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| January 21, 2020
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Pompeo praises Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala for blacklisting Hezbollah

Addressing Hizbollah’s activities in Central, South America, the US Secretary of State praised Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala for designating the Iran-backed Hizbollah as a terrorist organization.

By Elad Benari

 

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday praised Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala which designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

In a post on Twitter, Pompeo wrote that Hezbollah “and other transnational terrorist groups remain active in the region. The US continues to rally international support to counter these threats.”

Mike Pompeo speaking to rally outside the US Capitol. – Photo: Wikimedia,Mark Taylor

The three countries designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in the context of the regional anti-terrorism conference currently being held in the Colombian capital of Bogota. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2020
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Nabbed: Jailed Palestinian terrorist feigns illness to smuggle phones from hospital

Incarcerated Palestinian terrorist complains of severe pain and is transferred to hospital, where awaiting hidden packages containing phones and 17 SIM cards are found during a precursory security check in a restroom available for security prisoners.

By Orli Harari

 

An Arab terrorist who is imprisoned in the Shikma detention center took advantage of a hospital visit to smuggle cell phones to the detention center.

The security prisoner complained on Thursday morning that he was not feeling well due to medical problems he is suffering from. After an examination at the clinic of the detention center, it was decided to transfer him for a comprehensive examination at a hospital. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2020
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Amid new FBI probe, Ilhan Omar’s seat is challenged by another former refugee

With multiple federal agencies now assisting the FBI’s investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Dem.), a Republican Muslim & also former refugee, Dalia al-Aquidi  launches her bid to take Omar’s seat, saying of the Congresswoman, “She’s hurting the moderate Muslims… She’s spreading hatred, and she is spreading racism… She needs to be stopped… Every time she [Omar] opens her mouth she says something either anti-US or antisemitic.”

By DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS

 

A Muslim Iraqi refugee has launched her bid to enter Congress –  and plans to unseat Ilhan Omar as the Representative for Minneapolis in the process.

Dalia al-Aquidi is tired of hearing the Democratic representative play a divisive identity politics game, so she has joined a growing field of Republicans determined to take the Somalian-born congresswoman out at the next election. Continue Reading »

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| January 15, 2020
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Following rash of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn, NYPD installs 100 CCTV cameras

Following the upsurge of anti-Semitic crimes in numerous Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the NYPD will instal 100 new security cameras in Brooklyn’s Jewish neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park.

By Anthony M. DeStefano

 

The NYPD will install 100 new security cameras in Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Borough Park, Brooklyn, areas with large Jewish populations, in an effort to deter anti-Semitic crimes, officials announced Friday.

In a statement, Mayor Bill de Blasio said that police would begin surveying work immediately to identify the best locations for the installations and added that the first 30 cameras are expected to be in place by March. Continue Reading »

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| January 12, 2020
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Report: Israeli intel pinpointed Soleimani location to U.S.

NBC News reported Sunday that Jerusalem “helped confirm the details” of Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s flight from Damascus to Baghdad, where his vehicle was ultimately destroyed by US drone-strike upon arrival.
– Earlier, a top IDF official claimed Israel was ‘not the story’ of the operation.

By i24NEWS, Ynet, News agencies

 

Israeli intelligence was used by the United States in a mission to assassinate a top Iranian general, NBC News reported Sunday.

Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force and mastermind of its regional security strategy, was killed in an airstrike a week ago near the Iraqi capital’s international airport. Continue Reading »

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| January 9, 2020
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Jerusalem zoo sends aid to injured animals from Australia wildfires

The Biblical Zoo in Israel’s capital says it’s donating veterinary medical supplies for Victoria’s devastated East Gippsland region, where reports suggest at least 480 million animals have been killed by the fires so far.

By i24NEWS

 

A Jerusalem zoo said Monday it will donate money and medical supplies for the millions of animals injured in Australia’s unprecedented bushfires that have been raging on the continent for the past few weeks.

Fires have ravaged more than 8 million hectares (19.8 million acres) of land across the country, an area nearly the size of Austria, killing 25 people, destroying thousands of building and leaving some towns without electricity and mobile coverage. Continue Reading »

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| January 9, 2020
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Israel Defense Ministry reveals breakthrough in defensive laser technology

Head of the Israel Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Research & Development, said: “We are entering a new age of energy warfare in the air, land and sea. The R&D investments …in recent years have placed the State of Israel among the leading countries in the field of high-energy laser systems.”

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

The Defense Ministry has made a technological breakthrough in the development of lasers that can intercept aerial threats, including rockets and antitank guided missiles, it announced Wednesday.

