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☆ With Humor, Kobi Libii Gives His Characters a Different Superpower
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Christopher Kuo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” the writer-director Kobi Libii’s debut feature film opening March 15, a mysterious group of Black people possess superpowers. But unlike Black Panther or Miles Morales’s Spider-Man, this group doesn’t fight criminals or take on villains. Instead, the members of this society wield their powers only for a very specific purpose: soothing the anxieties of white people. This conceit satirizes the cultural trope of the Magical Negro, in which Black characters in a plot exist solely to aid the white protagonists. By incarnating this trope in the form of a secret society set in present-day America, the film critiques the ways in which Black people continue to be forced into deference toward white people.

Persons: Kobi, Miles Morales’s Spider, — Organizations: American Society Locations: America

☆ Tesla board silent as investors await next steps after Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package revoked
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Antonio Masiello | Getty ImagesTwo weeks after a Delaware court ruled that Tesla must rescind Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, the company's board remains mum on what the decision means for shareholders or what's next for the mercurial CEO. CNBC sent requests for additional information to Tesla investor relations, Musk and some board members. "Given the high stakes involved, it is likely that Tesla will appeal the decision," Kastiel said in an email. In the absence of a successful appeal, "any new compensation arrangement with him will have to be assessed" in light of McCormick's decision, Kastiel said. Kastiel also said that the decision likely makes Musk and Tesla more vulnerable to other types of lawsuits.

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☆ Israel's ban on Palestinian workers is causing supply shocks to its economy: central bank governor
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"And it's primarily in the construction industry where ... a third of that industry is Palestinians from the West Bank, and now they're not coming in to work." "It's also affecting agriculture, where they are in, and there are other foreign workers," Yaron said. watch nowThe ban on most of these workers returning to their employment in Israel has dramatically hurt the economy of the West Bank. In late December, Israel's finance ministry warned that the ban on Palestinian workers could cost Israel's economy billions of shekels per month. Fifty percent of the sites are closed and there is an impact on Israel's economy and the housing market."

Persons: Amir Yaron, Kobi Wolf, CNBC's Dan Murphy, Yaron, Raul Sargo Organizations: Bank of Israel, Bloomberg, Getty, Economic, West Bank, Israel, Times, Israel Builders Association Locations: Jerusalem, Israel, Davos, Gaza, Times of Israel, Thailand

But the three men topping Israel's hit-list remain at large: Deif, the head of Hamas' military wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades; his second in command, Marwan Issa; and Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. The three leaders are directing Hamas' military operations and led negotiations for a prisoner-hostage swaps, possibly from bunkers beneath Gaza, three Hamas sources say. The objective of the war remains to dismantle Hamas' military and government capabilities, Michael said, which could involve a turbulent period in Gaza after the war. An Israeli military officer, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, said the IDF viewed the elimination of such combat-level commanders as essential to dismantling Hamas' military capabilities. Israel has killed Hamas' leaders in the past, including the group's founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and its former leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantisi, assassinated in a 2004 air strike.

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LEHAVOT HABASHAN, Israel—In the days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in southern Israel, Orna Rayn searched frantically for someone to build a wooden barricade to secure the door of a safe room in her house about 6 miles from the Lebanon border. Rayn’s sister, Einat Rothem-Nechushtan, moved into the safe room on Oct. 10, even before the Israeli government ordered the evacuation of her own small farming community in northern Israel because of fears of all-out war with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed army in Lebanon.

Persons: LEHAVOT HABASHAN, Israel —, Orna Rayn, Einat Locations: Israel, Lebanon, Iran

☆ Israel is tightening its control of northern Gaza. But there is no clear post-war strategy in sight
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN —The Israeli military is tightening its grip on northern Gaza, as its war on the Hamas militant group is showing no signs of abating. Almost six weeks into the conflict, however, Israel is yet to offer a clear post-war plan for the territory. The Israeli military raided Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, on Wednesday after claiming that Hamas had built a command center beneath the sprawling medical complex. The United States has warned against Israel re-occupying Gaza, and has stressed a future role there for the Palestinian Authority (PA). Video Ad Feedback Netanyahu appeared to rule out giving the Palestinian Authority control of post-war Gaza.

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☆ The Scenes of Genocide I Saw in Israeli Morgues
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Qanta A. Ahmed | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Review and Outlook: The Secretary-General abandons Israel, a state the U.N. helped to create. Images: Zuma Press/AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyA fetal heartbeat flutters and then stills, a bullet lodged in the embryonic heart. A body that has been decomposing for almost three weeks lies on the autopsy table, riddled with knife and bullet wounds. As an observant Muslim, I felt a duty to come and bear witness. What I saw will remain with me forever.

Persons: Israel, Mark Kelly, Kobi Valer Organizations: Zuma Press, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Israel

☆ Opinion: Uncomfortable reality for Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. He didn’t live to see the allies’ victory in World War II that year or the conference in San Francisco that month that established the United Nations. But his diplomatic efforts to meet with Arab leaders came undone after a devastating explosion at a hospital in Gaza. Biden himself initially supported the US 2003 war in Iraq only to end up as the president who ordered the US pullout of Afghanistan. “This is the politics that Donald Trump’s rhetoric has wrought among his supporters in the Republican Party,” wrote Avlon.

