Can Medical AI be trusted to safely diagnose a sick person and give treatment recommendations? Of particular concern is the race to install AI or so-called smart systems in Israel’s clinics/hospitals.

Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest medical center in concerning news announced the deployment of a new accelerated, AI-powered cancer diagnostics research platform for use in patient diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. Critics though have described many of the real potential dangers of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the routine care of patients diagnosed with cancer.

Examples of the dangers are algorithm autonomy, avoidance of humanoid interfaces, perceived information asymmetry gaps, obfuscating decision-making rationale, data absenteeism, technology tachyphylaxis, uncanny valley, corrective justice, epistemology of AI, and establishing an iterative and inclusive process.

AI will never estimate the value that a particular patient places on spending one more afternoon with a loved one, walking their dog, listening to a beautiful symphony, enjoying an intelligent conversation or inspiring poem, laughing with an old friend, or the smile of a happy child.

Truly personalized oncology will continue to rely on helping each patient make decisions that they judge to be most consistent with their own preferences, goals, values, and nature. As Hippocrates said “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than what sort of a disease a person has.”

Data-related concerns and human biases that seep into algorithms during development and post-deployment phases affect performance in real-world settings, limiting the utility and safety of AI technology in oncology clinics.

AI algorithms are only as good as the data and assumptions they are fed. Biased representation of patient populations and medical scenarios in the training data sets can lead to data overfitting and inaccurate generalizations of AI tools in the real world. Data set shift, the stray of real-world distributions of data from the training set, can lead to a drift in AI performance over time and decrease the reliability of its output.

A number of scientists, philosophers and technology experts at international educational institutions published an article in which they analyzed the danger of AI. The authors of the study, who come from academic institutions and technological bodies in the US, Australia and Madrid, published their findings in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.

“It is noted that due to this technological progress, we are experiencing a resurgence in the discussion of Artificial Intelligence as a potential disaster for humanity. ”

The most obvious risk for Sheba Hospital is that AI systems will sometimes be wrong, and that patient injury or other health-care problems may result. If an AI system recommends the wrong drug for a patient, fails to notice a tumor on a radiological scan or allocates a hospital bed to one patient over another because it predicted wrongly which patient would benefit more, the patient could be injured.

Of course, many injuries occur due to medical error in the health-care system today, even without the involvement of AI. AI errors are potentially different for at least two reasons. First, patients and providers may react differently to injuries resulting from software than from human error. Second, if AI systems become widespread, an underlying problem in one AI system might result in injuries to thousands of patients—rather than the limited number of patients injured by any single provider’s error.

Another set of risks arise around privacy. The requirement of large datasets creates incentives for developers to collect such data from many patients. Some patients may be concerned that this collection may violate their privacy, and lawsuits have been filed based on data-sharing between large health systems and AI developers. AI could implicate privacy in another way: AI can predict private information about patients even though the algorithm never received that information. (Indeed, this is often the goal of health-care AI.)

For instance, an AI system might be able to identify that a person has Parkinson’s disease based on the trembling of a computer mouse, even if the person had never revealed that information to anyone else (or did not know). Patients might consider this a violation of their privacy, especially if the AI system’s inference were available to third parties, such as banks or life insurance companies.

There are risks involving bias and inequality in health-care AI. AI systems learn from the data on which they are trained, and they can incorporate biases from those data. In speech-recognition AI systems used to transcribe notes, such AI may perform worse when the provider is of a race or gender underrepresented.

AI is simply not able to provide the human interaction which is so important to people in need. What we are in fact witnessing at Sheba Hospital is the de-humanization and cold care of AI. Leaving aside the big issue of putting qualified humans out of work, humans have various social and emotional needs, which are not met by giving them AI especially in a crisis situation.

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

Heads of authorities in the north joined the fight to save local businesses and called on the government to include them in the government grants budget to prevent their collapse.

Creating a unified northern front: following the fatal damage to tourism and businesses in the north of the country, heads of authorities in the north are calling on the government to include them in the government grants budget to prevent their collapse.

Tzfat Mayor Yossi Kakun, head of the Hatzor local council, Michael Kabasa and head of Rosh Pinna local council, Moti Hatiel said in their letter. “We demand the immediate intervention of the government to prevent the collapse of businesses in the northern communities which are far from the border”.

“The local economy is based on tourism, an industry that has been almost all shut down due to the security situation in the area. The compensation criterion for businesses according to their proximity to the border (up to nine kilometers), is creating huge damage and may destroy many businesses in the area.

