Archive for Israel News

Israel, Jordan issue $800m tender for joint Red-Dead canal project

 

Red-Dead project pipeline is expected to be 180 kilometers long, pass through both Israeli & Jordanian territory, include a desalination plant producing 80 million cubes of potable water a year, and two hydro-power plants, beside preventing the Dead Sea from drying up.

By i24news

 

Israel and Jordan are pushing forward with a plan to construct a water-carrying canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea with the hopes that it will help stop the Dead Sea from shrinking further.

Silvan Shalom (left) and his Jordanian counterpart Hazim Nasser seen during a signing ceremony between Jordan and Israel in Jordan on February 26, 2015 – Photo: Haim Zach/GPO

The $800 million tender to build the canal, which the two governments also hope will help supply drinking water to Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians, was announced by Interior Minister Silvan Shalom and Jordanian Water Minister Hazim Nasser on Monday. Continue Reading »

Israeli kids to lean of forced exile of 800,000 Jews from Arab countries, Iran

 

At event where thousands commemorate the Jews expelled from Arab countries, Minister Gila Gamliel announces that now every Israeli child will learn about the 800,000 Jews who were forced to flee or were banished from Middle Eastern & North African Muslim countries, just as they learn about Europe.

By Mati Tuchfeld

 

Thousands of people attended Israel’s first official commemoration event for Jews expelled from Arab countries and Iran, held in Jerusalem on Monday.

Social Equity Minister Gila Gamliel on Monday – Photo: Dudi Vaaknin

Social Equity Minister Gila Gamliel spearheaded the initiative, calling the event “Longing for Home.”

The ceremony began with a moment of silence for Jews killed in pogroms in Arab countries and Iran. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu acknowledges Israel is active in Syria

 

Prime Minister Netanyahu said the IDF is working to keep Iran from opening yet another front against Israel, in the Golan Heights.
• Opposition leader Herzog accuses Natanyahu of diverting funds meant for the Negev & Galilee to West Bank settlements.

By Attila Somfalvi

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Tuesday that Israel operates in Syria. “We’re operating in Syria from time to time in order to stop the country from becoming a front against Israel,” he said at the Galilee Conference in Acre.

Netanyahu at the Galilee Conference – Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO

“We’re operating against another terror front that Iran is trying to build in the Golan, and in order to thwart the transfer of particularly deadly weapons from Syria to Lebanon. Continue Reading »

Israeli Security Kill Palestinian Woman Attempting to Stab IDF Soldier

 

No injuries among Israelis in the second attack of the day, when Israel security personnel shoot a Palestinian woman as she rushed to stab an IDF soldier at the Einav Junction.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

A female Palestinian assailant attempted to stab an IDF officer at Einav Junction in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning, in the second attempted stabbing incident of the day.

Police car at crime scene. – Photo: SHLOMI

Security forces opened fire at the attacker. She was shot on the scene and later succumbed to her wounds.

There were no injuries among security personnel in the incident. Continue Reading »

Former Cambridge researcher boycotts Israeli schoolgirl claiming ‘Jews have become Nazis’

 

Ex-Cambridge academic refuses to answer 13 yr-old Israeli girl’s question about horses for a school project, instead lectures her about ‘Palestine’.

By The Elder of Ziyon

 

Dr. Marsha Levine is an expert on the history of the domestication of horses who is (still claims to be) a researcher at Cambridge University – although apparently she no longer is.

Shamir Rabinovitch – Facebook

A young Israeli girl named Shachar Rabinovitch wrote to her for help on a school research project:

 

Hello!

My name is Shachar Rabinovitch and I'm from Israel.

I'm doing an assessment for school about horses, and it will be great if you can
answer a few questions that I will ask.
Continue Reading »

PM Netanyahu seeks law allowing absentee ballots for Israelis living abroad

 

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking several electoral reforms, the allowing of full absentee voting & automatically enabling leader of the largest party to form the government.

By Mati Tuchfeld & Shlomo Cesana

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he plans to spearhead several electoral reforms, including one that would allow Israelis living abroad to vote in general elections.

A new bill may make it easier for expats to participate in Israeli elections. – Photo: Reuters

Under Israeli law, absentee ballots are reserved for diplomatic corps personnel and official Israeli emissaries only. The law does not allow citizens who are traveling or have moved to other countries to vote. Continue Reading »

NGO calls on UN Chief to fire staff members that post photos glorying the death of Jews

 

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

UNRWA staff members who post photographs or text glorying the death of Jews and or Israelis on social media should be fired, said the non-governmental group UN Watch on Monday as it released a report detailing such activity.

Glorying the death of Jews and/or Israelis – Facebook post from Mazen Abo Hady

The report showed a set of Facebook posts from Mazen Abo Hady who said he was a UNRWA teacher in Gaza, one could see an artistic graphic of a man clutching a knife and wearing a black and white Kafiya over his face breaking through an Israeli flag. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Putin and Netanyahu Engage in Friendly Dialogue at Global Climate Summit in Paris

 

view videoThe 2 leaders spoke of their succesful military cooperation, which has helped avert at least one aerial incident when a Russian jet entered 1.5km into Israeli airspace by mistake.
• Russia began arming its fighter-bombers with air to air missiles for “defensive purposes.”

