Israel News

Black Hebrews jailed after brutally attacking Policemen for ending noisy party

After the police confrontation over the birthday party, Black Hebrews claim police called them ‘illegal migrants’, unaware some had served in IDF.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Members of the Black Hebrew community from Dimona accused the Israel Police of discriminating against them while breaking up a birthday party in south Tel Aviv, Channel 2 reported.

Israel police. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Police arrived at the party, which was held in a public park, after receiving noise complaints from nearby residents.

James Christmas, the father of the birthday girl and a Black Hebrew, alleged that a police officer came right up to him at the party and began to push him. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Black Hebrews, Dimona, Israel Police

16 yr-old Muslim Zionist Angers Cousin Anti-Zionist MK Hanin Zoabi

Incredibly ‘wise beyond his years’ interview:

Stating eloquently that Israeli Arabs should be thankful for the Jewish state, Muhammad Zoabi, 16, angers his famous cousin, who’s a staunch pro-Palestinian leader an Member of the Israel Knesset.

By Gil Ronen

Muhammad Zoabi, 16, an Arab Muslim from Nazareth, is causing anger in Muslim circles, and considerable joy in Jewish ones, by stating in a unique interview that he is a Zionist and loves the state of Israel.

“I really believe that I’m a lucky Arab and a lucky human being and a lucky Middle Eastern[er] that I was born in this little tiny piece of land!”, Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Hanin Zoabi, Israeli Arabs, Muslim Zionists

Report: Israel Police Ignore Temple Mount Disrespect & Damage

Once again, and contrary to orders set by Israel’s High Court, children were playing soccer on the Temple Mount – and even though the Police do nothing, Jewish activist Michael Pu’ah is demanding that it stop.

By Yaakov Levi

On the Temple Mount visitors are often witness to picnics, weddings – and soccer games, with Arab children competing in a sweaty, curse-filled game at the holiest site in Judaism. Many Jewish visitors have complained to authorities about this, with little intervention on the part of police.

On Monday, Michael Pu’ah, a director of the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction of the Likud, filmed a soccer game that took place on the Temple Mount. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: High Court, Israel Police, Michael Puah, Temple Mount, Waqf, Yehuda Glick

Phone app: Take me to the nearest Mikvah

The Israeli GPS app Waze, now provides mikvah (ritual bath) locations. The service also contains a security ‘glitch’ that reveals Orthodox Jews who use a ‘non-Kosher’ smartphone, when they shouldn’t.

By i24news

The popular navigation application Waze can now direct you to the nearest mikvah – a Jewish ritual bath, the Israeli daily Maariv reported Monday.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews hold hands during a protest against their young men being called up for military service on February 6, 2014 in Jerusalem ( Gali Tibbon (AFP/File) )

Ultra-Orthodox Jews hold hands during a protest against their young men being called up for military service on February 6, 2014 in Jerusalem – Photo: Gali Tibbon-AFP/File

The service had been developed in coordination with Israel’s Ministry of Religious Services.

Now, if you are in immediate need of ritual immersion, you can type in “mikvah” on your app and be directed to the nearest one. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News | Tags: app, mikvah

Israeli hackers & IT Professionals Strike Back Under Pro-Gaza Cyber-Attack

Global hackers of Anonymous managed to only temporarily crash a very few Israeli websites whereas Israeli hackers successfully penetrated the Anonymous website.

By Ryan Jones

The international hacker group Anonymous warned that Israel would be under a constant and determined cyber-attack on Monday, but by midday, Israeli cyber-security experts said the assault had been “unsophisticated” and largely unsuccessful.

Israeli Hackers Strike Back at the Anonymous anti-Israel campaign – Photo credit: It’s anonymous

Anonymous and allied hacker groups launched the fresh wave of cyber-attacks in response to Israel’s counter-terrorism strikes on the Gaza Strip.

The hackers primarily used two methods of trying to bring down or penetrate Israeli government and business websites. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Anonymous, cyber warfare, cyber-attack, internet terror

Breakthrough by Israeli university researchers may control colon disease

Researchers at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University created genetically engineered mice with reduced sensitivity to colitis, after identifying a gene that causes increased amounts of probiotic intestinal bacteria.

By Ilan Gattegno

A team of scientists from the Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University has used genetic engineering to create a strain of mice with reduced sensitivity to colitis, chronic inflammation of the colon.

Doctoral student Shai Bel (left) and Professor Uri Nir – Photo: Yehoshua Yosef

The results of the team’s research have led to new understanding of ways in which human sensitivity to chronic diseases like colitis can be controlled.

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News | Tags: Bar Ilan University, Medical

Anonymous cyber-warriors attack Israeli websites

One year after its last major cyber attack on Israel, AnonymousOpIsrael goes after Israeli websites again.

By Haaretz

Exactly one year after its last major cyber attack, AnonymousOpIsrael hacked Israeli websites on Monday.

Members of ‘team Red’ work on laptop computers during a mock cyberattack scenario with teams of amateur computer experts taking part and trying to fight this simulated attack in London, Friday, March, – Photo: AP

The pro-Palestinian “hacktivist’ collective broke into the Education Ministry’s website, as well as the websites of the Israel Postal Service and the Central Bureau of Statistics, Ynet reported.

