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By Joseph Puder In his 1984 bestseller, “The Haj” (Doubleday, NY), Leon Uris captured the essence of the Arab-Israeli conflict through his two protagonists: Haj Ibrahim, muktar of the village of Tabah in the Ayalon Valley of Mandatory Palestine, and Gideon Asch, a pre-Israel Palestinian Jew, whose familiarity with Arab life, language and culture made him an honorary Bedouin.
A Gaza mall bustles in July 2010. On November 11, 2010, Ging complained of persistent supply problems attending the Israeli blockade. Yet two weeks later, he rebutted this assertion, as well as the claim by UNRWA’s commissioner-general Filippo Grandi that Israel had not allowed the entry of a single truckload of construction materials, by acknowledging that “the shops were full of consumer goods.”
Another point of view of this weeks Torah portion. PARSHAT MASEI by Yehuda HaKohen. “You shall possess the land and you shall dwell in it, for to you have I given the land to possess it.” (BAMIDBAR 33:53) The Ramban, Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman, offers a lengthy explanation of this verse, asserting that the mitzvah for the Jewish people to conquer and reside within the Land of Israel is a positive commandment of great consequence.
By Ariel Ben Avraham This portion recalls the journeys of the children of Israel since their Exodus from Egypt under the guidance of the Creator: “Moses recorded their starting points for their journeys (massei) according to the word of the Lord, and these were their journeys with their starting points.” (Numbers 33:2)
By Steve Ornstein It all started with the dairy cartel in Israel raising the price of cottage cheese that caught the attention of the middle class and a mini revolt was under way. A boycott of the cheese caught the attention of the media and it sparked a public expression of the middle class discontent for high taxation with out any serious benefits except for the difficulty of making ends meet.
By Sharon Udasin, for Jerusalem Post Among the passengers aboard the Atlantis space shuttle’s final voyage was an Israeli biomedical water purification device, which was undergoing initial tests for use in zero-gravity, outer space conditions.
