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The Schmooze Worker Broke Her Own Finger, Netanyahus Say
Israel’s first lady was afraid of her Nepalese employee. That’s the updated version of events from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a day after his publicity team acknowledged that a domestic worker dislocated her finger during an argument with the prime minister’s scandal-prone wife. The still-unnamed worker “responded with an uncontrollable burst…
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The Schmooze Caretaker Breaks Finger, Accuses Sara Netanyahu
For the sake of his own political career, Benjamin Netanyahu might want to keep his wife away from household workers. For the second time in less than two years, Israel’s first lady is being accused of serious mistreatment by an employee, an allegation that is now soaring to the top of Israel’s headlines. This time…
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News Glenn Beck Brings Firebreathing Rhetoric Back to Israel
Glenn Beck is in Israel, again. In July, the talk radio host and former Fox News star was invited to the Kensset, where he met “a room full of admirers” — in the words of a Channel 1 report — led by Likud MK Danny Danon. Beck urged Israelis to stand strong; among those shaking…
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Fast Forward Beck Wows Faithful in First Israel Speech
The Roman ampitheater hosts some of the wildest concerts in Israel, but it rarely sees a crowd as excitable as this one. After all, this was no mere musical act, but the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck. “While there may not be a political solution, the good news is the God of Israel ‘aint running for…
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Opinion The Labor Zionist Youth Leader Behind Israel’s Tent Protests
Calcalist, the Ynet-Yediot online business supplement, has an interesting interview with Pesach Hausfater, the Labor Zionist youth leader who’s described as the key organizational mind—some call him “the responsible adult in the room”—in the leadership of Israel’s current economic protest movement. His critique of Netanyahu’s economic policies is the most trenchant I’ve heard since the…
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The Schmooze For Tu B’Av, Solar Gets Sexy
Tu B’av is the Jewish love fest, so what better time to promote hooking up? To solar energy, that is. In a shameless attempt to take advantage of the holiday, Arava Power Company, a solar energy firm in Israel, produced a short flick reminiscent of VH1’s beloved 90s’ series Pop Up Video that is aptly…
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Opinion Comparing Bibi’s Israel to (Drum Roll) Monty Python’s ‘Cheese Shop’
Israeli novelist-travel writer Yuval Ben-Ami weighs in at the +972 blog with a clever take on the snowballing Israeli economic Israel protest: Our situation as Israelis is currently comparable to that of the customer in Monty Python’s sketch, who walks into a cheese shop intent on buying cheese, only to discover that the shop is…
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The Schmooze ‘Bibi — Shake Shake’: Noy Alooshe’s Latest Remix
With the crowds in the streets of Israel chanting “Mubarak, Assad, Bibi Netanyahu!,” the Shmooze knew it couldn’t be far behind: a July 14 Revolution-themed Noy Alooshe remix. What Alooshe did to Muammar Gaddafi (who can forget “Zenga Zenga?”), Israeli Kadima party politicians like Tzipi Livni and Dalia Itzik, and a variety of Israeli and…
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