Archive for Israel News

US Amb. Bolton: It’s “a Basic human right” for Jews to purchase homes anywhere

 

WATCH Interview: Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton says, “the notion that Jews can’t buy property in the Old City, in Jerusalem, in any of the former British Mandate, frankly, is unacceptable.”

By Eliran Baruch

 

Former US Ambassador to the U John Bolton spoke to Arutz Sheva about Jewish rights in Jerusalem at the annual dinner of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim Jerusalem Monday night.

“I think it’s a basic human right” for Jews to purchase homes from Arabs in Jerusalem, Ambassador Bolton said. “As long as you have a willing seller and a willing buyer, the notion that Jews can’t buy property in the Old City, in Jerusalem, in any of the former British Mandate, frankly, is unacceptable.” Continue Reading »

Israel Security Minister Urges President Trump to Stop Funding Palestinians

 

Israeli Public Security Minister lauds President Trump’s anti-terror coalition, saying changes are already being felt, but implores the US to stop funding those who incite jihad, which is still openly prevalent in Palestinian culture as “Abbas is sending a message to children growing up in the PA that terror pays.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Tuesday urged the Trump Administration to stop send US taxpayers’ dollars to the Palestinian Authority.

Erdan was speaking at the World Leaders Plenary of the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum in Washington, DC.

President Trump tells Palestinian leadership a serious message in Bethlehem.

Continue Reading »

Israel Antiquities Authority discover Crusader-era escape tunnel near Sea of Galilee

 

Israel Antiquities Authority workers uncover a hidden tunnel in Tiberias through which it is believed served as an escape route during the July 1187 siege, by Muslim ruler Salah a-Din.
• The Mayor of Tiberias to feature the newly discovered tunnel in the town’s development plan.

By Yori Yalon

 

Tunneling through time: An archaeological excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed an 800-year-old tunnel that researchers think served as an escape route from a Crusader fortress in Tiberias to the Sea of Galilee.

The tunnel – Photo curtesy: Israel Antiquities Authority

The tunnel, which appears to have been constructed by Crusaders some 800 years ago, runs underground for 7 meters (23 feet) and is exposed at one end near the promenade in the Old City of Tiberias. Continue Reading »

Los Angeles Judge: IDF’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ against Hamas was ‘War’

 

Legal battle over insurance for USA TV’s Network’s FBI thriller set in Jerusalem was dismissed before trial, as California Judge rules the 2014 Israel–Gaza armed conflict was a “war,” although categorized in Israel as a defensive military operation.

By AMY SPIRO

 

The fighting between Israel and Gaza in the summer of 2014 was officially a war – at least, according to a Los Angeles judge.

The ruling came in relation to USA Network’s TV show Dig – an FBI thriller set in Jerusalem – which has been the center of an ongoing legal battle for at least a year. Continue Reading »

Jewish nurse breastfeeds Palestinian infant as mother hospitalized with serious injury

 

Pediatric nurse at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem volunteers to tend to 9-month-old Arab child from Hebron, after father killed and mother seriously injured in a car accident.

By Yael Freidson

 

During an entire shift in the pediatric emergency room at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, nurse Ula Ostrowski-Zack nursed a nine-month-old Palestinian baby from Hebron whose mother was seriously injured and his father killed in a car accident.

“His aunts were surprised that a Jew agreed to breastfeed him, but I told them that every mother would do it,” she said.

Hadassah Hospital Nurse Ostrowski-Zack, with baby Yaman – courtesy via Ynet

On Friday, Yaman’s parents collided head-on with an armored bus on Route 60. Continue Reading »

Israeli Deputy Minister all but calls NYT report of 6 Day War, ‘Fake News’

 

Israeli Deputy Minister Michael Oren, a historian and visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities, totally rejects a New York Times report claiming Israel was prepared to detonate a nuclear bomb in 1967 if it had felt war was lost, saying, “There is not even half a hint that supports” such a claim.

By Arutz Sheva Staff and JTA

 

Deputy Minister Michael Oren (Kulanu), a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, on Sunday rejected a report in the New York Timeswhich claimed that Israel was prepared to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Sinai to turn the tide of the 1967 Six Day War with its Arab neighbors if necessary. Continue Reading »

Watch: Israel’s PM Netanyahu at African gathering, renews diplomatic ties with Senegal

 

Watch: Netanyahu tells African leaders at the ECOWAS conference in Liberia, “Israel is back in Africa,” starting with renewing diplomatic ties with Senegal, after downgrading ties for supporting a UN resolution condemning Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

By i24NEWS

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Senegal’s President Macky Sall announced on Sunday that the diplomatic crisis between the two countries has ended.

Watch: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses leaders of West African countries.

Earlier this year, in an act of retribution against the countries that co-sponsored a United Nations Security Council resolution in December condemning the construction of Jewish settlements, Israel permanently downgraded its diplomatic ties with New Zealand and Senegal. Continue Reading »

Porsche invests 10’s of million$ in Israel to acquire AI technology for its vehicles

 

Porsche is looking to Israel to bring it into the future of transportation, seen by its investment of eight figures in its effort to integrate artificial intelligence technology.

By ARIANE MANDELL

 

Porsche is establishing an “innovation office” in Israel, and investing eight figures in the effort, the German sports car manufacturer said in a statement released Thursday.

