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Australia argued that the issues should be resolved by negotiation, while Germany stated that it trusts the court and wants to avoid politicising the case.
Hungary announced that it agrees with Israel's arguments about jurisdiction.
The Palestinian Authority issued a statement declaring that "Palestine welcomes this step as a long overdue step to move the process forward towards an investigation, after nearly five long and difficult years of preliminary examination".
Bronwyn Katz
Bronwyn Katz (born 1993) is a South African sculptor and visual artist.
She is a founding member of iQhiya Collective, a network of young black female artists based in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Katz was born in 1993 in Kimberley, South Africa.
She attended the University of Cape Town, South Africa and graduated in 2015 with a BFA.
She was awarded with the Simon Gerson Prize at the University of Cape Town.
Katz's works incorporates sculpture, installation, video and performance.
Using the concept of land as a repository of memory, Her works reflect the notion of place or space as lived experience and hence the ability of the land to remember and communicate the memory of its occupation.
In 2016, her solo exhibition titled Groenpunt was held at Blank Projects in Cape Town.
Katz has held five solo exhibitions and participated in several group exhibitions including;
Katz lives and works in Johannesburg.
Etsanyi Tukura
Beauty Etsanyi Tukura (born 21 October 1997) is a beauty pageant contestant from Nigeria.
In 2019, she won the Miss Nigeria 2019 competition.
Tukura was born in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the youngest of four children.
In 2019, Tukura represented Taraba state at the Miss Nigeria pageant at Eko Convention Center, Lagos.
She won the pageant, becoming the first contestant from northern Nigeria to win the event.Tukura manages an online business known as StylishBeauty, which retails original branded items from various designers all around the world.
Khamar (disambiguation)
Khamar may refer to:
Pinhas Alpert
Pinhas Alpert (ה׳ תשרי ה׳תש״י) is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Tel Aviv University.
Alpert was born in Jerusalem, on 1949.
On his father‘s side he is the 4th generation in Jerusalem - his great-grandfather came to Israel from Slonim-Russia in 1867, and was a teacher (Melamed, in Hebrew) in the Hurva Synagogue in the Old city.
Alpert studied until the age of 6 in his grandfather's "Cheder", then in the "Etz-Haim" Talmud-Torah in the Zichron-Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Then, he moved in 1957 to the  ”Moriah" school in the Bucharim neighborhood in Jerusalem.
His high school was ”Dugma.
After finishing high school he was accepted to the academic reserve (in Hebrew העתודה האקדמית) and studied Physics-Mathematics at the Hebrew University, in a special program which included computer studies for the first time in Israel.
Following his B.Sc., he continued to M.Sc.
in Physics during his IDF service.
In the IDF he became in 1973 a weather forecaster in the Air Force meteorology unit.
He later became the commander of meteorology for the Air Force‘s transport base, for 3 years.
In 1977 he left the IDF with the rank of captain, and later became a major during his reserve service.
Alpert was asked to continue his reserve service in the IDF, as an exception, until the age of 56, since he had developed the modeling scientific basis for the modern forecasting infrastructure at the Meteorological Service and the Air Force.
Alpert is married to Rachel, RN, and is the father of eight children.
During his service as a Meteorology officer in the Israel Air Force, Alpert was confronted with the severe difficulty of flood forecasting.
This motivated him to develop new techniques to predict and monitor rain, as well as to develop high-resolution models to improve forecasting.
In parallel with his military service, he began to work at the Hebrew University on light scattering from atmospheric aerosols.
After his release from the IDF he began his Ph.D. studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , during which he built his own meteorological model, which successfully explained the typical summer afternoon storms over the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret).
Upon finishing his Ph.D. in 1980, he was invited to a post-doctorate at Harvard University.
For two years Alpert worked with Richard Lindzenand studied the Indian Monsoon.
During his post-doctorate he developed a physical model incorporating feedback from the moist surface.
After two years in Boston, in 1982, he was invited by the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences at Tel-Aviv University (now the Department of Earth Sciences) to become a faculty member.
In the year 2004 he was elected an honorary member of the world Jewish Academy for Sciences.
During the years 2005-2008 Alpert served as Head of the Department of Geophysics at Tel-Aviv University, and then in 2008-2013 he served as the Head of the TAU Porter School for Environmental Studies.
Alpert‘s research group is engaged in theoretical studies and observations of the dynamics of atmospheric processes, using hydro-dynamical models for numerically solving the development of different phenomena.
He was the first to investigate theoretically several synoptic systems in Israel, including Sharav low, Cyprus low, Red Sea Trough, etc.
Remote sensing observations include satellites, radar, and recently data collected by cellular antennas used for communication.
This last source was first identified in his research, published in "Science" Magazine.
Recently this method was applied for novel flood warning and monitoring of rain, fog, and humidity.
In order to investigate atmospheric phenomena Alpert devised a method allowing for the identification of the effect by different factors, including separation of synergistic effects.
The atmospheric models applied by Alpert are of three different types: The first is used for study of weather forecasting difficulties, and investigating phenomena such as rain, cyclone genesis, winds, etc.