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☆ Israel arms civilian security squads, fearing internal strife
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The last Gaza war in 2021 saw sometimes violent pro-Palestinian protests among the Arab citizens who make up 21% of Israel's population. Israeli police have arrested dozens of Arab citizens on suspicion of incitement and support for Hamas, based on social media posts. An additional measure has been the setting up of volunteer security squads to patrol the streets and back up police. Shabtai said security squads would be subordinate to police. "It is good that there will be a lot of security squads and force, but caution must be exercised with this," he said.

Persons: Ammar Awad, Israel's, Kobi Shabtai, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Shabtai, Ben, Eliezer Rosenbaum, Naella, Dan Williams, David Holmes Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, West Bank, Hamas, Thomson Locations: Old City, Jerusalem, Israel, Gaza, Lebanese, Haifa

☆ Israeli police crack down on Arab citizens expressing solidarity with Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Henriette Chacar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Civil rights lawyers say Israeli authorities are interpreting any expressions of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza as incitement. Police said Abu Amneh, who has over 300,000 followers on Instagram, was promoting hate speech and incitement, something she denies. CLOSE SCRUTINYArabs in Israel - Palestinian by heritage and Israeli by citizenship - make up some 20% of the population. Israeli authorities are interpreting any sympathy for the people of Gaza as support for terror, she said. At least 100 Arab citizens have been detained, most on allegations of incitement and support for terror over social media posts, said the Haifa-based centre for Arab minority rights Adalah, citing data from the State Attorney's office.

Persons: Dalal Abu Amneh, Abu Amneh, Kobi Shabtai, ahlan, Shabtai, Israel, Abeer Baker, We're, Baker, Hassan Jabareen, Eli Levy, Levy, Adalah's, Crispian Balmer, Gareth Jones Organizations: Police, State, Nazi, Palestinian, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Haifa

☆ Analyst: Israel’s costly misunderstanding of Hamas’ true aims
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

Bergen: How does Hamas impact the more secular Palestinian Authority, which controlled Gaza until 2007 before Hamas violently pushed them aside? They don’t have any other aims like Hamas because Hamas is a religious, social, political movement and terror organization at the same time. Yousef Masoud/The New York Times/Redux Smoke rises after Israeli strikes on the seaport of Gaza City on Tuesday, October 10. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10. Erik Marmor/AP Six-month-old Sama Alwadia is rescued from the rubble in Gaza City on October 9.

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☆ Hamas and Iran are longtime allies. Did Tehran help with its attack on Israel?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It’s something that we’re going to keep looking at closely.”Yet Iran’s evolving relationship with Hamas and its Palestinian militant partners, the Islamic Jihad, is well documented. Israel says Iran supports Hamas to the tune of some $100 million dollars a year. (Much of the Western world and some Arab countries consider Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be terrorist groups.) Therefore Iran is an asset for Hamas and Hamas is an asset for Iran,” Michael said. In April, Hamas’ senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh visited the Lebanese capital for meetings with Nasrallah.

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☆ Hamas: What to know about the group and its strategy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The brazen attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel that began on Saturday will be seen as a turning point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with far-reaching repercussions, analysts say. Israel pledged revenge, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing “mighty vengeance.” Hamas said it was prepared for all scenarios. Palestinian Hamas militants attend the funeral of their comrade in the southern Gaza Strip in August 2017. The Israeli military said Monday that Hamas had taken “dozens” of hostages and Hamas has said it has abducted more than 100 people. Hamas’ large-scale offensive shows that the group knows that the coming war may be an existential one, experts say.

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☆ Israel Protests Turn Focus to Women’s Rights Amid Religious Parties’ Rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Shayndi Raice | Photographs Kobi Wolf For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BNEI BRAK, Israel—When Maayan Elkabir boarded a public bus in the Israeli city of Ashdod, she said the driver scolded the 15-year-old for wearing a tank top and shorts on a line used by ultra-Orthodox Jews. She said he told her and her teenage friends to sit at the back of the bus and cover themselves up with blankets.

Persons: Maayan Elkabir Locations: BNEI BRAK, Israel, Ashdod

☆ Michael Oher: 'The Blind Side' star's long effort to correct the record
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —In his 2011 memoir, Michael Oher wrote that he had a special skill for forgetting his difficult past. Sean Tuohy told the Daily Memphian that his family was devastated. In 2003, he began to stay more often with the Tuohy family, whose daughter Collins also attended Briarcrest. Another contract from April 2007 exists that was “purportedly signed by Michael Oher” in which Oher gives away his name, likeness, voice, etc. “It’s hard because you have to defend yourself, but whatever he wants, we’ll do,” Sean Tuohy said, according to the Daily Memphian.

