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 [...]

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, [...]

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 ‚Äì significantly: Now, with the ‚Äúdouble-enveloped‚Äù 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 [...]

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, [...]

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