Al-Quds University. He is the first Israeli Arab to be principal of an Israeli school. The Ajyal school in Jaffa has 150 teachers from all sectors and religions, is one of the best in Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyFnOjh27U
Apple for Israelis & PA Arabs. Apple’s R&D centers in Herzliya and Haifa currently employ 2,000 Israeli engineers working on Apple M1 chips and depth sensing camera. Apple also has 60 Palestinian Arab engineers at its Apple hub in the new PA city of Rawabi, run in partnership with PA company, ASAL Technologies.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bypitho59
Muslim EMT rescues Jewish Ukrainian refugees. United Hatzalah’s Khaled Hardan, a Muslim volunteer paramedic from Wadi Ara in northern Israel, flew to Warsaw to help ensure Jewish Ukrainians could undertake the journey to Israel. Khaled said, “I am happy that I was part of the team that was able to bring them to Israel.”
https://unitedwithisrael.org/muslim-paramedic-helps-rescue-jewish-refugees-after-russian-invasion/
Ending discrimination against women. By a majority of 115, the United Nations General Assembly elected Israel to its Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan was “proud to see more Israeli women leading & promoting women’s rights across the globe".
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355445
Disaster aid for Afghanistan. Israel’s IsraAID is working with local partners to provide humanitarian relief to victims of the magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan. It plans to provide essential items such as bandages, sterile syringes, gauze, suture kits, tourniquets, pain killers, antibiotics, and basic medication.
https://www.jns.org/israaid-to-supply-essential-medical-relief-items-in-wake-of-afghanistan-earthquake/
IDF warning prevented cyberattack on US power plants. The deputy chief of IDF Unit 8200 said that his intelligence agency warned the United States of attempts to hack the country's power plants in time to thwart the cyberattack. The IDF spotted the attack on the US while they were defending Israel’s water systems
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-710691
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Israel Mobile Summit. After two years of virtual events, 2,000 industry experts returned to Expo Tel Aviv for the Israel Mobile Summit, part of Israel Mobile Week. Some interesting new Israeli apps include Simplify (to overcome the fear of flying) and CR8 (to specify who and where to date).
https://nocamels.com/2022/06/mobile-summit-app-innovative/
https://simpliflyapp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXKhd9bi0c0 https://cr8date.com/
World Bank praises Israel’s fiber rollout. An study by the World Bank praises Israel’s rollout of hi-speed fiber-optic Internet. 60% of Israeli households now have fast Internet access. The Communications Ministry plans to meet again with the World Bank in September to share its deployment model with other countries.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-710518
World class nano-scientist. Professor Jacob Sagiv of Israel’s Weizmann Institute is the first Israeli to win the international Kavli award, for astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. Prof. Sagiv shared the Nanoscience prize, with 3 USA colleagues for their pioneering work on self-assembling monolayers on solid substrates.
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-708497
Solar-powered diamond production. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Lusix (see here previously) has launched “Sun Grown Diamonds” - the world’s first 100% solar powered lab-grown diamonds. Lusix’s whole operation is now fully powered by a dedicated 30-megawatt solar farm situated in southern Israel.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220608006179/en/%C2%A0LUSIX-Unveils-Sun-Grown-DiamondsTM https://lusix.com/
Atomic clocks for all occasions. Israel’s AccuBeat (see here previously) has been supplying the U.S. Air Force with its atomic clocks for 20 years. It outfits Israeli Air Force jets and Israeli Navy submarines, UAVs and is building the Ultra Stable Oscillator for the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission to Jupiter’s moons.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkvuhqofc
Safety device for bikes and scooters. Israel’s Autotalks (see here previously) has developed ZooZ2 – a device installed on the handlebar of bikes and scooters. It warns riders of potential collisions with vehicles, plus alerts all V2X (Vehicle to Everything) equipped vehicles about the existence of the rider.
https://auto-talks.com/techcrunch-autotalks-wants-bike-makers-to-buy-its-v2x-device-for-micromobility/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69KhoER2Rk
Safer ships. Another Israeli maritime safety startup, Captain’s Eye, has developed an AI-based system that detects unusual events on ships in real-time, such as smoke and leakage, security breaches, unsafe crew behavior, and other anomalies. It can prevent property, physical, and financial damage that might occur at sea.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkdxrrdq9 https://captain-eye.com/
Eco-friendly power for satellites. Israel’s Space Plasmatics (see here previously) uses solar power to heat up eco-friendly propellant into ionized plasma gas for maneuvering nanosatellites in space. The startup uses patent technology that originated at Israel’s Technion Institute and tested (see here) on Eytan Stibbe’s recent mission.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1s2m5r95
Turning desert into fertile soil. (TY Stuart Palmer) Isha Foundation’s Sadhguru spoke to 4,500 in Tel Aviv on the 48th day of his 100-day journey to Save Soil. He said, while the rest of the world had witnessed degradation of fertile land, Israel was one nation that had been busy transforming desert into fertile, agricultural fields.
