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The Israel Ministry of Defense has completed preparations for the opening of an Israeli exhibit at the world's largest aerospace trade exhibition. The International Paris Air Show will commence on Monday, June 17th, at the Le Bourget exhibition center. The show takes place at a time marked by an increase of defense budgets by the European members of NATO. The International Defense Cooperation Directorate (SIBAT), of the Israel Ministry of Defense, along with Israeli defense industries will exhibit advanced tactical UAVs, missiles, radars and more.
SIBAT, The International Defense Cooperation Directorate at the Ministry of Defense has completed preparations for the inauguration of an Israeli exhibit at the International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, near Paris. This is the largest aerospace trade show and among the most important exhibitions in the world. Five of Israel’s leading defense industries will partake in the exhibition: Rafael, Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Aeronautics Defense Systems, and UVision. Two additional companies, Bet Shemesh Engines and BIRD Aerosystems will also participate in the exhibition.
Director of SIBAT, Brig. Gen. (Ret.), Yair Kulas - recently appointed to the position:
“The European Defense Market is among the most competitive and rapidly growing markets in the world. The European continent is encountering various security challenges including domestic security, counter-terrorism and border defense. The [show] is an opportunity for exporters and innovators to present their solutions, and this is particularly true for Israel, which is considered a global leader in defense technologies. The demand
for advanced Israeli technologies has been on the rise in Europe in recent years, and we will work hard, together with the Israeli industries, to maintain and enforce this trend.”
The products and technology that will be displayed at the Israeli exhibit:
Elbit Systems will reveal new technology in the fields of intelligence, aerial precision guided munitions, and civil aviation. Among the new systems:
The Hermes 45 is a new small tactical UAS that combines airborne and operational capabilities that are typical of large aircraft. The UAS offers a unique combination of extended range and duration with point launch and recovery, to and from land and maritime platforms thus enhancing Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) capabilities at the brigade and division levels and also for naval squadron units.
The Rampage is a long-range, precise, supersonic missile.
The i-FMS is a flight management system that tackles the challenge that pilots face today with FMS operations- the need to propose changes to the FMS during critical phases of flight such as takeoff and landing.
IAI will unveil two new products:
The T-Heron is a tactical UAV suitable for missions undertaken by ground troops, coastal guards and similar forces.
The MS-MMR radar features new active and passive sensors to generate an enhanced aerial situation assessment.
Throughout the show, IAI is expected to announce new venues of business cooperation in various fields.
Rafael will reveal:
A new navigation system for fighter aircraft - the first in the world with electro-optic capabilities combined with SAR radar capabilities. The combination of these capabilities provides a broad response to a variety of environmental conditions.
The Iron Dome System - in its various forms: land, marine and mobile versions of the Iron Dome (i-Dome) - in which all system components are installed on a vehicle.
Le Bourget (Figures from 2017): Approximately 330 thousand square meters of exhibition space in the exhibition halls and outside area, 2,400 companies from 48 countries, 290 official delegations from the field of defense and government offices, 27 national pavilions, about 150,000 visiting professionals and about 200,000 visitors from the general public.
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On May 13, 2019, the Embassy of Ireland hosted a ُEurovision party. The celebration was held at the home of the Ambassador of Ireland to Israel, H.E. Alison Kelly, and the embassy of Austria was hosted as well, with the Eurovision contestants from both countries attending.
The home of the ambassador was decorated with the colors of Ireland: green and orange, as a festive environment enveloped guests in anticipation of the Eurovision contest.
The evening featured performances by both singers with their respective songs. Ambassador Alison Kelly wished good luck to the contestant of Austria, Pænda, but she also said that she “Firmly believes that Ms. McTernan will win the competition and make the best representation of her country.” The ambassador reiterated the importance and relevance that Austria has for her personally since she represented Ireland in Austria when she was just starting her diplomatic career.
The Austrian contestant, Pænda, was well prepared and took the stage playing the keyboard as well as singing. The star of the night, of course, was the Irish contestant, Sarah McTernan, who told the guests how thankful she was for being able to perform there and how much she and her crew had prepared for this moment.
Diplomacy.co.il and Debate for Peace wishes the best of luck to the contestants and the embassies
Mihal Mizrahi is a member of DebateforPeace
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This year's closing ceremony for the Holocaust Memorial Day will mark the 70th anniversary of the foundation of 'Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot' and the Ghetto Fighters' House – The world's first Holocaust Museum and the first one built by Holocaust survivors. Nathan Goshen will perform at the ceremony in front of the Commander of the Northern Command, Major General Amir Baram and many others.
