Archive for Israel News

WATCH: New York Governor visits Jerusalem and proclaims ‘Shimon Peres Day’

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced while visiting Jerusalem, “The first Sunday in June is also the day historically of the Israeli Parade in New York. That day will now be dedicated to Shimon Peres, and I think the president would appreciate that,” he added.

By Ido Ben Porat

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is on a visit to Israel, on Sunday proclaimed the first Sunday in June as “Shimon Peres Day” after Israel’s former Prime Minister and President, who passed away in September.

“Shimon Peres was an asset to the world. He was one of the more gifted leaders that this world has seen. Continue Reading »

REVEALED: How Obama’s administration covertly supported Hamas against Israel

 

Had PM Netanyahu informed the public of the betrayals & the knowledge that the US was covertly backing Hamas, it would have caused more embargoes, abandonment of Israel at the UN and other int’l forums and even more funding to Hamas, so Netanyahu had to fight the diplomatic fight of his life secretly.

REVEALED: The Obama administration’s support for Hamas was not passive
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By Caroline B. Glick

 

Israel’s State Comptroller’s Report on Operation Protective Edge, the Jewish state’s war with Hamas in the summer of 2014, is exceedingly detailed. The problem is that it addresses the wrong details. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Abbas rejected Egyptian led peace summit including regional Arab leaders

 

Causing friction with Egyptian President al-Sissi, the PA autocrat Abbas rejected the Arab led regional peace summit, using Israel as an excuse, spouting, ‘Israel wasn’t serious about peace’.

By i24NEWS

 

Some Arab Quartet states stopped their donations in mid-2016 in order to pressure PA President Mahmoud Abbas to initiate political reforms that will lead to peace with Israel. – IsraelandStuff/PP

Palestinian President Mahmuod Abbas opposed attempts made last year to hold a regional peace summit hosted by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi with the participation of other Arab leaders, Haaretz reported Sunday.

Palestinian sources told Haaretz that an offer made by President Sissi to host a summit in Egypt angered President Abbas as he thought the Israeli government would not be serious about the peace initiative in negotiations. Continue Reading »

PM Netanyahu thunderstruck to hear street named after Yasser Arafat

 

After learning that WAZE displayed a street named after the late PLO chief in the northern Arab town of Jatt, PM Netanyahu vowed to have the street renamed.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

“I heard about the IDF veterans’ efforts to combat the decision to name a street in the Jatt local council after [former PLO leader] Yasser Arafat,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday. “I spoke to Interior Minister Aryeh Deri about it, and he told me that his ministry never approved such a move. No street in the State of Israel shall be named after Arafat — we will take action to have the sign removed. Continue Reading »

IDF Radio reports: Aleppo family claiming to be Jewish asks Israel to extricate them

 

Jewish Agency spokesperson: “We are looking into the matter in order to determine whether the information can be verified and will act accordingly.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF, TAMARA ZIEVE

 

A family from Syria’s war-torn Aleppo is appealing to the state of Israel for refuge, citing their Jewish heritage, Amy Radio reported Sunday.

Courtyard of Aleppo’s Central Synagogue – Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Govorkov

“There is nobody who can help us to get out of this place,” said 30-year-old Aleppo resident Razan (real name withheld) in an audio recording aired on the radio station. “We are asking that the Israeli government does not abandon us, but helps us get out of here to another country. Continue Reading »

US Congressional delegation in Israel to assess Embassy relocation to Jerusalem

 

Previous threats of violence from Palestinian and Jordanian leaders have not stopped moving the embassy, but could spark violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, as a way the Palestinian leadership maintains the status quo.

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An official United States delegation led by Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is briefly visiting Israel on Saturday and Sunday to study the possibility of relocating the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“The delegation is in Jerusalem to learn first hand what it will mean to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” said Ruth Lieberman, a friend of DeSantis and a political advisor in Israel. Continue Reading »

Air India begins direct Israel-New Delhi flights in May

 

India’s largest airline, Air India, announces three weekly direct flights between New Delhi, Tel Aviv to begin in May, to augment the only current direct Israel-New Delhi flights that are via El Al.
• Also, Tus Airways of Cyprus launches its new direct flights from Athens to Haifa.

By Ilan Gattegno, Daniel Siryoti & Israel Hayom Staff

 

India’s largest airline, Air India, on Thursday announced plans to launch direct flights between Tel Aviv and New Delhi, saying that it plans to have three weekly flights on the route, which is expected to become operational in May.

The route is expected to serve the increasing number of Indian tourists visiting Israel and Israelis traveling to India as a result of the strong ties developed between the two countries. Continue Reading »

New Israel-US partnership opens cannabis production lab in New Mexico

 

The manufacture of smokeless, accurately dosed cannabis medication, “with an equal THC – CBD ratio,” is now being produced to treat a wide variety of illnesses, according to the 2 partners’ ‘joint’ statement (no pun intended).

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An Israeli and New Mexican company have joined forces to launch the first-ever pharmaceutical cannabis production lab in the United States.

