A broad overview of the trends in Israel’s trade with China in goods and services, in the last decade

Tomer Fadlon, INSS 18.6.23

This paper surveys the trends in trade between Israel and China, in both goods and services, over the past decade (2013–2022). Especially noticeable is the significant and consistent rise in trade with Israel during those years, based mostly on the import of goods from China, which totaled $17.62 billion in 2022. The imports from China are diverse and include machinery for infrastructure and construction projects, consumer products ordered from Chinese websites, which to some degree has mitigated the rise in the cost of living in Israel, and for the past two years, the import of cars from China. 

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By MARTIN SHERMAN

When the official reasons given for the Oct. 2022 gas deal with Lebanon unravel, who can be blamed for allowing “heretical” alternative explanations to creep into one’s mind

 We will divide up the region. Israel will return most of the West Bank, and the Palestinian flag will fly on public buildings in East Jerusalem – Yair Lapid,Der Spiegel, May 8, 2008.  

 Jerusalem is not a place; it is the constitutive concept of Israeli identity and our most fundamental ethos…We will not divide Jerusalem. No matter what happens. If that eventually means that there will be no resolution [of the conflict] then there will be no resolution – Yair Lapid, Walla, December 27, 2014.

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS   

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Budgets Commissioner Yogev Gerdos on Sunday informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Nir Barkat that the lengthy negotiations between the global Intel company and the budget division of the finance ministry had concluded successfully, and agreements in principle were reached regarding Intel’s plan to invest approximately $25 billion in a new plant in Kiryat Gat.

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The office of the Jordanian Coalition for the Opposition in London received an official invitation, on a specific date, in the near future, by the US Congress, where the Jordanian opposition delegation will meet with a special, diverse subcommittee in Congress that was formed to look into the Jordanian issue..

T. Belman. The government is quite right to propose this extension to the Minister of National Security. This differs from the detention  applied to the Jan 6 detainees  in that they were subject to trumped up charges whereas in Israel the detentions would be soundly based.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara warns that the bill could create ‘a slippery slope’ for Israel’s Arab citizens, and ‘violate basic principles of Israeli law’

By Chen Maanit and Noa Shpigel, HAARETZ 17.6.23

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, in May.Credit: Abir Sultan/Pool via Reuters

Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to oppose the bill aimed at giving National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir authority to approve administrative detention orders.

The Justice Ministry has yet to formulate a final position on the bill, which is due to be on Sunday’s agenda of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. According to Justice Ministry sources, however, expanding the use of administrative detention, as Ben-Gvir is seeking, is unnecessary and could infringe upon human rights.

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The decision by the Netanyahu-led government comes as Barbara Leaf, the top ranking American diplomat for the Middle East, is set to visit the region. Earlier this year, Israel issued a commitment to the Biden administration, promising not to expand West Bank settlements for four months

By Hagar Shezaf and Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ 18.6.23 12:24 PM

The Israeli cabinet is set to approve a resolution on Sunday that would shorten the process of approving construction in West Bank Jewish settlements and give Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – who also serves as a minister in the Defense Ministry – the authority to approve one of the stages. The decision would change a system that has been in effect for the last 27 years.

In a related development, next week the Supreme Planning Council of the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank will consider the advancement of plans for thousands of housing units in West Bank settlements.

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By Michael Ordman, , VGNI

In the 18th Jun 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• An Israeli startup can train the brain to filter out chronic pain.
• Children with psychological problems receive therapy from Israeli dolphins.
• 3 Israeli startups have independently developed solutions to cure insomnia.
• It’s official – another major Israeli natural gas discovery.
• Israel beat Korea to come 3rd in the Under 20 Soccer World Cup.
• An Israeli kidney donor ran a marathon alongside the transplant recipient.

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by Guy Millière, GATESTONE  •  June 18, 2023 at 5:00 am

Pictured: Bois-d’Aulne College in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, where Paty was murdered. (Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images)

• Samuel Paty, a high school teacher [was] savagely beheaded on October 16, 2020 in… the suburbs of Paris where he taught…
• The list of 14 people [indicted] does not include the murderer, Abdullakh Anzorov: he was shot dead by police.
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by Bilahari Kausikan, JSTRIBUNE     June 2023

China’s President Xi Jinping and Arab leaders during the China-Arab summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2022. Photo credit: Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS

I once asked a Vietnamese friend what an impending leadership change in Hanoi meant for his country’s relations with China. “Every Vietnamese leader,” he replied, “must get along with China; every Vietnamese leader must stand up to China; and if you cannot do both at the same time, you don’t deserve to be the leader.” His answer succinctly describes Southeast Asia’s general approach not only to China but also to other major powers and major power competition.