Most of the businesses in these areas suffered severe financial damage. “The vast majority of the businesses in Tzfat, Hatzor and Rosh Pinna suffered a direct hit of an average of about 70% to their income, but even after many requests – the state is not compensating them. The economy in our region is under a double threat: missiles and UAVs on the one hand, and the lack of Immediate financial aid – on the other.

Meanwhile the Times of Israel reports that Israel’s canceled ski season reveals how war is wreaking economic hardship in the north.

The only place in Israel to get regular snow, Mount Hermon had 400,000 visitors in winter 2022-23; under threat of Hezbollah rocket fire this year it saw the number plunge to zero.

As the only place in Israel to see regular snowfall, the Hermon’s Israeli recreation area drew 400,000 visitors in the winter of 2022-23. Some skied, but most came simply to experience snow, ride a gondola up to a lookout point at an altitude of 7,300 feet, sled and ride the Hermon’s mountain coaster. Over the summer, management invested in numerous upgrades in anticipation of even more visitors.

But this winter not a single paying visitor was able to come to the year-round attraction in the northern Golan Heights. The Hermon was shut down by military order on October 7. The mountain still hasn’t reopened to the public.

This is the first time since the ski mountain, which opened in the winter of 1968-69 after Israel captured the area from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, that the Hermon has missed an entire season. As a consequence, the entire economy dependent on the mountain is suffering, affecting not just the 300 Hermon employees who have been furloughed but also the hotels, restaurants, sports shops, roadside vendors and other area businesses that depend on tourists.

“We’re 100% down from a regular year,” said Talia Welli, the owner of a sports store in the nearby Druze town of Mas’ade that sells sleds, winter coats, gloves and ski hats in addition to bicycles and other year-round equipment.

“In a regular winter there’s nonstop traffic here every morning and evening,” said a Welli employee who identified himself only as Hamed. “There would be lines at the restaurants. The Friday outdoor market that sells tourists everything from perfume to vegetables would be packed. This year there was nothing. Even the snow didn’t come.

Shahbaa Abu Kheir runs the View Hotel in Majdal Shams, a two-year-old boutique hotel that overlooks small agricultural fields, cherry orchards and the Syrian border. Last winter, the 13-room hotel was fully booked almost every night, with rooms going for over $350 per night, including breakfast.

Then came October 7. “I had full bookings and everyone canceled to run to reserve duty that very day,” Abu Kheir recalled. Since then, the hotel has seen very few guests.

As she was speaking, a Druze family of 10 from Daliyat al-Carmel, just south of Haifa, arrived for check-in. They were the only guests expected that night. “The Druze are the only ones who come now,” Abu Kheir lamented. “We have no way of moving forward. It’s horrible.”

Finally, in the South half the workers at Eilat Port are at risk of losing their jobs after the southern seaport took a major financial hit due to the crisis in Red Sea shipping lanes, Israel’s main labor federation said. Eilat sits on the northern tip of the Red Sea and was one of the first ports to be affected as shipping firms rerouted vessels to avoid attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terror group in Yemen.

The Histadrut Labor Federation, the umbrella organization for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, said port management had announced it intends to fire half of the 120 Eilat Port employees. Officials at the port did not immediately respond for comment.

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

Andrew Bridgen MP says: “We are witnesses to the greatest medical scandal in this country, in living memory and possibly ever.”

On April 18 2024, in the UK House of Commons, Andrew Bridgen, MP (Independent) for North West Leicestershire gave an uncompromising and hard-hitting speech on the debate that he brought forward: “Covid pandemic response and trends in excess deaths.”

Bridgen, who led the debate, opened with a powerful statement: We are witnesses to the greatest medical scandal in this country, in living memory and possibly ever! The excess deaths in 2022 and 2023- is that scandal. Its causes are complex but the novel and untested medical treatment described as a covid vaccine is a large part of the problem. I’ve been called an anti-vaxxer as if I rejected these vaccines based on some ideology. I want to say clearly and unequivocally that I am not. I am in fact double vaccinated and vaccine harmed.

The MP for North West Leicestershire since 2010, went on to state:

“You don’t need any science training at all to be horrified by officials deliberately hiding key data in this scandal and that’s exactly what’s going on Madam deputy speaker. The office of National Statistics used to release weekly data on deaths per 100,000 in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, it no longer does that and no one will explain- why the public has a right to that data!”

