Archive for February 26, 2016

| February 26, 2016
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Five Chinese Jews make Aliyah after millennia in exile 

 

view videoFive women from Kaifeng, China, who reconnected with their ancient Jewish roots, have their ‘prayers answered’ by returning home, with the help of Jerusalem-based Shavei Israel.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

In the first Aliyah from the ancient Chinese Jewish community of Kaifeng in the last seven years, five women from the community are scheduled to arrive in Israel next Monday, returning to the Jewish homeland after thousands of years of exile.

The women, Gao Yichen (“Weiwei”), Yue Ting, Li Jing, Li Yuan, and Li Chengjin (“Lulu”), have been intensively studying Hebrew and Judaism for the last several years in Kaifeng to reconnect to their Jewish roots, and are now being brought back home by the Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel. Continue Reading »

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| February 26, 2016
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Egyptian parliamentarian & TV host bashed by peers for meeting Israeli envoy for dinner

 

After Egyptian MP Tawfik Okasha invited Israel’s ambassador for dinner, he was charged with “unforgivable treason” and accused of “hypocrisy” by Egyptian media personalities.

By Elad Benari

 

 

An Egyptian TV host and parliamentarian is coming under fire for meeting with the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, the Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday.

With Israeli Ambassador – Twitter screenshot

According to the newspaper, the parliamentarian Tawfik Okasha had dinner on Wednesday with Israeli ambassador Haim Koren and the two talked politics.

Okasha reportedly discussed several local and regional issues with Koren, including the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the construction of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, according to Al-Ahram, which quoted the Arabic-language Youm7 website.

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| February 26, 2016
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Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority Condemned by US Republican Presidential Candidates

 

Both Cruz and Rubio blast frontrunner Trump’s proposed ‘neutrality’, insisting they’ll remain supportive of Israel against the ‘murderous’ Palestinian Authority.

By Israel Today Staff

 

With Super Tuesday, the biggest day in the US presidential primaries, fast approaching (March 1), candidates on the Republican side are looking to bolster their pro-Israel credentials and win the Evangelical Christian vote.

CBS screenshot

Earlier this month, frontrunner Donald Trump suggested he’d be “neutral” in his dealing with Israel and the Palestinians.

One of his top challengers, Senator Marco Rubio (Florida), said at a rally in Houston on Wednesday that he’d take the exact opposite approach. Continue Reading »

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| February 25, 2016
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Saudi journalist says Muslims butcher non-Muslims and only know how to “absolve [ourselves] of guilt”

 

After decades of ‘barbaric’ terror acts by Muslims all over the world, Saudi journalist living in Qatar says, Donald Trump’s popularity makes sense.

By Gil Ronen

 

Liberal Saudi journalist Nadine Al-Budair, who lives in Qatar, wrote an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai in which she observed that the popularity of Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim messages is the logical outcome of Muslim aggression against the West.

She wondered how Muslims would have reacted if Christians had committed suicide bombings among them, or tried to force their faith on them and called on the Muslim world “to be introspective and enact reforms, instead of condemning Western attitudes towards it,” said MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute. Continue Reading »

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| February 25, 2016
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Obama’s release of Iranian assets allows Teheran to reward killed Palestinian terrorists’ families

 

Israeli Foreign Ministry: Iran’s announcement to pay $7,000 rewards to Palestinian terrorists’ families, and another $30,000 whose homes were demolished for butchering Jews, “demonstrates again Iran’s role in encouraging terror.” 

By Daniel Siryoti, Shlomo Cesana, Lilach Shoval, Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Iran will offer monetary rewards to the families of Palestinian terrorists killed while attacking Israelis or whose homes have been demolished by Israel, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon said on Wednesday.

“The decision firstly includes giving an amount worth $7,000 to every family of a martyr of the intifada in Jerusalem,” Ambassador Mohammad Fathali said at a Beirut news conference. Continue Reading »

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| February 25, 2016
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February 25, 1799: Napoleon Entered the Holy Land Promising to Reconstitute Jewish Homeland

 

view videoOn this day 217 years ago: Napoleon entered the Holy Land,  promising that all Jews would be able to return to their homeland, in the ancient territory of the Israelites.

By BENJAMIN GLATT

 

February 25, 1799, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte captured Gaza, subsequently moving north along the coastal plain and defeating Ottoman governor Jazzar Pasha’s troops at Jaffa and Haifa, before retreating back to Egypt after the siege on Acre.

An 1806 French print depicts Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The online Jewish Virtual Library wrote that following the campaign in the Ottoman-ruled territory, the official newspaper of the French government “Le Moniteur Universel” published a manifesto declaring that Napoleon had promised that all Jews would be able to return to their homeland, in the ancient territory of the Israelites. Continue Reading »

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| February 25, 2016
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Israel’s President Bars Arab MK Entry Into Residence After Meeting Terrorists’ Families

 

After condolence meetings with the families of Palestinian terrorists, Arab MK was not permitted entry into President Rivlin’s meeting with over 60 Arab leaders, Finance Minister & Israel’s Social Equality Minister.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Joint List MK Jamal Zahalka has been refused entry to the President’s Residence because of his meeting with families of terrorists.

Arab MK Jamal Zahalka at Israel’s Knesset- Photo: Alex Kolomoisky

“While unfortunately, there are those, individual Knesset Members who seek to cynically and maliciously sabotage our ability to establish trust between us (Jews and Arabs), nevertheless we are here today because we believe in our path,” Rivlin said at the meeting. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2016
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Variety magazine rejects anti-Israel BDS ad

 

#BDSfail: The refused advertisement by the rabid anti-Israel group, the Jewish Voice for Peace, was to say: ‘Don’t endorse Israeli apartheid.’

