Archive | 2011 | March
ASK TODAY: Operation “Ask Oren” – Ask Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren ANYTHING!
Do you want to ask Ambassador Oren a question? He will be taking questions on Facebook and Twitter. A YouTube video with his answers will be posted on Monday, April 4, 2011.
This is an incredible opportunity to ask questions about Israel and the geopolitics of the Middle East today!
To ask:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmbassadorOren
Twitter: #AskOren
For more information, contact Sarah Geller (sgeller@brandeis.edu)
New Summer course – Coexistence in the Middle East
The program serves as an introduction to the challenges and complexities of coexistence in Israel – where civilizations, religions, nations and ideologies converge. The seminar highlights the human dimension of the conflict through meetings with representatives of opposite groups and visits to relevant sites.
Different options and dates of the program are available during winter and summer vacation periods. Participants will also have the possibility to study a course at one of the 100 best universities in the world and the option to travel to Cairo or Petra or the PA.
For more information, click here.
Israel, The Third Nation on the Moon?
If all goes according to plan, by December 2012 a team of three young Israeli scientists will have landed a tiny spacecraft on the moon, explored the lunar surface, and transmitted live video back to earth, thereby scooping up a $20 million prize (the Google Lunar X Prize), revolutionizing space exploration, and making the Jewish State the third nation (after the U.S. and Russia) to land a probe on the moon. And they’re doing it in their spare time.
Full Article: http://blogs.forbes.com/danielfreedman/2011/03/30/israel-the-third-nation-on-the-moon/
Miss Israel 2011 crowned
Ella Ran, a 21-year-old discharged soldier from Herzliya wins beauty pageant in Haifa ceremony.
Ella Ran, 21, of Herzliya was crowned Miss Israel 2011 on Tuesday. The Miss Junior Israel title was awarded to Kim Edri, Bar Marom was named Miss Congeniality, and the Miss Teen Israel titled was given to Kim Akafi.
Ran is a discharged Israel Defense Forces who works as a purchase clerk and is planning to begin her academic studies next year.The ceremony, which was held at Haifa’s Congress Center was hosted by model and presenter Hila Nachshon and actor Shlomi Koriat.
The judges included Miriam Nofech-Moses, editor-in-chief of Laisha women’s magazine, international model and actress Moran Atias, actress and model Yael Bar-Zohar, model and businessman Shay Kahana and journalist Dana Spector.
Singers Dudu Aharon, Roni Dalumi and Sarit Hadad performed during the event.
Miss Israel 2011 will receive keys to a brand new Škoda Fabia car and the first runner-up will get jewelry worth $10,000, courtesy of H. Stern.
Watch the video here.
Source: YnetNews.com
Apple Store Expansion: Soho, and Israel
Apple has reportedly backed off of its plan to open a store in New York’s Grand Central Terminal, but that doesn’t mean the company doesn’t have retail expansion on its mind.
According to Apple Insider, Apple is planning to expand its retail store in Manhattan’s Soho district, which was its first location in New York. In addition, the company is negotiating to bring an Apple Store to Jerusalem, in what would be the first Apple Store in Israel.
The Israeli location, the Jerusalem Post reported, will also sport “the world’s first Apple Digital Library.”
Source: Dealerscope.com
EU launches ‘twinning’ project in Israel
Program aimed at providing State with technical assistance in field of telecommunications
A European Union ‘twinning’ project to provide Israel with technical assistance in the field of telecommunications was launched at an international conference at Jerusalem’s Mishkenot Sha’ananim neighborhood on Monday, in the presence of Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon.
“Twinning” projects are one of the tools that the European Union employs in the framework of its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). A twinning project consists of sending a resident advisor from an EU member state (supported by other advisors on shorter term missions) to a partner country for at least one year.
The telecom twinning project is called “Assist the Israeli Telecommunications regulator to establish greater approximation to the European Union regulatory approach, specifically with wholesale markets.”
It is being conducted by the Israeli Ministry of Communications with the cooperation of the German Federal Network Agency, the Italian Authority for Communications, and the Telecommunications Market Commission of Spain.
The Resident Twinning Advisor will be Ms. Yvonne Groesch of the German Federal Network Agency’s department International Policy Issues and Regulatory Strategies, who has vast experience in advising public authorities on regulatory reform and sector specific regulation.
The launch of the project was also attended by Ambassador Andrew Standley, head of the Delegation of the European Union to Israel, the Ambassador of Spain Alvaro Iranzo Gutierrez, the directors of the National Regulatory Agencies of Germany, Italy and Spain, and other guests.
Source: Ynetnews.com