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Why does citizen's watchdog regard secrecy as reasonable? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Force practices racist violence preached by Itamar Ben-Gvir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diplomat eager to display solidarity with Palestinians has admitted that his hands are tied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the restrictions of Israel on the entry of toilet paper, laundry detergent, dish soap and shoes into the Gaza Strip. After the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Israel and Palestine, European diplomats and international organizations raised objections to Israel's sweeping restrictions. Sari Bashi, executive director of the Tel Aviv-based Israeli human rights advocacy group Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, confirmed the restriction on the entry of such goods.

The article presents a report on the violations of the Israeli military during its attack in Gaza City. It states that The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) condemns the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza and states that the military had committed aggression and also violated several laws including the United Nations (UN) charter, the Nuremberg principles and the Geneva Convention treaty. IADL cited that the military showed hostility on its attack in Gaza, killing and injuring civilians, destroying civilian facilities, and blocking medical aids. It mentions that the Israeli military had denied the accusation of the IADL that it had committed aggression in Gaza and cited that it only practice the right of self defense.

The water agreement between Jordan and Israel, created as part of their peace treaty in 1994, set out detailed allocations terms to which both countries have respectively abided since its inception. But after two and a half decades, the water agreement terms no longer appear as equitable considering the social, economic, and environmental changes that have occurred in the region as a whole and within the two countries individually. This paper analyzes the status of the treaty terms in light of changes seen within both countries regarding the factors laid out by the United Nations as relevant to determining equitable apportionment among riparian nations. The analysis suggests that a renegotiation of the water agreement terms is warranted due in large part to changes in population and the availability of alternative water resources (desalination and treated wastewater). While no explicit recommendations are made as to what a future treaty's terms should include, this paper presents evidence of a changing ground reality that deserves greater consideration in reaching a more equitable and sustainable water agreement for the decades to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a methodology for examining the net benefit of site rehabilitation after an ecological disaster. While restoration of the site seems reasonable on the face of it, the cost of proactive restoration can be very high. In this article, we present a tool for decision makers to decide on the optimal route to rehabilitation - proactive or natural rehabilitation (or some combination thereof). We present a case study of an ecological catastrophe that occurred in June 2017 at an ephemeral desert stream in the south of Israel. We estimated the restoration costs and the benefits of restoration over the relevant time frame using a contingent valuation method. Comparing the present costs and benefits revealed a net present value of ILS 355.5 million in favor of proactive restoration of the stream. We also demonstrate that not all sections of the stream pass the benefit cost test, so a higher net benefit could be achieved through partial restoration. Our study demonstrates the importance of cost-benefit analysis when policy makers are contemplating proactive versus natural restoration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On May 20, 2004, the author sets fire to his Israeli military deferral papers across the street from the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. This act of civil disobedience took place during a protest organized by a Jewish American peace organization against the atrocities that Israel is committing in the occupied Gaza Strip. Between May 18 and 20 in Rafah, Israel killed at least 40 Palestinians, some of whom were children engaged in nonviolent protest when they were killed. Like all other Jewish citizens of Israel, the author is also required to serve in the Israeli army.

The article discusses study "A Reanalysis of the Black Wheel-Made Ware of the Intermediate Bronze Age" by Shlomit Bechar, doctoral candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on pottery Black Wheel-Made Ware (BWMW) and won the 2016 Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize.

Focuses on the issue regarding the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and its attempt to persuade the Association of University Teachers to back its call to boycott Israeli universities in 2005. Reason for holding the campaign; Role of pro-Palestinian campaigns in the emergence of anti-Semitism on university campuses, according to some in higher education; Reason for the resignation of Luciana Berger from national office in the National Union of Students.

The author examines the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (NAD-PLO) document "The Political Situation in Light of Developments With the U.S. Administration and Israeli Government and Hamas' Continued Coup d'etat: Recommendations and Options." The paper claims Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has conceded to the demands of Israel. He asserts that the document propagates the false story of a Hamas coup in Gaza. He cites the lack of proposal to revive the PLO in the paper.

