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| February 19, 2016
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Nazareth Priest condemns Messianic Jews for union with anti-Israel Palestinian Evangelicals

 

Father Gabriel Naddaf, spiritual leader of the Aramean Christian movement in Israel takes on Messianic Jews online for aligning with anti-Israel Palestinian Evangelicals.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Arabic-speaking Israeli Christians (who today identify as Arameans) have taken offense at a recent pact signed between a small group of Messianic Jews and Palestinian Evangelicals engaged in an anti-Israel campaign.

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Posted by Father Gabriel Naddaf on Monday, February 15, 2016

The agreement in question was signed earlier this month in Larnaca, Cyprus, where Messianic and Palestinian Christian leaders sought reconciliation even amidst ongoing theological differences regarding the biblical significance of Israel’s modern rebirth.

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| February 19, 2016
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Israel Bank Hapoalim is latest to threaten termination of ties with Palestinian banks over terror-funding

 

Hapoalim’s board concluded that the bank is exposed to possible U.S. lawsuits if transferred funds to Palestinian banks funded Palestinian terrorists.

By YEHUDA SHARONI/MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

Bank Hapoalim has in recent days told the Finance Ministry it intends to sever working ties with corresponding Palestinian banks if the state does not provide overarching protection against related criminal and civil lawsuits.

PA President Abbas routinely pays terrorist & their families who kill Jews – PMW screenshot

A recent board meeting came to the conclusion that the bank is exposed to possible lawsuits if it is discovered that funds transferred to Palestinian banks ended up funding terrorist activities. Continue Reading »

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| February 19, 2016
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7,000 yr-old settlement discovered in northern Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologists

 

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority described finding the 2 homes, with floors containing pottery vessels, flint tools & a basalt bowl, as the oldest discovery of its kind in the area.

By Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday they have unearthed a 7,000-year-old settlement in northern Jerusalem, describing it as the oldest discovery of its kind in the area.

Jerusalem Archaeology

The site in northern Jerusalem where remains of an ancient settlement were found – Photo: COURTESY OF ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY

The Israel Antiquities Authority said the excavation exposed two houses with well-preserved remains and floors containing pottery vessels, flint tools and a basalt bowl.

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| February 18, 2016
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Not Hamas, but Israel, Egypt & PA blamed for 10 yr-old’s death of kidney failure in Gaza

 

With Palestinian Authority denying Diab permission to enter Israel from Gaza for life-saving treatment, Palestinian social media described her death as “the martyr of the siege on Gaza.”

By MAAYAN GROISMAN

 

Marah Diab, a ten-year-old girl from Gaza who suffered from kidney failure, died Wednesday night after endless waiting for permission to leave Gaza for life-saving treatment, Palestinian media reported on Thursday.

Rafah crossing.

Gazans wait, hoping to be given the permission to cross into Egypt, at the Rafah crossing, August 27, 2014.- Photo: AFP

Diab had been waiting for life-saving treatment abroad or in Israel ever since her kidney transplant surgery in Gaza failed.
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| February 18, 2016
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Danish Parliament Names New ‘Decoration of Valor’ After Murdered Israeli

 

Danish Parliament honors Dan Uzan (ז”ל), who was murdered while blocking Muslim terrorist’s path, preventing the massacre of dozens of children celebrating a Bat Mitzvah in a Copenhagen synagogue.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Denmark’s Parliament instituted a new medal of civil valor named after Jewish-Israeli security guard Dan Uzan who stopped a terrorist from entering a synagogue in Copenhagen, preventing the massacre of dozens of children who were celebrating a Bat Mitzvah and paying with his life for it.

Dan Uzan

The medal also honors film director Finn Nørgaard who was murdered as he too blocked a terrorist with his body, trying to prevent him from entering the Cultural Center at Krudttønden a few hours earlier.
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| February 18, 2016
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Israeli turns Kippah clip into a multi functional travel tool

 

A Tel Aviv innovator developed a kippah clip into a versatile tool that works as a wrench, bottle opener, ruler, scraper, screw driver, & more.

By Raphael Poch

 

Yeshiva (Torah academy) students around the world grew up knowing that the most available and useful tool that they possessed was the one that held their kippah onto their head and it was known as a kippah clip.

MTA Hair Clip designed by Yaacov Goldberg – www.monkeybusiness Screenshot

Now an Israeli from Tel Aviv has modified the classic clip and has turned it into the multi-faceted tool accessory that we all knew it to be and calling it the MTA hairclip. Continue Reading »

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| February 18, 2016
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UK reports: Israel strikes Syrian army positions outside Damascus

 

According to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based organization, Syrian army outposts south of Damascus were hit by three Israeli rockets.

By i24news

 

Israel struck several Syrian army targets south of Damascus Wednesday evening, the Observatory for Human Rights said.

According to the Britain-based Observatory, three Israeli missiles caused property damage but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

A Pro-Assad military source however, denied reports of strikes coming from Israel, said Reuters.

Since the beginning of the bloody civil war in 2011, Israel is reported to have attacked Syrian military bases on a number of occasions, including raids reportedly targeting Iranian rockets bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Continue Reading »

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| February 18, 2016
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Israeli Cancer Cure Brings Amazing Results in American Tests

 

Innovative Israeli cure shows 94% of leukemia patients in clinical test in the U.S. exhibits signs of recovery.

