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5 ISRAEL’S POPULATION AT said. This year also saw a new willing- child’s stomach and neck for better Live your life with vigor and joy
28A February 2021 ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD

BRIEFS

safety and comfort.
ness to enlist by Druze in the Golan
END OF 2020: 9.3 MILLION
Heights. (Yoav Zitun, Ynet News)
City Transformer offers a folding
Israel’s population stands at nearly
electric two-seater car that can reach
(73.9%), 1,956,000 Arabs (21.1%) and
IZZY is a TV streaming platform that
fit into a standard parking spot.
465,000 people (5%) belonging to oth-
EASY 9.3 million, including 6,870,000 Jews STREAM ISRAELI SHOWS up to 55 miles per hour. Four of them
exclusively features Israeli movies,
DouxMatok’s Incredo Sugar al-
er ethnic groups, the Central Bureau of
shows and documentaries you can
lows bakers and food companies to
Statistics reported recently.
watch on your time, as much as you
reduce sugar content by 30-50% while
In 2020, 176,000 babies were born
want, from anywhere in the world!
retaining the same level of sweetness.
in Israel, 73.8% to Jewish families,
STEPS 23.4% to Arab families and 2.8% to Enjoy more than 200 hours of Israeli The sugar grains are engineered so
entertainment. For more information,
that most of the flavor reaches the taste
other groups. (Tobias Siegal, Jerusa-
visit helloisrael.tv.
buds. (Shoshanna Solomon, Times of
lem Post)
Israel)
How To Stay IDF SEES RECORD SIX ISRAELI CREATIONS 3,000-YEAR-OLD GOLD
AMONG TIME’S 100 BEST
NUMBER OF ISRAELI
BEAD DISCOVERED IN
INVENTIONS FOR 2020
Up-To-Date ARAB VOLUNTEERS Six Israeli tech firms have been named TEMPLE MOUNT EARTH
More than 1,000 Israeli Arabs volun-
On Your teered to serve in the IDF in the past in TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 A First Temple-era gold bead was dis-
Best Inventions.
covered in August during sifting of
year, more than twice that of previous
Beewise offers a smart home for
Jewish years, the military’s Manpower Di- bees, the Beehome, that helps bees earth from the Temple Mount by Bin-
yamin Milt, age 9, from Jerusalem. The
rectorate said recently. They include
Community Muslims from Taibe, Qalansuwa and thrive at a time when 40% die every bead was in such outstanding condition
year as a result of disease, pesticides
that it was initially dismissed as mod-
eastern Jerusalem, Bedouin from the
and climate change. It uses precision
ern. But Temple Mount Sifting Proj-
1 FREQUENTLY Galilee and Christian Arabs from the robotics, computer vision and artificial ect co-director Prof. Gabriel Barkay
north. Four hundred and fifty new sol-
intelligence (AI).
took a closer look and dated the bead
diers enlisted as scouts and fighters in
TrialJectory’s software uses AI to
the Bedouin patrol unit, while dozens read through thousands of clinical tri- to the First Temple period, based on
almost-identical silver beads manu-
Social Media: While we don’t always more have joined infantry brigades als and extract information about pa- factured using the same “granulation”
post hourly, we do post often. What do we and others are serving in the Border
post? Time-sensitive news, alerts, items of Police. tients for researchers. technique, which Barkay had excavat-
interest, and more. Follow us on Facebook, Augmedics’ xvision headset uses ed in Jerusalem in the 1970s.
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and more! Four thousand possible volunteers augmented reality to turn a patient’s The handmade bead is fashioned
Find us by searching for “JFEDSRQ.” expressed their interest online in join- CT scan into a 3-D image to help guide
ing the IDF this year. Seven hundred spinal surgeons. from four layers, each made of tiny
2 DAILY were from Arab countries such as Leb- Mifold has developed a compact, produce it required the ability to melt
gold balls that adhere to each other. To
anon and Syria and had to be declined
due to security considerations. “We portable child’s booster seat with a the metal at high temperatures, and
Website JFEDSRQ.org could not believe the demand,” the IDF design that keeps the seatbelt off the a high level of skill from the artisan.
Whether you’re on your desk- In the past 15 years, through the help
top, laptop or smartphone, the of some 200,000 paying volunteers,