The article focuses on the papers uncovered by media entity Al Jazeera, which revealed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) sacrificed about 1,400 killed Palestinians in winter 2008-09 assault in hopes of support from the U.S. and Israel. U.S. envoy George Mitchell and Paletine Liberation Organization chief negotiator Saeb Erekat were the ones who entered the understanding, which could prosecute Israeli officials for violation of human rights. PA denied the claim made by Al Jazeera and accused the media company of tarnishing their image.

Reports the development of ultra-thin, caseless, low-cost batteries by Power Paper Ltd. in Israel. Benefit of the battery for product designers; Utilization of Zinc and Mn02-based cathode and anode layers; Safety and action to various integration and applications.

Discusses Israeli attack on Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bases in southern Lebanon. Strategy of conducting war by PLO with Israel; Grievances of PLO against the existence of Israeli Jews; Prevalence of peace in Lebanon before the formation of PLO; Design of military operation to guarantee the safety of Israel's northern population against PLO attack by pushing the PLO and its guns out of range of northern Israel; Effort of the U.S. administration headed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to paper over the conflict with a cease-fire arranged by Ambassador Philip Habib; Manipulation of cease-fire by PLO to transform itself from a guerrilla force into a modern army; Resolution of the United Nations to call for unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

This paper presents an economic benefit analysis of constructing a filtration plant to serve the Israeli National Water Carrier. The main focus of the paper is a comparison of two methods for evaluating the benefits of the filtration plant: direct valuation of damages caused by consumption of unfiltered water, and assessment of consumers' willingness to pay for high quality water by analysis of averting expenditures. We also compare the benefit estimates, as derived by the two methods, with the costs of constructing and operating the filtration plant. The central result is that according to both methods of benefit analysis, the benefits of filtration significantly outweigh costs. Another important result is that total public willingness to pay (WTP) for improved water quality is higher than the total damage costs of consumption of unfiltered water. In the last section of the paper, a proposal for dividing the financial burden of constructing and operating the plant between relevant parties is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author analyzes the possible future of the Palestinian Authority (PA) after it was revealed that PA leaders secretly made concessions to Israel regarding Jerusalem, the Palestinian refugees and the two-state proposal. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas tried to stem criticisms from Palestinians after secret negotiations were disclosed by the Al Jazeera television network. Possible calls for the dissolution of the PA and the significance of the monthly transfer by Israel of 60 million U.S. dollars to the PA are also discussed.

The article discusses the controversy over the paper written by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt and published in the March 23, 2006 issue of the "London Review of Books." The two college professors argued in their paper that the centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has been its unchanging support for Israel.

Reports on the training of media professionals as potential messengers of peace in Israel. Project between Arab and Jewish journalism students; Monthly publication of "In a Different Eye" newspaper; Creation of professional links with the mass media.

The article discusses "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a research paper produced for Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government by Stephen Walt, an academic dean, and John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. While the paper purports to deal with foreign policy, it neglects to examine the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil.

The article discusses "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a paper written by academic dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government Stephen Walt and University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer. The paper has been criticized as a fantastical Jewish conspiracy theory that uses as evidence biased political writings. The reaction of Middle Eastern studies faculty to the paper is discussed. The book "Orientalism," by Edward Said, is referenced.

Focuses on a weekly tabloid "The Spotlight," published by an ultra-right-wing organization called the Liberty Lobby. Claim by the paper to report the news the other papers miss and to uncover the conspiracies the other papers dare not expose; Fundamental editorial obsession of the Spot light which is with the "Zionists" and "dual loyalist" friends of Israel who conspire to take over the US government and to propagate the malicious fiction that the Nazis killed six million Jews; Information that in recent months, the Spotlight seems to have become a veritable cheering section for the "Institute for Historical Review" in Torrance.

The article reports on a study on the assumption that the town of Magdala is the birthplace of Jesus Christ's follower Mary Magdalene, which references a paper by Elizabeth Schrader et al., published in the December 2021 issue of the "Journal of Biblical Literature." Topics discussed include the discovery of the remnants of a synagogue in the town by archaeologists, the origin of her name, and the impact of the assumption on Magdalene's legacy.

