Archive for Israel News

#ShoddyReporting: CNN replaces Israel with Palestine on its map

 

CNN offers no apology or explanation to reader that asks, “Why is my country erased on this map?”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

A CNN Money article on the Middle East dropped Israel’s name from a map of the Middle East that accompanied a story on the turmoil in the region.

CNN Erases Israel From the Map

The article, entitled “Beyond ISIS: 2016’s scariest geopolitical hot spots,” naturally featured the ongoing war in Syria and the image that originally accompanied the article was a map of the Middle East. But the name Palestina, Spanish or Portuguese for Palestine stood in for Israel on the map. Continue Reading »

Russia: No tourism to Turkey or vegetable imports, we will import from Israel

 

Following downing of Russian jet by Turkey, tourism destined to Turkey rerouted to Israel & now the Russian agriculture minister announces the cessation of vegetable imports from Ankara.

By Ynetnews

 

Tensions between Russia and Turkey continue to mount as Moscow announced this week that it would stop importing vegetables from Ankara, listing Israel as a possible alternative.

Anti-Turkish protests at the Turkish embassy in Moscow – Photo: AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently ended security cooperation with Ankara and asked Russian citizens to avoid visiting Turkey, but the Russian president seems to want to punish Turkey even more for downing a Russian combat jet two days ago. Continue Reading »

Israeli Policeman: ‘If my partners hadn’t responded as quickly, I’d be dead’

 

Border Police officer described how Arab terrorist who lunged out of a cab with a knife in hand, was shot dead mere meters before reaching him.

By Uzi Baruch

 

A Border Policeman credited two of his comrades Thursday with saving his life when they reacted alertly to a terrorist attack in Samaria.

Tapuah Junction

Tapuah Junction – Ichud Hatzala

Sergeant S. said that “if my comrade warriors had not operated so quickly and professionally, it is very likely that I would not be standing here today.”

“We are stationed at the checkpoint all day and night and are required to maintain maximal alertness and readiness. Continue Reading »

Israel and Egypt sign letter of intent for natural gas deal

 

Israel’s offshore Leviathan natural gas field to supply Egypt with gas via existing Egyptian underwater pipeline via the Sinai.

By i24news

 

Israel’s offshore natural gas field Leviathan will supply gas to Egypt via an existing underwater pipeline to the Sinai peninsula, Leviathan’s partners said in a statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Wednesday after signing a preliminary deal.

Leviathan gas field in Israel – Photo: AFP

As part of the deal, Leviathan will supply Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings with up to 4 billion cubic meters of gas a year for 10 to 15 years.

Though Egypt used to be a major regional gas exporter in the region, with Israel being one of its clients, the tables have turned in recent years, owing to several factors – including, in Egypt, instability in the Sinai Peninsula region – where several large fields are located – due to the rise of the Islamist insurgent group Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, and in Israel, the discovery of large off-shore gas fields. Continue Reading »

Israel Police arrest 2 Palestinians from Jerusalem for inciting to have Jews killed via Facebook

 

According to the police, the 2 Palestinians regularly sought attackers in the capital’s Arab neighborhoods by posting images of knives, and encouraging them to stab Jewish residents.

 

Two Palestinian men in their 20s were arrested by police on Wednesday morning in the flashpoint east Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Silwan for using Facebook to incite violence against Jews in the capital.

Facebook is long known for not taking anti-Semitism or demonizing Israel, seriously. – IsraelandStuff/PP

The unidentified suspects were arrested in their homes following a two-week undercover investigation carried out by detectives, police said.

“They were using Facebook to call on people to carry out attacks, and arrested as part of the ongoing operation to find suspects involved in using the Internet to incite violence,” Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Defense Minister announces planned security fence between Lachish district & Hevron

 

After the Kiryat Gat stabbing, Moshe Ya’alon announced plans to erect an electronic border fence between Judea and Lachish district to prevent Palestinians from bypassing security checks.

By Cynthia Blank

 

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) announced in the Knesset on Wednesday night that the defense establishment intends to a build an updated security fence between Hevron and Kiryat Gat.

IDF forces patrol along the fence in the Golan Heights on the border with Syria. – Photo: AFP

The sophisticated and hermetically sealed fence will be built within a year and will cost hundreds of millions of shekels, with financing coming from the recently approved defense budget. Continue Reading »

8 yr-old Israeli ‘Indiana Jones’ honored after First Temple era archaeological discovery

 

For turning archaeological find over to Antiquities Authorities’ officials, Itai Halpern of Pardesiya was granted a certificate of honor after discovering the head of a statue from the First Temple period.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

An eight-year-old Israeli boy on a daytrip with his family in the Beit Shemesh area accidentally made an important archaeological discovery last week, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday.

Itay Halperin holding the head of a sculpture from the First Temple period discovered in Beit Shemesh‏. – Photo: ARIK HALPERIN

Itai Halpern of Pardesiya was granted a certificate of honor after discovering the head of a statue from the First Temple period and turning it in to Antiquities Authorities’ officials. Continue Reading »

#RESPECT: Meet Ziyad, Muslim IDF tracker with a ‘long live the State of Israel’ tattoo

 

Hailing from a village in northern Israel, Samal Ziyad, an Arab-Muslim who serves in the IDF’s Bedouin Trackers Unit, and has a tattoo on his arm that reads: ‘Long live the State of Israel’ says, ‘Since I was little my father has encouraged me to serve.’ 

