Matthew Kalman, Jerusalem Correspondent

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Between joy and despair

The Guardian home




Tension among Israelis after release of 26 Palestinian prisoners 
Release of prisoners on demand from Palestinian leaders as precondition for peace talks sparks conflict in Israeli cabinet
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Matthew Kalman in Ramallah
theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 October 2013


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Israel released 26 long-term Palestinian prisoners in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering street parties in the West Bank and Gaza that continued through the night accompanied by music, fireworks, automatic gunfire, and outrage from Israelis over the release of terrorists.

The prisoners released on Wednesday were the second group in a total of 104 prisoners who were convicted of killing Israelis before the signing of the Oslo peace accords and who have been jailed for more than 20 years. Their release was demanded by Palestinian leaders as a precondition to the peace talks being conducted under the auspices of the US.

The move created tensions in the Israeli cabinet and ignited strong emotions in the Jewish state. In an attempt to calm the storm of opposition from his rightwing supporters, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, announced more than 1,000 new housing units and other projects in East Jerusalem and West Bank settlements.

In Palestine, news of further settlement construction could not dampen the celebratory mood as 21 of the freed political prisoners were greeted by the Palestinian president,Mahmoud Abbas, and senior officials at an official celebration in the presidential compound in Ramallah. The men laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat before being presented to a 3,000-strong crowd of family, friends and supporters who had waited until 1am for the emotional reunion. In Gaza, five additional prisoners were greeted with similar celebrations as they returned to their homes.

"We welcome our brothers, the heroes, coming from behind the bars to a world of freedom and liberty," Abbas told the crowd in Ramallah, enjoying a rare moment of achievement in his logjammed dealings with Israel. "Today our happiness is great, but of course it will not be complete until every single last prisoner has been liberated."

"I promise you now there will be no agreement if there is one prisoner remaining," he vowed.

In nearby El Bireh, hundreds greeted the triumphant homecoming of Israr Samarin and Musa Kar'an, who in 1991 ambushed Tzvi Klein, an off-duty soldier driving to his home in a nearby settlement, and shot him in the head. With loud music blaring from the speakers and supporters firing automatic weapons into the air, the pair mounted a stage constructed in the street to express their happiness.

"Thank God for having achieved this freedom for us," Samarin said. "My feelings now in front of my family and all these neighbours have erased all the pain I experienced in prison."

"We as a people love peace, but it must be a peace that protects our honour, that restores our rights and liberates our land, and will uproot all the settlements that strangle our existence and our very selves on this land of Palestine," he said.

For Palestinians the prisoners have become symbols of resistance to Israeli occupation, but many Israelis were shocked by the insistence on the release of prisoners they consider to be cold-blooded killers. Victims' relatives waged a legal battle up to the last minute to stop the release, arguing that it would encourage more violence.

More than 3,000 Israelis staged a demonstration on Monday night, forming a human chain around Ofer prison where the prisoners were being held. A smaller group returned just before the deadline on Tuesday.

Meir Indor, leader of the Almagor association of victims of terrorism, said such moves "bring more casualties to the area and more violence. There are other terrorists, young ones, who see those terrorists going out and are being glorified by the Palestinian authority, and they say, well, we can do the same, we will kill Jews and we will be released very soon. So we are fighting for justice for our loved ones, but we are fighting for the other people so they will not be killed."

On Sunday, the economy minister Naftali Bennett's pro-settler Jewish Home party launched an attack on his cabinet colleague Tzipi Livni, who is leading the peace talks.

"The release of prisoners in exchange for the dubious right of Tzipi Livni to meet with Saeb Erekat is most terrible. With all due respect, halting the release of murderers is even more important than justifying Livni's being in the government," the party said in a statement, which was furiously denounced by Livni's supporters as an incitement to violence on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the assassination of the former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Bennett stood by the statement and his party's proposed legislation to block further prisoner releases.

"We are witnessing a tremendous offensive against us," Bennet said. "The goal is to domesticate us, to force us into the herd mentality. What can we do? We have a different view. Those who support a Palestinian state get support; if you're against, you are called the extreme right, you're called a fascist.

