Thursday, April 17, 2008

Israel Update 4/17/08

QUICK READING LIST
- Palestinian children from Gaza undergo heart surgery in Israeli hospital, AP/International Herald Tribune, 3/12/08: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/12/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Palestinian-Surgery.php
- See: Save a Child’s Heart: http://www.saveachildsheart.com/
- At the Zenith of Solar Energy, Neal Sandler, Business Week, 3/26/08: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2008/gb20080326_485582.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies
- The end of the ‘guilty Israeli’, Yossi Klein Halevi, LA Times, 3/2/08: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-halevi2mar02,0,7671220.story
- Collective Punishment and Newspeak, Michael Krauss, American Thinker, 2/24/08: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/collective_punishment_and_news.html
- Gaza buried in flour, Martin Kramer, 1/28/08: http://sandbox.blog-city.com/gaza_buried_in_flour.htm
- The town that measures life in 15-second intervals, Mary Dejevsky, The Independent (UK), 1/25/08: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mary-dejevsky-the-town-that-measures-life-in-15second-intervals-773885.html


PRAYER FOR PASSOVER
At the Passover Seder we celebrate freedom. This year, let us remember those who are not free to celebrate the holiday with their families and friends. Download this prayer for the health and well-being of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers:
http://www.freethesoldiers.org/local_includes/downloads/18388.pdf


CHARITY FOR PASSOVER: MEIR PANIM
Please consider donating to Meir Panim, which helps feed the needy in Israel: https://www.meirpanim.org/donation_e.php?occasion=pesach&file=pesach


QUOTE OF THE DAY: A HEALTHY ISRAEL
Israel enjoys one of the fastest growing emerging markets in the world. Israel's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growth is robust . . . Israel leads the world in research and development spending as a proportion of GDP. The country hosts the greatest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the US and Canada. It is home to Teva, the world's largest maker of generic drugs, to telecommunications software firms like Amdocs, to world-class biotech research at the Technion and to Intel's advanced chip production facilities. Silicon Wadi, in fact, is the world's second most important technology cluster. In 2007, venture-capital firms invested $1.76 billion here. Export earnings are up. Tourism is up. So are property prices. Just this month, Forbes magazine rated Israel as the world's most "up-and-coming" real-estate market. Last year Israel was invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207649985233&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


ACTION: PETITION
Please read and consider signing the following petition, which condemns the words of UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, who recently legitimized Palestinian acts of terror against Israelis as being “against occupation” and “in the course of a war of national liberation”: http://www.ipetition.com/str-asp-PetitionID_5-end-SignPetition.htm


RESOURCE: WOMEN IN ISRAEL
Learn more about women’s rights in Israel and the status of women in all facets of Israeli life: http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=3918015&ct=5134255


JULY TRIP TO ISRAEL: JUMPSTART
Support Israel with your presence! Here is one among the many possible summer trips to Israel: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21660376664


VIDEO: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE PA
Take a look at this short video clip regarding human rights abuses in the Palestinian Authority: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/27/wedeman.mideast.human.rights.abuses.cnn


YOM HA’SHOAH: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
In honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day, not to be confused with Holocaust Memorial Day), which will be on May 2: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120147388696520647.html
- View also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfv3jsLGzL0