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Israel is commemorating its Holocaust Memorial Day to remember the millions of Jews who perished during the holocaust. Ceremonies are taking place throughout the day.

Below some pictures and a video from the 2 minute moment of silence that occurred at 10am Israel time

Video by SDM Contributor Arsen Ostrovsky

Pop Superstar Rihanna may play in Israel later this year after she is finished with her current “Diamond Tour” in the U.S. and Europe, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Thursday.

The show’s producers and Rihanna’s management are in advanced talks for a performance at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv in late October, according to the report.  Rihanna performed at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium in 2010.

The Barbados-born singer’s profile has skyrocketed in recent years with such hits as “We Found Love” and “Where Have You Been.” Only 25, she has already sold some 30 million albums and 120 singles worldwide making her one of the most successful pop artists of all time.

Source: Algemeiner.com

A video of Rihanna’s 2010 Israel show is posted below:

3 years ago today, one of America’s favorite family visited the Holy Land… the Simpsons!

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Pretty cool clip about Barack Obama’s comments re: Tel Aviv

Jewish state consolidates programming superpower status as five of social network’s 10 largest leading games in critical Europe and Middle East region are developed in Israel’s Silicon Wadi

Stormfall is a game in which players build a castle, wield weapons, fight dragons, and raise armies of barbarians and necromancers. It is accessible to players all over the world, via Facebook. Playing Stormfall is free. It is one of the fastest-growing computer games among Facebook users and it was developed in Israel.

According to news reports, five of Facebook’s 10 largest social games in the critical Europe and Middle East region come from Israel. Some of the games are deep and multi-layered, like Stormfall. Others, like Slotomania, are fun time-killers – but also developed in Israel’s high-tech coastal plain – Silicon Wadi.

Speaking at a European gaming conference, Julien Codorniou, who heads Facebook’s gaming developers, said Israeli programmers have proved especially skilled at coming up with multi-platform games that start on PC, then get ported to mobile phones, and eventually to Apple.

Codorniou pointed to the success of Playtika as another facet of Israel’s gaming advantage: Its programmers have turned out to be skilled at simulating gambling.

The trend for Facebook gamers, he said, was away from first-person-shooters, which more and more are being seen as gratuitously violent. The Facebook gamer these days wants either casual entertainment, or an immersive hard core gamer experience with outstanding production values.

Another change, Codorniou said, is that the center of gaming design is shifting away from the US and the Far East. Today, 70% of growing gaming companies on Facebook, are European.

Currently, Facebook has about 250 million players a month, making it a larger playing platform, than all game consoles combined. In future, more and more, they will be playing games made in Israel.

Source: Ynetnews.com

It started with a photo that went viral… now the video!

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