Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz has decided to throw the hit in ring and run for mayor of Tel-Aviv against incumbent three-term major Ron Huldai calling for a change in Israel’s most popular city. Horvitz’s announcement for his run for mayor of Tel-Aviv already made waves way beyond the boarders of Israel as the world media has already heralded the campaign as “the pilot vs. the gay guy”.
Members of the Knesset’s Health and Welfare Committee were shocked into silence when an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who lost patience with the proceedings blasted the government for wasting time on endless debates, while abandoning survivors to die in poverty. That woman is Tivon resident Dora Roth, who has become a national hero since her outburst at the Knesset. i got to sit down at her at her house to talk about what made her so angry.
All we can hope now is that Dora Roth’s remarks fell on fertile ears and she really made a difference for those remaining frail holocaust survivors to whom she served as a mouthpiece.
In most countries of the world a new government gets at least 100-days of grace period before it gets criticized by the media and the opposition, but not in Israel… Netanyahu’s third coalition is a little than a months old and everyone’s got already something to complain about.
Over a hundred graduates of the international Public Health Masters program have returned for the first to Israel to discuss current tendencies in their sector and meet fellow graduates of the program which has been running for over forty years.
And of course one of the side affect of living and studying in Israel for a year is that when those students return to their countries of origin they become unofficial ambassadors of Israel and advocates of the Jewish state.
The southern city of Ashdod is hosting the annual Israeli Conference for Sustainability with international guests from countries like France, Ethiopia and neighboring, Jordan as all concentrate on sustainable development from global to local.