Archive for April 11, 2013

Haifa’s Rambam Hospital Teaches Int’l Teams to Treat Trauma Victims

Last week 26 doctors, nurses & hospital administrators from 17 countries participated in a unique medical seminar at Rambam Hospital’s Health Care Campus.

By David Lev

 

Last week 26 doctors, nurses and hospital administrators from 17 countries completed a unique seminar at Rambam Health Care Campus. The two-week course, held with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs , has a simple–– and essential ––goal: to share Rambam’s rich experience and knowhow in treating trauma victims with medical personnel worldwide.

The course consists of lectures, workshops, simulations and tours throughout Rambam and Israel. All prepare attendees to build systems for treating victims of disaster –– both natural and manmade–– in their own countries. Continue Reading »

Facebook Shuts Down Anti-Semitic Page Showing Graphic Holocaust Photos

Example: Photograph of Mass Jewish Grave Is Labeled, ‘Lazy Jews’

By JTA

 

Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline “Lazy Jews.”

graphic face

From the Jewish Daily Forward

In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlick, Facebook’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the Jewish memes page was no longer available.

Peter Wertheim, executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, welcomed the removal and said that Facebook’s decision about another 15 such pages about which the council has complained is pending. Continue Reading »

Portugal to vote on citizenship for the descendants of exiled Jews

Popular support for the motion stems from a desire to “make amends” for a dark historical chapter in Portugal – a country that is described as being“virtually free of anti-Semitism.”

By JTA

 

The parliament of Portugal is scheduled to vote on whether to naturalize descendants of 16th-century Jews who fled the country because of religious persecution.

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The Parlamento of Portugal – Photo Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

The motion will be brought to a first reading on Thursday by Portugal’s Socialist Party and is expected to pass, as it has the support of the ruling Social Democratic Party, according to Jose Oulman Carp, president of Portugal’s Jewish community. Continue Reading »

Palestinian NGO accuses Israel of ‘water apartheid’ in West Bank

Israel Water Authority dismisses West Bank NGO’s claims as just a ‘political weapon,’, claims Palestinians are actually breaching water agreement.

 

 

The Water Authority dismissed as a “political weapon” a Palestinian report that condemned Israel for depriving Palestinians of their “rightful water supply.”
Jordan River

Jordan River – Photo: Daniel Easterman

Titled “Water For One People Only: Discriminatory Access and ‘Water-Apartheid’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” the report is a product of the Ramallah-based non-governmental organization Al-Haq.

The document slams Israel for providing “discriminatory access” to water and enacting “water apartheid” policies that result in the 500,000 Israelis in the West Bank and east Jerusalem receiving six times the amount of water that the 2.6 million Palestinians in the same area do.

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Israeli source: ‘There will be no more goodwill gestures towards Palestinians’

Israel refused to give in to demands of gestures of goodwill, as the Palestinians continue to

 seek

more & more preconditions in their bid to sabotage peace talks before they start.
Jerusalem: ‘We are ready to discuss everything – in direct talks’

By Attila Somfalvi

Talks yes, gestures of goodwill no. Senior officials in Jerusalem who were present during talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Wednesday that Israel does not intend to present any confidence building measures towards the Palestinians. The sources claim that the “preliminary demands presented by the Palestinians attest to the fact that they are peace refusniks. Continue Reading »

Reuters: Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad tenders resignation

Sources report that Palestinian PM Fayyad offered his resignation to PA President Abbas on Wednesday.

By Reuters

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men over government policy, two sources told Reuters.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Jan. 6, 2013.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Jan. 6, 2013.- Photo: AP

Abbas was due to return to the West Bank from Jordan on Thursday, and it was not immediately clear whether he would accept the resignation of the U.S.-educated economist.

A spokeswoman at Fayyad’s office declined to comment on the reports, which followed persistent rumors that Abbas wanted to sack Fayyad following internal political wrangling. Continue Reading »

Planned U.S. Budget with Increase in Defense Aid for Israel

President Obama announced that the new U.S. budget for the coming year, includes increased American defense aid for Israel.

By Elad Benari

 

The planned U.S. budget for the coming year, which was announced by President Barack Obama on Wednesday, maintains and even increases the American defense aid to Israel, Channel 10 News reported.

Netanyahu & Obama - Photo by Kobi Gideon

Netanyahu & Obama – Photo: Kobi Gideon

According to the numbers published, the United States will provide Israel with $3.4 billion in defense aid, a record number, according to Channel 10.

The budget proposal submitted to Congress also includes a request for the addition of approximately $220 million to finance the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, a request that was not included in last year’s budget proposal, but was added later on. Continue Reading »

Huge Ancient Cone-Shaped Structure Found Deep in Lake Kinneret

Nautical archeologists think the monumental cone-shaped structure may have been built more than 4,000 years ago onshore when the water level was lower than today.

By Gil Ronen

 

Nautical archaeologists have reported the discovery of a “monumental” conical stone pile built of large, natural, unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders, on the floor of the Sea of Galilee.

