Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
The protesters who defied a blockade of Gaza by sailing into the territory have since sailed off again. Israel wisely decided to sit this one out, acting only against one returning citizen who was detained by police for violating the law prohibiting Jewish citizens from entering Gaza.
The same can't be ...
Posted in Palestinian affairs, United Nations | No Comments »
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, takes an indepth look at two columns. One, by Robert Fulford in the National Post, challenges conventional thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The second, by Bernard Avishai and Reza Aslan in ...
Posted in CIC Publications, Iran, Israeli Foreign Affairs, Media, Palestinian affairs | No Comments »
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Harry's Place, an interesting pro-Zionist but left-of-centre UK blog, reports that the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s effort to block a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet at the Edinburgh International Festival has been wildly unsuccessful. In fact, the performance is sold out!
Read the blog entry here »
Can't make it to the Edinburgh Fest? ...
Posted in Israeli culture | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Paraplegics may now be able to stand, walk and climb stairs thanks to ReWalk, an electronic exoskeleton created by Israeli engineer Amit Goffer. Currently in clinical trials at Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Centre, Goffer's company Argo Medical Technologies expects to market the device by 2010, and has a video of ...
Posted in CIC Publications, Israel science & technology | No Comments »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Here's a new YouTube video that pokes fun - and holes - in the often troubling academic and church movement that seeks to divest from Israel:
Posted in Israel Advocacy | No Comments »
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Today, Israel released close to 200 Palestinian prisoners, in a goodwill gesture ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Click here to see the CBC coverage of the event.
"Releasing Terrorists: New Victims Pay the Price," an article by Nadav Shragai for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, ...
Posted in Israeli courts and law, Palestinian affairs | No Comments »
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, finds that coverage of Isarel itself may be lighter than usual due to the Olympics and the Russia-Georgia war, but Israel's role in the conflict is a subject of media scrutiny.
Some analysts, ...
Posted in CIC Publications, Israeli Foreign Affairs, Media | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Canadians will soon have a new way to invest in Israel. The CNQ, Canada's new stock exchange, will be listing Israeli high-tech companies thanks to an exclusive agreement with IsraTech Canada Ventures. IsraTech also puts together funding for promising Israeli technology companies and entrepreneurs.
You can get Did You Know? and ...
Posted in CIC Publications, Canada-Israel co-operation, Israeli economy | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
IMRA (Independent Media Review Analysis) has translated information from Almagor, an Israeli organization that advocates for terror victims' rights, about the Palestinian prisoners set for release by Israel on Aug. 25.
Of the approximately 200 prisoners:
149 were sentenced for attempting to murder - most by
shooting at people and/or planting bombs.
54 served less than ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
On Friday, we blogged about a suprisingly positive piece on Al Jazeera.com (See The Day After: Once the Palestinians Have a Country, Things May Get Harder.) But now it's back to business-as-usual for the influential Middle East media outlet, according to an op-ed by Daniel Pearl in the Washington Post, headlined "Why Al Jazeera Owes an ...
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