Friday Links Part 2

From Ian:

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LATMA: An interview with GOC Central Command Leitzan Balloon and the FBI fights terror



Scottish hotel cancels Jewish event after "threats"

Student from St Andrews University have reportedly been stopped from holding a charity event due to threats sent to the venue - the St Andrews Golf Hotel.
Jewish students were due to hold a black tie Matzah Ball at the prestigious location with almost 100 expected to attend from around the UK. Money raised was to be sent to seven Israeli charities supported including the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF).
But following pressure from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), as reported by the Jewish Telegraph, hotel manager Niall Thompson cancelled the booking.

ZOA Criticizes Dustin Hoffman For Being Special Guest At Radical, Anti-Israel Muslim Public Affairs Council Gala

MPAC is headed by Salam al-Marayati, who has called for Israel’s destruction, and has said that Israel may be responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Even left-wing Los Angeles rabbis have ceased to speak to him. The following is a small sampling of his record of Islamist extremism.

A Pallywood Hijacking

The photo above appears in the Facebook group “I acknowledge Apartheid Exists”
So why am I posting it? Because it’s typical Palestinian lies and nonsense.
They hijacked a photo from 2005, which had the original caption:
Title: "Religious Jews Protest Against The Desecration Of Ancient Graves"

Birthday Party for Adelle at Hospital: 'May She be a Miracle'

Adelle Biton's family celebrated her third birthday Thursday at the Schneider Children's Hospital, where she is still unconscious after an Arab rock ambush last month.
Adelle's mother, Adva, exuded optimism and unshakable faith at the celebration.

Dutch Newspaper Utilizes Nazi Imagery to Defame Israel

“I referred to the respected Ebert Foundation poll that showed over 38% of Dutch respondents said that Israel is exterminating Palestinians the way the Germans exterminated the Jews! Shocking? Perhaps not, considering decisions like your paper's to publish a cartoon depicting Israel as the lying hooked-nosed religious Hassidic Jew commiserating with a North Korean counterpart over their nuclear capabilities,” said Rabbi Cooper, referring to the abhorrent cartoon.

‘Amazon Jews’ on Their Way to Israel

Hundreds of descendants of Peruvian Jews are planning to make aliyah (immigrate) to Israel, the Jewish Agency reports.

Why U.S. Companies Are Drooling Over Israel’s Amazing Startup Scene

U.S. companies and investors are falling over themselves to get a piece of Israel’s startup action these days.
There are at least two dozen accelerator programs in the Tel Aviv area, including some run by Microsoft and Google.
It seems like every U.S. VC has at least one Israeli startup in its portfolio. Some even have full offices here, like Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer, Sequoia, according to the Mapped In Israel startup map.

Israeli firm named Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer

The Israeli “smart water” network and software management firm Whitewater was named a 2013 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer at a ceremony in New York earlier this week.
Whitewater received the award at the sixth annual Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, along with what Bloomberg describes as nine other “game-changing companies in the field of clean energy technology and innovation.”

Revealing secrets

His most recent publication is a book in Hebrew on Israel’s major military operations, coauthored by Nissim Mishal.
“It looks at the IDF’s 30 greatest operations, such as the Entebbe raid [in 1976], Sabena [the flight 571 hijacking in 1972], up until Pillar of Cloud [last November] which was the last one. There is even a last chapter about the operation that has not been carried out; about the attack on Iran, with a detailed description of how we shall try to do it.”

Menachem Begin: A Life, by Avi Shilon (REVIEW)

Indeed, Shilon positions Begin as the most Jewish of Israeli leaders. Although he never ducks from documenting Begin’s flaws, he ultimately presents a fine man and a loving leader. Begin was a humble man and a loyal husband. Such qualities were rare enough among the politicians of his era, nowadays they are rarer still. If only there were more of his calibre in politics now.