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| July 18, 2012
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Sinai is Becoming Israeli’s New Enemy State

The Sinai may become the new terrorist state facing Israel in the south. Clinton warns that jihad terrorists are threatening to take over the area.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Jihad terrorists are threatening to take over the Sinai, says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who added it will be a problem for Egypt and the United States as well as for Israel.

In an interview with CNN before she left Jerusalem Tuesday, Clinton pointed out that the she is concerned for the safety of Americans serving in the multinational force as observers for the continuation of the Camp David Accords. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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Israeli Scientists use ‘natural light’ to see around corners

Weizmann Institute scientists have develop a unique imaging technique that “turn walls into mirrors” using only natural light instead of lasers.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

 

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a unique imaging technique to “turn walls into mirrors” using natural light instead of lasers and to “see around corners.”

The work, performed by Prof. Yaron Silberberg and colleagues at the Rehovot institute, was published on Monday night in the prestigious journal Nature Photonics.

ORI KATZ, Eran Small, Prof. Yaron Silberberg - Photo: Courtesy Prof. Yaron Silberberg

ORI KATZ, Eran Small, Prof. Yaron Silberberg
Photo: Courtesy Prof. Yaron Silberberg

Photonics researchers in recent years have tried to correct the “scattering” of light that causes objects to be opaque or non-reflecting. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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Report: Iraq rejects a US offer to restore half of its seized Jewish Archive

Iraq has rejected an American offer  to return half of the Iraqi Jewish Archive previously transferred from Baghdad to the US

By Agencies

 

Iraq rejected an offer made by the United States to bring back half of the Iraqi Jewish Archive previously transferred from Baghdad to the US after 2003, insisting that Iraq should restore the whole Archive, an Iraqi official newspaper reported on Sunday.

Archiving Jewish materials found soaking in sewage water at a basement of a Saddam Hussein's secret police building.
Archiving Jewish materials found soaking in sewage water at a basement of a Saddam Hussein’s secret police building. Photo: Press TV

“The (Tourism and Antiquities) minister Lewa’ Smeisim refused an American offer to give back half of the Jewish Archive to Iraq, on condition that Iraq will concede its right of possessing the remaining half,” the state-run al-Sabah newspaper quoted Smeisim’s chief media office Hakim al-Shammari as saying. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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Shekel-dollar rate passes the 4 NIS = 1 US$ threshold

Exchange rate reaches the threshold for the first time since early 2009; Shekel-euro exchange rate reaches 1 NIS = 4.911 €.

By GLOBES / MOSHE GOLAN

 

In inter-bank foreign currency trading Wednesday the shekel continued to weaken against the dollar as the US currency gained ground against the world’s major currencies. For the first time since June 2009, the shekel-dollar exchange rate pushed through the NIS 4/$ threshold.
shekel and dollar exchange

shekel and dollar exchange
Photo: REUTERS

In morning trading the shekel was up 0.37 percent compared with Tuesday’s representative rate, to NIS 3.997/$, having briefly gone over NIS 4/$ at the opening, and the shekel-euro exchange rate was up 0.38% to NIS 4.911/€. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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UN Report: Arms from Eritrea are smuggled into Sinai and Gaza

Th UN report leaked to the British paper The Guardian uncovers a trafficking route from the Eritrean highlands all the way to Gaza Strip; claims multimillion dollar industry is funding Eritrean government

By Ynet

 

A UN report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian claims that the Eritrean regime has been the biggest beneficiary of the country’s arms and human trafficking industry.

Sinai border Photo: Yair Sagi

Sinai border
Photo: Yair Sagi

According to the newspaper, “An investigation by the Somalia and Eritrea monitoring group has uncovered a trafficking highway running from the Eritrean highlands through Sudan’s refugee camps into the Sinai desert, delivering arms to militant groups, and Eritrean asylum-seekers to Bedouingangs, who use starvation, electrocution, rape and murder to extort up to $40,000 from relatives in the Eritrean diaspora for their release.” Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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Check out Israeli Technology World Wide

Israeli technology is quickly flooding foreign markets. Three of the newest on the docket: France, Britain, and Korea.

By Yael Willner

Monitoring employees Photo: Thinkstock

Monitoring movements
Photo: Thinkstock

 

The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, will soon be outfitted by Synel security technology. Synel, an Israeli subsidiary company in France, will provide time and attendance management hardware, as well as fingerprint verification, keypad entry, magnetic card, barcode card, proximity card, contactless smart card and facial recognition technology to help prevent burglary and unauthorized entry throughout the museum.

 

 

British Telecom logo

British Telecom logo

British Telecom, the large international communications company, will soon feature Cyber-Ark software to protect and secure its privileged accounts.

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| July 18, 2012
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Avigdor Lieberman foresees early elections

Following Kadima’s  withdrawal from the coalition, Lieberman estimates elections could be held anytime after February, but refuses to threaten resignation if his universal draft bill fails to pass Knesset vote

By Moran Azulay

 

With Kadima’s withdrawal from the coalition final, all eyes are on Avigdor Lieberman‘s Yisrael Beiteinu which is now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s senior coalition partner again.

