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By Nathaniel Edelstein PETACH TIKVA, Israel (Press Release)—The All-Star Festivities at Yarkon Field at the Baptist Village started with the Homerun Derby as each team sent one representative to take part in the slugfest. Bet Shemesh’s Johnny Lopez, Modi’in’s Eladio Rodriguez, Netanya’s Josh Doane, Petach Tikva’s Ryan Crotin, Ra’anana’s Juan Ramirez, and Tel Aviv’s Stewart Brito each launched a homerun apiece in the first round. The final round found the winner as the Dominican Republic’s Stewart Brito took the victory. The excitement from the homerun derby carried into the beginning of the All-Star Game as crowd of 1,112 brought all-star quality spirit with cheers and even a wave that carried throughout the ballpark. After a close game the South took the 6-5 victory.
It
stayed tied until the top of the eighth when Johnny Lopez followed an Eladio
Rodriguez intentional walk with an RBI-groundout that scored Modi’in’s Adalberto
Paulino.
“Getting all these guys on the field was awesome, said Miracle second baseman
Noah Walker of California. “Besides it being such a fun group to play ball with,
the quality of play was just outstanding.”
Tuesday games will continue as scheduled at 5:00 pm when the Ra’anana Express visit the Tel Aviv Lightning at Sportek in Tel Aviv and the Modi’in Miracle host the Netanya Tigers at Kibbutz Gezer. At 7:00 pm the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox take on the Petach Tikva Pioneers at Yarkon Field at the Baptist Villag
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Israel Cabinet approves Security
budget proposal
It cares about justice. It cares about the principle that everyone is equal before the law. It cares about not letting persons suspected of criminal acts getting away with them, no matter how elevated their station. The news of the plea bargain broke on aThursday morning. On a Saturday night over 20,000 people—men and women of all ages and political persuasions—participated in a demonstration against the decision to let the ex-President off lightly. This spontaneous display of outrage was exceptional for Israel. It sent the message that the public would not tolerate the attempt to allow the actions of a person suspected of having committed serious crimes to be swept under the carpet. This was not a political demonstration with busloads of supporters of a particular party being brought from various parts of the country. Youth movements were not mobilized to augment the crowd. This was a genuinely grass-roots demonstration of support for the principle of equal justice for all. One of the arguments made in favour of accepting the plea bargain was that sending a former president to jail (after all, one of the initial crimes of which Katzav was accused was rape) will bring Israel into disrepute. Quite the contrary. Letting him off lightly brings Israel into disrepute. This seems to have escaped the understanding of the Attorney-General and his advisors. Other countries have punished senior officials, and even presidents, who have been found guilty of serious offences, whether these were financial or involved in brutality against sections of the population. Sexual offences warrant arraignment, no matter who commits them. The Israeli public has made it clear that it is not prepared to accept a society in which certain individuals are above the law.
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COMMUNITY INTEREST NEWS—Not all stories affecting the Jewish community and/or Israel involve Jews as direct participants, so they really don't quite fit the requirements for the "Jews in the News" column above. Yet, there obviously is a community interest in such stories, so we will endeavor to provide links to them in this space:
●U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates depart on a joint mission to Saudi Arabia to
discuss not only Iraq but also a proposed sale of advanced
American weapons to Saudi Arabia. Friends of Israel are
working in Congress to block the deal. The
story by Anne Gearan of the Associated Press is in today's
San Diego Union-Tribune.
●Moving
to further consolidate its hold over Gaza, Hamas announced it
would pay the salaries of civil servants who stay on their jobs,
even those who were affiliated with Fatah. The
story by Ibrahim Barzak of the Associated Press is in
today's San Diego Union-Tribune.
●Lebanese troops were poised for the "final assault" on the
Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, where Islamic militants
have holed up among Palestinian refugees. The Associated Press
story by Hussein Dakroub is in today's San Diego
Union-Tribune.
●Robert J. Caldwell, editorial writer of the San Diego
Union-Tribune, writes in a
column that Iran and Syria are fighting a proxy war against
the United States in Iraq, convinced deaths of Iraqis and
Americans are in their long term interest. The idea that
either could become U.S. partners in stabilizing Iraq is
fanciful, he werites.
CYBER-REFERRALS—Bruce
Kesler
passes on a review by Asaf Romirowsky of Shmuel Bar's
book Warrant for
Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam, and the Duty of Jihad.
The
review was carried on the website of the Jerusalem Center
for Public Affairs.
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Youkilis a great hitter, but not so terrific a goniff
BASEBALL—Kevin
Youkilis
collected his 25th double of the season and was credited with three
RBIs bringing that seasonal total to 54. But he also learned a
lesson, being a base goniff doesn't always pay. He was
put out trying to steal... We all know that a team does not
fare by the performance of an individual player, and
Shawn Green demonstrated the maxim in his New York Mets
doubleheader against the Washington Nationals. In the
first game, he was unable to do anything offensively, batting 0-3.
Yet the Mets won 3-1. In the second game he not only got a
hit, but stole his ninth base of the season. The Mets lost
6-5. ...
Brad Ausmus
went 0-3 in the Houston Astros 3-1 victory over the San Diego Padres
on Saturday. His batting average dropped to .237.
A former Padre, Ausmus also was quoted in a
special section in today's San Diego Union-Tribune
dedicated to Tony Gwynn's induction into baseball's hall of fame.
He said he remembered that the first day he ever got three hits in a
major league game, Gwynn meanwhile was batting 6-7.
...
Relief catcher
Mike Lieberthal got to play a full game for the Los Angeles
Dodgers, but he went 0-4 and his team was defeated 6-2 by the
Rockies.
FOOTBALL—In analyzing San Diego Charger pairings for each
position (starter and backup), today's San Diego Union-Tribune
describes starting right defensive end
Igor Olshansky as a "young end with Pro Bowl potential."
As for his stand-in, Derreck Robinson, the newspaper comments that
he is "ferociously strong."
TENNIS—Up at Stanford,
Shahar Peer of Israel teamed with Sania Mirza of India in
the doubles semifinals of the WTA $600,000 Bank of the West
tournament to defeat Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Alla Kudryavtseva of
Russia, 6-3, 6-4.
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