Archive for Israel News

#OpIsrael: Annual Arab cyber attack hits Israeli websites

Far from the “electronic Holocaust” threatened against Israel, but an estimated 300 websites were hacked by the mostly Arab groups.

By i24news

 

Israel has once again become the target of a highly concerted and dangerous hacking attack with dozens of Israeli websites hacked by an offshoot of the Anonymous hacking group which calls itself AnonGhost.

In a video posted online in March, the group warned that “as we did many times, we will take down your servers, government websites, Israeli military websites, banks and public institutions.”

A spokesperson for the group, who was wearing the signature Guy Fawkes mask said Anonymous will “erase” Israel from the internet on April 7 in an “electronic Holocaust.”

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Attempted smuggling of advanced night optics into Gaza thwarted by Israel security

Israeli security forces find unauthorized sophisticated optic devices, including remote controlled security cameras & infrared cameras hidden within an ordinary electronics shipment entering Gaza
•100 such smuggling attempts into Gaza have been thwarted by authorities this year.

By Shlomi Diaz

 

For the second time in as many weeks, Israeli security forces on Monday thwarted an attempt to smuggle unauthorized equipment — including advanced communication gadgets — into the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing. The prohibited items were suspected to be en route to terrorist groups within the Gaza Strip.

The prohibited equipment found at the Kerem Shalom crossing – Photo: The Defense Ministry’s border authorities

The equipment, which included infrared cameras, radio communication devices and advanced remote controlled security cameras, was hidden within an electronics shipment in an Israeli truck destined for Gaza. Continue Reading »

100 Delegates, including from Muslim world to hold UN nuclear conference in Israel

About 100 international representatives will convene in Israel next week for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization conference.

 

Israel will be host to an important and highly-prestigious UN-sponsored international conference on the ban of nuclear tests next week, drawing representatives from Arab and Muslim countries which do not currently have diplomatic relations with Israel. Jordanian and Egyptian delegates will also attend the conference.

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Arab leaders meet at an Arab League meeting. – Photo: REUTERS

Around 100 representatives will take part in the meeting organized by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), headquartered in Vienna, Austria. To ensure the safety of the participants, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued safety and travel assurances. Continue Reading »

7 yr-old Syrian boy eats matzo in Israeli Hospital – and loves it

Young Syrian boy that was hospitalized in northern Israel learned about Passover and ate Mato for the first time, enjoying it so much, he hasn’t stopped asking for more.

By Ahiya Raved

 

A wounded Syrian boy hospitalized at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed got to taste matzo for the first time in his life this week – and loved it.

The boy munching on his new favorite food – Photo: Ziv Medical Center

The 7-year-old boy, who suffered serious wounds to his legs from a shell hit seven months ago, enjoyed the matzo so much that he has been asking the hospital’s staff to give him matzo to eat at every opportunity he gets. Continue Reading »

Israeli high-school students make finals of international robotics competition

Team from northern Israel with Robot named Rafiki awarded ‘Excellence in Engineering Award’ for its mechanical systems & excellent performance, beat 58 teams from all around the world in preliminary round.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

Team 1690 Orbit, the robotics team from the ORT Binyamina High School in northern Israel, has made it to the finals of the 2015 FIRST international robotics competition for high school students.
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Israel detains Palestinian lawmaker & PFLP member for 6 months

Khalida Jarrar‘s lawyer says the 52 yr-old PFLP member is being held under Israeli administrative detention after violating restraining order from entering her home town of Ramallah.

By the Associated Press

 

The IDF has placed a female Palestinian legislator under detention for six months without trial, a lawyer for the lawmaker said Monday.

PFLP lawmaker Khalida Jarrar. Flouted ban on entering Ramallah, where she lives. – Photo: Reuters

Khalida Jarrar, a senior political leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a left-wing Palestinian militant group, is being held for alleged activities in a hostile organization, lawyer Mahmoud Hassan said. Continue Reading »

Purely Scientific Discovery in Jerusalem Set to Upset Christian Theologians About Jesus

Canadian-Israeli geo-archeologist claim they’ve reached a scientific & thus theological breakthrough, claiming stats & science prove Jesus was indeed buried in Jerusalem with his wife & his son, Judah.

 

A group of geologists believe that they have found the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem, and this time they think they’ve found the tomb of his son, too.

“Jesus Family tomb” in Israeli capital’s East Talpiot neighborhood

After 150 tests of particles and elements, Canadian-Israeli filmmaker-journalist Simcha Jacobovici and geoarcheologist Aryeh Shimron claim they’ve reached a scientific and theological breakthrough.

