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A little Wanton
Tags: Witch, Water, Ritual, Storytelling, Magic

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From the distance, her feathered cloak resembled the snow. Her wolf eyes dove deeply, always inspecting, always attentive. She was far from everyone, she was unlikely to be disturbed in her walk.

She found the frozen stream and removed the sleet. She saw her red cedar face on the polished surface. Her full lips smiled but her obsidian eyes and the black dots on top of her cheekbones had an ominous glow.

She touched her friend, the stream, with both of her hands. She had been called a few days ago. She was usually prompt but this time was different, something in her deep end was reticent so she took her time and hesitantly moved towards the reckoning. Even now that she remembered how she loved her friend and the secrets they together touched, she felt that pang in her stomach, that tightness surrounded her shoulders.

The river awoke in her belly as she exhaled. Her sex and mind were possessed, inhabited by a gently wrathful force. With her eyes wide shut, she saw herself stripped off her jewels and her white coat. She then was covered with a dark cloak. Her hair, bound. Her hands, bound. Her feed, bound. A substance similar to amaranth powder was fiercely dabbed on her face. She resisted, she wrestled; to the stream, she said ‘NO!’.

The stream instructed and she obeyed, she scratched the icy surface and licked its fingers.

Inside her, the light of the frozen water illuminated the scene and showed the road.

Water, sea, a strange land. Men with hair of the colour of corn were surrounding her. ‘Them!’, she asserted.

Her hand instinctively sought her pouch. As she fiddled with the tobacco leaves she froze. The electricity coming from the touch let her know more of the plan. Part of the trick, part of the story, the push, the fire. A few tears trickled down her face. Was it really true? Was she really being asked to carry such a message?

Far away. Far from her stream and her snow. Never to be seen again by them, by her land. Nevermore.
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By: Raj Ginoya
Tags: Winter Solstice, Most E Mailed Stories, Water, Seller, Winter

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Why do we need to stay hydrated?
By: Steph Up
Tags: Health, Water, Healthy Lifestyle, Hydration, Fitness

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Have you ever get the feeling each day that there are too many things to do and get done that at some point your body couldn’t handle and continue what you have been doing anymore as you feel mentally and physically exhausted from it all. It’s easy to lose our clarity and feel heavy and drained until we hydrate our body, because somehow whenever we drink water we get more energy to do anything worthwhile, while it also refreshes the mind.

It is no secret that Dehydration affects our ability to cope up with things as “The Journal of Sport and Health Science” concluded that being dehydrated hurts any physical tasks for any activity longer than 30 seconds. So it is suggested to drink water whenever you feel thirsty to not feel sluggish and tired whenever you are about to do physically demanding tasks.

You need to drink enough to stay hydrated since the human body is largely made of water. “It makes up about two-thirds of who we are and influences 100 percent of the processes in our body” So don’t deprive yourself of it if you are in dire need of one, because even if we can live for up to 50 days without food, we can only survive a few days without water.

Remember, Good hydration is essential to life and dehydration will kill you.

When you are feeling thirsty or dehydrated you will feel nauseous and somehow find it hard to concentrate. So clearly, Staying hydrated might sound small but it will definitely make your body and day feel better

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There are many advantages to good hydration in some circumstances. So make sure that you drink enough liquids as it comes with a wide range of benefits. Having said that, here are a few of those benefits;

1. Improves Mood — Drinking water makes us feel so refreshed that it actually improves our state of mind. A small study conducted on 25 women and published in the Journal of Nutrition found that dehydration has been shown to negatively impact moods and cognitive function.
Kindness
By: Muhammad Faisal Shahid
Tags: Facebook, Kindness, Water, News, Clothes

“Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is and having the courage to do it.”

Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.

Kindness has been shown to increase self-esteem, empathy and compassion, and improve mood. … Kindness can increase your sense of connectivity with others, which can directly impact loneliness, improve low mood and enhance relationships in general. It also can be contagious.

Source: Google.com

A task was assigned to me by Amal Academy that I had to do 5 acts of kindness within 24 hours. So here is the list of those 5 tasks I have done in a day.

I gave water to everyone.

Source: google.com

2. I respected my Elders and waited till they took the food first.

Source: google.com

3. I Ironed my clothes to help my mother.

Source: google.com

4. I appreciated my friend for helping me always by a Facebook Post.

5. I gave my mobile charger to be used by my family.

Source: google.com

We all should do such small noble acts of kindness for the people around us. We should try to be the first to help others and one day Allah Almighty will help us in our problems and will reward us for this.

Thanks.
Patience
By: Rowen Veratome
Tags: Water, Night, Patience, Poetry, Micropoetry

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Webinar: Building Resilient, Sustainable and Green Water and Wastewater Services
By: Robert Brears
Tags: Water, Climate Change, Environment, Sustainability, Nature

The Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, is holding a webinar to discuss and explore how the EU Commission, Regulators, and Utilities can contribute to build resilient, sustainable and green water and wastewater services.

