Programming Notes:
News Items “Weekend Edition” will be distributed tomorrow (Sunday), not today.
News Items will not be distributed on Monday (Martin Luther King Day here in the United States).
A new edition of Political Items was distributed earlier this morning. It is no longer free to paid subscribers to News Items.
There is, however, a standing special Political Items subscription offer for News Items subscribers which you can assess by clicking on this hyperlink. Just put your cursor directly over the hyperlink and "click” (or “double-click”) it.
There will be another edition of Political Items this weekend (probably Monday, maybe Sunday night). I’m fairly certain the lead story will be political “upheaval” in Israel.
A friend of mine recently visited the headquarters of a leading Israeli “newspaper.” A friend of his is one of the paper’s top editors. The discussion over lunch was what the management of the paper should do if the new government decided to shut it down. The person leading the conversation wasn’t kidding. He was dead serious. That’s a conversation that was once unthinkable, not so long ago.