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| June 6, 2014
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The Rolling Stones Shake Israel: Truly a natural phenomenon

 

A singular event for the over 50,000 people attending the concert in Tel Aviv’s Park Hayarkon.

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For a group of long-time professionals like the Rolling Stones, their performance Wednesday evening in Tel Aviv was just another night among thousands – but for the 50,000 people attending the concert in Park Hayarkon, it was a singular event.

Mick Jagger in Rolling Stones concert in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2014. - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Mick Jagger in Rolling Stones concert in Tel Aviv, June 4, 2014. – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The Stones alluded to the event’s gravity relatively early in their concert, when a video projected on giant screens behind the performers combined archival clips from their concerts in the 1960s with live shots of the Tel Aviv concert audience in 2014. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2014
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Photo Album: 100,000 flock to Kibbutzim for Shavuot Festivities

 

Kibbutzim in Upper Galilee welcome some 25,000 guests.

Kibbutz Na’an marks birth of over 50 new babies.

By Ahiya Raved

 

Close to 100,000 Israelis spent the Shavuot holiday at celebrations in Kibbutzim across the country Wednesday, including in the Upper Galilee region where some 25,000 guests spent the day on 29 different Kibbutzim. The high holiday turnout comes despite high temperatures Wednesday throughout the country.

Photo: Avihu Shapira

Photo: Avihu Shapira

Since the founding of the first Kibbutz, Shavuot was one of the major holidays celebrated in the farming communes due to their agricultural character.

Wednesday’s Kibbutz celebrations included large parades which displayed the best products from various industries and homes as well as children and of course babies born over the last year. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2014
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Jordan Condemns Israel for Permitting Jews to Ascend on Temple Mount

Jordan condemns Israel’s heavy deployment of  police and IDF soldiers at the Temple Mount, claiming Israel is in violation of int’l law.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

The Temple Mount became Jewish again on Tuesday, and Jordan didn’t like it.

Temple organizations reported Tuesday morning that about 400 Jews had ascended to the Mount in the morning hours, and that police allowed them in without undue delays.

Jews pray on Temple Mount

Jews pray on Temple Mount – Temple Mount HQ

Muslim worshippers, who often harass Jews on the Mount, were not allowed in because police and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) had received intelligence about “malicious intentions” and Islamist incitement calling on Arabs to riot and prevent the Jews from entering. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2014
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Israeli soldiers seize knife-wielding Arab outside IDF base

 

Palestinian male heard shouting “Allahu akhbar” while brandishing knife & Palestinian flag near IDF military post in the West Bank.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

A Palestinian carrying a knife was arrested on Tuesday outside of an IDF base in the Binyamin region of the West Bank.

IDF soldiers arrest a Palestinian man [file].

IDF soldiers arrest a Palestinian man [file]. – Photo: REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

The suspect was heard shouting “Allahu akhbar” (“God is great”) while brandishing a knife and a Palestinian flag.

 

Security forces arrived on the scene and took him into custody.

No injuries were caused to the IDF forces or the suspect. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2014
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Justice Minister marries gay couple in civil ceremony

 

In her position as Justice Minister, Tzipi Livni presided over the wedding of Tzach & Guy, a same-sex couple who broke the traditional glass together in a civil Jewish ceremony.

By Itay Blumenthal

 

Justice Minister and Israel’s chief peace negotiator Tzipi Livni presided over a same-sex civil marriage, despite the fact that Israeli law does not yet recognize gay couples.

Livni with Guy and Tzach (Photo: Motti Kimchi)

Livni with Guy and Tzach – Photo: Motti Kimchi

Livni arrived Monday night at an event hall in Jaffa and married the couple, after the partners requested she participate in the ceremony and give them her blessing. The justice minister obliged and even spoke at the event, which was conducted in a Jewish fashion, despite the fact that the ceremony was not conducted by an ordained rabbi. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2014
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Turkey, China & India endorse Palestinian gov’t with Hamas

All 3 countries call on int’l community to support Fatah-Hamas gov’t, breaking their ranks with Israel.

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The new Palestinian unity government has received three welcome endorsements from major world powers India, China and Turkey, all within a day of Palestinian President Abbas swearing in a cabinet of 17 technocrats.

Indians in Bethlehem

Women from India in Manger Square, outside the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, May 25, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

All three called on the international community to throw its support behind and work with the new government, in contrast to the wishes of the Israeli government, which is seeking to punish the Palestinian Authority for forming a government with Hamas.

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| June 3, 2014
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Obama’s Administration Promised PLO-Hamas Elections in Israel’s Capital

Jordanian newspaper reports the U.S. promised to convince Israel to allow unity government elections in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu ‘deeply troubled’ by the new White House policy.

By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar

 

According to new reports, the American administration has promised the new Fatah-Hamas unity government, which was sworn in this Monday, that it will convince Israel to allow that new government’s elections to be held in the eastern part of Jerusalem.

“A source that knows things,” apparently from within the Palestinian Authority (PA) or Hamas, was quoted in the Jordanian paper Al-Arab Al-Youm, reporting the American promise to work for parliamentary and presidential elections for the new unity government to be held in the Israeli capital. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2014
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Arab Terrorist Shot Dead After Opening Fire on Israel Border Police

An Arab terrorist opened fire towards Border Guard policemen at the Tapuach Junction in Samaria. Return fire killed the terrorist on the spot.

