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Brit Am Israel

Jerusalem News-406

Contents:

1. The Book of Daniel, Islam, and Europe

with Comment by David Ben Ariel

Commentaries to the Book of Daniel quoted in the Brit-Am Commentary understand the Vision of Nebuchadnezzar as explained by Daniel as predicting an eventual attempted union between Ishmael (Islam) and Europe.

Such a union is NOW in preparation. See extracts from relevant articles under the heading We Were Warned!:"Eurabia" in The Book of DANIEL?

The articles in effect describe a merger already in the process of preparation of Continental Europe with Ishmael (Arabic-Islam). This is to be carried through at the expense of Israel and the USA.

It should be noted that the EU heavily funds the Palestinians and that the Palestinian propaganda that brings about the suicide bombings etc would not be possible without EU funding. It should also be noted that the Israeli left-wing with movements such as Peace Now etc. also receives substantial funds from the EU.

The recent violence at Amona had a lot of causes and many interested parties were involved. It would not probably however have taken place were it not for legal actions by the EU subsidized Peace Now movement that could not stand to see nine half-legal Jewish buildings standing in the territory of Benjamin despite the fact that the Arabs have more than 30,000 illegal buildings (that are recognized as illegal without speaking of those that are illegal and not recognized) throughout Israel with much more than 3000 in the Jerusalem area alone.

In view of the above the following letter is interesting though I personally feel that the expression used "German-Jesuit" is misleading, a red herring. At all events the EU is in part culpable.

Comment by DAVID BEN ARIEL

Shalom Yair,

Your Brit Am Israel commentaries were most interesting on the possibility of "Eurabia," especially in light of how the EU has been guilty of aiding and abetting many Arab countries whose goal is to wipe Israel off the map (Ps. 83:4). However, it appears that "Eurabia" is dead now since Europe is beginning to suffer from the Islamofascists and will soon turn on them with full fury, as you acknowledge somewhat by giving an honorable mention that:

"There also exists a school of thought that identifies the FEET AND TOES of the great statue with the mixed group of nations comprising the European Union or that the EU is a precursor for a similar organization that will fulfill the prophecy."

Both the Arabs and the Jews are going to get brutally betrayed, stomped by the EU jackboot, when the German-Jesuit EU occupies Jerusalem, after having misled the world to trust them to bring peace. This is elaborated upon within:

UN Resolution 181: Blueprint of the Beast?

Shavua tov (good week),

David Ben-Ariel

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer in Ohio and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out Beyond Babylon.

10 Rules and Keys for Hebrew SEO in Israel

Around the world Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are mostly done in English and languages written from left to right. When it comes to doing SEO/SEM in Hebrew there are many other factors you need to take into account when marketing your site via search engines.

Here are a 10 rules and keys for doing  SEO in Hebrew. Some of these tips are relevant to other localized languages as well.

1. Localize your domain: When marketing a site in Hebrew and Israel you should start by building your site on a local Israeli domain which is "co.il". Google and other search engines will treat local domain names better than international ones. This applies to other countries as well – always use their local domain. Even if your site is in English, but still targeted at Israelis living in Israel you should localize it.

2. Store your site locally: You should store your internet site in Israel. Your target audience is Israelis who live in Israel; they will access the site faster when it is stored locally. Google and other search engines will give better rankings to locally stored sites.

3. Encode your site properly: When building an internet site in Hebrew you must verify that the site is encoded properly so that every surfer will see the Hebrew fonts properly and won't get the fonts in Gibberish. My favorite encoding is UTF-8.

4. Look in the mirror: Remember that Hebrew is written from right to left and not from left to right, that means that you shouldn't use a regular site template – you have to use a mirror version of the left to right template. You must verify that the direction specified is right to left and that the text is aligned to the right. Otherwise the Hebrew fonts won't be shown properly and Google will read your site the wrong way round.

5. Hebrew keyword research: Up until July 08, there were no tools to perform keyword research in Hebrew. Tools such as keyword discovery, and wordtracker didn't provide services in Hebrew. In order to get search volume in Hebrew for your keyword research you had to spend part of the SEO budget on a Google Adwords campaign. In July 08 Google started publishing average monthly search volumes on its Google Adwords keyword tool. After verifying the numbers opposite a few Adwords campaigns we came to a conclusion that these numbers can be trusted. Today the keyword research is done by using this tool among a few others.

6. Hebrew competition: Israel is a small country and there are less internet sites in Hebrew than in English, so fewer sites are competing on the top 10 positions on the first page of the search results. A site can rank on the first page within a few months on almost every keyword (although there are a few extremely competitive keywords which require more time and effort).

7. Marketing budget: The competition in Hebrew is lower than that in English, but the search volume is lower as well. A word searched in Hebrew has about 10% search volume of its equivalent in English. Because the competition is lower and because eventually you will drive less traffic to your site the SEO budget for sites in Hebrew is lower. If you will pay 10,000$ per month for SEO services for a word in English, you will pay 1500$-3000$ per month for its equivalent in Hebrew (these numbers are estimates and not exact ones).

8. Google is still learning Hebrew: When optimizing a site for Google in Hebrew you need to take into account that Google is still learning Hebrew. Only lately Google learned to differentiate between single and plural of the same word in Hebrew, Google also learned common misspelled words.  Google is improving its Hebrew knowledge every day.

9. Other search engines hardly know Hebrew: Google holds almost 90% of the searches in Israel. The main reason is that other search engines such as yahoo And Live, and even local ones such as Walla, Know only basic Hebrew which is enough for basic major searches and not for elaborate complex ones. Their results are less relevant than Google's. Almost all searches in Hebrew are done via Google.

10. Last year's technology: Google.co.il technology is about a year behind Google.com technology. This is why SEO methods which are less effective in Google.com, still work for Google.co.il. These methods mainly include link exchange and link buying. This isn't a recommendation to use Methods which are less relevant for Google.com, because after a few months they will apply to Google.co.il as well.

Conclusion: Marketing a site locally in Israel, in English or in Hebrew, should be done by an Israeli SEO/SEM company knowing and living the local language and more important the local mentality.

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Ok. Really weird, not your everyday question. Help with Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli/Arabic culture?

Ok. I'm working on a fanfiction story, NCIS Ziva based, and I'm wondering if Jewish/Hebrew/Israeli/Arabic people do anything different at funerals than American's do?

Yes. Jews: (and Israeli Jews)
- don't show the body- just the coffin
- have a shiva- 7 days (but really slightly shorter because of the Sabbath) in which the closest family sit and mourn- look up details - "shiva"- also they cover the mirrors
- they like to have the funeral as soon as possible after the death- they don't wait several days, rather, 1 or 2 at the most

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