Archive for Israel News

Watch: Just Released Communication Recording & Video From Fateful Gaza Battle

IDF releases video footage from slain comrade’s helmet and the dramatic recording of battle in which Hamas seized Lt. Hadar Goldin later on.

By Ari Soffer

 

To mark one year since the start of Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 50-day counterterrorism operation in Gaza last summer, the IDF has released previously classified recordings from before and during one of the most infamous battles of the campaign.

IDF soldiers on Gaza border – Photo Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

Among the declassified recordings, which can be accessed below, are the dramatic minutes of IDF radio exchanges during a Hamas ambush in Rafiah in which three IDF soldiers were killed, among them 23-year-old officer Lt. Continue Reading »

European Antisemitism Now Has Scandinavian Jews Buying Homes in Israel

As in Belgium, France & the UK, anti-Semitic attacks in Denmark & Sweden are leading many from the Jewish communities there to invest in Israeli Real Estate. 

By Yael Darel, Calcalist

 

Foreigners purchasing real estate in the center of Israel is nothing new. Over the past year, however, the familiar buyers, from France, Belgium and England, have been joined by new players in the market – Scandinavian Jews, primarily from Sweden and Denmark, who have conducted dozens of real-estate deals in the country of late, focusing on apartments in high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.

Prime real estate: Rothschild Boulevard in Tel AvivPrime real estate: Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv

 

Some of the buyers have moved into their new apartments, and some are buying for investment purposes or in preparation for a possible move to Israel in the future. Continue Reading »

Waze in Israel Launches Pilot Carpooling Program

A test program running in Tel Aviv using a new Waze application called RideWith, uses the navigation system to learn routes drivers most frequently take to school or work & matches them up with people looking for rides in the same direction.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Google-owned traffic navigation app Waze is launching a carpooling pilot program in Israel in which commuters pay fellow drivers a small fee for a ride to and from work.
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Israel’s Shin Bet busts ISIS Beduin cell that includes 4 school teachers in Negev

The 4, working in Israeli schools, spread the group’s propaganda among their students, family members & associates in hopes they’d join the Islamic State in Syria.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Security forces have arrested six Israeli Beduin men from the Negev town of Houra, four of whom work as school teachers, for allegedly supporting the Islamic State terrorist organization.

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ISIS cell arrested by Shin Bet – Photo: SHIN BET

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Monday that the men were arrested over the past two months.  They allegedly took part in secret meetings in which they discussed Islamic State doctrine, and spread the group’s propaganda among their family members and associates.
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US Expert: During Gaza War, Hamas Killed Boys on Beach in Propaganda Stunt 

A year after Protective Edge, expert forensic evidence gathered concludes that the sons from a Fatah family that appeared to be killed on a beach were murdered earlier by Hamas in a “Pallywood-style” propaganda stunt.

By Hillel Fendel

 

One of the incidents most widely disseminated as “proof” of Israeli war crimes during its defensive Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last year was the deaths of four Arab youths on a Gaza beachfront used exclusively by Hamas terrorists. Foreign journalists reported as fact that Israeli war planes had bombed a beachfront, killing four youths – and the incident was highlighted in the recent UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry. Continue Reading »

Israeli Scientists Measure Sniff-Response In Children to Detect Autism

Rehovot researchers discover breathing response to foul & pleasant scents in children with autism are different than other children.

By i24news

 

A team of Israeli scientists has discovered autistic children’s unique sniffing habits may help doctors diagnose the condition at a much younger age than was previously possible.

Young girl smelling flower – Photo: AFP/Marty Melville

Doctoral student Liron Rozenkrantz and Professor Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot believe the key to detecting autism in children may be reliant on the latter’s response to pleasant and unpleasant odors.

The study, titled “A Mechanistic Link between Olfaction and Autism Spectrum Disorder,” examines internal action models (IAMs), brain templates for sensory-motor coordination based on sensory reactions. Continue Reading »

UN Human Rights Council Ratifies Biased Protective Edge Report

Israel’s UN envoy condemns decision, calls widely adopted resolution ‘an anti-Israeli manifesto’ which ignores multiple int’l law violations by Hamas.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted to adopt a report made by a UN inquiry commission on Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer, calling on Israel and the Palestinians to prosecute alleged war crimes and to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s preliminary investigation. 

The UN Human Rights Council discussing the report – Photo: Reuters

The UN Human Rights Council discussing the report – Photo: Reuters

Forty-one countries voted in favor of adopting the report, five abstained – India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Macedonia – and only one, the United States, voted against, saying it was biased against Israel. Continue Reading »

Southern Israel Hit By Rocket from Egypt

Jihadists in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula fire rocket that explodes in southern Israel, forcing residents into bomb shelters.

By Ari Soffer

 

A rocket fired from Egypt exploded in southern Israel’s Gaza belt region Friday afternoon.

