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IDF teaches Colombian delegation in Israel on how to clear land mines

Colombian gov’t dispatches delegation to Israel seeking IDF expertise in landmine discovery and removal methods, after more than 11,000 Colombians have been killed by mines since 1991.

By JTA

JTA – A Colombian delegation arrived in Israel to receive training on how to clear land mines.

Anti-personnel mine – Naftali Bennett

Colombia sought the expertise of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s National Mine Action Authority on clearing its soil of the deadly devices. The delegation arrived Friday.

The South American nation recently signed a historic peace pact with the FARC terrorist organization ending five years of conflict.

More people have been killed recently by land mines in Colombia than in any other country.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Colombia, landmines, Minefields

israelandstuffcom | September 11, 2016

Israel’s Moran Samuel wins Bronze in rowing at Paralympics

Israel wins first medal at Paralympics by power rower Moran Samuel, in women’s single sculls final.

By ALLON SINAI

Rower Moran Samuel claimed Israel’s first medal at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday, winning a bronze in the arms-shoulders women’s single sculls final.

Moran Samuel – Photo: OCI

Samuel, the reigning world champion, clocked a time of 5:17.46 minutes in the 1,000-meter final and took her first Paralympic medal after finishing in fifth place at London 2012.

“A Paralympic medal is so sweet,” said an emotional Samuel. “I really wanted to win a gold medal and to play the national anthem in Rio, but I gave everything I could.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Moran Samuel, Paralympics

israelandstuffcom | September 11, 2016

The headache of 150 acres that Moshe Dayan gave to Palestinians

An internal document confirmed that in the 1970s, Moshe Dayan gave verbal approval for 2 Palestinians to work 600 dunams of land near Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley.

By Elisha Ben Kimon

An internal document of the Civil Administration confirmed that former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan allowed two Palestinians to control land in the Jordan valley, despite them not having legal ownership over the land.

The story was revealed a year ago when David Elhayani, the head of the Jordan Valley Council, warned the Civil Administration that Palestinians had entered state land that is under the jurisdiction of the municipality and tried to plant a palm grove.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Moshe Dayan, Regavim

israelandstuffcom | September 11, 2016

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Watch Videos: Israel Remembers 9/11

Hundreds of Americans & Israelis gather at the Israeli Memorial to remember the victims on the 15 year anniversary of attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.

By Yoni Kempinski

A memorial ceremony for the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks is being held at the Jewish National Fund 9/11 Living Memorial.

MK Michel Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the US at 9-11 Memorial in Israel. - Photo: Gail Hopke, IsraelandStuff

MK Michel Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the US at 9-11 Memorial in Israel. – Photos: Gail Hopke / IsraelandStuff

Ronald Lauder, Chairman of JNF-USA:

“On September 11th, 2001, Americans showed a great courage and bravery, risking and giving their lives to save people that they never met.

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: 9/11

WATCH: Netanyahu rejects calls for ethnic cleansing in Judea & Samaria

With a possible meeting with Abbas in Russia, Israel’s PM Netanyahu appeals to the public, rejecting out of hand the absurd idea that the presence of Jews in Judea & Samaria is an obstacle to peace.

Elad Benari, Canada

The Palestinian Authority leadership’s demand that a Palestinian state be free of Jews is ethnic cleansing, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Friday, and the concept of ethnic cleansing for peace is absurd.

Netanyahu’s comments came in a video he released in Hebrew and English and which was also released in a version with Arabic subtitles.

“I’m sure many of you have heard the claim that Jewish communities in Judea Samaria, the West Bank, are an obstacle to peace. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Apartheid, Binyamin Netanyahu

Analysis: Palestinian intransigence, not Israeli settlements, is the obstacle to peace

In an honest, objective analysis, it would indicate that the main obstacle to peace and to a viable Palestinian state is Palestinian intransigence and their leaders constant incitement to violence, and not Jewish settlements that have become the scapegoat for obsessive, irrational Israel haters.

By Prof. Michael Curtis

Why are United Nations officials so oblivious to their own documents, let alone to the truth? This appears to be the case with Nicolay Mladenov, the Bulgaria-born UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

Nicolay Mladenov – Wikipedia

He appears to be unaware of the crucial cornerstone document on the Process for a just and lasting peace, the UN Security Council Resolution 242 of November 22, 1967. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, Arab-Israel conflict

Police eject dozens of anti-Israel protesters from disrupting NYC hearing on BDS

#BDSfail: Dozens of disruptive pro-Palestinian activists were ejected by NYPD officers from a hearing supporting a resolution that condemns the BDS movement, which targets “academic, cultural, and civil society institutions, as well as individual Israeli citizens.”

By i24news

Police ejected dozens of people on Thursday from a New York City Council hearing on a resolution condemning the movement to boycott Israel, local media reported.

Demonstrators repeatedly interrupted the meeting on the nonbinding resolution that censures “all efforts to delegitimize the state of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel.”

