The Israel Air Force struck targets in the Gaza Strip for a second time on Monday evening after an earlier attack killed two Islamic Jihad operatives.
Smoke rises after an IAF strike in Gaza (file) - Photo: REUTERS
By Elior Levy & Yoav Zitun
The Israel Air Force struck targets in northern Gaza Strip Monday. Palestinian sources said two Islamic Jihad terrorists were killed in the attack.
According to Palestinian reports, the two were targeted while riding a motorcycle near northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun.
IDF hits Gaza terrorists - (Archives) - Photo: Reuters
The IDF confirmed targeting a sniper cell, saying that the operation was unrelated to Monday’s terror attack on the Israel-Egypt border, and came in response to recent sniper fire. Continue Reading »
By Rachel Hirshfeld
An umbrella organization of French Jewry, CRIF, responded with “indignance” after an exam from the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine at Paris’s Diderot University included a question on whether IDF strikes in Gaza can be classified as genocide, Agence France Presse reported.
students taking exam - Reuters
According to the CRIF and corroborated by a report by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, Professor Christophe Oberlin set the students of humane medicine the question, using the example of the deaths of 22 members of the same family in a “classic bombing” during the Gaza conflict of 2008-2009. Continue Reading »
British newspaper The Guardian revealed on Sunday new evidence pointing to a correlation between three attacks — in India, Thailand and Georgia — earlier this year. The three attacks are believed to have been perpetrated by Iran. The new details confirm that all the individuals involved in the planning of the attacks had reached their respective destinations at approximately the same time.
After more than decade of research, scientists uncover genetic basis for the severe skin disease pytiriasis rubra pilaris (PRP).
After more than a decade, the lead researchers at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center finally identified mutations in the gene CARD14 that codes for a very important regulator of inflammation in the skin. Continue Reading »
By Yoav Zitun
The IDF has deployed Armored forces near the Israel-Egypt border, moving tanks closer to the fence, Ynet has learned. The unusual move followed Monday’s terror attack on defense contractor crews building the new security fence.
The attack claimed the life of Said Phashpashe, 36, from Haifa. Golani soldiers who were scrambled to the area killed two terrorists.
Ynet was able to document the presence of Israeli tanks in close proximity to the border – maneuvers which are barred by Jerusalem’s peace treaty with Cairo. Continue Reading »
The Defense Ministry contractor killed in a terrorist attack along Israel’s southern border early Monday has been identified as Saeed Fashafshe, a 35-year-old Israeli Arab resident of Haifa.
Fashafshe, who was married and a father of four, worked for a company owned by his brother which was contracted by Defense Ministry for jobs along the Egyptian border.
hHaifa man Saeed Fashafshe, 35, was killed in a terrorist attack along Israel's border with Egypt on June 18, 2012. - Reproduction by Hagai Frid.
An initial investigation revealed that three terrorists penetrated the fence along the border between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, placed an explosive device on Philadelphi Strip near Be’er Milka, and waited for Israeli vehicles to pass by. Continue Reading »
By Gil Ronen
An IAF Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fired at a squad of terrorist snipers in northern Gaza Monday. The squad was one of the terror cells that have been firing at Israelis in the past few days. On Sunday, the snipers fired at a farmer and later at an IDF force.
The IDF identified hits on target.
Voice of Israel radio cited Arab sources that said that a missile fired by the IAF hit Islamic Jihad terrorists on motorcycles near Beit Hanoun. Continue Reading »
By Chana Ya’ar
A Jewish trucker ended the lives of two Palestinian Authority Arabs who attempted to kidnap him and steal his vehicle on a road in the Hevron Hills area of Judea (Yehuda) on Sunday. A third Arab who was involved in the attempted robbery and kidnapping was wounded.
The 52-year-old trucker, a resident of the coastal city of Ashkelon, was also injured in the incident.
The three Arabs hurled a blunt object at him, according to IDF Army Radio. Continue Reading »
For cancer patients undergoing treatment, the ups and downs can feel like living through one of those B-level movies where the zombies just never seem to die: Victories of remission can quickly end in disappointment as the cancer returns once more.
Leukemia cells dividing - Photo courtesy of Public Library of Science
Why this happens has long puzzled scientists around the globe, but a new multi-center team in Israel whittles the problem down to the roots of where cancer begins. Continue Reading »
Israel is well-known for its innovation and outside the box thinking, but usually not on the scale now being suggested. At the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, ministers are set to decide whether to give the green light to an ambitious new project that would see artificial islands constructed off Israel’s coastline.
Satellite image of Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay in Japan - Photo: courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory
Plans for the islands, which will be home to a new airport, a sea port, a power plant and a military testing base, have already been approved by the Ministry of Interior, and if approved by cabinet ministers on Sunday, will go to a special inter-ministerial committee for more specific discussions on implementation. Continue Reading »
Reuters
A US Israeli consortium began supplying Israelwith natural gas from its offshore Pinnacles well on Wednesday to help stave off a national energy shortage expected this summer.
Natural gas on its way (Illustration)- Photo: Reuters
Israel lost about 40 percent of its natural gas supplies in early 2011 when saboteurs in the Sinai peninsula began attacking the pipeline that carried gas to Israel from Egypt
as part of a 20-year deal. In April, Egypt officially terminated the deal, sending Israel scrambling to find alternative power sources. Continue Reading »
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Mitt Romney stumped for the “evangelical Christian vote in Pennsylvania on Saturday by promising a cheering crowd he would do “the opposite” of President Barack Obama and stand firm with Israel.
Mitt Romney - Reuters
Polls show that Pennsylvania is solidly behind the president, but Republicans see a change in the surveys that indicate they have a shot at taking the state in the general elections in November. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won Pennsylvania was in 1988, when George Bush was elected after Ronald Reagan’s two terms as president. Continue Reading »