By Israel Today Staff

 

An innovative Israeli-developed cure for leukemia that is currently being tested in the US is seeing amazing results.

The clinical tests have been run primarily on patients with advanced leukemia that were given only a matter of months to live. An astonishing 94 percent have reportedly shown improvement, and in more than half symptoms related to the cancer have disappeared all together.

Professor Zelig Eshhar

Professor Stanley Riddell of the University of Washington, who is running the tests, cautioned that much work remains to clarify the results of the study, and it is still unknown if the treatment managed to remove the cancer completely, or if it will return in the aforementioned patients. Continue Reading »

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| February 18, 2016
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Israel’s PM Netanyahu thanks Britain ‘for standing beside Mideast’s only democracy’

 

view videoBenjamin Netanyahu,“I’d like to give special mention to the British gov’t for its refusal to discriminate against Israel & Israelis.”

By HERB KEINON

 

Israel hailed a tough British move against boycotts announced on Wednesday as a welcome step in the fight against discrimination of the Jewish state, while the Palestine Liberation Organization said it perpetuated the tragedy that began when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration a century ago.

PM Netanyahu meets with British Cabinet Office Minister Matt H…Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock. Video: GPO

Posted by The Prime Minister of Israel on Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Visiting UK Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock, during a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that “we are publishing new guidance for public authorities in the UK that makes clear that discriminating against members of the WTO (World Trade Organization), including Israel, is wrong and it is illegal and it must stop.” Continue Reading »

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| February 17, 2016
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Israel Launches Newest Missile That Operates Like UAV

 

view videoIsrael Aerospace Industries unveils the Harpy NG, a missile that is designed to counter the newer types of air defense radar threats, and can stay airborne for 9hrs & destroy its targets at great distances.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled in an international aviation exhibition in Singapore this week new “Roamer” class missiles that look like an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but are in fact missiles that hover in the air until they lock on their targets, then collide with and destroy them.

IAI also unveiled the Rotem, a tiny drone that can roam in urban environments. Continue Reading »

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| February 17, 2016
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VIDEO: Israel constructing planet’s largest solar thermal electricity-plant

 

Watch: Israel’s new solar-electricity plant, being constructed in the Negev, is expected to provide one percent of Israel’s electricity.

By ILTV

 

 

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| February 16, 2016
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Academic Israeli Knesset Member Refuses To Allow “Palestinian lies” To Go Unchallenged

 

After igniting an uproar in the Knesset last week when MK Anat Berko said that there was no such thing as “Palestine” because Arabic does not have a “P” sound, the  Likud MK is sticking to her guns, saying ‘Palestinian identity was created in response to Zionism.’

By Gideon Allon

 

In an address to the Knesset on Monday, Likud MK Anat Berko referred to the uproar she sparked last week when she said that there was no such thing as “Palestine” because Arabic does not have a “P” sound.

Likud MK Dr. Anat Berko – Photo: Dudi Vaaknin

That comment drew harsh ridicule from a number of left-wing Arab and Jewish MKs. Continue Reading »

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| February 16, 2016
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After Cancer Treatment In Iran, Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Furious Sunni States’ Warming Ties With Israel

 

An outraged Nasrallah asks Sunni Arabs, “You are free to consider Iran an enemy but how can you consider Israel a friend and an ally?”

By ZACK PYZER

 

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke out on Tuesday against Israel’s warming ties to Sunni Arab states in the region, and boasted that Hezbollah and Lebanon have nothing to fear from a future conflict with Israel.

Just another time Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on live television from his hidden underground bunker. – Photo: screenshot

Speaking in a televised address, Nasrallah said “The Israelis believe that they are before two opportunities. The first is establishing relations and alliances with the Sunni Arab states through taking advantage of the confrontation with Iran, and the other is changing the regime in Syria.”
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| February 16, 2016
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Bahraini princess chooses Israeli hospital over American to save her life

 

According to Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, the unnamed Bahraini princess believed that Israel offered the best chances for her full recuperation.

By Hillel Fendel

 

A princess from the Islamic country of Bahrain chose to receive life-saving treatment in Israel – and as a result, years later, Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara has now been invited to pay a diplomatic visit to the kingdom.

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa  (file) – Reuters

Kara, a Likud MK of the Druze community, told Arutz Sheva Tuesday that he cannot name the princess, nor when she came to Israel. However, other sources stated it occurred in Haifa’s Rambam Hospital in 2010.
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| February 15, 2016
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WATCH:Palestinian cleric teaches husbands to beat their wives, but don’t make them ugly

 

view videoPA mufti of Gaza on official TV teaches men that one should not beat their wife so badly that the police intervene to protect her.

By David Rosenberg

 

Hit her, but don’t make her ugly.

That’s the message of an official Palestinian Authority (PA) television show in Gaza teaching Muslim men how to keep their wives “in line,” as translated by Palestinian Media Watch.

“When she makes a mistake,” explains the PA Mufti of Gaza, Hassan Al-Laham, “he will explain: you shouldn’t do this and that.” After this warning stage, advises the Mufti, men should “separate” from their wives until they change their behavior. Continue Reading »

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