Snail Mail Opened After 8 Year Delay | 8/23/18

1. Israel Approves 1400 Settlement Homes

The Israeli government has just advanced construction plans for some 1400 new Jewish homes to be built in the West Bank. Many of these sites will be added to augment existing settlement communities in the occupied territories.

2. What Follows The Age Of Abbas?

Dr. Martin Sherman, Founder & Executive Director of THE IISS speaking at ILTV studio to discuss what will become of peace if and when PA President Abbas is no longer president.

3. P.M. Heads To The Baltics

Prime Minister Netanyahu is embarking on a historic trip to the Baltics, the first-ever trip of its kind for a sitting Israeli prime minister. First he visits Lithuania, followed by stops in Latvia and Estonia in an effort to build new alliances in Eastern Europe.

4. Broken Bridges And Delayed Train Lines

After many years of delay, the train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv will officially open for service next month. However, the long-awaited Jerusalem-Tel Aviv line will only make it from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport.

5. Kirchner Properties To Be Raided

Argentina’s Senate has just approved raids on the properties of former president and current Senator, Cristina Fernández De Kirchner. The ex-president is implicated in cases of money laundering, fraud, and allegations that she helped conceal the bombing of the Jewish community center by Iran in 1994.

6. Snail Mail Opened After 8 Year Delay

Thousands of Palestinians have been waiting nearly a decade for their snail-mail to arrive. After an 8 year delay, Palestinians in the West Bank finally received an unlikely delivery: over 10 tons of long-lost mail.

7. How Sweet!

The Petah Tikvah-based firm ‘Doux-Matok’ creates sugar-reduced food products that don’t taste sugarless. ‘doux-Matok’ says that they’ve found a way to reduce sugar in some foods by almost 40 percent in a way that doesn’t sacrifice taste or texture.

8. A Smarter Way To Connect

Yaniv Cohen, Chief Executive Officer, 7twenty speaking at ILTV studio about 7Twenty that puts customers and business in touch for the digital age.

9. Lana Del Rey Rebuts BDS

Lana Del Rey is once again bucking calls to boycott the Jewish state. Del Rey has just announced that in an effort to promote peace for both sides, she intends to play her concert next month in Israel as planned and then extend her trip to visit the Palestinian Authority.

10. Top 5 Nightclubs In Tel Aviv

ILTV’s Emanuelle Kadosh introduces top 5 nightclubs in Tel Aviv.

11. Hebrew word Of The Day: MO’ADON LAILA | מוֹעֲדוֹן לַילָה = NIGHTCLUB

Learn a New Hebrew word every day. Today’s word is "mo'adon laila" which means "nightclub"

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