December 14th, 2020 @ 10:00 am — 12:00 pm CET

***Register here***

The EU Commission has set out a bold and comprehensive plan for European recovery which will require massive public and private investment. This plan, based on solidarity and fairness, seeks to boost the green and digital transitions, and make the European economy fairer, more resilient and more sustainable for future generations. Forceful action is required to close the overall public and private investment gap of at least EUR 1.5 trillion, to repair the immediate economic and social damage caused by the pandemic, and set the Union firmly on the path to a sustainable and resilient recovery.

Water, as a vital good for society and the environment, and a critical input for the economy, represents a key aspect of the recovery potential of EU Members States, especially through the large externalities it generates. The aftermath of the pandemic crisis offers a unique opportunity to boost the resilience and sustainability of greener Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) services across Europe by supporting investments targeted towards ending addressing water emerging pollutants, strengthening the polluter-pays and cost-recovery principles in the future reforms of EU water legislation, incentivizing innovation and digitalization of WSS services, or addressing climate change and the pandemic impacts on WSS services through water risk-based approaches that sustain water security.

Programme

Introduction by Andrea Guerrini, ARERA

Session 1 moderated by Maria Salvetti, Florence School of Regulation: Reforming EU water legislation in the light of the emerging challenges

Speaker from DG ENV, European Commission TBC

Speaker from Regulator WAREG TBC

Milo Fiasconaro, Acqua Publica Europa

Session 2 moderated by Stéphane Saussier, Florence School of Regulation: The role of regulators to incentivize innovation and digitalization of WSS services

Alan Sutherland, Water Industry Commission for Scotland

Itai Sag, Israel Water Authority

Oliver Loebel, EurEau

Session 3 moderated by Maria Salvetti, Florence School of Regulation: Addressing climate change and pandemic impacts on WSS services

Ivaylo Kolev, World Bank

Heather Smith, Cranfield Univesity

Robert Brears, Our Future Water

Concluding remarks by Andrea Guerrini, ARERA
Wai in Waikīkī: Past, Present & Future Paths Forward for the Ala Wai Watershed
By: Sarah Michal Hamid
Tags: Water, Hydrology, Hawaii, Waikiki, Resource Management

The biggest mistake that has drastically altered Waikīkī’s water distribution and ecosystem was the construction of the Ala Wai Canal, but how exactly did the Ala Wai Canal come to fruition? Introduced in 1921¹⁸under the Territory of Hawaiʻi by Lucius Pinkham, the canal was constructed under the guise of “sanitary concerns” whose justification stemmed from racist assumptions conclusions about the sanitary health loʻi kalo system decided that the marsh lands of Waikīkī were a threat to public health. Pinkham also oversaw the process to approve sugar cane plantation projects, which would greatly benefit from a concrete watershed, as it diverted water from the disintegrating ahupuaʻa and instead allowed for an increase in commercial use of water. The Ala Wai Canal was built to increase the potential profitability in Waikīkī; to make money and promote tourism. The canal began construction in 1921, and the project was contracted to the Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company, owned by Walter Dillingham, a close associate of Pinkham¹⁹. Permits signed off by Pinkham mandated that the canal be constructed above sea level, and the company ended up selling the dredged material (spoil) back to the territory in order to comply with the permit²⁰. During the construction period, many families whose ancestral ties to this land run deeper than the canal ever will, were forced to sell their land or have “condemned” by the territorial government. This process was coined as the “Waikiki Reclamation Project” though it sought to dispossess people from land rather than reclaim it²¹. Canal construction necessitated draining the freshwater from Waikīkī and mandated approximately two miles of inland dredging to fill in the fishponds and wetlands, as well as the dredging of coral reefs to create beaches for tourists²². The construction of the canal and the draining of the wetlands was a vital step in making way for an urbanization process to build the tourist industry. At the time, and contemporarily, the tourist industry brings financial profit to a rich, foreign few.
The Water Myth
By: Jokūbas Sireikis
Tags: Health, Water, Food, Lifestyle, Fitness

Two nutrition myths walk into a bar

The water myth would not be as scary if the anti-salt sentiment wasn’t as profound. When you combine two false nutrition claims, unfortunately, they do not cancel each other out. Not only are we endangering ourselves by limiting salt, but we are also exponentially increasing the damage by upping our water intake.

First, I’d like to remind you that sodium is an essential micronutrient. If you decided to follow the current dietary guidelines and go below 2 grams per day, your risk of morbidity and mortality would rise to the maximum (4). In addition, salt can help you with muscle contraction, cramps, and hence, your gym performance (5).

