Archive for Israel News

7,000 yr-old settlement discovered in northern Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologists

 

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority described finding the 2 homes, with floors containing pottery vessels, flint tools & a basalt bowl, as the oldest discovery of its kind in the area.

By Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

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Not Hamas, but Israel, Egypt & PA blamed for 10 yr-old’s death of kidney failure in Gaza

 

With Palestinian Authority denying Diab permission to enter Israel from Gaza for life-saving treatment, Palestinian social media described her death as “the martyr of the siege on Gaza.”

By MAAYAN GROISMAN

 

Marah Diab, a ten-year-old girl from Gaza who suffered from kidney failure, died Wednesday night after endless waiting for permission to leave Gaza for life-saving treatment, Palestinian media reported on Thursday.

Rafah crossing.

Gazans wait, hoping to be given the permission to cross into Egypt, at the Rafah crossing, August 27, 2014.- Photo: AFP

Diab had been waiting for life-saving treatment abroad or in Israel ever since her kidney transplant surgery in Gaza failed.
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Danish Parliament Names New ‘Decoration of Valor’ After Murdered Israeli

 

Danish Parliament honors Dan Uzan (ז”ל), who was murdered while blocking Muslim terrorist’s path, preventing the massacre of dozens of children celebrating a Bat Mitzvah in a Copenhagen synagogue.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Denmark’s Parliament instituted a new medal of civil valor named after Jewish-Israeli security guard Dan Uzan who stopped a terrorist from entering a synagogue in Copenhagen, preventing the massacre of dozens of children who were celebrating a Bat Mitzvah and paying with his life for it.

Dan Uzan

The medal also honors film director Finn Nørgaard who was murdered as he too blocked a terrorist with his body, trying to prevent him from entering the Cultural Center at Krudttønden a few hours earlier.
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UK reports: Israel strikes Syrian army positions outside Damascus

 

According to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based organization, Syrian army outposts south of Damascus were hit by three Israeli rockets.

By i24news

 

Israel struck several Syrian army targets south of Damascus Wednesday evening, the Observatory for Human Rights said.

According to the Britain-based Observatory, three Israeli missiles caused property damage but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

A Pro-Assad military source however, denied reports of strikes coming from Israel, said Reuters.

Since the beginning of the bloody civil war in 2011, Israel is reported to have attacked Syrian military bases on a number of occasions, including raids reportedly targeting Iranian rockets bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Continue Reading »

Israeli Cancer Cure Brings Amazing Results in American Tests

 

Innovative Israeli cure shows 94% of leukemia patients in clinical test in the U.S. exhibits signs of recovery.

By Israel Today Staff

 

An innovative Israeli-developed cure for leukemia that is currently being tested in the US is seeing amazing results.

The clinical tests have been run primarily on patients with advanced leukemia that were given only a matter of months to live. An astonishing 94 percent have reportedly shown improvement, and in more than half symptoms related to the cancer have disappeared all together.

Professor Zelig Eshhar

Professor Stanley Riddell of the University of Washington, who is running the tests, cautioned that much work remains to clarify the results of the study, and it is still unknown if the treatment managed to remove the cancer completely, or if it will return in the aforementioned patients. Continue Reading »

Israel’s PM Netanyahu thanks Britain ‘for standing beside Mideast’s only democracy’

 

Israel hailed a tough British move against boycotts announced on Wednesday as a welcome step in the fight against discrimination of the Jewish state, while the Palestine Liberation Organization said it perpetuated the tragedy that began when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration a century ago.

PM Netanyahu meets with British Cabinet Office Minister Matt H…Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock. Video: GPO

Posted by The Prime Minister of Israel on Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Visiting UK Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock, during a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that “we are publishing new guidance for public authorities in the UK that makes clear that discriminating against members of the WTO (World Trade Organization), including Israel, is wrong and it is illegal and it must stop.” Continue Reading »

Israel Launches Newest Missile That Operates Like UAV

 

view videoIsrael Aerospace Industries unveils the Harpy NG, a missile that is designed to counter the newer types of air defense radar threats, and can stay airborne for 9hrs & destroy its targets at great distances.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled in an international aviation exhibition in Singapore this week new “Roamer” class missiles that look like an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but are in fact missiles that hover in the air until they lock on their targets, then collide with and destroy them.

IAI also unveiled the Rotem, a tiny drone that can roam in urban environments. Continue Reading »

VIDEO: Israel constructing planet’s largest solar thermal electricity-plant

 

Watch: Israel’s new solar-electricity plant, being constructed in the Negev, is expected to provide one percent of Israel’s electricity.

