Jerusalem News 866. Views, Jews, Ten Tribes News
14 July 2009, 22 Tammuz 5769
Contents:
1. Rabbinate Confronted With 60 Missionary Converts
2. In Israel, a desert plant waters itself
3. France: US has imposed deadline for settlement freeze; Israel: Really?
4.Yoram Ettinger: Can Israel Afford to Concede the Mountain Ridges of Judea and Samaria (West Bank)?
5. Guysen News Extracts
6. Technion Researchers Testing "Electric Road"
7. Israel: The best air force in the world.
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1. Rabbinate Confronted With 60 Missionary Converts
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132271
by Hillel Fendel
Extracts:
(IsraelNN.com) The Chief Rabbinate has been given a list of more than 60 recent converts... ? and are active missionaries.
Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz, chairman and founder of the anti-missionary and anti-assimilation Yad L'Achim organization, met in recent days with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and provided him with the list. Rabbi Amar was reportedly "shocked" at seeing that the Chief Rabbinate had authorized the conversions.
Yad L'Achim had prepared the list of names, ID numbers and addresses of more than 60 people who were active in missionary groups before, during and after their long conversion process to Judaism. The "converts" were then accepted as members of religious communities, and their children were accepted into religious schools.
The meeting between the two rabbis was held in advance of the anticipated Aliyah [immigration to Israel] of many Bnei Menashe members to Israel, amongst whom it is suspected are a significant number of missionaries. The questions to be asked of them will enable weeding them out while resulting in the legitimization of the conversion of the remaining members.
2. In Israel, a desert plant waters itself
By Karin Kloosterman
http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=
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A team of researchers from the University of Haifa have stumbled upon a rare desert plant living in Israel's mountainous Negev desert, which can irrigate itself.
The plant, the desert rhubarb, Rheum palaestinum, was first classified by a local Israeli botanist about 70 years ago. It has adapted to harsh desert climates by developing specially designed leaves -- broad and with grooves and channels -- to funnel even the slightest bit of rainwater directly to its roots.
It is the only known plant of its kind in the world, and could teach science -- and people -- new ways for maximizing water distribution in agriculture, especially in extremely arid regions. Locals say it is found only in Israel and nearby Jordan.
ISRAEL21c asked one of the Israeli researchers, Prof. Simcha Lev-Yadun, a botanist, who recently measured the water intake capabilities of the desert rhubarb, if it could lead to new water-collecting devices based on bio-mimicry.
"You are 2,000 years too late," he says. "This same type of typography that we see on the plant's 1/3 square meter surface was done on the scale of hundreds of meters, if not kilometres, by ancient people who lived in the Negev Desert until the first millennium CE. I am sure that people found this simple physical rule and exploited it," he adds.
Aside from being a botanist, Lev-Yadun is also an archeologist, with a first and second degree in the field. He explains that Nabatean people living in the Negev Desert after the second Temple Period and the late Byzantine period, would pile stones in mounds that the local Arabs call "mounds for grapes".
These stones were set up to funnel water down a hill for irrigation purposes, before the water "infiltrated the hill," says Lev-Yadun, and resembled the surface of the rhubarb.
With his research partners Gadi Katzir and Gidi Ne'eman, also from the University of Haifa, Lev-Yadun ascertained that the reason the rare rhubarb flourishes in hostile areas in the desert, is because it can collect up to 16 times more water than other plants growing in the same region.
They findings were published recently in the journal Naturwissenschaften.
Characterized by large rosette leaves with deep grooves, Lev-Yadun -- also an avid hobby photographer -- says that the leaves when photographed up close starkly resemble the mountainous regions in which they grow.
And the water on the leaves of the rhubarb travel off its surface, in much the same way that rainwater flows through the valleys and slopes of the mountains in the Negev Desert, but on a very different scale.
Additional research into the mechanics of the plant finds that the plant not only funnels the water to its roots, but the water is able to penetrate 10 cm into the soil, 10 times deeper than if the rain landed by itself on the desert sand.
A tough waxy surface on the leaves, lends additional support in funneling the water to the roots where it is needed.
Can scientists take home a message from this plant and create the ultimate irrigation machine? Lev-Yadun has no designs on such an invention, but doesn't rule out the possibility.
"It's a rare plant. We can't plant them by the billions and irrigate with them." But, he adds: "theoretically one could do the same with plastic and collect the water. This is already done on a small scale here and there," adds Lev-Yadun.
3. France: US has imposed deadline for settlement freeze; Israel: Really?
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2677
By Stan Goodenough
July 12, 2009
According to press reports, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday that Washington has given Israel six months to put a stop to the growth - natural or otherwise - of Jewish communities in Samaria and Judea.
Kouchner - whose country has nurtured a longstanding love affair with the Arab world - passed this information on to Israel's enemies during a visit to Lebanon, apparently in an effort to encourage them.
The US is heading up the global effort to take the heart of the Israel's historical homeland from the Jews and give it to the Palestinian Arabs, and has in recent weeks massively intensified pressure on the Netanyahu government to "freeze settlements."
