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  • Reflections on Living in Israel (Part 2)

    calendar Mar 30, 2024 · 2 min read · random zionism  ·
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    "Daddy, I'm going to die! I don't want to die!" My five-year-old daughter is screaming this over and over while we are in our house's bomb shelter. Outside, there was a boom that shook the whole apartment. It was like nothing I have ever experienced. I learned afterward that it was a Hamas missile that landed …


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  • Reflections on Living in Israel (Part 1)

    calendar Jan 7, 2024 · 8 min read · random zionism  ·
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    I have been a technologist from an early age. When I was eleven, I was already writing complicated programs in a language called mIRCScript. What fascinated me about computers is their ability to calculate at a speed and precision beyond that of humans, or even the sum of all humans at the same time. Computers are …


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  • In memory of my father Daniel Ben-Joseph (z"l)

    calendar Oct 6, 2021 · 8 min read · eulogy heroes zionism judaism  ·
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    Each soldier is unique through the eyes of someone who looks up to them. Bauch dayan emet. May the holy memory of my father Daniel Ben-Joseph be a blessing for you and for the world. The two lessons I want you to learn from my father is to not take life for granted and to love your children. My father did both ten …


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  • What makes a community livable?

    calendar Dec 31, 2020 · 5 min read · zionism smart cities  ·
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    When I was newly minted teenager, my parents sent me to live on a kibbutz in Israel for a summer. This was a kibbutz that had a massive dairy farm. I remember sleeping in barracks close to a huge group of cows who would moo all day and night. It smelled like shit - all the time. Yet it was the happiest experience of my …


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  • What was the first language ever spoken?

    calendar Dec 30, 2020 · 4 min read · artificial intelligence zionism judaism  ·
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    In the beginning there was nothing. And God spoke into the void: Let there be light! And there was light. What language did God speak? What was the first language ever spoken? In Jewish tradition, God's will is expressed through language. God spoke the entire Cosmos into existence. The nothing that predated reality was …


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  • When Jews were illegal immigrants in Israel

    calendar Dec 26, 2020 · 2 min read · zionism  ·
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    How is like to be an illegal immigrant everywhere, including your own homeland? Jews between 1939 and 1948 (the official founding of Israel as an independent state) largely had to sneak into Israel. The White Paper of 1939 greatly limited Jewish immigration into the Land of Israel. Jews who did not leave Europe by 1939 …


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  • Lu Yehi at the Israel Prize Ceremony

    calendar Dec 25, 2020 · 1 min read · zionism music  ·
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    I consider this video outstanding on multiple levels: The fact that there exists a government-sponsored prize ceremony that highlights the best human contributions from the citizenry on prime time TV: the Israel Prize. In this prize ceremony scientists are treated like rockstars. The montage behind the singers. The …


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