Archive for March 11, 2016

Peres Center for Peace & UNESCO join forces

 

UNESCO seeks to establish strategic cooperation with the Peres Center in order to put the center’s educational methods into practice by championing peace & interfaith dialogue all over the world.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The UN agency for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) has decided to sign a partnership agreement with the Peres Center for Peace. Under this partnership, UNESCO is to promote several Peres Center projects in the fields of education and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israeli envoy to UNESCO Carmel Shama HaCohen

Peres was invited to tour UNESCO headquarters in Paris this coming month, where he also plans to sign the agreement with the organization’s leaders. Continue Reading »

Survey: 56% of Israeli-Arabs polled feel their elected Knesset Members don’t represent them

 

view videoA survey published by Israel TV channel 2 shows 56% of Israeli-Arabs think condemning Saudi Arabia for blacklisting Hezbollah as a terrorist organization was not justified.

By Shoshana Miskin

 

Most Israeli Arabs think that the Joint List Knesset members do not properly represent them, according to a survey published by Channel 2.

According to the survey, which was completed by 350 people from the Arab sector alone, 56% believe that the Arab MKs do not represent them or represent them to a lesser extent.

On the other hand, 40% Israel’s Arab citizenry feel that the Joint List MKs represent them quite or considerably well. Continue Reading »

At 112, Holocaust survivor in Haifa is deemed ‘World’s Oldest Man’

 

After providing an official document issued in 1918 as proof, Israeli Holocaust survivor who’s living in Haifa, Yisrael Kristal, has acquired Guinness World Records recognition.

By i24news

 

Yisrael Kristal, a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Israel, has been formally recognized as the world’s oldest man, Haaretz reports.

Taken on January 21, 2016, Yisrael Kristal sitting in his home in the Israeli city of Haifa, Israel – Photo: AFP

Reports surfaced at the end of January that Kristal’s grandson Oren had received an email from the Gerontology Research Group informing him that Yasutaro Koide of Japan had passed away, just two months short of his 113th birthday. Continue Reading »

Analysis: Dispelling myths on Palestinian terrorism

 

view videoPalestinian terrorism exploded in the 1990s after the successful diplomatic process with Arafat. Then, the Left called our dead “victims of peace.” That was wrong then, just as it is wrong now to call those butchered in recent terrorist attacks as, “victims of despair.” The fact is, they were/are all victims of the Palestinians’ sanctification of death and refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.

Dr. Limor Samimian-Darash

 

Not even 24 hours passed after Tuesday’s spate of terrorist attacks before we heard Opposition Leader MK Isaac Herzog tell us that only separation from the Palestinians could halt the wave of terrorism we have been experiencing since last fall.

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Movement seeks continuing anti-terror wall to separate Palestinian towns from Jerusalem

 

In the midst of the current Palestinian terror attacks, the Save Jewish Jerusalem movement, a collection of ex-MKs, Police & IDF officers, are proposing a plan that would annex about 200,000 Palestinians into areas B and C.

By Elior Levy

 

The current escalation in Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in East Jerusalem, has led to the establishment of the Save Jewish Jerusalem (SJJ) movement, whose founders – former high-ranking politicians and military leaders – are calling for a partial separation from Palestinian villages in East Jerusalem. They conducted a tour of Palestinian villages on Wednesday, which began in Qalandia and concluded in Jabel Mukaber. Continue Reading »

Still Dropping Like Flies: 6 Hamas smugglers buried alive in 6th tunnel collapse in 2016

With 12 Hamas terrorists already dead from previous collapses since January, Hamas blames Egypt for the latest, as 6 smugglers are buried alive and one unaccounted for.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Six Palestinians were trapped and another was missing Thursday after a Gaza smuggling tunnel collapsed, a local Hamas official said.

He described the underground passage from the southern Gaza town of Rafah into neighbouring Egypt as a “trade tunnel.”

The cave-in, the sixth since January, was caused by Egyptian flooding of the border zone in its campaign to stop smuggling, the official told AFP.

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Authorities have spoken to one of the trapped men by mobile telephone and rescue efforts are under way, he added. Continue Reading »

Abbas’ Fatah party celebrates Palestinian terror attack that killed American veteran touring Jaffa

 

view videoPA President Abbas’ Palestinian faction, Fatah, posted a photo describing the 21 yr-old murderer of Taylor Force as a “heroic martyr”… that remained online while meeting US vice president.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Fatah, the largest faction within the PLO, and the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,  celebrated the Tuesday murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on its Facebook page, the media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch has reported.

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Text on arm: The heroic Martyr (Shahid); Text on map is name of Taylor Force’s murderer: Bashar Masalha‏. – Photo: PMW – TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL FATAH FACEBOOK PAGE

The group posted a hand drawn sketch of a hand gripping a knife over a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Continue Reading »

Mossad agents stuck in mud, burnt in Germany in possession of handguns

 

Police & firefighters show up to extricate 2 Mossad agents who were stuck in mud in northern Germany and find their guns in the car.

By Matt Wanderman

 

Two Mossad agents were reportedly exposed when their car became stuck in the mud in a northern German town.

