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Syrian schoolgirl returns home after being cured of blood cancer in Israel

With the help of the Israeli gov’t, the IDF tracked down her family in Syria and covertly spirited her brother to Israel, so a bone-marrow transplant at Rambam Hospital was able to cure her cancer.

A six-year-old girl from Syria who was treated for her wound and a blood disease at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center was discharged and sent home on Tuesday after her new Israeli friends held a farewell party and gave her with many gifts, including a first-grade backpack — in the hope that her school is still standing.

Photo Rambam Hospital

She was one of the 140 Syrian civilians — men, women and children — that Rambam doctors, nurses and other personnel have treated over the past three years of civil war there. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Mid-East News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: cancer, Rambam Medical Center, Syrian patients, Tikon Olam

IDF called to extricate unescorted Jews from stone-throwing Arabs at Joseph’s Tomb

An IDF extraction force was rushed to Joseph’s Tomb, that’s located within the Palestinian Authority, to extricate a group of religious Jews who were violently attacked by stone-throwing Arabs after an Israeli bus entered the restricted area without the proper permit or IDF coordination.

By Uzi Baruch

An IDF force was rushed to Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (aka Nablus) yesterday, after an Israeli bus that entered the area of the Tomb without advance coordination was violently attacked by rioting Arabs.

The Arabs threw rocks at the bus, containing 60 Jews of the Breslov hassidic sect, as IDF forces quickly evacuated passengers from the scene. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Joseph's Tomb, stone throwers

WATCH: IDF raids illegal Palestinian weapons factory

In the largest raid of the year, conducted by hundreds of IDF soldiers, along with the Shin Bet and Border Police, improvised-weapons-making factories in Hebron and Bethlehem areas were raided, with no one hurt as violent protesters attempted to thwart the early-morning operation.

By Yoav Zitun

Hundreds of soldiers from five different battalions rushed in at 1:30am Tuesday morning to improvised-weapons-making facilities in the Hebron and Bethlehem areas in an operation that was run by the IDF along with the Shin Bet and Border Police.

Overnight, forces seized 22 weapon manufacturing machines, dozens of weapons & arrested 2 dealers in Judea & Samaria pic.twitter.com/gPSgsF6PJZ

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Shin Bet, weapons, weapons cache

Natanyahu to visit Kazakhstan, historical first for visit to a central Asian Muslim country

The central Asian nation, scheduled to join the UN Security Council, is interested in capitalizing on Israel’s experience with homeland security, border technologies and the joint production of Israeli UAVs.

By HERB KEINON

Kazakhstan Defense Minister Imangali Nurgaliuly Tasmagambetov met with Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday, some four months before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit Kazakhstan and become the first ever sitting Israeli prime minister to visit central Asia.

A general view of Akorda, the official residence of Kazakhstan’s President, in Astana, Kazakhstan.- Photo: REUTERS

Netanyahu’s visit will take place just two weeks before Muslim-majority Kazakhstan takes up a two-year rotating seat on the UN Security Council. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Kazakhstan

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Palestinian Mufti Declares All of Jerusalem as Islamic!

Fermenting more hate & religious tensions, the Palestinian Authority’s appointed cleric of Jerusalem calls on all Arabs to defend Judaism’s Eternal Capital against the Jews.

By Israel Today Staff

The Palestinian Authority-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, declared on Sunday that the entire city belongs to Islam and the Arabs, and must be defended against the Jews.

Palestinian Authority-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Hussein

Speaking on the 47th anniversary of an arson attack against the Al-Aqsa Mosque by an Australian man, Hussein urged all Arabs living in the area to surround Jerusalem’s Temple Mount to prevent further visits to the holy site by Jews and other non-Muslims.

Category: Israel News, Jewish News | Tags: incitement to violence, Jerusalem, Mufti of Jerusalem, ‘Palestinian’ incitement

Israel strikes Syrian Army target after firing mortar shell at Israeli Golan Heights

When the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, the Golan Heights became tense with a growing number of rockets & mortar rounds, mostly stray, hitting the Israeli side, prompting the IDF to respond.

By i24news

The Israeli Defense Forces on Monday carried out a strike in the Syrian Golan Heights in retaliation to mortar fire that landed on the Israeli side of the border, the IDF said in a statement.

A picture taken in January shows the Nimrod Fortress in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights – Photo: JALAA MAREY/AFP

Earlier in the day a mortar shell landed in an open area near the security fence in the central Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Golan Heights, IDF response, Israel Syria, Syrian army

Israel’s PM to offer African leaders new technology at September UN meeting

Exhibition featuring Israel’s cutting-edge technology in the fields of science, agriculture, and medicine is organized by Israeli envoy to the U.N. Danny Danon, with the purpose of assisting rural African villages and further strengthen Israel-Africa ties.

By Mati Tuchfeld

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with African leaders in New York in September, as part of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting.

Netanyahu visited Africa in July for a four-day trip that included meeting with the leaders of Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia.

The meetings scheduled for September will take place as part of a special exhibition organized by Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, The Diaspora, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Danny Danon, innovations, Israel Africa, Israeli Technology

REPORT: Melanoma breakthrough made by Israeli researchers

Researcher led by Tel Aviv University’s Dr. Carmit Levy have discovered the method by which cancer cells inflict themselves on the dermis, now allowing scientists to develop new drugs to cure the disease.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOsVICH

The mechanism by which melanoma – the most aggressive and deadly type of skin cancer – spreads through the body has been discovered by Tel Aviv University and German Cancer Research (DKFZ) researchers.

