Delta adopts Saudi 'no-Jew' fly policy/other news

The following is being circulated all over the internet and I am amazed at how many people tell me to loosen or lighten up. Maybe we should all make fun of their personal tragedies such as a female relative being raped and let them lighten and loosen up. When its not affecting them, its easy to be smug and flippant and have a "sense of humour".

Truth Telling Transfer Agreement Exposes Hitler as Father of Israel!!!
Is Adolf Hitler Really the Founding Father of Israel ?
By Johnny Punish, Friday, June 17th, 2011
In The Transfer Agreement, Edwin Blackâ€™s compelling award-winning story of a negotiated arrangement in 1933 between Zionist organizations and the Nazis to transfer some 50,000 Jews, and $100 million of their assets to Jewish Palestine in exchange for stopping the worldwide Jewish-led boycott threatening to topple the Hitler regime in its first year, exposes historical truth.
<http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=115489>

Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg

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Fatima Husseni · UC Berkeley

The Palestinian people already get more aid, per capita than any other people in the world- they get 8 times the aid of haiti. This isn't about humanitarian aid at all- even the "Free Gaza" co-founder Greta Berlin has said this publically. This is about opening the shipping lanes to Iranian weapons. Incidently, just last month 580,000 carnation were exported from gaza. Since the beginning of the growing season 368 tons of strawberries, 9,767,678 carnation , 6.59 tons of cherry tomatoes and 6 tons of bell peppers have been exported to European markets.
Really, would a starving nation be growing flowers for export?

Oakland Tribune My Word: Flotilla hopes to pressure Israel to open Gaza by Henry Norr

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Posted: 06/19/2011 04:00:00 PM PDT

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IN A few days, I will be sailing toward Gaza with about 50 other American passengers and crew. Our U.S.-flagged boat will be one of 10 to 12 vessels in this year's Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which will try again to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip.

What's the point, some will ask, even some who recognize that Israel's policy of collective punishment directed at Gaza's 1.6 million residents -- more than half of them under 18 -- is illegal, immoral and counter-productive.

After all, it was widely reported in the wake of last year's flotilla that Israel had agreed to "ease" the siege, and just last month the new Egyptian government announced that it was opening the Rafah gate, giving Gazans access to the outside world.

Unfortunately, these reports exaggerate the extent of change. Gaza remains a giant outdoor prison. As recently as May 20, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that Gaza's people are still "unable to live a normal and dignified life."

Confirming earlier reports by international and Israeli humanitarian organizations and the United Nations, ICRC executive Mathilde De Riedmatten noted that: "The entry of goods into Gaza is still highly restricted, not only in terms of quantity but also in terms of the particular items allowed. Long delays are frequent. Some goods that are allowed in are so expensive that their availability hardly matters to the vast majority of the population, who could never

afford them."

The ICRC also reported:

Gaza's water, sanitation and health-care facilities are under increasing strain because Israel continues to block shipment of equipment and materials required for maintenance.

The thousands of buildings damaged or destroyed during Israel's 2008-9 assault on Gaza still cannot be repaired or replaced because Israel prohibits import of building materials.

Israel continues to block almost all exports from the strip. (What's the security justification for preventing the export of cut flowers and strawberries?)

Israeli military forces continue to impose severe limits on Palestinian access to Gaza's fields, orchards and coastal waters.

Since the ICRC report, the Egyptian authorities have reopened the gate at Rafah. That's a big step forward, but its limitations need to be understood: That crossing is designed to handle only people, not cargo, so its opening does nothing to change the problems described above.

Would-be travelers continue to encounter unexplained restrictions. Even those who manage to get through still cannot travel to the West Bank or Israel, where they're most likely to have family, friends and cultural connections. (They're Palestinians, after all, not Egyptians.)

To the extent there's been any break in the siege of Gaza since last year, it's worth noting that neither President Barack Obama nor the U.N. nor the peace process had anything to do with it -- the credit goes to grassroots activists who took action themselves to force a change: first, the participants in last year's flotilla, then the Egyptians who brought down the Mubarak dictatorship.

This month's flotilla aims to push this process to its logical conclusion: to end the siege of Gaza once and for all. That may sound far-fetched, but we're determined to try. That's why we call the U.S. boat The Audacity of Hope.