The pair were in Germany to accompany the recently-completed INS Rahav submarine from the Kiel shipyard to Haifa last December. Ynet quotes Hamburg television station NDR as saying that trouble started when they came across a locked fence that was labeled “no entry” in the town of Quarnbek.

The agents picked the lock and drove through the gate, but quickly became stuck in mud and were unable to free their Ford Focus. Continue Reading »

Legality of proposed bill to relocate terrorists’ families to Gaza being vetted by AG

 

 

Israel’s PM Netanyahu sent the Attorney General a request that his office conduct a legal review, including procedures needed to undertake, so that Palestinian terrorists’ families can be exiled to Gaza.

By i24news

 

A bill proposing to deport families of Palestinians who carried out terror attacks to the Gaza Strip took another step forward on Wednesday after being submitted to the Knesset by Transport Minister Yisrael Katz of the Likud, the Times of Israel reports.

Transport Minister Yisrael Katz

Transport Minister (Likud) Yisrael Katz – Photo: GPO

The proposed law is intended to serve as a deterrent to quell lone-wolf terror attacks against Israelis. Continue Reading »

Iran test launches 2 Qadr H ballistic missiles marked: ‘Israel must be wiped out’

 


Iranian general boasts, “The reason we designed our missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers is to be able to hit our enemy, the Zionist regime, from a safe distance.”

By Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles at a target some 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) away, with the phrase “Israel must be wiped out” written on them, Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday.

A Qadr H long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile is fired by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in an undisclosed location in Iran, March 9, 2016 – Photo: AP

Fars offered pictures it said were of the Qadr H missiles being fired. Continue Reading »

#BDSfail: Austrian student association rejects BDS, rebukes American & British universities

 

Rejection of BDS by the University of Vienna student group is believed to the first major European student organization opposing all the anti-Semitic & anti-Israel academic initiatives in Europe & the US.

 

Berlin – Student association at the University of Vienna issued a statement on Wednesday, declaring their opposition to every form of anti-Semitism, including the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement targeting Israel.

Members of the young Jewish community attend a commemoration ceremony for Holocaust victims in front of the synagogue in Vienna [File] – Photo: REUTERS


“As student representatives it is important for us to criticize the academic boycott against Israel, which entirely excludes Israeli academics,” the student council of the University of Vienna said. Continue Reading »

Palestinian women turn to the Jewish State for abortions

Since Palestinian laws prohibit abortions if the pregnancy is a danger to the mother’s mental health, or even a result of rape or incest, most Palestinian women have no other choice but to turn to Israel, where laws are far more lenient.

By Reuters

 

“Fatma”, a mother of twins with a demanding workload, was distraught to discover she was pregnant again. Her doctor agreed to perform an abortion, she says, only after she promised to pretend the procedure had been a medical emergency.

Palestinian women stand on a beach in Gaza City during sunset on summer’s day – Photo: Reuters/Archive

“He felt sorry for me and told me, ‘If someone asks you how you ended up having an abortion, I will be in trouble and will lose my job, so say you were hemorrhaging at the time,'” said Fatma, who lives in the West Bank. Continue Reading »

In wake of last 3 attacks Israel to implement new anti-terror measures

 

During a consultation at the Prime Minister’s Office, Israeli official decided to close breaches in security fence separating Israel from the Palestinian Authority, take harsher measures against Israeli employers of illegal aliens, and closing down inciting PA media.

By Ben Ariel

 

Israeli officials decided on Tuesday night on a series of security-related measures in response to the ongoing terrorist wave.

Scene of Petah Tikva attack – United Hatzalah

The measures were decided upon during a consultation at the Prime Minister’s Office, which came after an escalation in the terror attacks, whereby three attacks took place in one day – in Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Yafo.
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For never raping Palestinian women, IDF soldiers are smeared as racists

 

Many of those seeking to demonize Israel claim IDF soldiers commit rape, but have yet to provide proof to the courts, and others admit they don’t, and call them ‘racists’…never admitting the IDF to be a moral army.

By Tsvi Sadan

 

In light of what is happening to non-Muslim women in the Islamic State, where a single captive Yazidi or Christian woman often becomes the sex slave of an entire ISIS platoon, the absence of war-related rapes among IDF soldiers is a source of frustration for Palestinians and their supporters.

Why won’t you rape me? Am I not desirable?

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After being savagely stabbed, wounded Jew wrestles knife away to neutralize Palestinian terrorist

 

Despite being repeatedly stabbed, wounded Jewish victim wrestles knife out of Palestinian terrorist’s hand, stabs him to death in defence.

By Ari Soffer

 

A Jewish man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Petah Tikvah on Tuesday afternoon, but succeeded in fighting back and killing his attacker.

scene of terrorist attack

The incident occurred along the central Israeli city’s Habaron Hirsch Street; the stab victim was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in moderate condition.

According to eye witnesses, the Arab terrorist attacked the Jewish man, stabbing him repeatedly. But his victim fought back, wrestled the knife from the attacker’s hand, and stabbed him to death with his own weapon. Continue Reading »