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ISRAEL BONDS New Leadership New York City Co-Chairs Perri Korine and Erez Kahan.

(photo credit: Albi)

The connection between global Jewry and Israel is built on generations of hope, resilience, and a shared dream of a Jewish homeland. For those who grew up in the early decades following Israel’s independence, investing in Israel was essential for its survival and growth.

For younger generations, this connection is evolving. While many first encountered Israel Bonds as gifts for their Bar or Bat Mitzvahs, today, New Leadership is redefining the meaning of investing in Israel. Through impact investing and direct ties to Israel’s needs, young professionals are transforming support for Israel into a personal and purposeful commitment.

ISRAEL BONDS New Leadership National Co-Chairs Aliza Fagen and Albert Babayev at the 2023 International Leadership Conference. (Credit: Albi)

Building Tomorrow, Together: The Impact of Israel Bonds' New Leadership 

In times of crisis, leadership emerges through action. For Israel Bonds New Leadership, October 7 was a turning point. “After October 7, we knew it was up to us to make our generation’s voice heard,” explains Albert Babayev, National Co-Chair of Israel Bonds’ New Leadership. Babayev, alongside National Co-Chair Aliza Fagen, saw an opportunity and worked with Israel Bonds’ New Leadership National Director, Micah Cohen to do more than advocate for Israel—they took tangible actions. 

“We launched an emergency national campaign to support the State of Israel in its time of need,” adds Fagen. “In addition to encouraging investment in Israel through Israel Bonds, we are also encouraged to do so via the Double Mitzvah program, as well as host local parlor meetings across the country.”

The national campaign not only provided direct financial support for Israel but showcased Israel Bonds’ impact in real-time.

The response was overwhelming. Events sold out quickly, with waitlists of eager participants. “Many of my friends didn’t know about Israel Bonds,” Perri Korine, New York City Co-Chair of Israel Bonds New Leadership, shares. “When I tell them, I feel like I’m making a real difference.”

As New Leadership continues to grow, its influence extends beyond financial contributions. (Credit: Albi)

That difference materialized in bonds sales donated for United Hatzalah to purchase a new Ambucycle. Through Israel Bonds’ Double Mitzvah program, investors can direct their bonds to causes and not-for-profit organizations that are important to them.

For young professionals navigating today’s financial landscape, Israel Bonds offers both strong returns and meaning. “When I started my career, I didn’t have much disposable income and didn’t understand bonds,” says NYC Co-Chair Erez Kahan, who joined in 2018. “I started small, but the more I learned, the more I realized how critical it is for young professionals to invest, even modestly. As we grow our careers, we can expand our investments and make a bigger impact.”

Post-October 7, Kahan sees Israel Bonds as the leading avenue for young professionals to support Israel. He breaks it down into three key points: First, purchasing an Israel bond is a statement of unwavering support for Israel’s right to exist. Second, it is a smart financial investment. And third, it establishes a direct financial bond to Israel’s future.

Beyond the Bonds: Creating a Legacy

Many current New Leadership members were introduced to Bonds through their families. “I was first introduced to Israel Bonds through my grandparents. My grandfather Myer Samuels Z”L got involved with Israel Bonds at its inception. He and my grandmother Shoshana Samuels Z”L, built a whole generation of leadership hosting events, initiating campaigns, and leading missions to Israel.” Fagen notes. “It was through their leadership that I learnt the importance of supporting the State of Israel, and it’s incredible to have so many volunteers on our national council who share similar histories. It’s really an honor to continue the legacy of our parents and grandparents.”

For Kahan, the vision is clear: “When Ben-Gurion came to New York to launch Israel Bonds, Israel needed roads and infrastructure—the foundations of a thriving state. Today, our goal is to ensure the next generation doesn’t just hear about bonds from their grandparents but grows up knowing about it and already investing.”

That generational shift is already happening. A recent Shabbat dinner at the Jewish Museum resulted in 90 new bondholders, thanks to personal outreach and grassroots efforts. “Previously, we used more traditional ways to get the word out,” Cohen explains. “Now, we’re expanding our reach—bringing in new people who had never been involved before.”

Israel Bonds is not a donation, it is an investment, contributing directly to Israel’s economic growth. “There’s no political angle here,” Babayev emphasizes. “These funds support all Israelis.”

