Archive for Israel News

WATCH: New England Patriots To Honor Jew Murdered By Palestinian Terrorist on Prime-Time TV

 

By CORAL BRAUN

 

Robert Kraft, the Jewish businessman, New England Patriots owner, and long-time supporter of American football in Israel, agreed Monday to honor Ezra Schwartz, an American who was killed in a terror attack at the Gush Eztion junction in the West Bank on November 19, with a moment of silence during the Patriot’s upcoming match against the Buffalo Bills Monday night.

Ezra Schwartz, 18, of Massachusetts was delivering food to Israeli soldiers when he became one of three people killed by a man who fired shots from his vehicle and rammed pedestrians in the West Bank.

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After BDS threats, 4 festival participants say they fear for their lives

 

International musicians due to perform at ‘Titans of Metal’ festival in Israel next month admitted to producers they fear for their lives after receiving BDS threats.

Ami Friedman

 

Any Israeli producer who wants to bring an artist over to the Holy Land can anticipate in advance the responses from pro-Palestinian organizations asking the artist to change their mind and cancel their visit. When a big name is involved, there’s a good chance they’ll get an email from Roger Waters himself, asking that they forgo the planned performance and join the cultural boycott of Israel, led by the BDS movement. Continue Reading »

WATCH CC security camera captures police neutralizing attackers outside Jerusalem market

 

view videoTwo teenage female Arabs attack a Jewish and Palestinian man with scissors outside Jerusalem market before security shoots one dead and leaving other terrorist in serious condition.

 

The footage shows the two Palestinian teenage assailants attempting to stab passersby before being shot by security forces.

Security camera footage emerged Monday of the earlier terror attack near the Jerusalem outdoor market in which two people were injured.

The footage captures the two Palestinian teenage assailants attempting to stab passersby before being shot by security forces.

One female teenaged Palestinian terrorist was killed, and her female teen accomplice is in critical condition, after attacking a Jewish and Palestinian man with scissors outside the Mahane Yehuda Market Monday morning, in the heart of downtown Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Attempted stabbing in Samaria by Arab; no one hurt thanks to IDF shooting terrorist dead

 

An Arab attempting to butcher Jews at the Hatmar intersection in Samaria was unsuccessful, as the stabber was quickly neutralized by alert IDF soldiers in the area.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

An Arab attempted a stabbing attack in the Hatmar Junction (also known as the Territorial Brigade junction – ed.) in Samaria on Monday afternoon, close to 3:00 pm.

The stabber was eliminated by IDF soldiers at the scene before he was able to harm anyone.

The incident is one of a series of attacks Monday. Just minutes after, an Israeli was murdered in a stabbing at a gas station along Highway 443north of Jerusalem, which also left another person wounded.

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IDF closes Hebron radio station for encouraging terror and acts of violence

 

IDF statement after soldiers confiscated equipment, including computers & transmitters, “The El-Halil radio station has repeatedly broadcast content which promotes & encourages terror and acts of violence against Israeli civilians & security forces.”

By Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom Staff & News Agencies

 

The Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) shut down on Saturday night a radio station in Hebron which the IDF said was broadcasting content that incited Palestinian listeners to attack Israelis.

An employee of the El-Halil radio station after it was shut down Saturday night – Photo: AFP

Employees at El-Halil radio station said IDF soldiers confiscated their equipment, including computers and transmitters, forcing the radio station off the air. Continue Reading »

German department store apologizes, restocks Israeli wines from Golan Heights

 

view videoGerman department-store apologizes after Israeli PM’s condemnation of German store for turning EU’s decision to label Jewish ‘settlement’ products into outright boycott.

By HERB KEINON

 

The German Department store KaDeWe, which on Saturday removed from its store wine produced in the Golan Heights, apologized for the move on Sunday and returned the bottles to the shelves.

Following a great deal of criticism on social media and a protest from the Green Party’s Volker Beck, president of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Bundestag, a spokesman for the department store sent him a letter of apology.

“The eight Israeli wines will be immediately returned,” the letter read. Continue Reading »

A Story of Coexistence: A Jew, an Arab and a Druze Share an Apartment in Israel

 

view videoThey are not just refusing to be enemies, the three 20 yr-olds, all of whom are disabled, share an apartment in Israel and have become best friends.

By Noam Barkan

 

They live together in the same apartment, they cook together, do their supermarket shopping together and go out to restaurants together, and won’t let any obstacle stand in their way – not even religion. If we could learn from them how to live together in harmony – an Arab, a Druze and a Jew, all youngsters – we would already have achieved peace.

Naji, Mohammed and Maor live together happily in spite of their different backgrounds.

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U.S. Christian group helps protect Jerusalem against Arab terror-attacks

 

The $600,000 funded from US Christians will be used to provide aid to terror victims, purchase security equipment for Jerusalem, and other means of support for the Border Police, fighting in the front line against Arab terror.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The (The Fellowship), led by President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Jerusalem, Border Police, and local social-service groups counter the ongoing terror wave against Israel.

