Archive for December 5, 2014

60 Religious Enlist into Israel Air Force Hareidi Unit

By the end of the year, 400 hareidi men will have entered the IAF in its Shahar Kahol program.

By Arutz Sheva

 

Amid great tensions over hareidi enlistment, about 60 hareidi soldiers joined the ranks of the IAF Tuesday as part of the Shahar Kahol project, writes the IAF Website.

The new recruits will be integrated into a variety of professions and roles in the IAF, including programmers in the IAF’s Ofek computer unit, software inspectors, network administrators and information security professionals, certified electricians, mechanical engineering equipment operators and technicians.

After about three weeks’ basic training at the Uvda base, they will begin courses at the College of Management Academic Studies, after which they will receive professional certificates.

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Jerusalem Municipality allocates NIS 50m. ($12.56m.) in Har Homa construction

 

According to municipality officials, the funds are to be invested toward improving neighborhood’s roads, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds & street lights for the 25,000 Jewish residents.

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VIDEO: Supermarket terrorist shot after stabbing 2 Jewish shoppers

New footage from terror attack inside Ma’ale Adumim supermarket shows terrorist stabbing victims before gun-carrying Israeli shot Palestinian youth in his legs, ending rampage.

By Noam (Dabul) Dvir

A terrorist entered a supermarket in a settlement on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon and stabbed two middle-age Israelis. An off-duty security guard, who witnessed the attack, fired at the terrorist and arrested him. The news came as Israel’s government disbanded and was heading towards a March election.

Security camera footage shows the attacker being subdued.

Security camera footage shows the attacker being subdued.

At around 4:15 pm on Wednesday, a Palestinian aged 16 and a half from the West Bank village of al-Azariya entered a supermarket at the Mishor Adumim Industrial Park near Ma’ale Adumim. Continue Reading »

Removal of 140,000 tons of rubble in Gaza City neighborhood begins

Sweden steps up to pay for the 1st project to clear away wreckage from the summer’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’.

By The Associated Press

 

The first large-scale project to remove tons of rubble in the Gaza Strip left over from this summer’s fighting between the Islamic militant group Hamas and Israel began on Wednesday, a significant step forward in rebuilding the war-torn area.

Rubble of destroyed buildings from the 50-day conflict between Hamas and Israel.

Rubble of destroyed buildings from the 50-day conflict between Hamas and Israel, Shijaiyah neighborhood, Gaza Strip, Oct. 12 ,2014. – Photo: AFP

The project is taking place in Gaza City’s Shijaiyah neighborhood, an area that was devastated during the fighting. Continue Reading »

Eilat Oil Spill Accident, Not ‘Foul Play’

As Israel struggles to contain 1,000 cubic meters of spilled oil caused by car accident, its fumes cause 80 Jordanians with trouble breathing to seek medical care.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A major pipeline leak has caused oil to gush into the Arava desert in southern Israel threatening a protected nature reserve, officials said Thursday, as roughly 80 people over the Jordanian border sought medical care due to the fumes.

The incident took place roughly 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and 500 meters (yards) from the border with Jordan, closing the Arava highway from north of Eilat up to Ketura Junction.

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Arab Terrorist Caught With Three Pipe-Bombs After Throwing One at Border Police

Police uninjured in bombing attack in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem. After giving chase, 3 pipe bombs were discovered in Palestinian’s car, then neutralized by police sapper.

By Ido Ben Porat, Gil Ronen

 

Muslim Arab terrorists hurled a pipe bomb at about 1 a.m., Tuesday night at a Border Police vehicle that was driving on the military road next to the security barrier at Abu Dis, just east of Jerusalem.

No one was reported hurt in the ambush, which led policemen – along with another Border Police team that was operating nearby – to catch the perpetrators.

At the University Junction in Abu Dis, the teams noticed three cars driving wildly. Continue Reading »

UK May Seek to Adjust Law After Inciting Palestinian Violates Gov’t Ban by Using Video Link

Deemed persona non grata, leader of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch in Israel outsmarts UK Home Secretary by appearing as guest speaker for meeting of the Palestine Forum via video link.

By JERRY LEWIS

 

LONDON – Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch in Israel who was banned from entering the UK in 2011 because of his extremist views, apparently appeared as guest speaker at a Manchester meeting of the Palestine Forum in Britain organization on Saturday by video link.

Sheikh Raed Salah

Sheikh Raed Salah (C), head of the Islamic Movement in northern Israel – Photo: REUTERS

In 2007, Salah delivered a speech in Jerusalem in which he invoked anti-Semitic blood libel.

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After Sacking Lapid & Livni, Israel’s PM Receives Fiji’s President in Jerusalem

Prior to meeting PM Netanyahu, the Fijian president began his visit in the Golan Heights inspecting his country’s UN peacekeeping troops, who this past summer had been kidnapped by Al-Nusra terrorists.

By Moshe Cohen

 

Fijian President Frank Bainimarama began a three day visit to Israel on Monday ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening, after the latter fired key ministers and sent Israel to snap elections.

