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Italian Ministry of Economic Development
Met Israeli Minister of Energy'

By Daniel Reichel

The Italian Ministry of Economic Development Carlo Calenda met with the Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Stenitz last week in Rome.
The two ministers analyzed the current situation and the prospects for the energy market in the Mediterranean as well as the possibilities for the development of gas production in the Middle East.
Calenda confirmed Italy's goal to become the energy hub for Europe and in this context, reiterated its support for the EastMed project, the offshore gas pipeline that would bring the Eastern Mediterranean gas resources in Europe, through Cyprus and Greece.

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Interview of Matvejevic by Pagine Ebraiche
in the Sarajevo Jewish Newspaper

By Guido Vitale and Jelica Rašeta*
 
In 2010, Pagine Ebraiche editor-in-chief Guido Vitale interviewed the great European author Predrag Matvejevic. He was born in Mostar (currently in Bosnia) in 1932, his father was Russian and his mother was Bosnian, and he himself became an Italian citizen later in life. Matvejevic passed away at the beginning of February, 2017.
The following is a translation of the interview in Serbo-Croatian by Jelica Raseta.
The text will be published in the Sarajevo Jewish newspaper “Jevrejski Glas” (The Jewish Voice).

Ugasio se nedavno, u tišini zagrebačkog doma za stare i nemoćne, jedan od najjasnijih intelektualnih glasova evropske kulture. Podizao je Predrag Matvejević taj svoj glas mnogo puta, iskazujući svoje protivljenje totalitarizmima i ponovnom rađanju ostrašćenih nacionalizama širom starog kontinenta.
Ugasio se nedavno, u jednom vremenu koje sve manje na njega liči, vremenu ružnom i ciničnom, u kom se podebljavaju granice nacija i nanovo prizivaju zidovi svih oblika i vrsta.
“Jevrejska kultura može sjediniti raspolućenu dušu Evrope. I zaliječiti rane”, zapisao je u razgovoru sa Matvejevićem Guido Vitale, urednik lista Pagine Ebraiche (Jevrejske stranice).
Odlučila sam da za čitaoce Jevrejskog glasa prevedem čitav tekst ovog razgovora koji je vođen za vrijeme Bejahada 2010. godine, nedugo nakon izlaska iz štampe Matvejevićeve knjige ”Naš kruh” (Jelica Rašeta).

*The interview is by Guido Vitale and was published in Pagine Ebraiche in October 2010. The translation is by Jelica Rašeta.

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A Young Soccer Talent Rallies Support
from the Jewish Community of Rome

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culture

Director Steven Spielberg Might Skip Bologna
in the Production of His New Movie Set in Italy

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BECHOL LASHON - Español

Brigada monumental 

Jason Guberman creó la fundación Digital Heritage Mapping (Cartografía Digital Patrimonial) para documentar las sinagogas y los cementerios, las ruinas de escuelas y otros espacios colectivos que alguna vez habían sido centros de la vida comunitaria en lugares de Medio Oriente y el Norte de África donde hoy el Estado Islámico (ISIS) no ha dejado una piedra en pie: no sólo mata personas, también destruye su historia. El proyecto Diarna —palabra que significa "nuestra casa" en dialecto judeoárabe— comenzó como un mapeo por medio de Google Earth, pero luego del encuentro entre Guberman y el cineasta kurdo Sami Solmaz, nacido en una familia musulmana de Turquía, se convirtió en un registro en el territorio, como un corresponsal de guerra, y un museo 3D en línea.







*Infobae, 05.03.2017



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pilpul - double life

Seagulls

By Daniela Fubini*

One of the most puzzling things when I moved to Tel Aviv, finally at the sea level after my first, dry year in Jerusalem, was the fact that I could not hear nor see seagulls over the coast line.
Everything else was in place: the beach, the thin and bright sand; the umbrellas, more or less lined up with folding white plastic chairs to look into the blue water; the familiar sound of the low waves breaking into white foam right before reaching the sand.
Yes, the temperature of the water was alarmingly higher than the one I was used to in Northern Italy. And yes, the Israeli game of matkot, a simplified version of tennis in which nobody keeps track of the points, somewhat an oddity as well. But the most striking difference was that above us, there are really only skies, and if we see birds they are most definitely not white, no long wings and yellow beak, they don't play graciously with the kind breeze making circles in the blue, and they don't make the typical cry that resounds from far away onto the surface of the lagoon.

*Daniela Fubini (Twitter @d_fubini) lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she arrived in 2008 from Turin via New York.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Palindromes

By Guido Vitale

"The longest palindrome in the Torah is ‘Venatnu’ – vav, nun, taf, nun, vav – spelling the same backwards and forwards, showing that when you give, you receive in turn." (Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth)





















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Libyan Jews' Appeal

By David Gerbi*

Representative of World Organisation of Libyan Jews (WOLJ) Dr. David Gerbi urges the international community on the issue of Libyan Jews.
The WOLJ call the authorities of the GNA, the Parliament, the leader of Benghazi governments, to respect the rights and heritage of Libyan Jews and how they should be secured by the new constitution on the issue of Libyan Jews that has been forgotten for fifty years (1967 – 2017).
We call for our rights that has been violated for 50 years. We call for the respect of our rights as Libyan Jews.
Libyan Jews have the right to return to their ancestors’ hometowns in Libya to visit and to pray for their dear one and to receive back their properties and to demand their compensation of the private and public property that has been confiscated since 1967, when the last 5000 Libyan Jews became refugees in Italy, USA England and other countries.

*This article was published in Libyan Express on February 28, 2017.

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