“There have been calls from serious experts whose requests I have amplified repeatedly in this house for what’s called- record level data to be anonymized and disclosed for analysis. This would allow meaningful analysis of the deaths after vaccination and settle the issue of whether these experimental treatments are responsible for the increase in excess deaths once and for all.

More extensive and detailed data has already been released to the pharma companies from publicly funded bodies. Jenny Harries, head of the UK Health Security Agency said “this anonymized aggregate death by vaccination status is commercially sensitive and shouldn’t be published”- the public is being denied this data- this is unacceptable, Madam deputy speaker. Yet again data is hidden with impunity- just like the post office scandal.

These so-called vaccines were the least effective vaccines ever. Is there anyone left under any illusion that they prevented any infections? When he was at the Dispatch Box for Prime Minister’s questions on January 31 2024, even the Prime Minister, in answer to my question, could not bring himself to add “and effective” to his “safe” mantra. In his own words, he was “unequivocal” that the vaccines are “safe”. The word “safe” means without risk of death or injury. Why is the Prime Minister gaslighting the 163 successful claims made to the vaccine damage payment scheme, totaling £19.5 million in compensation for harm caused by the covid vaccines? Have these people not suffered enough already? Those 163 victims are the tip of the iceberg, by the way. It also should be noted that the maximum payment is only £120,000, so each of those 163 victims got the maximum possible award, which should tell us something. The same compensation scheme paid out a total of only £3.5 million between 1997 and 2005, with an average of only eight claims per year, and that is for all claims for the entire country for all vaccines administered. So much for “safe”

Let me move on to what we know about some of the issues surrounding mRNA technology. We know that it does not replicate locally, as we were assured it would do on launch. It metastasizes to distant tissue, and replicates spike protein systemically distant from the site of administration. That is problematic for a number of reasons. According to the University of London Professor of Oncology, and principal of the Institute for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy, Professor Angus Dalgleish, this has precipitated various serious and sometimes fatal consequences due to antibody development mediated by the spike protein. I will not go into the detail of that, but at a meeting convened by the hon. Member for North West Leicestershire, Professor Dalgleish told us that the UK Government and their agencies are in serious denial about this issue, resulting in many deaths being poorly understood”.

“Let me give a couple of examples. Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia is one of the principal causes of blood clot formation, which can cause stroke, pulmonary emboli, and other cardiac-related events including heart attacks, all of which can be life-limiting or fatal. Another antibody linked to the spike protein exerts an effect on myelin, and is associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome and transverse myelitis, which is a swelling around the spinal cord. Professor Dalgleish believes that that constitutes medical negligence, because the facts are there for all to see. He contends that many deaths are as a direct result of unnecessary vaccination. Furthermore, he advises that there are a greater number of yellow cards in MHRA for covid vaccines than for all other vaccines recorded, and nothing has really been done.”

Full article may be seen here: https://vigilantnews.com/post/historic-debate-on-excess-deaths-and-covid-19-vaccines-rocks-uk-parliament/

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

IDF female soldiers parents give chilling testimony as to their extreme mistreatment because of non-compliance to enlist as observers after October 7 events. Jerusalem Post reports the harsh treatment of female soldiers: abused, humiliated, and pressured to enlist as observers following October 7 events, leading to anxiety, trauma, and severe consequences.

Screaming, humiliation, sleep deprivation, and punishment to the point of fainting – this is how, according to the parents of female recruits, the IDF treats those who refuse to enlist in the female observation unit, due to fear of serving in this division after the events of October 7.

After many female soldiers refused to serve as observers on the day of their recruitment a few weeks ago, their parents said that their daughters received harsh treatment, including being yelled at for many hours and deprived of continuous sleep, with the intention of “breaking” them. They were yelled at, humiliated, threatened, and cursed at. They were put under real psychological stress that broke them down and caused them to experience anxiety attacks.

One mother stated, “My daughter has experienced anxiety attacks until now because of everything she went through and how they were pressured to enlist for duty. All these practices were actually torture just to break them to serve in the position. They were told at night that they should sleep under a light and in a noisy place, thus preventing them from continuous sleep. They were also put outside in the sun for hours without even being allowed to scratch their faces. Some fainted there.”

Dozens of female soldiers who were assigned as observers asked to change their assignment following what they described as great anxiety in light of the murders and kidnapping of female observers on October 7.