Now that we’re all aware of the risks of a low sodium diet, let’s be extra careful and not flush out the salts with our water. Hyponatremia is an abnormally low sodium concentration in the blood that can occur from drinking massive amounts of water. Even though sodium itself is incredibly important, its role as a buffer against other mineral deficiencies may even be more critical.

Are you still hesitant to vindicate salt or accept the fact that we’re not dehydrated? I’m guessing that your view on minerals such as magnesium and potassium is more favorable. If you drink copious amounts of water or have low sodium overall, your body starts pulling all of the electrolytes from bones (6, 7). Magnesium and calcium levels are thereby spiked in the blood, and the depletion of the former can even result in death. If you’re a fan of exercising, then diuresis and hyponatremia from reducing salt/guzzling down water need to be in the back of your mind (8).

The TL;DR of all this is that water should not be blindly worshiped. Instead, we need to rethink the way we look at sodium. A great way to mitigate the consequences of excessive water consumption is to add some salt to it.
Wild beauty, a photographic morning outing
By: Lori Mccray
Tags: Water, Photography, Birds, Wildlife, Nature

Photographer, Poet, Musician, Mother, Mystic, Gardener, friend of wild creatures, swan whisperer. Find me on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wingthing/
Stop the hate campaign against the Haredim
By: Eran Globus
Tags: Jewish, Solidarity, Covid 19, Israel

The hate campaign against the ultra-Orthodox community is fundamentally wrong. We must remember that part of the war against the pandemic is the battle for our humanity and here, we cannot fail.

Published on 04–14–2020

Close your eyes. Imagine that the coronavirus hits Israel during Pride Month in June. Now imagine the resulting vitriol from homophobic social media comments and political rhetoric aimed squarely against Israel’s LGBTQ community.

Open your eyes. You don’t need to imagine. Simply go to any social media platform and read the hate speech currently directed at the ultra-Orthodox community. Read about the calls to ostracize and in some cases, commit acts of violence. Just because of their “nerve to get infected.”

As fate would have it, this pandemic erupted around Purim and not Pride month. And now the ultra-Orthodox community is paying a steep price for their lack of accessibility to media and relevant medical information. Consequently, the Israeli public has found a scapegoat in this strong, substantial, and immediately recognizable community. They’ve become a lightning rod for our fears and anxieties. And, as most Israelis do not know the ultra-Orthodox community deeply, the old adage is being re-enacted in that “we do not know what we fear, and what we fear, we hate.”

Israel’s community leaders must join together without exception to state loudly and clearly that the hate campaign against the ultra-Orthodox community is fundamentally wrong and must stop. This pandemic is hurting us all — ultra-Orthodox and secular, Jews and Muslims, citizens and non-citizens, everyone — without distinction. We must not spin this into a matter of politics, faith or country. We must not let it turn into political ammunition that serves only those who try to heighten the flames of hatred.

Our humanity is being tested during these critical times. A few days ago, it was announced that Rabbi Zvi Thau, the president of the Har Hamor Yeshiva and one of the most vocal critics of the LGBTQ community and its demand for equal rights, tested positive for the coronavirus. Rabbi Thau is not a young man and no doubt, many are praying for his health.

As chairperson of the Jerusalem Open House, I want to add my voice to those who are praying. I wholeheartedly wish Rabbi Thau a speedy and complete recovery. Although his public actions are dangerous and harmful, I hope that the rabbi will recover and return to his work as soon as possible.

The battle for human rights is at stake right now, and our biggest test is basic human solidarity. In this test, we cannot fail. We must excel.

Published in Israel Hayom
That’s Called Living
By: Andrew, Avraham
Tags: Aliyah, Esther Horgan, Settlements, Israel, West Bank

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, “That’s Called Living.”

I was overjoyed this week when the IDF captured the sick murderer of Esther Horgan. Esther, a wife and mother of six children, was jogging in the forest near her settlement of Tal Menashe in Shomron, when the bloodthirsty Palestinian attacker in waiting came upon her and smashed her head in with a rock.

Thank G-d, now there are over 400,000 settlers in the West Bank and another 200,000 around East Jerusalem. Esther Horgan and her family represent the best of the Jewish people giving of themselves, and putting themselves at the front line, in order to fulfill G-d’s commandment to us to settle the land and safeguard the country for the rest of the Jewish people.

(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Being Mistaken As A Student
By: Alana Schwartz
Tags: Awkward, Final Exam, Teachers, Israel, Testing

Not that I have the best wardrobe, but this made me really re-think about wearing a hoodie to work.

I work at the Hebrew University’s Blind Center Mechina. (Mechina is always auto-corrected to machine, which is annoying, because wtf). I prepare students for their bagrut exams. I obviously teach English. That’s all I know. In fact, being in Israel for more than eight years has made me forget most of my English. More like bye-lingual, amIright? Okay, I stole that joke.

