The IDF on Tuesday shot down a Syrian warplane that invaded Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights.
2 Syrian pilots seen after #Israel downed their aircraft earlier near Kanaker – Twitter
A Syrian fighter jet belonging to the Assad regime was detected over Quneitra near the Israeli border, before it crossed into Israeli air space on Tuesday morning. The IAF fired a Patriot surface-to-air missile at the warplane, striking it down. Continue Reading »
BY Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – At the age of 91, former president Shimon Peres is out of a job. After 70 years of public service, the Israeli icon has set out to find a new line of work. His granddaughter released a satirical video in which the Labor legend tries his hand as a skydiving instructor, security guard, and a gas station attendant.
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres clearing out his desk – Photo: YouTube screenshot
The video, which was released on several social media platforms, was produced by Peres’ granddaughter, screenwriter Mika Almog. Continue Reading »
REUTERS – It is already common for intelligence agencies to recruit their officers online, but Israel’s Mossad has gone one further by touting for local agents and informants too.
The Mossad website – Photo: Screenshot
Israel, which has full diplomatic ties with only two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan, lacks embassies elsewhere in the Middle East that would-be informants could turn to, leaving it in need of other local recruitment channels.
The IDF Armored Corps has begun using the Israel Military Industries (IMI) Hatzav shell (M329 APAM-MP-T), after first deploying it operationally during Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip.
Merkava fires shell – IDF Spokesman’s Unit
The projectile was developed by IMI and the IDF Ground Arm following to lessons drawn from the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead. The 120mm Hatzav shell, fitted with a delay mechanism, is intended to penetrate the first, outer wall of a building and only detonate inside the building. Continue Reading »
Almost everyone who has served in the army knows the story: A soldier suffering from pain tries to make an appointment to diagnose what is causing it. By the time he can see a doctor, the problem is long gone and might even have been replaced by new ones.
Takwin Labs, an incubator for Arab Israeli high-tech entrepreneurs focused on Internet and Mobile technologies, announced Sunday that it closed $4.5 million in funding.
THE TEL AVIV skyline; the area around the city is home to many Israeli start-ups. – Photo: REUTERS
The Haifa-based Takwin, which means “beginning” in Arabic, was spun off from several leaders already active in the Arab Israeli High-tech space: Imad Telhami, whose company Babcom is one of the largest employers of Arab engineers in Israel, Labor MK Erel Margalit, who founded Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), and Chemi Peres, Chairman Al Bawader, a VC that invests in Arab start-ups (and son of former President Shimon Peres). Continue Reading »
Noam (Dabul) Dvir
An Egged bus shuttling children to school was pelted with stones and a bottle of paint on Sunday morning while driving by the Ras al-Amud square in East Jerusalem.
Damage caused to the bus from stones and paint bottle thrown at it.
Damage was caused to the bus’ windshield and Border Police forces were searching the area for the perpetrators.
Yonatan, one of the children on the bus, told his Mom the experience was “really scary.”
“They were really frightened,” Tehiva Shaham, Yonatan’s mother, said. Continue Reading »
The UN’s “Palestinian refugee agency” UNRWA on Sunday urged the international community to oppose Israeli plans to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouin from the E1 and Maaleh Adumim areas east of Jerusalem, to the area around Jericho, next to the Dead Sea.
“If such a plan were implemented this would … give rise to concerns that it amounts to a ‘forcible transfer’ in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention” banning involuntary population relocation in occupied territory, UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl said. Continue Reading »
Israel is increasing its assistance effort to help combat Ebola in Africa, Israel media reported Sunday.
Health workers wearing protective gear go to remove the body of a person who is believed to have died after contracting the Ebola virus in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. August 16, 2014. – Photo: AP
IsraAID, the Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, announced on its Facebook page Friday that it is sending a team to join the international community in fighting the spread of Ebola in Western Africa.
In a landmark decision Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced the establishment of a National Authority for Cyber Defense.
Cyber security – Reuters
The new authority will be headed by Dr. Eviatar Mattaniah, head of the cyber-defense staff, and will be responsible for the protection of Israeli civilians against cyber attacks.
Netanyahu’s decision takes the already extensive work and thorough preparation to protect Israel’s cyberspace against terror several steps further, drafting leading experts in the field to coordinate and lead the entire Israeli cyber-defense team. Continue Reading »
“Israel treats wounded Syrians and saves their lives while [Syrian President Bashar] Assad continues to massacre his people,” said Dr. Kamal al-Labwani, a prominent member of the Syrian opposition movement.
“All of Syria sees this and asks: Who is the real enemy?” Labwani said on Thursday while visiting Syrian patients at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, in northern Israel.
A majority of voters who supported Likud Beytenu believe that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should launch a diplomatic initiative that would eventually yield a Palestinian state alongside Israel, according to a new poll commissioned by the Geneva Initiative.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addresses Likud supporters. – Photo: REUTER
The survey, which was done for the Geneva Initiative by New Wave Research, found that 53 percent of Israelis who cast their votes for the ruling party and a majority of the general public (58 percent) believe that the government should make a renewed push toward a settlement with the Palestinians in the wake of the seven-week military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »
By Itay Blumenthal
A large cave of stalactites was discovered by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (NPA) together with the Cave Research Unit (CRU) during construction work in the Jerusalem hills.
Inside the cave. – Photo: Lior Cohen
The new cave was uncovered after construction workers blew up a boulder and saw a hole underneath. NPA workers arrived on the scene and explored the hole with flashlights, discovering the expansive cave full of stalactites. Continue Reading »
By i24news
Israel has moved up in the most recent International Baseball Federation (IBAF) men’s world rankings, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Friday.
Israel’s baseball team – Maccabiah/Facebook
Israel is now ranked 19th in the world, surpassing several notable countries such as Nicaragua, South Africa and Great Britain.
In order to compile its list of rankings, the IBAF relies on several criteria including results from 2014 baseball events. According to Haaretz, Israel managed to improve its ranking this year due to winning the European Championship C-Pool tournament in Slovenia in July, winning second place in the PONY tournament in Prague, and winning second and third places in the Tuscany Series baseball tournaments in Italy.
An Israeli drone crashed in Lebanon on Saturday morning, an IDF spokeswoman confirmed. The plane crashed due to a technical malfunction during a regular surveillance mission along the northern border.
Israeli Drone (illustrative). – Photo: REUTERS
Media outlets in Lebanon first reported that a drone had fallen in the southern town of Marjayoun. The Beirut-based Al-Manar TV station, which is associated with Hezbollah, said the army had taken hold of the downed aircraft. Continue Reading »
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