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Work on a Dig for Antiquities in Israel

July 10th, 2009 · No Comments

By Paul Shindman
The Dead Sea Scroll exhibit at the ROM in Toronto gives Canadians a peek at ancient history that is literally underfoot wherever you walk in Israel.
Canada’s native peoples lived with the land, and archeological sites are sprinkled across Canada’s vastness. Unlike the ancient Israelites and other locals in the Holy Land, the Canadian [...]

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Tags: Education · Travel

An Israeli Company To Make Blackberry Users More Worldly

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman

Canadians love their Blackberries, and I am not talking about the small berries you buy from the side of the road near Huntsville, Ontario in the summer. Thanks to a new Israeli technology, the old Blackberry smartphone is going to be a lot more useful.
A Blackberry development fund, BlackBerry Partners Fund, which controls [...]

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Tags: Hi-Tech & Innovation

You still get change on the bus in Israel

December 25th, 2008 · No Comments

By Paul Shindman
Isn’t Israel that bastion of, well, un-safeness? Isn’t it one horribly ferociously unsafe place for men, women and children?
Ha ha! Fooled ya again. It just ain’t so. All those front page stories about war and terrorism and strife? Well, they’re just front page stories. And getting on the bus is just another page [...]

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Tags: Travel