Archive for Israel News

Fatah brags using highly inflated numbers: ‘We killed 11,000 Israelis’

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ ‘political’ party Fatah, finds honor in boasting they murdered 11,000 Israelis, sacrificed 170,000 ‘martyrs’, when they know their numbers are outrageously unrealistic.

By Hillel Fendel

 

In honor of an unknown milestone, Fatah yesterday posted a list of its achievements on behalf of the Arabs living in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas. The Palestinian Media Watch organization reports that Fatah did not cite even one peace-seeking or peace-promoting achievement, and instead listed only its acts of violence and terror.

Fatah even boasted that its attacks have killed 11,000 Israelis. While Fatah and the PLO have been murdering Israelis since 1965, this number is nowhere near the truth. Continue Reading »

Group of IDF reservists take issue with Haaretz’s numerous anti-Israel articles

The Reservists group plans to distribute pamphlets containing selection of articles & op-eds from Israel’s left-wing newspaper, HAARETZ, that portray Israel as evil, and are used by the BDS movement & other Israel-haters, to justify their campaign to demonize, delegitimize & boycott Israel internationally.

By Yair Altman

 

The IDF reservists group ‘Reservists at the Front’ is taking aim at the Haaretz newspaper as part of its new campaign against the international boycott movement against Israel, which launches on Wednesday.

Anti-Israel material put out by the BDS movement features a column by Haaretz writer Gideon Levy

The campaign will distribute 20,000 copies of a publication similar in design to Haaretz, containing a selection of anti-Israel articles published by that newspaper. Continue Reading »

UN Security Council criticizes Israel for mistreating Palestinian children

 

The UN ignored the 47 acts of terrorism against Israelis that have been carried out by Palestinian youth since last fall, as well as the non-stop incitement in Palestinian schools to hate & kill Jews, but focused on exaggerated and/or fabricated charges against Israel.

By DANIELLE ZIRI

 

NEW YORK – Israel was criticized for committing violations against Palestinian children by countries including Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as the United Nations Security Council, presided this month by Malaysia, held a meeting focusing on Children in Armed Conflict.

UN – Uninvolved in Peace on the ground, at the General Assembly Hall, or at the UN Security Council.

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Four monster Tunnel Boring Machines on their way to Israel

 

view videoFour Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) are on its way to Israel to construct the planed underground electric light rail train routes that are expected to be fully operational by 2021.

By Itay Blumental

 

At a press conference to mark a year since the beginning of construction on the Red Line near the Israel Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, Transport Minister Yisrael Katz said “despite the gloomy forecasts of traffic jams from Netanya to Gadera and of the area becoming infested with rats, we have overcome everything.”

The segment of the light rail construction next to the Israel Diamond Exchange – Photo: Motti Kimchi

The work on the Red Line light rail train which is due to connect the cities of Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, and Ramat Gan has taken a giant leap forward with the introduction of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) which will be used to dig the train tunnels 90 feet under the surface.The Continue Reading »

Israel’s top generic drugmaker buys rival in $40 billion acquisition

 

The $40-billion acquisition, the largest in Israel’s history, gives Teva Pharmaceutical a large market lead and catapults it into the top 10 pharmaceutical firms globally.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Teva Pharmaceutical on Tuesday completed its $40 billion acquisition of the generics arm of rival Allergan, a move the Israeli firm hailed as confirmation of its intention to become one of the world’s largest drugmakers.

“Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Allergan plc today announced that Teva has completed its acquisition of Allergan’s generics business (Actavis Generics)” the Israeli company said in a statement.

The $40-billion deal, the largest in Israeli history, was agreed last year but finally confirmed Tuesday. Continue Reading »

Captured Palestinian bomb terrorist was West Bank civil engineering student

 

view videoCleared for publication: Abu Hassan, 20, caught by a vigilant security guard, built the pipe bombs he planned for his terrorist attack on the Jerusalem light rail.

By Roi Yanovsky

 

Ali Abu Hassan, 20, from the Hebron area, is the terrorist who was stopped while attempting to carry out a bombing on the Jerusalem light rail two weeks ago, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.

Abu Hassan, a civil engineering student at the Polytechnic University in Hebron, made the pipe bombs he planned on using for the attack himself.According to prosecutor’s statement filed by police on Tuesday, Abu Hassan left a will at the university before setting out to commit the attack. Continue Reading »

Mazel Tov! 60 yr-old woman gives birth to first child in central Israel

This morning at the Kaplan Medical Center, a 60-year-old woman gave birth to a healthy and strong baby girl, during a successful delivery fraught with challenges.

By Tal Polon

 

A 60-year-old woman has given birth at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot to a healthy baby girl, Channel 10 reported this morning (Tuesday). The girl weighed 2.2 kilograms (4.8 pounds).

Newborn delivery (illustrative) – Reuters

Dr. Yael Naaman, one of the doctors who oversaw the birth, noted that “the baby was born healthy and strong, and has been passed to a child specialist for further treatment.”

The labor, however, was fraught with challenges. Continue Reading »

Palestinians continue to condemn ‘Israelization’ of Jerusalem

 

Maintaining their rights to use education as a tool in fulfilling their ultimate goal of acquiring all of Israel one day, Arab-Israeli Knesset Members released a statement acknowledging their intent to continue the Palestinian curriculum, which praises terrorists and treats Israel as a temporarily occupied area.

