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		<title>The roof is green</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/13/the-roof-is-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We stayed home this weekend, enjoying some peace and quiet at the &#8216;ol homestead. But last weekend we headed down for our annual Shabbat at Kibbutz Ketura with my husband Daniel&#8217;s group of high school students &#8212; he runs a program called TRY, Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim, and they always spend a week at Ketura.
But back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flower hunt</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/03/04/flower-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=15189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After several weeks of putting my nose to the proverbial grindstone, my working partners and I decided it was high time for a day off, one that would help us find new material for our latest project (more later on that), and that would get us out of the city.
We had grand plans for hitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rain &#8211; a love/hate story</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/rain-a-lovehate-story/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/28/rain-a-lovehate-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jerusalem]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=15176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really hate the rain. Oh, I know it’s good for us and the country desperately needs to refill its reservoirs. I just wish we could get all our rainfall at night, when I’m sleeping. Getting caught in a daytime downpour is one of my most dreaded activities. It’s cold, my glasses get pelted so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Finally Meet My Prince</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/26/i-finally-meet-my-prince/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/26/i-finally-meet-my-prince/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karin Kloosterman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karin meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water Security in the Middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foto Friday &#8211; Creepy Crawlies</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/18/foto-friday-creepy-crawlies/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/18/foto-friday-creepy-crawlies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=15111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, scientists at the University of Haifa announced that they had discovered a new and previously unknown species of spider. I don&#8217;t know about you, but I greet news like that with mixed emotions: pride in our local research institutions, curiosity at seeing the bug and &#8212; now having seen the photos (like this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nostalgia Sunday &#8211; Israel Electric</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/14/nostalgia-sunday-israel-electric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) is amongst our country&#8217;s most hated monopolies, and today we got another dose of why that is. According to a World Bank report reported by Globes, &#8220;Salaries at Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) (TASE: ELEC.B22) are among the highest among utilities in the world&#8230;&#8221;  
&#8220;IEC commissioned the report in an effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foto Friday &#8211; Painting Feb Red</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/12/foto-friday-painting-feb-red/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/12/foto-friday-painting-feb-red/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=15080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s February which means only six more weeks of winter, or maybe just six minutes more, given the freakish weekend hot spell. The JNF-KKL has declared February a month-long Festival Darom Adom, or Scarlet South Festival, in honor of the wild red anemones now dotting the fields all over the country, but particularly the northern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foto Friday &#8211; Israel Weathering the Storms</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/05/foto-friday-israel-weathering-the-storms/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/05/foto-friday-israel-weathering-the-storms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Neiman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has quite a lot of weather these days &#8211; which is pretty amazing considering that only less than a generation ago, we had no weather at all. 
Photo by Zohar Shachar
More accurately put, we had no weather report. Before the advent of Channel 2 and cute-as-a-button weatherman Dani Rupp, each evening we were treated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From paradise to a parking lot to a high rise</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/02/03/from-paradise-to-a-parking-lot-to-a-high-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/02/03/from-paradise-to-a-parking-lot-to-a-high-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=15039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They paved paradise and put up a parking lot&#8230;&#8221; then they tore up the parking lot and put up a high rise.
I&#8217;m not sure if Joni Mitchell meant that for the continuation of her lyrics to &#8220;Big Yellow Taxi&#8221; but it seems to be the modus operandi in Jerusalem, at least for the parking lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kibbutz changes</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2010/01/27/kibbutz-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2010/01/27/kibbutz-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=15009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been a sucker and romanticized kibbutz life, probably because I&#8217;ve never lived it. But I have enduring admiration for the kibbutz pioneer types, whether of the present or yesteryear, whether they&#8217;re building plastic pipe fittings, growing algae or creating alternative educational centers.
That said, things have been changing in the kibbutz for some time, [...]]]></description>
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