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Legendary Woodstock rocker Neil Young will perform in Israel this summer

The world famous rock musician will perform in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park in his 1st Israeli show since 1995, when he played with Pearl Jam.

The show was years in the making and is a dream come true, says promoter Shuki Weiss.

By Yoav Kutner and Eran Susia

After Pixies, Soundgarden and Justin Timberlake all announced concert dates in Israel, a folk legend is following suit: Neil Young will arrive in Israel to perform on July 17 in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park.

Folk and rock master Neil Young – Photo: AP

“After years of negotiations, I am happy to announce the arrival of one of the greats to perform a full show — between 2, 2½, 3 hours of pounding rock ‘n’ roll and emotive ballads, accompanied by his original, legendary band,” promoter Shuki Weiss announced on Wednesday.

Category: Israel News | Tags: concert, Hayarkon Park, music

WATCH: IDF releases video of morning retaliatory IAF airstrike on Gaza terror targets

Watch Israel Air Force’s reaction after Iron Dome intercepted 5 rockets fired from Gaza at Ashkelon.

There were no reports of injury or property damage with the 6th rocket landing in an open, uninhabited area.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted five rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza at Ashkelon early Thursday morning. An additional rocket may have landed in an open, uninhabited area.
There were no injuries in the Palestinian attack.

Israel Air Force - Phot courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's Unit

Israel Air Force – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The IAF responded to the rocket fire on Thursday by attacking four targets in the northern Gaza Strip: a terror site, an underground rocket launcher, a weapons storage facility and a weapons manufacturing site, the IDF Spokesperson said. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IAF strike, IAF-Gaza, Iron Dome, rocket attack

Israel Strikes Gaza Back Just Hours After Hamas Rocket Attack on Ashkelon

Israel Air Force jets hit terror-related sites in northern Gaza, a few hours after a rocket barrage targeted the city of Ashkelon.

By Elad Benari

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted terror-related sites in Gaza early Thursday morning, several hours after a rocket barrage targeted the city of Ashkelon.

Early morning IAF retaliatory strikes Gaza (archive) – Reuters

A statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that a concealed rocket launcher, a weapons storage site and a center of terrorist activity in northern Gaza were targeted.

Direct hits were confirmed, said the statement, which noted that the airstrikes came in retaliation to the rocket attack on Ashkelon earlier in the night. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, IAF strike, IAF-Gaza

Gag order lifted: It’s a can of worms with Senior Police Officers, FBI, Bribes & Rabbi Pinto

Judge lifts gag-order: FBI wiretaps will reveal suspected misconduct by senior Israeli officials, in both Israel Police and within political echelon.

‘If this can of worms is opened, many Israeli officials will be embarrassed by findings,’ source says

By Aviel Magnezi

It was cleared for publication Thursday that Israel Police is conducting an investigation of senior police officers on suspicion of accepting bribe from Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto – Photo: ILAN ASSAYAG/HAARETZ

In Wednesday’s issue of newsletter the rabbi releases periodically to his supporters, he wrote: “I will reveal my emotions before you. Dear brothers, this dark time forced upon us haunts us without us having committed any crime, and only due to narrow-minded and cruel considerations of those who use scare tactics.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: FBI, Israel Police, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto

Proposed Bill Would Cancel Gov’t Stipends to Early Release of Terrorists

MK Yariv Levin: The bill is to guarantee that early released terrorists should not also benefit by receiving ‘acclimation’ payments.

By Gil Ronen

Terrorists prisoners released before the end of their jail terms in diplomatic deals and exchanges like the Schalit deal will not receive “acclimation stipends” from the National Insurance Institute (NII), and their eligibility for other NII payments will be limited, according to a bill proposed by MK Yariv Levin (Likud-Beytenu).

Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli jail – Photo: Tal Cohen

Levin told Arutz Sheva that the proposed law will make released terrorists ineligible for any NII payments for the duration of the term that they were sentenced to, so that terrorists who had received life sentences would never be eligible for payments. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinian prisoners, prisoner release

Pamela Anderson & Rick Salomon honeymooning at King David Hotel in Jerusalem

After quietly remarrying her ex-husband Rick Salomon on Sunday, the 46 yr-old Baywatch actress boarded an El Al flight & headed straight for Israel.

By Jana Banin

Forget Hawaii! Newly remarried couple Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon took an El Al flight straight to Israel after exchanging vows on Sunday. According to The Times of Israel, the former “Baywatch” star and her film producer hubby (of Paris Hilton sex tape fame) are staying in a suite at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. They have already visited the Dead Sea.

It’s not Anderson’s first trip down the aisle with Salomon (the two were married briefly in 2007) or her first trip to Israel.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jerusalem, King David Hotel

WATCH: Iron Dome intercepts 5 Gaza rockets fired towards Ashkelon

Additional rocket lands in open, unused areas, with no reports of injury or damage.