The article reports on the mass media's reaction to an academic paper written by the University of Chicago's John Mearsheimer and academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School Stephen Walt that examines the role of the "Israel lobby" in the making of United States foreign policy. Since the paper's publication, the two have been criticized as anti-semite conspiracy theorists.

Recent works have revealed that matching conditions play a major role in general consistency properties of relativistic fluid dynamics, such as causality, stability, and well posedness of the equations of motion. In this paper we derive transient fluid dynamics from kinetic theory, using the method of moments as proposed by Israel and Stewart, without imposing a specific matching condition. We then investigate how the equations of motion and their corresponding transport coefficients are affected by the choice of matching condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article criticizes libelous comments made by Boston Globe's Cathy Young against the author. That the Boston Globe is a great newspaper can be in no doubt, but the paper's opinion columnists have proven a constant source of embarrassment in recent years. No less a source of shame for the paper has been its publication of a previously obscure right-wing pundit named Cathy Young. Her most recent transgression involves yours truly. She seized on a brief blog item I wrote on Altercation.msnbc.com, in which I noted the insensitivity of demanding that Arabs attend Holocaust remembrance ceremonies. Young distorted my argument to accuse me of anti-Semitism and self-hatred. Your columnist is not only a pretty serious Jew, but has been writing on Israel and anti-Semitism, speaking in synagogues, minoring in Jewish studies during doctoral work, etc., since first publishing on anti-Semitism at Yale, in, um, the Boston Globe twenty years ago. As Peace Now's Jo-Ann Mort wrote to the Globe, "With friends like Cathy Young, the Jews don't need enemies." Neither does journalism.

Unmarried partners of soldiers who have died on active duty in Israel have traditionally been excluded from the recognised ‘family of bereaved’. They may be seen as a distinct group of disenfranchised mourners. A non-government organisation (The Amuta) was created in 1997 to provide emotional support, counselling, and remembrance ceremonies to these young men and women. The support offered aims both to acknowledge their loss and help them plan for the future. This paper reports the findings from a small-scale quantitative study of the experiences of some of the people who have sought help from The Amuta. The model of care it describes may be helpful to people bereaved in similar situations in other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the macroeconomic and institutional sources of environmental development in Israel's water sector, for example changes in drinking-water quality, sewage treatment and aquifer depletion trends. It is shown that Israel's economic growth process was, by and large, accompanied by environmental improvements in the water sector; but it is the institutional approach which provides a cohesive explanation of how environmental changes took place. Implementing reforms in Israel's water sector without adequately addressing the institutional aspect might thus undermine the success of such plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the relationship between Israel and the United States. A paper by political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt claims that the U.S.'s close ties to Israel are a strategic liability now that the Soviet Union has fallen, and that the United States is the focus of terrorists because of this relationship.

This article is a report on the revelation of secret papers that show that Great Britain assisted Israel in the making of nuclear weapons in the 1960s. According to findings discovered by the author and researchers on his BBC television show, "Newsnight," Great Britain supplied plutonium and heavy water to Israel's nuclear program without the knowledge of the prime minister at the time, Harold Wilson, and technology minister Tony Benn. Two nuclear weapons were built and held in reserve in the event of a reverse in the 1967 Six Day War. INSET: HOW WE HELPED THE FRENCH.

This article reports that a proposed eco-friendly settlement on Mount Gilboa has enraged Israeli scientists, who say it will trample on a national icon. Every March, tourists clog the narrow road snaking up this mountain to enjoy the spectacular blooming of the purple Gilboa iris. But this year the rare flower, a national icon unique to the ridge, has also become a major bone of contention between settlers of a proposed eco-friendly town and Israeli scientists who call the settlement "an ecological crime." The fight is part of a larger battle over preserving open spaces in a country where environmental concerns often take a back seat to an Israeli imperative to build on the ancient land. The new settlement, called Michal, would sit atop the Gilboa ridge in northeastern Israel, just east of the West Bank. A coalition of Israeli scientists has filed an official objection to the settlement, arguing that any construction, however benign, risks "total extinction" of the iris. In a letter leaked to the Israeli paper Ha'aretz last year, Nature and Parks Authority board science committee chair Tamar Dayan attacked the plans, saying that the light, pets, gardens, and utilities from the settlement could affect an area on the mountain 10 times larger than its footprint of homes.

