Archive for Israel News

Police: Arab terrorist attacks 3 Jews, killing one, after girlfriend calls him ‘Jew lover’

 

21 yr-old Israel Arab, Muhammad Shinawi, who had recently become radicalized and believes “Jews are infidels who should be killed,” was indicted for the Jan. 3 murder of Haifa resident Guy Kafri and the attempted murder of judge Yehiel Iluz.

By Lilach Shoval

 

Three shooting incidents that took place in Haifa on Jan. 3 were a spree perpetrated by a single gunman, the Israel Police revealed Monday.

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Palestinians hurl slurs at UN Chief for acknowledging Jewish ties to Temple Mount

 

Speaking to Israel Radio on Friday, the new U.N. leader, Antonio Guterres acknowledged that “the Temple the Romans destroyed in Jerusalem was a Jewish temple,” and went on to say that he has no intention of forcing a peace process on Israel and the Palestinians.

BY ADAM RASGON

 

Palestinian officials criticized United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday for saying that a Jewish temple existed atop the Temple Mount.

Entry to the Dome of the Rock, on the Temple Mount – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“[Gueterres] ignored UNESCO’s decision that considered the Al-Aksa Mosque of pure Islamic heritage,” Adnan al-Husseini, Palestinian Authority Jerusalem Affairs minister told Xinhua, a Chinese news outlet, clarifying that the UN secretary-general “violated all legal, diplomatic and humanitarian customs and overstepped his role as secretary general…and must issue an apology to the Palestinian people.”
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IDF releases first secured military smartphone for the battlefield

 

WATCH: IDF releases to it’s soldiers a new secure smartphone, the first of its kind, to help them maintain their security on and off the battlefield.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The IDF recently released a new military smartphone, which can support both G4 and military networks.

Using the new smartphones, IDF soldiers and commanders will be able to securely share classified information, as well as footage and visuals from the field. Spoken code, as well as the dangerous need to speak on the battlefield, will become a thing of the past.

Earlier in January, Hamas terrorists managed to hack the phones of dozes of IDF soldiers by posing as women on Facebook. Continue Reading »

EX-MOSSAD CHIEF: If Trump doesn’t give ‘Bunker-Busters’, Israel should develop them

 

Israel’s super-spy Danny Yatom talks openly about the Temple Mount, Golan Heights, why the Mossad needs more women, the CIA and more.

BY YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

 

Few people have walked the labyrinths of power for as long as Danny Yatom, the former Mossad director, IDF general and chief of staff, and military secretary to multiple prime ministers.

In fact, the title of the recently published English translation of his book is Labyrinth of Power.

GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator – Photo- DoD: Wikimedia Commons

The 71-year-old Yatom, who gained national attention at the side of Ehud Barak during the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit’s Sabena Flight 571 hostage rescue mission in 1972, recently sat down with The Jerusalem Post at his Dantov Global Consulting Group offices in Herzliya for a wide-ranging interview. Continue Reading »

WATCH VIDEO REPORT: Israel plans to assimilate 100 Syrian orphans

Israel reports plans to absorb 100 Syrian orphans from the war-torn country and place then in Ministry of Education dormitories, before they get assimilated into families. 

By I24news

 

 

View original i24news publication at:
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Arab firestorm erupts on Twitter after Tzipi Livni posted photo with Saudi Prince

 

After talking peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni posted a friendly photo on Twitter that causes an explosion of hatred from Arab social media users & Arab commentators.

By Yossi Aloni

 

All those Arabs who claim to want peace were in an uproar this week after Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal acted peacefully toward former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

The two were in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. They participated in a panel, along with Jordan’s foreign minister, regarding the future of the Middle East.

Following the panel, al-Faisal posed for a picture with Livni, which the Israeli then posted to Twitter. Continue Reading »

PM Netanyahu confident Trump will change world’s attitude on Iranian threats

 

WATCH: PM Netanyahu’s address marked Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying that even as antisemitism is on the rise in Europe, the greatest hatred of the Jewish people and the Jewish State comes from Iran.

BY HERB KEINON, DANIELLE ZIRI

 

The world’s view of Iran is likely to change with US President Donald Trump in the White House, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Thursday during a speech at Yad Vashem to the diplomatic corps.

PM Netanyahu addresses the Diplomatic Corps at an event hosted by Yad Vashem marking Int’l Day of Commemoration in memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.-

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Chile Supreme Court rejects Palestinian lawsuit against three Israeli Judges

 

Chile’s Supreme Court rejected a Palestinian appeal to indict Israeli judges because there wasn’t any evidence to charge them as criminals, let alone war criminals or for crimes against humanity.

By Tovah Tzimuki

 

A complaint against three Israeli Supreme Court justices has been rejected in Chile for a second time.

