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28A January 2022 ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD

BRIEFS desia. He stamped 1,000 temporary vestments at about a third the rate of some places, they encountered young
Palestinian men who called them trai-
the entire European Union, with a pop-
visas to Palestine for young men to
“attend a sports camp,” added children
tors. The Bahrainis were unfazed, say-
ulation 50 times smaller. This has driv-
to the passports of British businessmen en Israel’s per capita GDP to $44,000/ ing the verbal attacks were rather tame
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returning to the UK, issued false pass- year, higher at present than that of Brit- compared to what they’ve experienced
BRITISH SPY SAVED ports and handed out permits to Jews ain, France, Spain and Italy (and three on social media and from Palestinians
10,000 AUSTRIAN JEWS who had received “fake baptisms.” times that of Greece). It has one of the living in Bahrain.
DURING WWII Forced to flee Vienna after being most stable currencies, lowest rates of Khawla Al Shaer, who works at a
British spymaster Col. Thomas Kend- betrayed to the Gestapo by a double inflation and highest foreign reserve pharmaceutical company in Bahrain,
rick secured passports for 10,000 des- agent, Kendrick returned to Britain levels per capita in the world. Israel has said she was struck by the warmth of
th
perate Austrian Jewish refugees during where, with the help of 100 German the 12 highest number of Nobel prizes the welcome she received. “We saw a
th
WWII. Historian Dr. Helen Fry tells Jewish refugees, he secretly bugged per capita, the 14 highest number of lot of care and love and hospitality,” she
the story of Kendrick’s Vienna oper- the rooms of German prisoners of war, scientific publications per capita, and said. “There are very beautiful, lovely,
ation in a new biography, Spymaster. providing vital intelligence in the war. publishes more books per capita than friendly people,” said Nayla Al Meer,
Fry said Kendrick “was a senior mem- (Jewish Chronicle - UK) the U.S. This is not bad for a country a PhD student and official in the Youth
ber of the Secret Intelligence Service WHY THE WORLD WOULD whose existence has been challenged and Sports Ministry. Fatema Al Harbi,
(SIS) or what we know today as MI6.” BE A LESSER PLACE by powerful neighbors since day one. who works for the Education Ministry,
Posted to Vienna in 1925 as SIS station (Dan Perry, Times of Israel) noted, “I saw a lot of Arab Israelis and
chief, Kendrick, assisted by secretary WITHOUT ISRAEL CURIOUS ISRAELIS Arabs. They love living here.” (Lazar
and fellow agent Clara Holmes, ran Israel has posted accomplishments few EMBRACE BAHRAINI Berman, Times of Israel)
the most sophisticated spy network in other countries can equal. Israel’s sci- ISRAELI-AMERICAN
Europe, under the cover of being the entific and technological achievements VISITORS ECONOMIST WINS
passport control officer at the British are astounding. Israel is responsible for Mohammed Saleh, an official with
Consulate. an extraordinary range of innovations, Bahrain’s Education Ministry, recently NOBEL PRIZE
On March 12, 1938, the Third from the discovery of quasicrystals stood, bowed and sat a few feet away Economist Joshua Angrist, cofounder
Reich annexed Austria, changing the to the understanding of the structure from the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s and codirector of the Massachusetts
fate of Austria’s 200,000 Jews almost and function of ribosomes, from the Old City as he went through the Muslim Institute of Technology’s School Ef-
overnight. By April, more than 7,000 Feldenkrais method of exercise thera- liturgy, decked out in an immaculate fectiveness & Inequality Initiative, has
Jewish men had been arrested and sent py to drip irrigation, and from the in- white robe, sandals and a red-and- won a Nobel Prize in Economics along
to concentration camps like Dachau. vention of tiny cameras that can travel white keffiyeh. Saleh and eight other with David Card of UC-Berkeley and
Working 15-hour days, Kendrick and through the body (endoscopy) to the Bahraini businessmen flew to Israel on Guido Imbens of Stanford University.
his team processed up to 175 appli- development to flexible stents. the new direct Gulf Air route from Ma- Ohio-born Angrist, a 61-year-old
cations a day as hundreds of terrified Israel played a massive role in nama to Tel Aviv, in a visit organized dual American and Israeli citizen, spe-
families besieged the building. the creation of mobile and internet by Sharaka (“partnership” in Arabic), cializes in econometrics and labor and
Just four days after the Nazis en- telephony (Viber), instant messaging an NGO founded by Israeli, Bahraini education economics.
tered Austria, British cabinet ministers (ICQ), facial recognition and USB and Emirati social entrepreneurs in the He will share half the $1.14 mil-
tightened visa restrictions to enter Brit- flash drives. The Intel 8088 chip that wake of the 2020 Abraham Accords. lion prize money with Imbens for their
ain. Visas were still not required for first powered personal computers was Wherever they walked in the Old “methodological contributions to the
British dominions or self-governing developed in Israel. Then there is the City, the Bahrainis experienced the analysis of causal relationships” – us-
colonies, so Kendrick began to send marvel of the Iron Dome system that welcoming, inquisitive and charmingly ing natural experiments to understand
people to countries like Southern Rho- zaps incoming missiles out of the sky. intrusive Israel that pleasantly surpris- how economic policy impacts the labor
Israel attracts venture capital in- es so many first-time visitors. Yet in market. continued on next page

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