Check out this article in the NY Times (Batteries Not Included) about Project Better Place, an Israeli company that is seeking to introduce battery-powered cars into the mainstream market in Israel. Their innovation is that they will introduce kiosks all over the country (Israel, Denmark and Hawaii are the pilot markets) that will feature automated [...]

Banks in Israel are pretty annoying. And that is if you are lucky. Coming from the US (where I used to enjoy such luxuries as being able to deposit my money into an interest free checking account where the bank can use it to earn money for itself, and not be charged for the privilege), [...]

Go and read the Shuk Machane Yehuda Kashrut Report on The Yeshiva World website.
Short Version:

If a store does not have a valid teudah (kashrut certificate), don’t assume that it is kosher.
If a store says that they are Mehadrin but they can’t prove it with a valid teudah, then they probably are not Mehadrin.
If a salesperson [...]

I saw a link to this Israeli Election Position Analyzer on Muqata. As it turns out, it says that I favor haIchud haLeumi across the board, followed by Yisrael Beiteinu, Likud, Kadima, Shas and Habayit Hayehudi. It is pretty interesting, though I think that one obvious topic was never really addressed for the political parties [...]

I just received this picture via email (I don’t know who came up with it).

I don’t think that it needs much explanation, but it does represent Hamas’s own admitted ideology pretty well:

A number of human rights groups released a press statement accusing Israel of using bullets against Hamas militants in Gaza. “We have received word from several reputable contacts who are currently under assault within Gaza that they have seen Israeli soldiers using bullets as a weapon against Hamas” said John Jones, a human rights activist [...]

The 4th Geneva Convention (relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War) states in Part II, Article 14: “Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be respected and protected [...]

“סיפורי הבלהות של הליכוד מוכרים. הרי הבטיחו לנו גם קטיושות מעזה… כבר שנה רצועת עזה נתונה בעיקרה למרות הרשות הפלשתינאית; לא הייתה עוד אף קטיושה ולא תהיה קטיושה. וכו` וכו` וכו`. כל הדיבורים… הליכוד פוחד פחד מוות משלום. פחדני השלום. זהו הליכוד של היום.”
“The terrifying stories of the Likud are well known. They have promised [...]

Check out this excerpt hidden most of the way down the New York Times’ article today on the Hanukkah War (as it is being referred to in Israel):
At Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the director, Dr. Hussein Ashour, said that keeping his patients alive from their wounds was an enormous challenge. He said there were some [...]