Protesters chanted “Zionism is racism” while being escorted about by security, the New York Post reported. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: #BDSfail, BDS, NYPD, resolution

Decade later Mel Gibson tells Glenn Beck, ‘Jewish people stole my Christ movie’

After a Gibson representative got involved, GlennBeck.com removed Gibson’s anti-Semitic comments from the website, with an editor’s note stating: “This post has been removed because it inadvertently revealed details of an off the record conversation. We regret the error.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Conservative firebrand and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck revealed on a broadcast last week that during a recent conversation with controversial Hollywood director and actor Mel Gibson, the thespian claimed “Jewish people” had stolen an early copy of The Passion of the Christ movie and used it to attack him before the film’s release.

According to Internet publication The Daily Beast on Thursday, Beck had spoken to Gibson for some 90-minutes following a late August screening of the the latter’s new film, Hacksaw Ridge, which has reportedly garnered rave reviews at the box-office in recent weeks. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: anti-Jewish attacks, anti-Semitism, Glenn Beck

Watch: US law enforcement officers in Israel for bike ride & ceremony

The US Police delegation of 52 sheriffs & officers were joined with 50 of their Israeli counterparts in a ceremony at Israel’s Police Academy, then enjoyed a 30 km bike ride.

By Yoni Kempinski,

Over a hundred policeman from the US and the Israel police rode bicycles together for 30km in the south yesterday.
The Police delegation of 52 sheriffs & officers is visiting Israel for a week and is being hosted by the Israel national police (INP).

US and Israel police at joint ceremony – Photo: Police spokesman

During the weeklong visit, the sheriffs and officers from the US visited the Israel police academy to see the police in training, with live exhibitions and self-defense training. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Police, Israel US, law enforcement

Israel’s natural-gas potential creates buzz for int’l exploration firms

Before heading to Singapore Israel’s Energy Minister Steinitz holds a series of meetings in London with world’s leading firms ahead of natural gas exploration tender planned for November.

By Hezi Sternlicht

Israel is courting foreign investors ahead of a planned natural gas and oil explorations tender the Energy Ministry plans to issue in November, Israel Hayom learned Wednesday.

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz is currently visiting London, meeting with dozens of energy and financial services companies ahead of the tender. He is scheduled to continue on to Singapore next, for a series of similar meetings.

The ministry has mapped out a series of future exploration sites, which Steinitz is presenting to potential investors.

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

Palestinian High Court suspends next month’s municipal elections

PA officials as well as Hamas officials in Gaza have thwarted the opposition in local courts, or simply arrested candidates, but now Palestinian High Court postponed elections for 416 locales on October 8, until an undetermined date.

By ADAM RASGON

The Palestinian High Court of Justice in Ramallah ordered on Thursday the suspension of the Palestinian municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza until an undetermined date, putting the future of the long awaited elections in jeopardy

The elections were supposed to take place in 416 locales on October 8.

The High Court’s decision comes in response to a petition submitted by a Palestinian lawyer, Nael al-Houh, calling for the elections’ suspension due to—the illegitimacy of the judicial and security institutions in Gaza and the exclusion of many Jerusalem municipalities from the elections, according to Maan, a Palestinian news site. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: elections

Analysis: Putin may be what’s missing after 23 yrs of same unattainable 2-state plan

For 23 years now, solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was based on only one 2-state plan and pushed by numerous unsuccessful US administrations that was never attractive enough for either side.

By Giora Eiland

Three and a half years ago, John Kerry took office as the American secretary of state. Like his five predecessors, he rushed to declare that he planned to put time and effort into the advancement of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement based on the two-state principle. When asked why he thought he would be more successful than his predecessors, he provided a typical American answer: “We’ll work harder.” Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: Arab-Israel conflict

Israel Retaliates: Airstrikes pound Syrian mortar launchers for 2nd time this week

For the second time in less than a week, the Israeli Air Force on Wednesday night launched retaliatory airstrikes against Syrian regime mortar launchers in the Golan Heights.

By Elad Benari

The Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes overnight Wednesday against mortar launchers belonging to the Syrian regime on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the IDF Spokesperson stated.

According to the statement, the attacks were in retaliation for the firing of a projectile towards the northern Golan Heights earlier in the day.

No injuries were reported in that incident. It is believed the projectile “leaked” into Israel as part of the fighting between the Syrian regime and the rebels. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Golan Heights, IAF strike, IAF Syria

Israel’s TV1 reports: Released Soviet archives expose Abbas as KGB agent in Syria

REPORT: According to the Mitrokhin archive which was smuggled out of the USSR, Palestinian Authority president then worked under KGB agent Mikhail Bodganov, who was at the time posted in Damascus, according to Israel’s TV1 News.

By i24news

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 News reported Wednesday evening, according to an archive smuggled out of the USSR.

Mahmud Abbas pictured in Brussels on June 22, 2016 – Photo: THIERRY CHARLIER/AFP

According to a document from the famous Mitrokhin archive, which was obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez, Abbas was code-named Krotov (mole) while he worked as a spy, the report said. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Cambridge University, KGB, Mahmud Abbas, spy