The Times of Israel was launched in February by David Horowitz, former editor of the Jerusalem Post. It’s an English-language news and comment site for Israel and Jewish-related news. About the same time as it launched, Haaretz’s English-language site began putting most of its content behind a paywall. This left a gap which the ToI immediately […]
Category: Technology
Inventions by my friends
I have talented friends. At least two have book deals and are furiously writing while living off their advances. A few have been elected to Parliament. Some are advising ministers or writing Middle East peace plans. On balance, this is a good thing, even if it does make me feel rather inferior by comparison. Some are inventors. […]
Happy Birthday Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum is 30 today, making it a few months younger than I am. Apparently, the Spectrum was the first home computer to break into the mass market in the UK due to its low price-point and decent catalogue of software. But I didn’t know any of that at the time. I don’t remember […]
Get the picture?
Avi Mayer called it first, when he asked if the photo below was genuine. He guessed it wasn’t. Over the last few days, hundreds of increasingly sophisticated rockets have been fired into Israel by Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza. The rockets have been able to reach large cities like Ashdod, Beer […]
London riots and media ‘blackouts’
I will write a fuller blog on the London riots later, but just wanted to comment on a theme seen in some of the tweets and chatter: that the media somehow covered up the latest rioting in Enfield and other places in London. The news is rarely instant. It often takes hours for something to […]