Archive for Israel News

MIT names 2 Israelis for prestigious ’35 Innovators Under 35′ list

 

• Gilad Evrony, 33, discovered that brain cells located side by side other don’t always contain the same genetic codes.
• Cigall Kadoch, 30, focusing on breast cancer, has made important strides in cancer research.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

Two Israelis have made MIT’s prestigious “35 Innovators Under 35” list for 2015, which the university published on Monday.
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IDF: Hamas syphoning off majority of construction materials meant for Gaza’s rehabilitation

 

IDF: Israel has facilitated the entry of 1,700,000 tons of construction material into Gaza (since end of 2014 conflict) that Hamas is seizing for its construction of attack tunnels.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Hamas is seizing construction imports to the Gaza Strip and using the materials to build tunnels to attack Israel, the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai told the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency on Tuesday.

Stolen Concrete & Iron bars meant for new homes

Stolen Concrete & Iron bars meant for new homes – Photo: AFP

In an interview with the agency, Mordechai said that Hamas is seizing quantities of wood and other materials, designed for civilian construction projects in the Strip. Continue Reading »

Rawabi, newly built Palestinian city welcomes its first settlers

 

After years of gov’t delays & disputes with Israel over water connection, the 1st Palestinian planned city, with 6,000 housing units, finally opens its gates to West Bank Arab settlers.

By Felice Friedson, The Media Line

 

Hanadi Abu Zahra turns on the tap in her kitchen and is elated to see the water flowing – something most new residents would take for granted even if they had not just moved into a brand new state-of-the-art apartment in a luxury building located in a development that has been the recipient of massive world-wide attention. But whether or not water would be there when the tap was turned on became symbolic of the challenges that had to be overcome in order for Rawabi, the first Palestinian planned city, to transform from one man’s vision to the fulfillment of 40,000 aspirations. Continue Reading »

After Ridiculed for Being Exploited With Choreographed Pics UK Papers Change Story

Daily Mail and Telegraph change headlines critical of Israel after UK Media Watch detailed how family of prolific professional Palestinian provocateurs photographed planned protest to purposely incite IDF soldiers, then spoon-feed the media anti-Israel spin.

By Yaniv Halili

 

 

LONDON – Two of Britain’s leading newspapers have changed their coverage of a violent clash between an IDF soldier and Palestinian women and children after claims arose that the family involved in the incident, and particularly a blonde girl photographed biting the soldier, are known provocateurs.

On Friday, an IDF soldier trying to arrest a stone-throwing 13-year-old Palestinian boy drew international outrage after he was documented in a violent clash with Palestinian women and children.  Continue Reading »

Gaza Terrorists Fire Rockets At Israel, Only To Have Them All Explode In Gaza

 

Still no reports from Hamas of damage or deaths as failed rocket fire towards Israel Tuesday morning falls short, landing in the terrorist enclave, although ‘Color Red’ sirens were activated in Israel’s Hof Ashkelon region.

By Elad Benari

 

Sirens were heard on Tuesday morning, around 5:20 a.m. local time, in the Hof Ashkelon area of southern Israel.

The IDF said that the sirens were a result of a failed attempt to fire rockets from Gaza. Security forces were combing the area nonetheless to determine whether any rockets were fired, it said.

The failed rocket fire came hours after a fighter from the Yamam counterterrorist unit was moderately wounded during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists in Jenin. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Daughter of Iranian ayatollah brings message of peace to Israel

 

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Former president Shimon Peres held a rare meeting Monday morning with a peace activist who is the daughter of an Iranian ayatollah.

Peres told Maryam Faghih Imani, the founder and president of the Centre for Cultural Diplomacy & Development (CCDD), that “when it comes to Iran, we really don’t know why Iran is against us. We are not against Iran.”

Maryam Faghih visits Shimon Peres in Israel bringing message of peace - Photo: The Peres Center For Peace

Maryam Faghih visits Shimon Peres in Israel bringing message of peace – Photo: The Peres Center For Peace

The former president said that Persian king Cyrus the Great had actually been the first Zionist, telling Jewish leaders to “take your people and go to your land.” Continue Reading »

Turkish-Palestinian project, backed by Israel, will allow duty-free exports to US

 

Israel’s Foreign Ministry hosting Turkish delegation that arrived in Israel to discuss investment project backed by Jerusalem, the EU & Washington, that would allow Palestinians to export goods duty free to the US.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

A Turkish delegation met in Tel Aviv on Monday with Likud Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, the acting minister of the Regional Cooperation Ministry, to promote a proposal to build an industrial zone near Jenin in the West Bank.

The Turkish delegation included Prof. Guven Sak, the managing director of the Economic Policy Research foundation of Turkey, an economic policy think tank based in Ankara. Continue Reading »

New immigrant children to enter Israel’s school system in record numbers

 

According to the Immigrant Absorption Ministry, of all the immigrants who moved to Israel over the past decade, 34,400 children will be attending an Israeli school this coming year.

