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The Schmooze Israeli Court Allows Egg Extraction From Dead Teen
For the first time in Israel, a court has ruled that the eggs of a deceased woman may be extracted and saved. The decision by the Kfar Sava Family Court this past Sunday was in relation to the case of the late Chen Aida Ayish, a 17-year-old from the Sharon region, who died of severe…
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The Schmooze Roseanne Barr: Israel’s Next Prime Minister?
Forget the usual slate of Israeli politicians – the country’s next prime minister could be Roseanne Barr. So says the comedian, who announced her unlikely candidacy on yesterday’s “Tonight Show.” After announcing that she would also seek the American presidency, the former “Roseanne” star added the Israeli premiership as a “two-fer.” “I’ve got to solve…
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Food Faced With Allergy Related Death, Israel Looks To Reform Food Labels
Headlines about a 26-year-old woman with a nut allergy recently dying from eating Nutella at a Tel Aviv restaurant have been a popular topic of conversation over the past couple of weeks in Israel. Chen Efrat’s death has been a stark reminder to Israelis of the gravity — and sometimes, fatal nature — of food…
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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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Life Bob Dylan and Strollers For Israeli Democracy
Some say it’s because Bob Dylan and Paul Simon performed in Israel this summer. Others say it all started with the Facebook message urging Israelis to stop buying cottage cheese — a daily staple in the Israeli diet that has become outrageously expensive. I prefer to see it as the culmination of many decades of…
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Israel News Israel Plans to Raise the Famed Altalena
One of the bitterest confrontations on record pitting Jew against Jew is soon to be dredged up ? quite literally. The Israeli government has given instructions for the raising of the Altalena, a Jewish ship on which the country?s prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, ordered his army to fire shortly after he declared independence, in 1948….
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The Schmooze Important-to-Know Nose News
You’d think a Jewish scientist would avoid making racial generalizations about noses, but that hasn’t stopped an Israeli professor from doing just that. Abraham Tamir, a chemical engineering professor at Ben-Gurion University, has published the results of his study of nearly 1,800 noses, based on both photos of living people and works of art. (Although…
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The Schmooze Ultra-Orthodox Israeli City Opens First Internet Café
It seems even the Haredi world has conceded to the necessity of the Internet – but don’t expect them to crash servers posting on FaceGlat or uploading wedding videos anytime soon. The ultra-Orthodox city of Modiin Illit is getting its very first Internet café after receiving rabbinical approval, Ynet News reports. The venture, called Gilad…
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