Hebrew 101
This is comforting: In the ongoing effort to turn up anti-Israel heat, Iran has begun recruiting Hebrew speakers. Tit for tat, you could say, since Israel recruits Farsi speakers to its intelligence ranks. 
According to this YNet story:
The Iranian regime needs Hebrew speakers to work as translators, intelligence agents and as part of its propaganda machine against Israel. The main source of Hebrew speakers is Palestinian students studying abroad or Palestinian terrorists sent for military training in Iran and Lebanon.
One of the most prominent centers for Hebrew studies is located at Iran’s embassy in Beirut, where Hizbullah members learn Hebrew at the Islamic Culture and Education Center….
Meanwhile, in Israel, the Mossad has recently published an ad in the newspaper inviting Farsi speakers to apply for “an interesting, challenging position,” which apparently includes listening in on Iranian transmissions and translating materials published in Iran.
Social Media Part II
Filed under: A New Reality, Blogging, Business, Technology
Continuing on the social networking thread, we explore another angle of social media.
This time, the spotlight’s on illuminea blog who asks: Are we reaching the social media saturation point?
New media is fun…But while I am no expert investor, this has all the signs of a bubble to me. A lot of excitement over a quickly shrinking space with diminishing potential.
One thing’s for sure: with everyone betting on ad revenues, it’s clear who’s going to emerge a sure winner in this social media trend…
You’ll have to read the blog entry for the answer…hee hee
How Is It?
This is one of the catchier blog entries I’ve seen in quite some time. Thanks ahead of time to The Muqata for this gem.
According to The Muqata, Israel enacted a law whereby all company vehicles have to stick that silly “How’s My Driving?” message on back bumpers or rear windshields. I HAVE heard, however, that innocents phoning these numbers get telemarketers. Why am I not surprised by this?
Guess what this kid’s shirt sez? 
“How am I behaving? Call now…”
Brill.
The Social Debate
“It’s addictive”
“I’m on all the time”
“I’ve found so many old friends and colleagues!”
Social networking is here to stay.
And Jerusalemite Michael Eisenberg, partner at Benchmark Capital Israel and blogster over at Six Kids and a Full Time Job, comments on Facebook versus LinkedIn:
…Facebook is a huge threat to LinkedIn. I would never have expected this 4 weeks ago. LinkedIn is billed as a business social network. It has even monetized well around that….
…LinkedIn is valuable and connects me to many entrepreneurs and potential recruits but, anecdotally, the “senior staff” is hanging out on Facebook and searching for contacts!
Read here for the full text…
Do you have your social network account in order?
Grand Cross?
A group of wealthy Italian and Israeli businessmen recently decided to build “the mother of all crosses” in Nazareth – 60 meters or 197 feet or 66 yards high. But they hesitated for fear of offending Muslims who make up over 50% of the local population.
Now it turns out that opposition to “The Cross of Nazareth” is being voiced by the church itself, with directives coming from the Vatican.
In a public statement issued by church leaders in the Galilee that was signed, inter alia, by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the bishop of the Catholic community in Israel, Elias Shakour, and the protector of the holy sites in Israel on behalf of the Vatican, Father Pierre Battista Pizzabella, the church officials wrote that they opposed the project first of all for fear that it would offend the sensibilities of members of other religions. “We, as church leaders, welcome any economic effort, particularly in Nazareth, on condition that it not harm the symbols or religious sensibilities of any faith,” the statement read.
Behind the scenes, the word is that sensibilities are one thing but church leaders also don’t want any attention being grabbed from the Church of the Annunciation, Nazareth’s holy site…Stay tuned for the final edict.
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