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Archive for August, 2007

For a summer camp and its island neighbors, a cooling of relations

Posted in Canada, Israel, Jewish issues on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Relations between the Habonim Dror camp and the residents of Gabriola Island traditionally have been good, even though there have been some ups and downs in the past.

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Global Warming: Here comes the sun

Posted in Energy and oil dependency, Environmental issues, Global warming and climate change, Israel, Renewable energy, Science and Technology on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here comes the sun. Environment Ministry’s chief scientist: Global warming is already visible
The Environmental Protection Ministry’s chief scientist sounded the alarm this week when he said Israel had no coherent renewable energy program and no coordinated plans to tackle the ‘already visible effects’ of global climate change on the country.
Speaking Wednesday at a solar power [...]

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Spying on Mr. Video

Posted in Competitive intelligence, Espionage, Israel, Mossad, South Africa on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

 When the Mr. Video conglomerate opened one of its shiny new stores around the corner from my parent’s homey video shop in the dusty South African mining town of Randfontein in the mid-’90s, I saw it as a declaration of war.
Mr. Video could afford to rent out their videos for less than we did because [...]

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Shabbat Kassam

Posted in Annapolis, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Sderot, Syria, tagged , , , , , on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Fire chief David Sheetrit is not a fan of crossword puzzles.
He watches as visiting Tel Aviv firefighters pour over the Friday newspapers on Saturday. They brought them with them when they came to bolster Sderot’s fire station, which during ‘normal times’ boasts a total staff of three, Sheetrit and his two deputies. ‘Three across and [...]

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I need a survival drill

Posted in Israel, Israel Defense Forces, nuclear, tagged , on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The official motto of the IDF Engineering Corps’s Atomic, Biological and Chemical Unit is ‘Survive, and continue fighting.’ Its unofficial motto, the one most of its fighters learn in their first 10 minutes in the unit, is: ‘If they’re using us, everybody else is either hiding, underground or already dead.’
The official motto explains not only [...]

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An open letter to passive smokers

Posted in Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Smoking, tagged , , on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

An open letter to passive smokers
I had my last cigarette on Wednesday, May 28 and by this writing I have not had another, I promise. Star of David, my heart, and hope to live until 120.
On that day I took part in the treatment offered by the Abrahamson Institute, which teamed up with the Carmel [...]

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Weekends, 2007 Style

Posted in Gadgets, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Science and Technology, tagged , on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Weekends, 2007 Style
During the week, my time is taken over almost entirely by managing the devices and information I’m surrounded with at the office: e-mail, voice-mail, land-line and cellphone calls, PDA work, Internet, on-line newspapers, news alerts, faxes, news tickers on the desktop and TV, etc etc.
 
On weekends I used to be able to relax, [...]

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Air Force Chief: Israel must prepare for space warfare

Posted in America, International Relations, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Space, tagged , , on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

IAF chief: Israel must prepare for warfare in space
Israel will be facing a possible threat to its vital space-based assets within the coming decade for which it has to start preparing immediately, Israel Air Force chief Maj.-Gen. Elazar Shkedy told the second Ilan Ramon Annual International Space Conference in Herzliya Wednesday.
His comments came in light [...]

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Hello world!

Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Welcome to Forecast Highs. I’ll be posting my stories from The Jerusalem Post here. The stories I have chosen to publish here are ones looking at upcoming, and underlying, trends on the Israeli political, social, and economic landscape.

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