The $600,000 funded from Christians across North America will be used to purchase security equipment and other means of support for those fighting in the front line against terror. Continue Reading »

Abbas’s Fatah: ‘It is the right of our young men to kill Israelis’

 

Top Fatah official at rally puts up memorial to the murderer of Jews, lauding the Old City stabber declaring ‘right’ to cause ‘Israeli women to cry.’

By Ari Yashar

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction is at it again, heaping praise on the Arab terrorist who stabbed two Jews to death in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October and declaring that the murder of Jews is a Palestinian “right.”

PMW

Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen took part in a rally honoring the terrorist Muhannad Halabi, as reported by the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency and translated and revealed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Continue Reading »

US law enforcement officials in Israel to learn counter-terrorism ops

 

The program is designed for senior officials, police chiefs, sheriffs, and state & federal law enforcement officials all over the US to meet with elite units from the Jerusalem Police, Border Police & Shin Bet.
– ‘Israel is the best at dealing with terrorism, and we want to learn from your experience,’ says former FBI counter-terrorism head.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

 

Citing Israel as the world leader in counter-terrorism, 15 senior American law enforcement officials from the Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) are spending 10 days in the country to observe multiple security agencies.

 SENIOR US law enforcement officials in Jerusalem participating in LEEP, a counterterrorism exchange

SENIOR US law enforcement officials in Jerusalem participating in LEEP, a counterterrorism exchange program.

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New Israel Fund Financed Video to Persuade Israeli Arabs, Minorities Not to Join IDF

 

The New Israel Fund, which claims to promote Jewish-Arab coexistence, does exactly the opposite when it funds anti-Zionist organizations that incite against integrating the Arab youth into Israeli society.

By Gil Ronen

 

Deputy Minister of Defense Eli Ben-Dahan and MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home), MK Merav Ben-Ari (Kulanu) and MK Miki Zohar (Likud) dispatched a letter this week to Talia Sasson, President of the New Israel Fund, in which they demanded that the Fund cease its support for the “Baladna Association for Arab Youth” organization.

Baladna recently produced a music video inciting against Arabs and members of other minorities who enlist in the Israeli Defense Forces, and calling on minorities to refuse to enlist.
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PA Official: Palestinian Kids Have Right to Stone Jews

 

Palestinian gov’t official condemns jail terms in Israel for minors who stone Jews, insisting that it’s a right of every Palestinian child.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Earlier this month, Israel’s Knesset enacted a minimum prison term for minors who throw stones and firebombs at vehicles. An outraged Palestinian Authority called the measure “punitive and racist.”

Palestinian prepare for terror attack, dropping huge stones on passing cars.

Stoning attacks in Israel go largely unreported, but on average there are several such incidents every day. The perpetrators are usually Palestinian Arab youth, and their victims are almost always Israeli Jewish motorists. Continue Reading »

Jordan’s King Abdullah warns of 3rd world war against “savage outlaws of religion”

 

King Abdullah: We must act “fast and holistically” to tackle this threat, describing ISIS as “savage outlaws of religion….We are facing a third world war against humanity and this is what brings us all together.” 

News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Jordan’s King Abdullah warned Tuesday of a “third world war against humanity,” describing the Islamic State group as “savage outlaws of religion,” AFP reported.

Jordan’s King Abdullah in Pristina, Kosovo – Photo: Reuters

During an official visit to Kosovo, Abdullah said both Europe and Islam were under attack from the “scourge” of terrorism, which could strike anywhere and at any time. Continue Reading »

German intelligence: Germany needs to follow Israel’s lead in fighting terror

 

Germany’s internal intelligence chief said the day after cancellation of a soccer match because of suspected bomb, ‘We can’t surrender to terrorism,’ Germany needs to respond to terror like Israel.

By Ynet & news agencies

 

Germany needs to respond to terror like Israel and the United States do, the head of Germany’s internal intelligence service (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, said Wednesday morning.

The evacuated stadium in Hanover, Germany. – Photo: EPA

Maassen said Germany must not surrender to ISIS’s terrorism. He noted that in Israel, soccer matches and concerts go on despite threats of terrorism. Maassen spoke a day after a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled due to a suspected bomb.

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ISIS Supporters Stab Jewish Schoolteacher in France

 

While threatening & hurling anti-Semitic curses, 3 assailants who professed support for ISIS violently attacked, stabbing a Jewish schoolteacher in Marseilles.

By Cynthia Blank

 

A Jewish schoolteacher was wounded in a stabbing attack in the southern French city of Marseilles on Wednesday night, AFP reports.

Anti-Semitic graffiti – Reuters

The victim has been named as Tzion Saadon, a follower of Chabad in his 50s.

French police said Saadon, a history teacher at a local Jewish day school, was walking in the 13th District of Marseilles at around 8 p.m. when he was violently attacked by three men carrying knives. Continue Reading »