Friday, March 31, 2006

MK Gal-On: Beilin failed Meretz, I'm a worthy successor

Bullshit!! Samuel Cohen, Galon owes her seat to Yossi Beilin and she and her friends
are to Blame for not getting more seats for Meretz!!
PS. Now Five Seats, not 4
Last update - 09:09 30/03/2006
MK Gal-On: Beilin failed Meretz, I'm a worthy successor
By Lilach Weissman and Yulie Khromchenko, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service

Meretz faction chief Zahava Gal-On on Thursday heaped more criticism on party leader Yossi Beilin for the poor performance in Tuesday's election, and nominated herself as a worthy successor.

Meretz lost two seats in the elections for the next Knesset, taking it from its current six to just four. Although party regulations stipulate new elections for the chairmanship within one year, senior officials within Meretz are working to expedite the date of the elections in the wake of Tuesday's failure.

"Meretz needs to return to being a party in the spirit of Shulamit Aloni, which protects human rights," Gal-On told Israel Radio on Thursday, adding that she sees herself as a worthy leadership candidate.

"The drop in [seat] numbers calls for soul-searching and taking responsibility," she said. "There has been a failure here in the leadership of the chairman of the party."

Gal-On had announced her intention to run Wednesday night, along with MK Ran Cohen, Beilin's runner-up in the last leadership race.

"Meretz needs to internalize the lessons in the most courageous way possible," Cohen told Haaretz on Wednesday afternoon. "Five years ago, we were 10 seats. This is a flop that requires learning of lessons and not just personal lessons."

"In the coming year, according to the party constitution, there will be elections for chairman," Cohen, who criticized the messages and the management of the campaign, said.

"We have to think differently," Cohen said. "The way is to place the socio-economic issue at the head of Meretz's efforts on an equal footing with the diplomatic-security matter."

Cohen added that he advocated that exact policy during his campaign which ended in defeat to Beilin.

"We could have preceded the others by raising the social flag, but when we failed to do that we lost some of our supporters to parties which did advance those issues - Labor and the Pensioners," Cohen said. "Everyone needs to learn their lessons, not just Beilin, but also whoever rejected my proposal."

Throughout the campaign, party officials repeated their criticism of Meretz's increasing emphasis on the diplomatic policy and the Geneva Initiative while toning down the social banner.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

This time last year in Vasa Finland

http://www.vasabladet.fi/ekonomi.asp?docID=9169&katID=5
I gave a Lecture on Israeli Hi-tech

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Election Exit Poll Results My Election Day

I started the morning by voting MERETZ
I learnt a New Expression : Litfos Tachat...
Big Circus in Kikar Rabin.
Results at 22.00 at Zavta with Meretz and Beilin.

Two TV exit polls of Israel’s general election place Ehud Olmert’s ruling Kadima in lead - 29-32 out of 120 Knesset seats (below poll estimates)

March 28, 2006, 10:51 PM (GMT+02:00)

Ehud Olmert’s ruling Kadima - 29-32 out of 120 Knesset seats (in the lead but below poll estimates), Labor – 22 (held its ground), Likud crashed to 11, Russian immigrants’ Israel Beitenu – 13-14 (up), ultra- religious Shas – 10-11, anti-evacuation National Union-NRP – 8-9, Torah Judaism – 5-6, left-wing Meretz – 5. The big surprise is the senior citizens who for the first time crossed the threshold with a dramatic 8 mandates.

Some 4.5 million Israelis were eligible to cast their votes Tuesday, March 28, for the 17th Knesset and their next government. They had a choice of 31 party lists.

Another half a million overseas voters and the army cast their votes earlier. Voting day is a national holiday

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

תוצאות הבחירות בקמפוס Elections Tel Aviv University

תוצאות הבחירות בקמפוס
אם זה היה תלוי בסטודנטים של אוניברסיטת ת"א מרצ היתה מרכיבה את הממשלה הבאה.
בבחירות דמה שערכה אגודת הסטודנטים הגיעה מרצ למקום הראשון עם 30 מנדטים, מפלגת העבודה 29 מנדטים וקדימה רק 17.

שאר התוצאות:
חד"ש- 16 מנדטים
עלה ירוק- 10 מנדטים
ישראל ביתנו- 5 מנדטים
הירוקים- 4 מנדטים
הליכוד- 3 מנדטים
איחוד לאומי- מפד"ל- 3 מנדטים
גיל (הגימלאים)- 3 מנדטים

Monday, March 20, 2006

Thursday, March 16, 2006

I was Phished Today, With "e-mail" from BANKONE

This is what I got:
Dear Bank One valued member,

The security of your information, transactions, and money is the core of
our business and our top priority at Bank One.


Our policy is to protect personal or financial information which comes
into our possession during the normal course of business.
It has come to our attention that your account information needs
to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and renew
your records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
However, failure to update your records will result in account erasure.
This notification expires on March 25, 2006.