Thursday, 2.5.2019 | 19:30 | Ghetto Fighters' House
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The Holocaust Memorial Day at the Ghetto Fighters' House will take place at the Museum's open Amphitheatre and will mark the 70th anniversary of the Museum and Kibbutz' founding.
During the Holocaust Memorial Day, Thursday 2.5, the Ghetto Fighters' House museum and the children's memorial museum "Yad LaYeled" will be open free of charge to the general public.
Shlomo Richard Almog
Born in Tunisia. In November 1942, the Germans and Italians invaded North Africa where many Jews were subsequently sent to forced-labor camps.
Avery Fisher
In 1944, with Germany's final invasion of Slovenia, the family had to separate and Avery was concealed behind a fake identity and hidden with a Catholic family. Avery will light the torch in memory of his aunt Gizi Fleishman, who headed the "Labor Group" which operated in secret against the Slovakian government, to stop the Slovakian Jews "deportation of death" to Poland. However, in 1944 Gizi Fleishman and most of the Slovakian Jews were sent to the Auschwitz's gas chambers. Today, Avery lives in Kfar Masaryk.
Wolf & Shlomo Galperin
The leaders of the "131 Kovno Children" group, gave hope to 131 children who began their difficult journey in the Kovno ghetto, which ended for those who succeeded in surviving the war, in the Birkenau camp. Thanks to Wolf's leadership, the children of the Kovno ghetto received his authority. Together with his brother Shlomo, the "131 children from the Kovno ghetto" formed, of whom 40 were saved. 25 of them succeeded in immigrating to Israel. Wolf lives in Sderot and Shlomo lives in the north of the country.
Esther Cohen
She was born in 1926 in Hungary to a family of nine. Upon the German invasion in 1944, Esther was sent to a labor camp. Her father and older brother were sent to a forced labor camp and she never saw them again. The mother and the three sisters were sent to Auschwitz, while Esther rolled from camp to camp. Six weeks before the end of the war, she was sent to the death camp at Mauthausen. Esther was saved, she returned to her home and found that her sisters had survived, but both parents and the older brother had perished. Esther immigrated to Israel in 1950 to Kibbutz Matzuva, married and has two sons, three granddaughters, and a great-grandchild.
Shimon Almog Huter
An orphan with no family or memories of them, without a clear past and with a thrilling survival story, filled with turbulence in Europe and in Israel. Shimon does not remember how and at what age he was brought to the Catholic family in the town of Zabrze, Poland, which hid him until the end of the war. After his appearance in the program "Lost Identity" with the late Manny Pe'er, a researcher on behalf of the program went to Poland to search for his birth certificate, which was found in the hospital near Zabrze, but could not find any information about his family. Shimon lives in Kibbutz Evron, he proud to be a father and a grandfather in the land of Israel.
Prof. Yoram Harpaz
Son of Holocaust survivors – the late Tzipora and Uzi Harpaz. A former journalist, writer, and educator. He devoted one of his books to the children of the second generation of Holocaust survivors, "Ma'ayan Children." Uzi and Tzipora managed to survive and immigrate to Israel. They met at 'Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot' and were among its founders.
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Israel’s Independence Day 2019
Data from 2018 (unless stated otherwise)
Population
- On the eve of Israel's 71st Independence Day, the population of Israel numbered 9.021 million[1]
- At the time of the establishment of the State of Israel, the population of Israel was 806,000 residents.
- On the 100th Independence Day of the State of Israel in 2048 the population of the state is expected to reach 15.2 million.[4]
- Since last year’s Independence Day,[5] Israel's population has grown by 177,000 (an increase of 2%). During that period, 188,000 babies were born, 31,000 immigrants arrived, and 47,000 died.[6]
- Since the State’s founding, 3.2 million immigrants have arrived in Israel, about 43% of them arrived after 1990.
- 45% of the world's Jewish population lives in Israel.
- 48,000 persons aged 90 and over live in Israel.
- 75% of the Jews are Sabras (born in Israel).