But we will not remain silent. We have clear positions and this assault won't silence us."

Gila Molcho, whose brother Ian's three killers have each been freed in the last three exchanges, said she was reliving the "terrible experience" of the day in 1993 when he was hacked to death while working for a European aid organisation in Gaza.

"My brother was a humanitarian. He liked to help people. He was working in the Gaza Strip to help create jobs for the Palestinians," she said. "We are not a gesture."

Expressing Israel's moderate voice, Gershon Baskin, a veteran Israeli peace activist who helped negotiate the exchange of more than 1,000 prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011, said Israel had no choice: "These prisoner releases leave a bad taste in the mouth, but Israel had agreed to release these prisoners by 1999."
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Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Water solutions

Israeli water technology meets China's needs
CCTV, October 23, 2013


By MATTHEW KALMAN, CCTV Correspondent
A large delegation of Chinese officials are in Israel this week for the Water Technology Conference where the latest in hydro innovation is being showcased. And some of the front water technologies that are on display might just suit China’s needs.
High level Chinese officials from the ministry of economy, ministry of water resources and Shandong province were in Tel Aviv this week for a major Water Technology Conference. China-Israel cooperation on water problems has grown rapidly in recent years, bringing fresh drinking water through desalination, new irrigation techniques for farmers and major efforts to reduce pollution.
One of the many joint ventures is the Guangdong China-Israel Industrial Park. "Israel has very advanced water treatment technology. In China we have a huge market, in fact it’s one of the biggest water treatment markets in the world. So the park here is to serve as a platform to connect Israeli technology and the Chinese market," said Pan Huageng, chairman of Guangdong China-Israel Industrial Park.
On display were the new methods developed here that has made Israel a world leader in water, waste and irrigation technology.
"Israel was not blessed with water. We don’t have much water in Israel. We’ve got a lot of desert so we had to generate our own water. Over 50% of our municipal water is desalinated water. 80% of the agriculture water is re-used," Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett said.
The Israeli company IDE built China’s largest desalination plant in Tienjin, producing 200,000 cubic metres of fresh water every day. IDE operates 400 plants in 40 countries.
"We were extremely lucky in Israel to have a severe shortage of water for many years. This really brought Israel to develop technologies very early on. The first desalination test plants in the world 50 years ago were in Israel," said Ron Yachini from IDE Technologies.
Two-thirds of Israel is desert, so for more than half a century people here have been grappling with water issues. Today, Israel’s technology sector is one of the most active in the world. The combination of technology and water has made Israel one of the global addresses for water solutions.
Israeli technology is already deployed throughout China in drip irrigation, waste water management and desalination and from the high interest that’s being shown in today’s conference, it seems that Israeli footprint is only going to grow larger.
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Monday, 21 October 2013

Writing Arafat's Murder



YASSER ARAFAT was a larger-than-life leader whom no novelist would dare to fashion. His regime consisted of a cast of surreal Dickensian characters: brilliant thinkers, wily money men and desperate rogues. He set his favorites against each other, like gladiators in an arena where weapons were never far from reach.

Conventional journalism couldn’t cope with such an overload of passion and politics. Devised to report on the activities of democratic governments and regulated businesses, journalism is helpless when faced with autocracies and corrupt political machines answerable to no one and capable of unconscionable lies that are sometimes impossible to check.

That fact was hammered home in the last week, when the conventional media reported both that Arafat was poisoned with polonium – and that he wasn’t. In a world now governed less by the authority of nation states and more by semi-criminal oligarchies and ultra-powerful global corporations, stories like the Arafat murder require a different kind of journalism.

Polonium poisoning first entered the picture with a report by Al Jazeera last year. It prompted a French magistrate to open a criminal investigation into Arafat’s suspected murder. Arafat’s bones were exhumed in November 2012 and samples given to French, Russian and Swiss scientists for examination.

Then everyone settled in to wait.

The results were due to be delivered early this year to his widow Suha and to a Palestinian Authority inquiry. So far there has been a deafening silence on what, if anything, the tests reveal.

