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10 Wounded, 2-4 Seriously, in Tel Aviv Terrorist Stabbing Spree

Arab terrorist stabbed passengers on bus #40 bus in Tel Aviv.
At least 2 are seriously wounded.
Suspect, 23, shot in leg, caught.

By Gil Ronen, Ari Yashar

A terrorist stabbing attack took place Wednesday morning on a bus in central Tel Aviv, on Begin Road, near Beit Maariv. The terrorist in an Arab man, reportedly from Judea and Samaria.

A video taken a few minutes after the attack shows wounded civilians receiving first aid from emergency teams.

A video uploaded to Facebook by Jerusalem Councillor Arieh King shows the terrorist after his arrest.

Up to 17 people were reported wounded in the stabbing.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab terror, Palestinian terrorists, terror attack

Israel’s high-tech boom is double-edged sword on local economy

As foreign companies are acquiring the ‘Start-up Nation’s high-profile companies that were providing hundreds of jobs locally, Israel’s market is being brain-drained as they move abroad.

By Reuters

Israeli entrepreneur Avi Brenmiller says he was coaxed by investors into selling Solel, his solar-thermal power firm, to Germany’s Siemens for $418 million in 2009. Today, little is left of it after Siemens pulled out of the business.

ScanDisk in USB port – IsraelandStuff/PP

From a thriving company that employed over 500 people, Solel has been reduced to a factory with 50 workers. Brenmiller’s experience is one of a growing number of cases illustrating the double-edged nature of Israel’s high-tech boom. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News | Tags: Google, hi-tech, High Tech, Israel economy, Israel high-tech, SanDisk, Waze

China’s Alibaba Concludes Major Investment Deal With Israeli Start-up

Chinese e-mega-giant Alibaba invests into Israeli high-tech start-up, in latest economic collaboration with Asia.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made its first investment in an Israeli company by funding start-up Visualead, a provider of QR code technology, the companies said in a statement Tuesday.

Deal! – Thinkstock

QR, or quick response, codes are a type of barcode.

Alibaba and Visualead have also entered into a strategic cooperation agreement, the statement said, but gave no figure for the investment.

The deal will allow Alibaba to use Visualead’s technology across its platforms, it said. Visualead will use the funding to develop its next
generation of technology enabling offline to online business.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Alibaba, business, Israel China, Israel high-tech, Visualead

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Israel refuses UN official entry to Palestinian Authority: She requested visa to ‘Palestine’

Rashida Manjoo – Photo: UN

Foreign Ministry spokesman Paul Hirschson said on Monday that the issue was the language of the request and the travel itinerary, which did not include a visit to Israel.
“The special investigator asked to visit ‘Palestine.’ We explained to her that there is no such country.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestine, UN

IDF Deploys Iron Dome in Northern Israel to Neutralize Hezbollah & Iranian Threats

Sky News Arabic reports of Israeli anti-missile system deployment in light of possible retaliation for purported IAF strike that killed 6 Hezbollah members & 6 Iranian soldiers.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS

In the aftermath of an alleged Israeli strike Sunday on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the IDF reportedly deployed a number of Iron Dome air defense batteries to the North on Monday evening, according to foreign media.

Iron dome – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

Sky News Arabic reported that the anti-rocket batteries had been maneuvered in case of further escalation on the border with Syria and Lebanon.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Golan Heights, Hezbollah, Iron Dome, Israel Syria, Syrian border, Syrian rebels, Syrian unrest

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Argentine Prosecutor Who Warned President Over ‘Whitewash’ of Iranian Terrorism Found Dead

State prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who accused Argentine President of trying to hide Iran’s role in 1994 antisemitic terrorist attack, was found dead on day he was due to testify before congressional panel.

Reuters, Associated Press

The Argentine prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of burying an Iranian role in the 1994 bombing at the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires has been found dead in his apartment, local media reported on Monday.

Argentine State Prosecutor, Alberto Nisman. – Photo: Reuters

Alberto Nisman, 51, the state prosecutor investigating the 1994 attack that killed 85 people – Argentina’s worst ever bombing – said last Wednesday that Fernandez had opened a secret back channel to a group of Iranians suspected of planting the bomb.

Category: Israel News | Tags: AMIA, Argentina, Hezbollah, Iranian terrorists

Israel’s President Calls on Abbas to Come to Jerusalem Instead of Going to The Hague

At a meeting with American senators in Jerusalem, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin calls on PA Chairman Abbas to renew peace talks.

By Ben Ariel

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday urged Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to renew peace talks instead of pursuing efforts at the International Criminal Court (ICC) or United Nations.

“There is no other way than direct negotiations. Unilateral steps will not solve the conflict, but just give more power to the extremists,” Rivlin was quoted by AFP as having said during a visit by a delegation of U.S. senators headed by Republican John McCain.