In addition to this, many testimonies were published about disdain in their assessments regarding a future attack and invasion by Hamas into Israeli territory. The parents of some of the female observers who refused to enlist for duty claim that their daughters were “tortured” under the blazing sun at the Tel Hashomer base and screamed into their ears with the intention of subduing them to enlist by force.

“Everything they asked for led to screaming in their faces. My daughter experienced an anxiety attack and was referred to the emergency room because of it,” testified another mother of a soldier who enlisted. “She had the attack because of disgraceful treatment, to say the least, and the fear of serving in the position after what happened on October 7. The treatment of the female observers and what happened to them is a disaster and it is legitimate that they would not want the position. In the emergency department, she underwent hearing tests because of the screams she received in her ear. My daughter said that they shouted at her non-stop.

As a result, the parents of the female observers are shocked and feel hard feelings towards the military system. “The lack of trust in the army is already serious following all the events of the war, and in the end, the army chooses to ignore the problem,” shared one of the mothers in anger.

“To abuse 18-year-old girls whose only crime was that they asked for another position? These are many girls who came with high motivation, and a desire to do a meaningful service, and they decided to simply threaten, break, and mentally abuse them. Now they are suffering”.

“They suffered a trauma that is still alive and kicking in them and this is while they are still under the pressure of the trainees. I have lost faith in this system and my anger and frustration are very great. Everything she went through caused anxiety. She told me, “Mom, I think I’m no longer able to be in the army.” I don’t understand how they treated them in such a horrifying way.” Another mother said that after these incidents, her daughter was afraid to enlist in military service in any possible capacity”.

Finally, explosive recordings of Roni Eshel, a 19 year old IDF observation girl stationed on the border with Gaza on October 7 were just released. For nearly 6 hours she is heard relaying report after report, first about a number of individual terrorists and then about the mass assault on the fence that she witnessed with her own eyes.

Roni Eshels’s Father talking about the recordings: “It’s even more chilling that these girls could have been saved”. “From 6:30 a.m. for over six hours, and no one came to their aid. It’s incomprehensible.”

Eshels Father: “From 06:23 until minutes before 12 noon it was possible to save these girls, if someone in the IDF were educated enough to understand that these girls should be loaded onto a vehicle and removed from the base”.

“This recording is just another reminder of the enormity of the army’s failure,” Eyal Eshel said during his interview. “The messages are from very early in the morning,” he went on to say. “If the army had been paying attention they could have saved so many people. Kibbutz residents. Soldiers. It could have ended so differently.”

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

After 17 years of Israel refusing to build a port in Gaza, all of a sudden now, this is happening pretty smoothly, led by the US and with Israel’s support.

Israel by the way has maintained a blockade of Gaza since 2007. Does the port have hidden objectives?

The alleged plan is that aid will be loaded onto commercial ships in Cyprus to sail to the floating platform. The pallets will be loaded onto trucks, which will be loaded onto smaller ships that will travel to a metal, floating two-lane causeway. The 550-meter (1,800-foot) causeway will be attached to the shore. UK’s Guardian News: ‘It is a spectacular, challenging but an extremely expensive and slow way of delivering aid’.

The real question is since when is a port mandatory for humanitarian aid? In March 2024 Israeli freedom Fighter Ilana Rachel Daniel commented: “Gaza would be made ground zero for an international order of one kind or another”. There are at least four crossings from which aid can enter from Israel to the Gaza strip. Is the pier an opening for an international presence in Gaza?

British troops may be tasked with delivering aid to Gaza from an offshore pier now under construction by the U.S. military, the BBC reported Saturday April 27 2024. According to the BBC, the British government is considering deploying troops to drive the trucks that will carry aid from the pier along a floating causeway to the shore.

In December 2023 a UK Government minister refused to answer Independent Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn as to whether there were already British troops on the ground in Gaza.

During his visit to Washington in March 2024, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant raised the possibility of establishing a multi-national military force to improve law and order in Gaza and escort humanitarian aid convoys, two senior Israeli officials told Axios.

Meanwhile Israel National News reported this week that Jewish prisoners who were recently imprisoned with no evidence of wrong doing have launched a hunger strike to protest their innocence regarding the grave injustice of the situation.