By Dalit Halevi

 

The Palestinian Authority and members of the Israeli Arab population slammed the Education Ministry for its “Israelizing” policies in education in the eastern part of Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Ministry of Education criticized the Jerusalem policies in a statement published on July 30. The statement was signed by Palestinian Education Minister Sabi Saydem, by several Israeli Arab public figures, and by Israeli-Arab MKs Ahmed Tibi and Jamal Zahalka.

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WATCH: IDF wheels out its first 8-wheeled armored personnel carrier

 

The IDF’s Eitan high speed APC will enable rapid deployment of forces to critical areas and will also be equipped with the Trophy active protection system, that intercepts RPGs and neutralizes anti-tank missile threats.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

The Defense Ministry unveiled on Monday the IDF’s first wheeled armored personnel carrier (APC). The platform will soon enter service, joining the tracked Namer APC to eventually replace the aging and vulnerable M113 platforms.

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11 UN ambassadors arrive in Israel for first hand experience

 

11 UN ambassadors arrived in Israel Sunday as part of Israel’s UN Ambassador’s attempt to present the int’l delegates with an Israeli perspective, that would hopefully influence their home countries’ future votes regarding Israel.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The eleven ambassadors representing countries from all over the world, arrived in Israel Sunday at the invitation of Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon, who plans on showing his colleagues an alternative and more complex view of Israel.

Danon’s guests included ambassadors from Uruguay (which serves as the UN Security Council), Thailand, Serbia, Tanzania, Liberia, Bosnia, Panama, Equatorial Guinea, Palau, the Marshall Islands and Moldova. Continue Reading »

Good day for IDF: 4 pipe-bombs discovered & knife yielding terrorist shot dead

Arab driver arrested after Israeli border personnel discovered 4 pipe bombs in his car at a Security Checkpoint from the W.Bank. That incident followed an earlier shooting by IDF when a Palestinian terrorist attacked Checkpoint soldiers with a knife.

By Ido Ben-Porat

 

Security guards at the Trans-Samaria Crossing identified on Sunday night four pipe bombs in the car of an Arab with Israeli citizenship who was on his way back from Judea and Samaria.

IDF vehicle at security checkpoint (Archive) – Photo: United Hatzalah

The vehicle was inspected and a police sapper was called to the scene to neutralize the bombs. Continue Reading »

#BlackLivesMatter movement arrives in Israel ignoring #JewishLivesMatter too

 

Members of the radical anti-Israel organization come to the Jewish State to join provocative W.Bank protest against ‘Israeli genocide against Arabs by Zionist vigilantes’.

By David Rosenberg

 

A delegation from the radical “Black Lives Matter” movement arrived in Israel last week to promote what the group called “the fight for dignity, justice and freedom”.

Black Lives Matter protesters in Israel – Photo: Facebook/screenshot

Founded with the aim of raising awareness about fatalities among African Americans resulting from encounters with law enforcement officers, the Black Lives Matter movement has argued that American law enforcement agencies are explicitly “hunting down” young black males.
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Following Hezbollah’s lead, Hamas accuse Saudis of ‘undermining Palestinians’

 

In response to the delegation of Saudi businessmen & academics visiting Israel, Hamas calls on Kingdom to end ‘normalizing visits’ to Jewish State since it ‘undermines rights of Palestinians.’

By i24news

 

Hamas on Sunday called on the Saudi government to prevent “normalization” visits to Israel after a visit to the Jewish state by former Saudi General Anwar Eshki and a delegation of Saudi businessmen and academics earlier this month.

In a statement posted to its website, Hamas requested that Saudi Arabia “take measures to prevent these normalizing visits that [Israel] uses to undermine the rights of Palestinians and penetrate into the [Muslim] nation in thought and culture,” the Times of Israel reported.
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Saudi delegation member in Israel: Israelis “wants coexistence & wants peace”

 

Abd al-Mujid al-Hakim tells BBC Arabic, “In Arab societies, the picture of Israeli society is that it embraces a culture of death, wants to spill blood & does not believe in peace… The Israeli society that I encountered embraces a culture of peace… wants coexistence & wants peace.”

By ADAM RASGON

 

Abd al-Mujid al-Hakim, a member of the Saudi Arabian delegation that recently visited Israel and the Palestinian territories, told BBC Arabic on Friday that he believes Israeli society wants peace.

Former Saudi general Dr. Anwar Eshki and a group of Saudi businessmen and academics in Jerusalem, July 22, 2016.

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Israel’s Golan Druze leader laughs at UN claim of ‘hardship of occupation’

 

“I don’t understand what they’re talking about, it’s laughable,” the mayor of Majdal Shams said. Druze in the Golan “don’t serve in the IDF, and so far are only receiving from the state. Why don’t they condemn the horrors in Syria, where dozens of children are killed daily? (Israel’s) Golan residents have a good life.”

By JTA

 

A leader of the Druze population of the Golan Heights disputed the assertion of a United Nations committee that accused Israel of imposing economic and social hardships on his community.

Golan Heights, Druze village square in Majdal Shams – Photo: Avihu Shapira

Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, the largest Druze town in the Golan, told Makor Rishon that the U.N. Continue Reading »