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Technion Preparatory Program Prepares Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox for Hi-Tech

Newly opened university preparatory program is designed to open the hi-tech workforce for the hareidi.

By Ari Yashar

Amid high tensions over the integration of hareidi-religious Jews into the IDF and the workforce, Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology has inaugurated a mechina (university preparatory) program specifically designed to attract more hareidim into its hi-tech programs.

Technion program for hareidi – Screenshot

While hareidi schools are supposed to teach 55%-75% “core studies,” including science and math, the website No Camels reports that many hareidi schools do not follow the guidelines, teaching a curriculum that emphasizes Torah study to the omission of secular studies. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: hareidi-religious, High Tech, ultra-Orthodox

Israeli security forces foiled 2 Arab terror attacks over weekend

IDF soldiers arrest 4 Palestinian Arabs near Migdal Oz concealing 3 knives & improvised weapon in their vehicle.

Border Guard policeman wounded when 16 yr-old attempts to stab security personnel near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.

By Lilach Shoval and Efrat Forsher

Soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ Kfir Brigade thwarted a terror attack near the Gush Etzion community of Migdal Oz on Saturday evening.

IDF troops on patrol in Judea and Samaria [Illustrative] – Photo: AP

Around 6:30 p.m., the IDF received a report of suspicious individuals approaching the south side of the fence that encircles Migdal Oz.

Soldiers sent to the area arrested four Palestinians who were driving in a vehicle near the community’s fence.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinian terrorists, terror attack

FM Liberman: No agreement with Palestinians without land & population swaps

Israel’s Foreign Minister says, “Nobody will be expelled from their homes or dispossessed of his possessions.”

By HERB KEINON

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that the only agreement with the Palestinians he will support will be one where there is an exchange of populations, and not only territory.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

Speaking at an annual meeting of Israel’s ambassadors abroad at the Foreign Ministry, Liberman said he was referring specifically to re-routing the border so that Wadi Ara and the Little Triangle will be a part of a future Palestinian state. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Avigdor Liberman, Bayit Yehudi, Palestinians, Peace Process

Mahmoud Abbas had ‘tough talks’ with Kerry in Ramallah

U.S. Sec. of State Kerry tells reporters in Jerusalem that White House’s Mideast plan will be ‘fair & balanced’ and that the US is committed to equitable peace deal that improves security for all.

By AFP

Tough words were exchanged between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry this weekend, as the two met to discuss the peace process, an Abbas aide said Sunday morning.

Kerry in Jerusalem Photo: Matti Stern, US embassy

Speaking to the Arab world media, Yasser Abed Rabbo said their conversation Friday in Ramallah “was very tough indeed”, in particular when it came to the American wish for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjmain Netanyahu, John Kerry, Peace Process, peace talks

Thousands of illegal African migrants protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv

Hundreds of asylum seekers, out of an estimated 49,000 migrants from Sudan or Eritrea who are illegally living in Israel, have been detained or ordered to report to a detention center over the past 2 weeks.

By Ilan Lior and Revital Levy-Stein

Tens of thousands of African migrants held a protest in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Sunday morning, against efforts to round them up and send them to a detention center.

African migrants hold a sign during a protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv January 5, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

“Yes to freedom, no to jail,” protesters chanted at the Tel Aviv rally, which also included several dozen Israelis. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Eilat, illegal migrants

Liberman: Israel’s Future Border with Palestine to be ‘Near Highway 6’

FM Liberman supports agreement, but asks how the future Palestinian state will accommodate it’s 3 million new Arab residents from the refugee camps.

By Maayana Miskin

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman spoke in favor of Israel-Palestinian Authority diplomacy on Sunday, while rejecting some of the PA’s key demands.

Liberman began by thanking United States Secretary of State John Kerry for his efforts to push a deal. “I want to express genuine appreciation for Kerry’s efforts, and for his stance regarding security in particular,” he said.

“Any alternative proposal that Israel gets from the international community will be worse than what Kerry offered,” he argued. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Avigdor Liberman, border, Demographics, Highway 6, peace talks

Jerusalem denies ex-envoy’s claim Israel killed most of the AMIA bombers

Former Israeli envoy to Argentina had claimed Israel killed most of those responsible for the terrorist attack on the bombing in 1994 at Jewish cultural center in Argentina.

By Reuters

Israel is denying a claim by its former ambassador to Argentina that Israelis killed most of those responsible for the South American county’s worst terrorist attack.

Mourners attend a ten year anniversary ceremony of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina.- Photo: AP

Itzhak Aviran said “the great majority of the guilty ones are already in the other world, and it was we who did this.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: AMIA, Argentina, terrorist attack

Palestinians Shot Friday While Trying to Destroy Gaza Border Fence

Security forces shot & wounded 2 Palestinians as they were throwing rocks at IDF soldiers & rolling burning tires at the Gaza border fence.

