Ynet reports: Livnat bill: Every student must visit museum Proposal by MK Limor Livant would require every Israeli pupil to visit museum, attend two cultural events every year. Former education minister notes: ‘Not all students have such opportunities, especially in the periphery.’ Students’ parents to foot bill So, seen any good theatre shows lately? A [...]
Ynet reports: Leaders of the majority Druze Galilee town of Peki’in, which was the scene of ethnic tensions two months ago, declared Thursday night that Jewish residents were welcome to return to live in the town at an assembly organized the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency. “We are calling on the Jews of [...]
Maariv (Hebrew only) reports that Baron Rothschild purchased thousands of acres of Syrian land in the 1920s that may today legally belong to the Jewish National Fund. Rothschild’s real estate company, named Pika or Pekka, bought the lands and the ownership of most of that land was transfered in 1957 to the JNF. About 59,000 [...]
One of early Zionism’s slogans that took hold of the imagination of the proponents of a Jewish state was “A land without a people for a people without a land.” Coined by Israel Zangwill, it evoked a desolate, empty desert where the industrious Jews could build a modern state. Israel-bashers are fond of using this [...]
After the failure of Camp David and the resultant intifada, Ehud Barak spoke about what went wrong: Barak today portrays Arafat’s behavior at Camp David as a “performance” geared to exacting from the Israelis as many concessions as possible without ever seriously intending to reach a peace settlement or sign an “end to the conflict.” [...]
Israeli President Shimon Peres meets visiting American comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Shimon Peres: “No, really. I did win the Presidency.” Related: Cosmo Peres
Updated throughout the day Israel’s diplomatic team of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has left for the inevitably disastrous Annapolis conference. In other news, Israel mysteriously experienced 3 earthquakes this week. Just saying. Hamas say they are shocked – shocked, I tell you – that Arab foreign [...]
Author Salman Rushdie just got that much more satanic. Shirking off accusations in many Muslim countries that he is a ‘Mossad agent’, India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie has said that he plans to visit Israel in the coming year. “May be finally I will be able to collect the payments from Mossad for all my [...]
Last night, Israel defeated Russia 2-1 in the UEFA EURO 2008 tournament. While the result had no consequence for Israel – we had already missed out on qualifying – it did significantly boost England’s chances of qualifying. And boy was the English team’s coach happy. England boss Steve McClaren has paid tribute to Israel’s professionalism [...]
From AFP: An Israeli woman places her hands on the Western Wall as she prays at Judaism most sacred site in Jerusalem’s Old City. I’ve discussed this in the past, but one more time…. The Western Wall is not “Judaism’s most sacred site.” It is a small part of the retaining wall for a platform [...]
