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Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (click here) called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the world's most anti-Semitic leader, AFP reported on Thursday.
"Since Ahmadinejad left the political stage, Abu Mazen [Abbas] is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison," Yuval Steinitz said, at the Institute for National Security Studies conference at Tel Aviv University last Sunday.
"Under Abu Mazen, the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the [Palestinian] Authority has reached new heights, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel. As someone who denied the Holocaust in his youth, he today denies the very existence of the Jewish people and their right to their own state," he told the annual security conference, according to a transcript on the INSS website.
Abbas' spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeina, responded to Steinitz's comments by accusing Israel of inciting against Abbas and calling on the United States to intervene...
Well, it is some degree of solace to know independent documentarians are the only ones worked over when they enter the country. Forbid an Israeli businessman is inconvenienced. I am sure if the person in front of him in line were a documentarian from Palestine the view would be very different. So now that there has been an inconvenience the UN treats Israel like a punching bag. My, my, my.
BY URI DROMI
By Maayan Lubell
ISRAEL-EGYPT BORDER, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Israel's newly fortified Egyptian (click here) border has delivered a severe blow to drug smugglers, forcing its hashish and marijuana smokers to deal with a new kind of high - soaring prices.
The ravines that snake past rocky red mountains once provided a popular, low-risk route for traffickers to run drugs, women and African migrants into Israel over the southern frontier along Egypt's Sinai desert.
But with a rise in Islamist militant violence in Sinai, Israel in 2011 accelerated the fortification of the border with a five-metre (16-foot)-high fence, state-of-the art surveillance and special military forces - with a crippling side effect for smugglers.
I thank Israel for offering human rights to those without it. Medical refugees. Certainly, when Russia and Syria reflect on this violence and the outcome of the people they will dedicate themselves to ending it. There has to be a result to stop this killing. There also has to be a resolve to remove those chemical weapons. I realize currently, securing the chemicals is important until the ships arrive, but, the ships will be there soon.
Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (click here) called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the world's most anti-Semitic leader, AFP reported on Thursday.
"Since Ahmadinejad left the political stage, Abu Mazen [Abbas] is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison," Yuval Steinitz said, at the Institute for National Security Studies conference at Tel Aviv University last Sunday.
"Under Abu Mazen, the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the [Palestinian] Authority has reached new heights, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel. As someone who denied the Holocaust in his youth, he today denies the very existence of the Jewish people and their right to their own state," he told the annual security conference, according to a transcript on the INSS website.
Abbas' spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeina, responded to Steinitz's comments by accusing Israel of inciting against Abbas and calling on the United States to intervene...
Well, it is some degree of solace to know independent documentarians are the only ones worked over when they enter the country. Forbid an Israeli businessman is inconvenienced. I am sure if the person in front of him in line were a documentarian from Palestine the view would be very different. So now that there has been an inconvenience the UN treats Israel like a punching bag. My, my, my.
BY URI DROMI
I have lived all my life in Israel, (click here) and I consider myself to be
quite knowledgeable about Israeli matters. Yet last week, it was in New
York that I found out how much I still have to learn.
The event I was invited to was The Israel Summit, the brainchild of Joseph Hyman, president of the Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy (CEJP). When I was asked by the officer at the passport control at Newark what was the purpose of my visit, being an Israeli and jet-legged, I mispronounced that long title, which almost got me into trouble.
Yet I remembered what Hyman had told me, and I managed to explain to the officer that the summit was a forum modeled after Venture Capital Investment Conferences, where philanthropists and foundations gathered to hear some outstanding pro-Israeli organizations showcasing their innovative work and financial needs.
Much to the chagrin of the people in line behind me, the officer wanted to hear more, and finally, upon rewarding my passport with the long-awaited stamp, he suggested that maybe the public should have been invited.
Possession of Pot in Israel is illegal but decriminalized. The smugglers must have found the decriminalized market good enough. Israel should be seeking to meet with Egyptian leadership to find a way to better the economy of Egypt and put people back to work rather than riot. I am sure the looting is good and will put crumbs on the dinner table, but, isn't enough already?
I am just wondering, is this what the rockets are all about? The smugglers? I bet they are part of it. Why doesn't Israel subscribe to medical marijuana and the smugglers will lose their decriminalized market. Betcha. I applaud Israel for the consistent demand for respect by securing their borders, but, they have to know there will be added aggression because of it. Someone was making money that isn't making money now.
The event I was invited to was The Israel Summit, the brainchild of Joseph Hyman, president of the Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy (CEJP). When I was asked by the officer at the passport control at Newark what was the purpose of my visit, being an Israeli and jet-legged, I mispronounced that long title, which almost got me into trouble.
