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      From the Hills of Efraim
      by Yisrael Medad
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      Yisrael Medad is a revenant resident of Shiloh, in the Hills of Efrayim north of Jerusalem.  He arrived in Israel with his wife, Batya, in 1970 and lived in the renewing Jewish Quarter, eventually moving to Shiloh in 1981. 

      Currently the Menachem Begin Center's Information Resource Director, he has previously been director of Israel's Media Watch, a Knesset aide to three Members of Knesset and a lecturer in Zionist History.  He assists the Yesha Council in it's contacts with the Foreign Media in a volunteer capacity, is active on behalf of Jewish rights on the Temple Mount and is involved in various Jewish and Zionist activist causes.  He contributes a Hebrew-language media column to Besheva and publishes op-eds in the Jerusalem Post and other periodicals.

      He also blogs at MyRightWord in English and, in Hebrew, at The Right Word.


      Tishrei 11, 5768, 9/23/2007

      Could It Be That The BBC Doesn't Like Jews?


      The BBC has a story on the death of Marcel Marceau.  You can read it here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7009040.stm

      What's missing?

      Well, Marcel, you should know was Jewish.  Yes, he was one of the tribe.  Family name was Mangel.

      As the Wikipedia notes - and you'd think someone at the BBC knows all about Wiki - "At 15, his Jewish family was forced to flee their home when France entered the Second World War."

      Why would the BBC hide his identity?

      A mistake?  Something overlooked?  It's their policy not to mention religious/cultural/national identities?

      Odd that, as my British friends would say.