Archive for Israel News

FDA approves Israeli-made theraputic contact lense

Patients on a waiting list for a corneal transplant or who’s suffering from chronic pain will benefit from the Israeli developed contact lens that are now entering the market.

By KATIE BEITER, THE MEDIA LINE

 

The FDA has approved a new therapeutic contact lens that will help treat corneal edema, a common eye condition in adults that causes swelling, a build-up of fluid, blurred vision, haziness and scarring. EyeYon, the Israeli company responsible for this development, created these special lenses in an effort to increase the amount of time eye drops can remain in the eye in order to help alleviate symptoms of the condition which is common after cataract and corneal transplant surgeries. Continue Reading »

Anti-Jewish Narrative vs. Unearthed Ancient Coins

 

When silver & bronze coins dating back 8 centuries before the birth of Islam were found near the city of Modi’in, bearing names like Yehohanan, Judah, Jonathan and Mattathias, all Hasmonean kings who ruled over Israel from 140-37 BCE, and with some imprinted with the image of the Seleucid Greek king Antiochus IV, known also from the Book of Maccabees, and from the feast of Hanukkah, again, the Jewish presence in Israel cannot be hijacked by some agenda.

By Tsvi Sadan

 

The peace activist archaeologists of Emek Shaveh want us to move away from treating archaeological findings as evidence of one’s faith and nationality, which basically means that they want Jews to forget about their particular past. Continue Reading »

A Facebook request connects Israeli charity with Afghan toddler with heart defect

 

Having depleted their small savings of $200 on medical bills, Zaheer’s Facebook friend contacted the Israeli charity Save a Child’s Heart, since the surgery would have cost the family living in Pakistan $7000.

By i24news

 

A 14-month old Afghan boy named Yehia arrived in Israel late last month to receive lifesaving heart surgery, a happy ending to a long journey that started with a Facebook message, The New York Times reports.

Surgeons – File photo: AFP

The surgery would have cost the family now living in Peshawar, Pakistan $7,000, but the Israeli charity Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), who focuses on helping children with heart disease in under-developed countries where they cannot receive adequate care, stepped in to help. Continue Reading »

Archaeology supports historical and biblical accounts of both Temples’ destruction

 

The destruction of the First and Second Temples, supported by archaeological findings, coins, burnt houses, etc., including various historical testimonies, all support the biblical accounts of both Temples’ destruction.

By Tal Barkai

 

For nearly two thousand years, Jews have mourned the destruction of the Temples. They have traditionally relied on the account of the First Temple’s destruction as told in the Bible and the external accounts for the destruction of the Second Temple—but over the past decade, archaeological findings supporting the Jewish canon have been adding evidence.

Flavius Josephus, first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer.

Prof. Aren Maeir, an expert on the First-Temple period from Bar Ilan University’s Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, “From a chronological historical standpoint, we’re talking about the year 586 BCE, when Jerusalem was destroyed.

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Palestinian Authority tells school kids: A martyr’s death is the way to excellence & greatness

 

Ignoring Western pleas to halt the constant incitement to kill Jews, Abbas’ Palestinian Authority press report tells high school children that a way they can reach ‘excellence & greatness’ is to die as martyrs.

Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A seemingly innocent report on high school matriculation by the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority managed to embed within it glorification of martyrdom, otherwise known as death by trying to murder Israelis.

Arab child waves knife during Gaza City march – Photo: Reuters

The article stated that though graduating high school is important, shahada [death by martyrdom] is even greater, and is actually greater than life itself. Continue Reading »

WATCH: IDF Combat Engineering Corps demolish home of Palestinian terrorist

 

IDF filmed the house of Mohammed Tarayra , the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed 13 yr-old Hallel Ariel to death as she slept in her bed, being demolished according to a court-order, by the IDF Combat Engineering Corps, as punishment for terrorism.

 

The IDF early Monday morning announced that it had demolished the house of the family of Muhammad Tarayrah, 17, in the Palestinian village of Bani Naim, located near Kiryat Arba, where he murdered 13-year old Hallel Yafa Ariel in June.

Tarayrah stabbed Ariel to death in her bedroom on June 30 and injured another resident while infiltrating the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron. Continue Reading »

NGO against road needed for additional 2,500 Jewish homes in Efrat

 

view videoPeace Now has warned that even though the land had been purchased by Jews before the creation of the state in 1948, the construction project “would have a devastating impact on the 2-state solution.”

 

The Civil Administration for Judea and Samaria is looking for land to build a road large enough to allow the Efrat settlement to grow by some 2,500 homes.

Efrat settlement – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

Continued work on the project “demonstrates the true path” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Peace Now stated.

It has dubbed the project E-2 and has warned that would be as devastating as the E-1 project opposite the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement, which has been widely condemned by the international community. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Defense Ministry: The deal that made the F-35 acquisition possible

 

Israel’s Defense Ministry published a report of what went into making the IAF’s new, advanced F-35 “Adir” fighter jet, ‘Jewish’.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Ministry of Defense, continuing its countdown to the December 2016 arrival of Israel’s first F-35s, last week completed its semi-annual data summary.

