Archive for Israel News

Israel Security Neutralizes Palestinian Terrorists Day by Day

 

IDF soldiers thwarted a terrorist attack by shooting dead 2 Palestinians who approached them brandishing long kitchen knives, in an attempted dawn stabbing attack at the Nablus checkpoint, Beqoat, in the West Bank.

By Yoav Zitun & Elior Levy

 

An attempted stabbing attack was foiled early Saturday morning when IDF soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to attack them with knives at the Beqaot checkpoint in the northern West Bank.

The scene of an attempted stabbing attack in the Nablus area of the West Bank

The two soldiers, part of the new “Lions of Jordan” co-ed battalion, were at the Nablus-area checkpoint as part of routine security operations. Continue Reading »

Report: American Casino Magnate Offered Obama $1b for Iron Dome Batteries To Defend Israel

 

 

U.S. casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a strong Israel supporter and backer of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, offered in 2013 to pay $1 billion for Iron Dome anti-missile batteries for Israel, Politico reported on Thursday.

Las Vegas gaming tycoon and Israel Hayom proprietor Sheldon Adelson. – Photo: REUTERS

In a profile Politico wrote on US President Barack Obama’s chief of staff Denis McDonough, Nevada Senator Harry Reid, then the senate majority leader, called Obama shortly after Congress passed a funding bill for the Iron Dome and relayed Adelson’s offer – “so committed was he to safeguarding the Jewish state “ – to finance the batteries. Continue Reading »

Rabid Israel-Hater & Knesset Member Haneen Zoabi Indicted for Verbally Abusing Arab Policemen

 

After plea bargain, the Palestinian MK is indicted for insulting a public employee & not for incitement to violence, after she verbally abused Arab policemen.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

Joint List MK Haneen Zoabi was indicted on Thursday for insulting a public worker after a plea bargain was agreed last month to bring the charge down from incitement to violence.

The indictment comes in the wake of Zoabi’s verbal attack on Arab police officers in the days following the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July 2014.

According to the charge, on July 6, 2014, hearings took place in the Nazareth Magistrates’ Court requesting that the arrest of two suspects involved in riots that had spread throughout the Arab-Israeli population be extended. Continue Reading »

Updated & Video: All 3 Palestinian Terrorist Killed While Attacking IDF Reserve Soldiers in Judea

 

view videoStabbing attempt on well trained & alert IDF reserve unit at Gush Etzion Junction in Judea ends with all 3 armed Palestinian terrorists permanently neutralized.

By Ari Yashar

 

A stabbing attempt took place at Gush Etzion Junction in Judea on Thursday night, although fortunately no one was wounded.

Three terrorists were shot by security forces who quickly responded to the threat, with two of the terrorists and the third being wounded.

The terrorists tried to stab reserve soldiers who were securing the junction, according to an IDF statement.

However, soldiers at the site fired at the terrorists, taking them out before they could stab. Continue Reading »

Ex-U.S. Middle East envoy Martin Indyk fabricated conversation about Netanyahu

 

Former American Mid-East envoy Martin Indyk claimed Israel’s PM Netanyahu told him at Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral, “If he had not been assassinated, I would have beaten him in the [1996] elections.”
• Likud: Not a new incident. Indyk never stops slandering & defaming Netanyahu.

By Shlomo Cesana, Yoni Hersch, Mati Tuchfeld & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Former U.S. Middle East envoy Martin Indyk lied twice about a supposed conversation he had with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, a Prime Minister’s Office official said on Wednesday.
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Likud MK Establishes Medical Marijuana Lobby at Israel’s Knesset

 

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

A Knesset loby for the use of medical cannabis has been established with Likud MK Sharren Haskel at its head, it was announced on Thursday. “It has become accepted that medical cannabis has significant health benefits and an important place in the development of the world of medicine,” Haskel said, “but there are many impediments to its use. The trend is to limit this development, even tough there are many seriously ill patients who need it.” Continue Reading »

US State Dept. rejects Israel’s comparison of its ‘foreign-funding’ law to United States’ lobbying registry

 

The US State Dept. spokesman John Kirby, says Israeli Transparency Law requiring NGO’s to report its foreign funding, and the US Foreign Agents Registration Act are ‘two different things’ – but can’t explain how.

By Cynthia Blank

 

US State Department spokesman John Kirby rejected out of hand Wednesday a comparison between an Israeli bill requiring foreign-funded NGOs to declare their sources and US laws mandating the registration of foreign interest lobbyists.

John Kerry, John Kirby – Reuters

In an op-ed published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Monday, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked drew parallels between her Government Transparency Law and the US Foreign Agents Registration Act dating back to 1938.
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Palestinian knife attacks prompt IDF to supply soldiers protective neck gear

 

IDF’s new neck protector against knife attacks, which needed to be comfortable & flexible, was developed within 2 weeks, and now 850,000 will be manufactured & distributed to the soldiers.