So there is a Winter Bagrut and an English Bagrut. I was supposed to be a reader for students. My students were taking Bagrut C, which was scheduled to be at 16:00. Which was surprising when I got a call at 12:00 from my fellow co-worker, asking where I was.

“I’m at home,” I said. My heart was racing. Did I forget something?

“You’re supposed to be reading the bagrut to someone,” she said.

“It’s at 16:00, isnt’ it?” I started breathing quickly.

“No, the A starts at 12:00.”

“I can get there in an hour and a half,” I said. Because the Hebrew U campus is across the entire city and takes forever to get there and two busses.

I get there at 13:30 and start rushing to fill out paperwork for the Bagrut. I had already missed reading for A, but I could still read for the next test (B). There are many forms to fill out. I am crouched over a student’s desk, chatting a bit with a tester who was a nice South African retired teacher. Another tester barges in, pulling away the papers in front of me.

“What’s your name?” he asks. He is an older guy, glasses, white hair, American.

“Hi, I’m Alana,” I said, puzzled.

“Put your phone in your bag,” he said.

“Uh…” I said, putting my phone in my bag. He took my bag and moved it away from me.

“Is your phone off?” he asks. His Hebrew isn’t great so I say “I speak English.”

“Turn off your phone.” He is insisting. “Is your phone off?”

“Yes,” I lie, because why does he care?

Then it clicks.

“I’m a teacher,” I say. I gather my papers back from him and drape my bag on the back of my chair.

My face is burning red. I am so embarrassed.

He was too, I guess. But I needed a supportive hug from one of my students. Who agreed and said I look like a teen. (Thanks Hadassah).

Anyway, I can’t wait till I look my age.
Silencing Criticism Doesn’t Help People Stay in Israel
By: Daniel Rosehill
Tags: Aliyah, Life In Israel, Leaving Israel, Israel, Israeli

Silencing Criticism Doesn’t Help People Stay in Israel

Moving to Israel — and leaving it — has always been fraught with criticism and controversy. Does it really need to be that way?

For Jews who have uprooted their lives to live in Israel, getting here can often end up being the easiest part of the journey.

In recognition of the fact that many that move to Israel don’t end up staying (at least not for very long … or for life), a wellspring of energy has developed in recent years around the idea of getting olim to stay in Israel. Those that offer this service tend to call it post-aliyah support. Or retention.

The flagbearer for this movement has been Keep Olim In Israel (KOII) — which is both a Facebook group and a non-profit that describes its mission as to “empower, support, and inspire olim.”.

More established aliyah organizations — namely the Jewish Agency (JA) and Nefesh b’Nefesh (NBN) — also devote resources to the same cause. In terms of organization, many make the charge that these are nowhere near as extensive as their efforts to bring Jews to Israel.

While the energy and mission is well-intended, equally I feel that a lot of the dialogue around retaining olim becomes unconstructive or actually ends up only emboldening them to leave. In some cases, this happens after disaffected olim feel marginalized and excluded by conversations about what they should think about living in Israel or how positive they should remain. Or about how they should feel about the State itself, its politics, and their relationship to it.

These are some aspects of that culture that I think we would be richer without.
That one Shabbat lunch
By: Alana Schwartz
Tags: Shabbat, Israel, Hippies

I arrive at 1:05 pm. there is a dirt pile and a dead grape vine as the garden. The apartment is a bedroom which houses two grown men, and the bathroom is a toilet which hasn’t been cleaned in years as well as an under the sink cabinet that has been broken for years but is just there for decoration. Apartments in this neighborhood were built in the 60’s and then were left to decay.

I assume we will be eating outside as the lunch list consisted of 22 people.

After 40 mins of literally random / possible homeless people filtering in, we set the table.

The tablecloth is an old curtain that has several burns in it.

I wish I was making this up.

For lunch there is homemade challah made of whole wheat flour and water (no sugar), pita, tasteless homemade hummus, and a huge plate of rice and beans. Some sweet potatoes were also cut up and cooked.

Every guest brings wine.

I try and make small talk with the guests. The boys are legit all weird. One tells me he has a crush on my friend who invited me here, but he says he is not religious enough for her. Then he gets up and starts playing air guitar.

It is now 2 pm and I haven’t eaten anything yet. On Shabbat you must say a blessing and drink some wine and then eat challah. Someone thankfully already said the blessing for wine, which I did not drink as wine breakfast isn’t really my thing, so I said the blessing on the challah and start eating.

Lunch starts at 2:30. People are still wandering in. By now we are close to 25 people.

