Author Archives: ArchitectGuy

#SwissAir CEO receives an interesting letter

Oct. 9, 2018 Thomas Klühr, CEO, Swiss International Air Lines Dear Mr. Klühr We found it very interesting that your onboard inflight map on your flight LX252 to Tel Aviv, removed the name of your destination replacing it with an Arab village … Continue reading

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Leslie Cockburn, J Street-endorsed candidate for Congress in Virginia’s 5th district, has extreme views on Israel

CAMERA BLOG Anti-Zionist Conspiracy Theories Seek the Mainstream by Ricki Hollander October 8, 2018 Anti-Zionist conspiracy theory literature is now once again in the news. A two-decade-old film and book by a husband-wife journalist team, Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, portrays … Continue reading

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“Ten Jewish-American baseball players will become dual Israeli citizens partly to help the country’s team make the 2020 Olympics”

JTA 10 American Jewish baseball players to become dual Israeli citizens to boost nation’s Olympics bid October 10, 2018 …Some of the players, who will visit Israel’s Interior Ministry next week to begin the process, also represented Israel in last year’s World … Continue reading

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EVENT #StandWithUs Chicago 7th Annual Campus Champion Gala Sunday November 4

5:00 PM Sunday November 4, 2018 B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim (BJBE) 1201 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, IL Honoring Zahava Wein and David N. Jonas Keynote Speaker Colonel Richard Kemp Click here to register StandWithUs is an organization that educates high school … Continue reading

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2000 year old stone column inscribed “Yerushalayim” has been discovered

LIVE SCIENCE This Is the Oldest Known Inscription Bearing the Full Name of Jerusalem by Laura Geggel October 9, 2018 Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known instance of the word “Jerusalem” spelled out in full, on an ancient stone carving … Continue reading

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Strategic Affairs Minister #GiladErdan: US student must repudiate BDS to gain entry to Israel

TIMES OF ISRAEL Hebrew U. head backs detained US student, warns case harms anti-BDS effort by Staff and AP October 9, 2018 The Hebrew University on Tuesday threw its support behind a US student of Palestinian descent, who has been … Continue reading

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New York Times takes note of increasing numbers of Democrats abandoning Israel

NEW YORK TIMES A New Wave of Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket Support for Israel by Catie Edmondson Oct. 7, 2018 …A [not insubstantial] cluster of activist Democrats — most of them young, most of them cruising toward House seats … Continue reading

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“The horrific incident took place at the attacker’s and the three victims’ place of employment in the large Barkan Industrial Park, one of the few commercial centers to employ both thousands of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians, and a working example of coexistence”

JNS Barkan terror attack attempts to ‘sabotage the normalization’ of local Jews and Arabs by Josh Hasten October 8, 2018 Just as shocking as the execution-style murders of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 29-year-old mother of an infant, and Ziv Hajbi, … Continue reading

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“Governments around the world are quietly turning to YAMAM, Israel’s special police force, for help with their most intractable security problems”

VANITY FAIR “We Try to Learn Every Terrorist Attack”: Inside the Top-Secret Israeli Anti-Terrorism Operation That’s Changing the Game by Adam Ciralsky November 2018 On a spring evening in late April, I traveled to a fortified compound in the Ayalon … Continue reading

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“Until about 15 years ago, spinal surgery was a lot like grasping in the dark”

THE TOWER Eye on the Spine by Avi Jorisch October 2, 2018 Medtronic, an Irish-American medical device company, announced last Friday that it was purchasing Israel’s Mazor Robotics for a hefty $1.64 billion, the biggest exit ever for an Israeli biotech company. Mazor’s … Continue reading

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