Nir Barkat is one of the few people who made his fortune in the hi-tech / start-up business in city of Jerusalem. He then set out to improve the city in which he made his fortune. Leaving his successful business he ran for mayor four years ago, under the slogan “Jerusalem Will Succeeded”! His [...]
Last Wednesday, when I returned to Jerusalem after working in the Tel Aviv studio of IsraelSeen.com preparing a new audio program I was struck by a sign carried on the side of a local Jerusalem Egged bus.
In big letters Maseach b’Yerushaliyim, Messiah in Jerusalem. Wow, I sure am glad I arrived in time, I thought. [...]
The Oct 03 op-ed by Ruth Gavison in Haaretz, that was followed by your editorial of Oct 05 in the run up to the anticipated Annapolis conference, both express the lack of an understanding of the basic fault line concerning the terms of the conflict between us, the Palestinians, the Arabs and the Muslim [...]
Journalist Tom Segev who has a regular Friday column in the Haaretz newspaper Friday Magazine wrote recently in a sarcastic tone about the request by the IDF Spokesperson Office for the complete footage shot on October 1 2000 of the killing of the child Mohammed Al-Dura at a violence wracked intersection in Gaza.
The short (59sec) [...]
Chevra, today, Erev Yom Kippur is another one of those days when I
re-realize why I live here.
The other two special days are in the spring; Yom HaZikeron La Shoa v’
LaGvura and a week later Yom HaZikaron L’ Challai Tzhal, Memorial Day
for/of the Shoa (Holocaust) & Remembrance Day for/of Casualties of the
Israeli Army.
On these three [...]
I was very pleased to find in Haaretz, the two opinion articles dealing with the subject of trading territory in Israel populated by Arab citizens of Israel, for the land on which there are large Israeli settlements that lie within Judea & Samaria (The Territorias).
The idea that we would trade to a Palestinian state lands [...]