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| November 2, 2019
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Palestinian killed by IDF response to Friday night’s rocket barrage from Gaza

In crazy Hamas ‘logic’ the Palestinian terror group threatens to respond to “Israeli aggression” following the IDF’s retaliatory response to the barrage of rockets fired Friday night by Gaza militants at Israeli civilian communities in southern Israel.

By Ynet, Reuters

 

Israeli military carried out a wave of pre-dawn air strikes in Gaza in response to a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants at Israeli communities bordering the Hamas-controlled enclave, IDF officials said.

Gaza health officials said the strikes left one Palestinian dead and three others wounded.

The officials in the Strip said the 27-year-old was killed during an air strike on a militant training camp and that he had died in hospital. Continue Reading »

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| November 2, 2019
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Barrage of Gaza rockets fired on southern Israel, Iron Dome intercepts 8

IDF reports 8 rockets from the barrage were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system with one of the projectiles landing directly on a home in Sderot.
– 65 yr-old woman was evacuated to hospital for shock.

By i24NEWS – AFP

 

A 65-year-old woman has reportedly been evacuated to a nearby hospital for shock after a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip landed on her home in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Amateur footage also shows several vehicles damaged in the incident.

The IDF on Friday destroyed a number of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip less than an hour after a barrage of projectiles were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, according to Hebrew media reports. Continue Reading »

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| October 31, 2019
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Palestinian leaders welcome Oslo ban of ‘Jewish settlement’ products

Fatah welcomes Norway’s outlawing municipal departments and other local authorities from purchasing goods or services from Jewish communities that operate in Judea and Samaria, be they Israeli or international corporations.

By Elad Benari

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement on Wednesday welcomed the decision of the newly-installed Oslo City Council to ban Israeli “settlement” goods and services from public procurements as part of the Norwegian capital’s platform for 2019-2023.

“Stressing the illegal status of Israeli settlement on Palestinian lands as a violation of international law, referring to the 2016 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 that reaffirmed the illegality of the settlements under international law, and recalling the well-known special commitment of the great Norwegian Nation to international law and human rights the Fatah movement welcomes the decision of the newly installed City Council of Oslo to ban Israeli settlement goods and services from public procurements as part of Oslo’s platform for 2019-2023,” said the spokesman of Fatah in Europe, Jamal Nazzal, in a statement quoted by the PA’s official Wafa news agency. Continue Reading »

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| October 30, 2019
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Israel Police “neutralize” Palestinian terrorist at Cave of the Patriarchs

The female Palestinian terrorist was shot while approaching Israel Border Police officers with her knife drawn, attempting to stab a police officer as they were securing Judaism’s oldest holy site; the terrorist’s condition is described as critical.
– Their quick response prevented injuries among the Police officers.

By Ynet

 

Israeli security thwarted a suspected terror attack at the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday when a Palestinian woman attempted to stab Border Policemen stationed in the area.

The female suspect, believed to be in her 30s, has been “neutralized,” according to the police, and her condition is described as critical. Continue Reading »

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| October 30, 2019
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Tel Aviv will begin public transportation on the Sabbath

A new public transport system has been approved for service on Shabbat and will operate for free in Tel Aviv and other metro areas by the end of the year.
– “Public transportation is a basic right, on Shabbat like on any other day, and … [it will] bring Israel to the standards that are worthy of a state in 2019.”

By Ben Ariel

 

The Finance Committee of the Municipality of Tel Aviv decided on Tuesday evening to secure a budget that will allow for a public transportation system to operate for free on Shabbat and to be activated by the end of the year. Continue Reading »

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| October 30, 2019
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Anti-Semitism watchdog working to have CAIR banished from US campuses

StopAntisemitism.org is seeking to expel CAIR from Georgia State University over its anti-Israel, pro-terrorist projects. Seven CAIR board members or staff have been banned from the U.S., indicted, arrested, convicted or have pleaded guilty on terrorist charges.

By Shiryn Ghermezian, JNS, Israel Hayom Staff

 

The watchdog group Stopantisemitism.org is calling on the US Department of Education and Georgie State University to keep the “terror-affiliated” Council on American-Islamic Relations off US college campuses.

“The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an American front group for the terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood, is infiltrating the US education system,” said the petition, which already has nearly 2,000 signatures. Continue Reading »

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| October 29, 2019
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Body of missing IDF soldier found – Gag Order in place

Following hours of the intensive nationwide search for soldier, Eliezer Ashkenazi (ז״ל), the IDF announced they’ve launched an investigation on his disappearance and subsequent death, adding a gag order has been placed on details surrounding his death.

By Raanan Ben Zur, Yoav Zitun

 

The body of an Israeli soldier who was missing for over 24 hours was found on Monday morning in central Israel, the army said.

“The soldier has been found without any sign of life in the center of the country,” said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit in a statement, adding that his family has been informed.

“IDF’s Military Police Corps opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.” Continue Reading »

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| October 29, 2019
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Nikki Haley: Sen. Sanders wants to redirect Israel’s aid to terrorists

The former UN Ambassador tweets: “Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself. He wants to take money we give to Israel to defend itself from terrorists, and give it to Gaza, which is run by terrorists?? Unreal.”