e supremacist
Whit
Federation website, has everything above and the sifting project has recovered over
below (and more) right at your fingertips. Keep White supremacist
our event calendars in your bookmarks bar for 500,000 artifacts, including 5,000
groups are the single
event information in a click. groups coins. (Amanda Borschel-Dan, Times
3 BI-WEEKLY most dangerous of Israel)
POLL: MOST ARABS
xtremist
domestic e

domestic extremist DON’T VIEW ISRAEL
AS GREATEST THREAT
Federation Eblast: threat to the nation. According to the Arab Opinion Index
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and Friday by subscribing to the bi-weekly DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, OCTOBER 2020
newsletter, the Federation eBlast. see Israel as the greatest threat to their
country, while only 25% in Egypt, 24%
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50% in Iraq, 29% in Saudi Ara-
bia and 34% in Kuwait see Iran as the
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Federation to offer all virtual
39 Commentary
Jewish community right to your Where your dollars go: 4 cases that continue to climb in Flori- would have to be in effect to feel ‹ ‹ event. All answers clearly showed
43 Focus on Youth
he Jewish Federation of Sara-
47 Life Cycle
sota-Manatee has made the dif-
38 Israel & the Jewish World Tficult decision that all programs
2020-21 season?
door event for the coming Fall-Winter
As you can see, an overwhelming
for the 2020-21 season will be virtual.
Chief Executive Officer Howard Tev-
majority would not feel comfortable
reluctance on the part of the com-
munity.
lowitz says, “In an effort to keep the
tell.
community safe, we feel we have no
attending or thought it was too soon to
lightening. Here are a few:
important!”
Many of the comments were en-
choice but to make this decision. The
Other questions included at
health of our Federation family is too
what capacity one would attend an
I will not be attending in the fore-
In addition to the Coronavirus
asking, but no, no and NO!!!
in-person event, what conditions
seeable future. Very glad you are
comfortable to attend an in-person
With an older population to con-
da, Tevlowitz points to the results of
American Friends of
door every month with news, taken to a new level 12 answered by more than 550 re- event (i.e., masks, sanitizers, etc.) 4.0 % 9 .5 % sider, no indoor events should be Overall, the number of those who
our recent event survey, which clearly
Leket Israel
planned until there is a vaccine.
and when would you see yourself
showed the community is not ready to
attend in-person events for the foresee-
able future. “We have heard you loud
ready to come out to an in-person
and films you’ve provided.
Appreciate the varied programs
and clear,” says Tevlowitz.
continued on page 2
The event survey sent out
LEVEL OF COMFORT TO ATTEND INDOOR EVENTS
via email and social media, was
SURVEY RESULTS
3 .2 %
feedback about our current virtual
.2 Percent Will avoid attending in-
programming and questioned about
%
Lechlechallah – Challah baking
spondents. They were asked for 57 .2
how comfortable one would feel at-
events, and more. Get your FREE Temple Beth Sholom Catering: 16 time to let us know their thoughts. 26.1 26 soon to tell 3 attending indoor events .2 Percent Have no concern about say Israel poses the greatest threat to
57door events for the foreseeable future
tending in-person events this com-
ing season. We are so grateful that
so many in our community took the
.0 Percent Would be nervous,
4 but may still attend indoor events
answer to the main question: What is
The pie chart at right shows the
.5 Percent Will attend so long as CDC/
your level of comfort attending an in-
%
9federal/state guidelines are strictly followed
.1 Percent Think that it is too
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Federation awards 2 nd phase of COVID-19
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n April of this year, The Jewish
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Ibegan raising funds to provide
to provide virtual ser-
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tions in our two-county area. As of
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The Gan plans an exciting
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