Jerusalem: Night Flight (Photo)

'Jerusalem: Night Flight'
(Dave Bender, All Rights Reserved)

Pillar and supporting cables of Jerusalem's Calatrava-designed "Bridge of Chords," that supports a bridge for the city's light rail trams, glow orange against a darkening sunset by dramatic lighting from below.

Israeli Firm to Give Bionic Vision to the Blind

Nano-Retina, founded in 2009, aims to make a science-fiction staple, bionic vision, a la Geordi La Forge in Star Trek, a reality within the next few years.

But they want to go further by building a simpler, smaller, lighter and less invasive device.

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They Cry 'Apartheid,' While Israel Fast-tracks Arabs Into High-tech

"Bridge of Size" at Tel Aviv's Azrieli office towers. (Dave Bender, All Rights Reserved)

Israel's prowess as the “startup nation” is in no small part due to a relatively small, but well-trained, workforce of engineers and technicians.

However, good intentions and a development plan will get a small company only so far if it does not have sufficient personnel to design and produce the product. Israeli technology employers need substantially more people online and on the cleanroom floor.

Turns out that the call for more, and better-trained high tech personnel dovetails well with an oft-stated, long-term goal of Israeli President Shimon Peres: to better integrate Israel's Arab sector (which makes up over 20 percent of the population) into Israeli society and the Israeli job market.

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Libyan Rebels 'Rock the Casbah' to an Israeli Beat

From The Jerusalem Post:

"Zenga Zenga," a YouTube clip, has gone viral amongst Libyan rebels in the past few days. What many of those opposing Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi don't realize is that the video, a mash-up of Gaddafi's speech and the hip-hop song "Hey Baby," is from Israel.

"The clip shows Gaddafi's speech on a balcony in Tripoli, and uses autotune to turn his words into a song. In the chorus, the Libyan dictator "sings" that he will clean Libya "inch by inch, house by house, room by room, alley by alley." It also features bikin-clad women shaking their hips in time to the music."

Name That Flower, Win Valuable Prizes!

Not too shabby for a cellphoned, P'shopped and chopped foto, eh?

Egypt: Tahrir Sq., democracy, Twitter, Facebook, and Slaughter the Jews

Wait, what? But I thought Tahrir Sq. was all about democracy, Twitter and Facebook, bread and jobs...

...and why is this obscene child abuse lauded throughout the Arab world?

IBM's Watson Computer Explains The Israel-Arab Dispute

(HatTip: EoZ)

Mt. Hermon (photo)

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Finally: An Anthem For Israel & Palestine - together (musical video)

It swings, it's got a hook, and by golly, it might just have peace breaking out all over.

Egyptian Revolution Blues (Musical Video)

"Political satire - written while riots were still raging in Cairo, 2011." Sandy Cash