Fiji President Frank Bainimarama. - Photo: Graham Davis/The Australian

First Fiji President, Frank Bainimarama – Photo: Graham Davis/The Australian

Bainimarama, who was elected in September, is the first democratically elected president in Fiji’s history. The country has just come off a long period of military dictatorship. Continue Reading »

Kuwait Reports: Saudi Minister Considering Oil Trade With Israel

 

KUNA news agency quotes Saudi petroleum minister saying his country would be willing to sell oil to any country that wants to buy it, not exclude Israel as potential client.

By Daniel Siryoti, News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

After years during which Israel and Saudi Arabia have been rumored to have low-key commercial ties, the two nations may soon engage in open trade relations.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia – Archive Photo: AFP

The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA on Tuesday quoted Saudi Petroleum Minister of Ali Al-Naimi as saying that as Riyadh is seeking to increase oil sales, it would be willing to sell oil to any country that wants to buy it, including Israel.

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Netanyahu sacks 2 lefties – Livni and Lapid are out – Elections to Come

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Bibi: “I will not tolerate this opposition from within.”

By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the secretary of government on Tuesday evening to dismiss Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.- Photo: REUTERS

“In the last couple of weeks and over the last day, Lapid and Livni have forcefully attacked the government,” he said.

“I will not tolerate this opposition from within,” he added.

Netanyahu said he will call to dissolve the Knesset as soon as possible in order for the citizens of Israel to vote and receive a clear mandate to lead Israel. Continue Reading »

Panda diplomacy hits Israel: China inspects Haifa zoo as possible new home

The Chinese pandas chief visited Israel last week with a huge 200-man business delegation, to determine if the Haifa zoo is Panda-worthy. Watch adorable video.

 

Following a diplomatic tradition going back millennia, China will be gifting Israel with two giant pandas, if it decides that the conditions in the Haifa zoo meet the animals’ needs.

Four-month old panda babies playing at Atlanta Zoo, December 12, 2013.

Four-month old panda babies playing at Atlanta Zoo, December 12, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

The delightful duo, which are actually a primitive species of bear, would be the latest to travel further to China’s “Panda Diplomacy,” a policy first employed by the Empress Wu Zetian in the year 658 AD to charm the Japanese emperor Temmu. Continue Reading »

They’re not Palestinians: UN agency suspends food aid for 1.7 million Syrian refugees

Arab states remain quiet, unable to exploit crisis in Syria against Israel, forcing UN agency to appeal to Western donors to provide $64 million needed.

By i24news

 

The World Food Program (WFP) on Monday suspended food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries, blaming a financing crisis caused by unhonored cash pledges.

A Syrian refugee carries on her head a box distributed by the World Food Programme as she walks through the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on January 24, 2014 ( Khalil Mazraawi (AFP) )

A Syrian refugee carries on her head a box distributed by the World Food Programme as she walks through the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on January 24, 2014 – Photo: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP

The Rome-based UN agency said refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt risked going hungry this winter if donors do not urgently provide the $64 million needed to finance the distribution of food vouchers through December. Continue Reading »

Following in Palestinian Leadership’s Footsteps, BDS Seeks to Hurt Israel Rather Than Help Palestinians

 

BDS leadership tries to hinder the use of $5.4 billion aid to rebuild Gaza. Keeping the Gazans in poverty & increasing their suffering, stirs up international anger & backlash at Israel.

By David Lazarus

 

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) National Committee are trying to block a $5.4 billion investment to rebuild the Gaza Strip.

A BDS campaign grotesquely misuses a picture of Jewish Holocaust survivors for its anti-Israel agenda on social medias.

The huge sum of money was pledged during a conference this October in Egypt in order to help reconstruct some of the damage done during the recent Israeli military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »

Islamic State Commandeers Egyptian Warship, Planned to Attack Israeli Ship

 

Arab media reports: Islamic State took control of Egyptian missile boat near Suez, injuring 5 & 8 Egyptian sailors missing.

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

An investigation in Egypt is underway into a November 14 incident during which Islamic State members successfully hijacked an Egyptian missile boat.

Warship with the flag of the Egyptian Navy. - Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

Warship with the flag of the Egyptian Navy. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

According to Arab media reports Monday, the assailants planned to then attack and hijack an Israeli ship to use as leverage for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The incident reportedly took place in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, by the Suez canal.

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Israeli-Canadian soldier said kidnapping by IS was BS & she’s ‘safe & secure’

Day after reports circulated that Gill Rosenberg, who is fighting IS alongside Kurds in Syria, was abducted by terror organization, she posts on Facebook to discredit ‘bullshit stories.’

By Roi Kais

 

Gill Rosenberg, the Israeli-Canadian, who joined Kurdish forces in their battle against the radical Islamic State terror group and was said to have been taken captive by the group, posted on her Facebook page Monday night to say that she was “safe and secure.”

Status report from Gill Rosenberg’s Facebook account – Screenshot

“I don’t have Internet access or any communication devices with me for my safety and security,” she wrote. Continue Reading »