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EU bankrolls group holding forum in Tel Aviv on how to destroy Israel as Jewish State

The EU is financing the rabid anti-Israeli organization Zochrot, that’s set to host a conference in Tel Aviv next week to discuss how to flood Israel with ‘Palestinian refugees’, bringing an end to a Jewish state.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The radical anti-Israeli organization Zochrot will host a conference in Tel Aviv next week, thanks to funding from European governments and US organizations.

The event is titled “The Third International Conference on the Return of Palestinian Refugees.” It will focus on how to make Israel give citizenship to all Palestinians around the world, and how such a move would end Israel’s status as a Jewish state. 

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WATCH: Israeli hiker finds ‘most rare’ 2,000 yr-old Roman gold coin, 1st in Israel, 2nd in the world

 

view videoAccording to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Roman gold coin discovered in grass of the Galilee, is the 2nd of its kind known in the world.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

An Israeli hiker on a trip in the eastern Galilee region found a rare gold coin minted in Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday.

Lori Rimon, a member of the nearby Kibbutz Kfar Bloom, was with a group of seasoned hikers when she discovered the shiny object on the ground.

The group then made contact with the IAA and handed over the ancient piece of currency to the authority. Continue Reading »

Watch Video of IDF night raid on Palestinian weapons factory in Samaria

 

view videoIsrael’s Shin Bet and IDF forces confiscated 15 illegally produced automatic assault rifles in latest bust to stamp out unlawful weapons which are fabricated for nefarious use, including terrorism.

By Uzi Baruch

 

Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) agents, together with IDF forces of the Menashe Regional Brigade, seized 15 improvised assault rifles overnight in the Palestinian Arab village of Ya’bad, near Jenin in northern Samaria.

The location of the weapons stash was revealed during a Shin Bet interrogation of a Palestinian weapons manufacturer.

The successful mission was only the latest phase of an ongoing joint Shin Bet-IDF counter-terrorism operation in Samaria. Continue Reading »

Chinese general louds cooperation with Israel, says bond is ancient

 

General Zhao Keshi met IDF logistics delegation in China, saying cooperation with the IDF would be further expanded and that this would elevate relations between the two armies to a new high.

By Gil Ronen

 

General Zhao Keshi, member of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) and director of the Logistics Support Department under the CMC, met with a logistics delegation of the Israel Defense Forces in Beijing last week.

Shanghai - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Shanghai – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Zhao Keshi welcomed the delegation Tuesday and said that the friendly exchange between the Chinese people and the Jewish people goes back to ancient times, an assertion that has little mention in credible historical sources.

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Ex-Ukrainian ‘child soldier’ moves to Israel, learns Hebrew, joins IDF

 

At age 16, Sergei Brezhnikov, joined the Ukrainian “Children’s Army,” then at 19, he made aliyah, and after studying Hebrew, enlisted in the IDF.  Now, prior to his training as a medic, says “In Israel, I’ll have a better future.”

By Danny Brenner

 

“Israel is my new home, and I see my future here, only,” says Sergei Brezhnikov, 20, a lone IDF soldier who made aliyah from Ukraine.

Sergei Brezhnikov in his IDF uniform – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Brezhnikov was born in the city of Vinnytsia, the only child of a single mother who was 19 when she had him. Continue Reading »

Jerusalem bars Indonesian FM entry into Israel

 

Indonesian FM Retno Marsudi was denied entry into Israel to dedicate honorary consulate in Ramallah because of the Foreign Minister’s refusal to first meet with Israeli officials in Jerusalem.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Israel refused to allow the Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi to enter the Palestinian Territories after she expressed opposition to meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Marsudi was supposed to travel to Ramallah to dedicate an honorary Indonesian consulate.

Indonesia had planned to dedicate the consulate to fulfill pledges to improve relations with Palestinian Authority and express support for the Palestinian struggle for independence. The Indonesian FM’s spokesperson said that the minister was supposed to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Continue Reading »

New academic scholarships awarded to 40 Christian IDF veterans

 

By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

 

For the first time, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum will award academic scholarships to 40 Christians who served in Israel’s armed forces or performed national service.

Father Naddaf of Nazareth with Christian Israeli IDF soldiers at a Christmas party on December 21, 2015. - Photo: ISRAELI CHRISTIAN RECRUITMENT FORUM

Father Naddaf of Nazareth with Christian Israeli IDF soldiers at a Christmas party on December 21, 2015. – Photo: ISRAELI CHRISTIAN RECRUITMENT FORUM

The aim of the scholarship program is to continue to encourage the integration of young members of the Christian community into Israeli society, while reducing gaps and providing opportunities to acquire a higher education. Continue Reading »

1 Dead Smuggler, Another Missing After Hamas’ 7th Tunnel Collapsed Thursday

 

Terrorist body unearthed after Hamas’ latest Gaza tunnel collapse 3 days ago, this one an underground smuggling tunnel into Egypt, that has ISIS members working on the Sinai side.

