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{image_1}Over 60 years after the Holocaust of European Jews, Judaism once again triumphs on German soil. In a ceremony held in Munich on June 2, nine local Jews were ordained as Orthodox rabbis for the first time since World War II. Until now, most rabbis serving in Germany had been trained abroad.
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{image_1}A recent pirate attack on the Italian cruise ship MSC Melody, with more than 1,500 on board, saw Israeli security guards in action. About 500 miles [804 kilometers] off the coast of Somalia, the African pirates got a surprise when the Israeli guards—on the command of their captain—grabbed their pistols and started firing back. While the Israeli company Mano International Security remains tight-lipped about its team on board the Melody, Israeli security teams are becoming the world's most notorious pirate busters. Captain Hook, Bluebeard and Jack Sparrow—look out!
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{image_1}Israel is the world’s No. 2 high-tech and industrial exports manufacturer, second only to Ireland, a Bank of Israel report revealed. The report reviewed data pertaining to recent years up to 2006, focused on OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) members’ manufacturing and exporting of high-tech services, traditional industry services, and mixed services.
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{image_1}Every new building to be built in the northern city of Haifa must include the infrastructure to set up charging stations for electric cars, according to a memorandum of understanding compiled by the city’s municipality. The document was signed by Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav and Better Place Israel CEO Moshe Kaplinsky.
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{image_1}A
private vehicle wired with
explosives and parked outside the Lev
HaMifratz shopping mall in Haifa was neutralized by security forces on
the evening of March 21, preventing a potentially deadly attack. The
bombs were found after a partial explosion occurred, alerting local
security. Sappers alerted to the scene worked for a lengthy period of
time to dismantle the remaining explosives, which were concealed in a
bag. According to the police, the largest of the explosive devices
detonated partially, leaving the rest of it intact. A number of smaller
charges spread around it also did not explode. Officers later said that
current estimates put the weight of the explosives involved at nearly
100 pounds [45 kilograms].
{image_1} In the shadow of Herodion (Herod’s conical fortress palace southeast of Bethlehem), a group of youngsters—many of whom were homeless until they were gathered together by a man named Yossi Sadeh—are changing the face of energy production. Their work is to help create Olivebar rolls to heat homes in wood-burning stoves, which General Manager Eli Karniel describes as “ecologically perfect.”
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{image_1} The complicated reality of Israel’s never ending state of war is that it tears down with one hand and builds up with the other. The hope being that, at the end of the day, positive efforts will outweigh negative ones. And so, in the wake of a ceasefire that went into effect at 2 a.m. January 18, Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) opened a medical center at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel to serve Gaza Strip citizens.
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{image_1} Despite the facts that since 2005, over 8,000 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza, killing 12 and wounding dozens and 13 Israelis were killed during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, Israeli citizens banded together to collect humanitarian aid for Gazan families a week before the war ended.
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{image_1} When it comes to fishing in the Holy Land, Canadian fisherman Italo Labignan is nothing short of enthusiastic. “It’s an awesome experience,” he admits. This is fulsome praise indeed because Labignan is a premier fisherman and the host of Canada’s longest running and most watched sports fishing TV series.
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{image_1} The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, organized the meeting that brought together Rozia Rothshild, who now lives in Tivon, Israel, with her rescuer Wiktoria Sozanska from Wroclaw, Poland, for the first time in over 60 years. This moving reunion between a Holocaust survivor and the Polish woman who risked her life to save her, took place at JFK Airport in New York.
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