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Venture launched by Israeli high-tech companies will create 12,000 high-tech jobs for Israel’s Arabs
Cisco Systems Inc. CEO and Chairman John Chambers made the announcement at the Israeli Presidential Conference. The campaign will help create 12,000 high-tech jobs in Israel’s Arab sector over the next four years.
Arabs make up roughly one-fifth of Israel’s 8 million citizens. While they enjoy full citizenship rights, they are generally poorer and less educated.
“If we can move to 12,000 (new employees) within four years, it would be an indication of what’s possible.”
Cisco is the program’s main source of funds. Other participants include Google Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
“No government or policy could do it. You need the companies,” said Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Several new companies joined Maantech, including Israeli telecommunications giant Bezeq, Cadence Design Systems Inc. and OnTarget Communications, according to a statement from the Israeli president’s office.
How to bring peace to the Middle East? Duh…How about a football (soccer) match?
Somewhere in the West Bank….the small Jewish community of Beit Arieh inaugurated its new soccer field on Sunday and it celebrated by inviting their Palestinian neighbors and residents of the neighboring village Al-Laban for a friendly football (or soccer for those in the U.S.) match in celebration of the new field.
The game was the latest in a series of cooperative activities that have taken place between the two communities over the last several years, The newspaper Maariv reported on Tuesday.
The Beit Arieh team beat Al-Laban 11-0, but one member of the losing side was quoted as saying, “What do the numbers matter? This is for fun, for sport and for friendship. We’ll win the next game.”
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Israeli phone center gives jobs to Arab Bedouin women
Arab women in Israel actually have more rights than in many other Arab countries. People don’t realize that in Israel both men and women have equal rights. Women can do anything that a man can do. Like drive, vote, work, go to college, dress how they want to…unlike in Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Iran, Iraq.
“One of the participants, Dalal abu Kaf, 21, said the job expanded her horizons and she hoped to fund her medical studies. As a young Bedouin woman, she said she is proud that to become a team manager in the company at her first job.
So many people have their opinions on Israel, but almost no one has actually been there. If people only knew that the Israel they see in the media, isn’t the real Israel. This is just another example, what other country would have government ministries and tax payer money subsidize work and employment for minorities? What Arab countries would do that for Jews?
To read the entire article from Alarabiya.net, click here
New Google study finds: Israeli-Arabs blog more than any other population in Israel.
A new study funded by Google Israel and carried out by academics at the School of Media Studies at the College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) in Rishon Lezion, the study entitled ‘Israel in the Digital Age 2012,’ questioned more than 1200 respondents ranging in age from 12 upwards and from all different sectors of the population.
The study found that Israeli-Arabs blog more than any other group in Israel. The study noted that Arabs in Israel are much more active in blogging compared to the Jewish population. Roughly one-third (28.3%) of Arab speakers who reported to writing a blog said they updated it daily, while only 12% of Jewish bloggers said the same. The study also found that 37% of the Arab population that reads blogs does so everyday, while only 24% of the Jewish population reading blogs does so with such frequency.
Dr. Yuval Dror, Head of the Digital Communication track of the School of Media Studies at COMAS, who led the study, said “The digital age is rapidly changing Israeli society, but in recent years the media and public discourse has lacked reliable, open and comprehensive data which can form the basis for the determining policy and decision marking in the public and private sectors alike.”
To find out more, click here
Fundraiser event for Israel’s Arab-Jewish Youth Orchestra
Ahinoam Nini/Photo: Ronen Ackerman
Ahinoam Nini will be the guest of honor at a festive evening celebrating the Arab-Jewish Youth Orchestra on May 17, 2012 at the Holon Theatre.
The Arab-Jewish Youth Orchestra is composed of talented young musicians, aged 16 – 26, from all over Israel. Celebrating a decade of music, the orchestra was founded in 2002, through the initiative of Dr. Meir Wiesel, Director of Youth and Music Israel.
The orchestra combines Middle Eastern and Western instruments and musical genres to create new forms and wonderful sounds, rooted in the Arab and Jewish musical traditions of the past and reaching out to the future, as contemporary Arab and Jewish composers have created works for the orchestra.
The orchestra has performed all over Israel and Europe, and in 2010 was awarded the prestigious Wuerth prize (Germany), in recognition of intercultural dialogue between Arabs and Jews.
The concert will be a benefit for the orchestra, to support its performances in the peripheries, and its unique role in fostering creative collaborations, dialogue, and co-existence. The evening is sponsored by the Municipality of Holon. Additional information about the orchestra can be found on the Youth and Music site.
Tickets and information: Youth and Music, 050-6449820; 03-5622701
Holon Theatre, 11 Kugel Blvd. Box office: 03-5023001-2-3
Israeli Arab to form new pro-Israel party.
Founder of new political party says other Arab parties serve only ideology and not the real interests of the 1.5 million Israeli-Arabs.