By Ben Ariel

 

A Gazan was found dead on Saturday and another remains missing after the collapse of yet another tunnel on the Egypt border, the interior ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said, according to AFP.

On Thursday, rescue services said seven men had been trapped in the collapse of a tunnel.

Five were rescued, but “the body of Fadi Abu Dan was pulled out as the search continues for someone else,” the ministry said on Saturday. Continue Reading »

MIT mathematician confirms: Israeli 10th-grader postulated new geometric theorem

 

Although a MIT mathematician confirmed Tamar Barbi’s discovery of a working theorem she used solving geometry homework problems wasn’t previously known, she still prefers a future in theater rather than mathematics.

By Yael Branovsky

 

Tamar Barbi from Hod Hasharon is only in the 10th grade, but she has already chalked up an impressive achievement: developing a new geometric theorem.

Israeli 10th grader, Tamar Barbi: The theorem is very logical and basic.

Barbi, who is studying mathematics on the highest matriculation track offered in Israel, discovered while doing her geometry homework that the theorem she was using to solve one of the problems on her homework didn’t actually exist. Continue Reading »

IAF retaliates for rockets fired on Israel, Palestinian killed

 

When Israel struck 4 Hamas targets in Gaza for firing several rockets into Israeli communities late Friday night, 10 yr-old Yasmin Abu Khoussa, whose home is near a Hamas training camp, was unintentionally killed by flying shrapnel. Although tragic, Hamas must realize, the IDF will never, ever, allow Gaza terrorist groups to attack Israel with impunity. 

Reuters

 

Fragments from a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Saturday, medical officials said, hours after militants launched rockets into Israel.

Rocket fire from Gaza. – Archive photo: AFP

A statement by the Israeli military said aircraft had targeted four militant training camps belonging to Hamas after four missiles landed in open areas in southern Israel late on Friday. Continue Reading »

At least 2 Gaza rockets strike open fields near southern Israeli towns

 

By MAARIV ONLINE

 

The Israeli military confirmed late Friday that at least two rockets fired by Palestinians in Gaza landed in communities near the border.

A rocket is launched from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel. – Photo: REUTERS

Just moments earlier, rocket sirens sounded in Israeli towns adjacent to the border with the Gaza Strip. The sirens were heard in Sderot and the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council.

Authorities are now searching the area for signs of a rocket or missile. Continue Reading »

Revealed: Hamas Exploits Gaza, Milks the Palestinians, Scams the World to Demonize Israel

 

From ‘free’ homes with hidden surprise taxes or charges for calling police, Hamas’ tricks for fleecing Gazans and fooling the world about ‘Israeli blockade’ are revealed.

By Ari Yashar

 

Aside from siphoning off international aid for its missile and tunnel programs, Hamas has been cynically manipulating the residents in Gaza by imposing unreasonable taxes to prop up its terror activities, even while deceiving the world into blaming Israel for the bleak situation.

 Hamas continues to complain of the “Israeli blockade” in the international press and accuse it for Gaza’s economic crisis, but meanwhile the terrorist organization is fleecing its residents in various forms of taxes and funneling tens of millions of dollars into its “military arm” every month.
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Israel’s Security Cabinet approves completion of 2007 security wall around Jerusalem

 

Opposition leader Issac Herzog spoke with the vice president explaining, “Only separation will stop terrorism. If we do not separate from the Palestinians, the Jews will continue to be killed here.”

 

hursday night approved the immediate renewal of construction work on the security barrier around the area of Jerusalem, in an effort to halt Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis.

It was one of a series of measures the cabinet took just hours after US Vice President Joe Biden flew out of Ben-Gurion Airport for Jordan.

The security barrier has been largely frozen since 2007. Continue Reading »

Peres Center for Peace & UNESCO join forces

 

UNESCO seeks to establish strategic cooperation with the Peres Center in order to put the center’s educational methods into practice by championing peace & interfaith dialogue all over the world.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The UN agency for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) has decided to sign a partnership agreement with the Peres Center for Peace. Under this partnership, UNESCO is to promote several Peres Center projects in the fields of education and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israeli envoy to UNESCO Carmel Shama HaCohen

Peres was invited to tour UNESCO headquarters in Paris this coming month, where he also plans to sign the agreement with the organization’s leaders. Continue Reading »

Survey: 56% of Israeli-Arabs polled feel their elected Knesset Members don’t represent them

 

view videoA survey published by Israel TV channel 2 shows 56% of Israeli-Arabs think condemning Saudi Arabia for blacklisting Hezbollah as a terrorist organization was not justified.

By Shoshana Miskin

 

Most Israeli Arabs think that the Joint List Knesset members do not properly represent them, according to a survey published by Channel 2.

According to the survey, which was completed by 350 people from the Arab sector alone, 56% believe that the Arab MKs do not represent them or represent them to a lesser extent.

On the other hand, 40% Israel’s Arab citizenry feel that the Joint List MKs represent them quite or considerably well. Continue Reading »