New Articles Worth Reading
I would love to write more about each of these stories, but I am preparing for a trip to my favorite little country in the Middle East.
Categories: Internet, Judaism, Kidnapped Soldiers, Media
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Military Operation Canceled After Details Posted on Facebook
The IDF had to cancel a planned operation in the West Bank after finding that a soldier had posted the details on his Facebook page. Here are the details from the Wall Street Journal: “On Wednesday we clean up Qatanah, and on Thursday, god willing, we come home,” he wrote, according to the Israeli paper. [...]
Categories: Internet, Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
Haveil Havalim #258: Purim 5770 Edition
Welcome Haveil Havalim Readers! Please subscribe to our RSS feed through a reader or Subscribe to The Israel Situation by Email to make sure you get our updates in the future. I love Adar! I can’t help it. Something about this month just makes me jovial. Could it be the hamentashen? Could it be the [...]
Categories: Internet, Judaism, The Israel Situation
Creating the Media
The Internet–particularly the invention of blogging–has irreversibly transformed the way we receive and process information. No longer can mainstream media define the plane of debate; anybody can independently fact-check a source and publish their findings for the world to see. The ongoing debate over the Goldstone Report is evidence of this fact: even primary sources, [...]
Categories: Internet, Non-Profits and NGOs
Israel Bloggers to Watch in 2010
As we are just into 2010, I thought it would be fun to search to Jewish/Israel blogging world for people to watch in 2010. Some of these have been around for a long time, and some are new.
Categories: Internet, The Israel Situation
Two Sites Worth Visiting: Havail Havalim Second Cut
I felt bad about a few good sites that were sadly excluded from this week’s Haveil Havalim due to technical reasons, so I thought I would pass on their great posts for the week: Benji, at one of my favorite Israel blogs, wrote about a good Israeli wedding. Benji also noticed a problem I had [...]
Categories: Internet, The Israel Situation
Buy Uranium Online, Be Like Ahmadinejad
Have you ever wanted to build your own nuclear power reactor? You can be like Iran and buy uranium ore for your own top secret nuclear factility. (Yes, that is an Amazon affiliate link to buy Uranium from The Israel Situation)
Categories: Internet, Iran, Nuclear Weapons
Israel Doesn’t Exist on Monopoly Game
There is a new online Monopoly game called Monopoly Streets. The bias in this game is not to call Jerusalem another name, like Al Quds, or to list the Golan as part of Syria. The game just pretends Israel doesn’t exist. Take a look at the included image for a great view of what cities [...]
Facebook Declares Golan Heights Part of Israel, Sort Of
The official international organization that determines the status of disputed territories has made a compromise on the Golan Heights. After a drive by Honest Reporting, an Israel based media bias watchdog, Facebook has made changes to allow Israelis living in Northern Israel (aka the Golan) to set their hometown to something other than Syria. Prior [...]
Categories: Golan Heights, Internet, Maps, Media
Haveil Havalim #231
Ya’akov Ben Yehuda included The Israel Situation in the latest edition of Haveil Havalim, the Jewish/Israel blog carnival. Check it out at Esser Agaroth.
Categories: Internet
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