As New Leadership continues to grow, its influence extends beyond financial contributions. The mission is clear: to educate, inspire, and build a network of committed young professionals who see their investments not just as transactions but as acts of solidarity.

For those feeling powerless in today’s global climate, Israel Bonds offers something invaluable: the ability to take action.

For National and International Chairman of the Board Dr. Andrew M. Hutter, every investor, regardless of investment size, represents hope for the future and an investment in the Jewish people with exponential returns. Dr. Hutter developed the Israel Bonds Mentorship Program and has been instrumental in growing the next generation of Bonds leaders.

“The future of Israel is in the hands of the next generation,” Dr. Hutter states. “It is essential for young leaders to engage with Israel Bonds because they are not only investing in Israel’s economic growth but also strengthening the resilience of the Jewish community. Now, more than ever, it’s crucial for New Leadership to actively support Israel’s progress and future prosperity.”

With each new investor, event, and conversation, Israel Bonds’ New Leadership is not just raising funds—it is building a movement. And through this movement, the future of Israel remains strong, resilient, and filled with hope. 

Be a part of the movement at israelbonds.com/NewLeadership.

Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Bonds (“DCI”) is a broker-dealer that sells Israel bonds. The content in this article was prepared by DCI and the Jerusalem Post as part of a paid advertising campaign for DCI. This is not an offering which can be made only by prospectus. Read the prospectus carefully before investing to fully evaluate the risks associated with investing in Israel Bonds. Member FINRA. 

Impact of Tariffs

 

US President Donald Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC, April 7, 2025

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Last Thursday and Friday were among the worst days ever on Wall Street. The last time that the US stock market fell so sharply, by more than 5%, was in March 2020, in the panic over the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic. Those two days last week were the fifth worst in the history of the S&P 500.

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs of between 10% and 54% on almost the entire world, two of the four main stock indices in New York, Nasdaq and the Russell 2000, are in bear market territory, that is to say, they are 20% below their last peaks. The S&P 500 is only 3% away from that category.

The tariffs themselves are not the cause of the falls on the stock market. It that were the case, we would see different responses by companies that will be impacted by the tariffs and those that will not. The broad negative reaction of the market, across all sectors, indicates a much worse fear: a recession in the US at best; a global recession at worst. Stagflation in the nightmare scenario.

Who is predicting a recession?

Until two months ago, no-one imagined that that question would arise. But if on Thursday, after President Trump’s presentation of the tariffs policy, the market feared a recession, after the speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell at the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Annual Conference in Arlington, Virginia, it trembled. “Our obligation is to keep longer-term inflation expectations well anchored and to make certain that a one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem,” Powell said.

Speculation began on the market that Trump’s measures were designed to force the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, but Powell implicitly rebuffed that possibility. “We will continue to carefully monitor the incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks. We are well positioned to wait for greater clarity before considering any adjustments to our policy stance. It is too soon to say what will be the appropriate path for monetary policy,” he said.

Nevertheless, the assessment on the market is that the Federal Reserve will have to reduce its interest rate three and perhaps even four times over the coming year. In the choice between high inflation and a recession, central banks generally choose to give priority to the latter danger.

US President Donald Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC, April 7, 2025 (credit: LIL MICKY/REUTERS)

In the past few days, the major banks have raised their assessments of the probability of a recession. JP Morgan now sees a 60% chance of a recession, Goldman Sachs talks about 35%, as does rating agency S&P Global. HSBC puts the probability at 40%.

How will a recession in the US affect Israel?

The trade war reached Tel Aviv as well yesterday, but the falls on the local stock market were less steep than elsewhere. While stock indices in the US and Europe fell by about 10% in two days, the Tel Aviv 35 Index fell by just under 4% yesterday and by 0.62% on Thursday. All the same, if the world’s largest economy goes into recession, the shock waves will reach Israel.

Bank Hapoalim chief markets strategist Modi Shafrir warns that “even if Israel signs a new trade agreement with the US this week that substantially moderates the extent of the tariffs imposed on it, local economic growth will be hit as the global trade war worsens.”

Leader Capital Markets chief economist Jonathan Katz adds on the positive side: “Israel’s good fortune is that the economy’s main engine is exports of technology services, which are expected to be exempt from tariffs. A global slowdown and surplus supply of commodities will reduce import prices in Israel and moderate inflation.”

