April 12, 2012
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"Fly"tilla Protesters Arrive
Israel Independence Advocacy and Educational Materials
Major Powers to Meet on Iran
Leadership Teleconference: Economic Pressure on Iran
Flotilla Style
"Fly"tilla Protesters 

This Sunday, April 15, European and Palestinian activists are staging a "flytilla" at Israel's Ben Gurion airport. 

 

As part of their  "Welcome to Palestine" campaign, organizers are attempting to have 1,500 people arrive simultaneously to "challenge the Israeli siege of the occupied territories." 

 

 

This follows a similar attempt last July when 300 people arrived at Ben Gurion and caused minor disruptions, with 120 detained by Israeli authorities.

 

The goal of this campaign - similar that of the Gaza flotillas and the recent "Global March on Jerusalem" - is to generate intensive negative media coverage of Israel through provocation. 

 

There is debate of course as to whether this constitutes a peaceful protest and should be allowed - as organizers claim - or whether a group causing ANY kind of disruption at ANY airport in the world would be detained for such actions.

 

Israeli officials argue that any country would detain any group who decided to protest in this way in an airport (shout, disrupt movement, or cause a disruption of any kind).  This would most certainly be the case at any airport in the US. 

 

Stay tuned to how the media covers this event and whether the all too frequent double standard is used against Israel yet again.

 

 
Upcoming Events:

 

Special Showing of the Israeli Film Festival
Sunday - April 15 - 7:00pm 
 
Community Commemoration
of the Holocaust
Sunday - April 22 - 1pm
 
Memorial Day Ceremony for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and the Victims of Terrorism
Har Zion Temple
Tuesday - April 24 - 7:30pm
 
Community Israel Independence Celebration
Sunday - May 20, 2012
   
The Ultimate Israel Adventure
December 19-28, 2012 
 
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ISRAEL INSIDE:

How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference

 

The JerusalemOnlineU.com film Israel Inside (watch trailer) is available at no cost to Greater Philadelphia schools and organizations as part of Federation's ongoing Israel advocacy and education initiatives.  This truly inspiring look into Israeli society is appropriate for teens and adults and is a perfect resource for your upcoming Yom Haatzmaut programming.

 

Contact us to find out about showing "Israel Inside" in your community and to get more information about the entire Step Up for Israel film series.

 

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We are pleased to offer the community - at no cost - a variety of Stand With Us resources about Israeli society and political realities.  Materials will be available to all those interested, on a first come, first serve basis. 

 

Their excellent guide book, Israel 101, and their pamphlets cover topics ranging from Israeli innovation, Israeli diversity, LGBT rights in Israel, and over-views of the evolution of the State of Israel.  

 

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The iCenter resource "Poster Tales" is an excellent educational tool to help students reflect on the struggles, values and ideals of Israeli society.  This is also available to schools and organizations at no cost on a first come first serve basis.

Major Powers Begin Talks
On Nuclear Iran 
Major powers will hold their first first talks with Iran in more than a year, hoping Tehran will give enough ground over its nuclear program to continue negotiations and avert the threat of a Middle East war.
 
Iran sent encouraging signals Monday on the posture it will take, dropping objections to meeting in Istanbul and hinting at a possible compromise on its uranium enrichment program that Western powers fear is aimed at producing nuclear weapons.
 
We will be following this story closely as developments at these talks will reveal a great deal about international policy toward Iran in the coming months.
Leadership Teleconferences:
Recording - Can Economic Pressure Prevent a Nuclear Iran

 
jfnaPlease use these links below to listen to recordings of the past two national conference calls on the impact of economic pressure on a Nuclear Iran and the Israel/US relationship. 

 

Speakers included Luke Bronin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Israel Defense Forces Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovitch, head of the International Media and Communications Branch of the IDF Spokesperson's Office, Haaretz Editor-in-Chief Aluf Benn, and David Makovsky, the Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute.
 
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