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Proposed law: New fathers to receive 8 days paternity leave

A 1st in Israel: The Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved 8-day paternity leave for fathers.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender group says proposed law excludes same-sex couples.

Edna Adato, Dan Lavie & Yael Branovsky

On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill proposed by MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), that entitles fathers to eight days paid paternity leave.

The original bill was proposed by MK Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi) in the previous Knesset and passed a first reading but then lost its momentum.

The law will give fathers an eight-day paternity leave comprised of three paid vacation days and five sick days, at their employer’s expense.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Knesset

2,000 people outside Ofer prison protest release of Palestinian prisoners

“The equation of ‘freeing prisoners equals talks’ or ‘freezing settlement construction equals talks’ is wrong, & the gov’t has to stop this,” Knesset Interior Committee chairwoman Miri Regev (Likud Beytenu) said.

By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST.COM STAFF

Some 2,000 people protested on Monday evening outside Ofer prison against the upcoming release of 26 Palestinian security prisoners, Israel Radio reported.

Bereaved families protest Palestinian prisoner release, October 28, 2013.

Bereaved families protest prisoner release outside Ofer prison, October 28, 2013 – Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

MKs from Bayit Yehudi, a party who has vehemently objected to the release of prisoners as part of the ongoing peace talks, attended the protest.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinian prisoners, Peace Process

Hamas plans frequent attacks on Tel Aviv for next war

Gaza’s ruling Islamist terror group is boosting its strength in preparation for its next conflict, producing medium-range M-75 rockets at an accelerated pace.

Israel still prefers Hamas over the extremist Salafist regime in Gaza.

By Elior Levy

The Shalit prisoner exchange deal and last year’s war against Israel led to a spike in the popularity of Hamas, which also enjoyed the support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. But the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army plunged Hamas into one of its most difficult periods in recent years, while the Palestinian Authority is credited with the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza, hamas, Salafist

Israel to return to the UN Human Rights Council

Israel will appear at its Universal Periodic Review to present its human rights record, breaking its 18-month boycott of int’l body.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

The Beduin in the Negev and Women of the Wall in Jerusalem are among the many issues Israel is prepared to address, when it breaks its boycott of the UN Human Rights Council and appears before it in Geneva on Tuesday for the first time in a year-and- a-half.

Beduin structures being evacuated, Ramat Hasharon, June 10, 2013 – Photo Courtesy, Ramat Hasharon Municipality

Eviatar Manor, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, phoned UNHRC president Remigiusz Henczel of Poland on Sunday to inform him of Israel’s decision to meet its final deadline to participate in the Universal Periodic Review process that all 193 UN member nations must undergo.

Category: Israel News | Tags: UNHRC

Gaza Fires 2 Mortar Shells That Hit Southern Israel

Terror Attacks from Gaza militants continue as 2 mortar shells hit Eshkol region in southern Israel.

By Maayana Miskin

Gaza terrorists fired two mortar shells at the southern Negev early on Sunday afternoon. The shells exploded in the Eshkol region, but did not cause injury.

Once Again The military has advised agricultural workers in the area to seek shelter.

Last week terrorists from Hamas-controlled Gaza fired a mortar shell that hit the Eshkol region. Less than a week earlier, a projectile fired from Gaza hit southern Israel.

Recently, Hamas’ “military wing” has admitted to being behind an attempted attack involving a “terror tunnel” leading from Gaza to an Israeli kibbutz. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza Terror Attacks, mortar attacks

Israeli Terror Victim Then Becomes Victim of Cyber-Bully

After having survived stabbing attack by two Palestinians, Kay Wilson tells how she then faced an equally terrorizing libel campaign by a relentless cyber-bully.

By Ryan Jones & Ariel Rudolph

In December 2010, Kay Wilson found herself in the midst of a nightmare when she and visiting American Christian friend Kristine Luken were attacked by knife-wielding Palestinian Arabs in a forested area south of Jerusalem.

Kay Wilson on Step By Step: The Idiot’s Guide To Surviving A Machete Attack for TEDxBGU – YouTube screenshot

Wilson previously recounted for Israel Today the traumatic event that took her friend’s life and left her badly wounded. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: cyberattacks, Terror

DST ends in Israel at 2 a.m. Sunday, setting clocks back 1 hour

For 1st time, Israel starts winter clock in line with most European countries instead of weekend before Yom Kippur.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Daylight Saving Time will switch to Standard Time in the early hours of Sunday morning, marking Israel’s transition to the winter clock.

watch the time – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

At 2 a.m. Sunday, clocks will be set back one hour to 1 a.m.

This year DST lasted 212 days, ending in late October instead of its previous endpoint before Yom Kippur.

