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Palestinian Authority negotiating deal to pay Israel its electricity bill

Negotiations with the Palestinians over its ballooning debt to the Israel Electric Corp are making process, even as peace negotiations unravel.

By Avi Bar-Eli

Even as United States-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians unravel, quiet negotiations over 1.4 billion shekels ($402 million) in unpaid electricity bills owed by the Palestinians are making progress.

The Israel Electric Corporation provides the Palestinians about 7% of its total production via high-voltage electricity lines. – Photo: Reuters

The debt, which has been run up by the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to pay the Israel Electric Corporation for power supplied in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, has almost doubled in the past year.

Category: Israel News | Tags: East Jerusalem, electricity, Gaza, IEC, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian corruption, Palestinians, West Bank

Hezbollah Terrorist Invited by Arab Students to Speak at Tel Aviv University

Both left-&-right wing student groups unite in a campaign effort to prevent a convicted terrorist from his speaking engagement on the Tel Aviv U. campus next week.

By Moshe Cohen

Students at Tel Aviv University are hoping to prevent the appearance of a convicted terrorist at an event organized by Arab students next week. According to Lev Solodkin, head of “The Israelis”, a Zionist activist group on campus, Arab groups have invited Mohammed Cana’ana, who was convicted of planning a terror attack against Israelis, for which he spent several years in prison.

Hezbollah military parade – Reuters

The Arab groups are organizing a “Land Day” event to protest against the establishment of Jewish towns and villages within the 1949 armistice lines that they claim as theirs. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Hezbollah Terrorist, Tel Aviv University

Israel’s FM Liberman says Palestinian move to UN was big mistake

Israeli Foreign Minister defends Sec. of St. Kerry, praises his tireless attempts at bringing about an agreement with the Palestinians.

By GIL HOFFMAN

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman continued his recent efforts to play the role of the “responsible adult” in Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians on Wednesday when he advised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to continue negotiations rather than turn to the UN.

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman. – Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Speaking to a hall packed with Yisrael Beytenu activists in Jerusalem, Liberman said Israel should not run after the Palestinians if they do not want to negotiate.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Avigdor Liberman, Peace Negotiations, Peace Process

Gen Martin Dempsey: Jerusalem believes Washington would strike Iran if need arises

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ‘I think Jerusalem is satisfied that we have the capability to use a military option if the Iranians choose to stray off the diplomatic path.’

By Ynetnews

Israel and the United States have reached a general understanding regarding the Iranian threat to the Middle East, said the top American general, USA Today reported on Tuesday.

Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and Gen. Martin Dempsey in Jerusalem – Photo: EPA

“I think they are satisfied that we have the capability to use a military option if the Iranians choose to stray off the diplomatic path,” said Gen. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel US, Martin Dempsey, US Army

IDF Injured From Gunshot by Suspected Egyptian Smugglers

IDF Spokesperson report confirms one of its soldiers lightly injured during operation to disrupt Sinai smugglers.

By Ari Soffer

An IDF soldier has been lightly injured by gunfire from suspected smugglers along Israel’s southern border with Egypt.

Israeli-Egyptian Border – Reuters

The IDF’s spokesperson’s office would only confirm that the soldier was injured whilst travelling in a jeep near the Sinai Desert, but refused to say in what circumstances.

However, several sources have claimed the soldier was hit by gunfire when the military disrupted an attempt by smugglers to infiltrate the border.

View original Arutz Sheva publication at: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179204#.UzyUDleLUYB Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IDF, Sinai, smugglers

E. Jerusalem lawyers passed messages from Gaza to Hamas prisoners in Israel

Shin Bet & Police investigation exposes 6 members of a Palestinian law office used to transfer messages between Hamas officials & the organization’s members incarcerated in Israeli prisons.

By Noam ‘Dabul’ Dvir

Two law office managers and four lawyers from Isawiya in East Jerusalem were arrested on suspicion of abusing their attorney-client privilege, passing messages between Hamas prisoners and the organization’s operatives in Israel and abroad, and paying lawyers to visit the prisoners.

A Palestinian inmate stands behind the bars of a Hamas-run jail in Gaza City, July 23, 2012. – Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

They were arrested following an investigation by Jerusalem District police, with the cooperation of the Shin Bet. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: hamas, Isawiya, Palestinian prisoners

IsraAID dispatches delegation to Bulgaria to help Syrian refugees

First Jordan, now Israeli humanitarian group IsraAID went to Bulgaria to render assistance for additional influx of Syrian refugees.

By Yossi Aloni

Israel continues to reach out to aid refugees of the ongoing Syrian civil war, this time by sending assistance to refugee camps in Bulgaria.

Israeli Aid Follows Syrian Refugees to Europe

The Israeli NGO umbrella group IsraAID last week dispatched a delegation to Bulgaria to help deal with the influx of Syrian refugees arriving in the eastern European nation via neighboring Turkey.

There are currently about 11,000 Syrian refugees living in three camps in Bulgaria, including two camps in the capital of Sofia. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, The Diaspora | Tags: Bulgaria, IsraAid, NGO, refugees, Tikon Olam

Five Beauties Volunteer to Fight for Their New Home

“They are very motivated & determined to assume combat roles,” says an Israeli official involved with the 5 young women who recently immigrated to Israel, live on a Lebanese-border Kibbutz and joined the IDF & Border Police.