“Porsche is a company that draws on innovation,” the statement read. “And now it is establishing an ‘innovation office’ in Israel.”

Tel Aviv – Photo: PORSCHE

Lutz Meschke, Deputy Chairmain of Porsche’s Executive Board and Member of its Executive Board for Finance and IT, said “Israel is a key market for IT experts and engineers. Continue Reading »

Philippine President rejects US ‘second-hand’ equipment, seeks IDF weapons

 

“I will no longer accept second-hand military equipment” [from the US], said Philippine President Duterte, whose defense budget allocates $500 million for the acquisition of new weapons & military equipment this year.

By REUTERS

 

MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte promised on Friday to buy brand-new military equipment to fight twin Maoist and Muslim rebellions, and no longer accept second-hand weapons from the United States.

President Duterte delivering his first State of the Nation Address – Photo: Ace Morandante/Wikimedia

The Philippine budget allocates more than 100 billion pesos ($2 billion) to modernize the military’s equipment under a five-year plan, spending 25 billion pesos this year on acquisitions from Israel and South Korea. Continue Reading »

Israel Police unveils first 3-D printed manufactured vehicle

 

Introduced at Israel’s annual defense technology conference, the Israel Police force unveiled the 1st-ever 3-D printed new jeep-style police vehicle that incorporated steering and motor components taken from existing police vehicles, including a police helicopter.

By Itsik Saban

 

Design. Save. Print. The Israel Police force has unveiled the first-ever 3-D printed police vehicle.

Continue Reading »

Israel Sends Team to Flood-Stricken Sri Lanka With Emergency Aid

 

Israel’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka delivered disaster relief supplies to Colombo’s Foreign Ministry, along with a letter from President Reuven Rivlin to President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena, expressing Israel’s solidarity with with the Sri Lankan people.

By TAMARA ZIEVE

 

The American Jewish Joint Distribution (JDC) is providing emergency aid to victims of the devastating flooding and mudslides that hit Sri Lanka this week, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands.

This is the worst natural disaster the island nation has seen since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The JDC is already familiar with the region, having then established a Disaster Management Unit together with Sarvodaya, a local Buddhist-inspired humanitarian organization. Continue Reading »

BREAKING: Trump signs ‘waiver’ – US Embassy to remain in Tel Aviv

 

US President Donald Trump just signed a presidential waiver to delay relocating the US Embassy that is currently in Tel Aviv, Israel to Jerusalem.
– White House said the signed waiver avoids complicating President Trump’s efforts to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Associated Press

 

President Donald Trump has temporarily waived a law requiring the US to move its embassy in Israel to JerusalemTrump’s move to renew the waiver for six months keeps the US embassy in Tel Aviv for now. Trump has said he’s reviewing whether to fulfill his campaign promise to move it to Jerusalem.

Trump was facing a Thursday deadline to renew the waiver or see the State Department lose half its funding for its overseas facilities. Continue Reading »

Not Neutral Switzerland Considers War Crimes Charges Against Former Israeli Minister

 

The Swiss Attorney General has confirmed his office is considering ‘war crimes’ charges against Israel’s former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, after receiving complaint submitted by pro-Palestinian group for her role in Israel’s ‘Operation Cast Lead’ against Hamas in 2008.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has confirmed that it is considering a request by a pro-Palestinian group to have former Israeli Foreign Minister and Zionist Union MK tried for alleged war crimes for her role in Israel’s counter-terrorism “Operation Cast Lead.”

Arabs in Uproar After Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal Poses With Israel’s Tzipi Livni – Twitter

According to Le Temps newspaper, Livni was named in a suit filed by the Geneva-based “Urgence Palestine” activist group. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations elected General Assembly vice president

 

Becoming the 4th Israeli in history to be elected to the UN position, Amb. Danny Danon will participate in setting assembly’s agenda, oversee rules during sessions.

By i24NEWS

 

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon was on Wednesday elected as vice president of the General Assembly’s 72nd Session, becoming the fourth Israeli in history to be elected to the position.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon holding a photo of Yoela Chen, an Israeli victim of a terrorist attack orchestrated by jailed terrorist, Marwan Barghouti. – Photo: UN/Rick Bajornas

As part of his role, Danon is to chair General Assembly meetings, participate in setting the assembly’s agenda, and oversee rules and decorum during sessions. Continue Reading »

Israel Intel Report: Palestinians paid terrorists $322 million in 2016, with foreign aid

 

Former Military Intelligence official reports Abbas’ Palestinian Authority spent 7% of its budget for salaries and 20% of its foreign aid on paying terrorists and their families.
• Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman declares, “We will tackle Palestinian incitement head on.”

By Gideon Allon

 

The Palestinian Authority spent some 1.15 billion shekels ($322 million) on payments to terrorists in 2016, a former Military Intelligence official revealed Monday.

President Trump tells Palestinians in Bethlehem: funding terrorism must stop. – Screenshot: White House/graphics IsraelandStuff.

The Palestinian Authority spends millions of dollars annually paying stipends to the families of terrorists who are either jailed in Israel or were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks against Israelis, a practice Israel has repeatedly condemned. Continue Reading »