Medical student conducting research – Photo: TAU’s Sackler School of Medicine

The “breakthrough,” just published as the lead article in the journal Nature Cell Biology has raised hope that it will lead to the cancer becoming “nonthreatening and easily curable.” Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News | Tags: Medical, medical technology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

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Egyptian Foreign Minister tells students: ‘No connection between Israel and terrorism’

Egypt’s Foreign Minister was chastise in the Arabic media for answers he gave high school students visiting the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Cairo, saying, ‘Israel isn’t connected to terrorism,’ after being asked why attacks occur all over the Arab world, but not in Israel.

By Roi Kais

Egyptian Foreign Minister Samah Shoukry was speaking with Egyptian high school students at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Cairo when he was asked why the Egyptian government doesn’t define Israeli and American actions in the Middle East as terrorism.

Egyptian high student asking Foreign Minister Shoukry a question – Photo: Egyptian Foreign Minister

The student also inquired as to why attacks occur all over the Arab world, but not in Israel. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Egypt, Samah Shoukry, terrorism

Israel’s new Defense Minster demonstrates: New retaliation policy far more severe

After the IAF hit dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza overnight in retaliation for unprovoked rocket fire on an Israeli city, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman demonstrated his change in the retaliatory strike policy of Israel’s defense establishment.

By Ido Ben Porat

Avigdor Liberman demonstrated on Sunday for the first time that it paid off to seat him in the chair of the Defense Minister on the 14th floor of the Kirya building in Tel Aviv.

Israel’s Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman

The Yisrael Beytenu chairman made it clear that the retaliation policy of the IDF has changed, and that from now on all rocket fire from Gaza into Israel will be met with a strong response from the Israeli Air Force. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Avigdor Liberman, Defense Ministry, Gaza rockets, IAF strike, IAF-Gaza, rocket attack

Israel returns to Gaza for 2nd retaliatory strike after rocket hits Sderot

Palestinian sources report two Gazans lightly wounded by shrapnel after IAF’s second retaliatory airstrike on terrorist targets in Gaza after Palestinian rocket was fired earlier on Israeli city.

By i24news

The Israeli Defense Forces carried out two waves of air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a projectile fired by a Salafi group pledging allegiance to the Islamic State organization landed on a street in the southern Israeli town of Sderot.

Image circulating on social media purportedly shows aftermath of Israeli air strikes in Gaza. – Photo: AFP

The IDF earlier confirmed that it had responded to the rocket fire with an air strike on targets in Gaza’s Beit Hanoun as well as with artillery fire, which reportedly hit a water tower speculated to have been used as an observation post. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, IAF strike, IAF-Gaza, rocket attack

israelandstuffcom | August 21, 2016

To Israel’s trepidation Hamas set to win most West Bank cities in upcoming elections

With Hamas’ surprised announcement a fortnight ago to participate in West Bank elections, bringing in the same political/ideological policies as Gaza, Israel scrambles to prop up Abbas and the Palestinian Authority.

By Alex Fishman

While Israel’s leadership is busy exhausting itself arguing over Hamas’s tunnel digging in Gaza in 2014, they are missing—or perhaps ignoring—a major threat the terror organization is preparing in the West Bank. This political threat, which very well might pose obstacles to Israel’s operations in the West Bank, can’t be destroyed using technological measures.

Hamas is about to take over the municipal centers of power in the West Bank in a legal and democratic way in several weeks time as part of its plan to take over the entire Palestinian Authority—but we, as we always do, may have missed the train yet again. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: elections, Hamas Fatah

israelandstuffcom | August 21, 2016

Israel Air Force Strikes Gaza In Retaliation to Unprovoked Rocket Attack on Civilians

After a Palestinian fired rocket exploded between two homes in Sderot, Israeli jets returned fire on 2 Hamas targets in northern Gaza.
– No injuries reported on either side.

By Rachel Kaplan

A rocket was shot into Sderot along the Gaza border.

A Code Red siren was heard in the region. The IDF confirms that a rocket shot from Beit Hanoun in Gaza landed in Sderot.

IAF on the way to Gaza – Photo: REUTERS

When police searched the area, they found a rocket had exploded between two houses in the city of Sderot. Police have closed off the area; a bomb squad is at the scene. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, IAF strike, IAF-Gaza, rocket attack

israelandstuffcom | August 21, 2016

Egyptian Army arrested 70 Sudanese migrants attempting to enter Israel

According to an AP report, the Sudanese embassy is in contact with Egyptian authorities regarding status of 70 Sudanese nationals being detained in a Cairo prison after illegally entering the Sinai.

By i24news

Egyptian authorities arrested some 70 Sudanese nationals as they attempted to enter Israel, Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ghareeb Allah Khidi said Saturday in a report on the SUNA news agency, according to the Associated Press.

The border fence along Israel’s border with Egypt near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat. – Photo: AFP

The Sudanese embassy was maintaining contact with Egyptian security authorities to follow up on the status and treatment of the Sudanese nationals, who had been detained in a Cairo prison, the spokesman said, according to the report. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: illegal migrants, Israel Egypt, Sudanese migrants

israelandstuffcom | August 20, 2016