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| September 17, 2013
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IDF withdraws soldiers from guarding communities on Gaza, Lebanon & Syrian borders

 

IDF command determined that its enhanced border security measures make IDF soldiers’ presence in guarding civilian communities near country’s border redundant.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN
 

 

The IDF has pulled soldiers out of front line communities near the northern and southern borders, a senior army source said Tuesday, after senior commanders concluded that the arrangement was no longer necessary for security.

IDF soldiers from Cherev unit protecting Kibbutz on Lebanese border - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

IDF soldiers from Cherev unit protecting Kibbutz on Lebanese border – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

In the past, the IDF’s Southern Command placed soldiers at the entrance to nine towns and villages near the Gaza and Egypt borders, while the Northern Command secured 13 frontier communities in this way. Continue Reading »

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| September 17, 2013
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Palestinian Terrorist Shot Dead in Jenin Firefight

Israel’s Security forces were attacked with grenades and improvised explosives during arrest of major suspect, who later died of his injuries.

By Ari Soffer

 

One man has been killed in the PA Arab town of Jenin, after Israeli security forces came under fierce attack during an operation to arrest a major terror suspect.

Terrorists hurled hand-grenades and firebombs at the arresting forces, who responded with live fire, lightly injuring one of the attackers, who was subsequently apprehended and taken to an Israel hospital for treatment.

During the operation security forces identified the terror suspect they had been searching for, who attempted to flee. Continue Reading »

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| September 16, 2013
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Jewish Driver Escapes Ambush in High-Speed Getaway

An attempted ambush by Arabs on a West Bank highway ended with quick thinking &  a high-speed chase through the hills of Binyamin.

By Maayana Miskin

 

An Israeli couple’s routine drive home last week nearly ended in disaster when an Arab gang targeted them in a late-night ambush.

Yair Weiss and his wife were relaxed and happy as they set out from the town of Ofra, in the Binyamin region, to their home in the nearby town of Ateret. At around 11:30 p.m., as they approached Ateret, they noticed a car at the side of the road, but thought nothing of it. Continue Reading »

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| September 16, 2013
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TV series ‘Homeland’ stops filming in Israel, cites Syrian unrest

‘Homeland’ filming locations were switched to Morocco due to concerns over the uncertain situation in Syria.

JERUSALEM — Parts of the third season of the television series “Homeland” will not be filmed in Israel as originally planned.

A scene from "Homeland" showing Claire Danes as a CIA agent walking around in "Beirut," which was shot in Tel Aviv, as some Hebrew artifacts can be seen on the right side of the photo. (Showtime)

A scene from “Homeland” showing Claire Danes as a CIA agent walking around in “Beirut,” which was shot in Tel Aviv, as some Hebrew artifacts can be seen on the right side of the photo. (Showtime)

The filming was switched to Morocco due to concerns over the uncertain situation in Syria, according to Ynet. The show’s producers in Israel were told of the decision over the weekend, the news site reported, citing an unnamed source.

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| September 16, 2013
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Israeli NGO threatens to sue Facebook for providing new Iranian ministers’ pages

Shurat Hadin Chief: There is no person or organization in the US who is not bound by the American sanctions against Iran; letter sent to Facebook CEO Zuckerberg.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

 

Shurat Hadin – Legal Action Center on Monday threatened to sue Facebook if it does not immediately and permanently take down a social media site recently provided to “15 Ministers of Iran.”
Facebook screenshot: IsraelandStuff/PP

Facebook screenshot: IsraelandStuff/PP

A letter from Shurat Hadin to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and General Counsel Colin Stretch noted that the State and Government of Iran is under “numerous sanctions by the United States government.”

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| September 15, 2013
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Israel & PA Renew Agricultural Accords After 13 Year Delay

The agricultural cooperation will help reduce regional tensions, by creating economic committees & workshops for PA farmers etc, that are good for both sides.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed to renew the agricultural accords that were in place prior to the outbreak of the “Second Intifada” terror war in 2000.

Agricultural officials from both sides met and agreed to establish a regional center for economic and agricultural cooperation.

The initiative aims to improve food quality for the PA population, and to assist both Israel and the PA in fighting crop disease and infestation, both of which can easily cross man-made borders. Continue Reading »

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| September 15, 2013
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Diplomacy: The Oslo Fiasco

A look at the Oslo Accords that changed the West Bank, and Israel, 20 years later.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

 
In the last 20 years, the Oslo Accords have turned from a dream into a nightmare for their main architect, Israeli left-wing politician Yossi Beilin.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat

Binyamin Netanyahu, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat – Photo: REUTER

“Enough is enough, it has to die,” Beilin told The Jerusalem Post on the eve of the anniversary of the famous Sept. 13, 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat and US president Bill Clinton.

Beilin, who at the time was deputy foreign minister in the Labor-led government, stood on the lawn with hundreds of other dignitaries, filled with both hope and fear.

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| September 15, 2013
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Did Israel halt nuclear warhead production with 80 in 2004?

 

According to a ‘Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ report, Israel stopped its nuclear weapon development in 2004, after almost 40 years of its nuclear program.

Jerusalem has never confirmed nor denied possession of any nuclear devises.

By Ynet

 

A review of global nuclear weapons inventories published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists noted that the number of Israel’s nuclear warheads, the manufacturing of which has systematically progressed since 1967, has not grown – remaining at 80 – since 2004.