Henry Norr is a retired journalist living in Berkeley. He is Jewish by birth. For more information, visitustogaza.org.

This one is for those lovely "anti-Zionists" who swear that they do not hate Jooz, only the Jewish country. None of them will bleat and bellow about this but will make sure to cackle and cluck on anything that Israel does.

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THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES

Delta adopts Saudi 'no-Jew' fly policy

Challenge to discrimination building as Congress, lawyers warned of plan

Posted: June 22, 2011
8:34 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

Delta Air Lines' plan to add Saudi Arabian Airlines to itsSkyTeam Allianceof partnering companies would require the American carrier to ban Jews and holders of Israeli passports from boarding flights from New York or Washington bound for Jeddah, prompting outraged accusations of illegal religious discrimination.

The issue, which has caught the attention of theAmerican Center for Law and Justicealready, was raised when Washington attorney Jeffrey Lovitky was perusing airline procedures for travel.

"As we learn more about the issue and facts, we are determined to ensure that American citizens do not face discrimination by airlines like Delta that are passenger code-sharing with Saudi Arabian Airlines," said Colby M. May, director and senior counsel of the ACLJ.

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"We will be communicating our position with members of Congress, the State Department and Delta Air Lines to ensure that the rights of American citizens are protected," he said.

The issue first was presented to Congress, the public and others bytalk radio host and former U.S. Rep. Fred Grandy,whose own battle against discriminationwas documented when his former radio station demanded he tone down criticism of Islam on his program. He then left the station.

Grandy and "Mrs. Fred," – Catherine – recently were interviewed by Talk 1200 show host Jeff Katzabout the controversy, which was described as "outrageous."

Their conversation has been posted onlineas well as embedded:

"Creeping Shariah? Now [it is] jetspeed Shariah. Hat's off to Delta. It looks like Delta will be the first Shariah-compliant airline in the United States," Catherine Grandy said.

Katz noted, "As a Jewish man, I might not be able to fly on Delta Air Lines in the future."

Fred Grandy told Katz that he spent time already this week in Washington briefing members of Congress and other policy makers "on this kind of threat."

"This creeping Shariah, economic jihad, gets you everywhere you turn," Catherine Grandy said. "This is just not right. I'm sure this will be tested."

Fred Grandy saidthere were several questions raised by the controversy, including would passengers continue to fly on Delta, what should the government do and the advance of Shariah in the United States.

"If this isn't one landing strip at a time, I don't know what is," he said.

Delta officials did not respond to a WND phone call asking for comment,but their sentiment is clear in letters they wrote to Lovitky when he complained about their plans.

Lovitky told WND that he personally raised the issue with the Delta CEO Richard Anderson when he discovered the plan while making travel arrangements. He said Anderson didn't respond, but Kathy M. Johnston, a coordinator for the airline's "Customer Care" did write a letter.

She blamed the plan to discriminate on Saudi Arabian requirements and said Lovitky should consult the State Department.

"Delta must also comply with all applicable laws in every country it serves and by the same token passengers are responsible to obtain the necessary travel documents required for entry into another country prior to their day of travel," she wrote. "If a passenger travels without proper documents, the passenger may be denied entry into that country and our airline may be fined. Delta assumes responsibility for ensuring that each passenger boarding our aircraft has the proper documents for travel to their ticketed destination."

Lovitky told WND that whatever discrimination the Saudis choose to enforce in their nation, it becomes a problem when Delta applies it to American citizens on American soil.

"Delta Air Lines acted in a purely voluntary manner in agreeing to this alliance with Saudi Airlines," he wrote in a letter asking the Delta board to act on the matter. "Accordingly, Delta has made itself responsible for ensuring that passengers on any flight jointly operated with Saudi Airlines will not be subject to discrimination on the basis of their gender, religion, or any other inappropriate grounds."

Fred Grandy

He told WND he has not yet heard back from the board members he contacted, nor have specific action plans been adopted by the ACLJ. But he noted the other restrictions that could be forced on Americans at Washington's Dulles airport and New York's JFK.

The restrictions could include clothing requirements for women and banning passengers from "carrying and reading religious literature of their choice."

"This includes, but is not limited to, both Christian and Jewish sacred texts, such as the Old Testament and the New Testament, as well as any objects that reflect their religion, such as a cross necklace," Lovitky said.

