Archive for Israel News

Israel TV2 reporter and cameraman beaten in Jaffa by ‘Peaceful’ Israeli Arabs

 

While reporting the funeral of a 20 yr-old Arab criminal from the Tel Aviv suburb of Jaffa, who was shot, killed by police while attempting to evade arrest, the crowd violently turned on the reporting crew and subsequently, almost no media outlet mentioned the attempted Arab lynching of the two innocent Jews.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel has grown so fearful of upsetting the status quo with the Arabs living both inside and surrounding the country that it is willing to quietly sacrifice the safety of its own Jewish population, the very people the state was established in order to protect. Continue Reading »

Int’l nature conservation union designates Israel’s beaches important dolphin habitat

 

In response to Israel’s beaches being added as an important aquatic mammal habitat, Israeli dolphin center director says, ‘Israel is a beam of light in the darkness of a lack of information about marine mammals in eastern Mediterranean.’

By Dan Lavie

 

The beaches of Israel have been declared an important habitat for dolphins by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Widely considered the world’s most important international entity in the field of nature protection, the IUCN is known for its “red lists” of endangered species.

Dolphin at Dolphin Reef in Eilat – Photo: רונן מרקוס/Wikimedia

Israel was one of 26 spots in the Mediterranean region named as being of importance to marine mammal life after a yearlong scientific process by the IUCN. Continue Reading »

Palestinian sources claim Israel forcing Abbas to stay put in Ramallah

 

A Palestinian source claims Abbas’s inability to exit the West Bank is not the result of his cancelling all security cooperation with Israel (as alleged by Abbas’s spokesmen and advisors), but rather stems from Israeli sanctions imposed on the Palestinian leader after “failures” regarding Abbas’ incitement during the Temple Mount incident.
– Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office refutes the allegations.

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, YANIR COZIN

 

Israel is blocking Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas from leaving Ramallah due to his failure to calm the tensions surrounding new security measures at the Temple Mount, according to senior Palestinian sources.

Palestinians praying outside Temple Mount entrance, before the removal of the metal-detectors by Israel.

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Israel offers Iranian journalist asylum in Israel

Responding to a request by the Jerusalem Journalists Association, Israel’s Interior Minister commented, “This is a journalist whose life is in real danger, only because of writing columns on an Israeli news website.”

By Mordechai Sones

 

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri responded to a request by the Jerusalem Journalists Association and the National Journalists Association to approve entry into Israel of Iranian journalist Nada Amin, who writes for the Times of Israel.

Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri – Photo: Wikipedia

Amin is currently in Turkey, where she fled from Iran three years ago. Turkey has already announced that she will be deported in coming days from Turkey to Iran, where she is expected to be sentenced to death. Continue Reading »

IDF makes late night arrest of senior West Bank Hamas parliamentarian

 

Muhammed Abu Tir, one of the most senior Hamas leaders in Judea and Samaria, was arrested at his home in the middle of the night by the IDF over his participation in terror financing.

By Elad Benari

 

The IDF arrested a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament at his home near Ramallah overnight, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said on Friday, according to AFP.

Muhammed Abu Tir, 65, was arrested only two months after he was released from a previous 17-month sentence, the group said.

Female IDF Capt. takes Hamas leader into custody – IDF Screenshot

Abu Tir is from eastern Jerusalem which he represents on the Palestinian Legislative Council. Continue Reading »

Caroline Glick points out NSA McMaster is cleansing pro-Israel staff under Trump’s nose

 

On her Facebook page, Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick posted on Wednesday now President Trump’s National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, is one-by-one firing his pro-Israel staff who BTW support the POTUS’s policies, from the National Security Council (NSC), turning a highly influential and significant office of the administration against President Donald Trump’s policies.

By BREITBART NEWS

 

In a Facebook post, Glick noted that “all of these people” whom McMaster has fired this week — Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick — “are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal, positions that Trump holds.”

She noted that the firings were the latest evidence that NSA McMaster is “deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump”:

According to senior officials aware of his behavior, he constantly refers to Israel as the occupying power and insists falsely and constantly that a country named Palestine existed where Israel is located until 1948 when it was destroyed by the Jews.

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VIDEO: New Israeli System Neutralizes IED, Roadside Bomb Threat

 

Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, over 2,000 American troops have lost their lives to improvised explosive devices. This new system locates, identifies, and can destroy them before they injure, or worse.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

After three years of development, Israel Aerospace Industries has begun testing its Counter Improvised Explosive Device and Mine Suite mobile system.

The system can identify, locate and destroy improvised explosive devices and mines before troops even reach them.

According to project manager Reuven Y., the system, which is not yet operational, “is a new concept that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world. It is a breakthrough technology against IEDs.” Continue Reading »

THANK YOU ♥ Senate committee passes legislation to cut off aid to Palestinians

US Senate Foreign Relations Committee passes Taylor Force Act, in a 17-4 vote, which would cut off financial aid to the PA until it ends its policy of distributing over $300 million annually to terrorists and their families by way of generous monthly stipends.

By Elad Benari

 

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday passed the Taylor Force Act, which would cut U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until it stops payments to terrorists and their families.

