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BoD’s Arkush: The Consequences of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘antisemitic views’
31 May, 2018
By Anna Mikhailova, Telegraph, 30.05.18 Jeremy Corbyn has been accused by one of Britain’s most senior Jewish leaders of holding “anti-Semitic views” which could drive Jewish people out of Britain if he becomes Prime Minister. Jonathan Arkush, the outgoing President of the Board of Deputies, said British Jews were for the first time asking “do […]
Read MoreSociologist David Hirsh Digs Deep to Explain Antisemitism and The Left
3 May, 2018
Sussex Jewish News, February 2018, p. 14 Book Review by Winston PickettSometimes the first two sentences of an author’s work explain everything. At other times they offer hints of what’s to come. In David Hirsh’s case, they do both.“This book is about antisemitism in social spaces which think of themselves as anti-racist and democratic,” writes Hirsh, a […]
Read MoreJeremy Corbyn can’t pretend he has only just noticed
27 March, 2018
The Labour leader refers to ‘pockets’ of antisemitism in his party but fails to say that for 30 years he was in them too Hugo Rifkind, The TIMES, 26 March 2018 Did you know that Jeremy Corbyn’s mother fought at the Battle of Cable Street? I know it’s a well-kept political secret, a […]
Read MoreIB Times: Thousands Attend Pro-Israel Rally in London
SFI helped to instigate today’s rally for Israel in London. Thousands of pro-Israel demonstrators rally near Israel’s embassy in London. By Aaron Akinyemi IBTimes Thousands of demonstrators gathered in London on Sunday to stage a pro-Israel rally near the country’s embassy in Kensington. Protesters lined the streets and waved Israeli flags at the event, which […]
Miracle White Blood Cell Injection Can Save Diabetics From Gangrene
From The Algemeiner’s Joshua Levitt Israeli Bio-Tech in Nasdaq IPO; Miracle White Blood Cell Injection Can Save Diabetics From Gangrene (VIDEO) Petah Tikva, Israel-based MacroCure Ltd. filed a prospectus to raise up to $300 million on the Nasdaq, Israel’s Globes business daily reported on Wednesday. MacroCure’s CureXcell takes white cells from healthy donors and activates […]
Children are children. They are not our enemies
From Israel21C While her hometown is under constant missile attack from Gaza, pediatric ICU head nurse Irena Nosel cares for critically ill Gazans in Israeli hospital. Along with the other 210,000 residents of coastal Ashdod, over the past couple of weeks Irena Nosel and her family must scramble for shelter when the wailing siren warns […]
BBC Technology: Sky cars to be built in Tel Aviv
An elevated network of sky cars is to be built in Tel Aviv. A 500m loop will be built on the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) followed by a commercial network, according to skyTran, the company that will build it. Two-person vehicles will be suspended from elevated magnetic tracks, as an alternative transport method […]
54 students return home from Israel after agriculture training
KATHMANDU, June 27: Fifty-four students have returned home after receiving 10-month training on agriculture in Israel. The students, who had left for Israel for agriculture training at the joint initiation of Sana Kisan Bikas Bank and Israeli Embassy in Nepal, shared their knowledge and experiences at a press meet organized in the capital on Friday […]
Sussex Friends of Israel and the Ecostream Store, Brighton
Statement Sussex Friends of Israel and the Ecostream Store in Brighton Sussex Friends of Israel is disappointed that Sodastream has chosen to close its experimental green refill Ecostream store in Brighton and concentrate on its successful UK retail distribution network. Ecostream, the packaging-free green concept store in a green city was clearly ahead of its […]
Israelis develop first blood test for breast cancer
By Ruthie Blum Israel21C Octava Pink, a groundbreaking achievement in cancer detection, follows eight years of research at EventusDx in Jerusalem. After eight years of painstaking research, Israeli life-sciences company Eventus Diagnostics (EventusDx) has produced a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. The Octava Pink test is now available in Israel and […]
The Jerusalem Post: Israel is a World Cup Winner
Blog by Michael Ordman The media often uses major sporting events, such as the current FIFA 2014 soccer World Cup, to provide audiences with a little light relief from the seemingly endless stream of bad-news stories. In contrast, I present you with a blog of positive news featuring some of the recent achievements of the […]
Why are there so many Israelis at the World Cup? Why not…
Israel did not qualify for the World Cup. They’ve only managed to do so once, in 1970. Yet, after Israelis bought around 12,000 tickets for these finals in Brazil, they are the most present nation by percentage of population, and the second highest fan contingent of non-qualifiers, despite being just 8 million in total. More […]
Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?
Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof. An architecture competition has been held and the winner chosen. The […]
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Egged, Israel’s largest bus company says #BringBackOurBoys
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Another one from Brazil – there are quite a few Israelis in Brazil for the World Cup, more on that later