Mentions how Phoenician traders once sailed on ships similar to vessels which tour the harbor of Tyre by using the North Star as a navigational tool. Lack of a paper record of their lives because any writings were kept on papyrus which could not withstand time; Use of artifacts to portray Phoenician histories and culture.

In this paper, we perform a linear stability analysis of Israel-Stewart theory around a global equilibrium state, including the effects of shear-stress tensor, net-baryon diffusion current, and diffusion-viscous coupling. We find all the relevant modes of this theory and derive necessary conditions that these modes must satisfy in order to be stable and subluminal. With these conditions, we then derive constraints for the shear and diffusion relaxation times and the transport coefficients related to diffusion-viscous coupling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores news reports and papers reflecting on the 40th anniversary of Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. In an interview published in "Haaretz," Avraham Burg, former head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, argued that Israeli society has elements of German fascism. An article in "The Economist" described Israel's victory as pyrrhic. Meron Benvenisti wrote in "The Nation" that defining territories as occupied is an anachronism.

The article discusses the paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by University of Chicago political science scholar John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The authors are commended for tackling so sensitive an issue, and were attacked for endorsing anti-Semitism. The importance of open debate free from intimidation is discussed.

Offers observations on divisions within the Israeli government over the so-called road map to peace with Palestine. In 2001, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had barely begun his evolution toward the political center. He had not yet said that "the moment has arrived to divide this tract of land between us and the Palestinians." He had not said that only a "political solution" with the Palestinians could revive Israel's economy. And he had not adopted the peace camp's terminology and called Israel's dominion over the West Bank and Gaza Strip an "occupation." In short, Sharon is far more deserving of former Prime Minister Shimon Peres's support today than he was two years ago. As Sharon begins a series of excruciatingly difficult negotiations with the vulnerable and untested Mahmoud Abbas, Labor is not in the government. And right wing extremists Avigdor Lieberman of the National Union Party and Effie Eitam of the National Religious Party are.The result is that a prime minister who seems to desire a Palestinian state leads a government that largely does not. If the Israeli Cabinet undermines Sharon's concessions at every turn--if Eitam's Housing Ministry creates facts on the ground that belie the prime minister's promises--the road map may continue on paper. Sharon's more centrist views are far closer to Israeli public opinion. But he is not immune to pressure from his base. But Lieberman and Eitam don't want to bolt the Cabinet in protest against the peace process; they want to use their place in the Cabinet to kill the peace process.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Alexander Star's comments about microfilm in the article "The Paper Pusher"; Andrew Sullivan's argument for the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana in the article "Enjoy"; Yossi Klein Halevi's attack of Peace Now's campaign for a freeze on Israeli settlement construction; Ouster of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

The author comments on the revelation of the Palestine Papers. He believes that these papers suggest that the Palestinian negotiators were more than willing to work with Israel on its security requirements and their demands for collaboration increased. He believes that the statebuilding effort must be perceived in the context of counter-insurgency. He ponders upon the statement of Tzipi Livni about Israel's strategy which is based on the aim of becoming a national home for Jews.

The article focuses on a biological computer that diagnoses and treats cancer. In 1999, Ehud Shapiro, a researcher at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, suggested a design for a computer built out of carefully engineered biological molecules. Two years later Shapiro, together with a team of other scientists from the Weizmann Institute, built it. It was made of DNA. Now, Shapiro and his colleagues have taken their research one step further by showing how such work might be useful. This week they claim, in an online paper in "Nature," that they have programmed a biological computer to diagnose and treat cancer. What the team have built is known as a Turing machine, a notional type of computer first proposed in 1936 by Alan Turing. This British mathematician imagined a general-purpose computer that worked by manipulating a paper tape divided into cells. Shapiro's computer diagnoses an imbalance that indicates the presence of prostate cancer. After diagnosis it releases short strands of DNA designed to kill these cancer cells. Shapiro's team is interested in applications where direct processing of biological information is needed--such as medicine.

