The level of Lake Kinneret has risen by more than 34 inches in the past two months.
Water Authority workers returned to work Sunday for the first time since beginning a strike in November.
The measurement of Lake Kinneret is the first since the strike, and follows heavy rains throughout the country during the month of January. It was the largest January rainfall in five years, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Another 15 feet are needed to bring the Kinneret to full capacity.
Do not give up on institutions — but do not disengage from the responsibility to hold them accountable.
For close to 30 years, we forked up whatever we could afford and were happy to do it. It was now time for them to experience the exhilaration of staring at a pile of bills, not knowing where the money would come from.
It is difficult to see another member of Congress or administration official capable of moving a possible Israel-Saudi deal to fruition.
During his roughly 30-minute speech, he warned that Israel had become a “prisoner of its own tools” and that the American-Israel relationship, although historically strong, was “at a crossroads.”
At a moment when California faces soaring costs, housing shortages, energy challenges, water insecurity and mounting technological competition from China, Ro Khanna chose to travel halfway around the world in pursuit of yet another public confrontation with America’s closest and best ally in the Middle East.
This $120 million investment is modeled after the American NIH, and it will accelerate the timeline from lab discovery to clinical treatment.
Just like any emotion or any label, hate can be denied. What is much harder to deny is one set of rules for the world and another for the Jews. That’s not an emotion. It’s an action.
“Citizen Vigilante” serves as a warning to governments that if they don’t secure their borders, enforce laws, and protect their most vulnerable, ordinary people will resort to self-help.
The only hope for a better future is to turn the Palestinians away from Hamas and back on the path of building their economy and a democratic society that conceivably could regain the trust of Israelis.
No one else is willing to pay the price except Israel which understands its survival depends on it.
Israel, and everything it has accomplished, has given Judaism a spine. After two millennia of insecurity and persecution, Israel shows us a way of being Jewish that is the opposite of weakness.
Our tradition not only teaches to have confidence in the children we are raising but to also trust ourselves, our ever-evolving characters.
Israel Bonds, the organization that has mobilized diaspora investment in the State of Israel for 75 years, is building a community among a new generation of pro-Israel professionals in Los Angeles.
An Open Letter to My Fellow Jews on Peoplehood, Memory, and Israel