But Israel has no knowledge of any deadline being imposed, said Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon Saturday, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Last Wednesday the US denied it had reached a compromise that would allow Israel to complete the construction of 2,500 housing units in Samaria and Judea.
The denial followed Israeli newspaper reports that such a deal had been reached.
"This [settlement] activity has to stop. This is laid out in the road map" peace plan, Kelly said, according to Ha'aretz.
4.Yoram Ettinger: Can Israel Afford to Concede the Mountain Ridges of Judea and Samaria (West Bank)?
From: shieldofdavid@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [shieldofdavid] Digest Number 1138
*Can Israel Afford to Concede the Mountain Ridges of Judea and Samaria (West Bank)?
Yoram Ettinger*
Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #223, July 10, 2009
(1. The Mideast context since the 7th century: The most fragmented, conflict-ridden, unstable, unpredictable, volatile region; no inter-Arab comprehensive peace, no compliance with all inter-Arab agreements, no ratification of all inter-Arab boundaries, no Arab democracy; the cradle of Islamic terrorism, homicide bombers, hijacking, Improvised Explosive Device(IED), car-bombing and modern day hate-education.
(2. Judea and Samaria, the cradle of Jewish history, consists of two over-towering mountain ridges: A 3,000ft steep eastern slope above the Jordan Valley, the most effective tank barrier in the region; a 2,000ft gentle western slope, a dream platform of invasion to the 9-15 miles sliver along the Mediterranean (pre-1967 Israel). Judea and Samaria constitutes the "Golan Heights" of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the coastal plain and the 4 mile wide corridor between the coast and Jerusalem.
(3. Israel's security predicament in perspective:
The width of pre-1967 Israel (without the over-towering mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria) is equal to 1/90 of the width of Texas, the distance between JFK and La Guardia airports, between Wall Street and Columbia University, between the Pentagon and Mt. Vernon, roundtrip between Kennedy Center and RFK Stadium, the length of DFW airport, less than the width of San
Francisco, Miami and Washington DC, less than the distance between downtown London and Heathrow Airport, roundtrip between Albert Hall and the Tower of London and between Bois De Boulogne and La Place de la Bastille.
(4. A 16 mile radius "killing zone" was established by the US Command in Bosnia, in order to safeguard the personal security of US servicemen. A 9-15 mile sliver along the Mediterranean, over-towered by the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria, cannot safeguard the national security of the Jewish State.
5. Guysen News Extracts
From: Guysen International News <webmaster@guysen.com>
Subject: Guysen International News - Mailinfo July 10, 2009
22:55 According to an assistant to PM Netanyahu, the PM told the visiting German foreign minister that the West Bank will never be ''judenrein'', using the term in German. The German minister reportedly nodded his head. (Guysen.International.News)
17:22 The Palestinian Authority threatened to ask the World Bank to put an end to its financing of the Dead Sea - Red Sea project, if Israel does not freeze construction in West Bank settlements. (Guysen.International.News)
The Dead Sea - Red Sea project is meant to bring water from EIlat through a pipeline over 180 kilometers to the Dead Sea, whose water levels are dropping dangerously. The pipeline would also irrigate the Negev desert region of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. All kinds of environmental studies are currently being done in the Arava region to determine the consequences, if any, or transporting millions of cubic meters of water into the Dead Sea.
06:25 State Department spokesman Ian Kelly has denied the existence of an accord between the US and Israel concerning the construction of 2500 additional housing units in the West Bank. The accord was the subject of a story in the Israeli daily Maariv. (Guysen.International.News)
06:11 The Lebanese army colonel who fled the country last week after being suspected of being a part of an Israeli spy ring there has been identified as Daher Jarjoui, from the Christian Maronite community. (Guysen.International.News)
Lebanese security sources say he fled to Israel.
05:15 The US state department says that 1350 Palestinians who lived in Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein and who have since fled the country, will be authorized to live in southern California. (Guysen.International.News)
04:43 The European Union is not seeking any compromises on the subject of freezing construction in settlements in the West Bank, according to Robert Rydberg, head of the Middle East department of the Swedish foreign ministry. (Guysen.International.News)
The European Union does not accept the argument by the Netanyahu government of building homes to deal with natural growth in West Bank settlements. The EU replies that the settlements are all illegal, according to international law.
6. Technion Researchers Testing "Electric Road"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167816
(IsraelNN.com) Researchers at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa have started testing a system that turns traffic into electricity on a 30 meter strip of highway near Tel Aviv. "The name of the game is harvesting," team member Haim Abramovich told Sky News. "Harvesting means energy which is available but is going to waste.
The concept, called piezo electricity, uses hundreds of little metallic crystals buried under the road that generate electricity when put under pressure. It requires many crystal pads over hundreds of meters and a high percentage of quickly moving traffic. While the concept is not new, the application is a novelty. According to Abramovich, one truck can generate 2,000 volts which could already be used to power traffic lights or street lamps. A kilometer of 'electric road' could generate enough power for 40 houses, and progress in the technology could generate enough electricity feed the national power grid.
7. Israel: The best air force in the world.
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http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/video/
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