By Ynetnews, Reuters

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of Israeli-Russian military cooperation to prevent “unnecessary accidents” at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Global Climate summit in Paris on Monday.

Netanyahu and Putin in Paris – Photo: Amos Ben Gershom

Putin, likewise, praised the “mechanism of cooperation” which the two sides had established in relation to Russia’s military operations in Syria. Continue Reading »

Listen: PA shuts down Hamas radio station over ‘incitement’

 

Gaza-based Al-Aqsa Voice Radio network silenced in the PA territory after Fatah issues threats.

By Tova Dvorin

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has banned a Gaza-based Hamas network from broadcasting within its borders Monday, it announced on its official Facebook page – apparently to stop incitement

While Israel has cracked down on incitement against Israelis and Jews from within the PA, the PA itself has apparently begun monitoring – and filtering – broadcasts as well.

Since last week, many staff members of the Al-Aqsa Radio Hamas channel’s PA branch have been arrested on “various pretexts,” sources told Walla! News, and were also threatened anonymously over the phone and on Facebook. Continue Reading »

Sean Penn keynote speaker at humanitarian IsraAID conference on Haiti

 

By i24news

 

Actor and director Sean Penn was in Israel Monday as the guest of Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID, to discuss reconstruction efforts there following the deadly 2010 earthquake.

Sean Penn meets with former Israeli President Shimon Peres, November 30 2015

Penn, whose father is Jewish, was the keynote speaker at a conference entitled “Can Haiti Grow?” which was organized by IsraAid and the Pratt Foundation and spoke about his NGO, J/P Haitian Relief Organization. Continue Reading »

Blackmail & Institutionalized Corruption? Turkey Manipulates EU & Wins Big, $3.2 Billion Payoff

 

For Turkey to stem its mass transport of Muslim migrants to Europe, the EU as agreed to provide more visas for Turks entering European countries, pay Ankara a whopping €3 Billion, and to reopen talks on Turkey’s membership into the EU.
• French president: Money to be paid out gradually as conditions are met.

By Eli Leon, News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Even as it is trying — and currently failing — to placate Russia and alleviate tensions over the plane it shot down last week, Turkey secured itself a handsome victory in a different arena on Sunday, persuading the European Union to give it $3.2 billion and other benefits in exchange for stemming the flow of Muslim migrants threatening to flood the continent. Continue Reading »

#BDSfail: Israel and Britain agree to expand scientific cooperation

 

British Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey said, “The UK is proud that more Israeli students & scientists will now be working together with their British peers,” collaborating in bilateral programs.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

Hundreds of British and Israeli researchers will benefit from new bilateral programs announced by the British government during UK-Israel Science Day last week.

A woman holds a Union flag umbrella in front of the Big Ben clock tower (R) and the Houses of Parliament in London. – Photo: REUTERS

The Science, Technology and Space Ministry in Jerusalem announced on Monday that the NIS 1.5 million funding will enhance research in water, medicine, agriculture, nanotechnology and other sciences and increase the number of scientists from the two countries who work together; at present, hundreds of researchers are already collaborating in existing bilateral programs. Continue Reading »

NGO demands Israel ‘Demolish EU-funded illegal Arab settlements’

 

After Israel’s PM ordered the Foreign Ministry to suspend diplomatic contact with EU over its biased labeling policy, NGO calls to go a step further & stop rampant EU breach of local and int’l laws.

By Ari Yashar

 

Following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s orders on Sunday night to suspend diplomatic contact with the European Union (EU), an NGO has called to destroy the illegal Arab settlements funded by the EU.

Illegal Arab construction funded by the EU

Illegal Arab structures funded by the EU – Regavim

Netanyahu’s orders were a response to the EU decision to label Jewish products from over the 1949 Armistice lines – Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Continue Reading »

Egyptian Coptic Pope makes first visit to Jerusalem since 1967 travel ban on Israel

 

Coptic Church says Pope Tawadros II did not obtain Israeli visa to visit Jerusalem since there’s no official travel restrictions for Egyptian citizens travelling to Israel.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Egyptian head of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, made a rare visit to Jerusalem to preside over the funeral on Saturday of a Coptic bishop.

The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II walks outside the Church of Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, Saturday – Photo: AP

The previous Coptic pope, Shenouda III, banned worshipers from traveling to Jerusalem more than three decades ago, despite a 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Continue Reading »

Arab killed in Jerusalem by Border Police While Throwing Firebomb

 

Israel Border Guard kills one of the rioters after responding with live fire at group of Arabs throwing Molotov cocktails at them in Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem.

By Matt Wanderman

 

A group of Arabs threw about ten Molotov cocktails at Border Police in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. Arab sources report that security forces returned fire and killed one rioter before the rest dispersed.

Firebomb (file)

Firebomb (file) – Photo: Reuters

Walla! news identifies the dead terrorist as Ayman al-Abasi, a 17-year-old from Silwan. He previously spent a year and a half in an Israeli prison for his involvement in a 2012 stabbing in Ras al-Amud. Continue Reading »