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| February 9, 2014
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Israel Internet Association Poll: A 3rd of Israelis are victims of cyber-bullying

 

According to a survey by Israel Internet Association, ahead of Internet Day on Tuesday, some 32% of Israelis know someone who had a personal account hacked & 17% know someone who suffered from verbal abuse.

By Yael Branovsky

 

The phenomenon of cyber-bullying is getting worse in Israel. A special survey conducted by the Israel Internet Association ahead of Internet Day on Tuesday, reveals that one in three Israelis has faced bullying either on Facebook or other social networking sites.

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A victim of cyber-bullying by a now closed website once active in scamming for donations. – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The disconcerting figures show that 81 percent of those questioned feel the Internet is unsafe for children and teens, and 61% of the survey’s participants — comprising parents to children under the age of 18 — said they themselves are exposed to online dangers.

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| February 9, 2014
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Spain grants nationality to exiled Sephardic Jews

 

Spain approves law granting foreign Jews that had chosen to flee rather than convert to Catholicism, the right of dual nationality.

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The Spanish government approved a law on Friday allowing descendents of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country in 1492 to seek Spanish nationality without giving up their current citizenship.

Marranos: Secret Seder in Spain during the times of inquisition, painting by Moshe Maimon.

Marranos: Secret Seder in Spain during the times of inquisition, painting by Moshe Maimon. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Spain’s Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon said Spain owed the Sephardic community a debt for spreading the Spanish language and culture around the world. The word Sephardic comes from Sefarad, or Spain in Hebrew. Continue Reading »

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| February 9, 2014
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After Shabbat with Gaza launched rockets, IAF strikes back wounding Global Jihadist

 

 

Palestinian sources in Gaza reported Israel Air Force struck back in central Gaza Strip after its rocket fire on Israel persisted through the weekend.

By Elior Levy

 

The Israel Air Force struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, wounding a motorcyclist who Israel said was a member of the Global Jihad.

Archive: Motorcyclist struck in Gaza (Photo: AFP)

Archive: Motorcyclist struck in Gaza – Photo: AFP

Palestinian sources said that the man was seriously injured in the attack, which followed ongoing rocket fire from Gaza at southern Israel.

Israel named him as Abdullah Harti, 28, a Global Jihad activist and member of the Popular Resistance Committees. Continue Reading »

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| February 9, 2014
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IDF reports increase in Israeli Christian recruits

Even though there are only about 300 Christian Arabs serving in the IDF, 84 of them signed up in the last half of 2013, which is 3 times the average rate.

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The past six months have seen a significant rise in the number of Arab Christians joining the Israel Defense Forces, although their number is still minuscule. The actions of people within the Arab Christian community to integrate their members into Israeli society may be behind the rise – actions that raise the ire of many others, who believe that army service is intended to strike a blow at Palestinian unity.

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| February 9, 2014
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UK Daily puts Israeli App on ‘Top 5’ apps list for Sochi Winter Olympics

Israeli service, One Hour Translation app, makes headlines for offering free on-demand translations from the Winter Olympics.

By Tova Dvorin

 

Another Israeli product beat the ongoing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel Sunday. A real-time translation app made it to the Telegraph UK‘s top five apps for following the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

Twitter site – AFP file

The app, titled “One Hour Translation,” provides free real-time translation to users during the games.

To gain real-time translations, users simply need to tweet @OHT with an image or phrase to be translated – e.g. “Where is the skating rink? Continue Reading »

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| February 8, 2014
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Scores of radical Islamists arrested by PA forces in West Bank dragnet

 

The arrests came after Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamic group distributed leaflets condemning PA President Abbas’ NATO suggestion.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

Palestinian Authority security forces arrested over the weekend scores of members of the radical group Hizb–ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) in the West Bank.

Members of the Palestinian security forces.

Members of the Palestinian security forces.- Photo: REUTERS

The crackdown came after the party distributed a leaflet strongly condemning PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s recent statements to The New York Times, where he said he would agree to the deployment of NATO troops in a future Palestinian state to prevent weapons smuggling and terrorism.

Founded in 1953, Hizb-ut-Tahrir is an international pan-Islamic political group whose goal is to unify all Muslim countries under an Islamic state or Caliphate. Continue Reading »

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| February 8, 2014
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Historic site of U.S. ‘Jewish Expulsion Order’ by General Ulysses S. Grant

A Jewish resident from Mississippi says the house in which Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, issued the expulsion of Jews during the American Civil War, should be made a museum, local media reports.

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A resident of Oxford, Mississippi petitioned Lafayette County authorities on Monday to recognize a home owned by the county as an historic landmark for its significance to both Civil War and American Jewish history, and to stop plans to turn it into a jail, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported on Wednesday.

A portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

A portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by Ole Peter Hansen Balling – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

Asher Reese, a Jewish resident of Oxford, who has been researching the property found that the house was the headquarters of Major-General Ulysses S.

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| February 8, 2014
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IDF Gunfire Wounds 5 Rioting Gazans By Israel’s Border Fence

IDF soldiers opens fire after a mob of Arabs hurl stones trying to damage the electronic border fence.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Five Arabs were wounded by Israeli army gunfire Friday near the border fence in northern Gaza, medical sources told the AFP news agency.

Demonstrators protest near the border fence with Gaza - Reuters

Demonstrators protest near the border fence with Gaza – Reuters

Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, said the five men were in their early twenties.