"You can imagine how foreign it is to our values as Americans," he told WND. "To adhere to restrictions of this nature is extremely burdensome.

"This needs to be addressed in a way which is consistent with our Western values," he said.

The plan apparently is proceeding through negotiations with a goal of having the Saudi airline aboard the Delta alliance in 2012. Delta's website lists Aeroflot, AeroMexico, AirEuropa, Air France, Alitalia, China Southern, CSA Czech Airlines, Kenya Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Korean Air, TAROM and Vietnam Airlines as "SkyTeam Partners" already.

But Lovitky pointed out to Delta that Congress recently considered a plan to address Saudi Arabia's discrimination, noting the government there confirms visas will not be issued for an Israeli passport holder or a passport that has an Israeli arrival/departure stamp, "those who don't abide by the Saudi traditions concerning appearance and behaviors" and "Jewish People."

"Delta is prohibited from engaging in religious discrimination by a variety of state and federal laws, as well as its own Code of Ethics," he wrote. "However, Delta would be directly involving itself in the most heinous form of religious discrimination if it were to enter into any code share or other reciprocal travel arrangements with any airline which refuses boarding to individuals of specific religious persuasions.

"I urge Delta to shun any reciprocal travel arrangements with Saudi Arabian Airlines until the government of Saudi Arabia provides assurances that persons who acknowledge being Jewish on their visa applications will be granted visas."

He also was upset that Delta's response to a followup letter was to say, "we respectfully consider this matter closed and we will not be responding to this matter again."

Grandy previously had a talk show on WMAL in Washington, on which his wife was a periodic guest to discuss "creeping Shariah," the advance of Islamic law in the U.S.

Some of her comments have been posted on YouTube.

Already, in the United Kingdom, Shariah courts are given authority to resolve certain issues outside of ordinary judicial proceedings. Islamic law, as it is practiced in many Muslim countries, includes penalties such as the chopping off a hand for thievery and execution for adultery and abandoning Islam.

The Muslim Brotherhood's stated goal is to restore the caliphate, the Islamic empire under Ottoman Turkish rule for five centuries, and expand it throughout the world.

Grandy said his wife was "the one running point on this," joining the show every Friday.

Grandy said his wife would discuss issues in the news, such asChristian missionaries who were arrested in Detroit for attending a city-sponsored "Arab Fest" and discussing their religious faithas well as a Tulsa, Okla., police officerwho said he was demoted for refusing to attend an Islamic religious event and prayer service as ordered by his department.

"We had FBI agents calling after the show, [telling us] 'We're glad you're talking about this. We're not even getting this in our briefings,'" Grandy said.

The former congressman said the situation reached a climax in February after the show supported a large public forum on the agenda of radical Islam in the United States.

At the forum, a number of experts discussed Shariah, Islamic fundamentalism and other topics.

"To our amazement, we got back to the station [and were] told to tone it down," he said. But because of the importance of the issue, his wife continued raising questions, and was told, "You're off the show."

Grandy said he was told to take or leave it and, "I left it."

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, routinely criticized Grandy for reading on air FBI reports and federal court documents identifying the group as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the federal Holy Land Foundation terror finance trial and a member of the "U.S. Muslim Brotherhood."

"CAIR has been identified by the government at trial as a participant in an ongoing and ultimately unlawful conspiracy to support a designated terrorist organization – a conspiracy from which CAIR never withdrew," wrote assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Jacks, who won an award from Attorney General Eric Holder for convicting the Holy Land terrorists.

"From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders," said assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg in a separate terror case, "CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists."

As a result, the FBI cut off all ties to CAIR's national office and its 30 chapters around the country.

WND also has reported about a suspected case of honor killingin which authorities suggested a woman died by beating her own face and an opinion from a leading Muslim thatto chop off the hands of a thief is "compassionate."

Also, there are those who are warning that Islam is coming to the United States, whether citizens like it or not.

There also is a recent report that documentshow dozens of mosques around the United States have been identified in a new study as incubators for jihad against America, with more than 80 percent of those surveyed advocating violence.

"Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51 percent had texts on-site rated as severely advocating violence; 30 percent had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19 percent had no violent texts at all," said thesurvey compiled by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi and published by the Middle East Quarterly.

"How's this for a wake-up call?" asked Frank Gaffney, president of theCenter for Security Policy,in a commentary in the Washington Times.

