There are many Israeli (Jewish) students who go to Europe for medical school.
A lot of this has to do with Americans going to Israeli medical schools who take up the space, and it is doubtful this has to do with the individual you met who was Muslim.
Yes, although he was also reported to have translated from Russian to Portuguese. But now I'm more confused because apparently these words do differ in Russian, by a single vowel <а>: граната granata for the weapon and гранат granat for the fruit.
The Portuguese newspaper reported that the word he used was "rpahata" (a kind of clumsy visual transliteration from Cyrillic) and it says that "the spelling is the same in Russian" (which is apparently not quite true!). Maybe the reporters were guessing about this (just based on the news that the confusion involved a translation app) and it really was Hebrew-to-Portuguese?
It's also interesting that Hebrew (I guess in imitation of French) took the unmodified existing word for pomegranate and used it for grenade.
From a quick glance at their site, it looks like a bed bug trap with a sensor (probably weight) in it that broadcasts the presence of bugs inside the trap via LoRA. There's no microphone, no camera, and it doesn't even connect to WiFi.
EDIT: Seems like there is a camera involved, but it's inside the enclosed trap.
Three years left for the George Washington Bridge suspension cables replacement project. Considering the magnitude of the project this is actually pretty reasonable.
A lot of this has to do with Americans going to Israeli medical schools who take up the space, and it is doubtful this has to do with the individual you met who was Muslim.
This past year Israel actually banned/limited the number of Americans who can enroll in their medical schools. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ends-lucrative-american...
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