By Yoav Zitun

 

Samal Ziyad, an Arab-Muslim who serves in the IDF’s Bedouin Trackers Unit, could easily compete for the title of the most Zionist soldier serving in the West Bank today.

One of only a few dozen Arab Muslims serving in the army, he chose to volunteer for military duty, drawing fierce opposition from Arab society and the risk of personal attacks. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Technion Developed a ‘Self-Healing’ Electronic Skin

 

Israeli scientists in Haifa used a new synthetic polymer to develop a self-healing, flexible sensor, giving it the ability to “heal” skin in less than a day.

 

Imagine an artificial skin that heals itself. Imagine a prosthetic limb that has a sense of touch.

These incredible advances are a step closer to reality thanks to chemical engineering researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Prof. Hossam Haick – Photo: Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa

Inspired by the natural healing properties of human skin, Prof. Hossam Haick and postdoctoral researcher Tan-Phat Huynh used a new kind of synthetic polymer to develop a self-healing, flexible sensor.
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VIDEO: Israel’s anti-missile defense system for passenger jets passes NATO tests

 

view videoWATCH: Elbit’s MUSIC Countermeasures system, adapted to 20 aircraft models, protects civilian airliners from shoulder-launched rockets & heat-seeking missiles, could lead to deals with NATO’s 28 member states.

By Hezi Sternlicht, Ilan Gattegno, News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Israeli system that protects planes from surface-to-air missiles has passed a test conducted by NATO, which could open up new markets for the technology in the alliance’s 28 member states, defense electronics manufacturer Elbit Systems said Monday.

The system, which can jam incoming heat-seeking missiles with a laser, is already in use by civilian Israeli carriers.

MUSIC, or Multi Spectral Infrared Countermeasures, is a family of high-performance, directed infrared countermeasure systems, which are integrated with other advanced, passive airborne warning systems to protect aircraft against heat seeking surface-to-air missiles and shoulder-launched rockets. Continue Reading »

Saving Face Gesture: Not to Be Shown Up By the Patriots, Obama Calls Ezra Schwartz’s Parents

 

Four days after brutal murder of a US citizen by a Palestinian terrorist, President Obama calls family shortly before New England Patriots hold scheduled ‘prime-time’ moment of silence for their son, Ezra Schwartz.

By Ari Yashar

 

US President Barack Obama on Monday made a phone call to the parents of Ezra Schwartz, the 18-year-old American citizen murdered by a terrorist last Thursday in a shooting attack in Judea’s Gush Etzion.

Ezra Schwartz – Courtesy

In the call to the bereaved parents Ari and Ruth Scwhartz, which came a lengthy four days after the murder, Obama spoke about how Schwartz was studying at a yeshiva and volunteering in Israel during his gap year.
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Israel considers relocating terrorists’ families to Gaza Strip

 

As a deterrent to parents allowing their children seek ‘martyrdom by killing Jews’, top gov’t officials along with IDF brass are considering expelling the families of terrorists to the Gaza Strip.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister met Monday with IDF top brass and among other measures are considering expelling the families of terrorists to the Gaza Strip.

They instructed security forces to increase checks of Palestinian vehicles on shared routes such as the road leading towards the Valley of Elah (near Beit Shemesh), route 60 and highway 35, in addition to the operations already underway involving thousands of soldiers in the Hebron area in recent days. Continue Reading »

Syria Reports: Israel Air Force strikes joint Hezbollah-Assad military position in Syria

 

Syria media outlets report Israeli Air Force bombed a joint Syrian-Hezbollah military position in the mountainous Qalamoun region
• Meanwhile the IAF also hit a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier rocket fire on Israel.

By Gadi Golan, Lilach Shoval & Daniel Siryot

 

Syrian media outlets reported on Monday that the Israeli Air Force had struck a joint Hezbollah and Syrian military position post in the mountainous Qalamoun region near Syria’s border with Lebanon. Israel did not comment on the reports.

Meanwhile, the IAF on Monday night struck a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip in retaliation to a rocket that was fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Monday morning. Continue Reading »

Israel’s “start-up city” to assist India develop their own ‘smart cities’

 

The innovative digital urban technologies implemented by Israel’s “high-tech capital” are set to traverse the city and go international.

Azrieli Center

Tel Avav’s Azrieli Center – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

The City of Tel Aviv-Yafo announced on Monday an agreement to assist in creating ‘smart cities’ around India.

In partnership with the Mumbai-based NGO Delivering Change Foundation (DCF), Israeli representatives were slated to mentor, train, consult and escort Indian city officials with technological urban transformation.

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The initiative was set to incorporate the Indian cities of Pune, Nagpur and Nashik in the northwestern state of Maharashtra, a  municipal spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post. Continue Reading »

Op-Ed: The lies of Saeb Erekat perpetuate the Palestinian conflict and distance peace

Saeb Erekat, recently sent to foreign media an incendiary propaganda document replete with blatant lies and utter distortions of history that exposes the futility of the Palestinian mindset, and reveals just how far the Palestinian leadership is from accepting the premises necessary for true peace with Israel.

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