13 Jan 2023, Samaria: 32.6% of people between age 35 and 67 lived below the poverty line in 2021. About 20% overall.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-728338
Ancient Silver Currency and Stricter Modern Shabbats
9 Jan 2023 Samaria: New archeological discovery confirms that silver metal coins were used for transactions here as of 3600 years ago:
Also news: The new, more religious government in Israel is making changes to enforce Shabbat further than before in the national level:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-727956
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-726933
Israel Now Update: 21 Dec 2022
21 Dec 2022, Samaria: Ms. Furchner was 18 when she worked as a secretary of an office of a gas camp. She claims ignorance even though her office was shown to have a direct line of vision view of the gas facilities; her husband in 1954 admitted his knowledge of the deadly activities in that camp:
While Nazareth is a predominantly Arab Christian Israeli city, the victims have traditional Muslim names. So they are Muslim Arab Israeli citizens who were attacked, probably related to the drug dealing business.
Technical Assistance: Giving
US Antisemitism Must Be Checked
7 Dec 2022: Representatives from the Jewish Community are in meetings this week with the White House.
“When you allow antisemitism to go unchecked, it’s never just the Jews who are at risk [although] they are always first,” said Ted Deutch, CEO of AJC, quoted in the article.
Rosh haAyin resident attacked by terrorist, UN calls it ‘a scuffle’
5 Dec 2022 Israel Now report: The terrorist tried and failed to open the car door to attack the man pictured (below, left) and his wife. Then the terrorist found a rock and smashed the rear passenger window. At that point the driver (pictured) drew his weapon and fired. The terrorist fled, and stabbed a nearby soldier in the face. When other soldiers approached he resisted arrest for awhile before being fatally shot.
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Israel Now Update: 1 Dec 2022
Flu season: Unknown what this would do to travel requirements for tourists.
And something cool from Archeology!
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Israel Now update 30 Nov 2022
30 Nov 2022, Samaria: Following after last week’s bus station bombing that left two dead and dozens injured, yesterday we have a car ramming attack carried out by an Arab with Israeli citizenship, wife, kids, and job at a supermarket. Will the Palestinian Authority financially reward his family for this?
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Zionism, Judaism
22 Nov 2022, Samaria: “Zionism had produced one of the most dynamic, creative, powerful, and unerringly democratic nations in the world–the only ‘ism’ of the 20th century to succeed and succeed massively. All that we would forget just because some American students were labeling Zionism racist?” – Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the US during 2009-2013.
“Zionism by any other name would still be condemned by those who hate Israel.” – Michael Oren.
“Reclaiming Judaism,” Brian Blum, Magazine, Jerusalem Post, 4 Nov 2022 pg 42.
A Michael Oren article:
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-719600
