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Historical first: Palestinian pilgrims set to fly from Israel to Saudi Arabia

Following Air Force One being the first plane to fly directly from Riyadh to Ben Gurion Airport, President Donald Trump’s team initiated talks for flights intended for Muslims wishing to visit Saudi religious sites in Mecca and Medina.

By Itamar Eichner

The United States, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel have recently been conducting secret negotiations to coordinate the first flight of Palestinian pilgrims from Ben Gurion airport to Saudi Arabia, with a short layover on the way, probably in Jordan.

Yedioth Ahronoth, Ynet’s sister print publication, learned of the intention to organize a special plane in which only Palestinian passengers between Israel and Saudi Arabia will be able to fly. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: airline routes, Israel Saudi Arabia

WATCH: A ‘truly historic visit’ as Netanyahu and Modi tour Jerusalem

During his historic visit to Israel, the first for an Indian premier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to sign a host of agreements with Israel in the fields of defense, technology, water, and agriculture, bringing the two countries ever closer.

By i24NEWS

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his historic visit to Israel – the first Indian premier to do so – celebrates “this ancient bond between both our nations” and lauded “the link between our people [that] dates way back to the Jews in India” during his joint press conference with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: economic cooperation, historic visit, Israel India, Narendra Modi

Medical marijuana to become more obtainable for Israelis starting in August

By making 100 physicians eligible to grant patients a license to obtain medical cannabis, Israel’s Health Ministry’s move is expected to ‘ease the pain’.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Starting in August, approximately 100 physicians will be able to grant licenses to patients who require medical cannabis to obtain it directly from their health fund clinics, Health Ministry associate director-general Prof. Itamar Grotto told the Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse on Tuesday.

Committee chairman MK Tamar Zandberg said: “The news that came out this morning from the ministry is encouraging, and we will continue to monitor and ensure that it is implemented. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: cannabis, medical marijuana

AGAIN, UNESCO denies Israel sovereignty over Jerusalem

The UN’s cultural committee convened in Krakow to approve yet another proposal submitted by Arab states rejecting Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem and condemning the Jewish State for conducting archeological excavations in Jerusalem’s Old City.

By Itamar Eichner

A committee of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) convened in Krakow Tuesday where it approved the wording of a proposed resolution denying that Israel is the sovereign power over Jerusalem and condemning it for conducting archeological excavations in the Old City.

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The proposal was submitted to the UN body’s Cultural Committee by Arab states who originally presented a much harsher version which was formulated together with the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, UN bias, UNESCO

Future Palestinian State Will Be Hell For Women

Putting aside Palestinian leadership demands a ‘judenfrei’ state, that will also be harsh on gays, a new survey reveals that the new Palestinian state liberals want to create so badly, will be saturated in honor killings and a haven of assorted human rights abuses against women.

By Israel Today Staff

One of the cornerstone understandings of the original Israeli-Palestinian peace process was that a future Palestinian state would be notably different from the neighboring Muslim Arab authoritarian regimes.

We now know that won’t be the case, and evidence to that effect keeps mounting.

Take women’s rights, for instance.

Currently, Israel is the one place in the Middle East where women enjoy full equality with men. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Honor killings, human rights abuses, Palestinian violence, women's rights

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Family sue French Police for overt inaction as Jewish woman was tortured, then murdered

French Police must explain why they stood outside a building for an hour, as 60 yr-old Sarah Halimi could be heard screaming for her life, before being thrown out of her apartment window.

By i24NEWS

A lawyer for the family of Sarah Halimi told i24NEWS on Monday that a complaint will be filed against the police for failing to enter the building and preventing the Jewish woman’s death in April.

Sarah Halimi was beaten and thrown to her death from the window of her Paris apartment by her 27-year-old neighbor Kobili Traore.

Protest march in memory of Sarah Halimi, in Paris on April 9, 2017 – Photo: Noemie Fitoussi

French police arrived on the scene but reportedly refused to enter the building until specialist backup had arrived, during which time a neighbor recorded Halimi’s screams as she was attacked by her neighbor. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Jewish attacks, anti-Semitism, French Police, murder, radical Islam

Abbas tells African Union Summit: Link ties to Israel with end to ‘occupation’

Palestinian leader goes to Ethiopia to persuade African leaders to put aside national interests gained from strengthening ties with Israel, unless Israel gives the Palestinians independence.

By ADAM RASGON

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday told African states that improved ties with Israel should be calculated in relation to the Jewish state’s commitment to ceasing its military rule over Palestinian territories.

Over the past year, Israel has launched an intensive effort bolster its ties with African states, making inroads in a continent that has long refrained from enhancing such cooperation.“The Israeli state of occupation’s efforts to participate in your regional conferences and organize continental conferences encourages it to continue its arrogance, occupy Palestine and deny the Palestinian people’s rights,” Abbas told the 29th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: African Union Summit, Ethiopia, Israel Africa, Mahmoud Abbas

US envoy tells UNESCO: the Palestinian Authority lies

In a letter sent to UNESCO Secretary General, US Ambassador to the UN warns against adoption of a mendacious PA request on the Cave of the Patriarchs, which was deceivingly designed to exclude a Judeo-Christian connection to the holy site.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

The US is beginning to exercise its leverage to prevent the passage of a UNESCO resolution declaring the Cave of the Patriarchs an exclusively Muslim and ‘Palestinian’ heritage site.