By Elad Benari

 

Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, on Monday fired back after Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called the Israeli government “racist” and suggested that the US should redirect its aid to Israel and give it to Gaza instead.

“Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself. Continue Reading »

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| October 28, 2019
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No plans made for celebrating 25 years of ‘cold peace’ with Jordan

The euphoria of those early days in Israel… and shared with the late-King Hussein of Jordan, have long ago evaporated, with no one today, on either side, celebrating the once coveted treaty.

By Dov Eilon

 

At the end of October 1994, I was in Eilat for a short vacation. There was a lot of activity in the resort town, which was flooded with journalists, including several of my former colleagues from Israeli television, who were by chance staying at the same hotel. Everyone was in town to witness and report on the signing of the historic peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. Continue Reading »

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| October 27, 2019
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Israel’s Yulia Sachkov takes women’s 2019 gold medal in kickboxing

‘Baby-face’ but tough 21 yr-old from Haifa wins the 2019 World Association of Kickboxing Organizations competition held in Bosnia, while two other Israelis bring home silver medals from the WAKO championships.

By i24NEWS

 

Israel’s Yulia Sachkov won Saturday a gold medal at the kickboxing world championships for women that was hosted in Sarajevo in Bosnia.

In addition, other Israeli contenders won three silver medals in the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO) competition.

Sachkov, 21, from Haifa defeated her Czech opponent in the finals of the under-52 kilogram (114.5 pound) weight class of K-1 style kickboxing, after defeating her opponent from Belarus in the semi-finals. Continue Reading »

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| October 27, 2019
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Israel’s Arab Sector and Illegal Weapon

Israel Police have confiscated over 4,000 illegal weapons so far this year, with 90% of them in the possession of Israeli-Arabs.

By Israel Today Staff

 

More than 4,000 illegal weapons have been confiscated in Israel over the last 10 months, the Hebrew-language daily Israel Hayom reported, citing police officials.

About 3,600 of these weapons were found in the Arab sector. In other words, 90 percent of Israel’s illegal weapons and ammunition come from Arab-Israeli households.

Among the confiscated weapons are 526 pistols and 435 rifles, mostly of the assault-rifle variety.

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| October 25, 2019
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Palestinian Arab detained by PA police & beaten for converting to Judaism

Tricked by his brothers after being threatened to be cut off from his family, Mahmoud Abbas’ security forces apprehend & detain a 50 year-old Palestinian man for two weeks, beating him after learning he had converted to Judaism.

BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF

 

50-year old Palestinian resident of the West Bank was severely beaten by Palestinian Authority security forces after he converted to the Jewish faith , Ynet reported on Tuesday.

The man was arrested two weeks ago and kept in custody after he was asked by his sons to meet them somewhere in the West Bank.

Palestinian police loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday violently dispersed a demonstration against the Annapolis peace conference, killing one protester, medical officials said.

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| October 25, 2019
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Incredible Byzantine church of Marble, mosaics & glass windows discovered

It is unknown to whom the 1,500 yr-old structure near Jerusalem is dedicated to, but its size & rich trappings of the most complete collection of Byzantine glass windows and lanterns ever found in one excavation site leads archaeologists to believe it was a popular pilgrimage site, until it was abandoned in the 9th century CE.

By Ynet, Agencies

 

Israeli archaeologists this week revealed the elaborately decorated Byzantine church dedicated to an anonymous martyr that was recently uncovered near Jerusalem.

The Israel Antiquities Authority showcased some of the finds from the nearly 1,500-year-old structure, whose compound covers around one third of an acre, after three years of excavations. Continue Reading »

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| October 25, 2019
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A miscellany of Palestinian leaderships’ graft, skimming and misappropriations

Int’l donors don’t even bothering to track how their €billion$, earmarked for Palestinian humanitarian aid, is actually being misappropriated to fund enterprises run by Abbas’ 2 sons, skimmed to richen the inner PLO circle, embezzled by the most senior leaders and misused to perpetuate intolerance and fund terror.

By David Bedein  – The Palestinian Authority and its money

 

When it comes to humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority, transparency does not exist.

The result is a rich Palestinian elite which builds exclusive neighborhoods around Ramallah, leaving thousands of shoddily constructed apartments without services for the rest of Palestinian society.

Yasser Arafat set the tone for the PA when he arrived in Gaza in 1994. Continue Reading »

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| October 24, 2019
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Under threat of personal safety, Kurdish parents bring child to Israeli hospital

Coming from Iraqi Kurdistan, a Kurdish mom says they were “not hostages in the hospital,” and they ventured out to see the country, including touring Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and even going to pray on the Temple Mount.

B7 MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

 

After being bombed and attacked by both the Turkish Army and its allied Free Syrian Army Forces in Afrin last year, Aram (name changed for security reasons) and her family – Kurds who were native to northern Syria – were forced to flee to Iraqi Kurdistan, much like the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have recently become refugees due to the Turkish military operation. Continue Reading »

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