Katz adds, however, that “There will be a negative wealth effect on the consumer in Israel, and in the world in general, because of the sharp falls on the capital market,” that is, Israeli consumers will feel less wealthy, and will therefore consume less.

Meitav chief economist Alex Zabezhinsky also fears the negative wealth effect, which he says will weaken consumer demand in Israel in the coming year. He has cut his GDP growth forecast for Israel from 4% to 3.5%. “The Israeli economy is likely to be hurt not by the direct effect of the tariffs, but in many indirect ways. A hit to economic growth in Israel will affect demand through a weakening of the labor market, a fall in value of the public’s savings, and a worsening of general sentiment. The expected decline in world trade will hurt Israeli companies... Over the years, the performance of the Nasdaq index has been one of the most important indicators of growth in Israel. The sharp fall sin technology stocks in response to the tariffs is liable to lead to lower investment in the sector, particularly in Israel,” Zabezhinsky says.

Zabezhinsky estimates that the local market will outperform overseas markets in the near term, largely because of the expectation of a transfer of some savings from S&P 500 tracks to general tracks. “That will boost demand for the shekel and for local securities,” he says. 

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Russian carmaker

 

File photo shows a Lada Granta model manufactured by Russia’s AvtoVAZ.

Russia’s largest car manufacturer AvtoVAZ eyes to launch a localization project in Iran where it can assemble the latest version of its popular Lada model.

AvtoVAZ CEO Maxim Sokolov said on Tuesday that launching assembly lines and dealerships in Iran will give the company a “certain competitive advantage".

“... we are betting heavily on the Iranian direction and expect that our dealership will open there soon,” Sokolov told the official news agency Tass.

He said that a business partner from Iran, which he did not identify, has asked for the entire product line of AvtoVAZ’s Lada model, including its new Iskra model.

The CEO said that Iskra would be “one step ahead” of the majority of cars currently assembled and manufactured in Iran.

AvtoVAZ seeks to expand its exports of Lada in 2025 with a special focus on markets of Iran, Kazakhstan and Vietnam, according to statements from the company.

Iranians have a good memory of old Lada models, which were famous for their safety and reliability when they hit the roads in the 1970s.

AvtoVAZ’s plans to break into the Iranian market have faced difficulties in recent years, mainly because of US sanctions on Iran.

However, growing cooperation between the automotive companies of Iran and Russia in recent years seems to have made it easier for Russian cars to enter the Iranian market.

The cooperation deepened since early 2022, when major international automotive companies, including Renault, which owned shares in AvtoVAZ, left Russia because of Western sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine.

Iran’s two largest carmakers, IKCO and Saipa, have signed contracts for exports of cars and parts to Russia.

Reports have also shown that carmakers from the two countries seek to launch joint manufacturing projects in the future.

Iran sanctions

 

The US blacklists firms and individuals in China and Iran for alleged role in Tehran’s missile program.

The US government has announced new sanctions targeting Chinese and Iranian firms and individuals despite the ongoing nuclear talks with Tehran.

The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in a statement on Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on six entities and six individuals for their alleged role in procuring ingredients needed in Iran’s ballistic missile program.

The designation targeted five China-based companies, one Iran-based firm, and six Iran-based people, which OFAC said had been involved in the procurement from China to Iran of sodium perchlorate and dioctyl sebacate, the ingredients it said were usable in solid propellant rocket motors.

The Iranian firm and its related people included in the blacklist were identified as Saman Tejarat Barman Trading Company, Abed, Hamed and Zahra Zargar, Forough Modarres, Abbas Pour Kazemi, and Mohammad Asgari.

The five Chinese forms were Shenzhen Amor, Dongying, Yanling Chuanxing Chemical Plant, China Chlorate Tech, and Yanling Lingfeng Chlorate.

The new sanctions are the eighth such action taken by the US government against Iran since February 4, when US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering a campaign of maximum pressure on the country.

They come despite the fact that Iran and the US have held three rounds of reportedly positive talks since early April to settle disputes about Tehran’s nuclear program. The indirect talks have been held in Oman’s capital, Muscat, and in Italy’s Rome under Oman’s mediation.

The sanctions come days after a huge explosion in Iran’s southern port of Shahid Rajaee, which media outlets based in the US and Europe claimed could have been caused by sodium perchlorate stored in the port’s dockyards.

