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| July 12, 2012
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Israeli Company Unveils New Unique Medical Smartphone

Israeli company LifeWatch Technologies unveils the LifeWatch V, a medical smartphone that measures seven medical indexes.

By Elad Benari & Yoni Kempinski

 

Israeli company LifeWatch Technologies unveiled on Tuesday the LifeWatch V, a first of its kind medical smartphone that renders it possible to independently measure seven medical indexes: ECG, heart rate, body temperature, blood sugar levels, body fat percentages, blood oxygen saturation and an index for measuring stress.

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LifeWatch V – Henzi & Micciche

The revolutionary development transforms the user’s personal cellular handset into a sophisticated “life preserving apparatus”.

LifeWatch V is equipped with a rich package of tools which supports the ability to independently manage various aspects of personal health and welfare, including: Nutrition management based to the users profile and preferences, a medication reminder and physical activity log. Continue Reading »

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Israel deploying Iron Dome anti-missile system at Egypt border

Rocket intercepting system is to be set up near Eilat after the border with Egypt grew tense since their popular uprising ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak last year.

By Reuters

 

Israel said on Wednesday it would deploy a battery of Iron Dome rocket interceptors at a southern frontier town opposite Egypt, a move that follows cross-border attacks in the area.

Iron Dome

Iron Dome battery is now stationed near the southern Israeli town of Netivot. – Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz

Israeli media reported that it was the first time the interceptors, which have been used against Palestinian rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, were being set up at Eilat, near Israel’s borders with Egypt and Jordan. Continue Reading »

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| July 12, 2012
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Kashmir separatist: All Muslims have a problem with Israel

The leader of the Hurriyat party says flow of Israelis & Tourism Department’s road show in Tel Aviv part of plot to occupy region in northwest India

By Imi Ginsburg

 

The leader of Muslim separatists in Kashmir has called on the government to prevent Israelis from entering the region due to the Jewish state’s “aggressive policy against the Palestinians,” Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.

Anti-Israel rally in Kashmir – Photo: AP

In response to the Kashmir Tourism Department’s decision to send a delegation to Tel Aviv in a bid to woo Israeli tourists to the region, the leader of the separatist Hurriyat party, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said Friday that “although we welcome guests and visitors, we cannot accept agents of the Israeli intelligence agencies visiting Kashmir in the garb of tourists.” Continue Reading »

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IDF’s future tank: The Electromagnetic cannon

Imagine a tank that drives on a hybrid engine, or can shoot a laser or even an electromagnetic pulse.

 

Imagine a tank that can drive on a hybrid engine – partly powered by electricity – instead of the loud diesel engines used today? These technologies and others are under consideration for integration into Israel’s future tank which theIDF hopes will be operational by 2020.

soldier jumps of Merkava tank - Photo: REUTERS

Soldier jumps off Merkava tank – Photo: REUTERS

Last year, the IDF Ground Forces Command set up a team of combat and technical officers – from the Armored Corps, the Weapons Development Branch in the Ground Forces Command and the Defense Ministry’s Merkava Program Office – to begin planning Israel’s future tank, the successor to the Merkava.

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Israel Air Force Strike Nails Gaza Terror Squad

Israeli fighter pilots attack Hamas terrorists preparing to launch an anti-tank missile from Gaza Thursday morning.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

Israeli fighter pilots attacked Hamas terrorists preparing to launch an anti-tank missile from Gaza on Thursday morning.

IAF targets Hamas weapons factory in Gaza

IAF targets Hamas weapons factory in Gaza
Israel news photo: IDF / Archive

The air strike was carried out in a coordinated maneuver together with IDF artillery forces as a Hamas terrorist cell was preparing their attack, aimed at Israeli soldiers involved in routine activity near the Gaza security fence.

The terrorists, all of whom are members of the Palestinian Authority, were in position to launch an anti-tank missile the IDF soldiers at the time of the air strike. Continue Reading »

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Plot to attack London Jewish areas revealed

Documents detailing plots to strike Stamford Hill, Golders Green found on body of African al-Qaida leader in Somalia.

By JTA

 

Documents detailing a plot to attack Jewish neighborhoods in London were found on the body of an African leader of al-Qaida.
London, England - Photo: Thinkstock/Imagebank

London, England – Photo: Thinkstock/Imagebank

The plans, which included plots for a kidnapping and attacks on Eton College and the Ritz and Dorchester hotels in London, were found on the body of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 38, who was shot last year by Somali forces as he tried to crash through a government checkpoint, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday.

According to the plans, the terrorists would strike London’s Stamford Hill and Golders Green neighborhoods, which are populated with “tens of thousands of Jews crammed in a small area,” the Star reported. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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Palestinian Authority Rejects Levy Report

Officials in Ramallah say they’ll never accept  a single Jewish community in Judea, Samaria, or eastern Jerusalem.

By Gabe Kahn

 

Officials in Ramallah on Wednesday slammed the Netanyahu government’s plans to accept the conclusion of the Levy Commission report on Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.

“We will not sign any peace agreement if there is a [single] settlement on Palestinian Land,” Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rodier said.

The Levy report concluded Israel is not an occupying power in Judea and Samaria, and that Jewish communities in the region are therefore legal under international law.

“Israel has no right to be on Palestinian lands,”Rodier said, adding the PA rejected the Levy report in no uncertain terms.

