The municipality of Jerusalem, through the local planning and building committee, approved four plans on February 11 for deposit in the district committee for urban renewal in Kiryat Menachem, within which 1,709 housing units will be built, including two giant towers of 41 stories each. In addition, the plan includes an area for public use […]
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The saga of Holy Gems, the only certified miner and marketer of precious gems from Israel, began in 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, when Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, hosted Aryeh Gur’el (mayor of Haifa from 1978 to 1993). At that meeting, Rabbi Schneerson, reflecting the words of biblical prophet Isaiah, told Gur’el […]
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A young soldier who was close to death after a six-millimeter piece of metallic shrapnel entered his heart during the fighting in Gaza has been saved “miraculously” when Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC) cardiothoracic surgeons decided after consultation here and abroad to treat the bleeding but to leave the projectile in his heart. Dr. Danny […]
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