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The first magazine published by Jewish Israelis to focus solely on the Palestinian Nakba has recently come out in Israel. Granted an enthusiastic reaction from left-wing liberals, it has so far been ignored by the right wing. Joseph Croitoru reports

This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was ending and Bolshevik regime was consolidating its position. The author was an American anarchist of Russian origin deported to Russia in 1919. The book is based on his diaries written between 1919-21.

      The Interpreter Foundation continues to flourish, much to the disgust of at least a few vocal critics:   "Nephi’s “Bountiful”:

The Hair Recycle project, an NGO in Belgium, feeds locks and tresses into a machine that turns them...

Mr Santelia has given several of his books to public figures over the years, including former US Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama.

The typists projects also include a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records 2002.

The number of books Mr. Santelia has typed backwards has set a Guinness world recordThe books must be typed using "mirror writing," which produces a copy of the usual writing in any given language...

An Italian man who used a technique called "mirror writing" to type copies of 81 books holds the Guinness World Record for most books typed backward.

An Israeli professor claims that a recent translation of an eighth-century B.C. inscription containing the name of Judean King Hezekiah in Jerusalem's City of David is "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Israel of all time."