By ILTV

 

 

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Academic Israeli Knesset Member Refuses To Allow “Palestinian lies” To Go Unchallenged

 

After igniting an uproar in the Knesset last week when MK Anat Berko said that there was no such thing as “Palestine” because Arabic does not have a “P” sound, the  Likud MK is sticking to her guns, saying ‘Palestinian identity was created in response to Zionism.’

By Gideon Allon

 

In an address to the Knesset on Monday, Likud MK Anat Berko referred to the uproar she sparked last week when she said that there was no such thing as “Palestine” because Arabic does not have a “P” sound.

Likud MK Dr. Anat Berko – Photo: Dudi Vaaknin

That comment drew harsh ridicule from a number of left-wing Arab and Jewish MKs. Continue Reading »

Bahraini princess chooses Israeli hospital over American to save her life

 

According to Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, the unnamed Bahraini princess believed that Israel offered the best chances for her full recuperation.

By Hillel Fendel

 

A princess from the Islamic country of Bahrain chose to receive life-saving treatment in Israel – and as a result, years later, Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara has now been invited to pay a diplomatic visit to the kingdom.

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa  (file) – Reuters

Kara, a Likud MK of the Druze community, told Arutz Sheva Tuesday that he cannot name the princess, nor when she came to Israel. However, other sources stated it occurred in Haifa’s Rambam Hospital in 2010.
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Israel security kills 5 Palestinian terrorists, 1 critically wounded in 4 brutal attacks on Sunday

 

No Israelis injured as country’s security forces thwart spate of barbaric Palestinian attacks on Sunday.

By Efrat Forsher, Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom Staff & Associated Press

 

Four separate Palestinian terrorist attacks were thwarted on Sunday in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem. No Israelis were injured in the attempted attacks, while five Palestinian attackers were killed and another was critically wounded.

Police officers at the scene of Sunday night’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem – Photo: AFP

Late Sunday night, two Palestinian terrorists were shot dead after they opened fire with automatic weapons at Israeli security personnel near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. Continue Reading »

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Palestinian clip promotes shootings, stabbings and car ramming of Israelis

 

Inflammatory Palestinian cartoon being circulated on social media incites Palestinians to use meat cleavers, guns, & cars in order to take revenge on Israelis by ‘becoming martyrs’ for the cause.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Palestinians on social media are circulating an animated video that shows terrorists taking up arms and killing Israeli soldiers and civilians in attacks that mimic those which have been committed in Israel and the Palestinian territories in recent months.

The graphic clip depicts Palestinians angered by images of their brethren being victimized by Israel, only to respond by using knives, guns, and cars in order to take revenge and “become martyrs.” Continue Reading »

National Embarrassment: Former Israeli PM Olmert Heads to Jail Over Bribery Conviction

 

view videoJust prior of reporting for 19-month jail sentence, ex-PM Ehud Olmert, the first Israeli (former) premier to be incarcerated, releases a video rejecting criminal wrongdoing.

By Ynet reporters

 

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Monday headed to prison to begin a 19-month sentence for bribery. Olmert released a video before heading to prison in which he denied criminal wrongdoing.

Translation below

“No one is above the law,” Olmert said in the video. “I made mistakes, but they were not criminal in nature. I reject outright the charges related to bribery.”

Olmert, who was originally sentenced to six months before the Supreme Court partly overturned his sentence in December, said in the video: “This morning I will enter prison to serve my sentence. Continue Reading »

2 Palestinian Terrorists Permanently Neutralized After Opening Fire in Jerusalem

 

Shooting attack by two Palestinian terrorists thwarted outside the Damascus Gate when Border Police officers responded, killing both before hurting anyone.

By Uzi Baruch

 

Two Arab terrorists on Sunday night opened fire on Border Police officers at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Site of Damascus Gate attack (file) – Photo: Heiki Ezra

The two were eliminated by the security forces, and fortunately were unable to inflict any wounds.

Police officers are searching the area and are looking into suspicions that the terrorists hid explosives nearby before the attack.

Earlier on Sunday evening, terrorists from the village of Jilazun opened fire at homes in the nearby town of Beit El in Binyamin.

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EU reverses Israeli settlement product-labeling decision 

 

Under the new agreement, the EU said it will leave product-labeling decisions up to each individual member country and promised to oppose any boycott or isolation campaigns against Israel.

By Shlomo Cesana, News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Foreign Ministry reported that relations with the European Union are “close and friendly” again after tensions arose last year over the bloc’s decision to label Israeli exports manufactured beyond the Green Line.

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