Residents of the area were forced into rocket shelters after sirens sounded at approximately 4:20 p.m.  No damage or injuries has been reported.

The IDF temporarily closed Route 12 as a “security precaution.”

Unlike other recent rocket attacks, which have broken the relative calm since the truce signed between Israel and terrorist groups in Gaza, this attack did not come from the Gaza Strip but from within Egyptian territory.

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Palestinian Punk Picked on Wrong Soldier – Shot Dead After Hurling Rocks at Car

IDF reports: Following warning shots into the air, IDF Commander shot Palestinian dead after his vehicle was being ambushed in the West Bank.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, NOAM AMIR/MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

In response to being pelted with stones, a brigade commander in the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division shot and killed a Palestinian on Friday morning.

Smashed windshield of IDF vehicle. – Photo courtesy: IDF SPOKESMAN’S UNIT

Palestinian rioters began throwing stones at  Col. Israel Shomer’s vehicle and in response, after firing warning shots he opened fire and killed one of them. The victim was identified as a seventeen-year-old named Muhammad al-Casba. Continue Reading »

Israeli Expert: Egyptian Forces ‘Unsuccessful’, IDF May Have to Engage ISIS

Israeli political analysis & ex-ambassador believes the IDF will have to beat ISIS, since the Egyptians are unable do it.

By Yaakov Levi

 

Israel’s former ambassador to Egypt, Zvi Mazel, currently a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), believes that the Egyptian army is not going to be able to successfully fight ISIS. In the end, he believes, the IDF is going to have to do the job.

Ambassador Tzvi Mazel – Photo: Hezki Ezra, Arutz Sheva

“The Egyptian army has not collapsed, and it is very large, with 600,000 soldiers,” said Mazel. “But for two years they have been fighting guerrillas in Sinai, unsuccessfully. Continue Reading »

Israel Security Services Arrest Hamas Terror Cell in Nablus

Israel’s Shin Bet says more than 40 suspects have been arrested for allegedly forming an extensive terrorist network to facilitate attacks on Jews across Judea & Samaria.

By Lilach Shoval & Israel Hayom Staff

 

More than 40 Palestinians suspected of being Hamas operatives seeking to establish terrorist infrastructures in Judea and Samaria have been arrested over the past few months, the Shin Bet security agency revealed Wednesday.

Shin Bet says Hamas increasing efforts to establish infrastructure in Judea and Samaria [Illustrative] – Photo: Reuters

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#BDSfail: Bon Jovi ignores pressure from Palestinian groups to boycott Israel

Bon Jovi ignores an online petition created by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel urging him to “reconsider his upcoming concert in apartheid Israel.”

By ROSIE PERPER

 

A Palestinian group has created an online petition urging Bon Jovi to “reconsider his upcoming concert in apartheid Israel,” which is scheduled for October 3rd in Tel Aviv.

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Canadian railway giant unconcerned with boycott politics against Israel

Canadian transportation giant  has no problem with Israeli trains going beyond the Green Line, does not support the int’l boycott against Israel.

By Ofer Petersburg

 

Dr. Lutz Bertling, the president and chief operating officer of Canadian company Bombardier’s transportation division, told Mamon that his company does not support the international boycott against Israel.

Double-deck coaches have been a success at Israel Railways – Photo: Roee Zukerman

For over a decade now, Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company Bombardier has been the leading foreign investor in Israeli transportation. Now, however, Chinese companies are threatening to eat into its activities in the railway field in Israel.  Continue Reading »

IDF General Says Hamas Assisted in ISIS Sinai Strike Killing Egyptian Forces 

Maj. Gen. Mordechai reported in an Al Jazeera interview that Israel has clear information showing Hamas worked with ISIS in savage attack on Egyptian security personal.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Israel said Thursday that Hamas was actively assisting the ISIS terrorist militia that killed over 70 Egyptian soldiers in a multi-pronged attack Wednesday.

“We have clear informatin that Hamas supports the Walayat Sinai organization, which belongs to ISIS,” Major General Yoav Mordechai said, in an Arabic-language interview for Al Jazeera.

“In the latest attacks, Hamas gave assistance in the form of weapons and organization to the group that supports ISIS,” he accused. Continue Reading »

Canada & Israel partner to explore medical frontiers in shared research projects

The 7-year, $35 million program will fund up to 30 research projects involving researchers from Israel & Canada with an initial focus on the neurosciences.

By Ynet news

 

Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver announced this week on behalf Health Minister Rona Ambrose that Canada and Israel are teaming up on a bold new research effort to improve understanding of human health and disease.

A bold new research effort to improve understanding of human health and disease – Photo: Index Open

Minister Oliver was joined by Israeli Ambassador to Canada Rafael Barak, Dr. Naomi Azrieli, chair and CEO of the Azrieli Foundation, Dr. Continue Reading »