Please follow the link below and renew your account information.

http://www.bankone.com

Once you have updated your account records your internet banking
service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.


Online Department
Bank One


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Of 'phishing' for data and fishing for gifts

June 10, 2004

BY TERRY SAVAGE SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST




It's summertime. A season of vacations and weddings, and today's column includes not one, but two financial stories along that theme.

The first should be titled, "Gone Phishing." That's not a misspelling, nor is it a vacation idea. It's the name of a new identity theft scam that is sweeping the Internet.

I've heard about e-mails that purport to be from your financial institution, asking for personal information. But when one landed in my own e-mailbox this week, I didn't immediately recognize the scam.

The logo of my bank, Bank One, was identical to messages I sometimes receive about new features in their online bill pay service. And the return e-mail said it came from service@bankone.com. The message started out as an official sounding warning: "Because of our concern about the safety and integrity of the online banking community..." So I read further.

The e-mail asked me to "take a few minutes to review and update" my information as a security precaution. It advised me that if I did not reply within a week, my account would be deleted. It asked me to click on a link in the message to input my information.

A clear scam



It was clearly a scam. A bank would never delete an account. A bank always has your information and never asks you to input information over an insecure e-mail link. And the word "delete" was misspelled as "deletation."

But people do follow those instructions. The link leads you directly into a trap. Once you input your account and PIN, you've given away the keys to your financial life.

Note: This scam has nothing to do with the safety of online bill pay! Your online bill pay account is secure and guaranteed against fraud. This has everything to do with Internet scams and identity theft.

Every major bank has been hit with this "phishing" scam. Con artists blast massive amounts of e-mails, hoping they'll land in the box of someone who actually does have an online bill-pay account at the bank. It only takes a few responses to make this scam profitable. So here are some tips to avoid being taken:

*Be alert for scams. Check at your bank's Web site for warnings. Citibank and Bank One even post examples of e-mail phishing scams.

*Never reply with information. Never give out information when someone asks for it. Never use a link.

*Report attempts to the bank. Every bank Web site has a link or a toll-free number to report these attempts. And don't be embarrassed if you were tricked into giving away information. If you report it immediately, your account will be protected until you can choose a new PIN.

*Forward scam e-mails to the Federal Trade Commission. Send that e-mail to the FTC so they can take action and see how huge the problem is becoming. The address to forward that scam email is: uce@ftc.gov

*Change your password and PINs. Banks advise that you use separate PINs and passwords for different accounts, so if one is stolen, your entire financial life is not revealed. And though it's a pain to remember new PINs, they advise changing those codes twice a year.

Remember, your grandparents probably didn't lock their front door. And the first automobiles didn't have individual keys. But we live in a different era now. The message is not to avoid technology, but to use it wisely.

Perfect wedding gift



And that reminder leads me to mention a new idea for that wedding or graduation gift this summer. It's a Web site called www.GiftofStock.com. In fact, if you're the one getting married, you can register for shares of stock you'd like to receive.

The stock gift includes automatic enrollment in the company-sponsored Dividend Reinvestment Plan or DRIP. So this is a gift that can keep growing as part of a long-term investment plan. About 1,300 major companies offer these DRIP plans, and they're all listed at the Web site.

The recipient gets a mock stock certificate announcing the gift, but more importantly, the right to continue investing in shares of the company stock without paying commission or going through a broker. Check the Web site for details on ordering and pricing.

The Internet can bring great financial benefits, as well as challenges. And it requires new skills at discerning the real from the fake. But it's worth it. That's The Savage Truth.


Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser, and appears weekly on WMAQ-Channel 5's 4:30 p.m. newscast. Distributed by Creators Syndicate.



Copyright © Terry Savage Productions

Friday, March 03, 2006

Marc and Abigail Aroya. in Memory

Aug. 9, 1971 A YOUNG family and a misguided boy met on a road in Gaza several months ago. The encounter, which stunned all Israel, is reconstructed by TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark: Robert Aroyo, his wife Preeti, and their children Marc-Daniel, 7, and Abigail, 4, had lived in Israel only eight months. Born on Malta, raised in England, Aroyo abandoned an advertising job in London to bring his family to the land of promise, where he felt they all belonged. Settled in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kiron, the Aroyos often spent Sabbaths touring their new country. One bright Saturday they set out south to visit Gaza. (from TIME)
A Palestinian Boy threw a grenade in to there car. The Children died. Preeti was badly wounded and Robert had blood all over him.
I visited the Aroyo's at Beer-Sheba Hospital. I was in the Army.
We lived in Kiron and my parents knew them.
As a result Ariel Sharon "Went into" the refugee camps in Gaza.

Sulha Peace Project - www.sulha.com

Sulha Peace Project -
I was there Thursday, Very Interesting in Yaffo. (Jaffa).
Also saw Diyur Mugan with SIMA.