By Elad Benari, Canada

IDF soldiers shot and wounded two Arab men from Gaza, one seriously and one moderately, in separate incidents Friday afternoon, AFP reported.

The military said soldiers opened fire to break up a violent demonstration by several Gazans who were throwing rocks at soldiers and rolling burning tires at the border fence.

“During continuous attempts to disperse the riot soldiers fired toward the main instigators’ lower extremities,” an IDF spokeswoman told AFP. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: border fence, Gaza border, IDF, Shooting Attack, Terror

Analysis: Examining the future of the IDF

Does Israel’s air force have a self-inflicted monopoly on firepower, should the IDF reassess and be investing more in special forces & cyber-ops, or are boots on the ground what is essential in winning a war?

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

As the Middle East becomes ever more anarchic and unpredictable, a group of high-ranking former and current military figures gathered at Bar-Ilan University this week for what would turn out to be one of the liveliest and frank public debates on the future of the IDF ever held.

BESA

The conference, called IDF Force Structure, was organized by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and Israel Defense magazine, and contained two panels of speakers, each of which used their rich personal experience in the security world to build up deep and well-founded arguments on how Israel should tailor its armed forces in the first quarter of the 21st century. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IAF, IDF, Israel Navy

Sen. McCain: Netanyahu and I have ‘serious concerns’ over Kerry’s proposal

Republican Senator John McCain, who is in Israel visiting, admits he shares P.M. Netanyahu’s concerns about whether parts of Kerry’s ‘framework agreement’ are realistic.

By The Associated Press

Republican Sen. John McCain says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “serious, serious concerns” about parts of the proposal Secretary of State John Kerry is using to broker peace with the Palestinians.

U.S. Senator John McCain answers reporters' questions at the meeting in Italy, September 7, 2012.

U.S. Senator John McCain answers reporters’ questions during a meeting on World Economy in Cernobbio, Italy, September 7, 2012. – Photo: AP

McCain spoke Friday in Jerusalem where Kerry is making his tenth visit to craft a peace accord. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East peace, peace talks

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16 yr-old Arab girl attempts to stab Border Guard policeman in Jerusalem

A 2nd policeman was lightly hurt during scuffle to bring Palestinian teen under control.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

A 16-year-old Arab girl attempted to stab a border police officer with a knife near Nablus Gate in Jerusalem on Friday. The suspect is a resident of the Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood in east Jerusalem police said.

Nablus Gate (Damascus Gate) – שער שכם – Photo courtesy: Creative Commons

Security personnel succeeded in disarming the woman and bringing her under control but in the process, one of them was injured lightly in the leg. The injured man received medical treatment at the scene.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Border Guard, Jerusalem, Palestinian terrorists

EU Funds NGO That Dehumanizes Jews on PA TV

PMW reveals broadcast calling Jews ‘rats, crows, foreigners’ in Jerusalem, city of ‘Arabic & Palestinians.’

Anti-Semitic Program funded by EU & World Bank.

By Ari Yashar

While Palestinian Authority (PA) TV has often been caught inciting violence and hatred of Jews, a recent broadcast by a European Union (EU) funded NGO has brought the defamation of Jews to new lows.

PMW Screenshot

In an episode of the program Sights of Jerusalem broadcast October 18 on official PA TV, Jews are dehumanized as “crows” and “rats,” and further called “foreigners” in Jerusalem, the 3,000 year old Jewish capital.

Selections from the program subtitled into English by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) can be seen here:

In the video, the narrator calls the Israeli flag a “rag dipped in our blood,” claiming that Arabs cannot raise their heads in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, anti-Semitic propaganda, EU, EU PA

Considering the Legality of Israel’s Annexation of the Jordan Valley

Debate in Jerusalem heats up over whether or not Israel has the legal right under int’l law to annex portions of the Promised Land.

By Israel Today Staff

With last week’s ministerial vote to being the process of annexing the Jordan Valley, Israeli media has been more vigorously than ever debating the Jewish state’s right to unilaterally lay claim to territory.

On the Legality of Annexing the Jordan Valley

Israel’s only previous act of annexation of a previously sovereign territory involved the Golan Heights. That act, which Israel did not technically define as annexation, has been rejected by the international community, but has become a de facto reality on the ground. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel law, Jordan Valley

Arrow 3 missile interceptor test successfully carried out

The 2nd interceptor test was conducted Friday morning from Israel’s Air Force base Palmachim.

Arrow’s system is designed to reinforce Israel’s protective multilayer defenses against any long-ranged missile threat.

By Yoav Zitu

Another successful trial of the Arrow 3 interceptor was carried out at 8 am Friday morning. It was the interceptor’s second flight test and it was conducted within a trials field in the Palmachim Air Force base.

Arrow 3 trial – Photo: Defense Ministry

The main advantage of the Arrow 3 interceptor is in its ability to perform a change of flight direction while flying towards long-ranged target missiles. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arrow 3, IAF