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White House Supports Suppression of Religious Freedoms to Jews on Temple Mount

State Dep’t spokeswoman confirms the Obama Administration supports Muslim ban on Jewish (or Christian) worship at Judaism’s most Holy site.

By Ryan Jones

In the wake of the attempted assassination of Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a prominent advocate of allowing Jews to worship atop the Temple Mount, the Obama Administration confirmed that it supports the suppression of full religious freedom at the Jerusalem holy site.

Arabs on the Temple Mount – Taken from Israel Today

During a press conference last Friday, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki was asked to articulate the White House’s reaction to the shooting of Glick, a US citizen, by a Palestinian Muslim terrorist.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Freedom of Religion, Jen Psaki, Temple Mount, US State Department

If Hezbollah attacks Israel, IDF will raze Lebanon to the ground

In response to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to strike Israel’s main airport & harbors with missiles in a future war, Israel’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz warned that should that happen, “we will return it [Lebanon] to the Stone Age.”

By Daniel Siryoti

It did not take long for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to respond to a recent comment by a senior defense official saying that Israeli airports would be shut down from the first day of any future war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: AP

In a speech given from an undisclosed location in Beirut on Tuesday, Nasrallah said, “The Israeli officer was right.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Yisrael Katz

Minister Naftali Bennett: ‘Jerusalem terror driver was Abbas’s emissary of death’

“PA President Mahmoud Abbas encourages terrorism,” said Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi)

“This is a direct result of the continuing incitement,” said MK Alex Miller (Yisrael Beytenu)

MK Danny Danon (Likud) said Abbas’s letter of condolence to the family of the terrorist who shot Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick last week encouraged this Wednesday’s terror attack.

By LAHAV HARKOV

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas encourages terrorism, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said after the vehicular attack in Jerusalem Wednesday.

Naftali Bennett. – Photo:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

“[Abbas] is the driver in the car of death in Jerusalem and the terrorists are his emissaries,” Bennett declared. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: East Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Palestinian attack, Palestinian terrorist, terrorist attack

Arab Terrorist Shot Dead in Jerusalem After Driving into Crowd Killing 1

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WATCH: After violent morning clashes on Temple Mount, Palestinian plows into group of pedestrians in East Jerusalem, leaves his vehicle & continues his violent attack with a metal bar until shot dead by police.

Noam (Dabul) Dvir

A pickup truck rammed into a group of pedestrians waiting for Jerusalem’s Light Rail, killing one person and wounding a number of others, in what seems to be an additional terror attack on Wednesday. The suspected terrorist was identified as a Hamas operative from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.

Scene of attack – Photo source: Ynet

According to the police a “a vehicle struck a number of people in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: East Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Palestinian attack, Palestinian terrorist, terrorist attack

Israel Police Arrested 3 Jerusalem Arabs for Destroying Jewish Gravestones

Israel Police in Jerusalem makes arrests after dozens of headstones & memorials were smashed on the Mount of Olives.
• One 22 yr-old suspect, denies allegations, but 2 minors admitted to detectives to defacing graves & went on to implicate additional suspects.

By Israel Hayom Staff

Detectives and investigators from the Jerusalem Central Investigative Unit of the Israel Police arrested on Monday three Arab residents of the A-Tor neighborhood in east Jerusalem suspected of vandalizing Jewish gravestones on the Mount of Olives.

One of the gravestones defaced on the Mount of Olives – Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit

The police launched the investigation after dozens of headstones were discovered, smashed.

Category: Israel News | Tags: grave desecration, Jewish cemetery, Mount of Olives, Palestinian violence, vandalism

israelandstuffcom | November 4, 2014

Israel Embassy Warns Irish Gov’t of Impending Legal Action Against Fake Tweets

Israel’s Embassy informs Irish Department of Foreign Affairs with legal actions against culprits, including the students behind inauthentic satirical Tweets published on popular Irish student website.

By Itamar Eichner

The Israeli Embassy in Ireland is battling a new threat these days – fake Tweets. Unknown perpetrators attempted to discredit the embassy by uploading a screenshot of fake Tweets to Reddit Ireland, purporting to come from the Israeli Embassy’s official account, which taunted the Irish government and people.

The Irish student website oxygen.ie fake article about fake Israel Embassy tweet.

A few weeks later, a popular Irish student website, oxygen.ie, mocked the scandal by putting up its own version of fake Israeli embassy Tweets, which were posted on the satire section of the site. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, Israel Ireland, Twiter

israelandstuffcom | November 4, 2014

Another 50 Bnei Menashe from India Make Aliyah to Israel

Organizers hail this as a ‘modern-day miracle’ in bringing exiled Jews home as the total number of Bnei Menashe so far to make Aliyah in 2014 reaches a record high of 500.

By Tova Dvorin

Fifty Bnei Menashe immigrants made Aliyah from India to Israel on Tuesday, bringing the total number of community members to make Aliyah in 2014 to 500 – the most ever.

