Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for March, 2009

The two coin-operated black-leather massage couches, the kind that you sit in and relax while the little motorized balls inside the leather work their way up your leg muscles and into your back and back down again, should have been working overtime. But none of the 1200 Labor Party convention delegates packed into the smoke-filled [...]

Read Full Post »

This is how Labor dies. Not with a whimper. Not with a bang. More like assisted suicide.
Mark this day, Tuesday 24 March 2009. It is on this day that Israel’s founding party ‘finishes its historical role’. Regardless of which way the vote in the convention goes today, Labor is finished. If Barak wins, Labor [...]

Read Full Post »

Presidents Barack Obama and Shimon Peres both addressed the Iranian people this week in broadcast messages in honor of the Iranian new year, Nowruz. Obama sent a video message that was widely received and spoke in a respectful, conciliatory tone of a “new beginning”. Peres’ message was broadcast to a narrow audience on Israel Radio’s [...]

Read Full Post »

Now it’s all out in the open. The war inside Labor pits the party’s generals versus its social activists over whether to enter Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu’s government. And in war, the generals play dirty.

Read Full Post »

I haven’t managed to take some time off and go visit my former home in over 2 years. I really miss Johannesburg and usually look for ways to get back home.
Here’s why I don’t feel so bad about it today:

The clip is part of a fascinating story by Real Clear [...]

Read Full Post »

Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport was named ‘Best Performing Airport in the Middle East’ for the second year in a row this week by The Airports Council International.
Airports in in Abu Dhabi and Doha came in second and third respectively.
Ynet News reports that the Israel Airports Authority allocated NIS 3.7 billion ($873,000,000) towards improving safety, [...]

Read Full Post »

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems LTD displayed a Bollywood-style dance number featuring Israeli artists in full Bollywood costume singing in English about the potential for the Indo-Israeli defense trade relationship on on large screen televisions at their stall at Aero India 2009 recently. This one’s not going to get any Oscars.

Thanks to [...]

Read Full Post »