Last week, nine years after his death, the late Palestinian chief leaped back into the headlines. Or rather his underwear did. Along with his toothbrush and other items kept by Suha.

The British medical journal The Lancet lent its backing to tests carried out at a Swiss laboratory in mid-2012. The report confirmed the scientific data that led researchers to announce that items used and worn by Arafat in his final days bore traces of Polonium-210, a deadly radioactive element. Toxicologists examined 38 items belonging to Arafat and compared them to other clothing held in storage before his death. They found traces that "support the possibility of Arafat's poisoning with Polonium-210." Some of his symptoms, they said, “might suggest radioactive poisoning."

But last Tuesday Vladimir Uiba, head of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency, was quoted by the Interfax news agency denying that the bone samples exhumed from Arafat’s grave had revealed any trace of radiation poisoning. "He could not have died of polonium poisoning. The Russian experts found no traces of this substance," said Uiba.

Or did he deny it? The next day, a spokesman for his agency told AFP that no such statement had been issued. "We have not published any official results of our forensic review," said the spokesman. "Neither have we publicly confirmed or denied media reports about there being or not being polonium in Arafat's remains."

The tantalizing half-truths, hints and denials of the past weeks – and the failure of most news reports to identify the original Lancet article as confirmation of a year-old story or to pin down the accuracy of the Russian statement – reminded us why we chose a different way to tell the story of Arafat’s death in our book, "The Murder of Yasser Arafat."

Last week’s stories proved that conventional journalism is unable to cope with the gray areas where all the secrets are kept. The various news reports were delineated by clear rules for what journalists may or may not say, and they show little concern for the confusion into which they cast their readers. Unless someone comes right out and admits responsibility for killing Arafat, or until a respected authority proves beyond doubt that no-one killed him, readers of traditional journalism will remain in the dark.

We chose to address this story with the kind of writing that truly focuses on secrets and gray areas and structured our nonfiction treatment of Arafat's in the style of hard-boiled crime fiction. Every page of our book reads like fiction. Every word is fact. The news turmoil of the past weeks suggests that we chose the correct medium to write the story.

Our style accords with the reality of Arafat’s rule, after all. The roots of his downfall lay in the shadowy beginnings of the PA. It grew through his intertwined security forces and the overlapping economic machinery of his fiefdom. It was fertilized by financial corruption and fed by the hunger for power that drove his mini-dictatorship. For a decade, Arafat’s bizarre autocracy nurtured shifting loyalties, rivalries and hatreds that eventually could no longer be contained. Arafat paid with his life. A journalist ought to be able to write that clearly enough for a reader to get it.

Matthew Kalman is a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem for The Daily Mail and co-director of "Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell." Matt Rees is former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time and author of seven books including the Omar Yussef Palestinian detective novels. They are the co-authors of  "The Murder of Yasser Arafat "(DeltaFourth).
READ THE STORY IN HAARETZ HERE
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Sunday, 20 October 2013

Blonde lost in translation


When Bar Refaeli told Yedioth Ahronoth she was all alone and looking for a guy who was strong and also a "מותג" I translated that as "famous" for the NY Daily News.


I guess I could have used "icon" instead. But it wouldn't have helped. Minutes later, she was denying she ever lamented being alone. 

LOL now I won't be stopped getting asked out by u guys ha?:) i'm single, happy and loving it!
— Bar Refaeli (@BarRefaeli) October 18, 2013
Did she think if she gave an interview in Hebrew to Israel's largest-selling newspaper no-one would notice?

UPDATE:  Haaretz investigates Bar-Gate

UPDATE: Sunday's most- read story on The Times of Israel

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Thursday, 17 October 2013

Problems of the underprivileged

Supermodel Bar Refaeli laments her single status

Bar Refaeli, 28, speaks to her inability to find a man — 'So what’s wrong with me? Why am I alone?'

BY MATTHEW KALMAN, KERRY BURKE AND LARRY MCSHANE  

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

-FRA

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“I see him and I could melt,” the model says of Ryan Gosling. “He’s amazing. He’s my wow.”