“I call upon President Abbas: instead of going to The Hague or to the United Nations, come to Jerusalem.

Category: Israel News | Tags: ICC, International Criminal Court, Mahmoud Abbas, peace talks, Reuven Rivlin

Israel Arrests 7 Galilee Arabs for Establishing Local ISIS Chapter

Gag order lifted: Key suspect proclaimed himself commander of “ISIS Palestine” in local chapter of the Islamic State group.
• Members were trained to butcher sheep to “harden their hearts.”

By Israel Hayom Staff

Seven residents of the Galilee were arrested in December and charged with establishing a local chapter of the Islamic State group, Israeli media reported on Sunday, as the courts lifted a gag order on the case. The seven, all Israeli Arabs, have been charged with affiliation with a terrorist organization and contact with a foreign agent.

A jihadist demonstration in Iraq – Photo: AP

According to the indictment submitted Sunday to the court, the suspects regularly met with a well-known Salafi sheikh in northern Israel to discuss the principles of the extremist Islamic sect.

Category: Israel News | Tags: ISIS, terrorists

Netanyahu: Israel opens Asian markets due to Europe’s Islamization, growing anti-Semitism

Israel diversifies economic eggs into new baskets by looking eastward – not only because of Europe’s economic situation, but also because of strong anti-Israel feelings, anti-Semitism and the growing Islamization in major segments of Europe.

By HERB KEINON

With Europe becoming increasingly hostile toward Israel and Jews, the Jewish State needs to diversify its markets, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the cabinet Sunday just hours before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe landed for the first visit by a Japanese premier in nine years.

Visitn Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 18, 2015. – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

“Western Europe is undergoing a wave of Islamization, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism,” Netanyahu said. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Asia, economic cooperation, Israel Japan

Jerusalem appoints female chargé d’affaires to Israel’s embassy in Turkey

New Israeli chargé d’affaires Amira Oron will have to deal with the country’s most sensitive situations: Israel’s assertion that Turkey is hosting Hamas officials, Erdogan’s accusations Israel is a terrorist state and the Mavi Marmara incident.

By Itamar Eichner

In an unusual move, the Foreign Ministry recently decided to appoint a woman as chargé d’affaires at the Israeli Embassy in Turkey.

Amira Oron

The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Turkey in the wake of the Mavi Marmara incident led then-Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to expel the Israeli ambassador and the Israeli embassy was downgraded to having a chargé d’affaires rather than an ambassador.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Amira Oron, diplomats, Israel Turkey, Turkey

Israel welcomes Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and his 100 strong delegation

Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe attended an innovation exhibition in Jerusalem today.

By Israel Gov’t Press Office

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived today in Israel at the head of a delegation of over 100 government officials and presidents of leading global Japanese companies in order to expand bilateral economic cooperation.

Israel welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe – Photo GPO

Japan is considered the third largest economy in the world with a GDP of $4.73 trillion (2013). This is the first visit to Israel by a Japanese Prime Minister since 2006.

At the start of their meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu said:

“I’m delighted to welcome you, Prime Minister.

Category: Israel News | Tags: economic cooperation, Israel Japan

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Israel Defense Minister: What were Hezbollah & Iranian doing in Syrian Golan Height?

Israel’s Defense Minister Yaalon refuses to confirm IAF airstrike that reportedly killed Jihad Mughniyeh, son of former Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh.

By Shlomo Pitrikovsky, Gil Ronen

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon refused to say anything Sunday evening about the reported IAF strike in the Syrian Golan that killed Jihad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah man whose father, Imad Mughniyeh, was also assassinated by Israel.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon – Photo: Xinhua/Corbis

However, Yaalon did respond to the reports from Hezbollah about the incident, and said that they contradicted Hezbollah’s own official claims, made in recent years, that they do not operate in the Golan.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Golan Heights, Hezbollah, Israel Syria, Minister Yaalon, Syrian border, Syrian rebels, Syrian unrest

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Son of Imad Mughniyeh and 5 members of Hezbollah killed in IDF airstrike in Syria

Six Hezbollah terrorists, including the son of former Hezbollah chief Imad Mughniyeh, killed in attack near Quneitra, Syria, preparing to attack Israel.

By i24news

The son of former Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh along with five other terrorists were killed in an alleged Israeli air strike in Syria on Sunday, Hezbollah-linked media reported.

Jihad Mughneye speaking in front of Imad Mughneye’s picture, his father that was allegedly assassinated by Israel – Photo: ARAB MEDIA

Sources linked to the Islamist organization said that Jihad Mughniyeh, who oversaw the Syrian Golan Heights division of the group, was killed in the attack.

“Hezbollah’s leadership will decide how to respond to this new Israeli aggression, but this strike is unthinkable,” a statement from the group read, according to the Al-Akhbar news site.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Golan Heights, Hezbollah, Israel Syria, Syrian border, Syrian rebels, Syrian unrest