By Gil Ronen

 

Entertainment magazine Variety recently refused to publish an advertisement placed by the extreme anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), that said “Don’t endorse Israeli apartheid.”

Oscar statue – Photo: Phil McCarten/Reuters

The ad was initially paid for by JVP, which supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. JVP claimed Monday that the magazine initially accepted payment for the ad, but then said it could not publish it as it was, and that “it would need to have a softer tone.”
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| February 24, 2016
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Israeli died by IDF gunfire meant to neutralize Palestinian terrorist during knife-attack

 

view videoDuring a knife attack, a soldier on the scene opened fired on the Palestinian terrorist, striking him, and inadvertently killing a 30yr-old Israeli male.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

An Israeli died of his wounds sustained from unintentional gunfire on Wednesday afternoon following an attempted  terrorist stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank.

Scene of stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction – Photo source: Ynet

A Palestinian  terrorist approached the hitchhiking post at Etzion Junction where he produced a knife and attempted to stab an Israeli. A soldier on the scene fired at the terrorist striking him and mistakenly hitting a 30-year-old Israeli. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2016
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Wikileaks: Obama ordered eavesdropping on top Italian leaders, to watch Netanyahu

 

Wikileaks’ website posts NSA document acknowledging it eavesdropped on Italian officials’ conversations which revealed Israeli PM turning to Berlusconi for help with Obama, after Jerusalem’s decision to build new homes in East Jerusalem.

By News Agencies

 

Wikileaks announced Tuesday night that the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on conversations which reveal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned to Italian President Silvio Berlusconi to help him deal with US President Barack Obama.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and former Italian President Silvio Berlusconi – Photo: AFP

“Netanyahu pleaded with Berlusconi to help him deal with Obama,” the WikiLeaks website stated . Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2016
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Tel Aviv Airport Security Discover Hand Grenade in Luggage of Female Passenger

 

Sde Dov Airport security personnel were a bit shocked to find grenade and ammo magazines with dozens of assault rifle bullets among the personal items of the female passenger’s check-in luggage.

By Ido Ben-Porat

 

Security personnel at the Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning seized weapons including a hand grenade, ammunition magazines and dozens of assault rifle bullets in the luggage of a female passenger.
The grenade and bullets

The grenade and bullets – Photo courtesy: Airport Authority

The passenger, an Israeli resident of Eilat who arrived for the morning flight from Tel Aviv to Eilat, was asked about the contents of her luggage as is standard protocol. Continue Reading »

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| February 24, 2016
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Israel’s Police Chief: Dept. Seeking To Recruit Huge Number of Muslim Officers

 

Police Commissioner Alsheikh says Israel National Police is preparing for a massive recruitment campaign to integrate more Israeli Muslims.

By Ahiya Raved

 

Israeli Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh spoke at a Tuesday ceremony, commemorating the official appointment of new Police Northern District Major General Alon Asor, saying that his organization will embark on a recruiting effort to enlist Muslims officers.

Police commissioner Alsheikh. – Photo: Ido Erez

“The police has been intensely handling the deepening of cooperation with the Arab population – while establishing police stations in Arab towns, and a massive recruitment effort of officers from the Muslim sector,” Alsheikh said. Continue Reading »

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| February 23, 2016
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‘Tikon Olam’: Israel is disproportionately helping the world

 

Often accused for employing disproportionate force, little Israel has always disproportionately helped the world.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Most of the mainstream news regarding Israel is related to conflict, but year after year Israel punches far above its weight in a wide range of other areas. Sadly, far too little of that receives significant media coverage.

Jerusalem Online recently ran an op-ed listing the five top ways that the author of that piece felt Israel had helped the world in 2015.

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A summary of that list is as follows:

  1. Israel continues to aid the victims of Syria’s civil war both by granting entry to those in need of urgent medical care and by sending aid teams to refugee camps throughout Europe;
  2. Israeli intelligence played a key role in thwarting a massive ISIS terrorist attack in Germany last November;
  3. Israel was one of the first on the ground and provided a disproportionate amount of assistance when an earthquake ravaged the nation of Nepal;
  4. Israel fed the entire population of Vanuato for a full month after a tropical cyclone devastated the tiny island nation last March;
  5. Israel leads in the battle against the global water crisis by providing innovative solutions to over 150 nations where water is far too scarce.
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| February 23, 2016
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#BDSfail: British authorities remove anti-Israel ads from London Underground trains

 

Around 500 anti-Israel posters nefariously placed on London’s Tube as part of BDS’s ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ sparks outrage.
• PM Netanyahu rejects Knesset member Lapid’s claim of credit for the removal of the posters.

By Shlomo Cesana, Israel Hayom Staff & Reuters

 

Around 500 anti-Israel posters are being removed from London Underground trains after sparking outrage that echoed all the way from the British capital to Jerusalem.

Anti-Israel posters on a London Underground train

The posters were put up by pro-Palestinian activists as part of the annual “Israel Apartheid Week,” which began in the United Kingdom on Sunday.

A spokeswoman for Transport for London, the authority responsible for the underground “Tube” network, said the ads had been posted without authorization and constituted “an act of vandalism which we take extremely seriously.” Continue Reading »

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| February 23, 2016
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Watch: Kenya’s president in Israel to strengthen ties with Jewish State

 

Video: Israel’s president saluted his guest, & all the Kenyan people, for this strong leadership, commending Kenyatta for his leading role in peace talks across Africa, which Rivlin perceived as “a sign of your responsibility to your region, & your commitment to peace.”

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

 

President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding Prime Minister and President Jomo Kenyatta, received a wet but warm welcome when he arrived at the official residence of President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday morning.

When the weather is inclement, welcome ceremonies of this kind are usually held indoors. This one was both inside and outside with a military honor guard and band and a reception line of religious, diplomatic and political dignitaries waiting outside. Continue Reading »

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