In July, the Knesset approved legislation extending DST from October 6 to October 27, in line with Europe. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Daylight Savings Time

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IDF’s Medics: 1st responders to wounded Syrians

Sgt. Mayan Yogev, is one of IDF’s 1st medic responder to wounded Syrians in need of immediate medical attention. ‘She grants every Syrian in need of help medical care without hesitation, as if they’re IDF soldiers,’ soldiers praise, ‘her goal is saving lives, regardless’

By Yoav Zitun

Sgt. Mayan Yogev is probably the busiest paramedic in the IDF: As part of her role as paramedic for the Nahal‘s scouting brigade, which patrols Israel’s Golan Heights on the Syrian border, she has become the IDF’s first responder along what has recently becomes Israel’s most pressing border region.

Seg. Yogev in the field – Photo courtesy

After a number of strenuous months, during which she took care of hundreds of wounded Syrians, she and her brothers in arms will head south for training. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IDF soldier, Medicine, Nahal, Tikon Olom

Germany Threatens Israel to Attend UN Human Rights Council

Germany & Others Countries are Pressuring Israel to Attend the Openly anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council Review or Face a Possible Diplomatic Disaster.

By Tova Dvorin

Germany’s foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has warned Israel to face a periodic United Nations Human Rights Council (U.N.H.R.C.) Periodic Review — or face severe diplomatic consequences, according to a Haaretz report (Sunday).

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a session of the UNHRC
– AFP/File

Israel severed ties with the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council in March 2012, after it announced it would investigate how the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria would affect the rights of local Arabs. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Germany, UNHRC

Palestinians are Still bickering over Balfour, still Ignoring History

Former Palestinian minister Shaath refuses to acknowledge the buildup of the Jewish national home over the centuries; a majority in Safed in the 16th century, & by the 1860s the Jews re-established their majority in Jerusalem — decades before British armies took over the Middle East. This return was a product of the national will of a people which Shaath and his colleagues still refuse to recognize, thereby perpetuating the conflict with Israel to this day.

By Dore Gold

Last year, on the 95th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the former Palestinian minister, Nabil Shaath, wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph attacking Britain for issuing its famous statement of support for the establishment in Eretz Yisrael of a national home for the Jewish people.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab-Israel conflict

From Islam to Christianity and Yet Israel Saved Them

Majed El Shafie from Egypt and Reverend Mulinda from Uganda both converted to Christianity from Islam, & paid a heavy price for sticking to their beliefs.

Today both fight against antisemitism & advocate human rights and their love for Israel.

By Amit Lewinthal

These two men should never have met, but today they are close friends. They were born in two different countries at different ends of the world, but their life stories are very similar, and today, they both advocate a love for Israel.

Rev. Omar Mulinda (left) and Majed El Shafie – Photo: Uri Lenz

On December 24, 2011, Christmas Eve, Rev.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Christians

Deputy FM Elkin: EU ties with Israel will fray if settlements excluded

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin: The EU’s breaking ties with Israel would be a larger mistake for Europe.

By REUTERS

JERUSALEM – Israel and the European Union will drift apart if they cannot compromise on new EU guidelines covering settlements beyond the Green Line that could damage research and trade ties, Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin told Reuters.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin. – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

The two sides must overcome the dispute – focused on territory that Palestinians want for a state – before the end of November, when a multi-million dollar EU research program called Horizon 2020 is due to be finalized.

Category: Israel News | Tags: EU, settlements

Palestinians arrested for plot of ‘drone’ attack in Israel

3 Palestinian engineering students were arrested by Abbas’ PA police for planning terror attack on Israel with an unmanned aircraft.

Hamas condemns arrest, says Abbas ‘protects security of Israeli occupation’

By AFP

The Palestinian security services in the West Bank have arrested three students accused of plotting to build a “drone” with which to attack Israel, a source said Friday.

pilotless aircraft – Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

The three Hebron University engineering students had intended to build a pilotless aircraft equipped with explosives, according to the Palestinian security source.

But before they could carry out the attack, they were arrested by the security services of the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank, the source said without giving any more details. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinian Authority, Palestinian security

US Tells Paris: Israel Behind Elysee Palace Hacking

Leaked document by Edward Snowden: France believed U.S. was behind a cyber attack on the Elysee Palace but White House pointed finger at Mossad.

By Elad Benari, Canada

France believed the United States attempted to hack into its president’s communications network but the U.S. hinted that Israel was behind the attack, AFP reported on Friday, based on a leaked U.S. intelligence document.

Hackers (illustration) – AFP/File

According to the report, U.S. agents denied having anything to do with the May 2012 cyber attack on the Elysee Palace, the official residence of French presidents, and appeared to hint at the possible involvement of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: hackers, Mossad, spy

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