Archive for Israel News

Muhammad Ali Center Awards IsraAID Humanitarian Award

 

The Muhammad Ali Center has chosen to award IsraAID their Humanitarian Award for the work the Israeli aid NGO has done all over the world.

By Eitan Goldstein

 

In recognition of IsraAID’s contribution to humanitarian aid work around the world, Navonel Glick, the organization’s chief operating officer, has been selected to receive the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award at the Ali Center’s annual gala dinner in September.

IsraAID is Israel’s leading humanitarian non-governmental organization and is committed to providing life-saving emergency relief and durable solutions for populations affected by natural disasters, epidemics and post-conflict situations.

IsraAID volunteer treats a migrant on the Greek island of Lesbos (Photo: IsraAID)

IsraAID volunteer treats a migrant on the Greek island of Lesbos – Photo: IsraAID

Voni is one of six leaders under 30 to receive the Core Principle Award from the Center. Continue Reading »

2nd Olympic medal for Israel: Or Sasson takes bronze in judo

view videoJust hours after Egyptian rival refused to shake hands after his loss, Israeli judoka, Or Sasson, wins a bronze medal in the men’s 100 kg plus weight class.

Elad Benari, Canada

 

Israeli judoka Or Sasson on Friday won a bronze medal in the Rio Olympics, after winning a consolation round in the men’s 100 kilogram plus weight class.

Sasson defeated Cuban Alex Garcia Mendoza, shortly after losing a semifinal match to world champion Teddy Riner.

The medal gives Israel its second bronze medal at the Rio Olympics. Earlier this week, judoka Yarden Gerbi won a bronze medal after defeating Japan’s Miku Tashiro in the women’s Judo under 63 kg category. Continue Reading »

Google: We couldn’t have removed Palestine, it never existed on our maps

 

Google balks at Forum of Palestinian Journalists protesting alleged disappearance of “Palestine” from Google Maps, saying it never had a “Palestine” label on its map application, so nothing has changed.

By Ilan Gattegno, Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Internet giant Google on Thursday clarified that, contrary to recent reports by a Palestinian group, it had not removed the “Palestine” label from its maps application.

Pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin last month – Photo: AFP

A statement by the Forum of Palestinian Journalists, posted on its website on Aug. 3, condemned “the crime carried out by Google in deleting the name of Palestine. Continue Reading »

The Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming!

 

With Israel seeing a 112% rise in tourism from China, governmental ministries & tourists organizations adapt to accommodate the significant influx.

By Danny Sadeh, Itamar Eichner

 

There was a 112 percent increase in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Israel last month, while the overall number of visitors from China since the beginning of the year rose 53 percent compared to last year.

According to the Tourism Ministry, some 6,400 Chinese tourists arrived in Israel in July 2016, compared to some 3,000 in July 2015. Since the beginning of the year, 38,832 Chinese visited the Holy Land, compared to some 25,000 between January and July 2015. Continue Reading »

Racist classified ad against Ethiopian women causes outrage in Israel

 

Members of the Ethiopian community in Israel, the employment agency and the fashion company Expose, were all outraged by truly “a public, shameless display of racism,” in wanted ad looking for a warehouse employee, stressing, “We don’t want Ethiopian women.”

By Danny Adino Ababa

 

A racist classified ad posted by an employment agency on behalf of a fashion company has raised ire after including a discriminatory requirement: “We don’t want Ethiopian women.”

The ad was removed, but Israelis of Ethiopian descent have demanded authorities take measures against the two companies.The fashion company Expose, which is based at the Caesarea industrial park, hired the L.M. Continue Reading »

Another lie EXPOSED: The real al Aqsa Mosque is not on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

 

Expose: Through the publicizing of original sources prior to Israel’s 1967 unification of Jerusalem, Muslim canards about Jerusalem and the al Aqsa Mosque are once again revealed, and proven, to be lies.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

 

A well known proverb says “liars need to have good memories.” The reasoning is clear: a liar needs to remember his own lies and whom he told them to in order to avoid contradicting himself and revealing his mendacity. This rule applies to important issues as well. Jerusalem, for instance, whose holiness to Sunni Muslims is based on a late and political interpretation of a Koranic verse, while to Shiite Muslims it is only the third holiest city, ranked below Mecca and Medina (today the city of Najaf in southern Iraq). Continue Reading »

US threatens ‘harsh response’ if Israel demolishes illegal Arab structures

 

view videoIsraeli NGO condemns foreign criticism of court ordered demolition of illegally constructed Arab buildings, and calls on Defense Minister Liberman to ignore ‘idle threats’.

By Ido Ben Porat

 

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) is expected to submit the ministry’s formal response in the Supreme Court to an appeal by the left-wing NGO ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’, which is demanding demolition orders for an illegal Arab outpost be shelved.

Illegal Arab settlement – Photo: Regavim

A number of buildings in the illegal outpost, which was constructed near the Jewish community of Sussiya near Hevron, are slated for destruction.

