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Entries from November 2008

The Richest Woman in the Middle East Fixes Leaky Pipes With Canadian Company

November 28th, 2008 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman

Well the title of this post is kind of misleading. Sort of.
This is a story about Shari Arison, the billionaire heiress of Carnival Cruiselines. With a reported $5.5 billion in assets (according to Forbes), Arison is the richest woman in the Middle East. Owner of one of Israel’s banks, Arison is hard to [...]

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Tags: Business

Canada Among Nations Vying for Jewish Hockey Tournament Title in Israel

November 27th, 2008 · No Comments

By Adam Michael Segal
Canada ’s national sport will be skating its way to the Holy Land next year and big things are expected of the Canucks.
The Canadian squad is considered among the favourites to win the third annual World Jewish Hockey Tournament, which will be hosted in Metulla, Israel at the Canada Centre from July [...]

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Tags: Sports

What’s the Symbolism of the Israeli Flag?

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments

by Lauren Kramer
That’s precisely the question Toronto documentary filmmaker Igal Hecht recently tried to find out. The 30-year-old Israeli-born Hecht, who hails from Ashkelon, took himself on a journey across Israel earlier this year to film My Flag, a film about the flag’s symbolism. On his trip he draped himself in the Israeli flag and [...]

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Tags: Film