The Iranian defense ministry has vehemently denied the reports, saying it has never used the Shahid Rajaee port for imports of sensitive materials.

Sheikh Zakzaky

 

Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky

Nigerian security agents are planning coordinated attacks on the homes and properties of followers of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, according to a report.

SaharaReporters reported on Sunday, quoting sources that the operation is scheduled to take place around 2:00 a.m. on Monday in Abuja and surrounding areas, including Maraba.

Security agents have advised their relatives to avoid locations associated with Shia Muslims in Abuja, Maraba, and other areas, the report said.  

"There is a planned attack by security agents on residences and facilities of Al-Zakzaky's followers in Maitama, Asokoro, Garki, Airport Road, Maraba, etc. They said Monday at 2:00 a.m.," one source disclosed.

On March 28, 2025, at least 26 people were reportedly killed and many others injured in an attack on the IMN members by the Nigerian Army on an International Quds Day demonstration in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.

Video footage of the scenes shows armed forces securing the perimeter as protestors flee for cover while bullet shots are heard.

The footage also shows soldiers dragging the lifeless body of a civilian on the street and dumping it into a pickup while beating two other protesters and forcing them to get into another truck.

While the event was conducted peacefully across Nigeria, the Abuja procession was targeted by the army.

The protesters were marching peacefully after observing Friday prayers at Banex Plaza when Army soldiers stationed near the mosque fired upon them.

In response, the IMN has vowed to take legal action if the Nigerian government and army fail to release detained members, including over 60 minors.

The group's legal representatives, Bala Dakum and Yushau Uthman, talked to journalists on Friday, condemned the March 28 attack and demanded justice for the victims.

“While peacefully carrying out their procession in the Banex area, Wuse II, Abuja, in their thousands, they were unexpectedly confronted by a group of armed soldiers who, without any provocation, began firing live ammunition at them,” they said.  

“As a result of this inhumane, callous, cruel, barbaric and horrific attack, about 26 persons lost their lives, over 30 sustained various degrees of life-threatening injuries, and around 274 were arrested by the soldiers,” they added.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) had expressed concern over attacks against protesters after it was revealed that Nigerian authorities were making preparations in this regard as a pretext for an attack.

The Office of the National Security Adviser had stressed the necessity to stop the al-Quds day demonstration to “prevent a breach of the peace” by the pro-Palestinian protesters, according to a leaked internal letter seen by the IHRC.

In the leaked communiqué, Nigerian authorities had warned that though the pro-Palestinian demonstrations were peaceful, the protesters had the potential to seek justice by attacking US and Israeli interests in the country. Therefore, their demos must be stopped.

 This method has been used by Nigeria’s pro-Israel officials in recent years to prompt the forces to stage a violent crackdown on the demonstrators.

At least one person was killed, and many more were injured after police opened fire on the Quds Day demo in Abuja in 2023.

In 2014, Nigerian security forces killed 34 demonstrators after opening fire on a rally in Zaria.

US takeover

 

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney (L) and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre (Combo photo by AFP)

Canadians have headed to polls in parliamentary elections as US President Donald Trump renews his controversial takeover bid.

Canada's elections span across six time zones with polls opening at 08:30 local time (12:00 GMT) on Monday in Newfoundland and Labrador, with the last polls closing in British Columbia at 19:00 PST (03:00 GMT on Tuesday).

Out of the country's 29 million eligible voters, a record 7.3 million, have already cast their ballots in advance to elect 343 members of parliament.

The leading candidate in the elections is from the ruling Liberal Party, incumbent Prime Minister Mark Carney, 60, who has already faced off with Trump over tariffs.

The forerunner, Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poilievre, 45, has been likened to the US president.

Both candidates have asked Trump to stay out of the elections. However, neither Carney nor Poilievre have presented a comprehensive plan to boost the country's ailing economy amid Trump's threatening trade war.

The smaller left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), led by Jagmeet Singh, has been struggling to gain traction among Canadian voters by declaring its commitment to the working class.

Singh says his party also has a plan to safeguard Canada from Trump's trade war.

The separatist Bloc Quebecois (BQ) is also taking part in the elections. BQ promotes Quebecois nationalism and its sovereignty.

