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| March 11, 2014
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UK Prime Minister Cameron to Make First Official Visit to Israel

 

Following Germany’s Chancellor Merkel’s visit, UK prime minister to make his first official visit to Israel, where he too will give a Knesset speech, meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem and then on to visit Abbas.

By The Associated Press

 

Prime Minister David Cameron plans to make his first visit as British leader to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week.

Cameron and Netanyahu. London. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom)

Cameron and Netanyahu. London. – Photo: Amos Ben Gershom

Cameron’s Downing Street office says he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and deliver a speech to the Knesset on Wednesday. He also is scheduled to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during his two-day trip. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2014
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IDF Shoots Dead Palestinian Rock Thrower Before Cars Pelted

IDF force sitting in ambush catch an Arab terrorist who prepared to throw rocks at passing Israeli cars north of Jerusalem.

By Gil Ronen and Ari Soffer

 

An IDF force lying in ambush shot dead an Arab terrorist who was preparing to throw rocks at Israeli cars traveling on Road 60, north of Jerusalem. The incident took place near Givat Asaf, in the Binyamin region, on Monday evening.

The ambush was placed following an uptick in the number of similar attacks as of late. It is too early to say whether it signals a change in IDF policy toward rock throwers, but the military action appears to be a departure from the policy of the last few years, which has been marked by extreme hesitance to use deadly force against rock and firebomb throwers. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2014
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Video: Wounded Ukrainian protesters airlifted for medical treatment in Israel

This project faced initial obstacles in terms of both hospital access within Israel & funding.

Dr. Valeriya Babchik, a physician at Kaplan, helped to organize the project, along with Arieli & Marina Lysak, Kiev residents.

 

TEL AVIV (JTA) – For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely wounded in clashes with Ukrainian police on Feb. 18, Israeli medical care may be his only hope.

A wounded individual is transported to a waiting plane, where he will be flown to Israel to receive medical care. (Shimon Briman)A wounded individual is transported to a waiting plane, where he will be flown to Israel to receive medical care. (Shimon Briman)

After a pitched battle with Ukrainian police forces on Institutskaya Street in Kiev, Bedyuk suffered chest wounds and extensive liver damage — his brother Aleksei said Bolodimir’s liver “was torn practically in half.”

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| March 10, 2014
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Genetic mutation causing disease in Moroccan Jews identified by Israeli researchers

 

Ben-Gurion University researchers found that 1 in 37 Moroccan Jews carries 1 of the 2 mutations of the gene PCCA 2, that causes severe mental retardation & epilepsy in infants.

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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva have identified the genetic mutation behind a hereditary disease that causes epilepsy and severe developmental delays among Moroccan Jews.

It all comes down to a simple blood test (illustrative).

In light of the high carrier rate for the disorder, screening for the disease will likely be added to the routine genetic testing offered to couples of Moroccan Jewish heritage. – Photo: Dreamstime

The disease, which the researchers are calling Progressive cerebello-cerebral Atrophy, type 2, is caused by mutations in the VPS53 gene.

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| March 10, 2014
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Returning Terrorist at Jordanian Border Shot Dead after Attacking IDF Soldier

An alert IDF soldier shot & killed a Palestinian Arab who attacked him at the Allenby Bridge crossing Monday.

By Ari Yashar

 

An Arab terrorist was shot to death Monday morning at the Allenby Bridge crossing to Jordan, after he attacked an IDF soldier. The bridge, which is not open to Israeli Jews, was closed due to the incident as an investigation was carried out.

The confrontation apparently started when the terrorist attempted to wrestle the soldier’s gun away from him, leading the soldier to defend himself and in doing so shoot the attacker to death.

“A short while ago a Palestinian attempted to seize the weapon of a soldier at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2014
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Arab League supports PA’s refusal to recognize Israel as Jewish state

 

Israeli PM Netanyahu responded to Abbas’ refusal saying “It is absurd to think that in an agreement in which we will recognize the nation-state of the Palestinian people they will not recognize the Jewish state.”

By i24NEWS

 

The Arab League on Sunday has given its seal of approval to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to meet Israel’s demand to recognize it as a Jewish state.

Arab League - Photo: AFP

Arab League – Photo: AFP

The issue is a key Israeli demand, which will likely be included in the framework agreement that US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to present to the sides at the end of April. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2014
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Palestinians Complain to UN Over Jewish Presence on Temple Mount

 

Palestinian Authority reports to the UN that increased Jewish visits & Knesset debates over Temple Mount sovereignty are ‘provocative’

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Palestinian Authority’s mission to the United Nations last week filed an official complaint over a growing Jewish presence on and claims to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

Temple Mount - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Temple Mount – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Riyad Mansour, the PA’s observer at the UN, said that regular visits to the Temple Mount by Jewish worshippers and Israeli officials were “provocative” and could further enrage the entire Muslim Arab world.

 

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Mansour took special exception to the Israeli Knesset’s recent discussions about fully extending Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, which is Judaism’s holiest site. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2014
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2013 holds record number of Jewish births in Israel

 

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics show Jewish births increased by both numbers & percentages, while the Muslim Arab birth rate has reached an all-time low.

By Zeev Klein

 

The year 2013 saw a record number of births in Israel, data published over the weekend by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed.

The total number of births in Israel rose 0.2% in 2013 – Photo: Yehoshua Yosef

The total number of births rose 0.2 percent to 171,207 babies born, compared to 170,904 in 2012. Jewish births increased 1.3% to 127,101 babies compared to 125,409 born in 2012. Some 5,000 babies were born to parents who immigrated to Israel under the Law of Return.

