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Knesset party ‘Jewish Home’ Demands Renewed Construction in Response to Terror

Jewish Home leadership calls on PM Netanyahu to respond to terror wave by cancelling Ramadan “gestures” and renewing needed home construction in Judea & Samaria.

By Hezki Ezra

 

The Jewish Home party on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to respond to the latest wave of terrorist attacks by renewing construction in Judea and Samaria and by cancelling some of the “gestures” given to Palestinian Arabs in honor of Ramadan.

The call was made after members of the faction held an urgent meeting following the recent attacks. During the meeting, party chairman Naftali Bennett informed the members of the party about his meeting with Netanyahu.
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U.S. State Dept.: United States won’t protect Jewish towns from BDS boycotts

White House takes issue with wording of recently passed Congressional trade legislation, stating the anti-BDS amendment “runs counter to long-standing U.S. policy” toward disputed territories claimed by the Palestinian Arabs.

By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

One day after U.S. President Barack Obama signed hard-fought trade legislation, his administration took issue with language meant to discourage boycotts of Israel.

An Israeli community in Samaria [Archive] – Photo: Reuters

The “fast-track” trade bill takes aim at boycott efforts against Israel. A bipartisan amendment — which drew comparatively little attention in Congress’ long, multifaceted trade debate — instructs U.S. negotiators to resist other countries’ actions that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel because of its policies in “Israeli-controlled territories.” Continue Reading »

WATCH: Netanyahu affirms partnership with Egypt in fight against ISIS on common borders

Israel’s PM Netanyahu warns of impending danger posed by Islamist terrorists, after 70 Egyptians killed in multiple terror attacks in the Sinai.

By HERB KEINON

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the four Israelis at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem who were injured in two separate terrorist attacks over the last two days, and from near their beds sent condolences to Egypt for the terrorist attacks that rocked that country on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Olivier Fitoussi, Haaretz)Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: Olivier Fitoussi, Haaretz

“Terrorism is knocking on our borders,” he said. “Islamic State is not only across from the Golan Heights, it is also in Egypt, across from Rafah, in other words across from our borders,” he said. Continue Reading »

2nd Temple-era ritual bath found beneath Jerusalem living room

During home renovations, a family from Jerusalem discovered a 2,000 yr-old mikveh right underneath their floors, verifying that there was an earlier Jewish settlement at the site.

By Itay Blumenthal

 

Renovations in a Jerusalem home recently uncovered an ancient mikveh (ritual bath) dating from the Second Temple Period, believed to be over 2,000 years old.

The couple that lives in the home installed wooden doors leading to the mikveh and invited representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority to document the discovery.

They were on Wednesday to receive a certificate of appreciation from the Authority for reporting the discovery.

The mikveh is considered relatively large, at 3.5 meters long, 2.4 meters wide and 1.8 meters deep. Continue Reading »

Israel Rescinds Travel Permits to Gaza After Multiple Terrorist Attacks

West Bank Arabs no longer permitted to travel to Gaza after Hamas claimed responsibility for deadly drive-by shooting attack.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Israel said Wednesday it was revoking permits for hundreds of Palestinian Arabs living in Judea and Samaria to visit relatives in Gaza after a series of terror attacks on Israelis – several of them fatal.

The announcement by COGAT, the agency that manages civilian affairs between Israel, the PA, and Gaza was the latest reversal to measures easing movement for Palestinians during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Earlier Tuesday, COGAT announced it would tighten access of Palestinian Arabs to the Temple Mount.
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Israeli Arabs Complain Representatives Care About Gaza, Not Their Safety

After 4 people murdered over the past week in ‘blood fueds’ & ‘honor killings’ in Arab towns, Israeli Arabs are frustrated at by the lack of interest from their elected Arab officials.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

“Arab MKs are dealing with Gaza and other things. It would appear they don’t care about what happens in the sector,” an angry resident of Tamra said Tuesday after a fourth person fell victim to violence in the Arab sector over the past week.

Three of the 4 victims from Arab community violence over the past week

A 60-year-old Tamra resident was shot to death on Tuesday night after unknown perpetrators on a motorcycle opened fire on a supermarket in the city. Continue Reading »

Angry ISIS Threathens to Topple Hamas in Gaza, then Fatah & Israel

From an ISIS stronghold in Syria, the Islamist radicals threaten they will topple Hamas for being “insufficiently stringent” about enforcing “the rule of Sharia.”

By Elad Benari

 

Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents on Tuesday threatened to topple Hamas in Gaza, accusing the group of being “insufficiently stringent” about religious enforcement, according to Reuters.

ISIS flag – Reuters

The video, issued from an ISIS stronghold in Syria, was a public challenge to Hamas, which has been cracking down on jihadists who oppose its truces with Israel and reconciliation with longtime rival Fatah.

“We will uproot the state of the Jews (Israel) and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be over-run by our creeping multitudes,” said a masked ISIS member, according to Reuters, in the message addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas”. Continue Reading »

Shin Bet Cheif Warns Hamas Has Rearmed & Ready for Next War

Israel Security Agency head expounded to Knesset on how acts of terror have risen 50% each year since 2012, & on Hamas, whose already rearmed Gaza for another conflict.

