Archive for Israel News

Israel Police: Jordanian Waqf attempts to install CCTV without coordination is provocation

 

The attempt of Islamic Waqf workers to set up security cameras on the Temple Mount without Israeli authorities’ approval constitutes a provocation, says Jerusalem District Police.
• Prime Minister’s Office: Trilateral agreement stipulates installation must be coordinated by all parties.

By Daniel Siryoti, Gideon Allon, Yoni Hersch & Efrat Forsher

 

Israeli authorities on Monday prevented the Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem from installing security cameras in the Temple Mount compound. A senior source said the move constituted provocation and stressed that security cameras will be set up around the holy site only after the move was coordinated with Israel.

A waqf worker attempting to install a security camera at Al-Aqsa compound, Monday – Screenshot: Israel TV2

The waqf is an Islamic trust that controls and manages the current Islamic edifices on and around the Al-Aqsa mosque. Continue Reading »

Jerusalem District Court Rejects Islamic Movement Leader Raed Salah’s Appeal

 

The verdict sends Raed Salah, the leader of the extremist Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, to begin 11 months incarceration for incitement in a speech given in 2007.

 

Raed Salah, the leader of the extremist Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, had his appeal rejected in the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday and will have to serve the 11-month sentence he received in March for incitement in a speech he gave in 2007.

Sheikh Raed Salah – Photo: REUTERS

Salah is scheduled to begin serving his sentence on November 15.

The verdict comes at a sensitive time of daily terrorist attacks by Palestinians against Israelis. Continue Reading »

Leader of the incitement lawsuit against Facebook succumbs to wounds

 

Richard Lakin, died 2 weeks after being randomly shot and stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist for just ‘looking like a Jew’, lived his life believing in coexistence, and even marched with Martin Luther King.

By Gil Ronen

 

Richard Lakin, 76, who died on Tuesday two weeks after being shot and stabbed in a terror attack at Armon Hanatziv in southern Jerusalem, believed in coexistence and even marched with Dr. Martin Luther King.

Richard Lakin, z”l – Courtesy of the Lakin family

The background photo in Lakin’s Facebook page depicts the word “coexist” in which some of the letters are replaced by a Star of David, a Muslim crescent and a cross.
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Israel Air Force Retaliates Striking 2 Gaza Targets After Rocket Attack on Israel

 

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The IAF struck two Hamas targets in southern Gaza a few hours after a rocket attack on southern Israel. The IDF Spokesman Unit said that it viewed Hamas as being responsible for all terrorist activities in the Strip.

A rocket exploded in an open area of the Gaza border region in the South earlier Monday evening.

IAF fighter jets during the Red Flag joint exercise at Nellis air force base in Nevada – Photo: IDF SPOKESMAN’S OFFICE

IDF units were searching the area for the projectile. Continue Reading »

Gaza Fires Rocket at Israel

 

By JPOST.COM STAFF,  YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

A rocket exploded in an open area of the Gaza border region in the South Monday evening.

A rocket is launched from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel. – Photo: REUTERS

IDF units are searching the area for the projectile. There were no injuries in the attack. Rocket sirens sounded in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council in the area before the rocket fell.

Earlier, citizens in the area reported hearing an explosion.

At the beginning of the month the IDF deployed an Iron Dome missile defense system battery in the southern city of Beersheba. Continue Reading »

It’s about fu**ing time: Facebook removes Hamas news page

 

Israeli students sent reports to Facebook complaining against the Shehab News Agency page, with its 2.7 million likes, which shares Hamas’ ideology, posting nonstop anti-Semitic and inciting content depicted in cartoons containing graphic violence.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Facebook removed on Tuesday the page of Hamas’ news agency Shehab, after Israeli students who are a part of a program to fight anti-Semitism reported the page. 

The students received a message from Facebook saying the page, one of the more popular Facebook pages in the Arab world with 2.7 million likes, has been removed because it was found to be containing graphic violence, which violates Facebook’s terms of use.  Continue Reading »

Morgan Freeman Visits Judaism’s Western Wall

 

Morgan Freeman did some soul searching at the Kotel while in Israel filming for National Geographic’s upcoming series “The Story of God,” which investigates mankind’s quest to understand the divine.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS

 

Hollywood heavyweight Morgan Freeman took time out to visit the Western Wall on Sunday, while visiting the Holy Land to shoot scenes for the upcoming National Geographic series The Story of God, which looks at mankind’s quest to understand the divine.

Morgan Freeman and Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz at the Western Wall. – Photo: RAVHAKOTEL

While at the Western Wall, Freeman met with the rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, and visited several holy sites. Continue Reading »

Terrorist Shot Dead in Hebron When Attacking Police With Knife

 

No injuries to security personnel at the Cave of the Patriarchs in the attempted attack by a screaming, knife-wielding Palestinian woman.

