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Floods in the Negev & Arava Amazing Scenes & Heavy Damage

01/31/2010

KKL-JNF teams in the south are checking the damages and helping to clear roads to settlements and agricultural land, in order to offer initial first aid to all the cut-off settlements, from Yotvata to Idan.

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From the Israeli Press

By By JPOST.COM STAFF 01/28/2010

IDF team returns from Haiti


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Past Articles
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A View from Jerusalem
By Leah Garber
Wars are always cruel. Even justified wars are filled with names, more and more names. We learn the names of battles, the names of weapons, but most of all, we learn the names of soldiers. Before the war, these young men were anonymous; only their loved ones and friends knew them. Now, although they never asked for such morbid celebrity, the public knows their names, their dreams, their stories, and the details of their deaths.
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Update from Israel: A Message from Leah Garber, Director JCC Association Israel Office
By Leah Garber
 Shabbat, 11:00 a.m. Once again a new reality begins, and  no one knows how it will end. A week ago, Israel was dealing with the economic crisis and yet another terrible drought. And now we have to put everything aside and focus on a war, yet another war.  The cost of the war is between one hundred to two hundred million shekels a day. But the real price is the hundreds of thousands of Israelis exposed to rockets, to life-threatening danger. Life has stopped for them—no school, no home, no safe room. We in Israel knew this attack was only a matter of time, and when it began, we understood it wouldn’t be easy.
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From the Israeli Press
By Haaretz Editoria
The cabinet must give international countries such as the United States, Egypt, Turkey and France - who seek to broker a cease-fire - the chance to do so.

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