The bill passed the committee by a 17 to 4 vote, reported The Washington Free Beacon. It was supported by all of the Republican members of the committee and six of the Democrats. Continue Reading »

Israel security agency foils Turkey-Hamas funding mechanism

 

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency says that after exposing the mechanism that allowed for almost $200,000 to be transferred to agents in the West Bank, it will continue to “thwart this terrorist activity orchestrated by Hamas operatives abroad and in the Gaza Strip.”

By Lilach Shoval

 

A large-scale investigation recently uncovered a Hamas money transfer mechanism funneling cash from Hamas headquarters in Turkey and Gaza to operatives in the West Bank city of Hebron.

Israel Police investigators – Israel Police Spokesperson Dept.

The investigation, a cooperative effort between the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet security agency and the Israel Police, was placed under gag order, lifted Thursday. Continue Reading »

Israel’s first Arab Supreme Court Justice, Salim Joubran, retires

 

At the farewell ceremony of the Jewish State’s first Arab citizen appointed to the Supreme Court, Israel’s Supreme Court President Miriam Naor said, ‘Joubran is the Israeli embodiment at its best.’

By Tova Tzimuki and Telem Yahav

 

Supreme Court Justice and Vice President Salim Joubran retired Thursday from his post at the mandatory judicial retirement age of 70.

Israel’s Supreme Court Justice, Salim Joubran – Photo: רדיומן/Wikimedia

Joubran received a dignified farewell ceremony after he dealt with his last day in the Supreme Court on the issue of allowing same-sex couples to adopt—a right still reserved for heterosexual couples only. Continue Reading »

Those who advocate Israel’s destruction are the first to demand Israel save them

 

Apparently, not just the mega-millionaire Palestinian leaders feel the ‘right’ to exploit Israeli hospitals for strictly personal gains: After being badly injured in a car accident, a Palestinian pulled out his gun in order to “persuade” the PA hospital in Jenin to transfer his relative to an Israeli hospital for medical treatment.

By Tsvi Sadan

 

A sense of despair accompanies the experience of watching someone defending Israel. The bias, the ignorance, the post-truth era, makes it nearly impossible to win an argument that favors Israel.

It’s as if in and of itself speaking positively about the Jewish state is illegitimate. Continue Reading »

North Carolina now 22nd US state to forbid state from doing business with BDS supporters

 

In another major #BDSfail: The new legislation signed by North Carolina’s governor, not only prohibits the state’s agencies from engaging in business agreements with companies supporting BDS, it also mandates divestment from organizations/businesses that do.

By i24NEWS

 

The governor of the US state North Carolina, Roy Cooper signed legislation last Thursday making it illegal for the state to conduct business with companies associated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aganst Israel (BDS), the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported.

The action, making North Carolina the 22nd US state to outlaw state agencies from doing business with BDS affiliated organizations, received praise from the local Jewish federation of Raleigh- Cary as well as from the Israel Action Network, an initiative of the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Continue Reading »

One at a time: Cape Verde will no longer vote against Israel at United Nations

 

At times Cape Verde has abstained or was purposely absent on Israel-related issues, but has generally voted against Israel at the UN. Now, according to the the west coast of Africa nation, it will no longer vote against Israel at the United Nations.

By HERB KEINON

 

The island state of Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa announced on Wednesday it will no longer vote against Israel at the United Nations, the Prime Minister’s Office said Wednesday night.

Cape Verde Islands – Google maps

According to a statement put out by the Prime Minister’s Office, Cape Verde’s President Jorge Carlos Fonseca directed the country’s UN delegation in New York to no longer vote against Israel at the world body. Continue Reading »

Embolden after Temple Mount riots, Palestinians turn up muezzin volume

 

Residents of Jerusalem suburbs claim that since the Temple Mount crisis, nearby mosques have increased the volume of their muezzin calls, especially noticeable at both four in the morning and at seven in the evening calls to prayer.

By Benny Tocker

 

Residents of Mevasseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem, are complaining that, since the Temple Mount crisis, the mosques in nearby villages and in Jerusalem have increased the strength of their muezzin calls.

Loudspeaker system used in Israel – Photo/ IsraelandStuff/PP

Eliyahu Trabelsi, a member of the local Torah core group who studies at a kollel (institute of Torah study) in Mevasseret Zion, told Arutz Sheva that the volume of the muezzin calls has reached unprecedented levels. Continue Reading »

Israel’s arch enemy, PLO chief puts himself on transplant list in Israel

 

After a career of lying, demonizing and delegitimizing Israel, as well as preferring conflict over peace, the Palestinian chief negotiator and adversary at every peace table, Saeb Erekat now looks to Israel over every Arab or Muslim country for his life-saving treatment.

By EYTAN HALON

 

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is suffering from a serious respiratory disease and is on the waiting list for a lung transplant in Israel or the United States, according to Ynet.

Erekat, who is also secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and one of the most recognizable Palestinian public figures, is reported to be suffering from pulmonary fibrosis and has been informed that a transplant will markedly increase his chances of survival. Continue Reading »