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{image_1}The incoming Finance Minister of the Palestinian Authority [PA] has admitted that hundreds of millions of dollars transferred to the PA have “disappeared.” Salam Fayed, who formerly worked for the World Bank and the US Federal Reserve, told the Daily Telegraph that he has no idea where the more than US $700 million granted the PA since the Hamas terror group rose to power has gone. “Palestinian Authority spending is out of control, salaries are being paid to workers who never turn up, and nobody can track where the money is going,” the paper quoted Fayed as saying.
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Diplomatic efforts to resolve a standoff with Iran are working, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said at a press conference with Defense Minister Amir Peretz in Tel Aviv in April. The United States has been one of the leading powers demanding sanctions on Iran. “The international community is united in telling Iran what it needs to do with respect to its nuclear program,” Gates said.
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{image_1}Amman is the latest Middle Eastern capital to announce it intends building a nuclear power plant. The country wants an operational facility by 2015. Other countries already embarked on a path toward atomic energy are Iran, Egypt, Yemen, and the Gulf Cooperation Council members (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates). Syria would also like to produce nuclear energy, but admits it is a long way from reaching its goal.
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{image_1}Not so long ago came Dan Brown and Tom Hanks with The Da Vinci Code. Now another film by award-winning director James Cameron seeks to discredit what millions of Christians around the world hold so dear. Cameron, along with Israeli filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, claims that a burial cave found in a Jerusalem neighborhood holds the remains of Jesus and several of His family members. Ten small coffins, known as ossuaries, were found in the cave with the names of several persons inscribed on them, including, according to the filmmakers, Jesus, His mother Mary, brother Joseph, Mary Magdalene, and Judah, who they claim to be Jesus’s son.
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{image_1}Imagine setting out for work to prepare the ground to make way for the new Jerusalem tram line. This kind of work is undertaken by many throughout the world every day, but when you are digging in Jerusalem, anything can happen, and it did! Workers have unearthed the remains of an ancient Jewish city from the first century AD; it is under Shuafat, a modern-day Arab suburb of Jerusalem. That is some tram ride!
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{image_1}Since September 11, 2001, interest in Islam has increased dramatically. People want to better understand this threat that is determined to dominate the world. In our January–February 2007 issue, our commentary The War on Terror: A Religious Mission” briefly highlighted the rivalry between the two major factions within Islam: the Sunnis and the Shi'ites. Most people do not realize the importance of understanding these two groups. We thought this article posted on The Media Line gave an excellent explanation.
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{image_1}The Sulis Personal Purification System takes all the ingredients needed to transform dirty water into clean water––be it for stranded hikers, soldiers in the field, or victims of disasters––and has miniaturized the technology to fit into the top of a cork that can be plugged into virtually any size bottle, container, or tap.
Continue Reading »Audiodent, a small Israeli start-up based in Omer, near Beersheva, has developed an innovative new hearing aid that clips easily inside the mouth, using the teeth and jawbone to transmit sound to the brain.
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{image_1}It is believed by some that the “honey from the rock” was from the fig because the fig tree can grow in rocky places. The natural sweetness of the fruit is attested to in the “parable of the trees,” where the fig tree is asked to be king over all the trees (Judges 9:7–15). The fig’s answer is, “Should I cease my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over trees?” Even the fig is seemingly jealous of its own sweetness.
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{image_1}Saudi Arabia claims to want to lead a new round of Middle East peace talks, but demands that Israel agree to withdraw from all land it won in the 1967 war (including all of the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and half of Jerusalem) or face outright war with the Islamic [world].
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