Anonymous struck first in November 2012 after Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense assault on Gaza, and again on April 7, 2013.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Anonymous, cyber warfare, cyber-attack, internet terror, Palestinians

Released Palestinian prisoner now teaches Hebrew & tolerance

Esmat Mansour, convicted for assisting 3 teens stab a Jewish man to death in 1993, was freed last August in the 1st of the 3 prisoner releases.

By the Associated Press

DEIR JARIR – Facing a classroom of Palestinian 10th graders, Hebrew teacher Esmat Mansour asks his students who is for and against learning the language. A few raise their hands in favor, others against and he asks both sides to explain.

Value all human life to learn tolerance, Mansour says – Photo: AP

Mansour believes such debates will help motivate young Palestinians to study Israel’s dominant language. They need to know Hebrew to be able to deal with “the Israeli occupiers,” but also to build bridges in the future, he says.

Category: Israel News | Tags: coexistence, Palestinian prisoners

Israeli Arab finishes victorious in TV reality cooking program ‘Master Chef’

‘Master Chef’ winner Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, says she’ll use TV show’s prize money to open Arab-Jewish cooking school.

By Ruta Kupfer

Nof Atamna-Ismaeel won the fourth season of Israeli reality cooking show “Master Chef” on Saturday night.

Noff Otmana Ismail, Israeli Arab winner of ‘Master Chef’ – Photo: Oded Karni

Atamna-Ismaeel, 32,, from the Israeli Arab town Baqa al-Gharbiyyewho cooks Arab food with a modern twist. She has a PhD in microbiolog and is married with three kids.

Upon winning, Atamna-Ismaeel said it was “the most exciting moment in her life,” and said she plans on using the prize money to open an Arab-Jewish cooking school.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel culture, Israel food, Israeli Arab, TV Show

Israel NGO Ready to Level ‘Tsunami’ of Legal Charges Against Palestinians at ICC

Legal NGO chief vows to hit Fatah & Hamas leadership with charges of terrorism once the Palestinian Authority fulfills its threat to join the International Criminal Court.

By Gil Ronen

Shurat Hadin, a non-governmental organization that operates against Palestinian terrorists through the courts, said it would lodge ‘a tsunami’ of criminal complaints against senior Palestinians with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in The Hague.

Nitzana Darshan-Leitner – PR photo

Following the signing of 15 international treaties by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to be accepted into UN organizations, and the PA’s ongoing threat to join the ICC, Shurat Hadin has begin preparing charges against senior PA officials for involvement in terror attacks. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: ICC, Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, PA, Shurat HaDin

Palestinian Arab Throws Firebombs at Jerusalem Night Club

Terror attack thwarted near Maaleh Adumim, when thrown molotov cocktail fails to cause serious damage.

By Israel Today Staff

Palestinian Arab youth hurled several firebombs at a night club in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood on Saturday night. One of the flaming projectiles hit just outside the door of the establishment, but failed to cause any injuries.

Palestinian throws firebomb at Jews – illustration

Late last week, a Jewish motorist was attacked with stones and bricks in the same neighborhood. Police and local residents have noted an increase in Arab attacks of late.

In other violence, a Palestinian Arab man was arrested at the entrance of the Jerusalem-area suburb of Ma’aleh Adumim on Friday afternoon after police found him to be in possession of a large knife. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: firebomb, Palestinian terrorist

‘Anonymous’ cyber-terrorists warn Israel of impending cyber-attack

Cyber-group of anti-Israel hackers calls on its int’l band of “cyber warriors” to attack all major Israeli institutions & websites on Monday.

By NIV ELIS

A group of anti-Israel hackers calling themselves ‘Anonymous Operation Israel’ called on “cyber warriors from across the planet” to attack Israel online on April 7th.

We are Anonymous – YouTube screenshot

“On April 7, 2014, we call upon our brothers and sisters to hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary,” the group said in a YouTube video posted on April 2.

It is not the group’s first foray into cyber-warfare against the Jewish State. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Anonymous, cyber-attack, Defense Ministry, security

Former Palestinian Knesset Member Convicted of Contacting Israel’s Enemies

Former Israel MK of the Balad party, Said Nafa, met in Syria with PFLP-GC leader. Nafa was convicted of both illegally exiting to an enemy state & assisting others to do so as well.

By Ahiya Raved

The Nazareth District Court convicted former Balad Knesset Member Said Nafa of contact with a foreign agent, illegal exit to an enemy country and aiding other to exist to an enemy country.

Nafa was acquitted of another charge of contacting a foreign agent after no evidence was found that he had met with the leader of the Hamas political bureau Khaled Mashal. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Balad, District Court, Knesset, PFLP-GC, spy, Syria

U.S. Congressmen Request Increased Missile Defense Aid to Israel

United bipartisan request to House committee for additional funding cites increased threat from Iran & Hezbollah, noting the aid is ‘in America’s interest’.

By Ari Soffer

US lawmakers have called on Congress to increase funding for Israeli missile defense projects.

Last Thursday, Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, urged a key House of Representatives panel to increase funding for Israel’s Iron Dome, Arrow, Arrow 3, and David’s Sling missile defense systems.

Specifically, they called for an increase of $175.9 million over the President’s budget and $130.9 million above fiscal year 2014 funding for the Iron Dome system. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arrow 3, David's Sling, Military Aid, U.S. Congress