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Czech Republic reconsiders: Jerusalem remains on gov’t map as Israel’s capital

The Czech Republic reconsiders, deciding not to be influenced by inciters by carry out its previous decision to replace Jerusalem with Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel in school textbook maps.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat celebrated the decision of the Czech government not to cave to Palestinian pressure and show Tel Aviv – not Jerusalem – as the capital of Israel in school textbooks, after it had declared it would do so a week ago.

“We’re on the map!” Barkat said. “The truth has won out over the falsehood: […] I am happy that the letter I sent to the Czech Prime Minister and the other diplomatic efforts had influence, and I thank the Czech government for deciding the correct decision and not giving in to wild Palestinian lies and incitement.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, Israel Czech Republic, Jerusalem

Palestinian Official: Jews Are Desecrating Jerusalem With Wine

Palestinian official effectively accuses Jews of dancing on the graves of buried Muslims.

By Israel Today Staff

The Muslim world refuses to acknowledge the religious and historical connection Jews have to Jerusalem, and so are quick to condemn Israel for “desecrating” the holy city at every opportunity.

For example, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee for Education, Culture and Science has publicly decried the annual Jerusalem Wine Festival being held this week at the Art Garden of the Israel Museum and at the open-air Mamilla Mall adjacent to the Old City.

The Palestinian official, Murad Al-Sudani, said the wine-drinking Jews represented a “dangerous provocation,” especially those at the Mamilla venue, which is partially situated over an ancient Muslim cemetery. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Wine Festival, wine

UK to build & finance an Israel-like security wall in France to stop Muslim infiltrators

The $3 million border wall will be latest EU stationed anti-Muslim migrant barrier to be constructed as Europe struggles with its migrant invasion influx and off-the-chart crime rate in decades.

By i24news, AFP

Britain is to start building a wall in the northern French port of Calais to stop migrants jumping on trucks, under a deal agreed earlier this year, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.

The building of a wall in Calais was agreed following tens of thousands of attempted Channel crossings last year through trucks boarding ferries and the Euro-tunnel. – Photo: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP

The four-meter (13-foot) high, one-kilometer long barrier will be built on a port approach road starting this month and should be completed by the end of this year, officials said.

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: security fence

2nd Temple floor tiles reconstructed from debris discarded by Palestinians

Israeli Archaeologists reconstructed decorative tiles from Second Temple period using the discarded multi-colored tiles with geometric designs that were a gift from Roman Caesar Augustus to King Herod, known to have adorned the Temple compound and surrounding buildings.

By Yori Yalon

Striking in their modernity: Researchers have completed the first-ever reconstruction of archaeological elements from the Second Temple — a number of floor tiles that are believed to have adorned the porticos that surrounded the Temple compound, and possibly other important structures in the area, as well.

From left: Frankie Snyder, who reconstructed the tile designs, Dr. Gabriel Barkay, and Zachi Dvira – Photo: Dudi Vaaknin

The tiles, a gift from the Roman Caesar Augustus to King Herod (who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 BCE), were created using different types of colored stone cut and arranged in clean geometric designs. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News, Jewish News | Tags: Israel archaeology, Second Temple, Temple Mount, Temple Mount Sifting Project

Israel’s genetically altered algae can power a green energy revolution

Tel Aviv University researchers genetically altered algae, allowing the organism to increase its hydrogen output 5 fold, transforming the humble pond slime into a clean fuel source.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Israeli researchers have transformed humble pond slime into an engine to drive a green energy revolution.

Dr. Iftach Yacoby and his team at Tel Aviv University genetically altered single-celled algae, which naturally emit hydrogen throughout the day, allowing the organism to increase its efficiency to five times its natural ability.

TAU’s Dr. Iftach Yacoby and his algae. – Photo: Tel Aviv University

Hydrogen fuel cells are already being introduced into vehicles, and the new discovery could mean algae becomes a key player in the push for green energies. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Green Energy, High Tech, hydrogen, innovations, Tel Aviv University

AIRPORT ANNOUNCEMENT: ‘Air Serbia’s Flight to Palestine Leaving From Gate C3’

At the Serbian Int’l airport Israelis waiting to return home from Belgrade were shocked to hear the gate announcement that their flight was to Palestine, and were told that Tel Aviv in fact, is not in Israel.

By Itamar Eichner

Land crew at Serbia’s Nikola Tesla International Airport in Belgrade has recently informed Air Serbia passengers flying to Tel Aviv that boarding had begun for the flight to “Palestine.”

Air Serbia – Photo: Shutterstock

The incident, which occurred on August 29 ahead of Air Serbia’s JUO 816 night flight from Belgrade to Tel Aviv, created uproar at the airport, with Israeli passengers refusing to get on the plane until the correct announcement was made.