Earlier in week, Israel Air Force jets hit targets in Gaza coastal territory after rockets were fired on the day of Ariel Sharon’s funeral.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

the Iron Dome – photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

There were no injuries in the Palestinian attack.

On Monday, the Israel Air Force struck two targets in Gaza evening in response to rocket fire on southern Israel earlier in the day. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, Iron Dome

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US-Iranian duel-citizen tries to smuggle F-35 blueprints to Teheran

Iranian born, and former US air defense contractor, was caught smuggling boxes of secret blueprints & documents to Iran, including ‘thousands of pages contained in dozens of binders/manuals relating’ to the top-secret F-35 fighter jet that is expected to be sold to Israel.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – A US-Iranian engineer was arrested at Newark International Airport while attempting to smuggle secret documents to Iran – among them the blueprint for the coveted F-35 multi-role fighter jet, which Israel is set to receive in 2016.

F-35

Mozaffar Khazaee, a former US defense contractor employee, was arrested on January 9 at Newark International Airport in New Jersey following the first leg of his flight to Tehran via Germany. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: F-35, Iran US, spy

Rabbi Visiting Murdered Son’s Grave on Mount of Olives Gets Attacked by Arab Gang

Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen reports of a harrowing attack, the full 40-minute assault highlighted the lack of police presence by the Mt. of Olives, a well known hotbed of Palestinian attacks.

By Tova Dvorin and Ari Soffer

Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen, whose son Neria Cohen was murdered in the Mercaz HaRav attack in 2008, was violently attacked by Arab youths as he visited his son’s grave on the Mount of Olives yesterday.

“Yesterday I went with my wife and children to my son’s gravesite,” the Rabbi recounted, in an interview with Arutz Sheva. “At the end of the road on Mount of Olives, I saw a group of Arab youths – they immediately began throwing stones at our car.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab attackers, Mount of Olives, Rock-throwing

Galilee woman proudly relinquishes archaeological collection from her basement

A Female resident of the northern town of Poriya Illit, reveals ancient sunken artifacts to the IAA, including pottery from the Biblical Period, all carefully stored in her basement.

By ROZ WOLBERGER

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday the staggering find of a large number of ancient pottery pieces, fully intact and safely stored…in a basement.

Ancient Pottery – Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority

It all began with a phone call to the IAA: “In my basement there are full boxes of ancient vases and pottery, that a member of my family, a fisherman, left before he died…” said Osnat Lester, a resident of Galilee town Poriya Illit. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: archaeology, Israel Antiquities Authority

Israel’s Defense Ministry issues letter of apology to U.S. Sec.of State John Kerry

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon ‘apologizes if Secretary Kerry was offended by words attributed to the defense minister,’ letter of apology says.

Israeli official reports Prime Minister Netanyahu contacted top U.S. official in attempt to smooth over controversy accredit to the defense minister’s comments

By Reuter

The office of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon issued a statment on Tuesday, saying:

Israel and the United states share a common goal to advance the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians led by Secretary Kerry.

We appreciate Secretary Kerry’s many efforts towards that end. The defense minister had no intention to cause any offense to the secretary, and he apologizes if the secretary was offended by words attributed to the minister.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel US, Moshe Ya'alon

Israel business news: Teva stock jumps after U.S. Federal Court’s vindication

U.S. Federal judge acquits the Israeli pharmaceutical concern, Teva of infringing on 5 patents of the painkiller, OxyContin.

Teva shares shot up 6.7% in one day gain.

By Reuters

A federal judge said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd did not infringe five patents related to the painkiller OxyContin, helping push shares of the world’s largest generic drug manufacturer up 6.7 percent on Tuesday.

Teva’s factory in Hungary. – Photo: Bloomberg

Earlier in the day, Teva executives said at a JPMorgan healthcare conference that they were confident a new version of its multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone that requires less frequent dosing will soon win regulatory approval for use in the United States. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Buisness, Teva Pharmaceutical

israelandstuffcom | January 14, 2014

Israeli PM in hot water with U.S. after Defense Minister calls Kerry “delusional”

U.S. State Dept. issues harsh rebuke after Ya’alon reportedly calls Sec. of State Kerry, “messianic, delusional”.

Netanyahu says to the U.S. “Even when we have disagreements with the US, they are always on the heart of the matter, not on the merits of an individual.”

By LAHAV HARKOV/REUTERS

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did damage control on the Israel-US relationship in his speech in honor of the Knesset’s 65th birthday, following Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s comments about US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on a tour of the Syrian-Israeli border on Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on a tour of the Syrian-Israeli border in December 2013.- Photo: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Minister

“Even when we have disagreements with the US, they are always on the heart of the matter, not on the merits of an individual,” Netanyahu said in an apparent dig at Ya’alon, who, according to a Yediot Aharonot report, accused Kerry of being “messianic” and “delusional” when it comes to negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: John Kerry, Moshe Ya'alon

israelandstuffcom | January 14, 2014