However, fears over Trump's trade war and takeover threats have prompted voters to neglect the smaller parties and elect the candidates from the bigger Liberal and Conservative parties.

Historically, Canada has only been led by governments made up from these two federal parties.

Meanwhile, Trump, who has turned into a central figure in Canada's elections, has steered clear of commenting on voting results.

However, final polls put Carney slightly ahead of Poilievre. Carney was about to lose the election to Poilievre when Trump's renewed attacks on Canada sparked a sudden reversal in poll forecasts.

On January 6, the day former prime minister Justin Trudeau announced he would resign, the Conservatives led the Liberals by more than 20 points in most polls.

But Carney, a respected banker, by replacing Trudeau combined with nationwide unease about Trump's threats stirred the race in favor of the Liberals.

Now, if the Liberals, who currently hold 152 seats, win majority of the vote by taking more than 172 seats as expected, it would mark one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history.

In any case, polling experts say, the 2025 elections is of utmost importance for the region because it could impact the future by redefining Ottawa's relationship with Washington.

Radar in Somalia

 

A satellite image taken near Puntland's Bosaso airport on March 5, 2025 shows an Israeli-made ELM-2084 3D Active Electronically Scanned Array Multi-Mission Radar supplied by the UAE. (By Google Earth)

The United Arab Emirates has reportedly deployed an Israeli military radar to Somalia’s Puntland to monitor anti-Israel attacks conducted by Yemen in support of Palestinians subjected to genocide in Gaza.

According to satellite imagery from early March, the Israeli-made ELM-2084 3D Active Electronically Scanned Array Multi-Mission Radar, which is one of the components of Israel’s Iron Dome system, was installed near Bosaso airport.

US-based Watan newspaper reported this week that the radar is aimed at monitoring strikes conducted by Yemeni forces against Israeli targets in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

“This indicates that Abu Dhabi is conducting a monitoring and protection operation on behalf of Tel Aviv from African soil,” the daily said, citing familiar sources.

According to the sources, the UAE is also facilitating negotiations for the establishment of an Israeli base in Somaliland, which declared independence from Mogadishu in 1991, in return for promises to promote international recognition of the region that lies on the Gulf of Aden.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz last year reported that Israel, with Emirati support, aims to establish a military base in Somaliland to counter the Yemeni forces.

On Thursday, Middle East Eye also cited a regional source as saying that the radar was deployed at the airport late last year.

Meanwhile, MEE cited other sources as saying the deployment took place as the UAE has been using Bosaso airport to militarily support the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan.

“The UAE installed the radar shortly after the RSF lost control of most of Khartoum in early March,” a regional source told MEE.

“The radar’s purpose is to detect and provide early warning against drone or missile threats, particularly those potentially launched by the Houthis, targeting Bosaso from outside,” the source added, referring to forces of Yemen’s military and its Ansarullah resistance movement.

Sudan has accused the UAE at the International Court of Justice of violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in its Darfur region.

Two separate Somali sources, cited by MEE, claimed that Puntland’s President Said Abdullahi Deni did not seek approval from Somalia’s federal government or the Puntland parliament for this arrangement.

“This is a secret deal, and even the highest levels of Puntland’s government, including the cabinet, are unaware of it,” said one Somali source with direct knowledge of the issue.

Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Yemeni forces have carried out scores of operations in support of the war-hit Gazans, striking targets throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to targeting Israeli ships or vessels heading towards ports in the occupied territories.

Sweeping Power

 

The sweeping power outage that hit Spain and Portugal this week has raised questions about the electricity grid in a region not normally known for blackouts.

Monday’s outage, one of the worst ever in Europe, started in the afternoon and lasted through nightfall, affecting tens of millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula. It disrupted businesses, hospitals, transit systems, cellular networks and other critical infrastructure.

Authorities in Spain and Portugal are still investigating exactly what caused the failure, though some information has emerged about happened. Here’s what to know:

What happened?

Spain and Portugal lost most of their electricity early Monday afternoon.

Shortly after 12:30 p.m. local time, Spain lost 15 gigawatts of electricity — or roughly 60% of demand in the country of 49 million, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said.

There had been two significant “disconnection events” — or interruptions in power — before the outage, Spain’s electric grid operator Red Eléctrica de España said Tuesday.

