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Israel’s Security Cabinet decision: Metal detectors to be removed & replace by advanced optics

In an agreement facilitated by Jason Greenblatt, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mid-East envoy, the Temple Mount’s magnetometers will be replaced with advanced technologies according to Monday night’s decision from Israel’s Security Cabinet, with an allocated budget of up to 100 million shekels for the sophisticated optic & thermal devices.

By Nitsan Keida

The Security Cabinet decided on Monday night to remove the metal detectors from the Temple Mount.

Temple Mount Security Camera – Ynet

In a statement, the Cabinet said it “accepted the recommendation of all of the security bodies to incorporate security measures based on advanced technologies (“smart checks”) and other measures instead of metal detectors in order to ensure the security of visitors and worshippers in the Old City and on the Temple Mount.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jason Greenblatt, Security Cabinet, security cameras, Temple Mount

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PM Netanyahu & King Abdullah reach agreement to end 2-front crisis

REPORT: Israel’s wounded security agent from its embassy in Amman will return to Israel, unencumbered, and the newly placed metal-detectors will be removed from the Temple Mount’s entrances, for ‘alternative security measures.’

By Gary Willig

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah spoke earlier this evening and an understanding is reportedly being reached to resolve the crisis between the two neighbors.

According to the Channel 10 report, the agreement stipulates that metal detectors will be removed from the entrances to the Temple Mount and will be replaced by other security measures.

Jordanian riot police posted outside Israel’s Embassy in Amman, Jordan.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Jordan, metal detectors, Temple Mount

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Required wristbands worn at Romanian resort only identifies Israelis

Israelis vacationing at the Mamaia beach resort in Romania were surprised to learn how strangers knew their country of origin. Apparently, the wristbands that they were given didn’t only identify them by the resort they were at, it also identified them as Israeli.
• Tourist: ‘This is reminiscent of the old Nazi patch.’

By Shimon Yaish

Israeli tourists visiting the Romanian beach resort of Mamaia, considered one of the hottest new destinations for Israelis on the Black Sea, are being singled out as Israeli by purple bracelets they are asked to wear.

Arik Kogan, an Israeli vacationer who recently arrived at the resort, told Israel Hayom that he noticed in the first few days that seemingly everyone was able to recognize that he was Israeli. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: anti-Israel bias, Romania

Japanese firm acquires Israeli pharmaceutical company for $1.1B

Neuroderm, the Israeli pharmaceutical company that deals with “next-generation treatments” was just bought for $1.1B in cash by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma

By i24NEWS

Israeli pharmaceutical company Neuroderm has been bought out in a massive deal for $1.1 billion by Japan’s Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp, the company announced on Monday.

The all-cash deal will expand the company’s business overseas, according to Reuters.

Medical student conducting research – Photo: Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine

NeuroDerm develops drugs and medical devices for central nervous system (CNS) disorders such as Parkinson’s, in which it was the first to develop a key treatment currently used for the disease. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Medicine, Neuroderm

Trump dispatches Kushner and Greenblatt to Israel to calm Temple Mount tensions

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Envoy Greenblatt and senior advisor Jared Kushner should arrive in Israel Monday, hoping to relax tensions over Temple Mount’s newly established counter-terrorism security measures.
– WATCH Video

By Ynetnews

Jared Kusher—US President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor—is leading American efforts at deescalating the Temple Mount crisis surrounding the installation of metal detectors, according to a senior administration official on Sunday.

The official said that Kushner is working with Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan in an effort to solve the current calamity together with Trump emissary Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador David Friedman.

Trump emissary Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador David Friedman.

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: David Friedman, Israel US, Jared Kusher, Jason Greenblatt, Temple Mount

Israel’s embassy in Jordan under lockdown after guard stabbed, then kills two

After the Israeli security guard was stabbed with a screwdriver at the Israeli embassy in Amman, the guard shot the 17 yr-old assailant and another man, as tensions over the Temple Mount continue to worsen.

By HERB KEINON

An Israeli security officer at the Israeli embassy in Jordan was stabbed in the stomach in Amman by a man with a screwdriver moving furniture in one of the residences in the embassy compound Sunday night, as tensions over the Temple Mount spilled over to the east side of the Jordan River.

According to a Foreign Ministry statement, the guard shot the assailant – identified as Mohammed Zakaria al-Jawawdeh, 17– in self defense. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Embassy Attack, Israel Embassy, Israel Jordan

Gaza escalates tension, fires 2nd rocket at Israel, with IDF tanks destroying Hamas position

Because the Gaza rocket was tracked to explode in an open field in southern Israel, neither Iron Dome or the “Red Alert” warning siren were activated.