She's the loneliest supermodel in the world — bar none.
Blue-eyed, blond beauty Bar Refaeli said she’s stumped by her inability to land a steady boyfriend, future husband and potential father to her children.
The entire male population of planet Earth shares her mystification.
“I don't understand it,” the 35-24-35 stunner said in a tell-all interview running Friday in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
PHOTOS: BAR REFAELI'S HOTTEST MOMENTS
“I’m okay,” the 28-year-old former flame of Leonardo DiCaprio continued. “I look great. I’m cool. I like going out. I like being at home, I like movies, I like eating. So what’s wrong with me? Why am I alone?”
New York men suggested a love connection awaited the lonesome lovely somewhere in the five boroughs.
Refaeli attends "The Beaver" Premiere during the 64th Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2011 in Cannes, France.

DOMINIQUE CHARRIAU

Refaeli attends "The Beaver" Premiere during the 64th Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2011 in Cannes, France.

Union carpenter Jimmy McCloud said he’d sweep Refaeli off her feet and treat her to a night on the town.
In Bay Ridge.
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“I’d show her a good Irish bar and a better time than Leo could — ever,” said McCloud, 30, of Brooklyn. “She won’t have to sit in the VIP lounge to have a good time.”
Pre-law student Mike Tejeda, 20, was already making plans for the honeymoon — with a promise from the Brooklynite to treat her like a queen.
“I’d take her to the Dominican Republic, where we can really enjoy ourselves,” said the Brooklyn College student. “I would do whatever she told me to . . . If she’s looking for something different, I’m that difference.”
Refaeli, in a wide-ranging chat, also reflects on her emotional breakdown when a six-year relationship with DiCaprio ended last year. She erupted in tears after seeing online photos of the “Gangs of New York” star with new gal pal Blake Lively.
Refaeli and her then-boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio attend a game between the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center in 2010.

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Refaeli and her then-boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio attend a game between the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center in 2010.

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“I suddenly choked up and I started crying uncontrollably,” she recalled. “No one knows that I went back to my room and broke down in bitter tears. I couldn’t stop crying.”
The next morning, she left her hotel room in Cannes with a friend who took her out swimming.
“It was like I was cleansed,” she said. “From that day, I haven’t cried since.”
The supermodel also offered some advice to those interested in romancing her.
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“I’m looking for someone serious, who I can set up home with,” she said. “Someone who comes from a warm, loving family like mine, who has values like mine.”
Israeli model Bar Refaeli has once again shown off her amazing body in a new advertising campaign for lingerie brand Passionata.

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Israeli model Bar Refaeli has once again shown off her amazing body in a new advertising campaign for lingerie brand Passionata.

Her turn-ons include self-confidence, physical fitness and generosity: “I’m very interested in going out with someone who is big and strong and famous.”
Her current dream guy is actor Ryan Gosling, replacing former fantasy flame Justin Timberlake.
“I see him and I could melt,” the model says of Gosling. “He’s amazing. He’s my wow.”
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But Refaeli says she’s not set on a Hollywood hunk — and she’s willing to brave a blind date for a possible soul mate.
“I never say ‘no’ when people suggest I meet someone,” she confessed.
The lucky guy who lands the sultry swimsuit siren might be surprised to discover that Refaeli has no aversion to handling her own housework.
“I’m not at all a feminist,” she says. “I don’t want him to do my dishes. I’ll do the dishes, and I’ll clean, and I’m the one who wants to stay at home with the kids in the end.”

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Final verdict in archaeology forgery trial

Supreme Court says Israel cannot hold Jehoash Tablet but challenges antiquities trade

Return of disputed Temple treasure ordered over objections of Israel Antiquities Authority - confirms total collapse of decade-long prosecution

THE JEHOASH TABLET: Scholars and the public will finally get to see it for themselves


By Matthew Kalman
Foreign Correspondent In Jerusalem
BIBLE & INTERPRETATION
October 2013

The Israel Antiquities Authority has failed in its last-gasp attempt to confiscate the controversial Jehoash Tablet from Israeli collector Oded Golan. In a verdict handed down on Wednesday, the three-judge appeal panel of Supreme Court justices decided by 2-1 that the inscribed tablet must be returned to Golan, who was acquitted last year of forging after a ten-year prosecution and trial.