While Spain’s grid managed to recover from the first event, systems operations director Eduardo Prieto said that the second was more damaging, progressing to the point of interruptions from France’s electrical system and producing “a massive, temporary disconnection.”

Instead of normal, steady voltage, Marshall said the data shows there were oscillations whose frequency and magnitude increased over the next three hours until the grid failed. He does not know what caused the instability.

Around noon, there was a big jump in the magnitude of the fluctuations, with the voltage measured going up and down by about 15 volts every 1.5 seconds, Marshall said.

“The way I would interpret our data,” Marshall said about Monday’s events, “is that the grid is struggling. Something’s wrong. And it’s showing increasing signs of instability.”

What don’t we know?

We don’t know exactly what caused Monday’s fluctuations and eventual failure.

“There’s a variety of things that usually happen at the same time, and it’s very difficult for any event to say ‘this was the root cause,’” said Eamonn Lannoye, managing director at the Electric Power Research Institute, Europe.

Lannoye said there was a range of events that can explain grid failures, including that electric grid lines or generators are switched off in some locations for maintenance.

“This could be a really complex event, I think it’s fair to say,” Lannoye said.

What causes power outages?

Power outages can have several triggers, including natural disasters and extreme weather, human-caused disasters, equipment failures, overloading transformers and wires and so on.

Electric grids are sensitive to imbalances in the amount of energy generated versus what’s used.

Enric Bartlett, an energy expert and professor of public law at Spain’s Esade business school, likened a grid’s supply and demand balance to a tandem bike.

“To avoid falling, everyone must pedal at the same cadence,” Bartlett said.

“Electrical grids are large interconnected systems, and their stability is related to a very close balance between electricity generation and demand,” said Grazia Todeschini, an engineering researcher at King’s College London.

“If one area is disconnected, it can cause knock-on effects in nearby areas,” she said, adding that while grids have measures in place to limit the impact of outages to small areas, when the imbalance is large, disruptions can spread quickly and far.

What have Spain and Portugal’s governments said?

Authorities in Spain and Portugal have downplayed the idea that a cyberattack was responsible. Spain’s High Court said it would investigate to find the cause.

On Tuesday, there was renewed attention on Spain’s renewable energy generation. The southern European nation is a leader in solar and wind power generation, with more than half of its energy last year having come from renewable sources. Portugal also generates a majority of its energy from renewable sources.

Questions remain about whether Spain’s heavy renewable energy supply may have made its grid system more susceptible to the type of outage that took place Monday. The thinking goes that non-renewable energy sources, such as coal and natural gas, can better weather the type of fluctuations observed Monday on Spain’s grid.

That is because renewable energies like solar and wind provide intermittent supply, relying on when the sun is shinning and wind is blowing. However, in recent years batteries that store energy, along with other methods, have helped regulate changes in electricity supply from renewables.

Lannoye said it was too early to draw a straight line between Monday’s event and Spain’s solar power generation.

“I think there’s some putting the cart before the horse to say this was solar,” Lannoye said, simply because there was solar power on the grid at the time of the disruption.

Why was France partially affected?

Europe’s electric grid is highly connected, meaning that it can pool power between countries. That can make the system more resilient, experts say. It also means a disruption in a major transmission artery or frequency imbalance can trigger cascading protective shutdowns across countries, according to Shreenithi Lakshmi Narasimhan, member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Spain and Portugal are connected to Europe’s main electric grid through France. Spain’s grid operator on Tuesday said that the sudden drop in power caused an interconnector between Spain and France to trip.

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Big News

 

Among us, there are those who spread rumors, who deliberately lie, add to or take away from the Truth, thereby sowing the seeds of dissension. We must refer rumors to those in authority, who are in a position to search out the truth or falsity of the rumor.

Then, we must act on the principles of truth. This is why, in the Nation of Islam, the first lesson we are given to study is called Actual Facts, because we can never arrive at a true basis for justice without first having in our possession or grasp the actual facts.

Resurrection

 The old world must be removed to make way for the new world. There is a universal struggle being waged by the old world against the beginning of the new world. Will the old world’s opposition prevent the establishment of the new world? According to recorded history, the efforts being made by the old world against the beginning of a new world will fail as did former opponents of Allah.

