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Israel Alert Newsletter
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10 Tamuz 5771
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July 12, 2011
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Gaza Terrorists Use 'Google Earth' to Kill
Terrorists in Gaza have a new tool helping them to fire on innocent civilians living in southern Israel - the popular satellite mapping program Google Earth. A group of terrorists from the Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades recently described their use of the program to a reporter for Slate Magazine..
"The technology is always improving," a terrorist calling himself Abu Saif told journalist Sharon Weinberger. "Our struggle started with the Kalashnikov, and then it moved to the suicide bomb, then the locally made rocket, and now the Grad rocket.".
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The Economic Case for Supporting Israel
America's enemies understand deeply and intuitively that no U.S. goals or resources in the Middle East are remotely as important as Israel. Why don't we?
Israel cruised through the recent global slump with scarcely a down quarter and no deficit or stimulus package. It is steadily increasing its global supremacy, behind only the U.S., in an array of leading-edge technologies. It is the global master of microchip design, network algorithms and medical instruments.
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 “A People that Dwells Alone”
One of the most powerful and accurate descriptions of the Jewish people - from the mouth of a non-Jewish prophet - appears in the Torah Portion called "Balak" (Numbers 22:2-25:9). Worried by the success of the Israelites in their battle against the Amorites, the Moabite king Balak summons the prophet Balaam to curse the Jewish people. But Balak's plans turn sour when, instead of cursing the people Balaam actually praises them.
Among the famous lines uttered by Balaam are these: "Indeed this is a people that dwells alone and is not counted among the nations."
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Become a Builder of Jerusalem - on the Mount of Olives
Help build a new community on the Mount of Olives to maintain and strengthen Jerusalem as the Eternal, United Capital of Israel.
This new Mount of Olives community is being developed by Beit Orot and is located in eastern Jerusalem, just outside of the Old City walls. Beit Orot has developed the first living Jewish presence in two millennia on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. The community will host a Yeshiva where students couple intense Torah study with military service.
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