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יוחנן בן זבדי: הארבה דמה במראהו לסוסים ערוכים למלחמה פניהם כפני אדם על ראשם מעין כתר זהב שערם כשיער אישה ושיניהם כשיני אריה הם לבשו שריונים שנראו כעשויים ברזל וקול כנפיהם נשמע כקול המון מרכבות סוסים ערוכים למלחמה זנבות הארבה היו כזנבות עקרבים בעלי עוקץ בקצה ובהם טמון הכוח לייסר את בני-האדם במשך חמישה חודשים
Adva Cohen: When she enlisted in the IDF, Joanna Chris Afron, an Israeli of Filipino descent, asked to join the search and rescue unit of the Home Front Command, after soldiers from the unit saved her grandmother
iamsooz-sooziam: Sunset over Haifa by JoeHabib
Jerusalem Post: How many Filipinos are currently working here in Israel?
H.E. Petronilla Garcia: Any figure I could give you would be a wild guess. Officially, it’s about 40,000. That number, of course, doesn’t include the Filipinos that are here married to Israelis, Filipinos here on permanent residence visas, Filipinos here on friendship visas, their Filipino-Israeli children, or of course the undocumented Filipinos in the country. So, it may be more. It’s hard to say.
It’s well known that almost all of the Filipinos who work in Israel are involved in care-giving, for the elderly.
Jerusalem Post: Are you making any effort to broaden the opportunities of Filipino workers into other sectors?
H.E. Petronilla Garcia: Yes, absolutely. We have Filipino hi-tech programmers who come here. They work at a hi-tech company in Haifa. We have Filipino seamen who come here. Their ports of call are Haifa and Ashdod. We have Filipinos in the Golan. That’s a whole battalion!
We also have students in agriculture who come here to study. This involves intensive, on-the-job training and has been very successful. And we do have a few workers coming into the agricultural sector. I would like to see more in the future.
Jerusalem Post: What do you see as your major accomplishments here in Israel?
H.E. Petronilla Garcia: I’m happy that the “Open Doors” monument in Rishon Lezion was constructed and dedicated. The dedication ceremony on June 21, 2009 was very, very moving. The project began before I arrived here, and it was the achievement of many people – the Filipino community in Israel, the Jewish community in the Philippines, Holocaust survivors – all working together to create this memorial. I feel very fortunate that it materialized and was completed during my watch.
In March last year, I took the initiative of hosting a dinner with the president of Israel. And that for me was wonderful – all the Asian ambassadors were there.
Israelis are very casual people, and they like to operate from a level of friendship. I learned that the first time I was here. If the ambassador has friends, the work of the consular section in assisting nationals is very much facilitated. That has been one of my major achievements. Also extending my contacts nationwide by having honorary consuls in Ashdod, Haifa and Jerusalem. This has also helped our work a lot.
It’s all about relations. It’s about making friends, and having personal relations with high officials and business leaders.
Eden Jacobowitz: Shut up, you water buffalo
Water Buffalo incident: Jacobowitz explained his choice of "water buffalo" as from Hebrew slang, "Behema" (behemoth), used by Jews to refer to a loud, rowdy person. He procured several expert witnesses who attested to this and others, such as Michael Meyers, who gave testimonies that "water buffalo" was not a racial epithet against African Americans.
ynet: Water buffalos used to be common in Israel, particularly near swamps and streams. Buffalo remains were found near the brooks of Israel's coastal plane, Tiberias and the Hula nature reserve.
INN: Buffalo are currently raised in Moshav Bitzaron, just east of Ashdod
Karaite Carrots
David Ḥayim Chelouche: A Karaite is a Jew. We accept them as Jews and every one of them who wishes to come back we accept back. There was once a question about whether Karaites needed to undergo a token circumcision in order to switch to rabbinic Judaism, but the rabbinate agrees that today that is not necessary.
Karaite Judaism follows patrilineal descent, meaning a Jew is someone whose father is Jewish, or who has undergone a formal conversion, since all Jewish descent in the Tanakh is traced patrilineally.