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: Air Serbia, anti-Israel Propaganda, Belgrade, Serbia, travel

Muslim nations cooperate with Israel on Mid-East particle-accelerator project

Israelis are working with Muslim scientists on a landmark science project, and their collaborating colleagues are from Pakistan and Iran!

By ILTV

View original Arutz Sheva publication at:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/217428 Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: cooperation, Science & Technology

israelandstuffcom | September 6, 2016

World oblivious to current Arab genocide of indigenous in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon

Because the world & mainstream media are on constant alert to accuse Israel for its next reaction to violence against its citizens, Egyptian Copts, Lebanon’s Maronites, Iraq’s & Syria’s Assyrians/Chaldeans, Kurds, Berbers, Yazidis etc. (all also) – the indigenous people of the area – are victims of genocides by the area’s Arab invaders and are given little to zero attention.

The Occupier and the Occupied by David Marc Silon

Consider the following scenario: Violent settlers clash with the indigenous people. They take away their property and drive them off their land. Murders and kidnappings occur daily. There is no judicial recourse. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, Armenian genocide, genocide, media bias

Israel upgrades relations with Japan as Arab oil influence wanes

Japan is no longer reluctant to upset its oil suppliers with the geopolitics changing in the Mid-East as oil prices go down, so strategically, they’re not as important as in the past.

By REUTERS

Japanese executives say they are increasingly drawn to investments in Israel as the price of oil falls and, with it, the influence Arab oil suppliers have on Japan’s decision-making.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Jerusalem. – Photo: KOBI GIDEON/GPO

Over the past two years, Japan and Israel have strengthened business ties, signing a series of economic agreements on the back of a visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Israel in 2015 and Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Tokyo in 2014. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: economic cooperation, Israel Japan

VIDEO: Tel Aviv parking garage collapse, killing 2, wounding 18

Ongoing development: Search & rescue teams still working to extricate victims buried in rubble of collapsed parking garage in the center of Tel Aviv.

Arutz Sheva Staff

An underground parking garage under construction in Tel Aviv collapsed Monday morning, leaving two dead and some 18 people injured. One of the dead was a 35-year-old man, according to Channel 10 Television.

The incident occurred in the Ramat Hahayal neighborhood in northern Tel Aviv, an area with a large number of hi-tech firms.

MDA emergency responders said one person was seriously injured in the collapse. Witnesses say he appeared to be in his mid-20s and was a worker at the site.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Firefighter Brigade, IDF search & rescue team, Magen David Adom, MDA

Palestinian terrorist shot dead in Jerusalem during vehicular attack

In an attempted vehicular terrorist attack Sunday night, the Palestinian driver was neutralize while attempting to run over Border Guard police in the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, leaving the passengers to be arrested afterwards.

By Roi Yanovsky and Elior Levy

A Palestinian vehicle leaving the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem attempted to run over Police and Border Police forces Sunday night in an attempted terrorist attack. There were no injuries to Israeli forces.

Vehicle used in the attack

Police said the vehicle approached them at high speed, trying to hit them. Forces began the accepted procedure to stop a suspicious vehicle, but the driver refused to slow down. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Border Guard, Palestinian terrorists, Shuafat, terrorist attack, terrorist neutralized, vehicular attack

Australian FM says Palestinians share blame for stalemate

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop condemned the BDS movement in Australia as anti-Semitic, and refuses to call Israeli settlements “illegal” something the EU, UN, US and the Arab world does, saying that doing so would prejudice the outcome of negotiations.

By HERB KEINON

Unilateral actions toward statehood and violence by Palestinians – not only Israeli settlement construction – are hurdles to the peace process, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop – Photo: REUTERS

“We call for the peace negotiations to recommence, and likewise we publicly and privately say that any unilateral action that is seen as damaging or impeding the peace process should be called what it is,” Bishop said in an interview, shortly after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Australia, Julie Bishop

Palestinian charged with attempting to smuggle diving equipment to Hamas

A Gaza merchant charged with attempting to illegally smuggle diving equipment to Hamas’ military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades via the Kerem Shalom checkpoint to Gaza.

By Yoel Domb

Gaza merchant was charged Sunday with an attempt to illegally smuggle diving equipment through Kerem Shalom checkpoint to an armed wing of Hamas. The indictment stated that he tried to smuggle diving equipment into the Gaza strip illegally and to sell it to the military wing of Hamas and that he transferred large quantities of sports equipment to the Hamas military wing.

Three months ago the Kerem Shalom checkpoint security guards managed to foil the large smuggling attempt. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, smuggle, smugglers