By Elad Benari

Gaza terrorists fired a rocket towards southern Israel overnight Sunday. The rocket exploded in an open area near the security fence in the Eshkol Regional Council.

IDF tanks – Photo Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Office

There were no injuries and or damages. The “Red Alert” incoming rocket siren was not sounds because the rocket exploded in an open area.

Following the rocket attack, IDF forces using a tank attacked a position belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, IDF Armored Corps, IDF response, rocket attack

How ‘Kill The Jews’ becomes a basic tool in terrorism

Every Islamic terrorist possesses a hatred of ‘Jewish ideology’ and they openly glorify anti-Semitism. It doesn’t matter whether they are in religious places or in the streets, but, where ever they are, you will most certainly hear their famous chant of, “Kill the Jews.”

‘Kill the Jews’ is a basic tool of Terrorism

By Noor Dahri

In every act of terrorism, there you find certain people reasoning and justifying it, and one of the main reasons behind every act of terrorism in the world is, JEWS. This is the reason, you will hear about and read from the Muslim community, whether they are in the West or in the East. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Jewish attacks, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionists

Gaza Rocket Explodes in Southern Israel

IDF locates remnant of rocket fired from Gaza early Sunday morning in an open field, having presumed earlier it had exploded mid-air.

By i24NEWS

The Israeli army announced on Sunday afternoon that a rocket fired from Gaza in the early hours of the morning, had not exploded in mid-air as previously thought, but in fact landed in an open field inside Israel. No injuries or damage were reported.

Border Policeman retrieving remnants of exploded rocket – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Typically, the Israel Defense Forces respond to rocket fire from the Strip, controlled by the Islamist Hamas group, with retaliatory fire from the ground or air. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, IDF

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Several Israeli Cabinet Members Seek Death Penalty for Palestinian Mass-Murderer

Opposing the death penalty, MK Shelly Yacimovich of the Zionist Union suggests the ministers’ call for the death penalty is a “populist” ploy to replace decision-making.

By LAHAV HARKOV

Several ministers in the Security Cabinet called for the terrorist who massacred a family Halamish Friday night to be executed ahead of Sunday’s cabinet meeting.

ZAKA members clean up aftermath of terror attack in Halamish home. – Photo: ZAKA

Military courts can sentence someone to death, though the option has not been used since 1962, when senior Nazi Adolf Eichmann was hanged after being convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Ayelet Shaked, Benjamin Netanyahu, Death penalty, Israel Katz, Naftali Bennett, Palestinian terrorism, terror attack

Muslim clerics reject Temple Mount security cameras instead of metal detectors

Rejecting any form of compromise that would secure the Temple Mount from smuggled weapons, Muslim worshipers arrived at the Gate of the Tribes for the morning prayers but refuse to enter the holy site.
– Sheikh, “The new measure is worse than the metal detectors.”

By Ynet reporters

The Israel Police set up special surveillance cameras at one of the entrances to the Temple Mount complex on Sunday morning, which could replace the recently installed metal detectors that have been at the center of growing tensions between Israel and Muslim worshipers.

Peace & Quiet at the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount as Waqf clerics continue to reject security measures.

Category: Israel News | Tags: metal detectors, Temple Mount, Temple Mount cameras, Waqf

israelandstuffcom | July 22, 2017

Quick-thinking mom locked 5 kids in side-room, saving them from slaughter

The wife of Elad 36, one of the 3 Halamish victims butchered, managed to lock her children in a room during the attack, saving them from a certain death.

By Tzvi Lev

When the terrorist burst into a house in Neve Tzuf (Halamish) and started stabbing those assembled, the wife of one of those killed managed to lock five children into a room and call the Police. Her quick thinking likely stopped the body count from being even higher.

Elad Salomon with his wife – Photo courtesy

According to reports, as soon as the woman saw the terrorist enter, she shoved five children into a side room, saving them from the terrorist onslaught. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Halamish, IDF, knife attack, Palestinian attack, Palestinian terrorist

israelandstuffcom | July 22, 2017

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Israel’s Defense Minister Liberman seeks to expedite home demolition of terrorist who killed 3

IDF soldiers arrest the brother of the Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated a family home on Friday evening and butchered three to death, leaving one seriously injured.

By i24NEWS

The Israeli Defense Forces overnight on Friday conducted a series of raids and surrounded the village of the suspected terrorist who infiltrated a home in the West Bank on Friday evening and stabbed three family members to death.

IDF soldiers patrol the town of Halamish after a Palestinian knife-attack that killed three people in their home having dinner. – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Israeli security forces stated that they arrested the brother of man responsible for the attack. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Avigdor Liberman, Halamish, house demolition, IDF, knife attack, Palestinian attack, Palestinian terrorist

israelandstuffcom | July 22, 2017