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☆ Companies are paying up to $100,000 for extreme leadership training that has employees playing military games and pretending they are Tom Cruise in 'Top Gun'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Businesses are paying for extreme leadership trainings, including "Top Gun"-style flight simulations, The New York Times reported. "Unique and challenging activities can help bridge the gaps that hybrid and remote work cause," Kobi Regev, CEO of management-training company The Squadron, told Insider over email. Workshops begin at $390 a person, and prices vary based on duration, group size, and customer needs, a spokesperson for the Squadron told Insider. "NASCAR pit stops are a very simple process that must be performed in a specific order," Papathanassiou told Insider over email. So if you were thinking of planning a virtual happier — maybe find a race car to work on instead.

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☆ Netanyahu’s Government Moves to Vote on Judicial Overhaul in Face of Protests
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Dov Lieber | Shayndi Raice | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli police blocked protesters during a demonstration outside the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, on Monday. Photo: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg NewsTEL AVIV—Israel was on edge Monday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s coalition pressed ahead with voting on a proposed judicial overhaul that has triggered mass protests and said he was “working around the clock” to reach an agreement and urged political leaders to act responsibly and with courage. Late Sunday, President Biden urged Netanyahu to focus on “pulling people together and finding consensus.”

Persons: Kobi Wolf, Benjamin Netanyahu ’, Biden, Netanyahu, ” Organizations: Bloomberg News TEL Locations: Jerusalem, Bloomberg News TEL AVIV, Israel

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☆ Israeli Startups Struggle to Raise Money Amid Political Turmoil, Global Downturn
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel’s technology sector has become a prominent actor in the movement against a judicial overhaul plan. Photo: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg NewsTEL AVIV—Israeli technology companies are struggling to raise funds, recent data shows, amid a combination of global economic trends and investor concerns over how a proposal to overhaul the country’s judiciary could affect the sector, one of the world’s most vibrant hubs for startups. Israeli technology companies were hurt harder in the first quarter than other global tech hubs, data shows, suggesting the reasons behind the decline in fundraising go beyond macroeconomic conditions.

BNAI BRAK, Israel—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly moving ahead with a judicial-overhaul plan that could begin final passage through parliament next week, as the debate over the legislation exposes deep fissures between Israel’s secular and religious communities. Over the past three months, protests against the legislation have brought out hundreds of thousands of people in a country of nine million.

☆ Tel Aviv Shooting Leaves Three Israelis Wounded as Hamas Claims Gunman as Member
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A member of an Israeli security unit worked the shooting scene in central Tel Aviv. A Palestinian gunman Thursday night shot three Israelis in downtown Tel Aviv, Israeli authorities said, amid one of the deadliest periods of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in recent years. The assailant was shot and killed by police officers and armed civilians at the scene, Israeli police commissioner Kobi Shabtai said. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, claimed the shooter, 23-year-old Muataz Khawaja, as a member of the organization’s armed wing.

☆ 2 wounded in new Jerusalem attack, Israeli paramedics say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The shooting in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem, near the historic Old City, wounded at least two men, aged 23 and 47, in their upper bodies, paramedics said. Authorities taped off the scene of the attack and emergency vehicles and security forces swarmed the area as helicopters whirled overhead. Saturday’s events raised the possibility of even greater conflagration in one of the bloodiest months in Israel and the occupied West Bank in several years. Security forces fanned out into the gunman’s neighborhood of At-Tur in east Jerusalem and arrested 42 family members, neighbors and others close to him for questioning. The earlier Friday attack, which occurred as residents were observing the Jewish sabbath, came a day after an Israeli military raid killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank.

JERUSALEM—A small group of Jewish men clad in black and white stood in a quiet nook of Judaism’s holiest site one recent morning, gently rocking and murmuring prayers before Israeli police motioned for them to move on. Such a scene would have resulted in arrests just a few years ago for violating a longstanding unofficial agreement between Israel and Islamic religious authorities, which forbids non-Muslims from praying on the site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

☆ Rap industry leaders say hip-hop should not be the ‘scapegoat’ for the growing violence
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Candice Williams | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +14 min

The hip-hop community calls for change, but there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight to the violence. So I think hip-hop is the scapegoat for a lot of things.”Greg Yuna and Lenny Santiago. Some of those murders are now being explored in a new WE tv’s docuseries “Hip Hop Homicides,” which looks at the shooting deaths of rap artists including Pop Smoke, XXXTentacion and King Von. In some cases, money exacerbates some of these things.”Although Lathan believes there should be more accountability in hip-hop from those who create the violence, rap artists can’t always be blamed for the violence that surrounds them or happens to them. Caz said that in those days hip-hop music was used as a form of escape.

☆ Michael Oher, athlete who inspired ‘The Blind Side,’ marries longtime love
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Former NFL player Michael Oher has married his longtime love, Tiffany Roy. My beautiful wife, I love you so much, thank you for blessing me with our family! Easily the best single weekend I’ve ever been a part of.”Oher continued: “Not being from the area everyone came to was even more special. I won’t be able to tell everyone thank you, if I saw you this weekend, thank you! Lily Collins, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head and Quinton Aaron in "The Blind Side."

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