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Zohar: You Are Not Alone!

Dispatch from Jerusalem

Israel Still Debating…

One year after the Second Lebanon War, the debate still rages in Israel as to whether or not Israel even won the war. Citizens are upset by what they perceive as ineffectual political and military leadership and coordination and are left feeling vulnerable on the home front to similar attacks in the future. The Winograd Commission’s reports have confirmed that there were mistakes made and that persons all the way up to the prime minister share in the blame.

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AGENT BLAIR MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

{image_1}Militant Islamists rejoiced when Hizbullah declared victory over Israel in the Second Lebanon War. They are preparing a bigger celebration if and when US President George W. Bush and his policies go down in Iraq. Few can see that it is all part of the same war, and it is unlikely to go away any time soon.

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Staying Put in the Golan

{image_1}The possibility of war remains a great concern for Israeli political and military leaders as well as residents of the Golan Heights. Evidence of increased tensions in the North have been felt near the Mt. Avital Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base just opposite the cease-fire line with Syria. Israeli jet fighters and Apache helicopters have been heard overhead patrolling the skies. An IDF combat engineer unit has been preparing for maneuvers for months. However, very few tanks or other heavy military equipment have been seen.

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Byzantine Church Discovered in Tiberias

{image_1}Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavations in Tiberias have exposed a Byzantine church (fourth to fifth centuries AD) paved with polychrome mosaics and decorated with geometric patterns, crosses, and dedicatory inscriptions.

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A Pollution Solution

{image_1}A wadi (stream), polluted by solid waste, runs between two municipalities (East Baka in the West Bank and West Baka in Israel) 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Tulkarem and separated by the Green Line and the security barrier. The polluted wadi has actually brought the two sides together. Both mayors have signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to protect and beautify the wadi, hoping it will eventually become a recreational area.

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Autistic Children get a “BioHug”

{image_1}An Israeli engineer and father of a son with autism, Raffi Rembrand devoured all the information about the treatment of deep pressure touch to produce a calming effect in agitated individuals with autism. However, he discovered that most existing devices were more like straitjackets, weren’t sensitive to changes in the patient’s movement, and couldn’t regulate the pressure based on the patient’s needs or body gauges.

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Vitamins Straight to Your Skin

{image_1}Tagra Biotechnologies has developed a microencapsulation system that delivers active materials to the skin when they are needed. This is the brave new world of skincare and also has applications for the dental and pharmaceutical industries.

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New Arrivals Come to Fight!

{image_1}“Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!…Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed…and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south” (Psalm 107:1–3). In August, 27 American youths came to Israel to enlist in the army. They were among 210 new immigrants from North America, who were greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their flight was the third of 15 planned this past summer by Nefesh B’Nefesh, who announced that 3,200 will arrive from the United States and Canada this year.

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What’s an etrog?

{image_1}Etrog is Hebrew for citron, but what’s a citron? It is not a mystery in Israel, but it is for most of the world. An etrog is a lemon-like fruit, not commonly eaten by Israelis, but used during the harvest festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees [citron], branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days” (Lev. 23:40). The citron and lulav (branches) are waved before the Lord to the east, west, south, and north, up and down, acknowledging that God is everywhere.

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Meeting God in Shiloh

{image_1}“Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.” Joshua 18:1

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