At 4 pm the divrei Torah start. The first one is nice, the second speech is a girl learning in seminary here and said she believes that the end times are coming soon. So that’s nice. THEN, the third is a guy who I am convinced is either in a cult or will be in one shortly, he rambles on for 10 minutes about literally nonsense. “It’s so amazing like we are all here and The One is here and look at the birds…..tweet tweet…its so amazing.”

What the fuck.

Dessert is out on the kitchen counter inside, which I assumed was a dirty bowl left to soak. Instead it is banana ice cream.

I do not try it.

I walk home and eat cereal and a yogurt for Shabbat lunch.

WTF is this life. At least it made a good story!
Providing Better Care For My Patients By Befriending Fellow First Responders
By: United Hatzalah- Israel Ems
Tags: Friendship, Accident, Electric Bike, Israel, First Responder

Yitzhak Sheinberg, a United Hatzalah volunteer from Haifa, works as a nurse’s assistant for a local health clinic. He is married and has two children. Since the summer, Yitzhak has also been working as a Covid-19 test-taker and has been recognized as the medical technician who has collected more samples than anyone else in the country.

Towards the beginning of December, early one afternoon on HaHalutz Street in Haifa’s Hadar HaCarmel neighborhood, a 45-year-old man was struck by a speeding E-bike. The pedestrian was violently knocked headfirst to the ground, sustaining severe traumatic injuries. Horrified passersby called for help and notified United Hatzalah dispatchers who instantaneously identified Yitzchak as the closest available medic and notified him of the incident.

Yitzchak was just getting home from conducting a series of Corona tests and upon receiving the alert, immediately set off towards the scene on his United Hatzalah E-bike, agilely racing through pedestrian-clogged narrow streets towards the victim’s location.

an accident that Yitzchak responded to

Yitzchak and an additional EMT, also an electric bicycle rider from the organization who Yitzchak knows well, arrived at the scene and found the victim lying unconscious on the ground. The skilled EMT saw that the man had suffered a severe head injury as well as an injury to his abdomen and was having difficulty breathing. Yitzchak took vital signs and tended to the head wound and administered oxygen to improve the victim’s breathing, while the other EMT bandaged the bleeding injuries from the man’s limbs. An ambulance crew arrived a few minutes later, sedating and intubating the patient before evacuation to a nearby hospital.

Friends who volunteer together share a bond

Yitzchak spoke about the special bond that has been created among the United Hatzalah volunteers in Haifa. “I’ve been volunteering with United Hatzalah for the past three-and-half-years, and it has changed my life for the better. In addition to the terrific feeling of satisfaction I get whenever I help other people, I have received a new family. My wife and I had very few friends here in Haifa before I began to volunteer. Now we have an entire team of friends, both the EMTs who work with me, and their spouses, who have befriended both me and my wife. It is terrific. Last Shabbat we had 11 couples from all different backgrounds and segments of Israeli society over in our backyard, all of whom have at least one member of the couple who volunteers at United Hatzalah. We have become close friends, and that of course helps us communicate better and faster in the field so that we can more quickly assist those who need our help. I work in Meuchedet, one of the health maintenance organizations in Israel, and I have never before seen a close-knit group of medical workers and first responders as exist here in United Hatzalah. It is truly remarkable to be a part of this family.”
Palestinians left waiting for vaccine
By: The Palestine Project
Tags: Military Occupation, Covid 19, Palestine, Israel

Palestinians left waiting for vaccine

By Yara Younes

Israel will begin vaccinating 60,000 Israeli’s a day according to The Associate Press, including Israeli-Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, while millions of Palestinians living under the occupation will be forced to wait.

The Palestinian Authority has reported over 85,000 cases in the West Bank, while Gaza reported over 30,000 cases — Gaza has a population of two million Palestinians and has been under an illegal blockade for 14 years.

Access to medicine, protective gear, masks, goods, and people in Gaza is controlled by Israel.

“Currently, 32% of essential medicines and 62% of laboratory drugs are not available in Gaza,” said Euro-Med Monitor.

The Pfizer serum needs to be shipped and stored at a minus-94 degrees, a cold chain unavailable in Gaza, where electricity is available only six to eight hours a day.

Palestinians have only one refrigerator able to store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the town of Jericho.

“Israel bears moral and humanitarian responsibility for vaccinating the Palestinian population under its control,” said Physicians for Human Rights in an appeal to Israeli leaders.

The PA hopes to get the vaccine through a World Health Organization partnership with a humanitarian organization known as COVAX, which aims to provide vaccines for up to 20 percent of the population of poor countries.

“We just do not have the technical capabilities for that,” said Ali Abd Rabbo, director of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza. “We have held sessions with the Israeli side in this regard, but until this moment there is no agreement.”
The End of Times
By: Andrew, Avraham
Tags: Apocalypse, Armageddon, Israel, Futurism, End Of Days

I am looking for a good book on the Jewish view of the End of Times.

