Grandma's army

The purpose behind all wars is to capture as much enemy territory as possible. That is how all the world’s imperialistic Empires have been founded. The November 1947 United Nations vote to bring Israel into existence was a momentous reversal of imperialism. It gave back to the Jewish people the home taken from them by empire after empire. Judaism differs from the other monotheisms, Christianity and Islam, as it never created, or sought to create, an Empire. It was the imperialism of the Roman emperor Hadrian that led him in the 2 nd  century to change the country’s name to Palestine, one of the first - but certainly not the last – deliberate falsifications of history by those who seek to deny the Jewish people’s right to their land. There are 56 Islamic nations, and 159 in which Christians form the majority. There is, and only ever has been, one Jewish state, tiny and vulnerable though it is - and always was. That is why Anti-Zionism, denying Jews the right to their one an...

Until the mid-1970s, Israel had a strong agricultural orientation. In order to adapt to changing geopolitical, market and climatic conditions, a combination of sophisticated applied science, and rugged determination   enabled Israel to make   the transition to an industrial, hi-tech economy. Like most of Israeli innovation, technology was born out of necessity.   Agriculture was not abandoned, but was transformed along with the rest of the country. Israel has come a long way since then. The fact that representatives from over 40 countries convened in Israel for four days last week to discover technologies   in agriculture - involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, etc., - testifies to Israel as being one of the leading countries in the world in the branch of agriculture. One of the most outstanding examples is an NGO, founded by Sivan Ya’ari,   with a mission to bring Israeli solar and water technologies to rural African villa...