There are about 80 Karaites living in Istanbul, Turkey, where the only Karaite synagogue in Turkey, the Kahal haKadosh Bene Mikra, is still functional in the Hasköy neighborhood in the European part of the city.
There are also about 300 Karaites in Lithuania, according to the Lithuanian Karaim website. They mostly live in Vilnius and Trakai, where the only active Karaite synagogues in the country are situated.
At the 2002 Polish census, only 45 people declared themselves "Karaims", including 43 Polish citizens. In Poland, Karaites are a recognized minority, represented by Związek Karaimów Polskich and Karaimski Związek Religijny w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Karaites live primarily in and around Warsaw, Wrocław and Tricity, they are linguistically assimilated.
There are about 4,000 Karaites living in the United States. The Synagogue KJA Congregation B’nai Israel is located in Daly City, California, which is a suburb of San Francisco. It is the only Karaite synagogue in the United States with a permanent dedicated facility. The leaders of the congregation are of Egyptian Karaite background. One notable congregant, Mark Kheder, the Synagogue’s treasurer, has described his internment in an Egyptian prisoner of war camp during the 1967 Six Day war. The congregation’s acting Rav, Joe Pessah, was also among those who were arrested by the Egyptian government. Another, much smaller congregation, Karaite Jewish Congregation Oraḥ Ṣaddiqim, exists in Albany, NY, but they have yet to find a permanent dedicated facility and, in the mean time, continue to use a room in the home of their Ḥakham, Ḥakham Avraham Ben-Raḥamiël Qanaï, as their temporary synagogue.
On 1 August 2007, some members of the first graduating class of Karaite Jewish University were converted, representing the first new authorized members into Karaite Judaism in 500 years. At a ceremony in its Northern California synagogue, ten adults and four minors joined the Jewish people by taking the same oath that Ruth took. The group’s course of study lasted over one year. This conversion comes 15 years after the Karaite Council of Sages reversed its centuries-old ban on accepting converts. On 17 February 2009, the second graduating class of converts took the oath this included 11 adults and 8 minors.
Other estimates of the size of the modern Karaite movement put the number at over 40,000 in Israel, the largest communities being in Ramlah, Ashdod and Beer-Sheva.
פיתיון
JEWISH JOURNAL: Also screening was an Israeli short film by Michal Vinik. Unfortunately, the Sundance film guide listed Michal as a “Michael” and as a “he” instead of a she. Which was ironically appropriate, since her film, “Bait” is about a tomboy named Nitzan, living near Ashdod, who plans to go out for a day of fishing. Instead, she accompanies her sister—who takes a risk by hitchhiking to the beach in skimpy clothing. They are given a ride by a Filipino guest worker (played by Israeli-Filipino, Peter Somra) from a nearby moshav, who spends the afternoon with them swimming in the sea and more. Just what is Nitzan fishing for?
||The Philippine government estimates that more than 2,000,000 Overseas Filipinos are working in the Middle East.||
Filipinim are the third largest migrant flock, besides Hodu {Pishon Indosphere} and Sinim {Sinosphere}. Filipinim inn North Africa, Western Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia (Persian-Ottoman Empire, excluding Roman Empire in West, Far North, and China inn "east and north" as per Daniel 11:44):
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Philippine Honorary Consular Officials in Israel
Philippine Embassy: Mr. Shimon Weinbaum received from the Protocol Department his exequatur which symbolically conveyed the Israeli government's concurrence to his appointment by Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario as Philippine Honorary Consul in Jerusalem. His appointment brings the total number of Philippine Honorary Consular Officials in Israel to three (3), the other two being Honorary Consul General Mr. Carmel Hacohen in Haifa and Northern Israel and Honorary Consul Mr. Boaz Waksman in Ashdod and Southern Israel. Having reached the maximum honorary officials allowed by Israeli law, the Philippines has now full consular coverage of the entire country.
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.