Who fights who?

What happens and how does the fighting finally end?

Who will live and who will die?

Who from the dead will be resurrected?

What occurs in practical terms when the Mashiach arrives?

What does G-d’s revelation to the whole world look and feel like?

Where is Israel at each step in unfolding of the redemption?

How does the 3rd Temple actually get built?

Is world peace not only possible, but also enduring?

Wow, would love to read a layman’s book like this.

Can anyone recommend anything really good? ;-)

(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
How to Be An Honest Businessman
By: Shimon Yelinek
Tags: Businessman, Business Strategy, Business Consultant, Shimon Yelinek, Israel

How to Be An Honest Businessman

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To be an honest Money specialist, you ought to begin by creating a summing up of day by day objectives. Having day by day targets implies you’re anxious and committed enough to keep up your own Business. Moreover, they allow you to assess your skills and your psychological strength. You need to provides a brave effort to accomplish all of your day by day objectives systematically. this might sound exhausting to try and do. Yet, you ought to keep in mind that maintaining your own business needs determination and discipline, and these difficulties can facilitate train your angle.

After you’ve got set your each day targets, you’ll be able to begin by endeavoring to accomplish the easier ones initial. That way, within the event that you just neglect to try and do well in them, you will not build a big misfortune. within the event that you just succeed, you’ll be able to increasingly climb to the in addition testing ones. On the off probability that you just do not succeed, you ought to try once more and you ought not effectively surrender. You likewise got to think about the amount of focuses to accomplish in an exceedingly day. you’ll be able to begin by shaping one objective daily. At the purpose after you square measure positive you’ll be able to accomplish additional, venture it up Associate in Nursing indent by adding another objective.

The following important factor is that you just got to keep coordinated. Being a cash Manager, you need to be reliable in what you are doing. nice association is one in every of the keys to a good Business, later you ought to be answerable and make sure that everything is in its place and is functioning fitly.
Health Systems’ Greatest Chance
By: Artur Andonis
Tags: Health, Medicine, Israel, Arturandonis, Treatment

It’s probably not yet time to talk about a conclusion, but after 10 months of the coronavirus epidemic around the world, I, Arthur Andonis, can draw several conclusions about what needs to be changed in the healthcare system.

Remote medicine.

Due to travel restrictions during a pandemic and a 80% reduction in outpatient clinics, remote medicine has become a partial solution now and will continue to come. In fact, remote medicine has always been in all 4 registers in Israel, but the pandemic has increased this direction several steps forward. By virtue of all that happens, this kind of medicine saves a lot of resources for cash registers: time, budget and the very quality of medicine (according to experts at the cash desks).

However, due to the speed of implementation of remote services and the absence of a mechanism that is more likely to assess their quality, these services may be extremely dangerous and unreliable for users. Yes, that saves money for the cash registers, but in turn shows “negligence” in the decision of treatment. In addition, one should also take into account the contingent among the people who do not use current technologies (religious people, the elderly, etc.). Already today, problems are noticed in this sector and not even a theoretical initiative has been taken to solve it. The point is, for the most part, these people are those who require urgent medical attention. State centers such as Ichilov, Sheba, Rambam, Hadassah do not apply for serious initiatives in the digitalization of medical services between the hospital and the patient. This is a big problem, which we realized after seeing patients with coronavirus who could not even say goodbye to their families during hospitalization. For a very long time they were isolated, which gradually affected their morale.

Another important reason is that services such as vaccinations for adults, schoolchildren and newborns must work more efficiently. Their infrastructure should be able to deploy extremely quickly, as Israel — 24 hours a day is ready to protect whatever is needed. Quite often, these institutions receive minimal attention and, unfortunately, not only in Israel, they operate at a very low level, which affects the trust of the patients. Now is the time to rehabilitate and strengthen these areas.

During the coronavirus pandemic around the world, including Israel, people stopped trusting their government. Due to the lack of massive campaigning in vaccinations, the people stopped trusting higher authorities. It is necessary to inform the people in full about vaccinations, and this should fall on the shoulders of the Ministry of Health.

And the last thing, of course, is the importance of resuscitation. For a long time, the healthcare system has been talking about the lack of places for patients and qualified personnel in intensive care units. A national program with a large budget on an ongoing basis is urgently needed.x
以色列是近年來大選頻率最高的國家
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Tags: 選舉, 以色列, Israel, Vote

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Israel on the skirt of the snap political decision as officials block spending plan
By: Hira Menon
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Covid 19, Election, Benny Gantz, Israel

Israel has all the earmarks of being on course for a fourth public political decision in under two years denoting a possible breakdown of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eight-month-old alliance government. Israeli officials neglected to concede to a key spending vote on Tuesday, setting off the disintegration of parliament and a snap political decision in March 2021. The Knesset barely dismissed the bill by a vote of 49 to 47 that would have conceded a Tuesday 12 PM cutoff time for passing the state financial plan for 2020.

