by Tamar Yonah
It seems like this is just too uncanny that these are all 'coincidences'.  On January 8, 2008 the day that President Bush left the USA for Israel in order to lay the framework for the establishment of a Palestinian State and the division of Jerusalem for its capital , a freak 'January' tornado swept through a city in Bush's own country.  The place hit was 'Jerusalem', Arkansas.  Coincidence? 
One church was totally destroyed in the tornado’s path.  The name of it was “Mt. Zion” Community Church.  Coincidence?                         Destroyed Church called, "Mt. Zion"
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One man was killed in the tornado.  He was a ‘Pope’ County resident.  His name, was Billy Carter.
On Sunday of last week, I read out a report about this 'freak tornado' which hit Jerusalem, Arkansas. (Tovia Singer spoke about the tornado on his show after mine, on Wednesday) I was emailed by a few people last week to write on the tornado, but I didn’t have time to do it until now.  So, let’s examine some interesting ‘coincidences’ here.
1)  A tornado in the month of JANUARY?
2)  This tornado hits a city ...   more »

By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Israeli college professors who label their country a Nazi apartheid regime, teach that the Bible is full of myths, urge the downfall of the Jewish state, and speak at conventions calling for the boycott of Israel?
Universities in Jerusalem that give awards to academic papers complaining Jewish soldiers don't rape enough Arab women and encourage students to protest the antiterror policies of the Israeli military?
These trends are rampant across college campuses here, according to one website – Israel Academia Monitor – which has been documenting what it calls the anti-Israel, at times anti-Semitic behavior of the senior staff at major Israeli universities.
Some 20 to 25 percent of the humanities and social sciences staff in Israel's universities and colleges have "expressed extreme anti-Zionist positions," according to Israel Academia Monitor.
"In addition [the university staff] have engaged in public demonstrations, prepared and signed petitions addressed to Israeli soldiers to disobey their commanders' orders and not serve in Judea and Samaria, and have been active in encouraging academic organizations abroad to boycott Israel Universities and academics," states a new Monitor position paper made available online.
In one of hundreds of recent documented examples, Israel Academia Monitor's ...   more »

Tovah Lazaroff
Fear of rockets falling keeps Sarit Ben-Hamo, 14, from sleeping at night in her Sderot home.
"Last night she woke up because she thought she heard a siren," her father, Haim, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
"She is scared," he said of his daughter, who for half of her life has lived in a city that has been under attack by Palestinian terrorists living across the border in Gaza.
Haim has lived in Sderot all his life and has no intention of leaving the city. But these days, he is weighing sending Sarit to the US as part of a new grassroots program called "Save Israel's Children." It was created in the last month by a non-affiliated group of Jewish friends scattered from California to the East Coast.
According to Batya Katar, head of the Sderot Parents Association, some 150 parents from Sderot have already signed up for the program. Katar is helping field applications in Israel and is likely to fly to the US in advance of the children.
On the American side, news of the program has spread mostly by word of mouth, although it does also have a Web site. "A friend told a ...   more »

Miriam Bulwar David-Hay
"We are speaking about record numbers, the likes of which have not been seen for the past two decades," says a municipal education department spokeswoman
If you thought Tel Aviv was no place for children, think again. The city is in the midst of a baby boom, with almost twice as many two-year-olds as 10-year-olds now living in the city, reports the Hebrew weekly Yediot Tel Aviv. And the boom means that while 4,000 children are now in first grade at schools around the city, that number is expected to rise to 6,000 within the next four years, necessitating major adjustments in the city's education system.
According to the report, the image of Tel Aviv as a city with an aging population is entirely wrong, with hordes of young families forsaking comfortable villas in outlying cities and towns in order to live in small apartments in the city. Figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics and from the city's education department show that four years ago, 3,500 children were in the first grade in the city, and that this number rose by a steady average of 125 children per year to 4,000 in the current school year. ...   more »

By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent 
The pre-dawn launch Monday of a new reconnaissance satellite further establishes Israel as one of the world's superpowers in space, and grants it an important further intelligence advantage over its rivals.
The primary intelligence contribution of the TECSAR satellite, manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries, lies in improving capabilities of intelligence gathering and coverage over Iran.
Although planned several years ago and delayed a number of times of late, the launch sends anew a message to Iran that Israel continues to maintain its superiority in the field of intelligence in space. 
The message coincidentally accompanies last week's high-profile launch of an Israeli Jericho ballistic missile, also intended as a signal to the leaders of Iran.
The launch of an Israeli satellite atop an Indian missile from a launch site in India bears a number of additional advantages. First, it enables Israel to establish a new point of view in space, allowing it photographic angles which were unavailable in prior satellite launches.
The direction of the launch, from the east and opposite to the earth's rotation, allows Israel increased coverage of sites in Iran. TECSAR's optical capability is based on SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) technology and on ...   more »

By Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Islamic courts meet every week in the UK to rule on divorces and financial disputes. Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones report on demands by senior Muslims that sharia be given legal authority
Amnah is a modern British Muslim. She is dressed in a denim skirt and her head is covered in a hijab. Poised and self-assured, she has come to meet Dr Suhaib Hasan, a silver-bearded sheikh who sits behind his desk, surrounded by religious books.
The origins and obligations of sharia law
"But why would I have to observe the waiting period?" she asks him. "What are the reasons?" There is an urgency to her questions.   
Dr Suhaib Hasan is pushing for personal sharia law to be integrated into the British legal system
"These reasons don't apply to me, that's what I'm very confused about. If you could give me the reasons why I have to wait three months, then I'll understand."
Amnah is going through a divorce and is baffled at being told that she must wait for three months to remarry, considering that she hasn't seen her estranged husband for two years.
She twists her sock-clad toes into the ...   more »

By Thomas Frank
WASHINGTON — The newest tool at airport security checkpoints is 3 inches long and costs only a few dollars: a handheld black light.
Airport screeners are starting to use them this month to examine driver's licenses and other passenger ID cards presented at checkpoints to spot forgeries or tampering. Passengers with suspicious documents can be questioned by police or immigration agents.
Black lights will help screeners inspect the ID cards by illuminating holograms, typically of government seals, that are found in licenses and passports. Screeners also are getting magnifying glasses that highlight tiny inscriptions found in borders of passports and other IDs. About 2,100 of each are going to the nation's 800 airport checkpoints.
The closer scrutiny of passenger IDs is the latest Transportation Security Administration effort to check passengers more thoroughly than simply having them walk through metal detectors.
In the past six months, the agency has been taking over the checking of passenger IDs and boarding passes at airport checkpoints. For years, security guards hired by airlines have done that.
"This is a significant security upgrade," TSA chief Kip Hawley says. Screeners are trained in spotting forged documents and will get some training in studying ...   more »

As biggest FTSE crash since 9/11 wipes off nearly £60bn in shares
Traders at the London Stock Exchange have seen the FTSE drop since the beginning of January
The stock market was in meltdown today as nearly £60billion was wiped off London shares.
A combination of poor economic figures and the worsening global credit crunch sent the FTSE 100 plunging.
At one stage the drop was the biggest since 9/11 in 2001, although the index of Britain's biggest companies later clawed back some of the losses. At lunchtime the Footsie was down 250.1 points to 5647.8.
That means the FTSE 100 has now fallen by around 10 per cent in the last 10 days, by around 15 per cent over the last month and is well on the way to being off 20 per cent since its most recent high of 6754 in July - before the world's banking system was sent spiralling.
It is also the worst start to the year for the stock market since records began in 1936. "I smell the acrid stench of fear and uncertainty," said markets commentator David Buik of BGC Partners. European markets also tumbled.
The fall in the Footsie came after figures ...   more »

Rules, regs to be integrated without congressional review
By Jerome R. Corsi
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Bush and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at a White House summit meeting last April where they launched the Transatlantic Economic Council
Six U.S. senators and 49 House members are advisers for a group working toward a Transatlantic Common Market between the U.S. and the European Union by 2015.
The Transatlantic Policy Network – a non-governmental organization headquartered in Washington and Brussels – is advised by the bi-partisan congressional TPN policy group, chaired by Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah.
The plan – currently being implemented by the Bush administration with the formation of the Transatlantic Economic Council in April 2007 – appears to be following a plan written in 1939 by a world-government advocate who sought to create a Transatlantic Union as an international governing body.
An economist from the World Bank has argued in print that the formation of the Transatlantic Common Market is designed to follow the blueprint of Jean Monnet, a key intellectual architect of the European Union, recognizing that economic integration must inevitably lead to political integration.
As WND previously reported, a key step in advancing this goal was ...   more »

Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, have discovered the first example of fruit mimicry caused by a parasitic organism.  The parasite, a type of roundworm called a nematode, causes its host, in this case an ant, to grow a bright red abdomen that resembles the ripe berries found throughout their tropical forest environment.
The researchers believe the parasite induces this dramatic effect on its hosts as a way to trick birds into eating the infected ants.  This provides a mechanism for the parasite to propagate itself as the birds spread the parasite through their droppings.
“It’s just crazy that something as dumb as a nematode can manipulate its host’s exterior morphology and behavior in ways sufficient to convince a clever bird to facilitate transmission of the nematode,” said Robert Dudley, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in a press release put out today by the University.
Dudley said the bizarre lifecycle of the nematode can be seen in tropical forests ranging from Central America to the lowland Amazon. 
“It’s phenomenal that these nematodes actually turn the ants bright red, and that they look so much like the fruits in the forest canopy,” said co-author Stephen ...   more »

Scientists have extended the lifespan of yeast, microbes responsible for creating bread and beer, by 10-fold. That's twice the previous record for life extension in an organism.
The breakthrough could ultimately inform efforts to extend human lives.
Instead of one week, the yeast lived for about 10 weeks through genetic tinkering and a low-calorie diet.
"We've reprogrammed the healthy life of an organism," said Valter Longo, a biologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles who led the life-prolonging experiments.
Longo and his colleagues detail their findings in two upcoming studies; one in the Jan. 25 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics and another in the Jan. 14 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
Genetic soldiers
DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the body's set of blueprints and instructions, carried by genes.
"Evolution designed our genes, our army, to be ready for growth and reproduction," Longo told LiveScience. Problem is, pooling the body's efforts into growing makes room for genetic errors that lead to age-related disease. "We can use our energy to grow and reproduce, or protect ourselves."
Longo and his team previously found two genes — RAS2 and SCH9 — related to growth and development of ...   more »

by Rabbi S. Weiss(IsraelNN.com) "And G-d said to Moshe: Stretch your arm over the water of the Reed Sea, and it shall split." Later, after Bnei Yisrael had crossed safely through the sea, G-d said, once again, "Stretch your hand upon the sea, and the water shall return to its original place." And so it did.
Now, I fully understand why a miracle was necessary to split the sea; but why should an "act of G-d" be necessary for the water to resume its original, natural function? Doesn't science teach us the obvious, that "water seeks its own level"? Do I need a miracle for this?
Another question: Why, inexplicably, does the Torah tell us that "Bnei Yisrael walked on dry land through the water, which formed a wall for them on each side" (14:29), after the sea had already come crashing down? The place for this pasuk is clearly before the Egyptians are drowned, while the Jews were yet passing through the Reed Sea.
I suggest that the Torah is teaching us here an important truth of the universe. The fact that the sea can go "against" nature - defying gravity to rise up in a wall - is ...   more »

Prince Turki al-Faisal, adviser to King Abdullah, says if Israel accepts Arab League plan and signs comprehensive peace, 'one can imagine the integration of Israel into the Arab geographical entity'
Reuters
A senior Saudi royal has offered Israel a vision of broad cooperation with the Arab world and people-to-people contacts if it signs a peace treaty and withdraws from all occupied Arab territories.
In an interview with Reuters, Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former ambassador to the United States and Britain and adviser to King Abdullah, said Israel and the Arabs could cooperate in many areas including water, agriculture, science and education.  
Asked what message he wanted to send to the Israeli public, he said: "The Arab world, by the Arab peace initiative, has crossed the Rubicon from hostility towards Israel to peace with Israel and has extended the hand of peace to Israel, and we await the Israelis picking up our hand and joining us in what inevitably will be beneficial for Israel and for the Arab world."  
The 22-nation Arab League revived at a Riyadh summit last year a Saudi peace plan first adopted in 2002 offering Israel full normalisation of relations in return for full withdrawal ...   more »

Etgar Lefkovits
Nearly 300,000 Israelis have left Jerusalem over the last decade and a half, an annual survey released Thursday showed.
The findings represent a stunning failure of Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski and his two predecessors, Ehud Olmert and Teddy Kollek as well as past and present Israeli Governments to stem the ongoing exodus of Jewish residents from the capital who are moving to the suburbs and elsewhere for better quality of life, and make the city more attractive for others.
272,300 Jerusalem residents, mostly Jews, have left the city between 1990-2006, according to the 2006 Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem put out by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.
The survey find that 17,300 Jews left Jerusalem in 2006, compared to 10,900 who moved to the city, leaving the overall annual migration level at 6,400, up from 5,800 the year before, and similar to numbers in recent years.
About half of those who left the city moved to various Jerusalem suburbs, as well as nearby West Bank settlements, while the other half relocated to central Israel, the study finds.
The statistics reflected an ongoing trend of Jewish migration from the city to the suburbs which began in the 1980's, and ...   more »