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Interior Minister Yishai warns Ivory Coast migrants of deportation

Interior minister says Ivory Coast migrants have less than a week to voluntarily leave & receive grants, or they will be deported.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Wednesday that migrants from the Ivory Coast have less than a week to leave the country and if they do not, the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority (PIBA) will deport them.

Interior Minister Eli Yishai - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

Interior Minister Eli Yishai – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

“In less that a week the deadline given to the migrants from the Ivory Coast to leave the country voluntarily will expire,” said Yishai.

The Interior Ministry offered any migrant who leaves of his or her own free will a grant of $500 per adult and $100 per child. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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Negev to become ‘aircraft graveyard’?

Israel Land Administration greenligths plan to form aircraft disposal ground near Ovda. Society for Protection of Nature warns against ‘turning Negev into world’s dumpster’

By Billie Frenkel

 

A new plan to form an aircraft maintenance and disposal facility in southern Israel has been greenlighted by the Israel Land Administration and the Eilot Regional Council.

(Illustration) Photo: Roee Talbi

Negev Illustration – Photo: Roee Talbi

The future compound, which will be built near Ovda, will stretch across 642.5 acres and serve an as aircraft maintenance and disposal facility for Airpark Ltd.The company is expected to store some 500 aircrafts and airplane parts in the facility and perform maintenance on both civilian and military planes from all over the world; including scrapping about 25 planes a year. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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NY Times Claims Israel ‘Took’ Yesha from Jordan in 1967

A NY Times editorial rewrites history: Israel “took” Judea and Samaria from Jordan in 1967, when Jordan fled the areas in the Six Day war.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

A New York Times editorial Tuesday rewrites history and claims Israel “took” Judea and Samaria from Jordan in 1967, when Jordan fled the areas after joining other Arab nations as they converged on Israel in the Six Day War.

3-D Yesha Map

3-D Yesha Map – Myesha.org.il

The editorial lambasted Israel in last week’s non-binding report by a government-appointed judicial panel, which contradicted the international community’s claim that Israel is an “occupier” and that it is illegal for Jewish communities to exist in Judea and Samaria. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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Archaeology Proves Existence Of Biblical Bethlehem – Ancient Bulla Discovered

In this latest archaeological discovery, together with others recently unearthed, is raising a new wave of interest in the field of biblical archaeology. This latest find is the 1st ancient artifact constituting tangible evidence of the existence of the city of Bethlehem, at least from the 1st Temple period, found during excavations in Jerusalem.

 

 

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A very long & heated battle has raged in the archeological world about the validity of the Biblical narrative & archeological evidence supporting it. One camp says that the archeological discoveries do not prove the narrative and are notoriously skeptical when new finds are announced.

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Israel at the 2012 Olympic Games

The following programs are a special project of iMMERSE, a joint initiative of the iCenter and ISRAEL21c and will be implemented at Jewish summer camps, synagogues, youth groups, and schools across the United States. ISRAEL21c’s full coverage of the 2012 Olympic team can be found at http://olympics.israel21c.org/ . 

 

 

VIDEO SPOTLIGHT OF ISRAELI OLYMPIANS

 

Opening Ceremony

Program Idea #1: Ayze hu gibor: Who is a Hero?

Aizeh hu gibor? Ha’oseh soneh ohavo. Who is a true hero? The one who turns an enemy into a friend. (Avot d’rabbi Natan, chapter 23)

Aizeh hu gibor? Ha’kovesh et yitzro. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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Gaza presents: ‘Prisoners’ summer camp’

Hamas movement offers children throughout Strip unique chance to experience suffering of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. Activities include tour of mock interrogation room, walking on rusty nails

Elior Levy

 

Summer fun – Narrow hallways, interrogation rooms painted black, isolation cells and handcuffed mannequins – this is all part of the setting of a new summer camp operated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Taught about prisoners' suffering Photo: EPA

Taught about prisoners’ suffering – Photo: EPA

The Islamic group has been operating summer camps for children in all cities and refugee camps throughout the Strip. This year, the organizers came up with an original theme – “the suffering of the Palestinian prisoners” – allowing children to experience first hand the daily lives of prisoners held in Israel. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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Tzohar rabbis to start secular-friendly brit milah program in Israel

Chairman of religious Zionist group: goal is to provide parents with an ‘informed and compassionate partner’ so they can ‘appreciate the importance of this historical Jewish custom.’

By JTA

 

The Tzohar rabbinical organization, which helps to involve non-religious couples and their families in religious wedding ceremonies, is introducing a brit milah program “friendly” to non-observant Jews in Israel.

Illustration: An infant boy at his ‘secular-friendly’ circumcision.
– Photo by Phillip Pasmanick

The initiative, which will help parents circumcise their sons according to normative Jewish law, was born in response to the rising number of couples foregoing ritual circumcision, the organization said in a press release. Continue Reading »

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Boeing to Market Israeli UAVs

Israel’s Elbit Systems soars in the international market with a new agreement with Boeing to market the company’s Hermes UAVs.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Israel’s Elbit Systems has soared into the international market with a new agreement with Boeing to market the company’s Hermes UAVs, American military and defense media reported Monday.

Hermes 900

Hermes 900 – Elbit

The companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Farnborough Air Show in London. The agreement covers marketing and sales of Elbit’s Hermes 450 and 900 UAS product lines.

The agreement gives Elbit a long-desired stronger foothold in the U.S. market.

Its Hermes 450 UAV are exported to several countries, including Britain, Singapore, Georgia and Brazil. Continue Reading »

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