July 29, 2008
Sure, we all have dreams of flying, but Israeli Yair Gil is making his personal ambition a reality. Isrealli reports that Gil took off from Israel on July 7th for a three-week flight to the US. He is due to arrive in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin on July 28th. ...
go to article »July 24, 2008
Jacob Richman of Good News From Israel reports on the nation's newest North American immigrants (olim, in Hebrew): “There were 217 olim on the flight including 50 singles… 28 families with 98 children (98 - wow!). The youngest oleh in the group is 3 months old and the oldest oleh is ...
go to article »May 28, 2008
“Israeli currency has been accessible to the blind since 1975,” reflects Josh of Blogs of Zion, responding to a US federal court cases arguing that American money discriminates against the blind. Unlike US dollars, Israeli paper money has raised vertical and horizontal lines that help bl...
go to article »May 25, 2008
May 20, 2008
Israeli-American blogger Daniel Lubetsky, traveling in Egypt, interviews his taxi driver on leading figures in the Middle East. “I asked him to rank people or countries, thumbs up or thumbs down. Here were his rankings on 24 questions from Bush to Ahmadinejad, from Olmert to Nasrallah, from B...
go to article »May 19, 2008
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