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The Schmooze VIDEO: Shimon Peres Needs a Job
Hiring? Shimon Peres is your man. A newly released video (in Hebrew with English subtitles) from the Peres Center for Peace has the former president seeking help from an unemployment office. Turns out, the 91-year-old shows an impressive range of skills. from pumping gas to pizza delivery, with a skydiving session or two thrown in…
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Opinion Gay Party Organizers Use ISIS Imagery in Ads
Drek’s ISIS-inspired party poster / Facebook Advertising is a tough business. People are busy. Getting them to come out to your event can be hard. But does that justify using ISIS imagery to gain publicity for your party? Tel Aviv’s popular gay party organizers, Drek, apparently think so. In recent advertising, they used imagery from…
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Fast Forward Israel Population Rises to 8.9 Million
The official population of Israel on the eve of Rosh Hashanah is 8.9 million. The population grew 2 percent since the previous year, an increase of 173,811 to 8,904,373 , according to the Population and Immigration Authority, which released the figures on Sunday. About 75 percent of the population is Jewish. The number of babies…
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Fast Forward Mossad Takes Hunt for Spooks Online
It is already common for intelligence agencies to recruit their officers online, but Israel’s Mossad has gone one further by touting for local agents and informants too. Israel, which has full diplomatic ties with only two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan, lacks embassies elsewhere in the Middle East that would-be informants could turn to, leaving…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Most Popular Baby Name? Mohammed
(Haaretz) — The list of Israel’s most popular names for newborns did not include obviously Arab names, including the most popular boy’s name of Mohammed, the Population, Immigration and Border Authority confirmed on Sunday. The authority circulated a list with the 10 most popular names for boys and for girls under the heading, “The most common…
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Fast Forward Israel Aid Group Joins Ebola Fight
The Israeli nongovernmental relief organization IsraAID is sending medical professionals to Sierra Leone to help patients who have tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus. The first Israeli professionals will arrive in the African nation this week, IsraAID said in a statement. During the first phase, the IsraAid team will provide psycho-social support training to…
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Fast Forward Israel Establishing National Cyber Defense Authority
Israel will launch a national cyber defense authority to defend civilians against cyber threats. The authority, which was announced at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, will act alongside the National Cyber Bureau, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. Eviatar Matania, the head of the National Cyber Bureau, will lead its establishment,…
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Fast Forward Politicians Slam Lapid for Shabbat News Conference
Politicians from the left and Orthodox parties criticized Finance Minister Yair Lapid for calling a news conference on Shabbat. Zehava Gal-On, head of the Meretz party, criticized Lapid for holding the news conference on a non-pressing matter outside his home on Saturday on short notice, calling it “a demonstration of insensitivity.” “I’m not even talking…
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