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  • Pew Report

    Pew Report

    Ron Jacobsohn meets the people behind the Pew report about Jews in America. Although the numbers differ from poll to poll, there are an estimated six-and-a-half million Jews in the United States, making it the largest Jewish community in the world.
    In recent years we have seen a widening split between the Jewish community in Israel and the US over some very crucial issues which both sides differ in their opinions.
    The Pew Research Center in Washington has recently published the most comprehensive poll of the Jews in America and the researchers have come all the way to Israel to share their alarming results to maybe wake up some of the Israeli decision makers and Ron Jacobsohn was there to get a better understanding of the finding of this important report.

  • JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn examins how leading brands are adabting to the new marketplace

    International Brands Adapting to the Israeli Marketplace

    With the 2011 Social Justice Protest still in the back of the minds of many of the leading industry professionals in Israel, they are slowly but surely understanding that the local markets are changing. In a recent gathering of some of the leading companies in the country they were hoping to find the formula to cut prices while not to go out of business in the process and JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn was there to hear abot all the latest innovations.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=c_S_LQdJhJg

  • Palestinian Businessman

    Palestinian Businessman

    Ron Jacobsohn meets Israeli and Palestinians who dare to go down to business. The World Economic Forum in Geneva has taken it upon itself to help business communities at odds to come closer to each other. So it was given when business people from Israel and the Palestinian Authority wanted to create some business ties that the forum would intervene.JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn talked to some people from both sides of the border and talked to them about overcoming the obstacles of having a normal business relationship.

  • JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn examines what “Compassion at the end of Life” means in the Jewish tradition

    Euthanasia under the Jewish Law

    The term Euthanasia is not a taboo as it used to be in western societies. JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn went to find out how different the Jewish state feels towards compassion at the end of life.
    Although there are laws in place for patients with incurable diseases, renowned journalist, Gili Matza, has experienced resistance by medical staffs of implementing the laws, when she has gone through the incrustation last days with her late father, so she decided to do something about it for others and started a petition that will one day hopefully become a new Israeli law.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Attends the 2014 Good Deeds Day Celebrations

    Ron Jacobsohn Attends the 2014 Good Deeds Day Celebrations

    Israel is in giving mode as the country celebrates 2014 Good Deeds Day with over a half a million volunteers in over 8000 projects from Dan in the north to Eilat in the south. It looks like the spirit of Israeli-American entrepreneur, Shari Arison, is trying to spread is going global. This year alone, The Good Deeds Day will be celebrated in over 50 countries.