Archive for March 23, 2016

Israel’s drip irrigation solution may save California from its drought

 

VIDEO REPORT: California’s drought is wreaking havoc throughout the state and causing severe damage. An Israeli company has the technological solution for farmers in trouble.

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WATCH: PM Netanyahu’s Speech to AIPAC 2016

 

view videoIn broadcast to the AIPAC conference in Washington DC, PM Netanyahu states ‘terror has no grievances, even if you give up Brussels, Istanbul, or the West Bank, terror will continue.’

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu deliver a speech in a live broadcast to the AIPAC conference in Washington DC on Tuesday.

Responding to the horrific attacks in Brussels earlier in the day, Netanyahu said, “terrorists have no resolvable grievances, it’s not as if we could offer them Brussels, or Istanbul, or the West Bank. That won’t resolve their grievances.”

“Their basic demand is that we simply should disappear,” he said, emphasizing “that won’t happen.” Continue Reading »

WATCH: Cruz: “Palestine has not existed since 1948”

 

view videoSpeaking at AIPAC conference, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz says, “I will not be neutral. America will stand unapologetically with the nation of Israel,” for Israel is a beacon of light and hope.
– Watch speech in its entirety.

By Elad Benari

 

“Palestine has not existed since 1948,” Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said at the beginning of his speech in front of the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC, on Monday evening.

He noted that Megillat Esther, the book of Esther, will be read at synagogues this Wednesday evening on the holiday of Purim. The book tells the story of the Persian King Ahasuerus who sought to kill all the Jews but failed to achieve his goal. Continue Reading »

IDF boosts security along its Egyptian border 

 

IDF battalion commander says soldiers are on high alert for any heavy weaponry or rocket launches, and remain vigilant against attempted abductions.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Fearing an Islamic State spillover, Israel in recent months has tightened security along its border with Egypt, due to a two-year campaign by the IS affiliate group in the Sinai Peninsula that has claimed the lives of hundreds of Egyptian police and soldiers.

The security fence on the Israel-Egypt border – Photo: AFP

Along the restive border next to northern Sinai, which has for years been a haven for heavily armed terrorists, IDF soldiers patrol the 6,000-square kilometer (2,300-square mile) desert terrain on a daily basis. Continue Reading »

Hezbollah chief Nasrallah threatens to target Israel’s ‘nuclear reactors’ in next war

 

Shiite terror organization’s leader warns the Jewish State in an interview with Al Mayadeen, that his group’s missiles could reach any point in Israel, including its ‘biological research institutes, petrochemical plants, and nuclear reactors.’

By Roi Kais

 

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Monday threatened to target Israeli “nuclear reactors” if the IDF wages war against Lebanon.

Nasrallah talking to Al Mayadeen – Photo: AFP

In an interview with Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah’s missiles can reach every part of Israel, including “petrochemical plants, biological research institutes and nuclear reactors,” which are all on the terror organization’s list of targets.  Continue Reading »

Dubai Police Chief: Palestinians are inept, Palestine would be another failed Arab state

 

General Tamil: “I suggest relinquishing the idea of a Palestinian state & being satisfied with an Israeli state that would include both Israelis & Palestinians …without the Jews you Arabs would not have known how to deposit your money in the bank.”

By MAAYAN GROOMSMAN

 

The Head of General Security for the Dubai Emirate, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has stated that Palestinians should abandon their aspiration for an independent state and merge with Israeli Jews in a united, bi-national state instead.

Chief of Dubai Police Dahi Khalfan Tamim. – Photo: REUTERS

In a series of remarks published on his Twitter account Monday afternoon, Tamim attempted to garner support for his idea, claiming that a Palestinian state led by Arabs would join the list of failed states in the Arab world. Continue Reading »

In Clandestine Operation 17 Yemeni Jews Move to Israel

 

In a covert operation, the Jewish Agency succeeded in bringing 17 Jews, including the community’s rabbi with a 600 yr-old Torah from Yemen, but sadly leaving the remaining 40-50 Jews who refuse to leave.

By Itamar Eichner and Roi Kais

 

A group of 17 Yemeni Jews travelled to Israel before dawn on Monday in a secret operation organized by the Jewish Agency.

New immigrants arrive in Israel – Photo: Arielle Di-Porto, Jewish Agency

The new immigrants were the last Jews in Yemen seeking to leave their country of residence, which is in the midst of a bloody civil war. Continue Reading »

UN Human Rights Council ignores ISIS, Syria etc. -Resolutions ONLY against Israel

With Israel worse than ISIS, Syria, N. Korea, Iran etc. the UN’s Human Rights Council discusses FIVE resolutions against Israel, nothing on anyone else.

By Matt Wanderman

The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) gathered on Monday to discuss five resolutions about Israel.

