Archive for Israel News

Israel condemn UN Mideast envoy for ‘distorting history’ & backing Judenrein

 

“Claiming Jewish construction in Jerusalem is illegal is as absurd as claiming American construction in Washington is illegal,” PMO rebuked, continuing, “The Palestinian demand for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from a future Palestinian state is appalling and the U.N. should condemn it… not embrace it.”

By News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Prime Minister’s Office on Monday lambasted the U.N.’s Middle East envoy after he leveled harsh criticism at the government’s Judea and Samaria settlement construction policies.

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UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Bashes Israel at UNSC

At the Security Council briefing, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said all Jewish construction is illegal.

By DANIELLE ZIRI

 

NEW YORK – The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on October 14 to address Israeli settlement building.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov at the Security Council – Screenshot

News of the upcoming meeting emerged after UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov appeared in front of the Security Council on Monday and slammed Israel for continuing to build settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Human Rights Watch: Both Palestinian gov’ts abuse journalists, bloggers

 

According to NGO Human Rights Watch, Hamas authorities in Gaza and even Abbas’ Palestinian Authority police are silencing dissent and abusing journalists who go against the party line in both Gaza and the West Bank by torture Palestinian journalists in their prisons.

By The Associated Press

 

Palestinian authorities are silencing dissent by cracking down on free speech and abusing local journalists and activists critical of their policies, a leading international human rights group said Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch said both the Western-backed Palestinian Authority led by President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank and its rival, the ruling Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, are “arresting, abusing, and criminally charging journalists and activists who express peaceful criticism of the authorities.” Continue Reading »

Palestinian: ‘After They “Judaize” Jerusalem, Jews Will Next Try to Take Mecca’

 

Palestinian officials get hysterical over Jerusalem mayor’s plans to build a cable car network accessing multiple attractions of Israel’s capital including sections of Jerusalem’s Old City.

By Israel Today Staff

 

That was the gist of a charge leveled by a senior member of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah faction in protesting the Jerusalem Municipality’s plan to build a cable car to ease access to the Old City.

Jerusalem cable car route

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has openly endorsed the plan, which envisions a cable car stretching from the city’s old train station (which is now a popular pedestrian venue) to the City of David to the Mount of Olives and back to the Lion’s Gate of the Old City. Continue Reading »

Christian Arab becomes legal advisor for Israel Ministry office

 

Being the first Christian Arab to become legal advisor to a Ministry office, Maron Halifah said, “I never ever felt different because I was part of a minority, I never ever felt any discrimination, and I think that the state does encourage minorities to work in the public sector.”

By Itamar Eichner

 

A Christian Arab has been nominated to become the legal advisor to the Ministry of Development in the Periphery, the Negev and the Galilee, making him the first Arab ever to occupy the position of a legal advisor in a government office.

Maron Halifah

Maron Halifah

Maron Halifah, a 34-year-old resident of Haifa, began his career in 2005 under then Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Continue Reading »

World’s oldest human remains found inside cave near Tel Aviv

 

The Qesem Cave, located outside of Rosh HaAyin, was accidentally discovered during road work 16 years ago and has since revealed a wealth of information on early humans, shedding light on the evolution of humanity.

By Asaf Kamer

 

When work began to widen route 5 outside of Rosh HaAyin 16 years ago, workers discovered something incredible; the opening to a world frozen in time.

Inside Qesem Cave – Photo: Ron Barkai, Tel Aviv University

A powerful controlled explosion designed to demolish a giant limestone boulder blocking the path of the road exposed the entrance to a giant limestone cave which had been sealed for over 200,000 years. Continue Reading »

Israeli humanitarian delegation gives Italian quake victims emergency assistance

 

The devastating earthquake that ravaged central Italy on Wednesday sparked an outpouring of goodwill from around the world, Italy’s local Jewish communities and Israel’s IsraAID, with a 20 member staff of Search & Rescue, Relief and Trauma.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

IsraAID, an Israeli relief organization, is hard at work giving vital assistance following the devastating earthquake that struck Italy on Wednesday.

IsraAID workers in Italy. – Photo: IsraAID

Thanks to the support of the Ted Arison Family Foundation, IsraAid has dispatched a 20-member staff of search and rescue, relief and trauma specialists, and is currently the only foreign humanitarian non-profit, non-governmental aid organization on the ground. Continue Reading »

UN to Israel: Release our employee who illegally siphoned aid money to Hamas

The United Nations sent Israel a formal demand that United Nations Development Programme employee who was arrested for redirecting Gaza humanitarian aid money to Hamas military projects, be released.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The UN’s Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) sent a letter to Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, requesting the release of Waheed Al-Bursh, an UNDP worker who was arrested in July for assisting the Hamas terror organization, claiming he should receive diplomatic immunity.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

“Israel operates according to the law, and we continue to do so in this case as well,” said Ambassador Danon in response to the letter. Continue Reading »

Israel launches tourism ad campaign for India TV

 

Israel’s Tourism Ministry invests $1.5 million in TV ad campaign to encourage tourism from India to the Holy Land, with a set goal of 100,000 visiting tourists by 2018.