By Ari Soffer

 

An Arab woman attempted to stab a soldier at a police checkpoint in Hevron Sunday afternoon.

The terrorist after she was neutralized – Photo: Hebron security department

The terrorist was shot dead by alert border police officers before she was able to injure anyone.

The Arab terrorist approached the checkpoint close to the Cave of the Patriarchs and aroused the suspicion of border police stationed there.

When officers demanded she identify herself the attacker drew a knife and charged at them while shouting in Arabic; officers opened fire and neutralized her. Continue Reading »

24/7 CC Surveillance on Temple Mount to Verify Status Quo, Identify Agitators

 

After US Sec of State’s meeting in Jordan, Kerry announces agreements while Israeli gov’t official pleased installed surveillance cameras will now prove provocations are not started by the Israeli side.

By Itamar Eichner & Elior Levy

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at a holy site in Jerusalem that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence. Kerry said Netanyahu had expressed a commitment to continue enforcing the status quo, which says only Muslims may pray at the compound, while non-Muslims may only visit.

Palestinian women paid to scream & harass visiting Jews on Temple Mount – Photo: Reuters

“All the violence and the incitement to violence must stop. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu outfoxes the media: The world now knows Jerusalem’s Mufti was Nazi war criminal

 

In correcting Netanyahu’s ‘history lesson’, what has been made clear is the 1st ‘Palestinian’ leader, Jerusalem’s Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, started the lies  [still being used today] as an excuse to murder Jews with impunity, and as a Nazi war criminal, the many similarities seen in Palestinian culture now make sense.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is crazy like a fox.

Netanyahu’s assertion on Tuesday before the World Zionist Congress that the founder of the Palestinian people, Haj Amin al-Husseini, convinced Adolf Hitler to eradicate rather than expel the Jews of Europe was an overstatement of Husseini’s role. Continue Reading »

First his wife, now Abbas’ brother-in-law checks into Israeli hospital for surgery

 

While Mahmoud Abbas was spreading odious lies about Israel, his brother-in-law underwent life-saving heart surgery at Assuta, a private Tel Aviv hospital…the same one his wife checked into last June.

By Shahar Chai

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s brother-in-law has undergone life-saving heart surgery in a private Tel Aviv hospital, it emerged Thursday, in the middle of a wave of terror and as Abbas and Netanyahu trade barbs and blame.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. – Photo: AFP

On Thursday evening, Netanyahu tweeted from his official Twitter account: 

“I think the time has come for the international community to say clearly to PA President Mahmoud Abbas: Stop spreading lies about Israel.” Continue Reading »

White House Defends Haj Amin al-Husseini by Condemning Netanyahu’s ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’

 

Day after Israel’s Prime Minister clarified his comment, the White House spokesperson publicly attacks Netanyahu’s suggestion that [in 1941] Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti contributed to the Holocaust.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The White House condemned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for “inflammatory rhetoric” Thursday after he said that a celebrated early Palestinian Arab leader played a central role in instigating the Holocaust.

Hitler hosts Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin - Photo: Heinrich Hoffmann Collection/Wikipedia

Hitler hosts Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin, 1941 – Photo: Heinrich Hoffmann Collection/Wikipedia

Netanyahu on Tuesday suggested Hitler was not planning to exterminate the Jews until he met Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941. Continue Reading »

Israel’s hotels ranked among world’s best

 

Waldorf Astoria says it was “thrilled” over result of survey after learning its hotel in Jerusalem placed 1st regionally and 7th globally in Conde Nast Traveler survey.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

Less than two years after its opening, the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem made it to seventh place in the Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2015, a global survey of travelers that ranks the world’s top 100 hotels and resorts. Conde Nast Traveler is considered to be the world’s most prestigious tourism-related magazine. The survey’s results were announced earlier this week.
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Family of Killed Gaza Flotilla Activist Sues Ehud Barak in U.S.

 

Being sued in a civil court leaves no possibility for the former prime minister of Israel of being arrested.

By REUTERS

 

Relatives of a US citizen killed in Israel’s 2010 storming of the a Turkish-led Gaza-bound flotilla are suing former prime minister Ehud Barak for the raid, in which nine activists died.

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Kerry Meets Netanyahu in Germany Where PM Condemned Palestinians for Perpetuating 90 yr-old Lie

 

WATCH: In Berlin, Netanyahu denied again Israel’s intentions at changing Temple Mount status quo, saying Palestinian leadership is propagating the exact same lie mufti of Jerusalem did when he supported Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ during WWII.
* Palestinian resolution at UNESCO was attempt at changing status quo at Western Wall.

By Reuters

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin on Thursday in an effort to help ease spiraling tensions and violence with the Palestinians

YouTube screenshot

A senior official traveling with Kerry says the secretary would use the Germany talks to try to “change the tone of the public discourse” between Israel and the Palestinians and clarify the status of the Temple Mount, the holy site at the center of the tensions. Continue Reading »