SPECIAL! JerusalemOnline news update/slideshow: Nov. 9th (Video - Channel 2 TV)

Today's Headlines:

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• Palestinians rage over awry artillery deaths
• Kassam barrage wounds three Israelis
• Ground-level radar promises safer driving
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As you may have noticed, I often post these video news reports. Why? Because I do them weekly, along with a great editorial, technical and administrative team.

The whole JerusalemOnline crew got together a few Fridays ago at the "Lilit" restaurant in Tel Aviv to celebrate our one-year anniversary of providing the international viewer with a clear, concise, translated summary of Israel's Channel 2 main evening news report.

So come join us for the festive breakfast (and try to match the newsreader's voice with the photo)!

Raising a toast for the first year of JerusalemOnline.com!

Late For the Sky - Tel Aviv (Photo)

Late For The Sky. Click on image for larger version.
(Photo: Dave Bender)

The Tel Aviv skyline at night, with utterly brilliant clouds overhead. I shot this from a ninth-floor hotel balcony along the sea, looking eastward with a four-second shutter, and used Photoshop "Curves," and sharpening to push the brightness and contrast envelope.

As I tweaked the shot, it reminded me greatly of a classic Jackson Browne LP cover (records? prehistoric, dude...) "Late For The Sky," which itself was a take on Belgian artist Magritte's famous "Empire of Light" series.

(Cross-posted at Israelity)

JerusalemOnline news update: Nov. 9th (Video - Channel 2 TV)

Today's Headlines:

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• Israel expresses regret for Gaza deaths
• IDF: Malfunction possible cause
  
• Fatah, Hamas: Avenge Palestinian 'martyrs'
• Terror alert may delay J'lem Gay pride march
• Special: Israelis for children in Ethiopia - click to watch
  
  
  
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Meet 2007's Israeli high-tech mavens - today (Exclusive Video)

Sorry, I've been away - been working/reporting nearly nonstop from the Telecom 2006 conference in Tel Aviv for Israel21c.org, and Israelhightech.tv.

We're getting edited video interviews with the "next big high-tech thing coming out of Israel" up on site as fast as possible.


I spoke with the heads of "TV 'n' Go," and "Concealogram." Scroll down the images on the right-hand side of this page, near the bottom to view the Flash interviews.

And here's a special, behind-the-scenes slide show I prepared about the talented and professional crew:

Blue & White cooldom at 'Level Ground'

Blogging and random rants will be light in coming days, with scattered showers expected for the Tel Aviv area, which is where I'll be covering Telecom 2006 for both Israel21c, and Israelhightech.tv - and here, 'natch. Excerpts from the article:

(...) "We have a lot of innovation," says organizer Yair Ofek, deputy director-general of the Israel Export Institute.

"We have a lot of solutions, we have a lot of technologies that can help big, as well as medium-sized companies to be better, to give more services to their customers, and to be more efficient," Ofek told ISRAEL21C.

(...) MusicGenome say they want to revolutionize the paradigm of how listeners are exposed to, listen and purchase music online. After you've chosen the songs, and pulled out your credit card for the payment transaction, CallingID, promises "improved e-commerce and online banking protection." Then, so you'll be able to tell your friends all about it face-to-face, as ipoint-media, plans to add "interactive video telephony (video calling) services to mobile 3G subscribers or IP broadband users."

The guys liked your taste in music? Spread the groove with Nareos, who say says their mobile file-sharing technology will provide a "complete solution for distribution of digital content through mobile networks." After that, you can all share the joy with a SendM email sent seamlessly via an SMS mobile text message.

Read the rest here.

I'll be posting an audio podcast in the Odeo player near the upper, left-side of this page soon, with coverage, exclusive interviews with vendors, VIP's and lots of insider first-looks at Blue & White hi-tech cooldom - so check back here throughout the week for the latest updates.

'Multiculti' BBC hires Jews for Israel office, adopts Sharia Law

Go figure, huh?

From (or, perhaps in this case, "frum") Totally Jewish:

As the debate rages on over BBC bias in its Israel coverage, two Jewish journalists were this week appointed to join the corporation’s reporting team in Jerusalem.

Tim Franks will take up the role of a Middle East correspondent while Katya Adler will leave her current posting in Madrid to become a Middle East reporter.

Meanwhile, in the other corner of the round room:

The BBC's 'diversity tsar' Mary Fitzpatrick proposes to atone for these sins of the British Broadcasting Corporation's staff by implementing a new Sharia policy, based on suggestions from the greater Islamic community. "Effective immediately, the Sharia policy will become mandatory for all of our gay and liberal employees, including our gay and liberal elites," Ms. Fitzpatrick announced at the summit.

JerusalemOnline news update: Nov. 4th (Video - Channel 2 TV)

Today's Headlines:

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• Palestinian militants give Israel 48-hour ultimatum
• IDF soldier wounded in Gaza operations
• Thousands gather to commemorate Yitzhak Rabin
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Tel Aviv: River of Light in a waning sky (Photo)

Tel Aviv: River of Light
(Photo: Dave Bender)

Shot this image of north Tel Aviv skyline, traffic and water during a sudden cloudburst last week in the quickly ebbing day, as dusk closed in on drivers headed home; others still lighting the office towers into the night.

More images are here.

Cross-posted at Israelity)

The Rabin assassination: Another look

Carl, over at IsraelMatzav pours scalding water on the annual memorial over the Yitzhak Rabin assassination, laying out his take, throwing serious, sincere doubts on Yigal Amir's guilt in the murder:

YNet wonders why Yigal Amir stays in the public light. They went to 'experts.' The 'experts,' all leftist professors, wring their hands and complain about "the groups that stand behind Amir," "that the political system is leaning increasingly more to the right," "the educational system escaped all interest," and one professor who claims that Amir is not in the public light, and describes him with an obscenity I will not repeat.

He's posted a series of Israeli news video clips, supporting his contentions. Worth a viewing.

(This isn't Barry Chamishland, either, 11 years later, there are enough responsible, respectable voices wondering about the whole affair, not the least of which being Rabin's late wife, Leah).

Meanwhile, in a jarring counterpoint, the ceremony itself is taking place as we go to press at the square where it all happened.

Here is the Knesset's Rabin memorial page.

Saul Singer at The Jerusalem Post has a moving requiem about Rabin, the assassination, and a changed Israel.

Gaza: Human shields & the 'cycle of violence'

(AFP/Saif Dahlah)

Omri over at Mererhetoric has a good take, IMHO, on ongoing events in the Gaza Strip between the IDF and Palestinians, especially a blow-by-blow account covering the cynical use of female human shields to allow gunman holing up in a mosque to escape capture.

Thoroughly Fisking Reuters, he eviscerates their coverage of the incident. Long, but worth a close reading, to get a clearer picture.