Former Israeli Judge Asher Grunis – By Oyoyoy:Wikimedia Commons

The three – Former Judge Asher Grunis, Judge Uzi Feldman, and Judge Nil Handel – had complaints against them for their part in permitting the construction of the West Bank security barrier in the Beit Jala area.

The complaint was issued by the Palestinian Federation of Chile in November to the Supreme Court of Chile. Continue Reading »

Israel moves to decriminalize cannabis for personal use

 

Minister Erdan explained that under the new policy, police would focus enforcement of laws against marijuana use in public spaces, not people’s homes, saying, “The goal of the plan is to prevent significant harm to regular people who have no criminal past.”

By i24news

 

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Thursday announced that he would move to decriminalize the personal use of cannabis – which would make Israel, already at the forefront of medical marijuana research, the first country in the Middle East or Africa to decriminalize the substance.

Israel's Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan - Photo: Facebook

Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan – Photo: Facebook

Erdan said people caught possessing up to 15 grams of cannabis would receive a fine, with criminal charges being brought only as a “last resort”. Continue Reading »

Israel scheduled to be 4th country to land vehicle on the moon

 

Following the U.S., China & the U.S.S.R., Israel’s SpaceIL team for Google’s Lunar XPRIZE competition plans to land a dishwasher-sized vehicle in late 2017, to hop across moon’s surface (rather than rove like others) for a $20 million prize.

By Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israel is scheduled to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, with a launch planned for the end of 2017 by billionaire businessman Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.

The scheduled launch is also set to send several satellites into space, but the Israeli spacecraft is the only one designed to continue to the moon. Continue Reading »

IDF Cyber Unit expose 6 additional spurious Hamas ‘women’ on social media

 

The IDF reports Thursday it’s cyber unit revealed it uncovered 6 more Hamas ‘sock-puppets’, false online identities of young attractive ‘girls’, who are trying to obtain sensitive logistical information from Israeli soldiers on Facebook.

By Yoel Domb

 

The IDF reported Thursday that they had revealed six more fictitious identities of Hamas operatives posing as young ladies who tried to seduce soldiers in order to obtain sensitive intelligence information.

“We have opened a hotline for soldiers who believe that somebody is trying to seduce them, or if they have received Facebook requests and we are investigating all of these complaints, said Aleph, a senior member of the information security department of the IDF. Continue Reading »

Video: Israel’s David’s Sling anti-missile missile test concludes successfully

 

WATCH: Israel’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday’s trial testing concluded successfully in its entirety, managing to intercept every single simulated target in the air, and at a high altitudes far from the Israeli coastline.

By Yoav Zitun and Reuters

 

The Israeli security apparatus completed an experiment stretching over a number of days of the new advance David’s Sling system capable of defending against mid-range missiles.

The system is being developed and manufactured jointly by Israel’s state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd and Raytheon Co, a top US arms maker.

During the experiment that took place on Wednesday, a number of precision missiles were launched from Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets above the Mediterranean, at which the advanced system dully fired interception rockets upon detection

According to the director of the Ministry of Defense and the head of the project’s designers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. Continue Reading »

Palestinian neutralized in West Bank trying to run over Israelis at bus stop

 

No-one injured except the killed Palestinian terrorist, in the attempted car-ramming attack.

By i24news

 

A suspected terror attack was thwarted at a bus stop near the town of Kochav Ya’akov in the Binyamin region in the Binyamin region.

A terrorist veered from the main road and crashed into a bus stop where soldiers and civilians were standing. The terrorist was holding a knife but did not get out of the car. No injuries were reported during the attack. The terrorist was neutralized by two soldiers waiting at the bus stop.

Following the incident the IDF closed the highway leading to the site of the attack. Continue Reading »

Giuliani: Trump still backs Jerusalem Embassy move, final decision upcoming

 

Former NY mayor notes Trump administration finds embassy move far more complex, needing more counsel before making final decision.
– Giuliani said POTUS’ no-comment on Israel’s settlement construction announcements demonstrate a stark ideological difference to Obama’s immediate public condemnations.

BY HERB KEINON

 

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has long supported moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and is an advisor to US President Donald Trump, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that he believes the issue “is under active consideration.”

He stepped back, however, from saying whether or not it will happen. “That is something that the president will have to decide. Continue Reading »

Eitan, the IDF’s wheeled APC finishes 1st testing with Nahal Infantry Brigade

 

WATCH: The IDF’s ‘Eitan’, the world’s most modern & protected APC is set to replace the aging American made M113 and comes complete with air conditioning, touch-screen monitors, a 30mm cannon, Trophy active protection system, and with top speed at 56mph.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The Ministry of Defense’s new wheeled armored personnel carrier (APC), known as the ‘Eitan,’ has finished its first round of operational testing with the Nahal Infantry Brigade, which will be the first IDF combat unit to make use of the new vehicle.

The Eitan is slated to replace the aging M113 APC, which has been in service since the 1970s. Continue Reading »