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Wed 8th of Dec – Behind the News in Israel

Updates on stories behind the News in Israel. Stories that are usually under-reported in the mainstream press.

Rabbi Uriel Malka, age 32, a former principal at the Ohr HaTorah Day School in Winnipeg died tragically in the worst forest fire in Israeli history
By: Rhonda Spivak, attorney, writer, and member of Canadian & Israel Bar Associations, edits Winnipeg Jewish Review

[Editor’s note: This article appeared on Monday December 6 in the Jerusalem Post. .When this was published, it was not known in Israel that a Rabbi was on the Prisons Service Bus.The interview that I had done with Rabbi Malka in 2008, after he had miraculously survived fighting Hizbollah fire in the 2006 Second War in Lebanon, has given Israelis and the Jewish world the oppportunity to learn about his experience serving his country valiantly in 2006. The Winnipeg Jewish Review extends our…

By: Prof. Steven Plaut, Haifa University

Two fast stories from the Mt. Carmel inferno. You can make of these what you will. Nir Etzion is a religious kibbutz south of Haifa, best known for making kosher TV dinners and other prepared foods. It was smack in the path of the fire. It was evacuated on and off due to heavy smoke and ash. The rabbi of the kibbutz is a PhD student at the University of Haifa. This past Saturday the flames approached the kibbutz. The rabbi prepared to leave behind his entire PhD thesis and materials…


By: Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

While the main fire in the Carmel could very well turn out to be the result of teenagers who neglected to make sure that a fire they made was properly extinguished, this fire was followed by a series of fires intentionally set by Arab arsonists across the country. This piece of information is not being censored by the Israeli media in the sense that it is broadcast for a second and gets a sentence or two in reports. But what a JNF official termed “widespread arson…

By: DAVID HOROVITZ , Editor, The Jerusalem Post 12/03/2010

To Begin the failure of peace is simple and obvious: The PLO leadership is bent on a two-stage plan to eliminate Israel, not a two-state plan for two peoples. Bennie Begin happens to be outside the Prime Minister’s Office, talking with some colleagues, when I arrive for our interview on Monday. He greets me warmly, and escorts me indoors, to the elevator and up to his sixth-floor office, his mandatory bodyguard in tow. Outside his office, along the corridor from…

Below is the text of the speech given today in Tel Aviv by Geert Wilders. Update:Thanks to Brian ofLondon for the photo. Shalom chaveriem, Let me start by saying that it is with great sadness that I share your grief over the deaths of more than 40 brave Israelis wholost theirlives – many while trying to save others in the great fire near Haifa. My country, the Netherlands, isamongst other countries helping to put down this fire, which is threatening thelivesand property of thousands…

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