One was in serious condition from a shot to the chest, he told AFP.

Witnesses said the soldiers opened fire after they were attacked by stones hurled over the border fence. Continue Reading »

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| February 7, 2014
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Australia’s Woodside Petroleum to pay $2.5 billion to enter Israeli gas field

Aussie energy firm will pay more than it had originally offered to enter Israel’s Leviathan field, located 80 miles west of Haifa.

By JTA

 

The Australian Woodside Petroleum company signed a $2.5 billion deal to enter the Leviathan gas field in offshore Israel.

A natural gas rig west of Haifa, Israel. - Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

Leviathan holds 453 billion cu.m. of gas. – Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

The owners of Leviathan were in Australia this week to try to finalize a year-old non-binding deal, worth up to $2.3 billion, The Australian daily reported.

Woodside will pay more than it had originally offered to enter the gas field because its owners want to pipe much of the gas to Turkey and other regional countries. Continue Reading »

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| February 7, 2014
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UNRWA refugee workers end West Bank strike against UN

 

Palestinians who protested against low wages and poor conditions at UN’s Palestinian refugee agency ended it’s two-month strike after deal was reached with workers of UNRWA.

By AFP

 

Workers at the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency in the West Bank have ended a two-month strike over low wages and poor conditions that paralyzed services in camps and shut down schools.

Palestinians protested against cuts in UN services amid a strike by UNRWA workers - Photo: Reuters

Palestinians protested against cuts in UN services amid a strike by UNRWA workers. PA Police standing by – Photo: Reuters

The United Nations has already said the cash-strapped agency was struggling to pay thousands of workers, while the IMF has warned of the danger of rising unemployment in the Palestinian territories if there is no progress in US-backed peace talks. Continue Reading »

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| February 7, 2014
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Hamas court: 1 man to death, 1 for life, for collaborating with Israel

 

The Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported a military court in Gaza sentenced one man to death, another man to life in prison on the same charge of collaboration with Zionists.

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A Gaza military court sentenced a man suspected of collaborating with Israel to death on Thursday, and sentenced another suspect to life in prison on the same charge.

Palestinian gunmen drag suspected collaborator

Palestinian gunmen drag suspected collaborator for Israel in Gaza City, Nov. 20, 2012.- Photo: Reuters

The court did not set a date for the execution, and the names of the defendants were not publicized, according to a report in Palestinian news agency Ma’an.

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| February 7, 2014
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PA TV: ‘Minister Livni Is A Murderer Who Threatened To Kill President Abbas’

Conspiracy theorist & lecturer from the University of Palestine said on PA TV that Tzipi Livni has assassination plans for Abbas and calls her a ‘criminal murderer.’

By Ari Yashar

 

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni “is a murderer threatening to kill” Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – so claims Muhammad Abu Saada, a lecturer in International Law at the University of Palestine in Gaza during an interview on official PA TV.

Saada’s wild accusations stem from a statement Livni made last Sunday, when she said that by refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Abbas is taking positions “that are unacceptable to us or to the rest of the world.” Continue Reading »

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| February 7, 2014
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UN reports increase in Israeli demolitions of illegal West Bank structures

 

According to latest UN report on Israel, 390 shacks & other unsafe or illegal structures in the Jordan Valley were demolished in 2013, displacing roughly 600 Palestinians, twice as many as 2012.

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Israel demolished 390 shacks and other structures in the West Bank’s strategic Jordan Valley in 2013, displacing nearly 600 Palestinians, twice as many as the year before, a UN agency said Thursday.

A destroyed structure at Twail Abu Jarwal. - Photo: Yeela Raanan

A destroyed structure at Twail Abu Jarwal. – Photo: Yeela Raanan

The fate of the valley is a sticking point in US-led negotiations that seek to produce a deal on setting up a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Continue Reading »

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| February 7, 2014
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Shimon Peres holds Guinness World Record by teaching largest online civics class

Israeli President Shimon Peres breaks world record by delivering a civics class to about 9,000 high school students in over 200 classrooms across Israel.

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Israel’s President Shimon Peres delivered an online civics class to more than 9,000 Israeli high school students in 215 classrooms across Israel, setting a new world record.

President Shimon Peres giving an online civics class to some 9,000 students, breaking world record.

President Shimon Peres giving an online civics class to some 9,000 students, breaking world record.- Photo: Facebook

The Presidential Class, held Thursday morning at Cisco Israel headquarters in Netanya, was billed as the largest online civics class in the world. Cisco officials decided to make that billing official.

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| February 7, 2014
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Jordanian Cleric: ‘Allah Gave Israel to The Jews, There’s No Palestine’

Muslim scholar from Jordan attacks Israel’s ‘Palestinians’ for distorting Koran, saying the Jews given Israel ‘until Day of Judgement’ and that ‘Palestine doesn’t exist’.

By Ari Yashar

 

Allah has promised Israel to the Jews — so says Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar living in Jordan, who declared on his Facebook page recently that “Palestine” doesn’t exist.

Blogger Elder of Ziyon translated Arab news sources that this Saturday reported on Adwan’s statements, in which he quotes the Koran saying Allah assigned Israel to the Jews until the Day of Judgement (Sura 5 Verse 21), and that Jews are the inheritors of Israel (Sura 26 Verse 59). Continue Reading »

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