Newyorki Figyelő, 1999 (24. évfolyam, 3-10. szám)
1999-12-01 / 10. szám
1999. december 1. NEWYORKI FIGYELŐ 11 World News (Collected by World Jewish Congress) (Continued from the previous page.) "'S Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reports that as of the Jewish New Year, the country’s population stands at 6,145,000, of whom 4,847,000 (79%) are Jews, 922.000 (15%) are Muslims, and 376,000 (6%) are Druze, Christians, or unclassified. Israel’s population increased by 147.000 (2.4%) over the past year, of whom 88,000 were Jews. * A pile of stones honoring the memoiy of Jewish fighters who died in this century’s two world wars will be built on Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. The memorial, which will cost $160,000, will be placed prominently so it can be seen by all the site’s roughly quarter million annual visitors. Technology and Trade: Israel’s Water Commissioner is allowing closely supervised pumping from the Sea of Galilee even though the water has dropped below the “red line” - a statutory bark below which there are concerns of irreparable damage to the lake’s ecosystem and quality of water. The water level is dropping at the rate of about one half centimeter per day, and has never reached its current mark in recent history, although the recently found remains of an ancient village on the lake’s western shore provide evidence of droughts in antiquity. Israel’s five major banks have so far invested about $99 million in Y2K readiness; in the first half of the year, the banks spent close to $14 million on computer-system Y2K compliance. Under Bank of Israel directives, the banks must close down in the period between December 31, 1999, and January 2, 2000 to avert possible Y2K-related failures. * About 40 tons of sludge have been transferred from Israel’s Kishon Stream to the cement factory of the Nesher company in Ramla, to be used as one of the components for the manufacture of concrete - in what is the first such project in Israel. According to the Environment Ministry, the industrial pollutants in the sludge - some of them highly toxic, acidic, and non biodegradable - will not seep into the environment. * Researchers at Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology have developed a simple blood test that predicts whether heart disease patients are likely to recover from blocked arteries, whether cancer patients are likely to have aggressive tumors, and whether diabetics are likely to lose their eyesight. The test, described in the prestigious Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, measures the level of a protein in the blood that promotes the growth of new blood vessels - indicating important implications in the development of treatment for the diseases. I TERJESSZE LAPUNKATl Budapesten élő 50 éves 168 cm magas nőiesen telt, elvált, gyermektelen, fiatalos minden iránt érdeklődő, jó egzisztenciával rendelkező nő megismerkedne hosszú távra maximum 60 éves korig hasonló tulajdonságokkal rendelkező nem dohányzó úrral. Jelige: Minden lehetséges MAUTNER - GUCK CORPORATION Real Estate, Brokerage, Management, Mortgages 1345 Third Avenue (between 76-77 Streets) New York, NY 10021 Phone: (212) 288-1999 All but two percent of Israel’s wheat crop has been destroyed by this year’s drought, with only 3,000 tons remaining this year as compared with 150,000 tons in an average year, according to the latest government statistics. Israel will import wheat from the U.S. to make up the shortfall. * IMTM 2000, the sixth International Mediterranean Tourism Market, is scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv in February 2000. According to official statistics, more than 2,500,000 Israelis travel abroad annually - more than from all other countries in the region combined. * Israel’s Science minister Matan Vilnai and his British counterpart Lord David Sainsbury have signed an agreement to invest $750,000 in a plan for joint research between Israeli and British scientists. The plan, to be financed equally by both countries, is intended to enable scientists to advance projects of mutual interest, particularly in the field of microelectronics, optical electronics, information technologies, chemical technologies, and the development of advanced materials. energy. When powered be solar energy, their efficiency will be much higher tliat that of photovoltaic cells, which convert the sun’s rays directly into electrical energy. Nazi Legacy: According to a recently aired Finnish Broadcasting Company documentary, some of the country’s leading churchmen were swayed by Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. According to the program, as a result of close contacts between some Finnish and German Lutheran theologians during the Nazi era, some Finnish children in Sunday schools during World War II were taught that it was a Jewish lie that Jesus was bom a Jew. * Jewish groups have renewed calls for the Vatican to open its secret archives to scholars in the wake of the publication of Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, a new book by British journalist John Cornwall. The book portrays the Pope as an anti-Semite who helped Hitler consolidate power through the Vatican’s 1933 Concordat with the Third Reich - underscoring Jewish objections to the proposed beatification of Pius XII. * * An experimental solar power station - the first of its kind to use the sun’s energy to power hot-air turbines for electricity - has been built at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. The invention makes it possible to power state-of-the-art combined-cycle power plants by both natural gas and solar Five U.S. Army musicians were beaten up by a group of suspected neo- Nazi youths who gave an illegal “Hitler salute” after a concert in the eastern German town of Prenzlau. The region where the attack took place has on of the highest rates of farright crime in the country. (Continued on the next page.) 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