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Comments (0)The Tel Aviv municipality has launched a program to help Jewish girls get out of relationships with Arab boys, Ma’ariv reported.
The municipal finance committee allocated about $66,000 to “an aid program for immigrant girls at risk” run by the Tel Aviv Municipality, the Absorption Ministry and the World Congress of Bukharan Jews, according to an article in the Ma’ariv-Tel Aviv weekly magazine.
The program will work with up to 120 women below the age of 22.
“This is a war against the trend of scores of Jewish girls getting together with minority men and with migrant workers, and then getting into trouble with their families and the families of the minority men, that often ostracize them for being Jewish,” said an unnamed senior official in the municipality, according to Ma’ariv.
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Goes on Display in Jerusalem
The complete original manuscript of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity went on display in Jerusalem, the first time the 46-page handwritten manuscript has ever been shown in its entirety.
It is being shown at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem to mark the organization’s 50th anniversary. The anniversary of Einstein’s birth is March 14.
Einstein donated the manuscript to the Hebrew University in 1925, four years after he received the Nobel Prize in physics. It is on loan to the academy.
The theory of relativity is the forerunner of modern space exploration and GPS technology, and is used to explain everything from black holes to the Big Bang.
“I refer to it as the Magna Carta of physics,” Hanoch Gutfreund, former president of the Hebrew University and current chair of its academic committee for the Albert Einstein Archives, a complete collection of Einstein’s papers, told Haaretz. “It’s the most important manuscript in the entire archives.”
Israelis Love IKEA
A second IKEA store was set to open in Israel this week, and reportedly will be the largest in the Middle East.
The store, which was slated to open March 9 in Rishon Lezion, will take the title of biggest way from one in Dubai, but likely will be superseded when an IKEA opens in Abu Dhabi in the near future.
The Rishon Lezion store will include Israel’s biggest restaurant, with 500 seats. In a testament to how much Israelis love the Swedish chain, a third branch likely will open in Haifa in 2012.
Dubai Likes Israeli Cricket
The Israel Cricket Association was awarded a prize for bringing together Jews and Bedouin in the southern Negev desert.
The catch? The prize came from the Dubai-based International Cricket Council.
The Israeli association won a similar prize in 2001, but the timing of this year’s prize is unusual as Dubai continues to investigate Israel’s alleged role in the assassination of a top Hamas official in a Dubai hotel room in late January.
The association now plans to bring cricket to Arab Israelis in Israel’s North.
Cricket is among the top three sports in many Arab states, Ynet reported.