Geography
- Area of the State: 22,072 square kilometers
- Sea area (Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea): 2.0%
- Number of localities in Israel: 1,217 (based on population estimates for 2017)
Health
- Life expectancy (in 2017): Men - 80.7
Women - 84.6
- Total fertility rate[7] (in 2017): 3.11
Education
- Number of institutions of higher education: 62
- Percentage of those entitled to a matriculation certificate from those who took the exam: 75.6% (in 2017)
Standard of Living
- Average monthly money income per household: NIS 16,518 in 2017, a real increase of 4.6% compared with 2016
- Average monthly money expenditure per household: NIS 13,114 in 2017, a real increase of 2.2% compared with 2016
- 9% are satisfied with life (in 2018).
Work and Wages
- Average wages per employee job: NIS 10,473
- Unemployment rate: 4.0%
- The share of employed persons in high-tech out of all employed persons in Israel: 8.3% (in 2016)
Business and Manufacturing
- Number of active businesses: 583,000, about half of them (51%) do not employ workers (in 2017)
- Number of manufacturing establishments: 21,000 (in 2017)
- Number of jobs in manufacturing industries: 363,000 (in 2017)
Economic Indicators
- GDP per capita, at constant prices, increased by 1.3% in 2018, compared with 2017.
- An increase of 0.8% in the Consumer Price Index (in 2018)
Tourism
- 4 million visitors to Israel
- 5 million departures abroad
Transportation
- Percentage of households owning at least one car: 71.9% (in 2017)
- Number of vehicles: 3,495,412
- Number of persons licensed to drive: 4,358,402
- Length of paved roads (km): 19,555 (in 2017)
Construction, Housing, and Real Estate
- Percentage of ownership of dwellings by households: 66.5% (in 2017)
Sport
- 179 medals in the Olympics, Non-Olympics, and Paralympics (athletes with disabilities) (in 2017)
[1] The data in this Media Release are preliminary, and do not include the foreign worker population, which is estimated at approximately about 166,000.
[2] Arabs: Muslims (including Circassians), Arab Christians (including Armenians) and Druze.
[3] Others: Non-Arab Christians, other religions, and those registered as not classified by religion in the Population Registry, usually immigrants who immigrated under the Law of Return or family unification, but are not defined as Jews in the Population Registry.
[4] According to the national population projection for 2015-2065, medium variant.
[5] Due to differences in the Hebrew calendar, the data relate to the approximately 12.5 months that passed from the previous Independence Day.
[6] Additional growth components: family reunification, international migration balance.
[7] The number of children to which a woman is expected to give birth during her lifetime.
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Seven Debate for Peace students recently returned from the Netherlands, where they participated in the Robert Bosch Stiftung supported project “Your Story, My Story: Creating Empathy through Shared Storytelling”. As part of the project, Jewish and Palestinian youth were paired up and learned one another’s family’s stories of having been displaced from their homes, villages and countries. The project was a collaboration between Debate for Peace, and the Netherlands-based WE organization.
After interviewing one another and their families, the students traveled to the Netherlands to present the stories and their experiences with Dutch youth, educators, and activists. The group included Ahmed (from Mazra village), Eliran (Petah Tiqva), Aviv (Netanya), Sharehan (Be’er Mashish), Eman (Iksal), Roni (Kibbutz Mefalsim), Duna (Maker) and Amit (Petah Tiqva). Their ancestral stories included leaving Libya, Morocco, Iraq, and Syria, legal battles with the government, homes destroyed, being shot at, and years living as itinerant refugees.
The delegation first spoke at the International School of Amsterdam, meeting with several groups of high school students. From there they traveled to Rotterdam, where they presented their stories and participated in a full day MUN simulation at the Rotterdam International Secondary School. After visiting Dordrecht, the delegation traveled to the Hague, where they met with the Number Five foundation to learn about their work on social cohesion and bottom-up problem-solving approaches.
After returning to Amsterdam, the delegation met members of the Mo&Moos group, which facilitates a Jewish-Muslim young professionals network in the Netherlands. Mo&Moos hosted a dinner where members of both groups could meet each other. On their final day, the students visited the Anne Frank House, where they went on a guided tour and had a short discussion about the history of the Frank family. They then presented their stories a final time, for staff and guests of the Anne Frank House. After a very moving presentation and Q & A session, the delegation returned to Israel.
It is believed that this is the first project in which Jews and Palestinians told one another’s stories of diaspora. The project was supported by a grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, through Ashoka and Changemaker XChange, as a collaboration between the Netherlands-based WE organization, and Debate for Peace, a US Embassy supported member of the Interfaith Encounter Association.
Photo: Debate for Peace
