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		<title>Giving insurance companies an (even worse) name</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/20/giviing-insurance-companies-an-even-worse-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is about as mundane a subject as is out there, but it certainly reflects that the reality of living in Israel has very little to do with the headlines most people read, and more to do with the trials and tribulations we all face no matter where we live.
I wrote a few weeks ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Room 124</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/room-124/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli bureaucratic institutions have been slowly but surely modernizing over recent years. You can get in and out of the infamous Interior Ministry in less than a day…and you don’t have to line up at 8:00 AM just to shove your way in through the heavily guarded front door.
The health funds now have computerized kiosks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not just any third birthday</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/19/not-just-any-third-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hozlberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[india]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terror]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=14077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most quickly forgotten aspects following any terror attack is the survivors. We all mourn the victims, obsess about the perpetrators, and move on, as those left behind attempt to pick up the pieces of their lives.
Three-year-old Moishe Holzberg has proven to be the exception. A year ago, Moishe&#8217;s parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holzberg, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesting Israel-style</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/17/protesting-israel-style/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/17/protesting-israel-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Blum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The email we received last week was dire. Our neighborhood was in grave danger of being ruined by unscrupulous real estate developers, it read. A massive 210-unit apartment project had been green-lighted to be built right in the middle of an already congested neighborhood.
The resulting traffic, pollution and just plain lack of aesthetics (the planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious ruptures</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/religious-ruptures/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/religious-ruptures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Levac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beit Avi Chai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eretz Israel Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haredim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Menahem Kahana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[riots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=14020</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ith Jerusalem debating the efficacies and realities of the city&#8217;s haredim rioting against the opening of the Intel factory on Shabbat, talk at the water cooler on this first day of the work week revolved around this latest turn in the Shabbat riots.
The riots were reportedly peaceful, but as one coworker of mine commented, &#8220;How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shalom Haver</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/shalom-haver/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/15/shalom-haver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saban Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yitzhak Rabin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=14012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[riving down Jerusalem&#8217;s King David Street last night on my way to band practice, I passed an array of police vehicles and official-looking swanky cars ensconced in front of the David Citadel Hotel. Now, which foreign leaders are here now, I thought?
Then I remembered that the Sixth annual Saban Forum was taking place from Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music downloads? Israel goes CD retro</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/12/music-downloads-israel-goes-cd-retro/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/12/music-downloads-israel-goes-cd-retro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hatav Hashmini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jerusalem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ozen Hashlishi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tel Aviv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tower Records]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As more and more people are downloading music on the Web and choosing Ipods over CD players, where can you find the good, old fashioned mega-CD stores? In Israel!
True, Tower Records has taken a hit here, with its Jerusalem flagship store closing down last year, but instead of throwing in the flag, other outlets have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of the week: The long goodbye to Rabin</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/11/picture-of-the-week-the-long-goodbye-to-rabin/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/11/picture-of-the-week-the-long-goodbye-to-rabin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Picture of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intifada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shimon Peres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yitzhak Rabin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
There can&#8217;t be many people on the left or the right in Israel who don&#8217;t still wonder what would have happened if former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hadn&#8217;t died the night he was shot by religious fanatic Yigal Amir.
Would we have peace now? Would the second intifada have been avoided? Or would everything have unfolded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel gets its newest celebrity visitor</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/09/israel-gets-its-newest-celebrity-visitor/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/09/israel-gets-its-newest-celebrity-visitor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AlphaRex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindstorms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We get a lot of celebrity visitors to Israel. Bill Clinton, George Bush, the Dalai Lama, Madonna
, Leonardo DiCaprio, Grover from Sesame Street – you name it, the great and glorious come here. It&#8217;s a field day for the press, who follow their every move in Israel, trying to get that one great shot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High school musical &#8211; the hike</title>
		<link>http://israelity.com/2009/11/09/high-school-musical-the-hike/</link>
		<comments>http://israelity.com/2009/11/09/high-school-musical-the-hike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History and Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barbecues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israelity.com/?p=13916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A uniquely Israeli creation, the tiyul shnati (Annual trip) has been part of our family&#8217;s lives since our oldest child was big enough for one of the outdoor overnight, multi-day trips.
Whether they attend secular or religious schools, the annual trips are generally chock full of walking the land, camping in the rough, rope and ladder [...]]]></description>
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