Israeli Company May Have Hand in IPHONE

According to this recent report in HAARETZ, Israeli tech firm, Ceva, may have a hand and some parts in the new IPHONE. Very Niice!!

Ceva may be only Israeli company involved in producing iPhone
By Eran Gabay, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service

Ceva will apparently be the only Israeli company with a part in the production of Apple’s iPhone. But even the company itself doesn’t know for sure.

Two days ahead of the hyped technology’s Friday launch, lines started building up outside stores in the United States. The product, that combines a camera, a multimedia player, a Web browser and a phone, all in one, has been dubbed the “God machine” and the “Jesus phone.”

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Our Efforts Go Noticed

And now a report on our successful synergistic web-efforts to spread our messages across the inter-networked cyber highway…

New blog presents plight of Israelis in Sderot
Latest PR venture of Israel’s diplomatic mission in New York attracts large Arab audience
Josh Hamerman

After persuading Maxim magazine to hold a photo shoot of Israeli models in Tel Aviv, Israel’s consulate-general in New York turned its attention to a less-glamorous side to Israeli life — the reality of life under rocket fire.

Last month, the consulate’s media and public affairs department launched a blog, IsraelPolitik, to present the plight of Israelis in Sderot. “Unfortunately, the international media in general has avoided this issue, and it’s outrageous,” said David Saranga, consul for media and public affairs in New York. “We’re talking about an Israeli city which has been bombarded by rockets, and the media is not covering it. Our job is to find ways to bring Israel’s message to the mass media, and therefore we launched IsraelPolitik.”

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The Business of Israel is Business

I thought I told you that we won’t stop, I thought I told you that we won’t stop, eh huh, eh huh…

From BusinessWeek:

Israel: A Hotbed of…Investment
Amid tightened security, companies are thriving at home—and expanding abroad
by Neal Sandler

You might think that Israel’s continuing strife with the Palestinians would be a red flag for investors. Yet amid escalating violence, many of the country’s companies are thriving, pushing the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to record levels. Even the takeover of the Gaza Strip by the Islamist Hamas movement in mid-June hasn’t slowed the momentum. The TA 25 index is up by 21% this year, reaching an all-time high on June 17.

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Decadance in NY

For anyone who cares about dance and/or unintelligible artsy reviews of dance, there seems to be a pretty good show here in NY for y’all to check out.

From the Village Voice:

Violent Repetition
Choreographer Ohad Naharin tests your patience and pays off with delight
by Deborah Jowitt
June 20th, 2007 4:13 PM

Ohad Naharin doesn’t just choreograph pieces; he molds them to dancers’ bodies and injects them under the skin of their souls. In adapting his constantly changing retrospective anthology Decadance for 16 members of Cedar Lake, he worked with them for three months, thanks in part to artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer’s ambitious vision for this company. These are superb and versatile performers, but the Naharin experience has transfigured them.

The stunning excerpts comprising Decadance (most of them made after Naharin assumed leadership of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company in 1990) require the dancers to invest every gesture with total concentration and intensity, whether that involves throwing themselves to the floor in a split second or grinning fixedly at us, while twitching their hips and slowly raising pointed fingers. But they can also become loose and fluid in astonishingly complex ways. When Jon Bond improvises a solo throughout intermission, he looks as if he’s melting and congealing simultaneously.

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The NY Post Cartoonist Does it Again

Gal Gadot at the Maxim Party, Talks Back

From the NY POST:

LIGHTEN UP, ISRAELIS - I’M KOSHER
By JENNIFER FERMINO

June 20, 2007 — The Israeli bikini babe whose racy picture has set tongues wagging from Tel Aviv to Turtle Bay insisted yesterday that she was just using her assets to improve Israel’s war-torn image and didn’t intend to offend anyone.
The stunning former Miss Israel and model, Gal Gadot, said she is proud of her sexy photograph - part of a new tourism campaign touted by the Israeli Consulate that show cases a host of scantily clad Hebrew hotties.

“Obviously, I don’t think it’s pornographic, or I wouldn’t have done it,” said Gadot, 22, who’s starting law school in the fall.

She added, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Israel is a democracy and that’s what it’s all about.”

Her picture appeared on an official invitation sent out by the consulate in New York. It touched off an uproar in Israel, where several female politicians denounced it as the wrong way to promote the Jewish state.

The invite was for a Maxim magazine party last night at Chelsea hotspot Marquee to hype its July issue showcasing “Women of the Israeli Defense Forces.”

“I’m not involved in politics,” said the 5-foot-9 beauty. “I leave that to the politicians.”

Israeli Consul-General Arye Mekel tried to diffuse the situation.

“This is the first time we used the word ’shoot’ in connection to Israel and we’re not talking about killing people,” Mekel quipped about the photo shoot.

The Maxim article will also highlight the country’s thumping nightlife, he said.

But not everyone is thrilled.

Some pols have expressed outrage and former Consul-General Colette Avital called the campaign “pornographic.”

“She expressed her point of view to me,” Mekel said. “I responded. It’s a legitimate disagreement.”

Gal Gadot and Maxim Mag in NY

Gal Gadot before Maxim Mag party at the Marquee in NYC.

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Sudan Refugees Find Temporary Shelter in Israel

From the NYT:

Kibbutz Is Haven for Fleeing Sudanese

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:53 p.m. ET

KIBBUTZ YAD HANNAH, Israel (AP) — Five years after he fled his razed Darfur village, and after jail spells in three countries, Ibrahim has found refuge in an unlikely place: a kibbutz in Israel.

The 24-year-old Muslim is one of about 440 Sudanese refugees working in Israeli hotels and on farms while the government seeks to place them in a third country.

Most have fled southern Sudan, where a 22-year conflict left 2.5 million people dead. Others, like Ibrahim, are from Darfur, where a rebellion has cost more than 200,000 civilian lives and made 2.5 million people homeless.

Ibrahim, 24, paused while weeding an avocado orchard on this kibbutz, or communal farm, in northern Israel and told his story. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees barred publication of his surname to protect his relatives in Darfur.

He said he fled five years ago to Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, where the government imprisoned him for allegedly conspiring against it. After his release, he bribed his way into neighboring Egypt, and was arrested in Cairo. Once free again, he fled eastward with five others who paid a Bedouin to smuggle them into Israel. They feared police would shoot them.

‘’Then, thank God, we entered Israel and they welcomed us,'’ he said.

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