By Anav Silverman/TPS

Israel’s Tourism Ministry is looking to break into the Asian market, with the launch of its first major TV advertising campaign in India to promote incoming tourism to Israel.

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According to the Tourism Ministry, India is one of the major emerging markets for incoming tourism to Israel.

“The experiential campaign that we have launched in India has been adapted to the particular characteristics and tastes of the Indian market,” elaborated Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, who noted that Israel is also engaged in significant marketing campaigns in China. Continue Reading »

Travelers of the cable-car will see first-hand, Jewish connection to Jerusalem is immutable

 

The latest Jerusalem cable-car controversy may have been sparked by the Mayor, Nir Barkat, who announced that the capital’s cable-car will have an additional station in Silwan, at the foot of the City of David.

By Yoel Domb

 

A new controversy may have been sparked in Jerusalem by Nir Barkat, who announced that the Jerusalem cable-car will have a station in Silwan. Barkat announced the decision in a Likud activists’ assembly and they were reported this morning by Haaretz reporter Nir Hasson.

Jerusalem cable-car – Photo: Jerusalem Municipality Public Relations

The original plan for the cable-car called for four stations where it will pick up passengers, from the Khan theater near the old railway station via Upper Silwan to the Mount of Olives (near the Intercontinental hotel) and ending at Lion’s gate. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu calls Putin to discuss possible talks with Palestinians

 

Following Egyptian President Sisi’s comments that the Russian leader wants to host Netanyahu & Abbas in Moscow for peace talks, the PM calls Putin, hoping to advance the initiative.

By HERB KEINON

 

Just two days after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Moscow wanted to host talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about the diplomatic process.

The Kremlin issued a brief statement late Tuesday evening about the phone call, saying that Netanyahu initiated it, and that the two leaders “exchanged opinions on issues surrounding the settlement in the Middle East and current aspects of the general situation in the region.” Continue Reading »

Israeli humanitarian delegation heads to Louisiana to assist flood victims

IsraAid, the Israeli aid NGO is sending a delegation of aid professionals to assist families devastated by the worst natural disaster to hit the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy.

By Eitan Goldstein

 

IsraAid, the Israeli international aid organization, will be sending a delegation of aid workers to assist the people affected by the flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Flooding in Louisiana – Photo: AP

The eight person humanitarian delegation is slated to fly out to the areas affected by flooding by the weekend. They will help Louisiana residents return to their homes to collect personal effects, and help to begin the process of rehabilitating flooded out homes so that the Louisianans’ lives that have been affected by the flooding can go back to normal.
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Palestinian terrorist killed after stabbing Soldier in Samaria

 

After an IDF unit cornered a group of Palestinian stone-throwers who had been targeting Israeli cars, a male Arab stabbed a soldier prompting his unit to neutralize the threat.

By Rachel Kaplan

 

And IDF soldier was wounded Wednesday afternoon in a terrorist stabbing attack outside of the town of Yitzhar in Samaria.

Road sign to Kedumim and Yitzhar – Photo Hillel Maeir

Investigators say the attack occurred when a squad of Israeli soldiers pursued a group of Arab stone-throwers who had been targeting Israeli cars.

The stone-throwers, who were hurling rocks from within their car, fled on the ‘Gilad Road’, which connects Route 5 to Highway 60. Continue Reading »

Brussels Airlines acquiesced to BDS, decides to stop serving Israeli halva

 

Upon learning from the Palestinian Solidarity Movement that the Israeli Achva brand halva being served on its flight from Israel to Brussels was produced on “illegally occupied land in the West Bank” the airline quietly capitulated saying “we decided to change desserts.”

By Itay Blumental

 

Belgian carrier Brussels Airlines has stopped handing out Ahva brand halva snacks on flights following a request by the Palestine Solidarity Movement.The snack is produced in the Barkan industrial park in the West Bank on land the organization claims is “illegally occupied.”

Brussels Airlines boycotting Israeli made halva

The halva snack was discovered by a Palestine Solidarity Movement activist who was travelling from Ben Gurion Interantional Airport to Brussels and saw the product as a dessert option, realized it was produced in Israel, and told fellow activists to take action.
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It’s Official: Israel and Guinea Finalize Diplomatic Ties!

 

With the intentions of supporting each other in world forums and on the war on terror, Israel’s Foreign Ministry Director General met with Guinea’s president to finalize ambassadorial appointments, a formality not undertaken since Guinea cut ties with Israel in 1967.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

Israeli Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold met with Guinean President Alpha Conde and 10 of his ministers, including the foreign, defense, finance, energy, and development ministers, in the West African country’s capital of Conakry on Monday.

Guinea - Google Maps

During the meeting, they finalized the process of appointing mutual ambassadors with government officials.

The meeting also focused on the war on terror and the two countries’ commitments to support each other in international forums. Continue Reading »