By Elad Benari

 

A terrorist opened fire on Monday night towards Border Police soldiers who were stationed at the Tapuach Junction in Samaria, near the city of Ariel.

Tapuach Junction (archive)

Tapuach Junction (archive) – Ichud Hatzalah Shomron

The policemen returned fire and killed the terrorist. One soldier was lightly wounded in the incident and was treated at the scene by army medics.

Monday night’s attack comes just three days after security forces apprehended an Arab terrorist wearing a bomb belt at the same location. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2014
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US decides to fund Fatah-Hamas terrorists

 

State Department spokeswoman says “based on what we know” President Obama’s administration intended to continue working with the Fatah-Hamas unity gov’t.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

WASHINGTON – The US State Department announced Monday night that it planned to continue disbursing aid to Palestinians, after President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new unity government earlier in the day which incorporated Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.

US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that “based on what we know” President Barak Obama’s administration intended to continue working with the Fatah-Hamas unity government.

Psaki said that Abbas promised to commit to the terms of the Quartet, and that the US will “evaluate the composition and policies of the new government and calibrate our approach accordingly.” Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2014
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Bennett: Annexing ‘Area C’ is the only available option to Fatah-Hamas gov’t

 

The Bayit Yehudi chairman Bennett says the time has come to go on the offensive and insists that his “sovereignty program” is the best course of action & the “only available option” left to Israel.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

Israel should annex Area C of the West Bank in response to Monday’s swearing in ceremony of a unified Fatah-Hamas government made up of “terrorists in suits,” Economic Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett said.

The time has come to go on the offensive rather than act defensively and “to do what is good for Israel,” Bennett said.

The swearing in ceremony for the unity government in Ramallah occurred more than two decades after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords and nine years after the 2005 Gaza withdrawal.

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| June 2, 2014
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Israel Air Force strikes Syria & Gaza in response to fire

 

Fire originating from Syrian territory was directed towards IDF military post on Mount Hermon in Israel’s northern Golan Heights.

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The Israeli military said it fired into Syria on Monday morning in response to high trajectory force that struck the northern Golan Heights.

Israel Air Force F-15 Eagles – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

According to the Israel Defense Force, no one was wounded in the shooting from the Syrian side, which landed near a military post at Mount Hermon earlier Monday morning, and no damage was incurred.

Initially, the army said it responded with artillery fire.

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| June 2, 2014
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Shin Bet prevents 11 kidnapping plots originating from inside Israel’s prisons

 

Israel’s state security, the Shin Bet, explain how incarcerated Palestinian inmates instruct other terrorists on how to kidnap Israeli soldiers or citizens so as to secure their own release in a negotiated prisoner exchange.

By Ynet reporters

The Shin Bet and Israel Prison Authority have exposed and thwarted 11 attempts of Palestinian security prisoners to orchestrate kidnappings from inside Israeli jails, it was cleared for publishing on Sunday.

The prisoners, from Fatah, Hamas and other Islamic organizations, instructed other terrorists to try to kidnap Israeli soldiers and citizens to secure their own release in a prisoner exchange deal.

The Shin Bet said the investigation into these incidents was still ongoing. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2014
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Grand Hall from 14th Century Discovered Beneath the Kotel Tunnels

 

After 10 years of difficult excavations, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation opens an educational center deep beneath the Muslim Quarter dedicated to Jewish history.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD
 

 

Funded entirely by Jewish Ukrainian billionaire Zvi Hirsch (Gennady) Bogolyubov, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation unveiled on Sunday a fully excavated grand hall from the 14th century in the Western Wall Tunnels that took 10 years to restore.

UKRANIAN OLIGARCH Zvi Hirsch (Gennady) Bogolyubov poses in the excavated educational center he spent millions to finane in the Western Wall Tunnels Sunday. – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

The hall, which has been converted into an educational center, took millions of dollars and close oversight by the Israel Antiquities Authority to complete. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2014
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Israel’s Netanyahu & Russia’s Putin to get direct, secure hotline

Latest strategic security decision comes as Moscow seeks new allies in wake of crisis with West over Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

By Itamar Eichner

 

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin have upgraded their relationship, with an agreement that the two leaders will be connected by a special hotline between their two bureaus.

The decision, which comes even as ties between Russia and Israel’s major ally the US sink even lower, was announced Friday by Moscow.

“The Russian government has decided to accept the proposal from Russian security service, in conjunction with the Russian Foreign Ministry, to set up a secure line that will allow a direct and encrypted connection between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” the country said in a statement. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2014
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In Face of Arab Outrage, Jerusalem Synagogue Destroyed by Jordan to be Rebuilt

Muslims not only angered because the rebuilt synagogue will sit higher than the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, but that its part of a systematic plan to Judaize Jerusalem & force the Muslims out of the city.

By Yossi Aloni

 

At a ceremony in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli officials laid the cornerstone for the rebuilding of the Tiferet Israel Synagogue.

File:1900s Jerusalem old city.jpg

The Old City of Jerusalem in the early 20th century. The Jewish quarter is at the bottom of the image. The two large domes are the Hurva Synagogue (Bottom Left)  and the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue (Bottom Right).

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