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{image_1}In his book Two Nations Under God: Why Should America Care About Israel and the Middle East, Tom Doyle describes Jerusalem as the “Anchor City of the Bible. This is where God met with humanity and one day will meet with us again!”. He also said the three major world religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) “collide” here. “Collide” seems to be a very appropriate word.
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{image_1}Prior to the recent Hamas-Fatah infighting and amid the uncertainty looming over Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, two Israeli doctors and volunteers at the Physicians for Human Rights organization in Israel, obtained special entry permits allowing them to cross into the Gaza Strip and perform complex plastic and orthopedic surgeries on children. Dr. Kassis Shukri, a plastic surgery specialist from Ziv Medical Center, and Dr. Mustafa Yassin, an orthopedist from the Rabin Medical Center, worked with the Palestinian medical team at the Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s main medical center, for two-and-a-half intensive days.
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{image_1}Ahmed Qurei, who heads Palestinian negotiators in US-brokered talks with Israel, told Fatah party loyalists behind closed doors that a two-state solution could be achieved only if Israel met their demands to withdraw from all “occupied” land.
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{image_1}There was a time when all you did was use one plug for your TV. Now, we are plagued with multiple cables for game consoles, DVDs, and other devices. Israeli company Amimon has developed a chipset solution that eliminates all those cables by separating the display section from the tuner section, requiring a single plug-in once again. Sharp, Sony, Samsung, Motorola, and Hitachi have rallied together with Amimon under the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI). Sharp already has an Amimon wireless chip in a HDTV selling in Japan. The consortium also plans to include the chip in PCs, multimedia projectors, and game consoles.
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The era of large-scale Jewish emigration from Ethiopia to Israel
is over, the Jewish Agency for Israel has said. The last official
airlift of Ethiopian Jews was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv on August
5, bringing to an end an organized campaign that began nearly 30 years
ago and brought in some 120,000 immigrants from the east African
nation.
{image_1}Originally a US packet steamer, the President Warfield made
trips between Virginia and Maryland from 1928 to1942. During WWII, it
served both Britain and America. Afterwards, it was sold to an American
shipwrecking company that served as an agent of the Jewish underground
defense force Haganah and was renamed Exodus 1947 after the biblical
exodus from Egypt.
{image_1}The Israel hotel industry has achieved one billion shekels (US
$295.5 million) profit in a year, for the first time. Tourism growth in
2007 included 2.3 million tourists and a 25% increase over 2006.
{image_2} Each of the biblical feasts has a symbolic food associated with it – even Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the most severe fast of the year. A pre-fast feast helps worshippers make it through the 25-hour fast, which is observed much like a Shabbat (Sabbath) meal, except it is eaten before sundown. Table linens and clothing are white to symbolize the hope of sins forgiven. The best dishes are used, two candles are lit, and blessings over the wine and bread are recited. Sometimes the bread is decorated with birds to remind them that just as birds fly, so their prayers will rise quickly and be answered.
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{image_1} An Israeli cargo plane carrying about 90 tons (81 metric tons) of medicines and medical equipment, water purification kits, generators, tents, sleeping bags, and clothing intended for the earthquake survivors departed for the Chinese city of Chengdu late in May. The humanitarian aid was on its way to survivors of the 7.9 earthquake that struck the Sichuan province in southwestern China on May 12, killing 69,130 and leaving 4.8 million homeless.
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{image_1} On May 7, the State of Israel honored the memory of their 22,437 casualties—including 1,634 people killed in terror attacks—starting from 1860 to May 2008.
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