By Lilach Shoval

 

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Palestinian relatives demand Israel return terrorists’ bodies

 

Citing security concerns, Israel is still holding onto about a dozen Palestinian terrorist bodies, whereas their families claim this measure provokes anger & inflames the atmosphere even more.

By The Associated Press

 

Palestinian families are pressing Israel to return about a dozen terrorist bodies that Israel continues to hold since a wave of terror began about four months ago.

Palestinian funeral near Hebron – Photo: Reuters

Palestinian accountant Ahmed Oweisat last saw his son Moataz in October – hours before the 16-year-old boy tried to stab an officer and was fatally shot in Jerusalem.

The son still has not been buried – one of about a dozen bodies of Palestinian terrorists that Israel continues to hold nearly four months after a wave of violence erupted in Jerusalem and spread across Israel and the West Bank. Continue Reading »

#BDSfail: Spanish government pays West Bank university $100,000

 

Ariel University receives over $100,000 compensation from Spanish gov’t for capitulating to BDS pressure in 2009 by excluding the West Bank university from a ‘green-housing’ competition.

By i24news

 

The Spanish government recently paid 430,000 shekels (100,000 dollars) in compensation to an Israeli university in the West Bank for an incident in which 15 architecture students were barred from an international competition sponsored by the Spanish Housing Ministry because they came “from the occupied territories”.

Ariel University had been involved in a complicated legal struggle after a team it sent to Spain in 2009 advanced to become one of 21 finalists in a competition for designing an environmentally-friendly home, Israeli news website Ynet reported. Continue Reading »

Dr. Sheikh Omer Salem’s Curious Voice for Peaceful Coexistence

 

Yale University lecturer with Phd from Al Azhar University in Cairo, Sheikh Omer Salem, says Muslims are the Jews’ protectors, and vows the Temple Mount will return to Jewish hands.

By Tsvi Sadan

 

Olam Katan (Small World) is one of many religious newsletters distributed in synagogues throughout Israel each Friday. It is the last place one would expect to find an interview with Yale University alumnus Sheikh Omer Salem who visited Israel last week. Salem’s December 26 lecture in Haifa University was heckled by an Israeli Arab student who just couldn’t stand a sheikh speaking on behalf of Israel. Continue Reading »

Grandparents’ stories of Israel inspired Japanese man to join IDF

 

Now serving in the Nahal Brigade, Daniel Tomohiro speaks of growing up in Japan, being inspired by his grandfather’s stories of making aliyah and fighting in Israel’s War of Independence.
• “My grandmother was in Auschwitz and was saved only because a German nurse covered her with a blanket,” he says.

By Danny Brenner

 

Daniel Tomohiro is not the typical Israeli soldier. His Hungarian grandparents survived the Holocaust, made aliyah, and fought in the War of Independence, but they then moved to Australia, where his mother met and married a Japanese man and moved to Iwata, Japan.

Now Tomohiro has come full circle and is serving in the Israel Defense Forces, undergoing basic training with the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion. Continue Reading »

#BDSfail: California legislator calls to divest from companies that boycott Israel

 

The proposed bill would prohibit California state gov’t from contracting with companies who are “engaging in actions that are politically motivated and are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial relations with the State of Israel.”

By Cynthia Blank

 

A bill taking aim at the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement was introduced in the California state legislature Monday.

BDS (illustration)

BDS (illustration) – Reuters

If passed, the bill would prohibit California’s government from giving contracts to companies “engaging in actions that are politically motivated and are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial relations with the State of Israel.”
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WATCH: Israeli NGO proves: Facebook discriminates against Jews & Israelis

 

view videoShurat Hadin opens two Facebook pages, both equally inciteful, but Facebook removes only the page that incites against Palestinians, the other “did not violate the social network’s terms of service” when reported for inciting against Jews.

By Ido Ben Porat

 

The non-profit Shurat Hadin-The Israel Law Center organization has conducted an investigation which proves unequivocally that Facebook discriminates against Israelis.

Anti-Semitism and Incitement to violence flourishes on Facebook - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Anti-Semitism and Incitement to violence against Israel and Jews flourishes on Facebook – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The investigation included an experiment in which two fictitious Facebook pages were set up, with one inciting against the Palestinians and the other inciting against Jews and Israelis. Continue Reading »

Commotion of Israelis on board airliner force two Arab-Israeli passengers to deplane

 

By MAARIV ONLINE

 

A number of Israelis returning from a vacation in Greece with Aegean Airlines on Monday caused a scene when two Arab-Israeli men boarded the same aircraft and drew their attention.

Aegan Airlines – Photo: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/JETPIX

This did not fare well with the Israelis on board who turned to the flight attendants and said they would not allow the plane to embark with the two men on board. Despite the scene caused by the Israelis, the flight attendants went about their cabin-preparations as usual, and the captain prepared for take-off. Continue Reading »