https://www.news18.com/news/india/israel-leading-innovation-in-agri-tech-turning-desert-into-fertile-soil-says-sadhguru-in-tel-aviv-5147107.html https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-710201
Why food tech in Israel will change our future. Israelis have unlocked the secrets of cellular plant biology, taking active ingredients from plants to develop supplements that the body needs to survive and thrive. Hear from Professor Uri Lesmes at Israel’s Technion Institute, and then from the co-founders of Israel’s Bioharvest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgPbK7NvAE https://vinia.co.il/ https://bioharvest.com/
Groundbreaking water recycling. (TY IsraPundit) Israel is to be the first in the world to pipe desalinated water into a natural lake - the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). After much testing, the NIS 900 million, 15km pipe effectively will, by next year, connect the lake to five desalination plants on the Mediterranean coast.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-be-1st-in-world-to-pipe-desalinated-water-into-a-natural-lake-the-galilee/
Life-changing technology. The winner of the 5th annual Women’s Hackathon at the Jerusalem College of Technology was “EasySurf,” a mechanism that enables seniors to have easier access to modern-day technology. Second was a flying defibrillator and third place was a camera that detected babies left in a car.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355345
Never stop developing. Israel’s Wilco has developed an upskilling platform for software developers. Developers join a game-like experience designed to accelerate their professional growth. Engineers go on quests that challenge them to navigate complex life-like scenarios while utilizing real tools and technologies.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1vp1jckc https://www.trywilco.com/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
The digital Shekel. The Bank of Israel has published the outline and main insights from its first technological experiment of the digital shekel project. The BoI reported that it had established distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure on the cloud and applied a Quorum blockchain based on Ethereum open-source platform.
https://www.boi.org.il/en/NewsAndPublications/PressReleases/Pages/20-6-22.aspx
Boosting economic peace. Just over three decades after the Madrid Peace Conference, the city hosted the first Madrid and The New Middle East Business Summit. It comprised some 200 business delegates, who came to promote investment and trade relations between the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Spain.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355356
$880 million for climate-tech development. The Israeli government has approved the implementation of a NIS 3 billion program to promote innovation in climate-tech. Its 5-year plan aims to double the number of startups in this area to 100 and vastly expand the number of related venture capital funds.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1jrfzlq9
VC fund for Reichman graduates. Reichman University in Herzliya is setting up a venture capital fund that will invest mostly in startups founded by its graduates. Investors have already committed $30 million, to be allocated to pre-Seed and Seed investments in startups founded by students, even during their studies.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjnxuukq9
Inaugural Emirates airline flight. The UAE’s largest airline Emirates made its first scheduled passenger flight to the Jewish state. 335 passengers flew from Dubai to Tel Aviv on a Boeing 777 “Gamechanger,” which, according to Emirates, features the world’s only fully enclosed first-class private suites with virtual windows.
https://www.jns.org/inaugural-emirates-airline-flight-to-tel-aviv-takes-off-from-dubai/
Women, wine & whiskey. Tal Tauber Gottesdiner is the founder of HaShizra (The Stem), a community that empowers women in the Israeli wine, culinary and spirit industries. Over 260 women joined HaShizra in its first year and it now has over 900 members. HaShizra events are open to both women and men.
https://www.israel21c.org/sisters-are-doing-it-for-themselves-in-israels-wine-industry/
https://www.hashizra.com/english
Building a safe partnership. Japanese construction and mining giant Komatsu has signed a partnership agreement with Israeli AI construction safety startup INTSITE (see here previously). INTSITE’s technology helps prevent accidents and improves efficiency by identifying anomalies and bottlenecks during mining work.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryk3w9w9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTJ0GjXRJo
Making ADAS affordable. Israel’s Hailo (see here previously) is linking up with the R-Car systems-on-chip from Japan’s Renesas to make high performance ADAS technology more accessible in cars of all types. Hailo’s CEO said that its “AI will play a major role in making our roads safer”.
