November 2014 Archives

Using nanotechnology Israeli company recharges mobile phones in half-minute

Israeli company projects by 2016, it will be ready to market a slim cellphone battery that can be recharged in just 30 seconds.

• The Tel Aviv-based StoreDot reports its technology is also applicable for electric car batteries.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

An Israeli company says it has developed technology that can charge a mobile phone in a few seconds and an electric car in minutes, advances that could transform two of the world’s most dynamic consumer industries.

Charging ahead: A lab worker shows the prototype at the StoreDot headquarters in Tel Aviv – Photo: Reuters

Using nanotechnology to synthesize artificial molecules, Tel Aviv-based StoreDot says it has developed a battery that can store a much higher charge more quickly, in effect acting like a super-dense sponge to soak up power and retain it.

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News | Tags: cellphone, innovations, Israeli Technology

Vote on Palestine recognition by EU Parliament postponed

The postponement is due in part to Germany’s opposition to recognizing a Palestinian state prior to peace with Israel.

By HERB KEINON

A vote by the European Parliament in Strasbourg over whether to recognize a Palestinian state was postponed Tuesday from later this week to mid-December.

EU flags – Photo: REUTERS

Israeli diplomatic officials said the move was pushed off from Thursday for three reasons: difficulties have emerged between the various parties regarding the language of the resolution; opposition by some members of the various parties – especially from Germany – to the resolution; and intensive work by Israeli diplomats in Brussels to postpone the vote, hoping to gain more time to change minds.

Category: Israel News | Tags: EU, European Parliament, Germany, Palestine

German town outwits annual neo-Nazi protesters

Tired of the annual invasion of neo-Nazis into their small town, the residents of Wunsiedel, where Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess is buried, decided it’s high time the neo-Nazis finally marched for a good cause.

By Marlene Halser

They keep coming back year after year. Since the 1990s, neo-Nazi demonstrators invade the village of Wunsiedel in south Germany every November to commemorate the National Heroes’ Remembrance Day by visiting the grave of Adolf Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, which was located in the village until it was dissolved in 2005 when the lease agreement ran out.

With flags and wreaths, neo Nazis commemorate a so called ‘National Heroes’ Remembrance Day.’

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: Germany, Neo Nazis, protest

Israeli Tech Briefs – U.S. President Awards Israeli for High-Tech Innovation

President Obama presents highest U.S. honor for technological achievement to Eli Harari, co-founder of SanDisk, whose company pioneered the use of flash computer storage technology.

By Amitai Ziv and TheMarker

SanDisk co-founder Eli Harari, whose company pioneered the use of flash computer storage technology, has won this year’s National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest U.S. honor for technological achievement.

“One month after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Eli Harari came to America from Israel to study the effects of radiation on electronics in space,” U.S. President Barack Obama said at the award ceremony last week. “The physics he learned as a PhD student at Princeton led him to co-found SanDisk, and, eventually, to the creation and commercialization of flash storage technology.”

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel high-tech

Son of Hamas: Now is the “Perfect Time” for Israel to Wage War Against Hamas

Mosab Yousef, an ex-Shin Bet agent & son of the Hamas leader in PA , urges Israel to stop ‘fatally flawed’ ceasefire & attack now, before Hamas rebuilds.

By Tova Dvorin

The growing chorus of calls for Israel to crush Hamas in Gaza before they begin another war has gained a new voice Tuesday – this time, from the son of a major Hamas leader.

Mosab Yousef, the son of Hamas leader in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Sheikh Hassan Yousef known for working for the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) from 1997 to 2007, urged Israel Tuesday to go to war with Hamas – in order to make peace with the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza, hamas, Hamas-Fatah Unity, Mosab Yousef, Terror tunnels

Only Out of Their Love For Israel – The Jewish State’s Honorary Consuls

Despite not being Israeli citizens, some 77 Jewish & Christian figures around the globe serve as honorary consuls for the State of Israel.

By Yossi Aloni

They are the long arm of Israeli diplomacy, and they aren’t even Israeli citizens. They help foster strong relations, and open doors that would otherwise be shut. They are motivated by love for Israel, and, no, they receive no monetary compensation. In fact, they invest much of their own time and money to fulfill their important diplomat mission.

Israel’s honorary consuls meet with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. – Photo: Chaim Tzach

Introducing the honorary consuls of the State of Israel, a total of 77 specifically accredited persons, many of them non-Israeli Jews, but also including a large number of Bible-believing Christians.

Category: Israel News | Tags: diplomacy, diplomats

Jerusalem Arab arrested for incitement against Israelis on Facebook page

The Old City resident’s personal Facebook account page praised the terrorist who ran down & killed Israelis at the Jerusalem light rail & called for additional ramming attacks “for the sake of Jerusalem.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

An Arab resident of the Old City of Jerusalem was arrested on suspicion of spreading violent propaganda on his Facebook page, police announced Monday.

