Archive for February 26, 2012

| February 26, 2012
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Canada store owner defeats anti-Israel boycotters

Boycott on Vancouver store owner who insists on selling Israeli goods backfires following Ynet story. ‘People won’t stop calling and ordering products,’ she says

 

The story of Shani Bar-Oz, a Canada-based Israeli facing venomous protests outside her Vancouver soap products store, elicited a huge wave of support and generated new business, the shop owner old Ynet.

“I received a huge embrace and plenty of support,” Bar-Oz said, after an article about her plight appeared on Ynet. In the story, the store owner, who insists on selling Israeli products, shared her fears of contenting with anti-Israel protesters targeting her business and shouting anti-Semitic slogans. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News |
| February 26, 2012
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Report: U.S. May Intervene in Syria

 

A report Saturday said that the United States was planning to intervene militarily in Syria, with or without United Nations authorization, if the killing in the country continued. A senior American official quoted in the London-based Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper said that the action would be based on the UN intervention in Kosovo several years ago: Establishment of a beachhead and carving out an area that was off-limits to forces controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, where refugees could come to flee Assad’s troops, and which could be used as aforward base to reduce Assad’s hold on the country, and eventually remove him. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News |
| February 24, 2012
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Major rise in Kinneret water levels prompts Israel water company to dismantle artificial dam

After the particularly rainy winter that took Israel by storm this year, there will no longer be a need to artificially raise the water levels of the Kinneret.

The rainy winter Israel has experienced this year has led to a vast rise in the Kinneret’s water levels, prompting the Mekorot Water Company to dismantle an artificial dam it had been using to enable pumps to reach the water.

The Kinneret’s water levels have risen by 2.5 centimeters in just the past 24 hours, and the month of January saw the highest number of rainy days in one month on record in Israel, according figures from the Israel Meteorological Service.

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Category: Israel News |
| February 24, 2012
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New blood test offers early cancer detection

The simple new check shows a 90 percent detection rate in clinical tests for multiple types of cancers.

 

Israeli researchers have developed a simple and cheap blood test that was found to provide early detection for many types of cancer in clinical trials.

The promising new blood test, developed by scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva, can detect minuscule changes in the blood of a person with a cancerous growth somewhere in the body, even before the disease has spread.

Early diagnosis of cancer could save thousands of lives. Every day in the United States alone, 1,500 people die of cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.

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Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News |
| February 24, 2012
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Birthday ‘blood parties’ become lifesaving trend

Idea originated on Facebook to celebrate one’s birthday by inviting guests to join in donating a pint of blood to MDA.

 

The most generous way to celebrate one’s birthday is to organize a “blood party,” in which the person honored and the attendees each donate a pint of blood to Magen David Adom. The organization facilitates this by sending a mobile donation center to the event location, or providing space at the nearest MDA branch.

The idea originated on Facebook and has spread. Joyce Fischler, a Tel Aviv resident, decided to mark her 32nd birthday with a life-saving blood party.

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