On Wednesday it was reported that senior US officials have been exerting heavy pressure on the Israeli government not to enforce the demolition orders. Continue Reading »

PM Netanyahu congratulates Gerbi on her Olympic win for Israel

 

With Israel’s first Olympic medal since 2008, PM Netanyahu calls to congratulate Yarden Gerbion, on her bronze medal in the women’s under-63 kg judo competition at the Rio Games.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Yarden Gerbi on Wednesday morning for her bronze-medal win at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday in the women’s under-63 kilogram judo competition.

Israel Olympic medal winner, Yarden Gerbi. – Courtesy

“Congratulations, you played it big time,” Netanyahu said. “We are all proud of you, you gave the whole country a wonderful feeling. Really, it’s a a great achievement.”

“You’re an Olympian!” he exclaimed, before taking the opportunity to extend his well-wishes to the rest of the Israeli delegation in Rio, and to express confidence that the team will bring more results. Continue Reading »

Israeli Company Vies to Build Trump’s US-Mexico Border Fence

 

Having constructed secure smart-fences along the borders of Gaza, Egypt and several African countries, and Israeli firm is eager to realize Trump’s plans on the US-Mexican border.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Israeli company that constructed the security barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip says it is eager to make Donald Trump’s proposed Mexico border wall a reality, should the Republican candidate win the White House in November.

The proposed security fence between the Palestinian Authority and Israel along Judea & Samaria

“We’ve done it in the past, and we would definitely want to do it,” Saar Koursh, owner of Magal Security Systems Ltd., Continue Reading »

For U.S. Expatriates In Need of an Absentee Ballot

view videoFor the approximately 200,000 U.S. citizens living in Israel who are eligible to vote and need to request an absentee ballot online, it’ll be relatively quick and easy.

By ELIYAHU KAMISHER

 

As the November 8th US presidential election approaches, the approximately 200,000 US citizens living in Israel who are eligible to vote should be readying their paperwork if they want their ballots counted.

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US presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton . – Photo: REUTERS

Fortunately, the process to request an absentee ballot is relatively quick and easy.

According to the Federal Voting Assistance Program, it takes only two steps to vote from overseas: 1) register and request your absentee ballot, and 2) fill out and send in your ballot once it arrives. Continue Reading »

REPORT: IDF combat soldiers will be given college scholarships after discharge

Full scholarships to pursue a university degree or professional certification upon completion if combat service will be funded by the IDF, the Friends of the IDF and the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers.

By JTA

 

Israeli combat soldiers will receive full scholarships from the military to pursue a university degree or professional certification.

The scholarships will be funded by the Israel Defense Forces, as well as the Friends of the IDF and the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers, the Israeli Hebrew daily Yediot Acharonot reported.

In a recent meeting, IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Gadi Eisenkot asked Israel’s Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to help him find the funds to offer such scholarships to only to combat soldiers, but to all soldiers after their service, according to Ynet, the English-language sister publication of Yediot. Continue Reading »

Palestinian swimmer’s claims against Israel proven untrue

 

The Palestinian swimmer’s attempts to blame Israel with claims of inaccessibility to Olympic-size pools for training, have been proven untrue, with at least 4 at her disposal.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Claims of immense training difficulties faced by Palestinian Olympic-hopeful Mary al-Atrash have rippled across the media as of late over their apparent stretching of the truth.

A recent report by Tablet Magazine has stirred the waters surrounding the Palestinian athlete’s struggle to prepare for the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Palestinian swimmer Mary Al-Atrash, 22. – Photo: REUTERS

In a June report, Reuters claimed that the 22-year-old swimmer from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem in the West Bank was without an adequate pool in which to train. Continue Reading »

Israel gov’t ministers announce plan to deport pro-boycott activists

Israel’s Public Security Minister announced: “We must not allow boycott activists to enter Israel. This is a necessary step given the maliciousness of these delegitimizing activists who work to spread lies & distort the reality of our area.”

By i24news

 

Israel’s interior and public security ministers on Sunday declared that they plan to form a committee aimed at expelling and preventing the entry of activists supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

A BDS protest in East Jerusalem – Photos: AFP

The committee is to be tasked with locating hundreds of such activists and keep new ones from entering, a press announcement said.
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IOC reprimands Lebanese Olympic team for refusing to allow Israelis on bus

 

 

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The head of the Lebanese Olympic delegation was reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee on Sunday after refusing to let the Israeli delegation board a bus the two teams were supposed to share.

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Israeli delegation at Rio olympics. – Photo: REUTERS

As a result, according to the original Facebook post by Israeli sailing coach Udi Gal, event organizers tried to scatter the Israeli athletes on several different buses. He called this “unacceptable for security and representative reasons.”

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‘If they see the truth, they won’t fall victims to Palestinian lies’

 

WATCH: Ambassador to the UN Danon explains why Israel’s invitation to 11 foreign ambassadors to visit Israel was so important, claiming now that they’ve see the truth about Israel, they can no longer be deceived easily anymore.

Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed great satisfaction with the visit to Israel he led in which 11 UN ambassadors representing countries from four different continents had the opportunity to observe life in Israel for themselves.

“It was a very effective visit. We managed to show them the chief challenges we’re dealing with in only four days,” Danon told Arutz Sheva. Continue Reading »