"America's most cherished civil liberties and the Constitution that enshrines them are enabling Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other Islamists who have the declared mission of destroying our freedoms and government 'from within … by [our] hands.' Specifically, our enemies are using our tolerance of religion to create an infrastructure of mosques here that incubate the Islamic holy war called jihad."

Among the findings in the study, "Shariah and Violence in American Mosques" by Kedar, an assistant professor at Bar Ilan University in Israel, and Yerushalmi, the general counsel for Center for Security Policy, were that:

Mosques identified as being more Shariah-adherent -- that is, their imams wore beards, they segregated men from women and the like -- were more likely "to feature violence-positive texts on-site."
In 84.5 percent of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts.
Of the 51 percent of the mosques with texts severely advocating violence, 100 percent were led by imams who recommended that worshippers study texts promoting violence.
Nearly three in five of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad.

"Such findings strongly suggest that Shariah-adherence is a useful predictor of sympathy for – and, in some cases at least, action on behalf of – jihad, to include both the Islamists' violent or stealthy forms of warfare aimed at supplanting the U.S. Constitution and government," Gaffney said. "Indeed, the study confirms the anecdotal reports by Muslims themselves and earlier, less rigorous empirical studies of Saudi hate-filled literature permeating mosques in the United States."

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Cyber Spies Invade the Shadowy World of Would-Be Terrorists - Jason Koutsoukis (Sydney Morning Herald-Australia)
Israeli intelligence consultant Gadi Aviran's company Terrogence employs a small army of cyber spies who infiltrate the password-protected Internet chat rooms and online forums frequented by would-be bombers who want to plot, plan and discuss potential attacks.
''In the operations room here we have people who are fluent in Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese and English,'' Aviran says.
''We knock on the front door of these websites and chat rooms, we build trust, then we enter and start listening. As far as anyone else is concerned, we are them.''
''We are present in some fairly dark corners of the Internet, monitoring, gathering information, watching discussions unfold in real time about how to plan attacks on mostly Western targets,'' he says.

Lebanon's Hizbullah May Fight Israel to Relieve Syria - Mariam Karouny (Reuters)
Lebanon's Hizbullah is preparing for a possible war with Israel to relieve perceived Western pressure to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, its guardian ally, sources close to the movement say.
"The storm is building up now and after it everything will change," said Hilal Khashan, a political analyst at the American University in Beirut.
"In all cases, no matter what happens in Syria, developments there will not be in favor for Hizbullah."

Apple Removes Intifada App - Nick Bilton (New York Times)
Apple removed "The Third Intifada" application from its App Store on Wednesday after a Jewish human rights group and a top Israeli official said it contained anti-Semitic content and promoted violence against Israel.
"We removed this app from the App Store because it violates the developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people," an Apple spokesman said Wednesday.

Israel Readies LNG Terminal to Cover Gas Supply Gap - Ari Rabinovitch (Reuters)
Facing a short-term shortage of natural gas due to a halt in imports from Egypt after the pipeline in Sinai was twice attacked by saboteurs in recent months, Israel is accelerating plans to build an off-shore receiving terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports.

News Resources - North America, Europe, and Asia:

U.S. Warns Americans Against Participating in Gaza Flotilla
The State Department is warning Americans against participating in an international flotilla to Gaza. The U.S. says those participating may face arrest, prosecution and deportation. Israeli authorities say they will seek to ban anyone attempting to break the blockade from traveling to Israel for 10 years. (AP-Washington Post)
See also State Department Travel Warning (U.S. State Department)
See also European Ship Delivers Aid to Gaza via Egypt - Yaakov K atz
Israel has long argued that the Gaza flotilla is an unnecessary provocation and that all humanitarian aid can be transferred via land crossings to Gaza. Earlier this week, a ship from Europe arrived at El-Arish in Egypt with 30 tons of medicine, wheelchairs, baby food and 12 ambulances which made their way overland to Gaza. Israeli defense officials said the shipment was proof that the flotilla is nothing more than a provocation. "There is no need to try and break the sea blockade over Gaza to get supplies to the Palestinians there - if that is what they really want," defense officials said. (Jerusalem Post)