Two Jewish residents of Yitzhar who were arrested earlier this week and placed in administrative detention without a fair trail announced a hunger strike Wednesday May 1 2024 until they are released. Neriah Zarog, a father of four, was placed in administrative detention ie prison without any proof of criminal activities for three months. Elchai Carmeli, a father of six, was given six months of administrative detention ie jail again without confirmation of any crime having been committed.

The detainees’ attorneys attacked what they called the “persecution of the Minister of Defense against the settlers in Judea and Samaria” and noted that “while Jewish settlers are detained in administrative detention, dozens of Arab administrative detainees are released from detention and this is due to a ‘shortage of space’ in the prisons, according to the Prisons Service.”

Attorney Nati Rom of the Honenu legal organization said: “In a time of war, the security system chooses to release terrorists who sought to kill us and harm our country, with claims of lack of space and other claims. While we are at war for our existence, the Minister of Defense finds time to sign administrative arrests against civilian citizens, people who love the people and the country and have families. The Minister of Defense is deeply rooted in the ‘conceptzia’ and does not know the difference between friend and enemy, we must wake up.”

In administrative detention, a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future. As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them. This leaves the detainees helpless – facing unknown allegations with no way to disprove them, not knowing when they will be released, and without being charged, tried or convicted.

The authorities use administrative detention as a quick and easy alternative to criminal trial. This occurs primarily when they do not have sufficient evidence for indictment, or when they do not want to reveal the evidence they allegedly possess. This use of administrative detention is absolutely prohibited and totally blurs the distinction between an administrative proceeding that is intended as a prospective, preventive measure, and a criminal proceeding, whose purpose is punitive and retroactive.

Moreover, the judges always accept the prosecution’s demand that the evidence remain confidential for “reasons of national security”. By following this practice, the judges turn the exception provided for in the administrative detention order into a rule that denies detainees any possibility of mounting a defense against the allegations. The secrecy of the evidence prevents detainees and their counsel from examining the quality, veracity and relevance of the information used against them.

The judges have stated that, given the confidentiality, they must fill the void and act as defense for the detainees. However, this statement is not followed up in practice. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the judges do not ask to see the Israel Security Agency’s information and do not examine the the information that led to the detention.

The power to incarcerate people who have not been convicted or even charged with anything for lengthy periods of time, based on secret “evidence” that they cannot challenge, is an extreme power which is currently being used against the Israeli settlers. Under international law, the practice of administrative detention is supposed to be used only in exceptional circumstances.

Israel’s widespread use of the practice has been long criticized by international observers. In 2020, Michael Lynk, then the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights, called on Israel to abolish the practice.

“Administrative detention is an anathema in any democratic society that follows the rule of law,” Lynk said. “When the democratic state arrests and detains someone, it is required to charge the person, present its evidence in an open trial, allow for a full defense and try to persuade an impartial judiciary of its allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

Guess what the method of testing is? According to the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture the diagnosis is effected by means of a PCR test!

Jerusalem Post reports nonsense story that the H5N1 subvariant of bird flu has been increasingly reported in cattle in recent months! Israel’s main stream media continues to promote the Globalist ‘bird flu’ agenda.

The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have publicly said that the diagnosis of avian influenza in Israel is carried out at the Cameron Veterinary Institute in Beit Daga with the PCR test! Everyone in Israel remembers the PCR test which is still being carried out today even though it doesn’t work.

The plain fact of the matter is that all alleged covid infections were only ever based on the inaccurate and dangerous to health PCR test. The PCR test was never designed to detect pathogens and is 100% faulty at 35 cycles. A PCR test is amplifying samples through repetitive cycles. The lower the virus concentration in the sample, the more cycles are needed to achieve a positive result.

All the PCR tests are set at 37 to 45 cycles. Any tests over 28 cycles are not admissible for a positive reliable result as it is too many because it increases the chance of a positive result even without the covid virus being present in the original sample. This alone invalidates over 90% of the alleged covid cases or ”infections” tracked by the use of this faulty test.

This misuse of PCR test is used as a relentless and intentional strategy by governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify excessive measures such as the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society, the degradation of living conditions for a large number of ordinary citizens, under the pretext of a pandemic based on the number of positive PCR tests.

Dr. Joseph Mercola, Board Certified Family Medicine Osteopathic Physician says: “It seems clear that mass testing using PCR is inappropriate and does very little if anything to keep the population safe. Its primary result is simply the perpetuation of the false idea that healthy, non infectious people can pose a mortal threat to others and that we must avoid social interactions. It’s a delusional idea that is wreaking havoc on the global psyche, and it’s time to put an end to this unhealthy, unscientific way of life”.