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By Rachel Ehrenfeld, (American Greatness)

Alexander Soros’ bragging, “I’m more political,” promises limitless funding of the progressive-Left agenda for the 2024 election. It seems that the June 11 glorified announcement in the Wall Street Journal, exalting Alexander Soros’ accession to his father’s financial empire and global “political-philanthropic” foundations, was meant to boost the young man’s clout.

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by Raheem J, Kassam. NATIONAL PULSE

Top Democrats and former Republicans met at a Washington, D.C. think tank in early June 2023 to discuss election interference strategies to block former President Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House, according to a report in the Washington Post.

The meeting is said to have included recent Biden White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Democratic National Committee senior advisor Cedric L. Richmond, as well as Stephanie Cutter, a former campaign adviser to Barack Obama who has also worked with Biden.

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UTJ MK says haredi party still seeks to pass law allowing Knesset to re-enact legislation struck down by the Supreme Court.

Israel National News 18.6.23

While the Likud party is currently focused on passing smaller parts of the government’s planned judicial reforms in response to the opposition’s decision to suspend the negotiations at the President’s Residence, the haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party is demanding the passage of one of the most controversial parts of the reforms, the override clause.

Kan Reshet Bet reported that Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) said in closed conversations last week that he is seeking the passage of the override clause.

“We will not give up on the override clause,” Gafni said in the midst of the crisis between the coalition and the opposition.
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Finance Minister Smotrich says Judea and Samaria residents no longer being treated as second-class citizens with new construction.

Israel National News 18.6.23

The agenda for the Supreme Planning Council for Judea and Samaria was published today (Sunday). The agenda includes the approval of over 4,500 housing units in various communities in Judea and Samaria.

The published plans join the nearly ten thousand units published at the previous meeting of the Supreme Planning Council. With the new plans, more housing units have been approved in the first six months of 2023 than at any other six-month period of the last decade.

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Persecuted and prosecuted by the FBI for exposing massive voter fraud in the November 2020 Presidential elections

By URI WEISS   17.6.23

https://rumble.com/v2unbse-tina-peters-on-colorados-2020-election-fraud-feds-persecute-election-integr.html

The story that Tina Peters tells is something we all knew since the fateful night of November 3rd, 2020, when the Presidential elections have been stolen from the American people in the most brazen way by the DemocRATS aided by the FBI and what has become to be known as the UNIPARTY in full cooperation with the lame, fake media, which this time included also Fox News.

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The last 10 days has been a catastrophe for Ukraine

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The Biden administration has authorized the transfer of $2.76 billion from Iraq to Iran, Reuters reported on June 10. The news comes within days of emerging reports that Washington hopes to trade Iranian funds trapped in foreign accounts for a halt to further nuclear escalation by Tehran. While the United States has issued sanctions waivers to allow Iraq to import electricity from Iran in the past, U.S. sanctions have prevented Tehran from repatriating funds paid into escrow in Baghdad.

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T. Belman.  I am not convinced.

GALINA WROTE AGAIN TO ME:

Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman responded to Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin, who called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “a disgrace to the Jewish people.”

He said that, together with the whole world, he was proud of the President of Ukraine, who is making every effort to protect the Ukrainian people in the face of Russian full-scale aggression.
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By Nicole Wells, NEWSMAX    |   Friday, 16 June 2023 

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told Newsmax on Friday that in refusing to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden is signaling to the rest of the world that “Israel is just not that important.”

“The prime minister is the democratically elected leader of Israel,” Friedman said during an appearance on Newsmax’s “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “Israel is the most important ally of America in the Middle East, maybe in the entire world. He’s really one of the best known leaders in the world today.

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  June 17, 2023 at 5:00 am

• The Biden administration also reportedly wants to pump $17 billion dollars into the Iranian regime’s treasury. These benefits will not only enable the mullahs’ to finalize their nuclear weapons program, but also to send more arms to Russia to attack Ukraine, as well as to further enable the regime’s ruthless expansion throughout the Middle East — in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and the terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip — and throughout Latin America.
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