[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] From the #BDSFail Desk (Zvi)

From Zvi:

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BDS continues to fail daily. In this edition, BDS fails miserably in Mexico, at CERN, in Cyprus, in Poland, in Germany and in Tanzania. And it might even fail humiliatingly in Norway in the near future; we shall see.

Israel guest of honor at Mexican book fair (Haaretz)

The book fair, known as the FIL (from its Spanish name, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara), is a major showcase for the literature and culture of the world's Spanish speakers. It's the biggest event of its kind in Latin America, with 1,900 publishers representing 42 countries and thousands more exhibitors.In recent years the fair, which runs through December 8, has attracted an average of 600,000 visitors.Starting in 1993, the fair's organizers have each year honored a different city, state country or culture; honorees have included Quebec (2003), Catalonian culture (2004), Los Angeles (2009) and Germany (2011). Now it's Israel's turn. In addition to the events at the fair itself - including an Israeli film festival, an Israeli culinary fair and a headline event in the main auditorium each evening - Israel-related events will be held throughout the city for the duration of the festival.In explaining their decision to honor Israel this year, the fair's organizers cited Israel's "dynamic and solid" publishing industry, which releases around 7,000 titles in Hebrew each year.

Israel joins CERN (jpost)

Israel will become a full member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), following the passage of a Knesset bill Monday night giving Israeli researchers at CERN the same rights as diplomats.

Cyprus and Israel sign standardization deal (Cyprus Mail)

German trade union leader opposes WB boycott (Times of Israel)

"As long as I am head of this organization, there will never be a resolution that says 'Don't buy from Jews,' " said Sommer, 61, chair of the Federation of German Trade Unions, accepting the Arno Lustiger Award at the third annual German-Israel Congress on Sunday.

Poland, Israel sign scientific cooperation agreement (jpost)

Dar es Salam Water and Sewerage Co. signs deal with Israeli water company to curb water losses (The Guardian via IPPMedia)

Norway coalition partner seeks to end arms export ban to Israel (defensenews.com)

The right-wing Høyre Party heads the administration, but the Progress Party (FrP), the conservative Høyre's junior coalition partner, is pushing to remove Norway's munitions/weapons ban on Israel as part of a broader policy to support the arms export industry.Høyre has yet to confirm if it is willing to contemplate lifting the ban, having won the recent parliamentary elections on a trade and foreign policy framework that includes fresh measures to expand Norway's arms exports, but which made no mention of easing arms export restrictions on Israel.

Other News Items

Israel finds germ-killing protein, could yield new antibiotics (haaretz)

A group of Israeli researchers has succeeded in isolating a protein that kills bacteria, in what is a first step toward developing a substitute for antibiotics. The substance isolated by a Tel Aviv University team prevents bacteria from dividing, thus destroying them and combatting infections. "In the future, a new antibiotic can be produced from this protein," according to the researchers who published their findings on Monday in the journal, "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Ahmed Tibi demands that Israel protect Israeli Arabs in Ukraine (jpost)

I'm moderately surprised that Tibi spoke up, but of course he's using it to create an issue with Israeli Jews - claiming that Israeli media, which have in fact published multiple stories about this, are somehow ignoring it because it is about Arabs. Of course, the Israeli Arabs who were interviewed the other day said that both they and Israeli Jews in the area felt threatened. So Tibi and company are basically squeezing multiple hysterical lies into one accusation. They don't keep their lies entirely coordinated, either... .

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein responded that he had contacted the Ukrainian government and was promised that the heads of the national and Odessa district police were investigating the matter.

Israel quietly treats Syria war victims (FT)

Freely visible earlier, but now behind a paywall

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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 11/13/2013 08:00:00 PM