Partaking in the vote, Netanyahu purportedly cast his polling firm for the bill trying to win a lion’s share. In any case, three Blue and White officials opposed their gathering and cast a ballot against the bill. Tending to the Knesset during the long discussion, the Prime Minister reprimanded Defense Minister Benny Gantz for the new round of decisions. Netanyahu and previous top of the resistance Gantz set up an alliance government in May after three races held since April 2019 neglected to arrive at a resolution.

Indeed, even as the force sharing arrangement is as yet under advancement, political examiners in Israel have affirmed that Netanyahu might not have any desire to hand over force, rather break up the public authority rashly. Then, Netanyahu, who prevents charges from getting affirmed defilement, took to Twitter on Monday to keep up that he doesn’t need decisions once more. Addressing the officials, Netanyahu likewise affirmed that the public authority should maintain its attention on battling the Coronavirus pandemic, rather than holding new races.

As a component of their capacity sharing arrangement, Gantz would assume control over the public authority from Netanyahu as PM of Israel in November 2021 for the rest of the three-year term. Nonetheless, Gantz has been not able to persuade Netanyahu to concur on a financial spending plan for 2020 and 2021 which would empower the Prime Minister to surrender the prevalence to the protection serve in November 2021. On the off chance that the bill would have been passed, it would have postponed the cutoff time during the current year’s financial plan from December 23 to December 31.

While March's decisions would bring about a basic move in Israel’s political range, it would be altogether dangerous for Netanyahu, noticing that he is confronting monstrous analysis over supposed debasement allegations and misusing of the COVID-19 emergency. Likud and Blue and White have been accusing each other of their inability to agree on the financial plan. Simultaneously, Likud has been holding up the spending plan for a while now trying to rethink an alliance manage Blue and White. In the fallout of financial repercussions of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli GDP is required to contract by 4.5% with the jobless rate remaining at 12.1%.
As lawmakers block the budget on the brink of snap elections, Israel
By: Akshay Prasad
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Covid 19, Israel, Coronavirus

Israel appears to be on track for a fourth national election in less than two years, marking the imminent fall of the eight-month-old coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Tuesday, Israeli lawmakers failed to agree on a crucial budget vote, triggering parliament’s dissolution and a snap election in March 2021. By a vote of 49 to 47, the Knesset narrowly rejected the measure, which would have delayed a midnight deadline on Tuesday to approve the state budget for 2020.

In an effort to gain a plurality, Netanyahu officially cast his ballot in favour of the bill, taking part in the debate. Three Blue and White senators, however, defied their party and voted against the measure. The Prime Minister, addressing the Knesset during the long debate, blamed the new round of elections on Defence Minister Benny Gantz.

After three elections held since April 2019, Netanyahu and former opposition leader Gantz formed a coalition government in May, which failed to reach a conclusion. Although the power-sharing arrangement is still under way, Israel’s political commentators have speculated that Netanyahu may not want to hand over power, but rather dismantle the government early on.

In the meantime, on Monday, Netanyahu, who denies allegations of alleged corruption, went to Twitter to say that he does not want elections again. Speaking to the lawmakers, Netanyahu also asserted that instead of holding new elections, the government should keep its attention on combating the Coronavirus pandemic.

In November 2021, as part of their power-sharing arrangement, Gantz will take over the government from Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister for the remainder of the three-year term.Nonetheless, Gantz was unable to persuade Netanyahu to agree on a fiscal budget for 2020 and 2021 that would allow the Prime Minister, in November 2021, to award the Minister of Defense the premiership. If the bill had been approved, the deadline for this year’s budget would have been extended from December 23 to December 31.

Although elections in March will result in a crucial change in the political spectrum of Israel, Netanyahu would be considerably risky, noting that he faces massive criticism over alleged corruption allegations and mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis. Likud and Blue and White have been blaming each other for failure to reach an agreement over the budget. At the same time, in an effort to renegotiate the coalition agreement with Blue and White, Likud has been keeping up the budget for several months now.

The Israeli gross domestic product is projected to shrink by 4.5% after the economic consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic, with the unemployment rate remaining at 12.1 percent.
Kushner’s first direct flight from Israel lands in Morocco
By: Akshay Prasad
Tags: Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, Morocco, Israel, Middle East

Jared Kushner, the US presidential advisor, will be visiting Morocco from Israel. The first direct flight will arrive today after the resumption of ties between the two countries. The kingdom, under the auspices of President Donald Trump, is the fourth Arab country to make this decision recently.

