Israel ranked #7 in World's Life Expectancy...US is #25

Need yet another reason to move to the Jewish State?

Israel is now ranked at #7 in life expectancy, coming at at 83.5 life expectancy years...with the USA lagging far behind at #25, with an expectancy of 80.6 years. (source)

I doubt the study took in account the stats of immigrants, who probably have higher blood pressure -- as a result of dealing with Israel's bureaucracy and idiosyncrasies. (Even though Israeli bureaucracy and customer service is far better than ever, and improving daily).

To your health! Labriyut (or Livriyut) -- to 120!






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Time for Justice in America

The JPost and Israel Radio reported today:

Former Assistant US Secretary of Defense Lawrence J. Korb sent a letter to President Obama two weeks ago stating that the sentence meted out to convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was too harsh and not justified by the crimes he committed, Army Radio reported on Tuesday.

According to Korb, his boss, former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger, expended immense effort to convince the judge in the Pollard case to judge him harshly.

"Despite Pollard's admission of guilt, cooperation with authorities, asked for a plea bargain, he received a disproportional punishment," wrote Korb.

Korb pointed out in his letter that the average punishment for the crime conviction Pollard received was two to four years at the time of his conviction. And today, after several legal changes, the new average is about 10 years.

Pollard and the US agreed to a plea bargain, yet Pollard is imprisoned to this very day.

Enough is enough -- its time for the US to release Pollard and let him go home to Israel.

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Srugim Going to the USA

Bangitout reports:

The Most talked about Israeli TV show "Srugim" is finally making it's way to the US...and yes, with English subtitles.

Here are two ways of getting at all of the episodes:

1. - The Jewish Channel (on Time Warner ch. 528, RCN ch. 268) is running a new episode every Saturday night; check www.tjctv.com

- Also Jewschool.com has teamed up with The JCC of Manhattan and are screening 2 episodes of season 1 every Wednesday Night at the JCC (followed by a happy hour at the West Side Brewery) check the schedule here (it costs $5 dollars a screening, or $20 dollars for the entire series)

I don't know if its "the most talked about" Israeli TV show, but its definitely up there.

I haven't watched the whole second season, but I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. I assume we'll post about it in the coming weeks.



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