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| February 16, 2017
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Fallacy: Israel receives largest share of US military aid

 

Most detractors of the Jewish State cite the myth that Israel receives the largest share of US military aid, but in fact, Israel receives only a small fraction of American military aid, and no less than 70% of that must be spent in the US to the benefit of American workers and the economy.

Myth: Israel is the largest beneficiary of US Military Aid – By Prof. Hillel Frisch

 

Countless articles discrediting Israel (as well as many other better-intentioned articles) ask how it is that a country as small as Israel receives the bulk of US military aid. Israel receives 55%, or $US3.1 billion per year, followed by Egypt, which receives 23%. Continue Reading »

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| February 15, 2017
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From Uzbekistan, the twins Fatima and Zukra join the IDF as Yael and Noga

 

After discovering their Jewish roots, 19yr-old twin sisters Fatima and Zukra from Uzbekistan, began an extraordinary journey of becoming IDF soldiers, Jewish, ‘Yael’ & ‘Noga’ and then finally Israeli.

By Yael Klein

 

They were born 19 years ago in Uzbekistan and have attended a Muslim school. When they learned of their father’s roots, they decided to come to Israel with their families. Today,  Islambakov serve in the Israel Defense Forces. One of them has converted to Judaism and the other will soon finish the conversion process. They have both changed their names. Yael and Noga’s spectacular story.

Fatima and Zukra Islambakov, twins to a Muslim mother, were born 19 years ago in Uzbekistan. Continue Reading »

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| February 15, 2017
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Pro-Palestinian reporter explains how covering conflict changed his mind

 

After a year working and living in Israel as a journalist covering  the conflict with the Palestinians, New England born & raised Hunter Stuart was forced to rethink his positions after seeing first-hand the truth about the conflict.

A View From The Frontlines, By Hunter Stuart

 

IN THE summer of 2015, just three days after I moved to Israel for a year-and-a-half stint freelance reporting in the region, I wrote down my feelings about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A friend of mine in New York had mentioned that it would be interesting to see if living in Israel would change the way I felt. Continue Reading »

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| February 15, 2017
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Netanyahu to Trump: ‘Palestinian state lacks practical feasibility, a waste of time’

 

Israel TV2news reports PM Netanyahu plans to explain to President Trump that a Palestinian state simply lacks practical feasibility, which explains Israeli readiness to negotiate vs. a consistent Palestinian refusal.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet tomorrow (Wednesday) for the first time with Donald Trump in his capacity of President of the United States.

Channel 2 reported that according to estimates, Netanyahu will refrain from mentioning the words “Palestinian state” and explain to the president the lack of feasibility in setting up such a state.

Netanyahu in preparatory meeting for Trump summit –  Photo: אבי אוחיון/GPO

It is believed that Netanyahu will tell the president that he is willing to negotiate with the Palestinians but there is no practical feasibility to establish a state. Continue Reading »

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| February 14, 2017
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Spanish courts nullify 2 anti-Israel resolutions passed by local municipalities

 

With Spain having the highest number of anti-Israel municipal rulings in Europe, Spanish Courts have begun to take a hard line against the BDS movement, as panels of judges in Barcelona & Valencia begin overturning those decisions to boycott Israel.

By Amit Mizrahi

 

Judges in the Spanish cities of Valencia and Barcelona have overturned two anti-Israel decisions passed by Spanish municipalities under the auspices of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS).

The decisions were passed by the local councils of Xeraco, south of Valencia, and Olesa de Montserrat, near Barcelona in the Catalon region.

Under pressure, SodaStream relocated from the West Bank to Israel’s Negev, employing Israeli Bedouin, when 600 Palestinians lost their jobs as a result of the move.

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| February 14, 2017
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District Court orders Haifa Chemicals to empty ammonia tank

 

Mayor Yona Yahav accuses Haifa Chemicals of ‘misleading and lying to the public’ after backtracking on pledge not to appeal court decree to close the potentially catastrophic facility.

By Amir Ben David, Lior El Hai and Ilana Curiel

 

Haifa Chemicals has been ordered to empty the Haifa ammonia tank within 10 days and has been banned from restocking until the end of discussions on a petition to close the facility filed by the city of Haifa.

Haifa Chemicals are expected to appeal the decision, which was taken by Judge Ghada Bsul of the Haifa Court for Local Affairs, despite an earlier pledge to “respect the decision of the court.” Continue Reading »

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| February 14, 2017
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Israel’s Int’l News Channel Launches 24/7 Cable News in US & Worldwide

 

With bureaus in Washington, Paris, New York, and Tel Aviv, Israel’s non-governmental i24NEWS will begin 24/7 broadcasts on13, Feb. 2017 on cable TV in 20 American States.

By i24news

 

Israel-based international news channel i24NEWS will launch in the United States on Monday, bringing content from its studios in New York, Washington, Tel Aviv, and Paris to viewers across the U.S. and around the globe.

The move expands the footprint of the company, led by French-Israeli entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, who established the Tel Aviv-based channel in 2013.

The news organization has more than 250 journalists of some 35 different nationalities and is adding around 50 positions for its new U.S. Continue Reading »

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| February 14, 2017
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Israelis launch undercover mission into Syria: Supplying winter coats to suffering civilians

 

Israeli Jewish, Druze, & Arab youth groups and aid organizations are covertly sending truck loads of winter supplies to anguishing Syrian civilians.

