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| July 8, 2019
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Greece elects Kyriakos Mitsotakis, “Friend of Israel” as Prime Minister

Speaking of Greece’s new PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the son of an avid Israel supporter, Israel’s former envoy to Greece predicts “relations between the two countries are sure to improve as Israel has shown itself to be a more reliable ally to Greece, even above the European Union.”

By Itamar Eichner

 

Satisfaction was evident in Jerusalem Sunday, when results of the Greek election became known. The candidate considered a long-time friend of Israel has emerged victorious in the country’s elections, winning almost 40 percent of the vote.

The New Democracy party and its leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, expected to receive some 158 seats in the 300-member parliament, a comfortable governing majority. Continue Reading »

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| July 8, 2019
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Israel Police detain 4 Palestinians for violations on Temple Mount

Totally ignoring a closure order issued by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court, four Palestinians were detained when transporting room dividers as they continued to carry out illegal construction under the Islamic Waqf’s direction, creating a new mosque at the Golden Gate, the fifth on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

On Sunday night, four suspects were detained at the Temple Mount’s Golden Gate after police officers spotted four men transporting room dividers, intended for installation in the ancient structure recently transformed into the Temple Mount’s newest mosque.

This past March, Regavim, a non-government organization dedicated to the preservation of Israel’s resources and sovereignty through equal and universal law enforcement, petitioned the Supreme Court against the Waqf’s illegal activity at the Temple Mount’s oldest structure. Continue Reading »

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| July 8, 2019
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Israel’s Prime Minister: DNA proves Palestinians not native to Israel

In a series of posts, PM Netanyahu tweets: A new study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine gravesite in the Israeli city of Ashkelon confirms that the Philistines originated in the southern coastal area of Europe & the ancestors of the modern Palestinians came to Israel from the Arabian Peninsula, thousands of years later, after the People of Israel already inhabited the area.

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

 

Could DNA testing prove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s politics? He seems to think so.

On Sunday, Netanyahu tweeted that, “A new study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine site in the Israeli city of Ashkelon confirms what we know from the Bible – that the origin of the Philistines is in southern Europe,” quoting research released last week by the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, which revealed that the ancient people most known for their biblical conflict with the Israelites were immigrants to the region in the 12th century BCE. Continue Reading »

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| July 5, 2019
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Despite economic hardship Palestinians increase ‘Pay to Slay’ by 12%

Just as the PA claims it’s on the brink of financial collapse, Palestinian Media Watch reported that Palestinian Authority autocrat has approved paying terrorists and their families nearly $66 million in the first 5 months of 2019 and vowed to keep up payments, “even if the PA has to spend its last penny to do so.”

By  Gilad Zwick , Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Palestinian Authority paid terrorists and their families 234 million shekels ($65.6 million) in the first five months of 2019, documents obtained by the Palestinian Media Watch revealed Wednesday. This figure represents an 11.8% increase in the stipends budget, underscoring Ramallah’s distorted priorities, as the PA claims it is on the brink of financial collapse. Continue Reading »

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| July 4, 2019
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Philistine Cemetery in Ashkelon Shines Light on Israel’s Arch-Enemy

New DNA tests on 3,000 year old skeletons of the Israelites’ arch nemesis, the Philistines, conclusively verify their origins as coastal Europeans, and not Semitic.

By David Lazarus

 

New DNA testing has shown that the Philistines, that arch-enemy and nemesis of Israel, came to the Land from Europe more than 3,000 years ago.

The giant Goliath was a Philistine. So was Delilah, who entrapped legendary warrior Samson. They proved to be among Israel’s most dangerous adversaries, yet for all their appearances in the biblical texts, the origins of this “seafaring” people, and why they came to this land, remained a mystery, until now. Continue Reading »

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| July 4, 2019
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Exclusive: Israeli jets strikes Gaza-bound arms shipments in the Sinai

Mostly in conjunction with the Egyptians, Israel’s Air Force has regularly destroyed convoys carrying missiles, weapons, and high explosive materials that were being transferred across Egypt by dealers in Libya to the Islamic Jihad & Hamas in Gaza.

By i24NEWS

 

In recent months, Israel has bombed several trucks in the Egyptian Sinai carrying weapons and missiles bound for militant groups in the Gaza Strip, sources told i24NEWS.

Palestinian sources said that from November last year until the end of May, the Israeli Air Force has targeted three trucks, including one carrying a shipment of Iranian missiles bound for the Islamic Jihad discovered in March. Continue Reading »

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| July 3, 2019
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IDF preparing for possible US-Iran escalation

Israel’s new Foreign Minister Yisarel Katz, told an international security conference this week, “We must be prepared for this, and thus the State of Israel continues to devote itself to building up its military might for the event that it will have to respond to escalation scenarios.”

By i24NEWS

 

Israel is preparing for its role in a potential military escalation between the U.S. and Iran, Foreign Minister Yisarel Katz told an international security conference this week, suggesting the Islamic Republic may take a decisive step into the “red zone.”

“It should be taken into account that mistaken calculations by the [Iranian] regime…are liable to bring about a shift from the ‘gray zone’ to the ‘red zone’ – that is, a military conflagration,” he said in a speech on Tuesday at the 19th annual Herzliya Conference. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2019
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Iran: If we’re attacked by US, Israel will be destroyed in first 30 minutes

Amid heightened tensions shortly after Iran announced it breached nuclear deal by crossing uranium limits, Mojtaba Zolnour, the chief of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee threatens the Jewish State saying, “If the US attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel’s lifespan.”