Tomb of Isaac – Palestine Exploration Fund Magazine. Quarterly Statement July 1912. Pages 145-150. Cenotaphs of the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Cave of Machpelah. By the Rev A.B.

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, Cave of Machpelah, Cave of the Patriarchs, Hevron, Nikki Haley, Palestinian Authority, The Tomb of Patriarchs, UN bias, UNESCO, World Heritage Committee

Brit apologizes for uncle preventing SS Exodus with Holocaust victims from reaching Israel

After learning of her uncle’s role aboard a UK destroyer that denied Holocaust survivors sailing to Israel aboard the Exodus from reaching the soon-to-be Jewish State, violinist Verity Steele finds a unique and touching way to apologize.

By Yaniv Halili & Israel Moskowitz

British citizen Verity Steele was shocked to discover that her uncle had taken an active role in forcing the Exodus—the famed ship carrying Holocaust survivors seeking to come to the Land of Israel, then called Palestine—to turn back to Europe. As a supporter of Israel, his niece Verity has found her own way to apologize.

The event itself took plane on July 11th, 1947 when the SS Exodus sailed from the south of France with some 4,500 Holocaust survivors on board. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Holocaust, SS Exodus

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US church group passes another anti-Israel resolution

Ignoring the fact that Israel does not torture arrested children, nonetheless the United Church of Christ passes a resolution against Israel claiming it does torture Arab children, and calling for end of US military assistance, but ignores the fact that ‘the children’ are extremely dangerous, having perpetrated some of the most violent, deadly crimes in Israel.
– WATCH Israel Police video of 13, 15yr-old Palestinians on a stabbing spree.

By JTA

The United Church of Christ overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning Israel for its treatment of Palestinian Arab children living in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and Gaza.

Children are inspired by Palestinian TV programing to become ‘shaheeds’ (a Muslim martyr)

The vote Sunday night by delegates at the 31st General Synod of the United Church of Christ in Baltimore, Maryland, was 79 percent in favor, 13 percent against and 9 percent abstaining, according to a statement issued by the UCC. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, anti-Israel resolution, boycott, United Church of Christ

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Qatar becomes third Arab country to ban “Wonder Woman” over Israeli actress

Qatar joins Lebanon and Tunisia to ban the int’l blockbuster film starring Gal Gadot, because she’s an Israeli veteran of the IDF.

By JTA

Qatar has become the third Arab-majority country to ban the screening of the movie “Wonder Woman” because lead actress Gal Gadot is Israeli.

Gal Gadot appearing at IDF induction center – Photo: Shaul Golan/Yedioth Ahronoth

The film had been scheduled to premiere in Qatar Thursday and was being promoted by local theater chains VOX Cinemas Qatar and Novo Cinemas. But in the days before its scheduled release, the film was removed from cinema websites, Doha News reported. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: boycott, Gal Gadot, IDF soldier, movie, Wonder Woman

WATCH IDF VIDEO: USS George H.W. Bush drops anchor outside of Haifa port

America’s supercarrier USS George H.W. Bush, the world’s largest warship anchors 2.5 miles west of Haifa harbor due to its size.
• GHWB’s crew will have dozens of buses to tour the country and will celebrate their Independence Day in Israel on July 4.

By Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff

The largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier in the American Navy, the USS George H.W. Bush, docked in the vicinity of Haifa Port on Saturday morning.

The Nimitz-class carrier comes with a payload of 90 aircraft, including fighter jets, a spy plane, attack and rescue helicopters, and a V-22 Osprey aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: aircraft carrier, Haifa Port, Independence Day, US Navy, USS George H.W. Bush

IDF demolishes memorial to Palestinian leader of 1974 Ma’alot massacre

Palestinian media reported that the IDF entered Jenin and demolished a memorial erected in honor of Khalid Nazzal, a Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader, who was responsible for the murder of 22 children & 3 adults, a.k.a. the Ma’alot massacre of 1974.

By Andrew Friedman/TPS

IDF soldiers have destroyed a memorial in Jenin to Khalid Nazzal, a leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) terrorist group who was responsible for a deadly terror attack in the northern town of Ma’alot in 1974.

A Jenin square monument named after Palestinian terrorist Khaled Nazzal, the mastermind of the 1974 Maalot massacre that left 22 children & 3 adults dead.

Category: Israel News | Tags: IDF, Maalot massacre

israelandstuffcom | July 2, 2017

Seeking legal precedent: Israel gov’t vs. Widow & children of Palestinian terrorist for $2.3M

Jerusalem’s District Prosecutors filed suit Sunday, suing widow and 3 children of Palestinian terrorist for $2.3 million for reparations to the state in what will set a legal precedent in Israel’s future actions designed to deter Palestinians carrying out terror attacks.

By i24NEWS

Israel has filed the first lawsuit against the family of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a car-ramming killing four in Jerusalem in January 2017.

Jerusalem’s District Prosecutors filed the suit Sunday, suing his widow and three children for $2.3 million dollars for reparations to the state in what will set a precedent for Israel’s future action against Palestinians carrying out terror attacks. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: District Court, Palestinian terrorism

israelandstuffcom | July 2, 2017