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Message no. 1
From: Tomer Brisker <brisker@******.CO.IL>
Subject: NAGRW: Israel
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:03:53 +0300
Here is a more in-depth description of Israel to be put in NAGRW.

Israel
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Population: 15 Million
Area: all of today's Israel, including the west bank and the gazza strip,
golan hights, western part of jordan, and southern lebanon. (see below)
Capitol: Ha'Gush Ha'Mercazi (hebrew for the central metro, consisting of
the area between Tel-aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem)
Major Citys: Ha'Gush Ha'Mercazi- 5,000,000, Haifa Metro- 3,000,000, Be'er
Sheva metro-2,000,000, Eilat- 1,000,000
Sales Tax: 15% (except Eilat)
Price index (before street index): American items: 1.5, Europen items: 1,
Israeli items: 0.75, Others: 1
% Literate: 90%
% Urban: 80%
Per Capita Income: $25,000
Religions: Jewish (Reformed)- 60%, Jewish (Conservative)- 10%, Jewish
(Orthodox)- 5%, Muslim- 15%, Cristian- 5%, Pagan- 3%, Others- 2%.
Races: Humans-55%, Dwarves- 20%, Orks- 10%, Trolls- 10%, Elves- 5%
Main Industies: Hi-Tech Weaponry, Matrix, Services, Agricalture
Military ratings (1(worst)-10(best)): Infantry: 7
Airforce: 10
Navy: 6
Matrix: 8
Magic: 5
Magic: only 2% have magic, most are hermetic.
Peace Rating (on a 1-100 scale): 68

History:

In 2008 Syria, Jordan, Palastine, and Lebanon open a joined war against
israel. It becomes clear that peace will not be possible without a great
loss of land. Due to this war, Israel conquers all of Lebanon, about 1/2 of
Jordan, and more of the Golan Heights. In the Oslo 4 agreements, reached on
2012, all of Palastine is moved to northern Lebanon. During the same time,
the Mosad terminates many heads of terorist organization, a move that causes
all of the terorist organizations to unite into one, called the Allah
Wariors, or Wariors of God, based in New Palastine. The WOG is powered by
Iran, Syria, and verious Neo-Nazis and Antishems (anti-jewish) from all over
the world. The WOG still exists in 2057, altough many attempts were made to
destroy it. However, the WOG is no longer able to attack Israel as easly, as
the borders with Palastine are sealed and well guarded. During the
Awakening, Israel was only slightly affected, and has not suffered any great
losses. Goblinization went fairly easly on Israel, as most of the people
that underwent it were alread "standing on the edge". Only very few
magicians appeared, mostly Kabalah belivers, which became hermetic adepts.
Srafim (6 armed flying reptiles) and verious other Biblical creatures have
apeared during the Awakening, but have not created a major threat, and even
help people in some cases. Today Israel still creates High-Tech weponry, and
newer and improved versions of verious older Israeli weapons, such as Uzi
III SMG, Galil II Assault Rifle, Desert Eagle III Pistol, and others. They
also make excelent drones and unmaned aircrafts, as well as improved
aircrafts. The Israely Airforce is considered one of the best in the world
(Qualty-wise, not Quantety-wise), as well as the Mosad (Israeli CIA). The
IDF has 2 special forces: Matrix and Magic. Matrix is responsible for
country-wide Matrix securty, as well as decking into enemy countys' Matrix
systems and messing things up. Magic is responsible for magical assistance,
and are scattred throughout every unit, helping both in pre-combat, combat,
and after combat. M&M (Magic and Matrix) are sent to UCSA and CAS for
training. As far as political ties go, Israel is allyed with UCSA, CAS,
England, some NAN countries, the Saudi Caliphate, the Scandivaian
Federation, and verious City-States throughout the world. It's major enemies
are Iran, Syria, Palastine, and verious other City-States. Israel has a
representative on the Securty board of the UN.
As far as politicss go, Israel is still ruled by the only democratic
goverment in the middle east, and has only small corperations, that are not
involved in poletics.