Bnei Menashe arrive in Israel – Photo: Shavei Israel

Another 200 are slated to arrive by the end of November.

The Bnei Menashe claim descent from the tribe of Menashe (or Manasseh), one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel which were exiled by the Assyrian empire after the death of King Solomon more than 2,700 years ago. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Aliyah, Bnei Menashe, India, Shavei Israel

REPORT: Benjamin Netanyahu & Jordan’s King Abdullah met secretly about Jerusalem tensions

Unpublicized meeting was leaked by a Kuwaiti newspaper, and still lacks confirmation by both the Jordanian & Israeli governments.

By Barak Ravid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II reportedly held a secret meeting in Amman on Saturday amid tensions in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II

Jordan’s King Abdullah meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the royal palace in Amman, Jordan on July 27, 2010. – Photo: Avi Ohayon

According to a report published Monday in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, an urgent meeting was called for the leaders to discuss the escalation in violence in East Jerusalem and tensions surrounding the Temple Mount.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan king, Temple Mount

Int’l Expert: Israel’s Children Living Near Gaza Suffer PTSD

Advisor to Human Rights Commission worries that Israeli children that are always under attack by Hamas, have come to accept war as a normal part of life.

By Israel Today Staff

A leading international expert on the psychological struggles facing children living in conflict and war zones recently visited southern Israel and concluded that Israeli children residing within range of the Gaza Strip face an unhealthy upbringing.

International Expert: Children in Southern Israel Suffer PTSD – Israel Today

Voices in the international community like to complain about the siege Israel has allegedly imposed upon Gaza. But Eliasz Gocal-Czerwinski, advisor to the secretary-general of the International Human Rights Commission on child affairs, described the living conditions for children in southern Israel as very much a kind of emotional siege.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Health, PTSD, UNHRC

Israel’s Knesset to vote on closing ‘Israel Hayom’ on Wednesday

Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud): ‘A democracy shouldn’t close down newspapers’

By LAHAV HARKOV

The Knesset will vote on a bill to ban Israel Hayom Wednesday, after the Ministerial Committee for Legislation did not decide on a government position on the measure.

Las Vegas gaming tycoon and Israel Hayom proprietor Sheldon Adelson. – Photo: REUTERS

The ministers voted on Sunday to give cabinet members freedom to vote according to their conscience on the bill, which means Wednesday’s preliminary vote in the Knesset could easily go either way.

The entire committee voted to be able to vote freely, except for Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi), who thought they should reject the coalition-shaking legislation. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel News, Knesset, Sheldon Adelson

Israel to advance Coke plant for Gazans

Israel hopes new Coca-Cola factory at the Karni industrial area, creating jobs for 3,000 Palestinians, will spur economic growth in Gaza & decrease terrorism.

By Yossi Yehoshua

The construction of a Coca Cola factory in the Gaza Strip, set to create jobs for thousands of Palestinians, will begin this week after it has been green-lighted by Israel’s defense establishment.

Israel’s Coca-Cola products – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

A Palestinian entrepreneur had to submit a request to build the factory to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon then decided to accept COGAT head Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai’s recommendation. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Coca-Cola, COGAT, Gaza, Karni industrial area

israelandstuffcom | November 2, 2014

Now the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Sign from Dachau Camp Was Stolen

Last time, in December 2009, the sign from Auschwitz , which bears the same slogan, was stolen & cut into pieces.

By Arutz Sheva

German police have announced that part of the large iron sign at the entrance to the Dachau Concentration Camp which says “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes You Free) has been stolen. No suspects have yet been identified.

The entrance to the Auschwitz death camp. – Photo: REUTERS

Dachau, which is not far from Munich, was the first of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany.

The sign over the main gate at the Auschwitz death camp, which bears the same slogan, was stolen and cut into pieces in December 2009. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arbeit Macht Frei, Dachau

israelandstuffcom | November 2, 2014

El Al video parody: ‘Committed to your spiritual safety’

American-Jewish comedy writers Levinson Brothers post satirical in-flight El Al Airlines safety video in wake of recent news incidents of flight delays on Delta & El Al, due to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men’s refusal to sit next to women.

Ynetnews

“Gentlemen, and unfortunately, ladies,” the announcement featured in a satirical in-flight safety video by Jewish-American comedy writers Stephen and Joel Levinson begins. The parody of El Al’s flight safety video presents guidelines for passengers, following recent cases in which flights were delayed after ultra-orthodox Jewish men refused to take their seats next to women.

Picture that stirred a row – Photo from New York Daily News

In one of the latest of such incidents, which was first published by Ynet, passengers aboard an El Al flight from New York to Israel described their trip as an “11-hour long nightmare” due to disruptions caused by Haredi travelers during the flight. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: El Al, Haredi, parody

israelandstuffcom | November 1, 2014