F-35 fighter jet – Photo: jetBeth Steel/Lockheed Martin

In the framework of the industry cooperation agreement signed in 2010 by the Defense Ministry’s Procurement Department and the plane’s manufacturers led by primary contractor Lockheed Martin,

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3.8 billion NIS ($993 million) worth of reciprocal procurement transactions have thus far been signed. Continue Reading »

And the Group Keeps Growing: Brave Muslim Zionists

 

view videoMeet a few, empowered by the freer flow of information & ideas, Muslims & Arabs who know the truth is not what they’ve been taught since birth, and who have openly identified themselves as Zionists.

By Noah Beck

 

Muslims and Arabs who openly identify as Zionists are growing in number – powered by the freer flow of information and ideas made possible by social media and the search for answers in the wake of the Arab Spring and Islamist terror.

Muhammad Zoabi

A new Facebook page for Arab supporters of Israel has attracted about 20,000 followers. The page, which shares content in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, was founded by a religious Jewish woman and an Arab man. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Defense Minister ends IDF soldiers volunteering with migrant families

After public outcry, Defense Minister Liberman gave orders: ‘If soldiers have free time, they should help Holocaust survivors or the needy. Charity begins at home.’

By i24news

 

Israeli Defense Minster Avigdor Liberman has given orders to put a stop to a volunteering program involving IDF soldiers playing with children of migrants in south Tel Aviv after the incident caused public outcry, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.

Israel’s then FM, now Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman – Photo: AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA

According to the report, Liberman personally phoned IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot last week and ordered him to put an immediate end to the program. Continue Reading »

Moody’s upholds Israel’s A1 credit rating, attests to Jewish State’s resiliency

Israel’s excellent credit rating is supported by the country’s industrial diversity, which spans high-tech, agro-tech, as well as electronics, pharmaceuticals and other quality goods & services.

By Zeev Klein

 

International credit rating agency Moody’s affirmed Israel’s A1 credit ratings over the weekend, favoring Israel’s economy for a stable outlook.

Moody’s lauds Israeli government’s responsible fiscal and economic policies – Photo: AP

The rating follows a visit by Moody’s executives to Israel last month, during which they met with Finance Ministry and Bank of Israel officials, as well as leaders of the public and private sectors.

In a statement issued Friday, the credit rating agency noted that its decision to affirm Israel’s A1 rating stemmed from the government’s economic and fiscal policies. Continue Reading »

Kingdom has Saudi media initiate a pro-Jewish campaign

 

Numerous pro-Jewish articles appearing in the Saudi press seems to be preparing the groundwork for future cooperation with the Jewish state.

By Guy Cohen

 

A series of articles in various Saudi news sources appears to be preparing the ground for greater cooperation with the Jewish state, according to Channel 2‘s veteran Arab affairs analyst, Ehud Yaari, who quoted reports by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Saudi Arabia – Reuters

Yaari said that there is absolutely no doubt that the articles are part of a coordinated campaign.

Yaari cited influential female Saudi columnist Saham al-Kahtani, who recently wrote that the description of Jews as the “sons of apes and pigs” in the Quran relates to the period in which the book was written, and not to the Jews of today. Continue Reading »

Lawsuit filed in US district court claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact

 

The lawsuit claims foreign aid to Israel violates two amendments of the 1961 Foreign Aid Act, which bans aid to clandestine nuclear powers.

By JTA

 

A lawsuit filed in a US district court claims that US aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don’t sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Dimona nuclear reactor – Photo: REUTERS

Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington DC court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News. Continue Reading »

Israel tightens security in Jerusalem for Jewish day of mourning

 

In preparation for the thousands of Jews expected to visit the Western Wall on Tisha B’Av, hundreds of additional police will be carrying out security measures in and around Jerusalem.

By i24news, AFP

 

Israeli police are to boost their presence at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound for a Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of ancient temples there, a spokesman said on Friday.

Al-Aqsa, the third holiest site in Islam, is also venerated by Jews as the Temple Mount and is considered the most sacred place in Judaism. – Photo: THOMAS COEX/AFP/FILE

“Hundreds of extra police will be carrying out security measures in and around the old city of Jerusalem” on Tisha B’Av, which begins on Saturday night and ends 25 hours later, Micky Rosenfeld said in a statement. Continue Reading »

Special envoy to UN seeks immediate suspension of aid money to Gaza

 

World Council of Independent Christian Churches at the UN: “No church or humanitarian organization should send a single cent to Gaza as long as it is run by a band of murderous terrorist bandits.”

By BENJAMIN GLATT

 

All international humanitarian organizations need to immediately halt all aid money to Gaza until it can be proven that the money isn’t being squandered by Hamas, a leading Christian-Zionist said Wednesday.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore speaking at the United Nations. – Photo :PJTN

“The enemy of the people of Gaza is Hamas, not Israel. Hamas has hijacked the coastal strip and rules over its people with an iron fist. Continue Reading »