Israel Today Staff

 

The harsh winter has been made all the more unbearable for millions of Syrians as a devastating civil war enters its seventh year.

Across the border, Israel is doing all it can without getting too mired in a neighboring state that still officially considers the Jewish state its sworn enemy.

Bags of donated winter gear to be sent to Syrian refugees from Israeli citizens Photo- Youth Federation for Working and Studying

Enemies or not, a growing number of Israelis are determined to engage in private aid missions to augment the medical care being provided by the government and the Israeli army to those Syrians who can reach the border. Continue Reading »

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| February 13, 2017
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White House source: Trump not to use ‘two states’ in Netanyahu meeting

 

In a total reversal from the first meeting with Obama, a White House source reports President Trump will not be mentioning ‘two states’ or assert pressure on the Israeli PM about home construction in Judea and Samaria during their upcoming meeting on Wednesday.

By Gary Willig

 

US President Donald Trump will not use the term ‘two states’ during his meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu this Wednesday, White House sources reported.

The sources also said that Trump wants to be the President who achieves peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The report by Channel 10 also stated that Trump would not pressure Netanyahu regarding construction in Judea and Samaria. Continue Reading »

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| February 13, 2017
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Khaled Mashal replaced, Ismail Haniyeh ignored after Hamas elections in Gaza

 

Following elections for the terror organization’s internal leadership, Yahya Sanwar, a renowned radical in Hamas who was released as part of the Shalit deal, will rule the strip replacing Khaled Mashal, despite Ismail Haniyeh having been slated to hold the top position.

By Elior Levi

 

Yahya Sanwar has been elected to lead Hamas in the Gaza Strip after internal elections were held for the organization’s institutional and leadership positions, according to reports from Al Jazeera.Sanwar was on the most senior officials released by Israel in the Shalit deal in which hundreds of terrorists and political prisoners were released in exchange for the return of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Continue Reading »

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| February 13, 2017
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Israel’s Finance Minister reveals plan to build 2.6 million homes by 2040

 

Israel’s Finance Minister Kahlon is planning to present the Housing Cabinet later this week an “unprecedented strategic blueprint” in an effort to fight soaring housing prices and meet market demands by the increase in home construction of 247% by 2040.

By Zeev Klein

 

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon plans to unveil a new plan for tackling rising housing costs at a meeting of the Housing Cabinet scheduled to be held later this week.

The plan, a joint project of the National Economic Council, the National Zoning and Planning Committee, and the Housing Forum, the executive arm of the Housing Cabinet, has been described as an “unprecedented strategic blueprint” in the government’s efforts to meet market demands and fight soaring housing prices. Continue Reading »

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| February 13, 2017
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French MP Habib tells Le Pen: Israel is ‘Life Insurance’ for world’s Jews

 

MP Meyer Habib blasts far-right politician’s proposal to ban dual-citizenship as unconstitutional and unconscionable, saying, “If this country [Israel] existed 70 years ago, there would not have been a Holocaust.”

By TAMARA ZIEVE

 

A French Jewish MP on Sunday reminded presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of “Europe’s unremitting debt to the Jewish people” after the far-right politician raised objections to dual-citizenship, which, if enforced, would require French Israelis to choose between the two countries.

“You can’t ask Jews to choose between their mother and father,” Meyer Habib, who represents expats in Israel and other Mediterranean countries, told The Jerusalem Post while slamming the proposal as unconstitutional. Continue Reading »

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| February 12, 2017
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Jewish American immigrant denied citizenship after Temple Mount arrest

 

An American haredi’s citizenship request was denied based on an arrest for ‘interfering with a police officer’ and ‘disturbing the peace’ during a visit on the Temple Mount.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A resident of Jerusalem who applied for citizenship under the Law of Return, was stunned to find his citizenship application opposed by the Interior Ministry because he was previously arrested on the Temple Mount, an arrest for which he is currently suing the police, the Honenu legal organization reported.

A., a haredi Torah scholar from the US who has worked and and studied in Jerusalem for the past few years,and who married an Israeli woman and has Israeli children, was arrested two years ago when he ascended the Temple Mount on suspicion of interfering with a police officer and disturbing the peace on the Temple Mount. Continue Reading »

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| February 11, 2017
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Palestinians outraged after US Ambassador to the UN blocks envoy to Libya

 

Is a new era beginning for Israel at the United Nations? –
PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi outraged at ‘unbridled bias against the Palestinian people’ after appointment of former Palestinian PM as UN envoy to Libya gets blocked, saying, ‘It constitutes a blanket license for the exclusion of Palestinians everywhere.’

By Elior Levy

 

Palestinian activist and Palestinian Liberation Organization Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi denounced the decision by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley to block the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to lead the United Nations political mission in Libya. Ashrawi issued a statement on Saturday, following the US’s decision to block Fayyad’s appointment. Continue Reading »

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| February 10, 2017
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Palestinian Leadership: Exploiting Jerusalem to Facilitate Terror

 

When President Trump announced plans to move the US embassy to the Eternal Capital of the Jewish People, he exposed the vicious Palestinian extremism that uses threats and terror to promote a false narrative of ‘stealing Jerusalem’.

Palestinians Turn Jerusalem Into a Tool of Terror – By Noah Beck

 

Palestinian and other Arab leaders threatened violence in response to President Trump’s pledge to move the U.S. embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. While Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also promised such a move as candidates, each backed off.

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The terrorist who killed four Israelis in Jerusalem Jan. Continue Reading »

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