Alleged Israeli nuclear reactor in Dimona – Photo: Tsafrir Abayov

The review is accompanied by a chart that calculates the nuclear stockpiles of the US, Russia, UK, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea since 1945. Continue Reading »

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| September 14, 2013
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No serious security-related events on Yom Kippur

As hundreds of thousands flocked to synagogues on the holy day, no extraordinary security-related events to report.

By Gil Ronen

 

No extraordinary security-related events were reported on the high holy day of Yom Kippur, as hundreds of thousands flocked to synagogues throughout Israel.

Magen David Adom teams took 1,973 people to hospitals. A total of 130 people fainted, mostly as a result of the heavy heat and the fact that so many people were fasting on Yom Kippur.

Preparations are now being made for the upcoming Sukkot holiday, and the rabbi of the Kotel (Western Wall) Shmuel Rabinovich estimated that a record-breaking million and a half visitors would arrive at the Kotel by the end of Sukkot. Continue Reading »

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| September 14, 2013
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The Yom Kippur War – 40 Years Ago

 

 

 

40 years on, the Yom Kippur War cost 2,522 Israeli fatalities, traumatized a generation & profoundly impacted the Jewish state.

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

 

 

It started at 2 p.m. As if echoing the thunders that once paralyzed their forebears at Mount Sinai’s foothills, 436 Israeli troops scattered in 16 outposts along the Suez waterfront were showered out of the blue with 10,000 shells spewed from 2,000 artillery barrels, while 8,000 Egyptian troops emerged from the water and 240 warplanes descended from the sky.
IDF TROOPS cross the Suez Canal, October 1973.

IDF TROOPS cross the Suez Canal, October 1973. – Photo: Jerusalem Post archives

By day’s end, with nearly half of the soldiers in those outposts dead, vast Egyptian armies parked at Sinai, and 1,400 Syrian tanks on the Golan Heights – one fact hovered above the battlefield’s thick fog: Israel had been stunned.

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| September 14, 2013
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Wounded Syrians recovering in Israeli hospital urge U.S. to strike

 

Some 14 wounded Syrians hospitalized in Nahariya hospital, admit they want a U.S. air strike to oust President Assad.

All totaled, 86 Syrians have been treated in this Western Galilee hospital.

By Hassan Shaalan

Against the backdrop of recent talks of diplomatic solutions to the Syrian crisis, the bloodshed persists, prompting many injured Syrians to cross the border and arrive at Israeli hospitals.

Syrian wounded in Nahariya (Photo: Hassan Shaalan)

Syrian wounded in Nahariya – Photo: Hassan Shaalan

On Thursday, some 14 Syrians were still admitted to various wings in the Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. Some of them told Ynet they were still hoping US President Obama would launch a military strike on Syria and topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. Continue Reading »

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| September 14, 2013
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Kerry heading to Jerusalem for update with Netanyahu on Syria deal

US Sec. of St. Kerry currently in Geneva for talks with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov over a plan to remove Syria’s chemical weapons & avert U.S. military action.

John Kerry will meet with PM Netanyahu & Abbas on Sunday.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Israel on Sunday, and he will update Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on developments in securing a deal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons.

Kerry Lavrov

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva to discuss a plan to disarm Syria’s nuclear arsenal.

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| September 14, 2013
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Pros & Cons of Palestinian Workers in Israel

Was Israel’s decision to give Arabs of the Palestinian  Authority another 5,000 work permits a good idea, or the opportunity for danger?

By Maayana Miskin

 

Arutz Sheva’s weekly newspaper, B’Sheva, asked three Israeli public figures what they think of the government’s decision to grant another 5,000 work permits to Palestinian Authority residents. Israel already employs more than 10% of working PA residents.

Nerya Ofer of the Hebrew Labor Hotline was concerned by the decision. Living alongside non-Jews who are hostile to Judaism can lead to assimilation and loss of Jewish identity on both the individual and national level, he warned.

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| September 13, 2013
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District Court seeks to stop Hamas from influence in Jerusalem

 

Court convicts 3 East Jerusalem residents of affiliation with Hamas & money laundering in attempts to expand terror group’s ideology among city’s Muslim population.

Court says charitable work was clearly meant to spread Hamas terror ideology.

By Edna Adato & Israel Hayom Staff

 

The Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday convicted three residents of east Jerusalem of affiliation with Hamas and laundering money for a terror organization.

Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli jail - Photo: Tal Cohen

Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli jail – Photo: Tal Cohen

Yacoub Abu Asab, Kifah Sarhan and Ahmad Alian, all Israeli citizens, were convicted of heading Hamas’ efforts to expand its foothold in Jerusalem by catering to the city’s Muslims in the fields of education, welfare and religious services.

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| September 13, 2013
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Jewish groups, Israel covertly aiding Syrian refugees — sort of

“The Jewish community understands tikkun olam, understands humanitarian responsibility,” said Will Recant. “When they were made aware, they started to step forward just as they did for Darfur, Rwanda and other areas of humanitarian need.”

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — When Georgette Bennett decided a few months ago to help refugees from Syria’s civil war, she wanted to do it in a Jewish way.

Syrian refugees living in camps and tents in northern Jordan are receiving aid from Jewish and Israeli groups. (Courtesy IsraAid)

Syrian refugees living in camps and tents in northern Jordan are receiving aid from Jewish and Israeli groups. – Photo Courtesy: IsraAid

Citing a passage from Leviticus she said her late husband often quoted, “Thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor,” Bennett met with the CEO of a major Jewish aid group and quickly got him to agree to head a Jewish effort for the refugees. Continue Reading »

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