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| March 9, 2014
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IDF Photo Album: Klos-C’s unloaded booty

Also on Iranian arms ship: 40 Rockets, 181 Mortar Shells, 400,000 bullets for Kalashnikov (AK-47) automatic assault rifles.

By Gil Ronen

 

The IDF Spokesman said Sunday that operation “Full Exposure,” for intercepting Iranian arms ship Klos C, has ended. The containers aboard the ship, which was intercepted by IDF naval commandos off the coast of Sudan, have all been offloaded and their contents thoroughly examined.

Arms on Klos C – IDF Spokesman

Forces from the Navy, the Combat Engineering Corps and the Munitions Corps took part in offloading and inspecting the containers, following the ship’s arrival in Eilat yesterday.

 

The list of weapons that the ship carried is as follows:

  • Forty M-302 rockets, with a range of 90 to 160 km.
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| March 9, 2014
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After too long a dry season rain begins to fall in Israel

Rainfall from the Upper Galilee to desert flooding between highway 40 from the Zin Valley to Mitzpe Ramon.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

With one of Israel’s driest winters on record nearing its end, light rain began to fall in various parts of the country on Sunday.

Rain in Jerusalem, March 9, 2014.- Photo MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

Both Arab & Jew get wet together from the Rain in Jerusalem, March 9, 2014.- Photo MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

As of 5 p.m. a wide band of rain stretched from north of the Sea of Galilee to the southern Negev.

Due to floods in the desert, police closed Highway 40 from The Zin Valley to Mitzpe Ramon on Sunday afternoon. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2014
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Iconic Israeli daily news Maariv unable to print Sunday edition

 

Financial & legal troubles plague Israel’s historic Hebrew newspaper, 1st published in 1948 with the establishment of the Jewish State.

By the Associated Press

 

Iconic Israeli newspaper Maariv has not printed its Sunday edition as its publisher is seeking to keep the paper from collapse.

Maariv House, in Tel Aviv - Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons

Maariv House, in Tel Aviv – Photo courtesy Wikipedia Commons

Maariv was first published in 1948 with the establishment of Israel, and was once the country’s largest paper. But it has been the brink of closure in recent years, struggling to compete with free offerings like Israel Today, owned by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, which has taken some of the paper’s top writers. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2014
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PM Netanyahu to Ashton: Ask Iranians about intercepted weapons shipment

 

 

 

PM Netanyahu: Ship’s takeover was meant to stop missiles from reaching terrorists and to expose ‘true face’ of Iran

By i24news

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the seizure of the cargo ship carrying missiles from Iran bound for Gaza had two goals – to prevent the weapons from reach terror groups and to “expose the true face of Iran” to the world.

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu

“Iran denies its involvement, but it’s lying. We will provide proof of this tomorrow,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. The prime minister and Israel’s top brass are expected to head to the Red Sea port of Eilat Monday for a news conference and display of the captured weaponry. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2014
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Israel sends dishwasher-sized spacecraft to the moon

 

Israel’s unmanned craft is small, weighing only 140 kilograms (310 lb.), & will be fitted with 9 computers and 8 cameras.

If successful, the landing of the first private craft on the moon will win the Israeli group SpaceIL, a $20 million Google LunarX Prize.

By Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

It’s only the size of a dishwasher and weighs as much as giant panda, but its inventors are hoping this spacecraft will go where no other Israeli vessel has gone before — to the moon.

SpaceIL co-founders Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari and Yonatan Winetraub – Photo: Reuters

Working on a shoestring budget, the Israeli scientists and engineers building the shuttle — temporarily named “Sparrow” — believe it will land on the moon by the end of 2015, a feat only the United States, Russia and China have managed so far.

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| March 9, 2014
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Time to end the fantasy of a Palestinian people

The 7 city-states concept is based on local clans that already exist as real entities & not the fantasies of some Palestinian intellectuals or tired Israeli souls regarding the existence of a single unified Palestinian people in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

By Mordechai Kedar

 

The seizure of a shipment of long-range missiles heading from Iran to the Gaza Strip was definitely an amazing success for Israel’s intelligence agencies and Navy. Israeli officials highlighted the increase in Hamas’s military might and its intention to acquire game-changing tie-breaking weapons that would pose a strategic threat to Israel. According to some estimates, Iran is fortifying the Gaza-based group to better prepare for “Judgment Day” – once it attains nuclear weapons and could use a southern front in its war against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| March 8, 2014
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Israeli Navy forces enter Eilat Port 3 days after intercepting ship of Iranian arms

 

The INS Hetz & INS Hanit docked at Eilat’s port after successfully executing operation ‘Full Disclosure’ to intercept & take custody of weapons shipment from Iran to Gaza via Sudan.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Israeli Navy ships INS Hanit and INS Hetz arrived at the Eilat Port Saturday afternoon after accompanying the Iranian weapons ship Klos C to Israeli shores. The ship was captured early Wednesday morning ferrying Iranian-made M-302 rockets bound for the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Navy ships entering Eilat Port after accompanying Klos C weapons ship (Photo: EPA)

Israeli Navy ships entering Eilat Port after accompanying Klos C weapons ship – Photo: EPA

The Iranian arms ship Klos C will dock in the southern city’s civilian port later Saturday. Continue Reading »

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