Good luck to Omer. He's taken the MS Israel "Looking for a speaker" (registration seems to be closed by now) challenge and is waiting for any results. From the technical side, I *know* he knows his stuff. On the presentation side, I don't really know, but I hope he's coming out on top. I could use him in some lectures in various user groups...
Speaking of unrelated things: here's an Israeli Java Developer's blog. Just because it seems nice.