The finding has been over 35 years in the making, amid court cases, legal restrictions and scientific and biblical pushback. Continue Reading »

Abbas rejects Israel’s deduction of electricity debt from Palestinian tax revenues

Palestinian president returned transferred taxes because portion was deducted to cover part of huge PA debt owed to Israeli electric company, explaining, ‘Either Israel transfers the funds to us in full, or we go to the ICC.’

By Reuters

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday Israel had released frozen tax revenues to the Authority but that he had ordered the funds to be returned because money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies.

Palestinian President Abbas – Photo: EPA

Palestinians are believed to owe millions of dollars for use of utilities and hospitals.

Under existing agreements, Israel collects taxes and customs on behalf of the Palestinians and then transfers the sums.

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Watch: Netanyahu speaks to ABC and Sen. Feinstein saying ‘Bibi Should Contain Himself’

WATCH: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (Dem Calif.) says on CNN: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘is agreeable,’ and warns that Netanyahu’s criticism ‘can backfire on him.’

By Gil Ronen

 

California Senator Dianne Feinstein, speaking on CNN, warned Sunday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s outspoken criticism of the Iran nuclear deal could “backfire on him.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein – Reuters

Feinstein, who is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the framework deal struck with Iran is “a better agreement, candidly, than I thought it was ever going to be. I think that it can be a very serviceable, practical agreement, and it can signal a new day.” Continue Reading »

Israeli Officials Not Swayed by Obama’s Pitch to Layman’s Naïveté of the Real Iran

Israeli officials say America’s orchestrated deal with Iran “will make the world far more dangerous.”
– Agreeing with Israel’s ‘official opinion’, Lapid, Herzog & Livni also speak out on ‘Historic Mistake’.

By Elad Benari

 

Left and right in Israel were on Thursday night united in their opposition to the new framework agreement reached between Iran and six world powers on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Press conference at Lausanne – Reuters

Israeli government officials said that the framework deal will be remembered as a “historic mistake”.

“If an agreement is reached on the basis of this framework, it is an historic mistake which will make the world far more dangerous,” said the officials, briefing journalists on condition of anonymity.

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Israeli Archeologists find Bronze Age Egyptian Artifacts

Even after Israeli archeologists discovered a cave in southern Israel was robbed by artifact thieves, several Egyptian-made artifacts were found dating back to the Late Bronze Age.

By Yori Yalon

 

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Israel approves natural gas deal with Jordan

PM Netanyahu and Energy Minister Shalom authorized agreement to export Tamar natural gas to 2 Jordanian concerns.

Cementing Israel’s first natural gas export deal with Jordan, National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized an agreement to convey Tamar reservoir gas to two Jordanian companies on Thursday.

Israel’s natural gas platform – Photo: MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES

The ministerial approval follows the February 2014 announcement of the transaction between the Tamar reservoir partnership and the Jordanian firms. The approximately $500 million deal enables the provision of up to 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas to the Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine companies over 15 years, for use at their respective facilities near the Dead Sea. Continue Reading »

Young Israeli Man Missing in West Bank in Suspected Kidnapping

IDF & Police forces searching for young Israeli man in Hebron region after his friend called police claiming missing man went into Arab village searching for tools to change flat tire after being stranded.

By Itay Blumenthal, Yoav Zitun

 

IDF and police forces are searching the Hebron area in the West Bank between Kiryat Arba and Bayt Einun late Thursday afternoon for a missing Israeli man who is feared kidnapped.

Soldiers searching the area for the missing Israeli (Photo: Tazpit)

Soldiers searching the area for the missing Israeli – Photo: Tazpit

A friend of the missing person called the police at 4:17 pm, saying he and his friend were stranded with a flat tire and that his friend went to find work tools to replace the tire but never returned. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Intelligence Minister: We Will Attack Iran, If We Have No Choice

After Iranian General said, “Israel’s destruction is non-negotiable”, Israel’s Intelligence Minister Steinitz responded Thursday that if all else fails, military action against Iran remains a viable option.

By Cynthia Blank

 

As Iran and the P5+1 world powers struggle to eke out a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program in Switzerland, Israel says it will do everything possible to prevent a nuclear Iran.

Speaking on public radio Thursday, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) said that all options were on the table in the face of the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

This, he added, includes military action.

Iran has repeatedly called for Israel’s destruction.

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U.S. Survey: American support for Palestinians hits 20-year low

Latest Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 39% of US public support creation of Palestinian state, with 36% who oppose it & 25% who just don’t care.
• Survey further shows half of Americans disapprove of how President Obama is handling US-Israel relations.

By Daniel Siryoti, Yoni Hersch, News Agencies, & Israel Hayom Staff

 

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll has found the American public’s support for a Palestinian state is at a 20-year low, as only 39% of Americans support the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, while 36% oppose the notion. Some 25% of those polled said they had no opinion on the matter.
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