According to the history of Noah, the people ridiculed the very thought of Allah bringing a flood to drown them. Noah was laughed at and scorned for preaching such a doctrine. According to the Bible and Holy Qur’an, he was called a liar and looked upon as a crazy person. Some of the members of Noah’s family joined the mockers and disbelievers of Allah and His Messenger, who was Noah. They met the same fate as the others who disbelieved.

The opposition of that world to the advent of a better world was a total failure. So shall it be with those today who oppose the beginning of a new world of righteousness (Islam.) In the time of Abraham and his nephew (Lot)–before the birth of Ishmael and Isaac, Abraham’s two sons–the people, mockers and haters of truth and righteousness in that part of the world (the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah,) had become victimized to every imaginable evil. They even threatened the life of the preacher of righteousness, Lot, disregarding the strangers (angels) visiting Lot–until it was too late. So it is with the opponents of the Messenger of Allah today in America.

The wicked always believe they are mightier than Allah, and they make a supreme effort to thwart the plan and purpose of Allah to bring about a better world. They always love to attack the Messenger to try to condemn him as a liar. Trying to prove the Messenger a liar means calling Allah a liar. The Holy Qur’an repeatedly prophesies a miserable, shameful, and disgraceful defeat for the disbelievers and hypocrites in their campaign against the last Messenger of Allah, whom Allah would raise in the time of the resurrection of the dead people.

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Messengers are never sent; they always are raised in the midst of those whom Allah would warn so they can’t claim that they did not understand the language of the Messenger, or say that he was a foreigner or stranger. The Messenger is one from them.

For nearly thirty-four years, I have served you, just as Allah’s warners-of-old served a hard-hearted and hard-headed, disbelieving people, who were great lovers of the enemies of Allah and the true religion, Islam (which means entire submission to Allah’s will.) There is mockery, and evil plans are made against my life by the wicked–just as they were made against Noah and subsequent prophets.

The powerful, rich world of Christianity–especially America–is made to seem as immovable as the mountains. But it is not impossible to remove mountains; they can be removed by high explosives. So wealth and power also can be reduced to nothing.

We are now living in the judgment, or doom, of the white man’s world. Preparations have been made to meet every effort by the white man to oppose the beginning and setting up of Allah’s new world of righteousness (Islam.) The government (U.S.A.) today watches my followers with an evil eye, seeking to deceive anyone who would enter the fold to help further the cause of truth and the upliftment of the mourning heads and the grieving hearts of the American so-called Negroes; to help make them a nation of righteousness and justice to serve as a star for the nations of their own kind forever. The U.S. government is active in its deceitful work of trying to slow the progress of the resurrection of our people.

American Whites want us to reject Allah and the true religion, Islam, and believe in their false religion and false god, whom they cannot make manifest to you. They cannot prove to you, in this day and time, that Christianity is a defense for you–as well as for themselves–against their doom.

America must be taken and destroyed, according to the prophets, at the time and end of the wicked world, where the lost-and-found members of the ancient and aboriginal people are found. America hates and mistreats her slaves to the extent that it has reached the heart of Allah and the righteous people of the earth (the Nation of Islam.)

We read where our Black brothers refer to the American so-called Negroes as their brothers, while according to the preaching’s of some of these lost-and-found members of the aboriginal nation of the earth, they would rather have themselves referred to as the brothers of their enemies.

The extent to which the enemy has poisoned the minds and hearts of my people here in America is shameful. They willfully do anything to deceive the so-called Negroes into going to their doom with them. There is no way for the enemy of Allah, His Messenger and His people (the darker people of the earth) to find strength, power and wisdom enough to win in a war against Allah. As it is written in the Christian Bible and many other places:

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in thee, which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that arc therein shall be burnt up.” (Bible, Peter, 3:10.)

The earth shall not be burned, it will be here for many thousands of years to come. Only that on the earth (the devils) which has sinned against Allah and His laws will be destroyed. The earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars have never disobeyed Allah since their creation.

Mission to serve

 

We thank the Fruit of Islam (F.O.I.), the men who belong to the Nation of Islam, for their dedication in service to their communities. These brothers are husbands, fathers and servants in the cause of Islam.

They strive to be examples to others as taught by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and demonstrated by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Every week, in cities large and small, the F.O.I. deliver light, life and power to people through the truth in the pages of The Final Call newspaper.

We thank these brothers for all they do in spreading the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad under the leadership and example of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan!

