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December 2010

Israel Conqures Space

Shlomo Maital

Look up at the night sky. Though you cannot see it, amid the stars is a small satellite circling the earth every 90 minutes, peering down through clouds and darkness. Called Ofek 9.

December 2010

Blame the Fed

Shlomo Maital

There’s none so blind as a maestro who will not see a bubble.

December 2010

Mideast Marshall plan

Shlomo Maital

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are trying to negotiate a peace deal. They use threat tactics – “stop building in the settlements or I will break off talks” (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas), or “accept Israel as a Jewish state, or else” (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu).