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Video & Complete Transcript of Israeli PM Netanyahu’s UNGA speech

Watch Video: Focusing on Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s PM strikes defiant tone: ‘If Israel is forced to stand alone, it will.’

PM Netanyahu went on to say Palestinians must recognize the Jewish state to achieve peace.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Thank you, Mr. President.

I feel deeply honored and privileged to stand here before you today representing the citizens of the state of Israel. We are an ancient people. We date back nearly 4,000 years to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We have journeyed through time. We’ve overcome the greatest of adversities.

Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Hassan Rohani, Iran, Iran nuclear, Iran Nuclear threat, Israel Iran, UN

Past Israel Amb to U.N. calls it “The Citadel of Hypocrisy”

Gillerman says UN has three standards:
1) For democracy
2) For totalitarian states
3) For Israel

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Dan Gillerman, a former Israel ambassador to the United Nations refers to that institution as “The Citadel of Hypocrisy.” Gillerman used the expression twice on Monday night in the course of an address in Herzliya Pituah to ESRA (The English Speaking Residents Association) at a fund raising dinner to benefit ESRA projects on behalf of the Ethiopian community in Netanya.

Dan Gillerman, former Israel ambassador to the United Nations Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski

Gillerman, who was only the second Israeli after Abba Eban to serve as vice president of the UN General Assembly, said the UN has three standards – one for democracy, one for totalitarian states and another for Israel.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Iran, UN

Charges filed against workers at Tnuva subsidiary slaughterhouse

Indictment for animal cruelty filed against manager of slaughterhouse line, his deputy and 2 contract employees for injury, abuse of animals, using stun guns, beatings & violence at Tnuva’s Adom Adom slaughterhouse in Beit She’an.

By Erez Erlichman

In December 2012, an undercover investigation by the expose television show Kolbotek used a hidden camera to capture instances of extreme violence against cows and sheep at the slaughterhouse of Adom Adom, owned by Tnuva Beef in Beit She’an.

Slaughterhouse (Illustration) – Photo: Reuters

Monday, after a lengthy investigation by the enforcement branch and the fraud unit of the Northern District, the Agricultural Ministry and the Haifa District Attorney’s office filed serious charges against four slaughterhouse workers – the slaughter line manager, his deputy, and two contract workers. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: kosher

MK Shaked Criticizes Israeli Politicians for Attending J-Street Conference

Bayit Yehudi Knesset Member Shaked warns her colleagues,”Your participation in the conference grants legitimacy to extreme & unbalanced criticism of Israel,”

By Gil Ronen

MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) had tough words Tuesday for the extremely leftist J Street lobby organization, and for fellow parliamentarians who attended a conference held by the group.

Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked – Photo: Artium Degel

“In the past few days, the J Street organization has held a conference in Washington,” MK Shaked wrote on Facebook. “For those who are not familiar with it – the organization was established as a counterweight to AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobby, by elements in US Jewry who claimed that AIPAC toes a line that identifies with Israel too much.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Ayelet Shaked, J Street

Israel’s Deputy FM Elkin Requests UN Recognize Yom Kippur

The request for formal recognition as official UN holiday is not unusual since currently there are 10 formal ‘UN holidays,’ with 2 of them the Muslim holidays of Id al-Fitr & Id al-Adha.

By Haaretz

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) and Israel’s ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor have launched a joint initiative to get the United Nations to recognize the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur as an official UN holiday.

Deputy FM Ze'ev Elkin and UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin and UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson. – Photo by Courtesy

The two spoke with UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Monday, requesting international recognition for the importance of the holiday to Jews, and to allow UN employees to take the day off without it being considered a vacation day. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jewish holidays, UN, Yom Kippur

Yad Vashem honors Egyptian as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’

Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial recognizes Dr. Mohamed Helmy for hiding several Berlin Jews.

By SAM SOKOL

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial announced that it has recognized an Egyptian as Righteous Among the Nations, a title reserved for gentiles who risked themselves to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Visitors at Yad Vashem – Photo: Nir Elias/Reuters

Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann, a German woman, were honored for hiding several Berlin Jews from the Nazis who otherwise would have been deported to death camps. Helmy is the first Egyptian to receive this honor, Yad Vashem announced.

Helmy, who was born in Khartoum, Sudan in 1901 to Egyptian parents, came to Berlin to study medicine in 1922 and worked at the Robert Koch Institute until he was fired, due to his non- Aryan ethnicity, in 1937.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Yad Vashem

Alert Troops Prevented Terror Attack From Gaza

IDF troops foiled an apparent terrorist attempt to infiltrate Monday night near the Gaza border fence.

By Kochava Rozenbaum & David Lev

Alert IDF soldiers on Monday night prevented a terror attack at the Gaza border fence. The incident occurred near Kibbutz Nachal Oz, Channel Two reported.

Lt.-Col. Yitzhak Goetz – IDF Spokesman

Several Gaza Arabs approached the border fence, the report said. IDF soldiers patrolling in the area identified suspicious figures near the fence, and ordered them to halt. When they refuse, soldiers opened fired against them. One terrorist was reportedly killed in the gunfire, with the others escaping. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza terrorists, IDF, Kfir brigade

Frustration as Netanyahu tries to convince Obama about Iran

With the US & Europe being taken in by the ‘Iranian charm offensive’, some say Israel should unilaterally make its own viable threat of military force known.

By Ryan Jones

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to meet with US President Barack Obama on Monday in what many Israelis saw as the “moment of truth” in the ongoing Iran nuclear saga.

Frustration as Netanyahu pleads with Obama over Iran

The Obama Administration, like much of the West, has been largely taken in by new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s recent charm offensive, and that has Israel worried.

While US officials have struck cautious tone, US Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t succeed in hiding his excitement over the prospect of a “quick deal” to resolve the nuclear crisis. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Iran Nuclear Program, Iran US, Israel US

Top Israeli official gave instruction to lift gag order on Iranian spy

The timing of news about the spy appears to coincide with Netanyahu’s trip to the US where he will attempt to combat Obama’s recent softening & the Western world’s stance on Iran.

By JTA

JERUSALEM – The instruction to lift a gag order on the arrest of a spy for Iran came from top Israeli government officials and could be an attempt to combat a softening on Iran.

Ali Mansouri, 58, arrested at Ben Gurion Airport on suspicion of espionage, sits in between guards at the Petah Tikva court – Photo: AFP

The Petah Tikvah Magistrates’ Court on Monday agreed to extend the remand of Iranian-born Ali Mansouri, who traveled throughout Israel as Belgian businessman Alex Mans, for another eight days.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Iran, Iran US, spy

Haifa’s Technion gets $130m. grant for China joint venture

The grant to the Technion comes from the profits of the Chinese foundation’s 2011 investment in the Israeli mobile application ‘Waze’, which was recently acquired by Google at about $1 Billion.

By NIV ELIS, DANIELLE ZIRI

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on Sunday received a $130 million grant to build an academy called the Technion Guangdong Institute of Technology as a joint venture with China’s Shantou University.

The site was used for many years as government buildings and army space.- Photo: Courtesy

The grant, from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, includes profits from the foundation’s 2011 investment in Israeli mobile app Waze.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel China, Technion

Video: Israel Navy to receive 3 Super Dvora advanced patrol boats

Within upcoming 2 years, IAI will provide the Navy with 3 Super Dvora patrol boats, which are expected to secure coasts of northern Israel, including gas rigs, and the Gaza & Red Sea coasts.

By Yoav Zitun

The Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced Sunday that the Beersheba Ramta plant signed a contract with the defense establishment to provide three Super Dvora fast patrol boats to the Israeli Navy. The Super Dvora is an advanced medium-sized vessel used for security operations.

Dvora Mark III – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia

The supply of the boats will be completed within two years. They will take part in Navy operations along the coasts of Israel, Lebanon, Gaza and the Red Sea. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IAI, Israel Navy

Iranian FM: Israel can’t assassinate all our nuclear scientists

Iranian Foreign Minister said in an interview with ABC, the US is ‘allowing terrorists to kill innocent Iranian scientists’.

Zarif went on to claim Teheran believes nuclear weapons are ‘detrimental’ to the country’s security.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – A day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled address before the UN General Assembly’s annual meeting in New York, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attacked Israel, saying it “cannot kill all of our scientists. They have unfortunately assassinated some of them and nobody has raised an eyebrow about it, which is a source of great concern for us about the world. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Iran Nuclear Program

Micron plant in Kiryat Gat sold to Intel

Having built the plant 15 years ago, this purchase marks a full circle for Intel, who later developed a much larger facility next door that today serves as the basis for its Israeli manufacturing operations.

By Inbal Orpaz and Ora Coren

The U.S. semiconductor company Intel said Sunday it had signed an agreement to take over the chip-making plant owned by Micron in Kiryat Gat and would retain most of its staff.

The Micron plant in Kiryat Gat, adjacent to the Intel plant. – Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

The acquisition marks a full circle for Intel, which built the plant 15 years ago, but later developed a much larger facility next door that today serves as the basis for its Israeli manufacturing operations. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Buisness, High Tech

israelandstuffcom | September 29, 2013

26 yr-old fish farmer bitten by shark off Ashdod Port

According to paramedics who treated the fish farm worker, a shark partially removed his hand.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

An approximately 26-year-old man was bitten by a shark off the Ashdod Port on Sunday.

Shark swims in Mediterranean [file] – Photo: REUTERS

MDA paramedics treated the man who was in moderate condition after the shark removed part of his hand. He was transported to Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.The man was working at a fish farm in the area when he was bitten, according to MDA.

In February, 2012 two fisherman in the northern coastal city of Acre caught a 3-meter blue shark in their net.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Ashdod Port, shark attack

israelandstuffcom | September 29, 2013