Unfortunately, the international body was unable to look into other pressing issues, such as the expansion of ISIS; Iran and North Korea’s violations of UN weapons resolutions; and attacks on civilians in Syria, Yemen and Iraq.

This is partially due to the body’s infamous Item 7, which requires a review of Israel’s human rights record during every session. 

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Israeli earns int’l honors for discovery that diagnoses cancer by sensing breath

 

Israeli professor from the Technion  said, “Precisely because I am not a doctor, I was able to conceive such a unique development – an inexpensive & noninvasive system for diagnosing diseases based on breath.”

 

Prof. Hossam Haick of Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology received the Humboldt Research Award in Germany and was also chosen as one of the 100 influential figures published by California’s Good Magazine over the weekend. He has been prominent, among other things in his development of devices to diagnose and monitor various types of cancers (lung, breast, colon, gastric, head and neck, ovarian, kidney and bladder malignancies) via breath samples. Continue Reading »

Protesters descend on AIPAC conference to call on US to end aid to Israel

 

Ahead of contested Trump appearance at AIPAC conference, 300 pro-Palestinian activists gathered brandishing placards & flags, protesting the conference & calling on Washington to end all aid to Israel.

By i24news

 

Anti-Israel protesters descended on Washington on Sunday, as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference was set to kick off.

A group of around 300 pro-Palestinian activists gathered brandishing flags and placards, protesting the conference and calling on the US to end aid to Israel.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump denies that his outspoken remarks have created a climate of violence. Photo: Rhona Wise/AFP

The AIPAC policy conference, the largest pro-Israel talk shop in America, is set to open later on Sunday, and will address a range of issues including US-Israel relations, the Iranian nuclear deal, the Syrian civil war and peace talks, the threat of the Islamic State, and the latest developments athroughout the Middle East. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews move to integrate, joining IDF & workforce

 

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community is witnessing a revolt by its young as more & more haredim seek to transcend their lives of poverty & isolation by enlisting in the IDF, entering the country’s  workforce, & pursuing academic educations.

By Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

A quiet revolution is arising inside the insular world of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, chipping away at the walls its leaders have erected to protect against what they see as the dangers of secularism. More and more young ultra-Orthodox are insisting they can continue to lead pious lives while also embracing technology, the modern workplace and their fellow Israelis. Continue Reading »

Illinois first US state to blacklist companies for adhering to BDS

 

Illinois becomes first US state to produce a list of offenders, of more than 20 American states that are considering legislation or have passed laws targeting companies that conformed with BDS policies against Israel.

By JTA

 

WASHINGTON — An Illinois state agency named 11 companies barred from doing business with the state for boycotting Israel or its settlements, the first such designation by an official US body.

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Israel’s Knesset to propose Death Penalty legislation for convicted terrorists

 

The controversial proposal from former FM Avigdor Lieberman would enable courts to sentence convicted terrorists to death.

By David Rosenberg

 

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set to discuss on Sunday a controversial proposal from former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that would enable courts to sentence convicted terrorists to death.

If passed, the legislation would enable military courts to sentence terrorists convicted of attacks “intended to kill citizens for political, national, religious, or ideological purposes.”

The law would also require only a majority, rather than a unanimous decision, to sentence terrorists to death. It would also prohibit reducing the sentence once it has been finalized. Continue Reading »

Biblical Retribution? – Gaza Tunnel No.11 Explodes, 2 Dead, 70 Wounded

 

According to Egyptian sources, a gas pipe exploded inside a tunnel beneath the town of Rafah, wounding some70 people, killing 2, causing the evacuation from some 60 homes, and exposing the locations of about 50 more Hamas tunnels.
– This is tunnel-collapse number 11…..the 11th Plague?

By Jewish Press News Briefs

 

A gas pipe running through a tunnel under the Gazan town of Rafah exploded, wounding some 60-70 people, and killing 2, according to Egyptian sources.

According to Al Bawab News, some 50 smuggling tunnels were uncovered due to the explosion.

This tunnel incident is separate from the Hamas terror tunnel that collapsed tonight in Khan Younis. Continue Reading »

Hamas Tunnel No.10 Collapses Saturday injuring 3, 5 missing underground

 

This marks the 10th tunnel-collapse over a 2-month period, leaving 5 Palestinians missing just after last week’s tunnel-collapse in Shujaiyeh, that left Hamas with one dead terrorist.

By JPOST.COM STAFF,  YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Three Palestinians were seriously injured and five others were declared missing after a tunnel collapsed underneath the Gaza City town of Khan Yunis, Palestinian press reported on Saturday.

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Hamas shows new tunnels built in Gaza. – Photo: ARAB MEDIA

If the report is confirmed, this would mark the 10th time over a two-month period that a tunnel has collapsed inside the coastal enclave.

Last Monday, a Gaza tunnel collapsed on in Shujaiyeh, in the eastern part of Gaza city, killing a Hamas operative who was inside. Continue Reading »