By Yedidya Ben-Or

 

Head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet/Shabak) Yoram Cohen warned the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday that Hamas is already prepared to launch another terror war against Israel, just a year on from last summer’s war with Israel.

Cohen and other ISA officials gave a complete picture of the happenings in the terrorist enclave of Gaza, as well as the terrorist threat nationwide. Continue Reading »

Hamas Official: We Demand the Rebuilding of Gaza or We Resume Attacks 

Sheikh Hassan Yousef says Hamas is reportedly demanding help to rebuild Gaza Strip in exchange for calm, and threatens attacks if  help is not received.

By Daniel Siryoti

 

Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of Hamas’ leaders in the West Bank, has confirmed for the first time that Israel and Hamas are in the midst of negotiations via mediators.

Sheikh Hassan Yousef: Hamas is negotiating with Israel – Photo credit: Reuters

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Nocturnal Predator Receives Medical Attention in Israel Before Release

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

During a patrol of the West Bank security barrier near Jenin on Saturday, Border Police forces came across an injured female owl that could not take off and immediately took action.

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From the United States to IDF’s military prison

Young idealistic American came to Israel to join the IDF, but his naïveté ended up embedding him in a wild conspiracy to blow up the Dome of the Rock.

By Yoav Zitun

 

He made aliyah from United States as a lone soldier, served as a fighter in the Givati Reconnaissance Battalion, was wounded in Operation Protective Edge, and was a short time away from being released and returning to his family in Los Angeles. But that was when he began his troubled path

David during his military service – Photo: Facebook

After an investigation by the criminal investigation division, the police and the Shin Bet, David (not his real name) was arrested on suspicion of aiding an American extremist who planned to blow up the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, and sentenced to half a year in military prison. Continue Reading »

Israel Mulls Severing Ties With Biased/Infamous UN Human Rights Council …Again

Army Radio reports that PM Netanyahu told Liberman, that following the release of another biased Gaza report, Israel considering an end in all cooperation with the overtly anti-Israel UN body.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said Monday that Israel is mulling whether or not it should continue cooperation with the UN Human Rights Council, after the body issued a report last week in which it said that Israel’s actions in last summer’s Gaza conflict may constitute war crimes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. – Photo: AMIT SHABAY/POOL

Army Radio reported that in a closed-door meeting, Netanyahu referred to the UNHRC commission of inquiry which issued the report as “a hypocritical committee.” Continue Reading »

Jerusalem approves extending Israel’s border fence onto its Jordanian border

The Jewish State’s fortified fence along Egypt’s border to be expanded as gov’t fears armed militants and/or illegal immigrants may exploit the porous border.

By Reuters, Itamar Eichner

 

>Israel’s security cabinet has approved extending the fortified fence along its Egyptian border into a section of the frontier with neighboring Jordan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

The then-new fence bordering Egypt seen in 2012 (Photo: Roee Idan)The security fence bordering Egypt seen in 2012 – Photo: Roee Idan
Jordan and Israel closely coordinate security for their 240 km (150 mile)-long border as well as for the strategic 95 km (60 mile)-long Jordan Valley within the West Bank.


But the Netanyahu government worries that African immigrants and armed jihadi infiltrators might try to reach Israel via Jordan after the Egyptian Sinai border was fenced off with a 5 meter (16 foot)-high razor-wire barrier in 2013.
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Reveled: Israel Aiding Syrian Rebels On Condition They Don’t Attack Druze Towns

Israel’s Defense Minister Yaalon: ‘Rebels near Israel’s border receive humanitarian aid on condition that they don’t attack Druze and block terrorists.’

By Gil Ronen and Ari Soffer

 

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Monday that Israel is offering humanitarian assistance to Syrian rebels near the border, “on condition that they prevent terrorist organizations from nearing the border fence and that they refrain from attacking Druze.”

Yaalon was speaking at a briefing for Israel’s diplomatic correspondents. He said that the rebels are taking over the Golan and defeating Syrian strongman Bashar al Assad.

Regarding the Druze in Israel and Syria, Yaalon said that surprisingly: “No terror attacks [against Israel] have emanated from the area under rebel control, but there have been terror attacks from the area under Druze control.” Continue Reading »

Flotilla Fizzle: Israel Navy intercepts & seizes ‘Marianne’ on way to Gaza

It’s over. The so-called Freedom Flotilla III flopped. The Swedish Marianne of Gothenburg, attempting to reach Gaza, has been seized & was escorted by Navy vessels to Israel’s southern port of Ashdod.

By i24news

 

Israeli Navy fighters have taken over the Swedish Marianne of Gothenburg, which was on an aid mission to reach Gaza shores and escorted the vessel to Israel’s southern port of Ashdod, iDF spokesperson said early Monday morning. There were no injuries reported.

http://new.israelandstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-fishing-trawler-Marianne-of-Gothenburg-Google-photos.pngThe fishing trawler, Marianne of Gothenburg – Google photos

“IDF says has intercepted and captured Marianne,” the organizers tweeted.

Earlier the organizers of the aid flotilla said that tree of the four vessels headed back to their ports of origin. Continue Reading »