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5 very Jewish moments in the life of Bob Dylan, born, Robert Zimmerman

Here’s a look into a few great ‘Jewish moments’ of Bob Dylan, the 15th Jewish Laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature.

By Gabe Friedman

JTA – Maybe the times are a changin’? Bob Dylan became the first person considered primarily a musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature when he was bestowed the prestigious honor on Thursday. The Bard — as he is known affectionately by fans, underscoring how he is often seen equally as a poet and musician — became the fifteenth Jew to win the literature prize, joining the ranks of Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Patrick Modiano. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Bob Dylan, Jewish Culture, Nobel Prize

IDF rolls out new field-proven equipment after Armored Corps Battalion exercise

IDF welcomes a few new battle-field equipment:
• Backtrail follows armored vehicles in any terrain holding up to 8 tons of supplies & munitions.
• Camel II water distribution system delivers full water tanks to field units.
• “Crane truck” allows tanks’ motors to be replaced on the battle-field.

By Lilach Shoval

The Israel Defense Forces is adding a number of new pieces of logistics equipment to its stocks with aim of improving operations in battle, particularly when it comes to supplying soldiers with water and other needs. The new equipment was tested and proved successful in an exercise the Armored Corps’ 7th Battalion conducted a few weeks ago. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: acktrails, Camel II, Crane truck, IDF, IDF Armored Corps

Japan joins U.S. to withhold annual dues to UNESCO

Japan, the 2nd-largest donor state after the US, says their actions to withhold payment is to make sure the UN body lives up to its founding purpose of promoting peace among member nations through education.

By The Associated Press

TOKYO — Japan has withheld its annual UNESCO dues, saying it wants to make sure the UN body properly functions to foster trust among member nations.

UNESCO HQ in Paris – Screenshot

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, asked by a reporter, confirmed that Japan withheld dues of nearly 4 billion yen ($40 million) for this year. He refused to say if that was to protest UNESCO’s listing last year of Chinese Rape of Nanking documents as a memory of the world.Israel Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Japan, UNESCO

UK Parliamentary report on anti-Semitism criticizes Labour Party, Twitter, Jeremy Corby

Wide-ranging Home Affairs Committee report on antisemitism stridently criticizes Jeremy Corby, Labour Party and suggests ‘Zionist’ must not be used as derogatory term.

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

LONDON: The influential, cross-party Home Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament has published a report which details failings in the way antisemitism is investigated and dealt with within the UK. The report says that all political parties and media giants must address “pernicious” antisemitic hate.

UK PM David Cameron tells Jeremy Corbyn to ‘sort out’ Labour’s antisemitism problem – YouTube Screenshot (video below)

The importance of this report should not be underestimated. For a long time, many Jews in the UK have expressed deep concern about antisemitism. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionists, antisemitism, UK

Paris regional council adopts amendment that outlaws funding BDS promoters

“In accordance with the law, I will not tolerate any form of boycotts against Israel in the Ile-de-France region,” said the council’s president, Valérie Pécresse of the UMP party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

By JTA

A regional council in France that includes Paris passed a precedent-setting amendment that excludes funding from promoters of boycotts against Israel.

Anti-Israel demonstrators march behind BDS banner in Marseille. – Photo: AFP

The council of the Ile-de-France region, where right-wing parties have a majority, adopted the amendment Thursday, the Le Monde Juif website reported the following day.

In France, several dozen promoters of a boycott against Israel have been convicted of inciting hate, or discrimination.

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: #BDSfail, anti-Israel Protesters, BDS, France

Israeli exports to Africa double as China’s imports decline

With Africa’s rapid economic growth, a quarter of Israeli exporters believe that Africa holds the market where they can expand the most effectively, since China is currently suffering slight economic stagnation.
– Israel’s top Africa exporting partners are: Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

By Roi Bergman

Israel has been exporting more to Africa as the continent experiences significant economic growth and as the Chinese economy begins to weaken.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at summit meeting with leaders of 7 East African states – Photo: Israel’s GPO/Kobi Gideon

The Israel Foreign Trade Risks Insurance Corporation (ASHRA) has approved 28 deals to be covered by the insurance corporation. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: economic ties, Israel Africa, Israel China, trade mission

Turkey & Israel expand energy cooperation, strengthen ties

6 years after the souring of ties, natural gas is helping the two regional powers begin normalizing their relations, with Israel’s Minister of Energy, Yuval Steinitz saying, ‘The economic results should be to the benefit of the peoples of Turkey & Israel.’

By Reuters

Israel and Turkey agreed to deepen cooperation in the energy sector on Thursday, taking a further step towards normalizing ties with the first Israeli ministerial visit to Turkey since a breakdown six years ago.

Israel’s Minister of Energy, Yuval Steinitz and Erdogan meet in Turkey – Photo source: Ynet

Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said he would welcome more involvement by Turkish firms in the Israeli energy sector, particularly in gas exploration, and said “detailed dialogue” between the two governments would begin in the coming months,

After meeting in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Berat Albayrak, who is President Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, Steinitz said the two had discussed the possibility of building a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: economic cooperation, Energy and Water Ministry, Israel Turkey, natural gas, Yuval Steinitz

Israel charges UN-Hamas double-agent in Beersheba District Court

UN Development Program has alternately expressed condemnation of their Gaza engineer’s alleged betrayal, while implying that maybe Israel’s charges may be inaccurate.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

A senior United Nations engineer in the Gaza Strip was arraigned Thursday in Beersheba District Court on charges that he abused his post in order to aid Hamas, including using the construction of a port as a base of operations for its naval commandos.