However, Lieberman is in no hurry to threaten resignation, despite the fact that his universal draft bill is not set to pass the Knesset vote on Wednesday. “We won’t give anyone that pleasure,” he told Ynet and suggested there is a possibility elections will be held in early 2013. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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An Inside Look into Eastern Jerusalem: Arabs Attack Jews Daily

It’s not easy being a Jew near Arab areas. Stone throwing & firebomb attacks appear almost daily, but the police don’t.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Jews in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem, a hotbed of angry Arabs in one of the areas claimed by the Palestinian Authority, are attacked almost daily by stones and firebombs. Police are passive, according to Jewish residents.

Hezi Hovav told Arutz Sheva there have been dozens of Arab attacks, and he has filed complaints without any results.

In one recent attack, a firebomb (Molotov cocktail) burned one room of a house. Another firebomb was hurled last Thursday at a car. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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PA Government Names Summer Camp after Terrorist

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority has named a children’s summer camp after the bloodthirsty terrorist who killed 37 civilians in 1978.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority government has named a summer program for the bloodthirsty terrorist who killed 37 civilians in 1978, Dalal Mughrabi.

Fatah PA TV music video praising Dalal Mughrabi, terrorist

Fatah PA TV music video praising Dalal Mughrabi, terrorist
courtesy of PMW

The “Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi” summer “youth camp” was named to commemorate the most lethal attack in the history of Israel, known as the “coastal road massacre.” The killers led by Mughrabi hijacked a bus on the highway that runs along the Mediterranean coastline. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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Concubines are now Kosher

Chief Judge Rabbi rules that if a married man doesn’t have any offspring because his wife can’t or doesn’t want children, he is allowed to take a concubine • “The concubine may also live with the couple,” says Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel.

By Yehuda Shlezinger

 

The Chief Judge of the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, has ruled that in cases where a man has not fathered any children, and his wife cannot or does not want to bear children, the man may take a concubine.

In his recently-published book, Dvarot Eliyahu (“Eliyahu’s Rulings”), the rabbi writes, “establishing a family is an important commandment.

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| July 17, 2012
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Sheldon and Miriam Adelson give $13m. to Birthright-Taglit

American Billionaire couple says the donation will bring another 5,000 young adults on free trips to Israel in 2012.

By GIL SHEFLER

 

Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam donated 13 million dollars to Birthright-Taglit, it was announced on Tuesday.

The couple’s gift to the organization, which brings young Jewish adults on free trips to Israel, came in addition to the 20 million dollars they already gave it earlier this year.
Taglit Mega Event - Photo: Courtesy

Taglit Mega Event – Photo: Courtesy

“We are so grateful to the Adelsons for all they have done for us,” said Gidi Mark, CEO of Taglit-Birthright Israel. “This new gift brings their total giving to over $140 million and moves us significantly toward our target of 42,000 participants this year.
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| July 17, 2012
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Merkel: Germany will soon become a laughingstock over our circumcision ban

Germany’s Chancellor told party members she didn’t want Germany to be the ‘only country in which Jews cannot practice their rites’

By AFP

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party the country risked becoming a “laughingstock” over a court ruling calling religious circumcision a criminal act, according to a report Monday.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel Photo: AFP

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel – Photo: AFP

The mass-circulation daily Bild said in an article to be published Tuesday that Merkel warned the board of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) that Germany must restore legal protection for circumcision.

“I do not want Germany to be the only country in the world in which Jews cannot practice their rites,” Bild quoted Merkel as saying, citing several CDU members who attended the meeting. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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Spain is to Withdraw Half of its UNIFIL Troops from Lebanon

Spain is to reduce from its 1,100 troops in Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

By DPA

 

Spain will withdraw up to half of its military contingent in Lebanon by the end of the year, Defense Minister Pedro Morenes said Tuesday, justifying the decision partly on budget cuts demanded by the country’s economic crisis.

UNIFIL forces August 3, 2010 (AP)

UNIFIL forces on patrol in southern Lebanon, August 2010.- Photo by AP

Spain has had about 1,100 troops in Lebanon since 2006 as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). That outfit was originally created in 1978 to restore peace and security after Israel’s withdrawal from the country. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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Akko Harbor from Second Temple Period Unearthed

The 2,300 year old harbor was the largest in the country during Hellenistic period, & may have been military as well.

By Gil Ronen

 

A magnificent ancient harbor – considered the largest and most important in the Land of Israel in the Hellenistic period – has been unearthed in Akko (Acre). The harbor dates back 2,300 years, to the time in which the Second Temple stood in all of its magnificence in Jerusalem.

Among the finds at the harbor are large mooring stones that were incorporated in the quay, which were used to secure sailing vessels. This was probably a military harbor. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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Israel’s Rafael unveils new USV for Israel Navy – the Protector

The ‘Protector’ is equipped with a 360-degree cameras & water cannons; ship designed to support maritime security.

 

It is fast, small and unmanned and soon, the Navy’s Protector ship will also be non-lethal.Developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the Protector unmanned surface vehicle (USV) was designed to support maritime security, mostly for border patrols and port security.
‘Protector' unmanned ship

Rafael’s ‘Protector’, unmanned surface vehicle (USV) – Photo: Yaakov Katz

Based on a small speedboat, the ship was deployed by the Israel Navy a number of years ago off the Gaza coast.

Earlier this month, Rafael unveiled a new version of the USV that is longer, faster, more reliable and comes with a high pressure water hose attached for non-lethal mission.

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