In Cyprus a major trade union has called for suspension of rapid testing after toxic substance found. A union representing the rights of public-sector workers has called for the suspension of rapid tests for covid after media reports showed a swab contained multiple times the permissible trace level of ethylene oxide, a toxic substance.

The Equality union said rapid tests should be immediately discontinued until health authorities have investigated the matter and determined any health risks. Union said ethylene oxide, used to coat and sterilize PCR and rapid test nasal swabs is toxic and carcinogenic.

An experimental physicist and bio-materials researcher examined various PCR test swabs under a microscope and found that the fibers they contain are as dangerous for human beings as inhaling asbestos.

Professor Antonietta Gatti examined various PCR test swabs and analyzed their ingredients. The results showed that they are made of tough materials and contain a large number of nano-particles including silver, aluminum, titanium and glass fibers.

According to the Professor if these fibers get stuck in the mucous membranes they can cause severe wounds and inflammation. Mucous membranes that are no longer intact can no longer fulfil their role of fending off viruses, bacteria and fungi before they reach the airways. The germs penetrate the respiratory tract without any immune filter.

In the laboratory, Professor Gatti used electron microscopy to analyze various types of swabs, which are used to collect human organic material for PCR diagnostics.

Prof. Gatti said – “The company explains that the fiber core is made of nylon with a coating of a patented material, which in the analysis, turns out to be silicate-zirconium-titanium. This coating makes the fiber harder so that it is able to tear the mucous membrane.

The summary of the professors findings were as follows –

Swabs are dangerous for the nasopharyngeal mucosa. The glassy fibers, hard and brittle, can scratch the mucous membrane and create lesions. The bleeding is an indication of the invasiveness of the test.

Repeated swab testing can produce chronic lesions. The release of fragments of the brittle glassy fibers can cause reactions such as granulomas or fibrosis of the tissue.

These smears pose a risk to the health of infants and children.

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

Tnuva’s price-controlled dairy products to rise in price immediately, other products to see rises later this month.

Tnuva, one of Israel’s largest dairy companies, on Wednesday Morning May 1 2024 announced that it would raise the prices of its dairy products and other food products. The prices of Tnuva’s price-controlled dairy products will rise on Thursday. The prices of products which are not price-controlled, as well as Sunfrost, Maadanot, Mama Of, and Tirat Tzvi, products, will be raised beginning on May 16 2024.

Sunfrost product prices will rise an average of 4.5%, while Maadanot prices will rise an average of 4.2% The biggest hikes will be for products under its Mom’s Chicken brand, which will rise by an average of 9.8%, and the Tirat Zvi cold meats brand, which will rise by an average of 9.6%. Rival Strauss said that as of May 10 2024 dairy prices on products such as cottage cheese and yogurts would go up an average of 2.33%.

Israelis are experiencing a rise in prices and have reduced their outgoings, Israel Hayom newspaper reported. A survey conducted by the Israeli online marketplace Pricez showed that many products were more expensive in January 2024 compared to August 2023. “The price of Persian rice increased by 17%, olive oil by 9%, dry chickpeas by 14%, red lentils by 11%, ground beef 11%, fresh chicken slices 5%, and fresh schnitzel slices 9%, whole chicken 11%, tuna 5%, and white flour 5%,” the site said.

In January 2024 Israeli foodmaker Strauss Group said it would raise prices. Also in January 2024 Globes News said that the food price increases in Israel are not justified according to the commodity price indexes. A survey by investment house Meitav Dash found that prices of most agricultural commodities actually fell in the past six months.

“The price rises announced by the food companies are not in line with the change in prices of raw materials,” says Meitav Dash chief economist Alex Zabezhinsky, who points out that the rise in the index of food prices in Israel is large by global comparison (5.9% in the past year). “Even if the price changes are translated into shekel terms, the index of agricultural commodity prices still shows a fall.”

Bank Hapoalim carried out another survey that yields similar insights. The bank’s chief financial markets strategist Modi Shafrir says that although prices of some agricultural commodities rose, the food production index, which looks at local food production costs, fell by 0.5% in December – which was when the price rises in Israel started – its second successive monthly decline.

In February 2024 Israel’s Electricity Authority announced a 2.6% rise in the cost of electricity.