The Lod-based Panaxia Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Ultra Health have opened a facility in Bernalillo, New Mexico, that will manufacture smokeless, accurately dosed cannabis medication in a variety of delivery methods, the companies announced this week in a joint statement. Continue Reading »

Israeli Jets & Tanks Respond to Two Days of Unprovoked Attacks From Gaza

 

Even though Israel didn’t respond to last night’s rocket fired on Israel, today shots were fired at IDF troops carrying out routine security activities near the security fence along the Gaza border.
– IDF jets & tanks destroy 3 Hamas posts in Gaza in retaliation, leaving Defense Minister Liberman saying, “We will respond to every firing to our territory. That is what we did today and that is what we will also do in the future.”

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The IDF carried out an airstrike and artillery shelling against multiple Hamas targets in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip following gunfire shot toward IDF troops, the army stated on Thursday. Continue Reading »

Gaza rocket lands in open area near Ashkelon, IDF response imminent

 

Tonights attack, still without reports of injuries or damage, follows a similar unprovoked rocket-attack earlier this week, causing Israeli jets to strike 5 Hamas targets in retaliation.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

A rocket exploded in an open area near the southern Ashkelon coastline Wednesday evening. There were no initial reports or injuries or damage.

Security forces were sweeping the area. Red alert sirens were not sounded as the rocket fell in an open area.

There has been no official claim of responsibility for the projectile’s launch, but Israel holds Hamas responsible for all fire coming from the Gaza Strip.

The incident comes just days after IDF jets struck five Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week in retaliation for a rocket that landed in southern Israel overnight Sunday, the army confirmed on Monday. Continue Reading »

Trump’s gov’t tells UNHRC to end ‘obsession with Israel’ (VIDEO)

 

WATCH: US deputy assistant secretary of state tells UN Human Rights Council that, ‘to have any credibility, let alone success,’ it must end its biased agenda against Israel and that the U.S. will oppose all ‘attempts to delegitimize or isolate Israel, not just in the HRC, but wherever it occurs.’

By Reuters

 

The US Trump administration is reviewing its participation in the top United Nations human rights body, with an eye to reform and a balanced agenda that ends the forum’s “obsession with Israel”, a senior US official said on Wednesday.

“The United States also remains deeply troubled by the council’s consistent, unfair and unbalanced focus on one democratic country: Israel,” Erin Barclay, US deputy assistant secretary of state, told the UN Human Rights Council. Continue Reading »

Palestinian terrorist shot dead after stabbing civilian in home-invasion

 

MDA paramedics treat a 33 yr-old man wounded in the Har Hevron community after a knife-yielding Arab terrorist breaks into his home, stabbing him.

By Gary Willig

 

An Israeli civilian was lightly wounded when an Arab terrorist broke into his home in the Har Hevron region and stabbed him.

Magen David Adom EMTs and paramedics reported that they were treating a 33 year old man for stab wounds to his limbs.

Senior MDA EMT Shmuel Koren said: “When we arrived at the scene we saw a fully conscious injured man walking around. We provided medical treatment and stopped his bleeding, while he was in light and stable condition.” Continue Reading »

REPORT: While Israel was fighting Hamas in Gaza, Obama was backing the enemy

 

J’lem Post managing editor said the 2014 Gaza conflict against Hamas’ missiles & terror-tunnels was an ‘unparalleled’ political success, as Israel sagaciously resisted a meretricious White House and turned to the Egyptians & Saudis to foster a ceasefire.

By Gary Willig

 

Jerusalem Post managing editor Caroline Glick called Operation Cast Lead “the most successful operation” in Israeli history in response to the State Comptroller’s report blasting the government for its handling of the tunnel threat.

Glick wrote on her Facebook page that Israel was facing not only Hamas during the 2014 Gaza conflict, but a hostile Obama Administration. “When talking about the political questions regarding Operation Protective Edge, we somehow ignore two important points. Continue Reading »

Top FATAH official denied entry into Egypt, deported to Jordan

Jibril al Rajoub, a confidant of Palestinian antocrat Mahmoud Abbas - PMW

 

Jibril al Rajoub, an official in autocrat Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority, was not allowed entry into Egypt and detained at Cairo Int’l Airport until deported on first flight to Jordan.

By REUTERS

 

CAIRO – Egyptian airport security denied entry to a senior Palestinian official on Monday and deported him, sources at Cairo airport said.

Fatah official Jibril al Rajoub (L), at event commemorating Arafat awards plaques with map of “Palestine” erasing Israel – Photo source: PMW

Jibril al Rajoub, a confidant of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and a high-ranking member of the central committee of Abbas’s Fatah movement, was told he was on a no-entry list and put on a flight to Jordan, the sources said. Continue Reading »

3rd Palestinian garbage-truck confiscated for illegal dumping of solid-waste/garbage

 

Judea and Samaria Civil Administration officials confiscated the third PA garbage truck after being caught dumping trash at improper, illegal site.

By Yoel Domb

 

The Supervisory Unit of the IDF Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria confiscated a Palestinian Authority truck Monday after the truck was caught dumping garbage at an illegal waste disposal site between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron. In the last two weeks two other PA trucks were impounded for similar offenses.

Confiscated Palestinian Authority garbage-trunk for illegal garbage/waste dumping – IDF Civil Administration

The illegal site began to be used for dumping recently after the Civil Administration closed another illegal site next to Qalqilya. Continue Reading »