Shark swims in Mediterranean [file] – Photo: REUTERS
In February, 2012 two fisherman in the northern coastal city of Acre caught a 3-meter blue shark in their net.
Shark swims in Mediterranean [file] – Photo: REUTERS
In February, 2012 two fisherman in the northern coastal city of Acre caught a 3-meter blue shark in their net.
Moran Azulay
Avigdor Lieberman, the former chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, is warning that “Rohani’s appeasement assault is nothing but another false trick, in the style of North Korea” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to New York to speak at the UN’s General Assembly.

Avigdor Lieberman, the former chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee – Photo: AP
In a post on his Facebook page, the former foreign minister wrote: “Now, when the world’s attention is focused on the new Iranian president’s attempts to appear moderate and conciliatory, it is worth noting that the Iranians have long employed a pattern of deceit: various promise tactics, stalling and feeding the international community with false information time and time again, all the while pursuing their goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon, meant to threaten world peace.” Continue Reading »
Israel has arrested a Belgian citizen of Iranian extraction on suspicion that he was sent by the Iranian intelligence agency to spy for the Islamic Republic.

Alex Mans, formerly Ali Mansouri, in Tel Aviv. – Photo by Courtesy
The suspect, Alex Mans, was arrested by the Shin Bet security service and Israel Police at Ben-Gurion International Airport on his way out of Israel. The arrest took place two weeks ago but the information was not made public until Sunday. Continue Reading »
By Kochava Rozenbaum
After participating in a two-day conference held in Jerusalem last week, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, a member of the Parliament of South Africa and founder of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), vocalized why calling Israel an apartheid state actually “minimizes the pain of apartheid.”

S.African MP Reverend Kenneth Meshoe – screenshot
Meshoe, along with 25 other international members of parliament, is one of the chairmen of the Israel Allies Caucuses, which represent hundreds of members of Congress and Parliament around the world. Continue Reading »
Austin, Tex. — A 1,200-year-old parchment Jewish prayer book that is billed as the oldest in existence was introduced Sept. 27 by a prominent private collector of Biblical artifacts.

9th-Century Parchment Artifact Offers Link to Ancient Jews. – Photo: Green Collection
The complete 50-page book with original 13-by-10 centimeter binding features early Babylonian vowels, which are a precursor to modern Hebrew vowels. Continue Reading »
The Palestinian Authority does not want to return to the Rafah border crossing as part of a partial solution to the crisis at the crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Jibril Rajoub, a senior member of the Fatah Central Committee, announced Saturday.
Rajoub’s announcement came as the Egyptian authorities reopened the border.
“The Palestinian leadership rejects partial appearances, such as the presence of the Presidential Guard at the sovereign border crossings, including Rafah,” Rajoub said.
By AFP
Kenya‘s government had been warned, including by Israel, of the high risk of an attack before the assault on a Nairobi mall by Islamist gunmen that killed at least 67 people, newspapers reported Saturday.

Smoke over Westgate shopping mall on 23 September 2013 – Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Cabinet ministers and Kenya’s army chief had received information warning of a plan to carry out a major attack, the Daily Nation said, quoting a leaked intelligence report. Continue Reading »
Israel Air Force fighter jets were scrambled on Saturday morning to north and south Israel, apparently because of an unidentified aircraft that entered Israeli airspace. IDF Spokesman declined to comment, saying it does not provide detail on IAF activity.

An Israel Air Force F-15 taking off. – Photo: Daniel Bar-On
Last week, Tel Aviv’s Saturday morning tranquility was disturbed when two IAF jets flew low over the city, on their way to intercept a suspicious radar signal which turned out to be a flock of birds. Continue Reading »
Israel and France have averted a diplomatic crisis by agreeing that a French diplomat, who hit an IDF soldier after she was dragged from a vehicle delivering aid to Palestinians, should return to Paris.
Renegade diplomat, Marion Castaing attacks Policeman
The incident in the West Bank one week ago had the potential to escalate, with Israel considering expelling her and aid groups privately pressing Paris and other European countries involved to protest at the treatment of their diplomats.
SAN FRANCISCO – September 27, 2013. Did ya’ hear the one about how Facebook routinely removes hate pages targeting racial minorities and the LGBT community, but allows anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate pages to stay up online? No? Well, good, because it ain’t very funny, says Michael Mendelson, an average hard-working American, who is determined to do something about it. Continue Reading »
Marking thirteen years to the second Palestinian uprising (intifada), Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli security forces in the West Bank, in Jerusalem and on the Gaza Strip border.
Palestinians burning effigies of Netanyahu and Peres in Gaza, September 27, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Protesters hurled stones and burned tires in clashes across the West Bank.
In Hebron, some 300 protesters threw rocks at IDF soldiers, an IDF spokeswoman said.
By Noam (Dabul) Dvir
Following Friday prayers, young Arabs threw stones at police forces near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem‘s Old City. One officer sustained light injuries to his hand. Border Guard officers dispersed the rioters with stun grenades, among other crowd dispersal means, and arrested four people.

A Palestinian stone thrower bearing the Hamas flag, right, uses a sling shot to throw stones with his comrade towards Israeli security forces. [Archives] – Photo: AFP
By Anne Cohen, With Reuters
Four Jews are among 24 of America’s most creative and original thinkers who will each get $625,000 “genius” grants this year.

Genius Jews: Jeffrey Brenner (above),primary care physician in Camden, is among the 24 recipients of the MacArthur “Genius” Awards
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, 44, Sheila Nirenberg, a New York City neuroscientist, Sara Seager, a Canadian-American astrophysics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Carl Haber, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are among the 13 men and 11 women picked by the John D. Continue Reading »
By Kochava Rozenbaum
In cooperation with the Har Bracha community in the Shomron (Samaria) and Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the head of the Har Bracha yeshiva, dozens of Christian volunteers from the United States joined families in the year’s annual harvest of crops.
Tommy Waller led his group of volunteers from HaYovel, an international humanitarian organization which supports farming in Yesha (Judea and Samaria).
Despite previous accusations that HaYovel were a missionary group, Rabbi Melamed described the event as “a blessed phenomena of non-Jews seeing the truth and pledging themselves to help the Jewish Nation in the heartland of the Jewish Land.” Continue Reading »