Monthly Archives: January 2024

Israel’s educated Christians

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has just reported that 55.1% of Israel’s Arab Christians studied for a bachelor’s degree within eight years of graduating high school, compared to 34.6% of Arabs and 48.1% of all Israelis. https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/01/15/israels-christian-community-booming-data-show/

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Ride for Freedom

Tens of thousands of cyclists around the world responded to Israel-Premier Tech cycling team owner Sylvan Adams’s call to join the ride in over 40 cities across the globe to mark 100 days in captivity for the hostages of Hamas. … Continue reading

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Securing friendly Gulf states

Israel’s Perception Point (see here previously) has partnered Dubai-based Securenet FZC to protect Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from online attacks. https://www.ec-mea.com/perception-point-partners-with-securenet-to-distribute-effective-threat-prevention-solutions/

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UAE opens Israeli AI/IR R&D center

Despite the war, the United Arab Emirates is to open a Haifa center for research into Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval. It will be the Israeli arm of the UAE’s the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) that invented the Falcon Open … Continue reading

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A good time to be in Israel

Superb support messages from Oracle’a CEO Safra Catz. “America in particular loves a winner. And Israel is a winner”. Oracle put ‘We stand with Israel’ on global websites in the local language to publicize how important Israel is and what … Continue reading

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We know who our friends are

Czech President Petr Pavel assured his Israel’s President Herzog that his country stands shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish state in its battle to defeat Hamas.  “You can always rely on the Czech Republic,” Pavel told Herzog when they met … Continue reading

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Indian journalists, including Muslims from Kashmir, tour Israel

Israeli NGO Sharaka (Partnership) brought a delegation of Indian journalists and social-media influencers, to tour Israel in the wake of Oct. 7 and the current war. It included three Muslim writers and an Afghan journalist living in Germany. https://www.jns.org/indian-journalists-including-muslims-from-kashmir-tour-israel/

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Winning Arab hearts and minds

Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee is head of the Arab Media Branch in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, tasked with refuting the lies of Al Jazeera and other Hamas supporters. His deputy is Major Ella Waweya (see here previously) – a Muslim … Continue reading

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My Life in Israel as an Arab Muslim

Sophia Khalifa tells her story.  Please watch and forward this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvaxLaIsG0

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More emergency interpreting services

A previous article (see here) mentioned the services provided by volunteers at Bar-Ilan University for non-Hebrew speakers. It links to the Bar-Ilan professional hotline for mental support 03 531 8811. BIU’s emergency interpretation service is *9392 extension 4. https://www.biu.ac.il/en/article/23412 https://www.biu.ac.il/en/article/23379

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