Yet I remembered what Hyman had told me, and I managed to explain to the officer that the summit was a forum modeled after Venture Capital Investment Conferences, where philanthropists and foundations gathered to hear some outstanding pro-Israeli organizations showcasing their innovative work and financial needs.
Much to the chagrin of the people in line behind me, the officer wanted to hear more, and finally, upon rewarding my passport with the long-awaited stamp, he suggested that maybe the public should have been invited.
Possession of Pot in Israel is illegal but decriminalized. The smugglers must have found the decriminalized market good enough. Israel should be seeking to meet with Egyptian leadership to find a way to better the economy of Egypt and put people back to work rather than riot. I am sure the looting is good and will put crumbs on the dinner table, but, isn't enough already?
I am just wondering, is this what the rockets are all about? The smugglers? I bet they are part of it. Why doesn't Israel subscribe to medical marijuana and the smugglers will lose their decriminalized market. Betcha. I applaud Israel for the consistent demand for respect by securing their borders, but, they have to know there will be added aggression because of it. Someone was making money that isn't making money now.
By Maayan Lubell
ISRAEL-EGYPT BORDER, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Israel's newly fortified Egyptian (click here) border has delivered a severe blow to drug smugglers, forcing its hashish and marijuana smokers to deal with a new kind of high - soaring prices.
The ravines that snake past rocky red mountains once provided a popular, low-risk route for traffickers to run drugs, women and African migrants into Israel over the southern frontier along Egypt's Sinai desert.
But with a rise in Islamist militant violence in Sinai, Israel in 2011 accelerated the fortification of the border with a five-metre (16-foot)-high fence, state-of-the art surveillance and special military forces - with a crippling side effect for smugglers.
I thank Israel for offering human rights to those without it. Medical refugees. Certainly, when Russia and Syria reflect on this violence and the outcome of the people they will dedicate themselves to ending it. There has to be a result to stop this killing. There also has to be a resolve to remove those chemical weapons. I realize currently, securing the chemicals is important until the ships arrive, but, the ships will be there soon.
NAHARIYA, Israel — Two brothers, (click here) ages 10 and 8, were playing marbles outside
their home in a town in Syria when a rocket decapitated the older one
and critically wounded his sibling. Having rushed the surviving child to
a local hospital, the mother recalled, medics told her: “If you want to
save your son, you should take him to Israel.”
A
few days later, the boy and his mother, 34, arrived at Western Galilee
Hospital here in Nahariya, on the Mediterranean coast. The traumatized
boy told the staff how he had seen his brother’s head fly....
And I might point out, Israel has a magnificent brain trust. It is world class and the country's companies compete globally. Yes, they compete against the USA. Think about it. Some want to limit jobs to menial labor for Americans while making education more expensive. I don't think that is wise.
And I might point out, Israel has a magnificent brain trust. It is world class and the country's companies compete globally. Yes, they compete against the USA. Think about it. Some want to limit jobs to menial labor for Americans while making education more expensive. I don't think that is wise.
JERUSALEM
(Reuters) - Israel's Oramed, (click here) which is racing Novo Nordisk of Denmark to develop the world's first insulin pill, moved a step closer to its goal on Thursday by announcing successful results from a small mid-stage test.
The oral drug delivery specialist said its insulin capsule had met all primary and secondary endpoints in a Phase IIa clinical trial and it now plans to launch a larger mid-stage study in the third quarter.
Shares in the Nasdaq-listed company opened 10 percent higher at $28.50 on the news. The stock has surged from around $4 since the end of 2012 on rising hopes for its insulin pill.
The concept of oral insulin as a way to relieve diabetics of several daily injections has been around since the 1930s, but making it a reality is extremely difficult because insulin is destroyed by enzymes in the digestive system.
Oramed believes that it has now found a solution to allow enough insulin to survive the onslaught of digestive juices to still do some good....
(Reuters) - Israel's Oramed, (click here) which is racing Novo Nordisk of Denmark to develop the world's first insulin pill, moved a step closer to its goal on Thursday by announcing successful results from a small mid-stage test.
The oral drug delivery specialist said its insulin capsule had met all primary and secondary endpoints in a Phase IIa clinical trial and it now plans to launch a larger mid-stage study in the third quarter.
Shares in the Nasdaq-listed company opened 10 percent higher at $28.50 on the news. The stock has surged from around $4 since the end of 2012 on rising hopes for its insulin pill.
The concept of oral insulin as a way to relieve diabetics of several daily injections has been around since the 1930s, but making it a reality is extremely difficult because insulin is destroyed by enzymes in the digestive system.
Oramed believes that it has now found a solution to allow enough insulin to survive the onslaught of digestive juices to still do some good....