Lake Kinneret, a.k.a. the Sea of Galilee

Lake Kinneret, a.k.a. the Sea of Galilee

The structure is definitely man-made, and measures about 70 meters in diameter at a depth of about 219 meters, reported archaeologists Yitzhak Paz, Moshe Reshef, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Shmuel Marco, Gideon Tibor and Dani Nadel, in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

Close inspection by scuba diving revealed that the structure is made of basalt boulders up to 1 meter long with no apparent construction pattern and no signs of cutting or chiseling. Continue Reading »

Jews Still Planning to Sue Jimmy Carter over Anti-Israel Book

“It is, indeed, a sad day for all of us as Americans, when a former President demeans the dignity of his office by intentionally misstating critically important facts concerning events of great historic significance and public interest, simply to advance a personal anti-Israel animus and to foster the agenda of the enemies of Israel who pump so much money into the Center which bears his name.”

By: Yori Yanover

 

Asserting that no individual has done more than former President Jimmy Carter to defame Israel and to challenge its right to exist, a group of readers filed a class action suit against Carter and the Simon & Schuster publishing company, back in February, 2011, alleging that Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” contains numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author’s agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised. Continue Reading »

UN Warns Libyan Weapons Smuggled to Gaza & Syria

A U.N. panel reports weaponry from Libya is spreading “at an alarming rate” across North Africa to Gaza & Syria.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

 

A United Nations panel says weaponry from Libya is spreading across North Africa to Gaza and Syria “at an alarming rate.”

The five-expert committee said in a 94-page report sent Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council that illegal transfers of arms from Libya to armed groups and terrorists have been proven.

The arms trafficking violations involved more than 12 countries and included light and heavy ordnance, such as portable air defense systems, mines, explosive materials, ammunition and small arms. Continue Reading »

A Normal Life Becomes Increasingly Unattainable Under Hamas-Ruled Gaza

Hamas’ latest craziness involves snatching young men off the streets & cutting off hair the Islamic group deems to be “too long”.

Also decided is that girls are forbidden to study with boys past age 9.

By Ryan Jones

 

Hamas’ campaign to subject the Gaza Strip to strict Sharia Law is moving forward, with little or no interference from an international community that continues to insist that Israel turn over full control of much of the region to such groups.

Life becomes increasingly unbearable in Hamas-ruled Gaza - Israel Today

Life becomes increasingly unbearable in Hamas-ruled Gaza – Israel Today

For years already Hamas has been cracking down on certain types of social behavior in Gaza. Continue Reading »

Interior Minister Sa’ar: Illegal African infiltrator problem can not be solved in a day

 

On Tuesday, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar toured south Tel Aviv neighborhoods to get a better understanding on the illegal infiltrator problem, saying, “There is a need to act to change the situation, and that’s what I intend to do”.

By Dan Lavie & the Israel Hayom Staff

 

Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar toured south Tel Aviv neighborhoods on Tuesday to get a better feel for the migrant worker and illegal infiltrator problem in the area. Within the framework of his street tour — accompanied by a large police contingent — Sa’ar also met representatives of the south Tel Aviv neighborhood committee and visited small businesses in the area.

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Birthright enhances Jewish identity & may even unite couples

No data exists on exactly how many participants have met their spouses on a trip. Birthright knows of several dozen marriages, although anecdotal evidence suggests the number could be much larger.

By Gil Shefler ·

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — Meredith Ross will never forget when she first laid eyes on Lior, her partner for the past seven years.

Birthright visiting a border outpost - IsraelandStuff PP

Birthright visiting a border outpost – IsraelandStuff/PP

Lior, an infantryman in the Israel Defense Forces, was escorting Ross’ Birthright Israel group on a free tour of the Jewish state when his friend, a fellow soldier, was killed. Lior was leaving to attend his funeral and had come to say goodbye. Continue Reading »

Carmel gas reception facility under protest by Yokneam youth group

 

Youth Activists in the Carmel region continue to protest the establishment of the 2nd plant of its kind in their area.

 

 

As gas from the Tamar reservoir flows into the Ashdod reception facility through a 160-kilometer pipe, activists in the Carmel region continue to protest the construction of a second such plant in their area – which is much closer to the reservoir itself.
MEMBERS OF the Yokneam Youth Movement

MEMBERS OF the Yokneam Youth Movement – Photo: The Yokneam Youth Movement

The 250-billion-cubicmeter reservoir, capable of supplying the country with gas for the next 25 years, is about 90 km. off the shore of Haifa.

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Erdogan delays visit to Gaza at Obama’s request

Turkish media reports  that after his meeting with Kerry, Turkish PM announced he’ll visit Gaza after trip to Washington in mid-May. 

By Ynet

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he will probably visit Gaza after his trip to Washington to meet US President Barack Obama on May 16, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported.

Kerry & Erdoğan  - Photo by Reuters

Kerry & Erdoğan – Photo: Reuters

 

Asked about his Gaza trip by a journalist flying with him to Kyrgyzstan, Erdogan said: “It will probably take place after my visit to America.”

The statement comes days after the Turkish premier met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Istanbul. Continue Reading »