Support United Hatzalah online Sunday afternoon, May 3, 12pm CDT/ 1pm EDT / 8pm IST

Posted on April 30, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

UNITED HATZALAH

Produced by Broadway star Adam Kantor (who also co-produced SaturdayNightSeder) and hosted by Jay Leno, we’re going to celebrate our founder Eli Beer’s recovery from a severe case of Covid 19 and return home to Israel, take you inside our dispatch to see our “uber” model in-action, hear from our medics who are responding on the front lines of the pandemic crisis, and much more. Lior Suchard, an Israeli mentalist, and Rona-Lee Shimon from Fauda are just some of the stars and celebrities who will be on hand…The event will be a virtual telethon to raise funds for the emergency medical and humanitarian aid operations of United Hatzalah across Israel. UH is responding to over 5,000 calls a day which do not go on hiatus during a pandemic, in fact, they rise – and providing, for example, food and prescription deliveries to the most vulnerable populations – many of whom are holocaust survivors without much support network. Click here to attend Sunday.

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This virus is still evolving

Posted on April 30, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE SPECTATOR
Could the lockdown have side-effects no one has considered?
by Dr John Lee
May 2, 2020

…Think about the lockdown. We have substantially reduced the number of people circulating in the community. If lockdown is working, and stopping the spread of the virus, it might be reducing the circulation of milder versions among the population, while at the same time concentrating people with the most severe disease in hospital wards. It is an assumption that those admitted to hospital have severe disease because they mainly have underlying conditions. But what if some of them also have slightly ‘nastier’ virus particles? We are bringing them together in one place where they can infect staff and vulnerable patients. READ MORE

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“The new coalition handcuffs its rival blocks into near paralysis. Perhaps this will usefully restrain Israel’s raging political fevers”

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Can Netanyahu, Gantz work together in a straightjacket government?
by David M. Weinberg
April 24, 2020

The Israeli “emergency” and “unity” government that will supposedly be confirmed by the Knesset sometime in May is the screwiest doohickey ever devised in a democracy. The 14-page coalition contract reads like a divorce deal between two parties that hate each other’s guts and seek to divvy-up assets in an environment of no trust whatsoever, not like an agreement between two political partners that are coming together to heal the country. It forms a bifurcated government where two legally embedded blocks can check each other in every possible way every minute of the day, where both Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz are forced to wear straightjackets that deliver punishing and painful electric shocks the split second either of them steps out of line. READ MORE

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“As we mark Israeli independence this year, let us cast off the contrived U.N. narrative in which Israel was born into the inevitability of two states”

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
San Remo: The original ‘deal of the century’
by Yishai Fleisher
April 26, 2020

…For those who wish to see a “two-state solution” implemented, the idea that Israel was created through the U.N. partition vote is an indispensable narrative. The logic is clear: If the U.N. gave birth to Israel, and that birth was within the partition framework, then that original vision of two states is the controlling rubric. Any deviation from partition/two-states is an act of imperialism, colonialism and occupation—words which U.N.-narrative folks use against Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria regularly. Moreover, if the U.N. is the parent of the Jewish State, then under the principle of “Honor thy father and mother,” Israel must kneel to the U.N.’s many anti-Israel resolutions and declarations. READ MORE

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“US State Department says Washington ready to approve ‘sovereignty and the application of Israeli law’ in some areas, but calls for Israel to negotiate further with Palestinians”

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
US says ‘prepared to recognize’ Israeli annexation of parts of West Bank
by Staff
April 28, 2020

The United States said Monday it was ready to recognize Israel’s annexation of parts of the West Bank but asked Israel’s government to also negotiate with the Palestinians. “As we have made consistently clear, we are prepared to recognize Israeli actions to extend Israeli sovereignty and the application of Israeli law to areas of the West Bank that the vision foresees as being part of the State of Israel,” a US State Department spokesperson said …The step would be “in the context of the Government of Israel agreeing to negotiate with the Palestinians along the lines set forth in President Trump’s Vision,” the spokesperson told The Times of Israel. READ MORE

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On Israel’s 72nd Independence Day, US and Israeli Military Bands Surprise Holocaust Survivor with Hatikvah

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST IDF honors pre-state fighters on Israel’s 72nd Independence Day Before the creation of the IDF, the Jewish community was defended by Palmach and other Jewish self-defense groups.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel at 72: A country under curfew salutes those fighting the coronavirus With Independence Day events canceled due to lockdown, Israelis looked to the skies where the air force made a modest, but very pointed, gesture of appreciation for medical workers

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“The more the Arabs participate in the political life of Israel, the more likely they are to see themselves as Israelis, as opposed to Palestinians/Arabs”

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
More evidence that fewer Arab Israelis identify as “Palestinian” (Daled Amos)
April 28, 2020

In our previous post, we looked at various surveys of Israeli Arabs over the past 9 years. Although the categories respondents were grouped in, and the way those categories could be combined, allowed for some contradictory results — there was a clear indication that Israeli Arabs identify less and less as Palestinians and more and more as Israelis. The most recent of those surveys was carried out by the Jewish People Policy Institute, which published their results last week on their site and held a video conference to discuss the results. READ MORE

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“In Israel and for nearly two months, companies have been cramming in the work while the rest of the country is stuck at home”

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Risking contagion, Israel upgrades empty roads and rails
by Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen
April 23, 2020

Roadwork is booming in Israel as construction crews take advantage of empty roads and railways in the time of coronavirus to upgrade the developed world’s most congested highways. Many countries have debated whether to keep up construction amid fears of spreading the infection, but Israel, spotting a chance early on in its battle with the outbreak, took the risk and kept labourers deployed with masks and social distancing. The government injected over 1 billion shekels ($280 million) into the impromptu campaign…READ MORE

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Palestinian Authority says installing an elevator to make building accessible is an “invasion” and “Judaization”

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
PA against wheelchair accessibility for disabled at Cave of the Patriarchs
by Itamar Marcus
April 27, 2020

The Palestinian Authority is protesting Israel’s plan to make the Cave of the Patriarchs wheelchair accessible and condemning it as “Judaization.” This is in response to the decision by Israel’s Defense Ministry in February this year to install an elevator to make the religious center wheelchair accessible within a year. Currently the only access to the large religious site involves walking dozens of steps and people in wheelchairs have to forgo the visit or to be carried. The elevator to be installed will benefit both Jewish, Muslim, and Christian visitors to the holy site. READ MORE

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The online premiere of Sustainable Nation, now free online through May 2

Posted on April 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

OPENDOR MEDIA  formerly JerusalemU

Please join OpenDor Media for the online premiere of Sustainable Nation. Our movie will be LIVE, starting NOW through May 2nd, in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut. We are proud to present this, in partnership with JNF, and the 115 partner organizations.

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