In April 2024 Globes News reported that gasoline (petrol) prices in Israel were to rise for a fifth straight month. The maximum price of government price controlled 95 octane gasoline at self-service pumps in Israel in May will rise by NIS 0.18 per liter on Tuesday April 30 2024 at midnight, to NIS 7.90 per liter, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has announced.

This is the fifth straight month that gasoline prices have risen by an accumulative NIS 0.90 per liter since the start of the year. The new price of gasoline will be the highest since NIS 8.08 in July 2022.

In May 2024 Israel’s Yes Satellite customers received a message that the monthly subscription fees for the Disney+ service in Israel will increase from NIS 39.90 to NIS 44.90 per month.

Meanwhile. Ynet News reported that Israel’s national airline EL Al is under investigation for increasing its prices without justification. El Al was criticized for taking advantage of its position and charging much higher prices for same service.

Israel’s Competition Authority launched an inquiry in to concerns that El Al, took advantage of the war to hike ticket prices, as airlines suspended their flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport. The Authority was responding to complaints that the national carrier raised its prices excessively, while it remained the only airline operating flights from Israel to coveted locations such as the U.S.

For example, business class tickets to New York jumped to as much as $11,000, which compares with $2,500 a year earlier, and the price in tourist class jumped to $2,000, from $850 a year earlier. “The prices became scandalous,” a senior aviation industry source told “Globes” adding, “Very, very high prices that they wouldn’t have dared charge in the past, simply because they could.” The source stressed that fares rose “despite the fact that fuel did not become any more expensive, and nor did employees’ pay rise.”

Finally, the Times Of Israel reported that Israel ranked first place in a list of developed countries with the highest cost of living in 2022, data published the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) showed.

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

Ynet News reports that joint Chinese/German company Smart’s Model 5 EV is on its way to Israel whilst critics say EV’s are externally controllable by remote access and are not environmentally friendly.

Israeli State Comptroller Englman urged all pertinent Government Ministries to collaborate to prepare for the increase of electric vehicles in Israel. But why are electric cars being hugely promoted in Israel? The reason is that the Globalists will be able to remotely control or disable your car at will and your freedom to drive will be extremely limited.

If this seems somewhat far fetched then remember that already manufacturers have begun offering remote start options on certain models. In some cases, you can change the climate control and turn the engine on from your phone.

Manufactures of electric vehicles are claiming that when connected to a remote system, cabin preconditioning is available in EV’s such as Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4 & Renault Zoe. With remote vehicle operating apps, you can start an engine at your own leisure from the comfort of your own home! The Honda Accord, Accord, Civic, Acura TLX, Nissan & Ford Mustang are some other electric vehicles with remote start.

In Jaguar’s Remote Premium system, the app will start the engine and adjust the temperature inside the car once the driver has activated it. There are numerous models after 2016 equipped with an automatic gearbox that can be started by using the Remote Engine Start (ERS).

The Mini Connected app is compatible with models that were manufactured prior to March 2018. The system can locate the car, find charging stations, and send a destination to the GPS of your vehicle. It is compatible with smartwatches, tablets and desktop computers. Furthermore, there are remote unlocking, journey logging & door locking features.

Another issue regarding electric cars is the question over whether they are as ‘green’ as they are alleged to be? One of the key elements making up the modern electric car battery is lithium. Mining it is far from climate friendly, requiring some 70,000 liters of water to make a single ton of lithium.

More than half of global lithium resources is located in the “lithium triangle” between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. The lithium must then be sent – on decidedly carbon unfriendly ships – to China, where 80% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries are made.

Electric vehicle batteries also require cobalt, where the waste generated from mining this metal pollutes both air & soil, leading to decreased crop yields, contaminated food and water & respiratory and reproductive health issues. As for the atmosphere, mining cobalt releases both carbon dioxide & nitrogen dioxide.

More than 70% of the world’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an estimated 200,000 miners – including 25,000 children – can be found digging underground in small-scale “artisanal mines” with little oversight & even fewer safety measures.

“Cobalt is an essential mineral for the green transition,” says Anneke Van Woudenberg, who directs the corporate watchdog Raid “but we must not turn away from the abusive labor conditions that taint the lithium-ion batteries needed for millions of electric vehicles.”

At the other end of an EV’s life, another environmental calamity awaits: Electric cars have nowhere to go to die. Traditional internal combustion engine vehicles, after they’ve reached a certain age, are either stripped down for parts or, if they’re still roadworthy, sent to emerging economies where they embark on a second life.

