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Soldier jailed for Facebook pic

Posted in Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Seems like the message is finally starting to get through to the army, which has really let this thing go on for far too long. This is the first tangible thing to have happened since I published the original article exposing all this stuff.
A soldier serving in the IDF’s elite 8200 military intelligence unit was [...]

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Religious views

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I can’t believe how popular this blog post is continuing to be, there seems to be a real fascination with what people put as their religious views on Facebook. I’ll keep on updating it when I come across new and interesting religious views.
On to the blog post:
Had too much time on my hands over Passover [...]

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Growing fast

Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Yoav Fisher from New Zionist just pointed out that I’m now the second fastest growing blog on WordPress.

There are close to 3 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com!!
Thanks to everyone who dropped by to visit, I’ll keep it going.

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IDF YouTube

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’m blown away by the amount of material posted by Israelis during their service in the Israel Defense Forces, including Facebook and YouTube. I published the story below in today’s paper and on this blog, and since then several people have drawn my attention to more material out there, stuff I think should be classified. [...]

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IDFacebook

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Got this response from the IDF Spokesperson’s Office today for both the Facebook and YouTube stories:
Regulations stipulate that it is not permissible to film or take pictures inside any IDF facility or during an IDF operation unless the photographer has express permission. These regulations are designed to prevent people without proper security clearance from accessing [...]

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Bnei Akiva look ahead

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The decorations on the Hyundai parked outside Bnei Akiva’s headquarters in Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood tell you quite a lot about where Israel’s second largest youth movement came from, where it is now and where it’s headed. Stuck onto the rear window is a sticker reading: “Follow Me to the Paratroopers” – an iconic Israeli message [...]

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This is a drill

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The following story dramatizes how the Turning Point 2 preparedness drill unfolded at Ben-Gurion Elementary School on Rehov Poale Harakevet in Givatayim on Tuesday, April 8, between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Amit powers past two defenders, passes the ball to Roei, who fakes, then takes a shot from inside the circle. The ball bounces off the [...]

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Gideon Prodgers, 1987 – 2008

Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Terribly sad story this.
A heart-wrenching struggle for the life of young South African Jewish youth leader ended sadly this weekend with the death of Gideon Prodgers, 20, from Cape Town.
Gideon passed away this Saturday at Rambam medical center in Haifa after an eight-month battle with leukemia. He will be buried in Cape Town later this [...]

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Religious 1: Secular 1; God: 0

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I wrote this post yesterday, and since then another interesting Synagogue versus State case has come up today. A Haifa court ruled today that it was not going to interfere in a mother’s request to cremate the body of her daughter, who committed suicide over the weekend. Judaism prohibits cremation. During the court hearing on [...]

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Foreign Ministry opens Sderot office

Posted in Gaza, Israel, Sderot, Uncategorized on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It took over seven years, but the Foreign Ministry on Sunday opened up an office in the rocket – plagued city of Sderot so as better to coordinate foreign news coverage and facilitate fact-finding and solidarity missions of the city and other Gaza envelope communities under fire from the Gaza Strip.
“It took us a while [...]

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Blame Canada

Posted in Canada, tagged , , , , on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

WordPress says this is one of the fastest growing blogs on its platform.
That’s worrying as it is very extreme. Besides for that I’m not going to make any comment about the blog itself, which argues that Canada has been taken over by Zionist agents, or something like that.
But I wonder what the author thinks of [...]

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