With over 22% of Israel’s population identifying themselves as Israeli-Arab, and as their birthrate, economic prosperity, and varying interests are increasing, the need for new parliamentary representation are forming in the Israeli political sphere. The Arab vote in Israel tended to be spilt amongst three Israeli-Arab political parties , but now many are calling for the need to develop a new party that focuses on the real needs of Israeli-Arabs versus the political ideology which has previously focused on Palestinians living outside of Israel.
The newly formed will run in Israel’s next general election. FSarhan Bader, a veteran in politics from Israel’s Nahaf Village, Bader has this to say to the Jerusalem Post:
“To serve the Arabs properly, it’s important to work together with the ruling party in the [Israeli] coalition. The Druze MKs who are part of the coalition [in Likud, Yisrael Beytenu and the Independence Party] help their constituency a hundred times more than every Arab MK in the opposition. I will dramatically improve things for the Arab sector….Most Arab citizens are in favor of coexisting, cooperating and living in harmony with Jewish Israelis…the other Arab parties place too much emphasis on the Palestinians and external Arabs. But it’s more important to serve the Arabs inside Israel who want to live here in peace with our Jewish cousins”.
To read the full story, click here
Gay Palestinians travel each month from West Bank into Israel so they can freely participate in Gay dance club
Photo from outside of the event (courtesy of Michal Shmulovich)
Inside the Secret Life of Gay Palestinians hiding in Tel Aviv.
“Now hundreds show up each month. People travel from all over: Ramallah, East Jerusalem, small Arab villages in northern Israel, Yafo, everywhere”
Interesting to see how Gay Palestinians (both outside Israel and within) travel each month to Tel Aviv under the risk of being caught by their family and neighbors, so that at least one night a month they are free to openly express who they are. Arab culture is one of the strictest anti-homosexual culture, If someone is found to be gay, they run the greatest risk of being killed.
To read this fascinating expose, by Michal Shmulovich for the Times of Israel, please click here.
Why Arabs & Muslims keep trying to move to Israel, the “Apartheid State”
As Israel Apartheid Week circumnavigates the globe this month, a Jordan-based Palestinian journalist has offered an eloquent rebuttal that every Israel supporter should memorize and quote. If Israel is really an “apartheid state,” asks Ramzi Abu Hadid, “Why has it become the dream of many Arab Christians and Muslims to emigrate to the ‘apartheid state’? Is it possible that all these people are uninformed? Or do they really know the truth about Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East?”
Specifically, he noted, “thousands of the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip … try to infiltrate into Israel every morning in search of work and a better life,” while “tens of thousands of Arabs and Muslims have put their lives at risk by crossing the border into Israel from Egypt, where border guards often open fire at women and children.” In addition, “many Christian families from Bethlehem and even the Gaza Strip have moved to live in Israel because they feel safer in the ‘apartheid state’ than they do among their Muslim ‘brothers.’”
Abu Hadid doesn’t provide hard numbers, but the data amply prove his claims. During the first 11 months of last year alone, for instance, 13,851 illegal migrants entered Israel from Sinai; the biggest contingents were Muslim refugees from Sudan and Eritrea. And the risk of being shot by Egyptian guards is just one of the dangers they braved to reach “the apartheid state”: Migrants also face horrific abuse from the Sinai Bedouin who smuggle them over the border.
As for Palestinians, those who “try to infiltrate into Israel every morning” are only part of the story. To that, add the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have moved to Jerusalem in recent years rather than remain on the Palestinian side of Israel’s West Bank security barrier. Then add the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have sought and obtained Israeli citizenship by marrying Israeli Arabs.
Altogether, some 350,000 Palestinians have acquired citizenship through “family reunification” since Israel’s founding in 1948, according to veteran journalist Nadav Shragai. But the numbers surged following the 1993 Oslo Accord – i.e., precisely when Palestinian statehood for the first time looked like a real possibility: In 1994-2002, fully 137,000 Palestinians acquired Israeli citizenship through marriage. The numbers have since dropped drastically, but that isn’t because Palestinian demand has fallen: It’s because in 2003, Israel enacted new restrictions on family reunification in response to the second intifada.
Abu Hadid’s argument also has a flip side, as he himself noted: Unlike Israel, many of its Arab neighbors do engage in legalized discrimination against Palestinians. In Jordan, for instance, “the government has been trying to strip thousands of us Palestinians of our Jordanian citizenship – a move Israel never made against its Christians and Muslims.” He might also have mentioned a long list of other discriminatory practices: Until recently, for instance, Jordan barred Palestinians from Gaza from owning property or working in any job except manual labor and farming, while Lebanon also bars Palestinians from owning property or working in a long list of professions.
In short, the simplest response to the “apartheid” charge is the one Americans once used to counter Soviet propaganda: Just look at the direction of the population flow. It turns out Arabs and Muslims are voting with their feet in favor of the “apartheid state.”