Forced to remain in squalor as Hamas redirects funds for food, health & reconstruction to tunnel construction & wages to Hamas militants. – Photo: NYT

After the court confirmed that 38-year-old Wahid Abdullah al-Bursh of Jabalya understood the charges, Bursh’s attorney, Lea Tsemel, said she would be filing several pretrial motions against the charges. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: District Court, hamas, UN corruption, UNDP

PA: UNESCO’s denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem is ‘victory for Palestinian people’

Celebrating Palestinians claim exclusive sovereignty over Jewish, Christian, Muslim holy sites in Old City of Jerusalem, saying UNESCO resolution comes at a time of ‘increased Judaization of Jerusalem.

By Elior Levy

The ruling Fatah party has welcomed a UNESCO decision which negates the connection between Jews and the Temple Mount.

“This decision is an important victory for the Palestinian people, the protectors of al-Aqsa, and in terms of national defense,” a Palestinian spokesperson said.

A Fatah press release said that the importance of the decision lies in its content, specifically that it denies any historical connection between Jews and Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Fatah, Kotel, Temple Mount, UNESCO

Israeli Arab charity suspected of being front for foreign entities’ financing of terrorism

Israel’s Int’l Legal Forum produces evidence exposing the east Jerusalem-based Committee of Agricultural Work of diverting millions of dollars in foreign donations to the terrorist group, PFLP.

By Yair Altman

Israeli authorities are investigating possible donor fraud by an Arab association which allegedly posed as a nonprofit group while funding a Palestinian terrorist organization.

A Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) rally in Gaza [Archive] – Photo: AP

The Registrar of Associations in Israel is reportedly pursuing the liquidation of the east Jerusalem-based “Lajnat al-Amal al-Zarai,” or the Committee of Agricultural Work, for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to the Gaza Strip-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Category: Israel News | Tags: PFLP, terrorism

Israel Security Services arrests 3 Arab Israelis for trying to join ISIS

Following IDF forces’ discovery of a tunnel between the West Bank and Israel proper, intended for smuggling weapons to carry out attacks, the 3 Israeli-Arabs were arrested.
– 2 of the arrested Arab males had previously attempted to enter Syria to join ISIS.

By Gilad Morag

Three Israeli-Arabs from Taybe were arrested in September on suspicion of supporting ISIS in a joint operation between the Israel Police and the Shin Bet.

2 of the three, Ibrahim Yusuf and Amir Jabara – Israel Security Services

Amongst other things, members of the group are suspected of trying to set fire to the local soccer stadium in order to prevent a concert scheduled for Eid al-Adha during a performance by one of the winners of Arab Idol which was to occur in Taybe. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: ISIS, Shin Bet, smuggling tunnel, Taybe

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UNESCO Passes Resolution: Temple Mount and Western Wall exclusively Muslim

Only 6, the US, UK, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany & Estonia, of the 58 members of UNESCO, voted against the anti-Jewish, anti-Christian resolution.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

In a 24-6 vote, UNESCO on Thursday gave its preliminary approval to a resolution that ignores Jewish ties to its most holy religious sites: the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Temple Mount – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Another 26 nations abstained and two were absent all together.

Those countries who voted in support of Israel were: the United States, Great Britain, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany and Estonia.

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Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, anti-Semitic propaganda, UN bias, UN hypocrisy, UNESCO

Gaza entrepreneur: Hamas open to Israeli economic cooperation

The idea, arousing the interest amongst businesspeople in plastics, agriculture, assembling electronic components, and metal work, can provide a livelihood for 60,000 families, the far majority from Gaza, who are suffering a 60% unemployment rate.

By GLOBES/AMIRAM BARKAT

“The poor and the hungry try to agitate not because they love disturbances but because they want to be taken into account and paid attention to,” says Gaza businessman Nabil Bouab.

Nabil Bouab – Photo: americanportfolios

Bouab agreed to be interviewed by “Globes” following the article featuring Israeli businessman Shlomi Fogel, the owner of Ampa and Israel Shipyards. Well connected in the Arab world, Fogel called on Israeli businesspeople and their counterparts in Gaza and the Arab world, “to come to Gaza now,” and be partners in setting up five or six industrial zones and free trade areas along the Israel-Gaza border, on the Israeli side. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: economic cooperation, Israel Gaza, Nabil Bouab

Yom Kippur clashes with Israel Police in East Jerusalem gets Palestinian killed

20 yr-old Molotov cocktail throwing Ali Atef Shuyukhi was killed as he and other masked Palestinian rioters attacked, endangering Israeli forces in Silwan.

By Elior Levy, Roi Yanovsky

A Palestinian man was killed in clashes that broke out between Israeli Police and Border Police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Tuesday night, during the Yom Kippur fast.

Palestinian throws firebomb at Jews – illustrative file photo

Ali Atef Shuyukhi, 20, was shot dead in the clashes, which lasted for a few hours. He was released from Israeli prison a few months ago after serving a year-and-a-half-long sentence.The

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab riots, Border Police, Israel Police, Silwan, terrorist neutralized, Yom Kippur