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Life Who Voted How Where
It’s 10 p.m. in Israel — and the polls are now closed. Real-time election results by city and sector (Kibbutzim, Bedouin, etc.) can be tracked here.
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Life And the Winner Is … the Bowling Alley
More than you could feel a palpable interest in the elections on the streets of Israel today, you could feel a strong sense of desperation from parents — huddling in shop doorways sheltering their offspring from rain showers and searching for an activity that would keep them entertained. Election Day here is a public holiday…
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Life In Israel, Change You Can Xerox
In advance of Tuesday’s election in Israel, candidates of various persuasions have shown no shame in cribbing from the storied presidential campaign of Barack Obama — regardless of their ideological similarities or differences with the American president, The Daily Beast reports. The Shas Party, whose constituency traditionally has been composed of Orthodox Sephardic Jews, has…
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Life The Source of That Mysterious Maple Syrup Smell: Israel
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like odor, which wafted over the island of Manhattan on several occasions since 2005, appears to be the 76-year-old, Haifa-based company Frutaron, according to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The New York Times reports: “The city revealed on Thursday that the culprit was the seeds of fenugreek, a cloverlike…
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Life ‘Joe the Plumber’ Puts Down the Plunger, Heads to Israel
“Joe the Plumber” won’t be unclogging any toilets, at least not while war is raging in Gaza. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher — the Ohio plumber and would-be country music star who became a fixture of John McCain’s presidential campaign — is heading to Israel for 10 days as a war reporter for the conservative Web site…
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News Israel a Non-Issue That Might Haunt U.S. Election
Israel has”ceased to exist as a campaign issue” at the moment in this year’s presidential contest, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. In fact, writing in Haaretz, Bradley Burston notes Israel’s influence on the election could be one military strike, one peace deal or one terrorist strike away. He outlines a half dozen ways, most…
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News Ed Koch: U.S. ‘Safer’ With Obama
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who bucked the Democratic Party and endorsed President Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, has no regrets about that decision. Kerry did not fully understood the need to support Israel at the time, he says. “That is not an issue in this election,” Koch writes in a statement…
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Life Israel’s ‘Non-Jewish Jews’
The JTA has a great story on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who came to Israel under its Law of Return, and yet are not officially regarded as Jews by the state because their mothers are not Jewish. They live in Jewish society, many have Jewish ancestry and identify…
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