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Israel Alert Newsletter
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8 Tishrei 5772
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October 6, 2011
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Meet Israel's Newest Nobel Prize WINNER – Dan Shechtman!
Top politicians lined up to praise Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called to congratulate him in the name of all Israeli citizens, saying that the win "reflects the intellect of our people. Every citizen in Israel is happy today and every Jew in the world is proud."
Shechtman is a professor at the century–old Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (http://www1.technion.ac.il/en) in Haifa.
He's also a professor at Iowa State University and is an associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, housed at the university and dedicated to researching solutions to energy–related problems through chemical, engineering, materials, mathematical and physical sciences.
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 Awesome Video: ISRAEL INSPIRED!
You are about to watch the most AWESOME video that you will ever see.
About the People, the Country, and the Land of Israel!
Whether you love Israeli politics, history, culture or technology, you simply CANNOT miss this taking incredibly inspiring ISRAEL journey.
If you're religious or biblically versed – great! Marginally traditional, some knowledge of the bible – that's cool too. You're an atheist? An absolute MUST WATCH!
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Yom Kippur Facts and Thoughts – by Rabbi Ari Enkin
An ordinary day in the Land of Israel is as holy as a Sabbath in the Diaspora. A Sabbath in the Land of Israel is as holy as Yom Kippur in the Diaspora. The holiness of Yom Kippur in the Land of Israel cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
– The Holy Book of the Zohar
This coming Friday night begins the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29 and 23:27). Yom Kippur is a fast day on which no food or drink is consumed for nearly twenty-five hours, along with a number of other restrictions all intended for us to transcend our human desires.
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A Rabbi Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs – A Brave Man
Rabbi Nadel's tribute to a brave man who showed just what humanity can achieve when it uses innovation for the good of man.
News of the death of Apple's founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, this morning spread across the Internet just as quickly as reviews of the brand new iPhone 4S.
The man, whom President Barack Obama called "among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it," was loved by the world.
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