Screenshot of Mahmoud Asila’s Facebook page, with writing in Arab calling to “Run over people for the sake of Jerusalem”. – Photo: Facebook screenshot

Mahmoud Asila, 32, was arrested last Tuesday for posting photos and videos deemed as “incitement,” which called for running over security forces and for inciting car attacks against Israelis in general. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: East Jerusalem, Facebook, incitement, incitement to violence, Old City

Yeshiva students stabbed by Arabs in Jerusalem’s Old City

45 yr-old Jewish man arrives at police station with stab wounds to abdomen along with yeshiva students that suffered wounds to neck & hand.

A suspect is being held for questioning, while police are searching for additional suspects.

By Noam (Dabul) Dvir, Yaron Kelner

A 45-year-old Jewish man arrived at a police station in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday evening with stab wounds to his abdomen. The man, who was moderately wounded, said he had been stabbed by Arabs.

Border Police at Jerusalem’s Old City – Photo: Reuters

An initial investigation found that three yeshiva students from the ‘Shuvu Ahim’ yeshiva were attacked by several Arabs, during which the man had been stabbed. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab attackers, Jerusalem

American Rabbi: In “Dealing with Savages,” Arabs in Israel “must be vanquished”

‘There’s a war for the land of Israel that’s being waged, & the Arabs who dwell in the land of Israel are the enemy in that war,’ wrote the rabbi of a major modern Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey.

By Ben Sales

JTA — The rabbi of a major modern Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey has written a blog post that calls for Israel to collectively punish Arab Israelis and Palestinians until they realize “they have no future in the land of Israel.”

Israeli Arabs wave Palestinian flags during a rally in the northern Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin

Israeli Arabs waving Palestinian flags during a rally in the northern Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin on March 30, 2013 commemorating the 37th anniversary of ‘Land Day.’

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab-Israeli conflict, Israeli Arab, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Temple Mount

Newest revolutionary suitcase since the addition of wheels

The FUGU LUGGAGE suitcase designed in Jerusalem gives you a choice when traveling. It can expand from carry-on to check-in & do so much more!

By Viva Sarah Press

There are so many “why didn’t I think of that” crowdfunding campaigns now underway that choosing which one(s) to support has never been tougher.

Fugu Luggage Expandable Suitcase – Screenshot

On the one hand, the Jerusalem team behind Fugu Luggage Expandable Suitcase can breathe a sigh of relief that its idea will become a reality, having already surpassed the initial $50,000 campaign goal.

But you can still join the community of backers behind this adjustable patented suitcase. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: innovations

Analysis: Jerusalem, A City Divided by Terrorism

The majority of Israelis have never entered the Palestinian neighborhoods, limiting themselves to the Jewish, western part of the capital & the Old City where Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount & Kotel are.

By Ruti Sinai

The recent terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, carried out by residents of the city’s Palestinian neighborhoods, have placed an explosive issue on Israel’s public and political agenda: the extent to which the 28 Palestinian villages that Israel annexed to Jerusalem 47 years ago are a part of the city.

Palestinian boys with a toy gun in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat – Photo: AFP/Thomas Coex

The 1967 annexation was enshrined in a Basic Law, which enjoys special status and is a type of constitutional amendment.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jerusalem

Governmental Abuse in the Systematic Brainwashing of Palestinian Children

Heart-breaking interview in Israel daily reveals children as young as 8 yrs-old seething with hatred of Jews & seeking nothing but violence & death.

By Israel Today Staff

In what many have previously likened to a form of child abuse, many Palestinian Arab children from the youngest ages are taught to hate and to seek out violent confrontation with Israeli Jews.

Palestinian youths rioting – Israel Today

A weekend report in Israel’s Yediot Ahronot newspaper highlighted this heart-breaking phenomenon by interviewing four child rioters from Jerusalem who were so seething with hatred that they would rather “martyr” themselves than play or study as normal children.

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Semitism, incitement to violence, ‘Palestinian’ incitement

No EU recognition of Palestine without Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel opposes unilaterally recognizing Palestinian state, reiterating that Germany will not follow the other European nations that have already done so.

By News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has underlined Germany’s opposition to recognizing a Palestinian state after lawmakers elsewhere in Europe backed such a move.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel – Photo: Reuters

Sweden’s new government officially recognized a Palestinian state on Oct. 30. Last Tuesday, Spain’s parliament approved a nonbinding resolution recognizing a Palestinian state, following similar motions in Britain and Ireland. Germany, Israel’s closest European ally, has made clear it will not follow that lead.

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: Angela Merkel, Germany, Palestine

israelandstuffcom | November 23, 2014

Temple Mount: Islamic revisionist denial affronts both Jews and Christians

“Temple Denial” is thoroughly political – a weapon used to attack the legitimacy of the Jewish State, explains Archaeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren agrees, saying, “Temple Denial…is also denial of the Gospels.”

By LELA GILBERT

Although the current Temple Mount debate focuses on Jewish and Muslim worship, the holy site also has religious significance to Christians. Who practices their religion on the Temple Mount is a very different question to who can stake religious claim to the holy site.

Border Police officers patrol Temple Mount area

Border Police officers patrol Temple Mount. – Photo: REUTERS

Last week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Jordan’s King Abdullah and US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the recent incidents of terror provoked by the Temple Mount debate.

Category: Israel News, Jewish News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, anti-Semitic propaganda, Christianity, Michael Oren, revisionist history, Temple Mount

israelandstuffcom | November 23, 2014