This article discusses whether the U.S. or Israel should be blamed for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. Some commentators believe that the U.S. is guilty even when it was attacked by the terrorists as the country had angered the world. The author refers to the paper "Who Will Dare Damn Israel?," by Richard Ingrams that was published in the periodical "Observer." In this paper, Ingrams wrote that the undeniable and central fact behind the disaster is that Israel is now and has been for some time an American colony. Also in the Observer, writer Edward Said blamed the U.S. support for the 34-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Similar views, more obliquely expressed, have appeared in the American media. It is stated that the U.S. cannot defend itself from terrorism without disassociating itself from Israel.

Reports on the disappointment of the European press for the election of Ariel Sharon as prime minister of Israel. Opinion of the French paper Le Monde on Ehuhd Barak's loss and Sharon's victory; View of Italian paper La Republica on the en masse vote of the Israelis; Defense made by British tabloid The Sun to the election.

The article provides information on several papers related to global diseases. The joint report, "Responses to Avian Influenza and State of Pandemic Readiness," by the United Nations and the World Bank estimated that 71 million people worldwide might be killed due to flu pandemic and might result to global economy recession costing more than $3 trillion. The academic paper "Plos One," discusses the discovery of the earliest known human tuberculosis case in bone in the coast of Haifa, Israel.

The article reports that two well-known American professors have released an paper that has aroused great interest in the American and Israeli diplomatic communities. In the paper, Professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt write that the Israel lobby in Congress is causing a dangerous pro-Israel tilt in American policy and was a critical factor in the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. The conclusion that Israel can draw from the anti-Israel feeling expressed in the paper is that it will not be immune for eternity.

The article presents news briefs related to naval fleets, as of April 1, 2016. The government in Australia published a defense white paper on February 25 to reveal its naval expansion and acquisition programs focusing on submarine and antisubmarine operations. Israel has ordered four guided-missile corvettes, named as Sa'ar 6 class, and also plans to modernize its fleet of Sa'ar 5-class corvettes. Two refurbished Type 206A-class submarines were received by Colombia In December 2015.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "To Feed or to Free" which appears in the August 22, 2015 issue and addresses Palestinian hunger strikes in Israel, the value of human life in Israeli culture, and the issue papers written by bioethicists and physicians in Israel.

In this article the author comments on an academic paper by political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt in which they argued that the United States offered excessive support to Israel, thus damaging American interests in the Middle East. The influence the "Israel lobby" has on the U.S. Congress is examined, as is the significant criticism leveled at Mearsheimer and Walt.

The article focuses on New York University historian Tony Judt's participation in a symposium at CooDer Union of New York, along with five other writers, on October 4, 2006 about the paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," by Professor John Mearsheimer and Professor Stephen Walt. The two highly respected academics created a furor by daring to write about Israel and its American lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The article focuses on two developments which have caused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to be the object of unwanted attention. One is the espionage case in which former AIPAC officials Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman have been charged with violating the 1917 Espionage Act by receiving and transmitting national defense information. Intensifying the spotlight on AIPAC's activities has been the paper written by professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The article, entitled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," asserts that Washington's unwavering support of Israel has jeopardized American security.

The article presents a roundtable discussion with political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt concerning the influence of Israel over U.S. foreign policy. Topics discussed include the reception to their paper "The Israel Lobby," the U.S.'s "special relationship" with Israel, and the Iraq War.

The article presents a report on two recently filed lawsuits in the U.S. courts against Israeli officers. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza has served Avi Dichter, the former head of Israel's General Security Services, with papers to appear in court. The complaint alleges that he provided the intelligence and the final approval, to drop a one-ton bomb on the residential area of Al-Daraj in Gaza which killed 15 people. Moshe Ya'alon, former head of Israel's Intelligence Branch and former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces was charged with war crimes, extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.