By Danny Brenner

Kibbutz Hanita, next to the Israel-Lebanon border, is used to taking pride in its avocado orchards and olive groves. But it now has a new source of pride, with five young women who made the kibbutz their home after immigrating to Israel currently serving in combat roles in the Israel Defense Forces and Border Police.

Carrie French, Rachel Bernstein, Becca Perlin, Andrea Forsline and Nina Tabrizi

Hanita became home to eight men and eight women who immigrated to Israel this year as part of the Garin Tzabar program.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Aliyah, Garin Tzabar, IDF volunteers, Kibbutz Hanita

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WATCH: Bar Refaeli commercial co-starring a Muppet deemed too risqué for Israel TV

Israeli clothing store Hoodies’ TV commercial, featuring Israel’s supermodel Bar Refaeli involved in sexy scenes, will only be shown after 10 p.m.

By JTA

A risqué ad featuring Bar Refaeli in bed with a purple, mustachioed Muppet has been banned from running before 10 p.m. in the holy land, Walla!, Israel news website reported. Per a governmental council called The Second Authority for Television and Radio, the ad for local fashion brand Hoodies has “too many sexual insinuations” to be seen during prime time.

Bar Refaeli in bed with a muppet for the Hoodies commercial Photo: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT

The spot opens with a post-coital shot of the Israeli super model and her puppet friend, a guy named Red Orbach, with whom many Israelis are already familiar.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Bar Refaeli, TV

Israel declines requests of being world’s medical ‘pot dealer’

Although Israel has the climate & know-how to be the major exporter of medical marijuana, it doesn’t want to.

By Ido Efrati

The Czech Health Ministry would like to import medical marijuana from Israel, but the government has not arranged for local growers to export the drug.

Growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed. – Photo: Reuters

Visiting here last month, Czech Health Minister Svatopluk Nemecek dropped by a medical marijuana operation on moshav Ein Irron. The logistic center there is operated by Bazelet — the marijuana division of the Barak Group, a medical supplier that serves five of the eight authorized growers of medical marijuana in Israel.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Buisness, drugs, Exports, marijuana

Senior US Senators Say Jonathan Pollard Should Not Be Released

Chairwoman & Vice Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee reject proposal where Pollard would be released in exchange for releasing 400 convicted Palestinian terrorists, including mass-murderers.

By Ari Yashar

Several senior senators have come out with harsh opposition to the deal proposed Tuesday, by which America would release Jonathan Pollard in exchange for the release of over 400 Israeli-held Arab terrorists and a partial construction freeze in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.

Senator Dianne Feinstein – Reuters

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that they oppose the deal in no uncertain terms. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Israel US, John McCain, Jonathan Pollard, Senate Intelligence Committee

israelandstuffcom | April 1, 2014

Pope receives Madonna lily seeds from Israel to bloom for spring Annunciation

In advance of Pope Francis’ arrival in Israel in May, Ben-Gurion University scientists send the Vatican Madonna lily seeds of the type that existed during the time of Jesus.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Pope Francis, who arrives in Israel at the end of May, has just received a special gift — seeds of the white Madonna lily of the type that existed during the time of Jesus two millennia ago. The seeds were developed in the lab of Dr. Michelle Zakai with the help of Asael Ram at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba.

Madonna Lily – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons/Stan Shebs

According to Christian tradition, the lily was connected to the Annunciation during which the Angel Gabriel told Mary that she was pregnant with Jesus. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Ben-Gurion University, Pope Francis

israelandstuffcom | April 1, 2014

Jerusalem Court to hear petition to block private control of Western Wall section

The prosecution contends that transferring control of the Holy site to a subcontractor will limit the gov’t’s freedom to act in the area.

By Nir Hasson

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court is to hold a hearing on Tuesday on the attorney general’s request to cancel an agreement for the settler organization Elad-the City of David Foundation to manage the entire southern section of the Western Wall.

Israel Police Special Patrol Unit vehicles stationed near the Western Wall compound. February 25, 2014. – Photo: Olivier Fitoussi

The agreement between the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem (JQDC), which owns the area, and the right-wing, religious group was meant to go into effect on Tuesday.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel settlers, Jerusalem, Kotel, Magistrate’s Court, Western Wall

israelandstuffcom | March 31, 2014

Top Palestinian negotiator the top propagandist, master of fiction & doublespeak

PA negotiator Erekat, told a diplomatic gathering that his tribe had been residents of Jericho thousands of years before the arrival of Joshua Ben Nun.

The Palestinian leadership relies on the thirst of the int’l mainstream media to take seriously any wild, baseless Palestinian distortion when criticizing Israel and to buy into any artificial claim uttered by the Palestinian leadership.

By Israel Today Staff

There are many competing claims at play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the simple question of who was here first, as childish as it might sound, remains central to the contest.

That is precisely why, in addition to leveling all sorts of other accusations at Israel, the Palestinian Authority is engaged in an effort to invent a new historical narrative that puts the Palestinians in the land long before the Hebrews ever arrived from Egypt. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, media bias, Palestinian propaganda, Saeb Erekat

israelandstuffcom | March 31, 2014