Meet Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Controversial New Defense Minister

Edit Time Magazine 25 May 2016
Some Israelis say he sows “the seeds of fascism.” Others insist he’s more “pragmatic” than you’d think. Avigdor Lieberman, the Soviet-born, West Bank-settled politician, has just been named as Israel’s next defense minister ... “As I see Mr ... Shmuel Sandler, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University who has closely followed Lieberman’s career ...   ....

Hartsfield-Jackson to sign Sister Airport Agreement with Ben Gurion (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016
(Source. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport). Hartsfield-Jackson to sign Sister Airport Agreement with Ben Gurion. Agreement aims to increase travel, trade with Israel's largest airport ... 'This agreement marks a new era in cooperation between two dynamic airports and two vibrant cities,' ATL's Interim General Manager Roosevelt Council Jr. said today ... WHO. ... Gen. Shmuel Zakay, TLV managing director ... WHAT. ... WHEN. ... 10.30 a.m. WHERE.....

‘Syrian civilians must be treated as human beings’

Edit The Jerusalem Post 16 May 2016
Katzrin resident and Holocaust survivor Shmuel Sherf favors medical care for those wounded in civil war ... ....

PM Netanyahu addresses the 'Unto Every Person There is a Name' ceremony at the Knesset (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
... on Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day today (Thursday, 5 May 2016), at the Knesset, made the following remarks at the 'Unto Every Person There is a Name' ceremony .'My beloved late father-in-law, Shmuel Ben-Artzi, who won the Ka-Tzenik Prize for Holocaust Literature, was the only member of his family who survived the Holocaust....

NeuroDerm Announces 2016 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Edit Stockhouse 05 May 2016
(Nasdaq.NDRM), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing drugs for central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced that it will hold its 2016 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 for the purposes of (i) re-electing its Class II directors, Shmuel Cabilly and Larry Ellberger, for a three-year term, (ii) ......

Settlements aren't the key to Middle East peace

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 03 May 2016
In 2014, Israeli-owned company SodaStream announced it was closing its West Bank factory after pressure from those boycotting Israeli settlements. While supporters claimed a victory, nearly 500 Palestinians who had worked in harmony alongside Israeli Jews and enjoyed wages four or five times higher than the average in the West Bank were left jobless ... Shmuel Ben Shmuel is Israel's ambassador to Australia. ....

Zooz raises $24 million to grow its all-in-one payments platform globally

Edit Venture Beat 03 May 2016
Zooz’s smarts can then analyse the consolidated payment data to give useful insights to merchants ... “As the global payments market continues its exponential growth, Zooz is well positioned to play an even larger role,” said Shmuel Chafets, general partner of Target Global Ventures ... ....

Taking a long-term perspective

Edit The Jerusalem Post 30 Apr 2016
March of the Living chairman Shmuel Rosenman says the Holocaust will remain a key part of Jewish identity for centuries to come ... ....

SELZNICK, BRUCE

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 30 Apr 2016
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Sheila Zahn Selznick; son, Hillel Shmuel Selznick; daughter, Sorah Rivka Plotnick; son-in-law, Rabbi Elliot Plotnick; four grandchildren, Tzvi Bentzion, Naava Miriam, Doniel Moshe and Ayala ......

US Election 2016: The prospect of Donald Trump as president sparks fear in Middle East

Edit The Independent 30 Apr 2016
But his speech did nothing to reduce a widespread sense of alarm in the Middle East over his run for the White House ... “I start from the premise that he's a bigot,” said Ms Golan ... “Trump is an unknown, I think he himself doesn't know what he would do, but the worrying thing is that he is speaking the language of isolationism,” said Shmuel Sandler, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv ... He added....

Handwriting study finds clues on when biblical texts written

Edit Boston Herald 22 Apr 2016
JERUSALEM — Israeli mathematicians and archaeologists say they have found evidence to suggest that key biblical texts may have been composed earlier than what some scholars think ... Shmuel Ahituv, an Israeli bible scholar who did not participate in the study, also believes literacy in ancient Judah was widespread before 586 BC and that the biblical texts in question were written before the siege of Jerusalem ... ....

Asa Butterfield: The unconventional child star

Edit BBC News 18 Apr 2016
At 19 years old, Asa Butterfield already has a box-office record any actor twice his age would be proud of. But he's achieved it by choosing unusual and unexpected roles ... X+Y saw him play a socially awkward maths genius ... Released in 2008, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is set during World War Two and tells the story of Bruno, a young boy - played by Butterfield - who befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel in a concentration camp ... He jokes ... ....

Male friendship in teen books - yes, really

Edit The Guardian 15 Apr 2016
Friendship between boys is not a topic that YA fiction tends to shout about but there are some gems out there. From Trainspotting to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Brian Conaghan hunts them down. Read an extract of The Bombs That Brought Us Together. Twitter ... What? Boys? Friendship? In a book? Yes, it does happen from time to time ... What about…? ... Are you off your nut? ... There he meets Shmuel behind the tall-wired walls that separate them ... ....
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