Bloomberg News Opens Jerusalem Bureau.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-16 September 2008-Bloomberg News Opens Jerusalem Bureau(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Bloomberg has expanded its news operation with the opening of its newest bureau, in Jerusalem, Israel. The Bloomberg Jerusalem bureau will expand Bloomberg News services in the Gulf region and beyond and augments...

Raise a Rabbit Grow a Goose.
Raise a Rabbit Grow a Goose Yaffa Ganz, author Harvey Klineman, illustrator Feldheim Publishers 208 Airport Executive Park, Nanuet, NY 10954 Stuart Schnee PR (publicity) 10 Haportzim St., Jerusalem, Israel 9781598262353, $14.99 www.feldheim.com ...

ARAB ISRAEL RELATIONS - Aug 31 - Israel Favours ME Peace Deal Without Jerusalem.
Israel wants to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of the year but postpone a final agreement on the future status of Jerusalem, a senior government official said yesterday. Both sides are interested in reaching a full agreement by the end of 2008 and believe...

Reinventing Jerusalem: Israel's Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter After 1967.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] REINVENTING JERUSALEM ISRAEL'S RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH QUARTER AFTER 1967 By Simone Ricca published by IB TAURIS ISBN 1 84511 387 2 price 45.00 [pounds sterling] hardback The Jewish quarter of Jerusalem today seems like an organic fusion of a modern Israeli city...

PALESTINE - Aug 26 - Rice Criticises Israel Settlement Surge.
US State Sec Condoleezza Rice urges Israel not to undermine peace efforts with the Palestinians after a report found it had almost doubled its settlement building in the West Bank this year. Ms Rice, who is visiting Israel and the PA in a bid to spur progress in the...

Diet of the Long-eared Owl in the northern and central Negev Desert, Israel.
The Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) is a Holarctic, nocturnal bird of prey whose diet has been extensively studied in North America and Europe. The literature on its diet indicates that it feeds mainly on rodents, especially voles, and other small mammals, complemented by other animals, including birds and invertebrates...

Serve the (old) people.
National service as it was experienced by four of our granddaughters is a complete refutation of Paul Thornton's "Serve the (Old) People" (May). In Israel following high school graduation, women have a choice of army service or national service. My granddaughter Rebecca did both. As a member of a...

Medgenics Gets OK to Begin Its Phase I/II Clinical Study of Epodure to Treat Anaemia.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-5 August 2008-Medgenics Gets OK to Begin Its Phase I/II Clinical Study of Epodure to Treat Anaemia(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com In a release the Company noted: Patient recruitment has now commenced for the trial, with the first patients expected to receive...

Dead end: the heartbreaking realities of today's Israel.
Jerusalem ISRAEL'S enemies have always wished to destroy it, of course, but what's new this time is that they are avoiding the set-piece battles that lost them all previous wars, and are instead elaborating the tactics of terror. Islamist Iran has made itself the driving force. The...

Reconciling the Arab Initiative with Israel's core requirement for peace.
Executive Summary The most momentous declaration to come out of the Arab world since Israel's inception in 1948 was the Arab Peace Initiative, launched in March 2002 in Beirut, Lebanon, and re-adopted by the Arab League in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2007. It would be tragic...