The Supreme Court ruling caps a crushing defeat for the Israel Antiquities Authority following the sweeping 2012 acquittal of Golan and dealer Robert Deutsch on multiple charges of archaeological forgery. Israeli prosecutors advised by the Israel Antiquities Authority had argued that even though they continue to believe the inscription is a modern forgery, the reverse of the stone had been “dressed” in ancient times and was therefore classified as an antiquity that should belong to the state. But those arguments were rejected by the majority decision of the court. Oded Golan is now poised to reclaim both the tablet and the more famous item, the James ossuary, along with dozens of pieces confiscated by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Israeli police at the time of his arrest in 2003. Golan greeted the decision as “good news.” He says he plans to put both the ossuary and the tablet on public display.

The latest about-turn could be the final twist in a nail-biting finale to the decade-long pursuit of Golan. However, a sternly-worded ruling by the same court in September suggests that the battle over the future of the antiquities trade is just beginning.

In an 8,000-word ruling handed down on September 29, a panel of three Supreme Court Justices rejected Golan’s appeal against his conviction and sentence on three minor charges and used the opportunity to declare war on the antiquities market. Branding the trade in antiquities “damaging” and motivated by “avarice,” the ruling authored by Supreme Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez depicts “a world of collectors exchanging treasures teeming with trembling hands and heart - often within the law, and sometimes without,” and notes with approval that “in most countries of the world there is a general ban on the trade in antiquities, because of their recognition as a national resource.” She further observed, that this "conception also serves as the basis for the antiquities law” in Israel.

The ruling places the Supreme Court on a potential collision course with the Israel Museum and other major archaeological collections in the country, which all display items purchased from the market. Israel Museum curators and experts have described a complex and well-oiled procedure of verification and testing carried out in the museum laboratories to determine the significance and authenticity of items offered by dealers. Many of the Israel Museum’s most notable archaeological exhibits, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, royal seal impressions and coins were purchased on behalf of the museum from the antiquities market and not discovered in authorized archaeological excavations.

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Monday, 14 October 2013

Wanted: secret agents

Jobs at the Mossad 



Today's job vacancies advertised at the Mossad are not for the faint-hearted.

Israel's James Bond wannabes hoping to spend their time quaffing cocktails in dinner jackets and shooting bad guys while scuba diving will find they have tougher challenges to overcome.

So if you want to join Israel's spy agency, put away the aqualung and hang up your skis. Top of the current crop of successful applicants will be long-time residents of geek city with at least five years' of experience in mechanical engineering and mastery of the latest engineering software.

Other skills in demand at the espionage agency include graphic artists and experts in computer modelling. An ability to demonstrate "alternative thinking" is an added plus.

But there is one opening for a trainee spy, no experience required. Quaintly titled "Electronic Engineer," this position for an entry-level candidate would most suit a young person acquainted with "digital communications" including satellite, mobile and RF used for global positioning. In other words, a teenage hacker.


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Matthew Kalman interviews Hamas leader Abdel-Azziz Rantissi for CTV in the intensive care unit of Shifa Hospital, Gaza, shortly after an Israeli assassination attempt

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Matthew Kalman is the former editor in chief of THE JERUSALEM REPORT and a sought-after media commentator and public speaker. A correspondent and filmmaker based in Jerusalem since 1998, he has reported for TIME, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, London Sunday Times, USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the London Daily Mail.
His television reporting includes PBS in the United States, Channel 4 News UK and CTV in Canada. He is a frequent contributor to radio news programmes in Canada and Britain.
Matthew graduated from Cambridge University in 1983. He has an MA (Cantab) in History.
He co-directed the documentary Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell which has been selected for dozens of film festivals and events across the US, Canada, Australia and Britain.
Matthew can be reached at matthewkalman@gmail.com

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