Adventure Ideas

* The runners are hired by the goverment to terminate WOG leaders.
* The runners are hired by the opposition to overthrow the goverment.
* The runners are recruited for the IDF for special operations (deckers and
mages- for M&M)
* The runners are hired by the Mosad as special agents.

If any of you have any questions about Israel, if I missed something, for
feedback, or planing to run a campign there, feel free to mail me.
=/\= Tomer Out =/\=
Tomer Brisker
Sci and Eng of the USS-Navigator (SFO)
Ops of the USS-Horizon (UCIP)
Tomerhuff Topknot
The Israel @*******
brisker@******.co.il
"to e-mail or not to e-mail,
that is the question."
"Vaya Carenis Anendus!!!!!"
A wise man once said that peace is a dream.
Let's all be dreamers.
Message no. 2
From: GKoth2258@***.COM
Subject: Re: NAGRW: Israel
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:25:04 -0400
Tom,

Would you mind terribly if I edited your piece on Israel? Mostly for spelling
and grammar, but a couple of small content things to make it fit in better
with everything else.

I must say though, that your addition of key details makes it much better.
Too bad we don't have a NERPS person everywhere in the world...

Erik
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: NAGRW: Israel
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:01:23 +0100
GKoth2258@***.COM said on 20:25/13 Apr 97...

> Would you mind terribly if I edited your piece on Israel? Mostly for spelling
> and grammar, but a couple of small content things to make it fit in better
> with everything else.

What you could do, is leave your text the way it is, and insert Tomer's
message as a shadow comment made by someone from Israel; you could use
Tomer's name (or one he chooses) as the poster.

> I must say though, that your addition of key details makes it much better.
> Too bad we don't have a NERPS person everywhere in the world...

That would be very nice, unfortunately I don't think many people play SR
in a lot of the regions your article covers.

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"You know. It's another word for 'loser'."
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Message no. 4
From: Erik_Jameson@*****.COM
Subject: RE> Re: NAGRW: Israel
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:58:31 -0800
RE> Re: NAGRW: Israel
To Net Enhancements for Roleplaying Shadowrun<NERPS@********.itribe.net>


GKoth2258@***.COM said on 20:25/13 Apr 97...

> Would you mind terribly if I edited your piece on Israel?
Mostly for spelling
> and grammar, but a couple of small content things to make
it fit in better
> with everything else.

And Then Said Said Gurth:

>What you could do, is leave your text the way it is, and
insert Tomer's
>message as a shadow comment made by someone from Israel;
you could use
>Tomer's name (or one he chooses) as the poster.

Sound like a plan Gurth. Tomer (or whatever name he
chooses) can be a somewhat disgruntled Israeli, unhappy with
the lack of coverage from this "official" doc that the
deckers from Shadowland have hacked. So he tries to
"correct" that lack of in-depth reporting.

Erik
Message no. 5
From: Tomer Brisker <brisker@******.CO.IL>
Subject: Re: NAGRW: Israel
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:42:33 +0300
At 08:25 PM 4/13/97 -0400, GKoth2258@***.COM wrote:
>Tom,
>
>Would you mind terribly if I edited your piece on Israel? Mostly for spelling
>and grammar, but a couple of small content things to make it fit in better
>with everything else.
Sure, no probs, but let me know if you make any major changes.

>I must say though, that your addition of key details makes it much better.
> Too bad we don't have a NERPS person everywhere in the world...
Yes, but we could ask everybody to write a piece about tier country.

=/\= Tomer Out =/\=
Tomer Brisker
CinC of UFSO
Sci and Eng of the USS-Navigator (SFO)
Ops of the USS-Horizon (UCIP)
Tomerhuff Topknot
The Israel @*******
brisker@******.co.il
"to e-mail or not to e-mail,
that is the question."
"Vaya Carenis Anendus!!!!!"
A wise man once said that peace is a dream.
Let's all be dreamers.

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