http://israelplug.com Israelplug. Israel innovation. Made in Israel. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:00:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Your choices (think very carefully...) A. Italy B. Sweden C. Israel D. India You may not have guessd it, but Newsweek confirms that the winner is Israel! I'm not sure the last time I saw a Swedish-based show, so it may not have been a very tough competition. Regardless, Israel is starting to appear in ... http://israelplug.com/art-and-culture/newsweek-asks-who-exports-the-most-tv-to-the-us/ Here’s a joke that’s been going around the web for a while, but I thought I’d share: A Jewish man was sitting in Starbucks reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to come in the same store, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached him and said: “Moshe, ... http://israelplug.com/jokes/joke-why-it%e2%80%99s-better-for-jews-to-read-the-arab-papers/ Today as on every day, I conducted my usual social media time wasting activities before getting down to work. One of my daily activities is to check what's going on in the twitterverse (i.e. the world of twitter). Many of you have probably heard of twitter, but have no clue ... http://israelplug.com/social-media/israelplug-now-featured-on-alltopcom-and-the-israeli-hockey-jersey/ As many of you may have heard, Israel recently selected a new national bird: the Hoopoe, or "Duchifat" in Hebrew. I have no idea what the logic was behind this choice, since the Hoopoe is specified as unclean in the Bible and therefore not kosher, but bird fans say the ... http://israelplug.com/environment/stephen-colbert-congratulates-israel-on-new-national-bird-and-kosher-giraffes/ Thomas Friedman posed a question to his readers earlier this week in The New York Times: What do America’s premier investor, Warren Buffett, and Iran’s toxic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have in common? Answer: They’ve both made a bet about Israel’s future. Yet again, Ahmadinejad announced that Israel would be wiped off the ... http://israelplug.com/financial/iran-bets-on-dinosaurs-buffet-bets-on-israeli-brains/ I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I actually tear up every time I'm at a ceremony or event where Hatikva, Israel's national anthem, is played. You'd think I'd get over it already, but the ideas in the song are just so...profound, and you get the feeling that when everybody's singing ... http://israelplug.com/videos/israels-national-anthem-circa-2008/ Although it might sound kind of scary, "The Danger Room", is a special section of Wired Magazine focusing on technology for national security with a special category dedicated to Israel, called "Sabra Tech". I wonder if anyone besides the author of this section, Noah Shachtman, actually knows what the ... http://israelplug.com/technology/wired-magazine-acknowledges-sabra-tech/ Not only is Israel breaking Guiness World Records for largest amount of people saying Hatikvah simultaneously, largest national flag, and the World's largest Humus plate, we also keep breaking previous tourist records. According to the Ministry of Tourism, in April of 2008 alone, there were 290,000 tourists, a 41% ... http://israelplug.com/business/tourism-in-israel-is-growing-fast-with-big-plans-to-bring-more/ I was born and raised in Canada. From what I remember, Canada's leaders tended to not be very remarkable, and their attitude towards Israel ranged from uncaring, to hostile. Well, apparently Canada's now got a Prime Minister with guts. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not afraid to laud Israel's achievements, and ... http://israelplug.com/videos/canadian-prime-minister-harper-strongly-supports-israel-on-60th-birthday/ Here are some interesting ideas that were raised during the President's Conference. First, I'd like to start with the opening session, titled "Presidents Discussing Tomorrow." I'm only reviewing the Presidents that I thought were most interesting, so here goes, organized by speaker: Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK, currently ... http://israelplug.com/art-and-culture/presidents-discussing-tomorrow/