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Israel Alert Newsletter
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7 Tishrei
5773
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September 23,
2012
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Israel Revolutionizes Liver Disease Treatment!
Israeli scientists are developing a treatment for people suffering from liver disease.
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a “silent” liver disease which affects two to five percent of Americans – approximately six to fifteen million people. Another ten to twenty percent of Americans, thirteen to twenty three million people, have fat in their livers but have not yet developed NASH. Tens of millions of people around the world also are at risk of suffering from NASH.
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Koch Urges Obama To Be Firm Over Israel
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch stood before over 1,000 people to deliver his annual Rosh Hashana sermon at the Park East Synagogue. Koch, who has talked openly about his close ties to President Obama, lambasted the president and current US policy towards Israel:
“I’m distressed. President Obama is refusing to publicly make clear to Iran that ‘If you get the bomb, we will take you out!’…Nobody understands what ‘We have your back’ means. We shouldn’t have Israel’s ‘back’ we should have Israel’s ‘front’.
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Israeli Hero Plants Israeli Flag on Mountain Peak
This past May, Israeli mountain climber Nadav Ben-Yehuda was on his way up Mount Everest. Just 24 years old, he was seeking to be the youngest Israeli to ever reach the peak of Everest. Everything was going fine and according to schedule when disaster struck just 300 meters from the peak.
The disaster was not any danger for Ben-Yehuda. Rather, he came across a Turkish climber, Aydin Irmak, who lost consciousness while on his way down from the peak. Ben-Yehuda cast aside his dream of reaching the peak and began to help this stranger. He revived Irmak and and then carried him on his back for 8 hours until he reached their camp. Nadav not only gave up on his goal of reaching the top of
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Band Improves Israel’s Image Among Arabs
The Israeli rock band, “Orphaned Land,” plays music with Israeli themes throughout the Arab and Muslim world. While they are a heavy metal band, they use Sephardic melodies and instruments in their music.
Kobi Farhi, the leader of Orphaned Land, describes the impact he believes his band is having on the Arab world:
“Despite the fact that we are Israelis and Jews, we are extremely well-known in the Arab and Muslim world. We were in Turkey a few months singing a Jewish poem from the synagogue.
Orphaned Land performing in front of 4,000 Arabs in Istanbul.
The crowd consisted of people from Iran, Lebanon, Syria, etc. They were all there with flags.
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