I normally only work in Israel on material culture and in a period that I know well n the Roman period, ... But the problem was so compelling and our ability to solve it with the techniques we have developed was so clear that I decided to build a project.

The rich Jewish culture of Spain permeates Judaism to this day, ... Their customs, language, traditions, food and art, as well as Sephardic Judaism, spread out through the Diaspora. The first American Jews were Sephardic. It is important to recover this history.

But if you can build a culture whereby people are empowered and they want to be empowered, it will work. It sounds like it's working for this particular company.

would beat up on Israel -- and that's all it would do. It has no teeth. It's just a session for venting.

Our main interest is environmental. We work in the environment every day of our lives and we want to keep it clean for future generations.

We all know that the terrorists are trying to provoke Israel... at a very sensitive time, and we understand exactly what the government's position is.