https://ai.hailo.ai/hailo-renesas-for-adas-av
Glamping in Israel. Several companies provide tourists a view of Israel and its landscape outside of hotel rooms. Gag Eden is located on the roof of Jerusalem’s Clal Center. It also has a campsite in Jerusalem’s Peace Forest. Others include Glamping Israel and Glow Camping. Booking.com and Airbnb also provide options.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-glamping-an-israeli-tourism-growth-sector-gets-in-tents/
Israeli dairy to produce no-cow milk products. Israel’s Central Bottling Company (CBC - a.k.a. “Coca-Cola Israel”) has signed a 10-year agreement with Israel’s leading cultured milk production company Remilk. CBC subsidiary Tara Dairy will use Remilk’s proteins to manufacture and market no-cow yogurts, cheeses etc.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/almdqv8av
Investment in Israeli startups to 3/7/22: Gloat raised $90 million; Cyolo raised $60 million; Incredibuild raised $35 million; Konnecto raised $21 million; Cordio Medical raised $18 million; Helios.dev raised $5 million;
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT`
White Night is back. After a two-year break due to Covid, Laila Lavan (White Night) returns to Tel Aviv – an all-night celebration from dusk to dawn. It features music concerts on the beach promenade, street theater and dance performances, sidewalk stalls offering street food from burekas to tapas, and all-night shopping.
https://www.israel21c.org/white-night-tel-aviv-music-dance-films-food-till-dawn/
Samaria Film Festival. (TY JNS) The Samaria Regional Council will host its first film festival beginning July 3. 25 movies will be screened over the course of four days in venues throughout the area. It is financed by the Samaria Cinema Fund, which has supported some 70 movies filmed in Judea and Samaria in the last 3 years.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/06/21/samaria-to-kick-off-regions-first-ever-film-festival/
32 things to do with kids in Israel this summer. You shouldn’t run out of ideas with this Israel21c guide!
https://www.israel21c.org/top-32-summer-activities-for-kids-in-israel-2/
Israel reaches European under-19 soccer semifinal. Israel’s youth soccer team made history by qualifying for the semifinal of the UEFA under-19 championships, the furthest an Israeli squad has ever advanced in the contest. They will now participate in the under-20 soccer World Cup, which is to be held next year in Indonesia.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-israeli-under-19-soccer-team-reaches-european-semifinal/
Israel’s unprecedented success in judo. Israel won nothing in its first 10 Olympic games. medal. But at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, judoka Yael Arad won a silver medal and dedicated it to the 11 Israeli athletes murdered in 1972. It inspired Israeli judokas to win six of Israel’s total of 13 Olympic medals.
https://honestreporting.com/when-did-israelis-become-so-good-at-judo-the-unexpected-rise-of-israel-in-international-sport/
THE JEWISH STATE
Christian tours of the Jewish State. Hundreds of young Christian adults are scheduled to arrive in Israel this summer for the largest Passages tour since the start of the pandemic. College and graduate students from across the US come to Israel to connect with their biblical roots and get to know the modern Jewish state.
https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-710281
Conversations on Zionism. Jun 5th's webinar in JNF’s series on Zionism features Fleur Hassan Nahoum - Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem. She speaks about being a woman in power, the Bedouin, Jewish, Arab, and Druze women she works with, and the strong Emirati women in the UAE-Israel Business Council she founded.
https://jnf-usa.force.com/s/lt-event?id=aBH6T0000019iR4WAI (webinar registration link)
https://www.youtube.com/zionismstudios (previous webinars in the series)
Jewish Studies Zionist Network. The new group “Jewish Studies Zionist Network” comprises scholars and educators in the field of Jewish Studies who “affirm that Zionism is a legitimate movement for the national self-determination of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland.” I hope they use my newsletter material.
https://israel-academia-monitor.com/2022/06/30/new-jewish-studies-zionist-network-is-taking-a-stance/
https://jsznetwork.weebly.com/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-YlnODOO_-YZC_XneRPnjGNOPnFQZzN7/view
Rabbi and Gabbai of the Year. Israel’s Barkai Center for Practical Rabbinics gave its 2022 Rabbi of the Year award to Rabbi Yonah Meshulam HaCohen Fodor of the Beit Yehuda Synagogue in Beit Vagan, Jerusalem. Two Gabayim tied for Gabay of the Year, and Lod’s Ramat Eshkol community won Community of the year.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355749 https://www.israelrabbis.org/en/
Sderot continues to develop. (TY Sharon) Despite attacks from nearby Gaza, the 30,000 residents of the Israeli city of Sderot are not abandoning their homes. See these photos of parks, lakes, yeshiva, animal therapy center, Founder’s Museum, music center, hi-tech businesses, as well as some brightly decorated bomb shelters.
http://rjstreets.com/2022/06/26/sderot-more-than-missiles/
The miracle of life. Holocaust survivors Shimon and Susanna Lifshitz donated an ambulance to Magen David Adom after making Aliyah. Their grandson Avraham, a senior EMT for MDA, recently delivered a baby girl in the same ambulance. Grandfather Shimon said, “it’s for moments like this that we donated the ambulance”.
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