Assad's Syria Slowly, and Surely, Unraveling
There is no widespread revolution in Syria like there is in Libya. Instead, the country has disintegrated into a surreal patchwork of places where it is tense but quiet, and combat zones in which the regime's most loyal units are killing people indiscriminately. What began in mid-March in the country's far south as a revolt of local tribes against the government's arrest and torture of young people has gradually spread to almost every city in the country.
Since early June, when residents of Jisr al-Shughour on the Turkish border began shooting at advancing army units, parts of the north have descended into civil war. The old mechanism of revolts and repression doesn't work anymore. Violence no longer leads to subjugation, but rather to rage and re sistance.
Two weeks ago, the regime announced that "armed groups" had killed 120 soldiers in Jisr al-Shughour. In fact, there were no 120 dead soldiers. Instead, 20 to 30 people, some of them soldiers, had been shot dead by local residents defending their city. (Der Spiegel-Germany)

CAIR Loses Tax-Exempt Status - Steven Emerson
Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service. The groups failed to file required annual reports for three consecutive years. In 2007, the Washington Times reported that CAIR's membership plummeted from 29,000 people in 2000 to less than 1,700 in 2006. (Investigative Project on Terrorism)

News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:

Former Israeli Intelligence Chief: Arab Spring Is Good for Israel
Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem Wednesday that he believes the unrest in the Arab world would ultimately benefit Israel. Yadlin said that "the long-term changes in the Arab world are a great opportunity for Israel....The values that they fought over in Tahrir Square are our values. The fact that Arabs are attacking their own regimes and not Israel is historic." (Ha'aretz)

Israel: Abbas Knows Our Phone Number
At a meeting of the World Jewish Congress Tuesday commemorating its 75th anniversary, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said: "Enough stalling, enough excuses. Abu Mazen [PA leader Mahmoud Abbas] knows our phone number and our address. He could be here in 10 minutes. We have been waiting for him for two years. Unfortunately we are left staring at an empty chair."
He added that the Palestinian plan to unilaterally push for recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly is the same old strategy using different tactics. "Their goal remains the same - to continue the struggle against Israel." (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):

Fame, Not Freedom, Is the Goal of the Latest Flotilla Bound for Gaza - Rowan Dean
Three frustrated Australian ''peace'' activists - all clearly suffering from relevance deprivation syndrome - are heading off to take their berths on a flotilla of fools in search of an utterly futile confrontation with the Israel Defense Forces. This protest is designed solely for the purpose of attempting to recreate the outrage that occurred when last year's flotilla was intercepted by the Israelis and a firefight was provoked that resulted in the tragic, awful and pointless death of nine activists. So, hey, let's do it again and see what happens!
Thanks to the Arab Spring, the Egyptian border with Gaza is now wide open. The objective of this exer cise is fame for those on board, not freedom for the Palestinians. (Sydney Morning Herald-Australia)

International Activists Should Take the Road to Damascus, Not Gaza - Steven King
As the Irish-owned ship MV Saoirse sails to join the international flotilla to Gaza, why is it not heading for the Syrian coast? Surely, if anyone could use some solidarity right now, it is the Syrian opposition forces who are being murdered on a daily basis. Yes, Israel is maintaining a sea blockade to prevent the smuggling of Iranian weaponry into Gaza. But can we really blame them? Ireland has special reason to understand the need to prevent the entry of weapons by sea for terrorist purposes, having had the experience of the IRA's attempts to import arms and explosives on ships from Libya in 1973 and 1987.
So why not divert a co uple of hundred miles north to Latakia where President Assad is mowing down his own people because they dare to demand dignity and democracy? Surely, there is no contest in terms of suffering. Or do you just have a problem with a Jewish state in the Middle East? (Irish Examiner)

New UN Human Rights Body Even More Devoted to Israel-Bashing - Anne Bayefsky
The old Human Rights Commission spent 40 years adopting country-specific criticisms, a third of which condemned Israel. Now 50% of the new "reformed" UN Human Rights Council's country-specific resolutions and decisions are devoted to Israel-bashing. There have been 12 special sessions in the last five years, half of them on Israel. There have been more human rights reports commissioned on Israel than on any other state. And only one country is not allowed even to attend the lobbying and information-sharing regional meetings associated with the Council sessions - Israel - while "Palestine" is invited to all of them.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice on March 31, 2009, explained: "T he Council...is scheduled to undergo a formal review of its structure and procedures in 2011, which will offer a significant opportunity for Council reform." That review ended Friday, with every major reform recommendation made by American negotiators rejected. U.S. membership has made no difference to the outcomes on Israel. (Jerusalem Post)

Observations:

Aiding Friends and Foes in Palestine - Douglas N. Greenburg and Derek D. Smith (Foreign Affairs)

The reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas raises a number of difficult issues for the U.S., including whether Washington can lawfully continue to provide aid to the Palestinian Authority if it includes Hamas as an equal partner.

