Archive for March, 2006

Last Night’s Terror

Al-Aqsa Martyrs‚Äô Brigades – part of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party – has claimed responsibility for the vicious terror attack, that has claimed the lives of 4 innocent Israel civilians.
The victims are Ilana and Rafi Levy (both 60) from Kedumim, a 16-year-old boy from Kedumim and a woman of about 20 from the center of the [...]

Israellycool Podcast #42: Glenn, Helen, and Elections

On this week’s show, I first talk to Instapundit Glenn Reynolds and Insta-wife Dr Helen Smith, about blogging, podcasting, and Israel…as well as those rumors. Then I discuss this week’s Israeli elections and analyze the results.
You can listen directly to the podcast here, and add it to iTunes here.
For the entire show notes, including all [...]

Final Election Results..Finally

Now that the ballots of soldiers, the handicapped, prisoners and hospital patients have been counted, the final election results are:
Kadima : 29 (+1)Labor: 20Likud: 12 (+1)Shas: 12 (-1)Israel Our Home: 11 (-1)NU-NRP: 9Gil (Pensioners): 7United Torah Judaism: 6Meretz: 5 (+1)United Arab List-Ta’al: 3 (-1)Ra’am: 3 Hadash: 3

Ynet: Election Results to Change

Ynet report that the current election results are about to significantly change.

Reported elections results about to change – significantly: Now, with the “double-enveloped” ballots of soldiers, the handicapped, prisoners and hospital patients counted, for five parties the new results are about to deviate significantly from the numbers initially reported, Ynet has learned.
 
According to the new [...]

Jill Caroll Released

Great news today, with American hostage Jill Carroll being released in Iraq after nearly three months in captivity.
 
Blogger Natasha, who is a friend of Jill’s, has been following her predicament since day one, and is now posting about Jill’s release.

PBS on Israeli Election Live Blogging

Mark Glaser from PBS has a post on how he turned to blogs for coverage of the Israeli Elections. He kindly mentions Israellycool:

But Abbey’s work looks spare compared to other Israeli bloggers who took on live-blogging duty on March 28. Israellycool, a blog penned by an Australian man named Dave who’s living in Israel, offers [...]

How to Protect Your Car in Liverpool

Not a bad idea.

Caption Contest

Submit a caption to this AP photo in the comments. Winners announced Sunday.
 

 
My contribution:

“Come here often?”

Post-Election Headline of the Day

..is this one from the Jerusalem Post, regarding the success of the Gil (Pensioner’s) Party:
 
Gil meets success with retiring humility

The Morning After

With 99.67% of the votes counted, here are the overall results:
 
Kadima: 28
Labor: 20
Shas: 13
Israel Our Home: 12
Likud: 11
National Union-NRP: 9
Pensioners party: 7
United Torah Judaism: 6
Meretz: 4
Arab parties: 10