New laser technology “makes the security apparatus more lethal, more powerful and more advanced,” Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday evening. Continue Reading »

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| January 6, 2020
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Polish President threatens to skip Israel’s World Holocaust Forum over Putin

Polish President Andrzej Duda told Polish television he would skip the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem if he is not given the same opportunity to speak, as was extended to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
– Both contradicted each other over cause of WWII.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

Warsaw and Moscow’s argument over who collaborated with the Nazis continued this week, with Polish President Andrzej Duda threatening to skip the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem this month if he is not given the chance to speak like Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Duda told Polish television station TVP on Sunday night: “I found out that the presidents of Germany, France and Russia, whose countries collaborated with Nazi Germany, will give speeches.” Continue Reading »

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| January 5, 2020
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Israeli Journalist slams left-wing response to Soleimani eradication 

Op Ed: Israeli journalist and TV commentator on Mid-East and Arab affairs says the assassinated Iranian General was “the most dangerous enemy for the State of Israel since the War of Independence,” adding the responses from left-wing commentators & politicians “are pathetic and infuriating.”

By Gary Willig

 

[Israeli] Journalist Ehud Yaari strongly criticized left-wing commentators and politicians for their reactions to the US elimination of Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

“Enough!” Yaari, a Channel 12 News senior analyst , said in response to the criticisms of the American action. “Your interpretations are pathetic and infuriating. Continue Reading »

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| January 5, 2020
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Killing Jews is a Taxable Business

With the Palestinian Authority making ‘Pay to Slay’ Jews one of its highest paying jobs, actually making many terrorists millionaires, Israel’s Attorney-General has determined that payments made by the PA to Palestinian Arabs, who are citizens or residents of Israel, are considered taxable as income.

By Israel Today Staff

 

National and local authorities around the world have for the past several years been trying to define the tax obligations of the various new forms of business in the Internet era.

PA Salary Payments to Terrorists – Palestinian Media Watch

Online entrepreneurs and traders have been trying their best to slip under the tax radar. Continue Reading »

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| January 5, 2020
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Newly formed IDF special ops unit trained to penetrate enemy territory

The function of the IDF’s new, highly trained multidimensional unit, comprised with tanks, UAVs & classified combat technologies, will be to operate with new advanced abilities, to track down, attack and destroy the enemy.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The IDF on Wednesday began work on its new special ops unit designed to go deep into enemy territory. The unit will be equipped with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and be joined by teams from various other commando units.

The first commando teams, alongside Air Force pilots, were mobilized to the new unit, which is still in its preliminary stages and is supposed to become operational within a year. Continue Reading »

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| January 3, 2020
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REPORT: 1st to 12th grade Palestinian students indoctrinated to violence

An int’l research and policy institute that evaluates school curricula for racial tolerance reports its study confirms how Palestinian students are required to be well-versed in the message of violence and hatred of Jews, or Israel, to pass PA matriculation exams to attain a high school certificate.

By  Ariel Kahana

 

The Israeli branch of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), an international research and policy institute that analyzes school textbooks throughout the world, has looked into the high school matriculation exams held in the Palestinian Authority last year, which were supposedly based on new books that are free from incitement against Jews or Israel – and found that was not the case. Continue Reading »

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| January 2, 2020
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REPORT: Test-run of Israeli natural gas delivery reaches Jordan

The Petra news agency reported that Jordan’s National Electric Power Company received for the first time, natural gas from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, in a test to check the viability of the infrastructure prior to the pumping of NEPCO’s $10 billion import deal.

By TZVI JOFFRE

 

An experimental supply of natural gas from the Leviathan gas field was pumped to Jordan from Israel by the Noble Energy Company on Wednesday, according to Jordan’s Petra national news agency.

The experimental pumping will continue for three months and will test the infrastructure prior to the flow of the actual commercial supply, according to Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (NEPCO). Continue Reading »

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| January 1, 2020
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Israel approved plan to build schools replacing UNRWA for Arab kids

Jerusalem Mayor gets plan approved for constructing educational campus serving the capital’s Arab neighborhoods providing a superior education and free of UNRWA’s anti-Semitic and martyrdom indoctrination.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Jerusalem Municipal Council approved Tuesday night a plan to construct an educational campus for Education Ministry schools near the city’s Arab Shuafat and Anata neighborhoods.

These schools will be an alternative to the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) schools which currently dominate the area.

UNRWA (Palestinian) student – Screenshot: The Center for Near East Policy Research

The project will cost 7.1 million NIS ($2,055,617), and will be located in an area outside the pre-1967 borders but within Jerusalem’s municipal borders. Continue Reading »

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| December 31, 2019
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Terror victims file massive $5.56B lawsuit against Jordan’s Arab Bank

Jordan’s sovereign bank, Arab Bank PLC, is charged with serving as the funding platform for the Palestinian terror attacks including the 1995 Beit Lid Junction suicide bombing, the 1996 Dizengoff Center suicide bombing and the 2002 Passover night Netanya Park Hotel suicide bombing, in which 65 Israelis were killed & hundreds wounded.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

Some 1,132 Israeli terror victims filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in the Jerusalem District Court for NIS 20 billion against the Arab Bank PLC for allegedly serving as a funding platform for terrorist attacks against Israel.

The lawsuit followed a separate lawsuit filed in the US in 2004, which led to a historic judgment in 2014 and an eventual $1 billion in compensation in a settlement with the bank. Continue Reading »

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