The resumption of relations between Morocco and Israel will probably follow the signing of several agreements. This recovery also includes the facilitation of direct flights between the two countries and the development of relations in the economic and technological fields, as announced on November 10 by the Moroccan Royal Court.Every year, about 70,000 Jews visit Morocco, most of them from Israel, but with no-direct flights. Many of them come to celebrate religious ceremonies in Moroccan Jewish shrines.

The arrival of Kushner from Israel to the kingdom is also one of the victories of the Trump administration in the Middle East, less than a month before his term expires. In exchange for the resumption of relations with Israel, Morocco, in dispute with the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, has obtained US recognition of its sovereignty over the Western Sahara.

The decision by Trump also included the declaration of the intention of the United States to open a consulate in the Western Sahara city of Dakhla. In Morocco, the Western Sahara issue is considered a national issue, just as it is for the Palestinian cause.According to political science researcher Khadija Mohsen Fannan in an article on “Orion 21.” the declaration by the US of the recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara in return for the kingdom’s normalisation of its relations with Israel was a bombshell.

Although Moroccans around the world celebrated the “the Moroccan of the Sahara,” last week, local authorities banned two protests in Rabat against the normalisation of relations with Israel. At the international level, Russia, Algeria, and the Polisario Front consider the recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara by the United States illegal, as it violates the United States’ resolutions.

Morocco had formerly formed diplomatic ties with Israel, where some 700,000 Moroccan descendants reside. They signed the Oslo Peace Agreement in the 1990s, before Morocco formally ended these relations following the 2000 Palestinian uprising.According to the Moroccan media, the termination of official relations between the two countries did not prevent the continuation of trade of 149 million dollars between 2014 and 2017. In addition, Morocco is among Israel’s top five customers in Africa, a Franco-Israeli Chamber of Commerce bulletin said.

In an article published in the Jerusalem Post, the editor of the Moroccan daily newspaper ‘Al-Ahdath,’ known for being loyal to the royal family, Ahmed Al-Sharia, said that the resumption of ties with Israel confirms a relationship that has been in place for 60 years, including intelligence and security cooperation.
Yiftah CURIEL: “Potential of digital diplomacy is immense”; Ran GIDOR: “Women belong in all places where decisions are made”
By: Caucasian Journal
Tags: Israel, Digital Diplomacy

27.10.2020. Caucasian Journal from time to time presents to our readers articles which focus on issues of a wider international importance. Today under our “GLOBAL FOCUS” Caucasian Journal gives floor to the Israeli diplomats.

The subjects they cover reflect important aspects of Israeli foreign policy: Use of latest “cutting edge” technologies, and adherence to decades-proven “classic” achievements accumulated by humanity. While Yiftah CURIEL of Israeli Foreign Ministry talks about digital diplomacy in the COVID era, Ran GIDOR — Israeli Ambassador to Georgia — remembers the anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution urging to increase women’s decision-making in the sphere of peace and security.

Yiftah CURIEL: “The potential of digital diplomacy is immense”

Mr. Yiftah CURIEL is Director of Department for Digital Diplomacy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel.

Alexander KAFFKA, editor-in-chief of Caucasian Journal: Dear Yiftah, welcome to Caucasian Journal! As you are the head of Israel’s digital diplomacy, do you agree that wider digitalization is one of main ways to survive, especially in the era of COVID?

Yiftah CURIEL: Hello, and thank you for this interview, providing this opportunity to speak with your audience. Absolutely, I think that although digitalization, and specifically digital diplomacy, has been rapidly expanding over the last few years, COVID and the need to connect from afar, has accelerated this process. We have seen on our digital platforms a significant rise in the number of followers, people that want to connect with Israel, from tourists to businesspeople to religious pilgrims, and we’ve tried to accommodate them by providing content, a way to interact with us that would alleviate some of the difficulties of not being able to connect face to face.

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9 Crazy Financial Statistics About Israel
By: Daniel Rosehill
Tags: Living In Israel, Cost Of Living, Economics, Israel, Financial

9 Crazy Financial Statistics About Israel

I’ve made the point repeatedly that Israel’s cost of living — and more presciently the average real income — presents a major problem for the country’s future.

My motivation for writing about these dynamics is two-fold.

Firstly, for the future of Zionism, I think that Israel needs to be a country that everybody can afford to live in. Whether they’re a bus driver or an algorithm engineer.

Secondly, to my mind, this dynamic is perpetually ignored in Israeli elections, of which there have been many recently.

Statistics mount but these issues receive relatively scant attention in Israeli political discourse which, recently, has been almost entirely occupied by the question of whether the incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is fit to remain in office. Israeli voters also seem unwilling to make this issue a priority.

Some of these statistics are more recent and some are older. They’re not intended to criticize Israel. But rather to make the case that, collectively, they show that Israel needs to do more to ensure that it is an affordable place to live.