in this interview with Psychokinesis expert (?) Oren Zarif, Zarif claims to have saved Israel from the rockets  at least as much as the Iron Dome systems. he says he moved the rockets from their paths, and that is why most fell in open areas. he also says he is running for prime minister...

This story is absolutely nuts, and I bring it to you just for the kicks you will get from it.

The population and immigration authority (I dont know what the official name of the authority is in English. In Hebrew it is called Reshut Ha'Uchlusin V'Hagira) has been running a campaign against illegal workers - they are running a campaign informing the public of the illegality of employing people with no work permits.

Oren Zarif, self-declared mystic, has given us a doozy of a story. He sent a letter to the immigrations authority saying that in response to the campaign,he has decided to come forward. He has employed four employees with no work permits, but he did not know that it was illegal. Now that he knows that it is illegal, he says he has decided to inform the authority, and do what it takes to get them work permits.

So far, so good. Now is where it gets crazy.

Zarif says his four employees are from Singapore, the Philippines, and Bombay. Zarif requests setting up a meeting in order to bring the four of them in so they can get registered and become legal. The catch is that they are invisible. Zarif says the four of them are virtual people who can see but cannot be seen.

The four employees have tremendous spiritual powers and thousands of years ago used to deal in holistic medicine (they are reincarnations of people from that time) and had a tremendous impact at the time. Recently, Zarif says, "they have been living in my house under my supervision and over the course of the day they assist me in my work in the different branches of my office."

He continues saying that he would not be able to continue his business without them. He plans on applying to the Ministry of Interior for permits for them, and paying bituach leumi payments for them, and all other requirements of the law.

He closes off saying that he understands they might be hesitant to meet with him and his employees, as they might be afraid of being in contact with invisible entities. He reassures the authority that if that is the case, at the meeting he will request of his employees that they make themselves visible so as to be seen like anybody else.

Awfully nice of him.

The response of the immigrations authority people said, "We are happy that the issue of illegally employing illegals has increased in people's awareness, but unfortunately our ability to enforce this is only with people of flesh and blood."
(source: Ynet)

I hope this story made your day just a little bit better...

Is Oren Zarif a charlatan or the real thing?

I have no idea, but he definitely provides for interesting reading!

Oren Zarif if an energy healer. He uses some sort of psychokinesis via the subconscious level, whatever the heck that means. He has made a name for himself in Israel, and gets himself a lot of publicity, and takes out big ads in all the popular newspapers and magazines.

Two stories came out this week with Oren Zarif.

The first case with Zarif: Yitzchak Teshuva's company discovered natural gas off the coast of Haifa in recent weeks. This find was a windfall. Especially for Teshuva who's business has been going through tough times recently. This find is big.

Oren Zarif has threatened to sue Teshuva, unless Teshuva pays him 17.5 million dollars. What for? He has invested great energy and effort in directing positive influences to Teshuva's success for many years and specifically to this find. Zarif says he should really be charging Teshuva upwards of $70 million, but he feels very connected to Teshuva. If he has been directing his energies to Teshuva's success, unsolicited, for so long, why was Teshuva havign a bad couple of years in business recently? Zarif says he took some time off from Teshuva's needs because he was "too busy with other things" - as soon as he took that time off from Teshuva, Teshuva's business started to fail.
Now he has seen teshuva's business going bad, so he decided he had to get back to teshuva's needs and direct his efforts for teshuva again, and lo and behold Teshuva right away discovered the natural gas.

Teshuva claims to not know Zarif, to never have met him and not know what Zarif wants from him other than to take advantage of him.

The second case with Zarif: Zarif sent a letter to the Ministry of Infrastructure offering his services to help fill the Kineret with rain water, in just one months time, to overflowing levels - he offers to fill it to 2 meters above the red line. His only condition is that they stop all weather broadcasts for the period of the month in which he will be doing his work.

He published the letter he sent on his blog..

Now, I have no problem believing in energy healing and all that stuff. There are people who know how to do that stuff, and maybe Zarif is one of them with special abilities in that field.

But after stories like this, I just have to wonder - is he a charlatan or for real?

Let's say he sues Teshuva - how is he going to prove it was his energy work that made Teshuva successful? How is he even going to prove he did anything - whether it worked or not, aside from the fact that he did it unsolicited?

About the weather, I would have no problem with them taking down all the weather broadcasts for a month. The weather people never get it right anyway. So even if Zarif is a joke and it does not work, nothing was lost by not having the weatherman telling us to wear raincoats and carry umbrellas on what turns out to be sunny days...