Archive for June 17, 2013

Suggested legislation to include all Israelis in organ donor pool

Israel’s Health Minister German to draft legislation that would proliferate organ donation. Gov’t to assume Israelis agree to harvest their organs unless they actively opt out.

Meital Yasur Beit-Or

New draft legislation would let Israeli doctors recover the organs of deceased Israelis even without their explicit consent, Israeli Health Minister Yael German announced on Sunday.

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EU’s Obsession against Israel is hindrance towards peace

Officials in Jerusalem to tell EU foreign policy chief Ashton, that “obsessive” focus on settlements and nothing on violent Palestinian attacks, incitement, or corruption gives the PA a ‘free pass’, undermining efforts to resume peace talks.

 

 

 

Israeli leaders are expected to tell EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, when she arrives in the country on Thursday, that the EU’s “obsessive” focus on settlements is “undermining” efforts to restart peace negotiations by giving the Palestinians the impression that no matter what they do, European diplomatic fire will always be aimed at Israel.

Catherine Ashton and PM Binyamin Netanyahu

Catherine Ashton and PM Binyamin Netanyahu – Photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO

Ashton is scheduled to visit the country as part of a regional tour that will also take her to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and areas under the Palestinian Authority’s control.

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Israeli & Palestinian finance ministers meet to boost the PA

Israel’s finance minister

Lapid meets Palestinian counterpart to discuss economic cooperation renewal, including joint investments & trade to make the PA economy viable.

Attila Somfalvi

 

In their first meeting, Israeli and Palestinian finance ministers have agreed on a series of economic cooperation projects.

Lapid, Bashara Photo: Anat Hamami, Finance Ministry SpokespersonSunday’s meeting between Israel’s Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and the Palestinians’ Shukri Bashara marked the first high-profile meeting between officials since the new Israeli government took office in March.

Lapid said cooperation would include joint investments and trade between the sides. He said it would benefit both and vowed to “continue to strengthen the connection and promote important economic issues that are important to both sides.” Continue Reading »

Italian activist killed for saving Jews is candidate for sainthood

 

The Roman Catholic church beatifies Odoardo Focherini, declared a Righteous Gentile by Israel in 1969, saved about 100 Jews during the Holocaust.

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An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church.

The Cathedral of Carpi, Duomo, located in the hometown of Ordoardo Focherini.

The Cathedral of Carpi, Duomo, located in the hometown of Odoardo Focherini. Photo by Wikpedia Commons

 

Odoardo Focherini was beatified – the step before sainthood – at a ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Carpi, near Modena in northern Italy. Continue Reading »

Who Profited by Planting Polonium on Arafat’s Belongings & Blaming Israel?

 

Even though evidence of radioactively poisoning Arafat appears impossible, accusing Israel made headlines & documentaries.

In making this claim, so far only one stands above all others to profit professionally and financially.

By Judy Hantman

 

Have you ever wondered what happened to the forensic results of Arafat’s remains, exhumed in November, 2012? Undoubtedly, we are witnessing another cover up of the facts in order to vilify Israel.

Yasser Arafat's mausoleum, where tarpaulin obscured the entrance during his exhumation. - Photo Screenshot

Yasser Arafat’s mausoleum, where tarpaulin obscured the entrance during his exhumation. – Photo Screenshot

The reinvestigation into Arafat’s death started with Clayton Swisher, former special agent with the U.S. Continue Reading »

First time a Direct Syria Hospital to Israeli Hospital transfer

Over a dozen wounded Syrians have been ferried to their border and given to IDF medics for transfer & treatment in Israel’s Northern hospital.

To guarantee the patients life, a wounded man after surgery was sent by his Syrian doctors to an Israeli hospital. This cooperation should be made public with hopes of ending hostilities between two old neighbors.

By Sara Gates  

  

A Syrian doctor recently asked Israel for help in saving the life of a critically wounded patient. Continue Reading »

Uri Geller was CIA Spy

Documentary film explores work Israeli psychic carried out for Israeli military, American intelligence agencies across 3 continents.

Geller, ‘I only executed positive missions.’

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A new documentary claims that controversial Israeli paranormalist Uri Geller has also been leading a secret life as a CIA spy, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

גלר. חפשו את עקבותיו במבצע אנטבה (באדיבות © ProSieben Television GmbH)

Refused to carry out ‘dark things.’ Geller – Photo courtesy of ProSieben Television GmbH

A new documentary by Vikram Jayanti claims Geller admitted he was once asked by the CIA to use telepathy to stop a pig’s heart, but he refused as he suspected he would next be asked to perform the act on a human. Continue Reading »

Iran proposes front against Israel & sending 4000 troops to Syria for Assad

 

Report comes a just day after Egyptian president Morsi calls for Hezbollah to leave Syria immediately, & 2 days after UN Human Rights Council condemns all use of foreign fighters in Syrian civil war.

 

Iran has reportedly decided to send 4,000 troops from its Revolutionary Guard to Syria to aid President Bashar Assad’s forces, The Independent reported on Sunday.

