Happiness is a relative thing, but a new Forbes report shows how Gallop has attempted to rank the world, and Israel has come out on top – sharing rank 8 with Canada, Australia and Switzerland.
We can see why countries like Denmark, Finland and Norway come out on top. I was just in Finland and admired how the Nordic country’s citizens have their basic needs are taken care of, matched with a high standard of living, lots of holidays, green space, saunas, and good fish. [Read more →]
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Fans of Canada’s “Canada for Better Place” website can’t wait for the roll out of an all-electric vehicle grid to hit the roads of Canada. Better Place, the Israeli company based in California has designs to electrify not only Canada’s roads, but roads of the world.
Canada’s Israel blog has previously reported Better Place’s Shai Agassi’s activities in the Province of Ontario (see the article Shai Agassi Goes Canadian, Eh?), but a strong Canadian connection to the Better Place plan is already in the works through a deep business agreement being developed by an Israeli firm, the mega-huge holding company Israel Corp, China’s Chery, an automobile manufacturer, Canada’s Magna Steyr, a division of Frank Stronach’s Magna International, and Italy’s Italdesign. [Read more →]
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The Canadian Friends of Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind held their first annual Evening of Miracles in Toronto last month and Guy Simchi, a 39-year-old social worker from Ganei Tikva in Israel, was there as a speaker.
Simchi went blind from diabetes seven years ago, and says it was a cheerful black Labrador that changed his life. “When I met Turner I held his harness. I started walking. I felt that I could fly,” he said in an article in the Canadian Jewish News. Simchi spoke to a crowd of 300 at Toronto’s Beth Tzedec Synagogue. He related how Turner helped him step back into society, and that without a cumbersome cane that people were avoiding, passers by were petting his dog. [Read more →]