U.S. law has long prohibited citizens from providing support to or doing business with Hamas, with violations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, or life in prison if the support results in the death of any person.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) also enforces sanctions against Hamas and its affiliates, forbidding U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), and further requiring that U.S. financial institutions block any transactions involving assets of FTOs.

Should the Obama administration want to continue funding a Hamas-affiliated PA, current law gives him little leeway to do so.

Douglas N. Greenburg served as a staff member of the September 11 Commission. Derek D. Smith is the author of Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Issues #519 | Week of June 22, 2011

The personal assistant on your computer		Fishing in the desert
	Israel's Genieo has developed a free application that can transform your PC into a personalized 'newspaper' guaranteed to bring only the stories you want.		Leave it to Israeli ingenuity to find a way to raise commercial fish independent of bodies of water.

A lollipop to banish bad breath		Israeli firm spoons out 'secret sauce' to foster philanthropy
	Israeli startup Breezy has developed a patented mint candy to keep breath fresh for up to four hours, with the help of microcapsules that clean the tongue.		Without divulging its proprietary high-tech recipe for success, give2gether promises its formula spices up charitable giving.

Folk music festival on the Sea of Galilee		Four years by bike across the world
	The annual Jacob's Ladder Festival attracts a variety of musicians from several countries, plus thousands of fans.		He's been on the road four years, and already cycled 60,000 kilometers - now cyclist Roei Sadan is in the final leg of his incredible journey.

Also new this week on ISRAEL21c:

Stuck in transit? SOSTravelers to the rescue

A new Israeli company partners with travel agents to offer a worldwide 24/7 emergency service for stranded travelers.

Asbestos exposure linked to genetic mutation

Technion goes yo-yo

A second chance on life

Amdocs acquires Bridgewater for $215m.

You'll find it at the Bank Otzar Hahayal	Israel Does Dylan
One of the charming aspects of Israeli society is its integration of pop hits into its advertising and musical lexicon. Israeli TV and radio ads regularly use classic American oldies to pitch everything from cottage cheese to cable TV, due to their familiarity with the local audience. However, due to the fact that the advertisers are basing their campaigns on the music and not the lyrics, the results are sometimes amusing, if not downright peculiar.	I don't know if anyone's heard but Bob Dylan is playing a concert in Israel tomorrow night. In honor of the occasion, here's a small selection of Dylan covers as performed over the years by Israeli artists, starting with an adaptation by poet Yehonatan Geffen of Dylan's ironic With God on Our Side. The bitter lyrics in Geffen's version refer to the Israel-Arab conflict; they are balanced out by David Broza's sweet singing.
5683 miles by Yael Ben-Zion	Coexisting inventions
5683 miles - the distance between Tel Aviv and New York - is a stretch that Israeli-American photographer Yael Ben-Zion knows well. Born in the US and raised in Israel, she has spent the last ten years traveling the NYC-TLV - TLV-NYC route and considering the differences between the two.	It's fairly unusual for a 13-year-old to be aware of an adult's physical suffering and want to do something about it, and then successfully accomplish that. For 13-year-old Dima Zoabi, from the Arab city of Tamra in the Lower Galilee, her inspiration was her father's cousin, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer and was suffering through the side effects of chemo.
Israel as a role model in tobacco policy	Doctors in the Israeli house
Though smoking in public places in Israel is still prevalent, it would seem that our tobacco policy is still something to be proud of. At the first American Cancer Society Global Fellowship, which is now underway in New York City, experts are saying that Israel is a "role model" in the Middle East for its anti-tobacco advocacy.	If actors pretending to be doctors keep coming to Israel to visit hospitals, does that mean the patients aren't really sick? For the second time in a month, actors who play doctors on American television series were brought as guests to the country for a vacation and meetings at hospitals where they viewed the latest medical procedures.