Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Canadian Hockey legends Darryl Sittler and Paul Henderson have been touring Israel for the last week, part of a CIC-coordinated visit that included activities at the Canada Hockey Center in Metullah. As part of its day-long Hockey Day in Canada programming, the CBC included a story on hockey in Israel ...
Posted in Canada-Israel co-operation, Community, Sports | No Comments »
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
The Canada-Israel Committee Pacific Region (CICPR) would like to issue a clarification for those concerned by recent media reports about the removal of Israeli flag decals from an Olympic "flag walk" display in Vancouver. The flag walk display, to welcome the 2010 Winter Olympics to Vancouver, consists of flag decals ...
Posted in CIC Publications, Community, Sports | 1 Comment »
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, looks at the coverage of Israel's response to the earthquake in Haiti. The devastating earthquake in Haiti dominated the news last week. And on the U.S. television networks, several news reports ...
Posted in Iran, Israeli Foreign Affairs, Media | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli President Shimon Peres gave an historic address to the German Bundestag: Address by the President of the State of Israel H.E. Shimon Peres at the German BundestagInternational Holocaust Remembrance DayJanuary 27, 2010 [The speech was delivered in Hebrew] I stand here ...
Posted in Israeli Foreign Affairs, Israeli History and Archaeology, Israeli politics, Judaism | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Project Better Place, the ambitious electric car venture founded by Israeli-American entrepreneur Shai Agassi, has received a $350 million investment from a consortium led by HSBC. The project's backers say the electric car will drastically reduce oil dependence, cut carbon emissions and blaze a trail for more environmentally friendly transport. ...
Posted in Environment, Israel science & technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
In today’s Winnipeg Free Press, veteran Mideast columnist Samuel Segev analyzes the latest efforts to kickstart the dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace process: Lots of peace plans, a little progress By Samuel Segev Winnipeg Free Press, 25/01/2010 TEL AVIV -- Israel and the Arab world on Wednesday will be watching with great ...
Posted in Israeli politics, Media, Middle East, Palestinian affairs | No Comments »
Monday, January 25th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_3389" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Hockey legends Darryl Sittler (left) and Paul Henderson are interviewed by the CBC in Jerusalem."][/caption]Canadian hockey greats Darryl Sittler and Paul Henderson are currently in Israel as guests of the Canada-Israel Committee. While in Jerusalem, the two were interviewed by the CBC, for a piece that ...
Posted in Canada-Israel co-operation, Sports | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
CJPME (Canadian for Justice and Peace in the Middle East) continues to distort the truth in its reporting of events in the Middle East and Canadian foreign policy. In their most recent campaign on UNRWA funding, they claim that "Last week, the Harper government quietly announced that after decades of ...
Posted in Canadian Politics, Middle East, Palestinian affairs | No Comments »
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_3373" align="alignright" width="150" caption="An IDF doctor tends to a patient at the field hospital in Haiti."][/caption]As we have noted in a previous blog post, Israel's response to the earthquake in Haiti was very fast and efficient, moblizing a state-of-the-art field hospital that was - for over a week - ...
Posted in Israeli Foreign Affairs, Middle East | No Comments »
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Prominent human rights activist Regina Waldman, Chair of JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa), was recently on a Pacific region speaking tour, sponsored by the Canada-Israel Committee. While in Vancouver, Ms. Waldman was a guest on the Christy Clark Show, where she shared her personal story ...
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