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Charlotte, N.C.

Miami

Miami

M.G.T. join F.O.I. in community outreach with The Final Call in Norfolk, Virginia.
Photo: Kevin Ali Muhammad

Houston

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Marked For Death

 

We are one people, not tribes. And because you live in a different area, on a different turf, you don’t see yourself as the same people. You feel you have to protect what you really, in fact, do not even own.

Then, to complicate the situation, drugs are brought in. It is no longer a matter of where you live, it’s “Don’t you sell any drugs in the turf that we have carved out.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

And oftentimes police recruit our young people to sell drugs. I said, oftentimes some police recruit our young people to sell drugs. Why do we sell drugs? It is because we want to kill our people? No!

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It is because that is the way the enemy has opened up for us to make the kind of money that would allow us to wear good shoes, designer jeans, designer sneakers, gold chains, gold watches, diamond rings. You can’t wear that working for minimum wage all day long.

Who wants to work all day long for nothing? So when someone comes along and says, “Look here, man, sell this white powder. Give this rock of crack to your brother. You can make some money,” the money attracts you. You are not thinking about death to your people.

You are thinking about those big bucks, and if you can make $500, $700, $1,000 per week selling drugs, then who can interest you in a 9 to 5 job working for $4.25 an hour?

The oppressors know we like nice cars. They know we like nice clothes. We can’t get those things without a job, without an education, and without being able to be an entrepreneur.

Since you are not able to get a job, and you have no skills or training, you turn to selling drugs in your neighborhood, your “turf.” So you are not protecting your neighborhood, you are protecting the area where you sell the drugs. The enemy knows this. He is feeding you the drugs.

The Uzis, the AK-47’s, your enemy is feeding you automatic weapons now. You don’t make any weapons, Brother. Where did you get the weapons? You can’t go to a firing range with an Uzi. You can’t go to a firing range with a Street Sweeper, which is an automatic weapon that allows you to fire 12 rounds of 23-gauge shotgun pellets in three seconds. You aren’t going anywhere to learn to shoot that! They put that in your hand, knowing you want to practice!

So, you just look for an excuse to use your Uzi, to use your AK-47, your Street Sweeper and your Magnum. But you kill more innocent people, destroy more property, because you don’t know how to shoot!

This is all calculated. This is all part of the conspiracy.

Now your neighborhood is getting rough, and your poor mother at home is wondering if you will make it from the school to the house. She is saying, “Lord, I’ve got to move! I’ve got to get my baby out of this!” Where are you moving to, Mother?

The Robert Taylor Homes, Stateway Gardens, Henry Horner Projects, White people want this turf. When they plan downtown redevelopment, they recognize you are too close to the downtown area, the business section of the country! The White people have moved to the suburbs, and it requires gas, money and time to get to downtown Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles or Detroit.

So, they plan your removal. How? Create gangs. Feed weapons to the gangs, and make them kill each other; just confine the killing to the Black neighborhood, don’t let it spill over to the White neighborhood. Then, as they kill each other, it will produce “Black flight.” They prepare apartment houses for you in the suburbs, so you move out and the enemy lets the property go down. The banks are in collusion with this. They send some of you to burn the property. Then, as you begin to move out, Whites let the property keep going down. Then, the White developers move in. Imagine the Robert Taylor Homes as a condominium!

They don’t want you there anymore! They want you OUT.

White flight from the cities to the suburbs has left Blacks, Hispanics and poor people in control of the inner cities. But in developing the inner cities, the areas in which most Black people live are the areas most convenient to downtown and the seat of power. So real estate developers want to put condominiums where houses exist now and sell them to Whites who are far removed from the centers of power.

They did this in Washington, D.C. They caused us to kill each other. And when we left, the Whites came in and took over where we once lived, and they made it beautiful! And now we can’t get back in there! They did it here, in the Woodlawn area. They allowed the Blackstone Rangers to come up. They gave us guns and we started killing each other. Our parents left. Now the White people have come and taken back over that area. You are gone now, and you can’t get back! They are going to do this in Stateway Gardens; they are going to do this in the Robert Taylor projects; they are going to keep death and destruction going in the Black community until you run and get out of the city … These efforts by the wickedly wise are designed to create a National Emergency to justify in the public’s mind the use of brutal force to put down this threat to public safety from what is called “gang activity.”