In the first case, when an internal combustion engine (ICE) car passes its prime, a network of global “dismantlers” stands at the ready to take it apart and sell off any raw materials. Dismantlers have serious concerns regarding EVs, however, electric bus batteries have been known to explode & the chemicals in them can be toxic if not handled carefully.

As for giving Electric cars a second life, there’s little appetite for them at the present moment in much of Africa, India or Asia where electric charge spots are rare.

World’s lithium fields reveals dark side of Israel’s electric vehicle future; Lithium-ion batteries are most famous for powering Israel’s electric vehicles. These batteries used in Israel’s electric cars are the key to lightweight, rechargeable power. Lithium can be described as the non-renewable mineral that makes renewable energy possible.

According to a report by Friends of the Earth, lithium extraction inevitably harms the soil and causes air contamination. As demand rises, the mining impacts are “increasingly affecting communities where this harmful extraction takes place, jeopardizing their access to water” says the report.

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme

The five Israeli’s have been detained without trial under a controversial security measure; Unfounded allegations were made that they were involved in disturbances in Arab towns in the area.

The arrest warrants were announced in a statement from Honenu who are providing legal representation to the arrested persons who are married and fathers to children said five settlers were arrested Sunday morning April 28 2024 by police without any proof of criminal activity.

According to Ha’aretz News the Israeli’s arrested are Elhai Carmeli, who was detained for six months; Zadok HaCohen, who was released about a year ago from administrative detention and has now been detained for four months; Boaz Spitz and Neria Zarog, whose detention was set for three months; another detainee was also detained for three months. There was no official police statement on the arrest warrants.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who used to work for Honenu, slammed Gallant for signing the warrants. “Gallant’s persecution of the settlers is exactly what the anti-Semitic court in The Hague does to the Israeli government,” Ben Gvir, who chairs the Otzma Yehudit party said in a social media post. “An irresponsible move by the Shin Bet [security agency] and Gallant that will only give more ammo to the haters of Israel,” he added.

Legal Aid organization Honenu: “The thundering silence of politicians who belong to the national camp in the face of Gallant’s madness is the one that amplifies this crime and sends this message on to our haters in the world, who in turn also want to put Gallant himself into administrative detention”.

Israeli settler Yinon Cohen commented: “The only purpose of these orders, like the confiscation of firearms and the demolition of homesteads, is to establish a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria and remove Jewish presence that prevents it. That is the uppermost goal of extreme left-wing organizations that have conducted an evil campaign claiming ‘settler violence’ during the war, and have managed to turn to their destructive ends the government of the United States of America.”

In administrative detention, a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future. As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them. This leaves the detainees helpless – facing unknown allegations with no way to disprove them, not knowing when they will be released, and without being charged, tried or convicted.

The authorities use administrative detention as a quick and easy alternative to criminal trial. This occurs primarily when they do not have sufficient evidence for indictment, or when they do not want to reveal the evidence they allegedly possess. This use of administrative detention is absolutely prohibited and totally blurs the distinction between an administrative proceeding that is intended as a prospective, preventive measure, and a criminal proceeding, whose purpose is punitive and retroactive.

Moreover, the judges always accept the prosecution’s demand that the evidence remain confidential for “reasons of national security”. By following this practice, the judges turn the exception provided for in the administrative detention order into a rule that denies detainees any possibility of mounting a defense against the allegations. The secrecy of the evidence prevents detainees and their counsel from examining the quality, veracity and relevance of the information used against them.

The judges have stated that, given the confidentiality, they must fill the void and act as defense for the detainees. However, this statement is not followed up in practice. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the judges do not ask to see the Israel Security Agency’s information and do not examine the the information that led to the detention.

The power to incarcerate people who have not been convicted or even charged with anything for lengthy periods of time, based on secret “evidence” that they cannot challenge, is an extreme power which is currently being used against the Israeli settlers. Under international law, the practice of administrative detention is supposed to be used only in exceptional circumstances.

Israel’s widespread use of the practice has been long criticized by international observers. In 2020, Michael Lynk, then the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights, called on Israel to abolish the practice. “Administrative detention is an anathema in any democratic society that follows the rule of law,” Lynk said. “When the democratic state arrests and detains someone, it is required to charge the person, present its evidence in an open trial, allow for a full defense and try to persuade an impartial judiciary of its allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Martin Blackham, Israel First TV Programme