IDF Golan Heights tanks

IDF tanks amassing on the Golan Heights amid heightened tensions with Syria. – Photo: Gil Cohen–Magen

 

The Independent added that Islamic Republic had even proposed opening a “Syrian” front against Israel in the Golan Heights in order to ensure Assad’s reign continues. Continue Reading »

Covert Armed American Security for UN Personnel in Judea

Video shows armed Americans providing security for UN vehicle that was on an unknown assignment in the Arab village of Walajeh, near Bethlehem . A new phenomenon?

By Gil Ronen

 

Armed American guards provided security for a UN vehicle that was on an unknown assignment in the Arab village of Walajeh, near Bethlehem, several days ago.

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A Jewish man – a senior officer in the IDF reserves – noticed the unusual sight and got out of his car to videotape it. He did not receive clear answers regarding the identity of the security men.

The security detail used impressive bulletproofed black SUVs that caught the reserve officer’s attention. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Arabs in Judea & Samaria Dig Tunnels Under Security Fence

Israel’s main concern is that terrorists would use these tunnels to abduct hitchhiking soldiers since tunnels would only serve clandestine scenarios.

 

 

 

Until recently, Judea and Samaria Arabs would sneak into Israel by climbing the fence, cutting the barbed wire and severing the alarm system. But now security forces have foiled at least two infiltration attempts through tunnels dug under the fence near the Israeli Arab town of Taiba, Maariv reported.

The main concern is that terrorists would use these tunnels to abduct hitchhiking soldiers.

The Gaza tunnels, connecting the Hamas ruled strip to Egypt, are being used to smuggle weapons, food and construction materials, have long become the primary means of supplying the local Arab population. Continue Reading »

German neo-Nazis & Green Party proposes anti-Israel legislation

 

Neo Nazi & Green parties submit legislation to label settlement products. Professor calls the move “political warfare & demonization” of Israel.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

 

 

MADRID – An initiative by Germany’s neo-Nazi NPD party last year in a state parliament to demarcate Israeli products came to light this month and closely resembles the recent Green Party bill that would label Israeli products from settlements.

 

The Reichstag building seen from the west. Inscription translates to “For/To the German People” – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The revelation last week that an anti-Israel bill from the mainstream left-liberal Green Party in the Federal Bundestag mirrors, in key provisions, the language of a far-right party stirred criticism from Israeli and German experts on modern anti-Semitism.

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Queen Elizabeth to Honor Israeli Professor for Opposing Academic Boycott

As part of the Queen’s ‘Birthday Honours List,’ Queen Elizabeth will recognize Prof. David Newman of Ben-Gurion University for advocating academic partnership between countries & for his opposing the U.K. academic boycott of Israel.

 

 

Buckingham Palace announced Saturday that an Israeli professor is among the more than 1,000 people being presented an award by Queen Elizabeth as part of her Birthday Honours list.

Prof. David Newman with Ben-Gurion University President Rivka Carmi

Prof. David Newman with Ben-Gurion University President Rivka Carmi – Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

 

Professor David Newman, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, will receive the award for his promotion of the academic partnership between Britain and Israel. Continue Reading »

Joint USAF & IAF plans on ’18 Chemical Targets’ in Syria

TIME reports: Israeli & U.S. Air Forces may target Assad’s arsenals of unconventional weapons in joint operation.

By Arutz Sheva

 

Israeli and U.S. military officials are coordinating how to target and destroy Syrian president Bashar Assad’s arsenal of unconventional weapons under assorted scenarios, Israeli military and intelligence officials told TIME Magazine.

One scenario would be the sudden removal of Assad from the scene, the magazine said. “That would prompt the allies to launch operations on the estimated 18 depots and other sites where WMDs are stored,” Israei military and intelligence officials said.

“Search and destroy operations would also be launched if the weapons appeared to be about to fall into the hands of the rebels, which include Islamist extremists aligned with al-Qaeda.” Continue Reading »

EXCLUSIVE: Stuxnet virus was out of control, Kaspersky had to reveal it

 

Get ready for Cyber Armageddon. In an exclusive interview, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of one of the largest digital security firms in the world, lifts the veil on a shadowy world of internet espionage and sabotage: and it’s not a pretty sight

By Ilan Gattegno
Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs, one of the largest digital security firms in the world, made an appearance earlier this week at the International Cyber Security Conference hosted by Tel Aviv University’s Yuval Ne’eman Workshop. Among the cyber-literate crowd, Kaspersky is a mega celebrity.

Eugene Kaspersky – Photo: KOKO

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Nablus father ‘scared to death’ after Palestinian police arrest son

 

The victim, Sa’di al-Sakhel, suffered a massive coronary after Abbas’ security agents arrested his son Musab.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
 

 

A 62-year-old Palestinian man from Nablus died of a heart attack on Saturday shortly after Palestinian Authority security forces arrested his son.
PA policeman.

PA policeman. – Photo: REUTERS

The man, Sa’di al-Sakhel, suffered a massive heart attack after security agents belonging to the Preventive Security Force arrested his son, Musab.

The son was released immediately after the father was pronounced dead at the Al-Arabi Hospital in Nablus.

A PA security source said that Musab was suspected of membership in Hamas.

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