By  Reuters , Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israel will be destroyed in half an hour if the United States attacks Iran, a senior Iranian parliamentarian said on Monday, according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency.

Weeks of tensions culminated last month when US President Donald Trump’s last-minute decision to call off planned strikes on Iran after Tehran downed a US drone. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2019
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Dutch firefighting couple are first responders on Gaza border

With the estimated 100 fires that the Palestinian incendiary devices created along the Gaza border last week alone, Raymond and Mirjam Reijnen returned to be professional firefighters on their Gaza border kibbutz, as they were in the Netherlands before immigrating to Israel.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Raymond and Mirjam Reijnen fight fires lit by Gaza balloons so often, that a rolled up volunteer firefighters’ uniform, a mask, and a pair of boots are permanently stashed outside their front door in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

“Firefighters here have their suits outside,” Raymond said.

“There is no time to search for your things,” said Mirjam, adding that in their case they have only one, because “we wear the same size.” Continue Reading »

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| July 1, 2019
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British Home Secretary, visits Western Wall 19 years after last Minister

This trip by the British Home Secretary Sajid Javid to the Western Wall comes 19 years after the last British government minister visited that part of Jerusalem.

BY ALEX WINSTON

 

Sajid Javid, British Home Secretary, visited the Western Wall on Monday morning during his latest visit to Israel.

The trip by the Home Secretary comes 19 years after the last British government minister visited Jerusalem and the Western Wall.

Javid met with Director General of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, Mordechai Eliav, who told Javid about the history of the place and its importance as the center of Jewish longing for Jerusalem throughout the generations. Continue Reading »

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| July 1, 2019
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European anti-Semitism increases demand for housing in Israel

Israel real estate agent say sense of danger for Diaspora Jews is manifested in a sharp increased demand for home purchases throughout Israel, “We sold three apartments to foreign Jews this week alone. One from Russia, one from France, and another from Britain.”

By  Dan Lavie , Assaf Golan

 

Global anti-Semitism is rearing its head, and Jews in Europe are starting to be afraid to wear kippot in public. Meanwhile, US synagogues are turning into sites of bloodbaths. The sense of insecurity many Diaspora Jews are feeling is prompting them to invest in homes in Israel, whether as part of a plan to make aliyah or out of a desire to have a safe haven in place. Continue Reading »

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| June 30, 2019
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Palestinians accuse the United States of ‘Judaizing’ Jerusalem

After Palestinian administrative official condemned US diplomats for their planned participation in the upcoming City of David event as supporting the ‘Judaization’ of Jerusalem, the US envoy snapped back saying, ‘We can’t ‘Judaize’ what history and archeology already prove.’

By Tal Polon

 

US envoy Jason Greenblatt on Sunday slammed the PA for accusing the US of supporting the “Judaization” of Jerusalem, calling the claim “ludicrous.”

King David’s Citadel in Jerusalem’s ‘Old City’ – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The PA claim was connected to expected US participation in an inaugural ceremony for the “Pilgrim’s Road” at the City of David excavation site near the Old City of Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| June 28, 2019
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Life Changing Stories: Discovering You’re Jewish on Parent’s Deathbed

Story #1: 20 years ago, Mariusz Robert Opałko from Krakow, Poland, discovered from his mother Halina in the hospital, just days before she died, that she and his father were both Holocaust survivors, revealing that his father is a Cohen and that their real last name is Lederman.

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA,

 

In a few months, Simone Azoubel will realize a lifelong dream and move to Israel with her husband.

A 56-year-old Jewish woman from Recife in northern Brazil, Azoubel is brushing up on her Israeli slang as she prepares for her aliyah, the Hebrew word for immigration by Jews to Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 27, 2019
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Palestinian leadership proves it doesn’t care about having a viable state

Known for consistently rejecting a sovereign state at every opportunity, WHY is the Palestinian leadership rigorously sabotaging a record $50 billion economic infusion plan facilitated by the international community that would guarantee the economic viability of their future state?

By Phillip Pasmanick

 

Palestinian kleptocrat Mahmoud Abbas continues to rebuff the Trump Team’s creation of a “master fund” to administer the $50B plan that will implement monumental national projects modeled after the Marshall Plan (that rebuilt Europe after World War II) knowing full well it will reduce Palestinian poverty by 50% and bring down their sky-high unemployment rate to single digits. Continue Reading »

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| June 26, 2019
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USAF F-35A , UK F-35B, Israel’s F-35I train together over Med

No one is bringing up Iran, but F-35 stealth fighter pilots from Israel, UK, and US are training together with their variant aircrafts in the joint ‘Tri-Lightening’ exercises over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets from the United States, United Kingdom and Israel participated in a joint exercise over the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday.

The exercise, dubbed “Tri-Lightning”, was the first of its kind to bring together F-35 fighters from the three countries air forces.

IAF F35i ‘Adir’ fly over Jerusalem. – Photo: Israel Air Force/facebook

The one-day defensive counter air exercise included both friendly and “enemy” aircraft from the three countries, and included use of both active and passive defense operations. Continue Reading »

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