The second type is of climate models which can be run ~100 years into the future, and with this method Alpert was the first to investigate detailed potential climate changes due to global warming in the Middle-East.
The third type of models focuses on aerosols in the atmosphere, with emphasis on mineral dust mainly from the Sahara and the Middle-East region, as well as sea-salt particles, and their effect on weather and climate.
Alpert has published over 240 articles in scientific peer-reviews journals, and an additional ~100 chapters in books.
In 2011 his book "Factor Separation in the Atmosphere: Applications and Future Prospects" was published by Cambridge Academic Press.
The book describes the factor separation method that he developed since 1993 for investigating interactions in the atmosphere.
The method was adopted globally by many research groups, and the book describes many and various applications.
In 2009 his book "Rain and Wind - meteorology in light of Judaism" (in Hebrew גשם ורוח - מטאורולוגיה בראי היהדות) was published by Rubin Mass press.
In this book Alpert analyses weather phenomena appearing in Jewish literature, provides modern scientific explanations, and ties the literary descriptions to common situations in the climate of Israel.
In 2014 his book "Diary of a Jerusalm Muchtar" (in Hebrew- יומנו של מוכתר בירושלים") was published by Bar-Ilan University publishing house.
The book reproduces the historic journal written by Alpert‘s uncle during the British Mandate, when he served as a ”muchtar", or head of neighborhood, in north Jerusalem.
Alpert had sabbaticals at NASA, where he was given the Goddard Fellow title, as well as in USA and UK universities.
He was invited as a lecturer to the program at Université catholique de Louvain Belgium, the French Meteorological Research Center in Tolouse, and NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Alpert was the first Israeli to be awarded the Bjerknes Medal by the European Geosciences Union for 2018, in recognition of his achievements in the field of Atmospheric Sciences.
Shiji Niangniang
Shiji Niangniang () is a goddess in Chinese religion and Taoism.
Before becoming goddess, she was a 10,000-year-old demoness.
It was originally a stone and was born outside the heavens and the earth, during the Chaos era and the Xuanhuang era.
Shiji was originally a major villain from the mythical classic "Compendium of Information on the Gods of the Three Religions" (三教搜神大全), and featured in the Chinese novel "Fengshen Yanyi" as a major antagonist of Nezha.
Shiji was originally a stone, who receives the essence of the sun and the moon, that was born beyond the cosmos and has become a divine spirit by undergoing earth, water, fire and air.
After countless thousands of years, it became spiritual.
After 10,000 years of cultivation, this stubborn stone finally became a human figure.
Shiji was later accepted by the heavenly master Tongtian Jiaozhu as a student.
After attaining Taoism, it took thousands of years to practice.
Although the speed of practice is very slow, because of countless years, Shiji has a profound understanding of Tao.
As far as its comprehensive strength is concerned, it is still above Taiyi Zhenren.
Shiji is a demon leader who is detrimental to the world and opposed the heaven.
She gave birth to the monsters and demons because the world were flooded, the Jade Emperor was furious.
Jade Emperor has ordered Nezha down to earth incarnate demon slayer.
One day, Nezha used the bow and arrow of Rulai to shoot kill Shiji's children, and finally Shiji was also killed with a magic pestle (魔杵).
Shiji lives in the White Bone Cave of Skull Mountain, and there are two apprentices under the gate, Biyun Tongzi and Caiyun Tonger.
One day, Nezha shot an arrow and unexpectedly killed the gatekeeper Biyun Tongzi.
She came to seek revenge Nezha and his father Li Jing to be justified.
Nezha could not beat Shiji and his master Taiyi Zhenren came to protect him.
Taiyi attacked Shiji and burned her with Nine-dragon-fire-net (九龙神火罩).
While trapped in this net, Taiyi summoned several dragons which unleashed a large volley of fire into the net; instantly killing Shiji and turning her back into her original form as a molten rock.
After her death, Jiang Ziya deified Shiji as the Yue Youxingjun (月游星君 "Star of Moon Tour").
Shiji is although on the side of law and order, is depicted as rigid and lacking compassion.
Moreover, although divine, both Ao Guang and, especially, Shiji are demonic figures in the Fengshen Yanyi.
Nezha's crimes against them are accidental, and he defends himself—albeit excessively—from their aggressive attempts to punish him.
In line with preceding argument, one might also view these circumstances as contributing to the author's careful construction of sympathy pathy for Nezha.
Shiji is also related to the stone born from the heaven and earth of Sun Wukong or Jia Baoyu.
Shiji is worshipped in Chinese folk religion and is called "Shiji Niangniang" (the goddess of stone) or "Yue Youxingjun" (the deity of moon tour star).
Located in Caishiji, five miles southwest of Ma'anshan City, the Sanyuan Cave Temple (三元洞) is built with a sitting statue of Shiji.
Kim Sun-yong
Kim Sun-yong (born 26 May 1987) is a South Korean former professional tennis player.
Kim, who was born in Seoul, won the junior doubles title at the 2005 Australian Open, partnering Taiwan's Yi Chu-huan.