By Yael Branovsky

 

The school year is set to begin in Israel on Tuesday, with more than 2 million children and teens poised to enter or return to the school system. Of them, a record number of 2,900 students will be attending an Israeli school for the first time, having immigrated to Israel this summer. Some 360 new immigrants will be starting school as Israeli first graders.

According to the Immigrant Absorption Ministry, the number of new immigrant students this year constitutes an increase of more than 50% over last year. Continue Reading »

Unearthed Steps to the Temple Mount Baffle Archaeologists Digging in City of David

A unique stepped structure, maybe the Temple Era ‘Stone of Claims’, has been excavated on the subterranean street ascending from the Siloam Pool to the Temple Mount.

By Arutz Sheva staff

An intriguing find consisting of an impressive pyramid-shaped staircase constructed of large ashlar stones was uncovered in an archaeological excavation currently conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The excavation is located in the Jerusalem Walls National Park in the City of David, site of ancient Jerusalem, and is being carried out in cooperation with the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation.

Dr. Joe Uziel atop unique find.

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Daughter of Iranian Ayatollah to Meet Shimon Peres in Israel

 

Daughter of prominent Iranian Ayatollah to meet with former Israeli president Peres with message of peace & economic cooperation for Israel.

By i24news

 

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres will meet an Iranian peace activist who arrived in Israel on a special visit to promote peace in the Middle East on Monday, a statement from Peres’ office said.

Maryam Faghih Imani, the daughter of Sayed Kamal Faghih Imani, a senior Iranian Ayatollah, “came to Israel to convey a message of reconciliation and dialogue among peoples,” the statement reads.

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Imani and Peres will meet at the Peres Center for Peace to discuss projects to promote peace between nations in the Middle East, and the development of cross-border initiatives. Continue Reading »

Saudi Report: Hezbollah paying West Bank youth to terrorize Israeli Jews

 

By YASSER OKBI & MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

Hezbollah has been working intensively to enlist former operatives from Fatah’s armed wing, the Al Aksa Brigades, in order to carry out terror attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank and inside Israel, a Palestinian security source was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Saudi daily Okaz quoted the source as saying that “among those Hezbollah members involved in the operation is Kayis Ubayid, who was behind the kidnapping of Col. Continue Reading »

Jewish History Teacher Stood, Watched, Supported IDF Soldier Being Viciously Attacked

 

Herzl Schubert, a high school history teacher at a Ramat Gan school, was identified by parents as taking part in the violent attack on a single IDF soldier at Nabi Salah, when they viewed the video that’s currently going viral.

By Gil Ronen

 

A group of parents of pupils at Ramat Gan’s ORT-Avin High Scool demanded Sunday that the school fire history teacher Herzl Schubert.

The parents said that they had spotted Schubert taking part in a violent riot at Nabi Salah, in Samaria, in which a group of women and children violently mobbed an IDF soldier.

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Herzl Schubert, (identified with arrow) stands in support as IDF Soldier mobbed by women at Nabi Salah.

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Images of IDF soldier being attacked by young girl & Palestinian women go viral

 

With cameras at the ready, women attacked an IDF soldier while trying to arrest a minor after having been caught throwing rocks during a protest in West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.

By i24news

 

Images of an Israeli soldier being attacked by Palestinian women and a young girl went viral overnight Friday.

Boy with cast throwing rocks at IDF soldiers prior to being chased & caught by IDF soldier. Notice: Three youngsters to incite and THREE cameramen to manipulate the media. – Photo: Facebook

The soldier who was lightly wounded, was attempting to detain a Palestinian minor during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh before he was attacked. Continue Reading »

New Survey Reports why 18,000 Jerusalem residents leave annually

 

Unrelated to terrorism or the ‘Shabbat wars’, a new study reveals that it’s not just secular residents leaving the Jewish Capital, but also the religious & the ultra-Orthodox that are moving out of Jerusalem by the thousands.

By Nadav Shragai

 

The “Shabbat wars” in Jerusalem (waged by the ultra-Orthodox population against businesses that operate on Shabbat) teach us for the umpteenth time that the status quo between the secular and religious residents of the city has never been more flexible. To be honest, the many and frequent changes in this relationship in recent years raise questions as to whether such a status quo ever even existed. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Daily Portrays US as ‘Occupier’ “on the Ruins of the Original Inhabitants”

 

Official PA daily also demonizes Republican Presidential candidates as ‘inane,’ ‘aged teenager’, ‘ swindler’ and ‘rabid’, despite the U.S. having given them over $1.5 billion in aid, [that most was skimmed and stolen].

By Tova Dvorin

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has demonized its largest donor, Palestinian Media Watch reports Friday, after a columnist for its main publication painted America as an “occupier.”

“It is possible that the US is the biggest settlement country, since it was established on the ruins of the original inhabitants, wiped out millions of them, enslaved millions of Blacks, and today enslaves millions of Hispanics in the same manner,” columnist Hafez Al-Barghouti wrote in official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. Continue Reading »