The Hamas Islamist group ruling Gaza has been teaching Egyptian Islamists how to plant bombs in cars, Egyptian state television said on Thursday.
Hamas also gave 400 landmines to Egyptian militant groups, said the television. Hamas is an offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Hamas rejected the allegations on Thursday.
“This is completely incorrect,” said Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for the Islamist group. He said that the report was an “attempt to demonize Hamas”.
By Noam (Dabul) Dvir
President Shimon Peres announced on Thursday the names of the winners of Israel’s Presidential Medal.
Elie Wiesel – Photo: AP
According to the president’s office, 2013 recipients will include: Brigadier General (Res.) Avigdor Kahalani, Professor Elie Wiesel, filmmaker Steven Spielberg and Rabbi Elimelech Firer.
The committee deciding the medal recipients included dignitaries such as former Supreme Court President Meir Shamger, who headed the committee, and Israel’s fifth president Yitzhak Navon. Continue Reading »
By David Lev and Ari Soffer
It’s bad enough that Jews are more or less banned from their holiest site – the Temple Mount – but what’s even painful is the fact that those who are allowed to use it on a regular basis desecrate the sacred site on a regular basis. That was the essence of a missive sent by MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beiteinu) to Public Security Minister Yitzchak Ahronovich – and to Feiglin’s surprise, the minister said that he would order police to enforce a court ruling that bans soccer games on the Mount. Continue Reading »
By Ynet
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
Edward Snowden – Screenshot: Laura Poitras/Wikimedia Commons
The British newspaper said details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. Continue Reading »
Clashes erupted early Thursday between Palestinians and Israeli security forces at Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank, as some 1,400 Jewish worshipers gathered for prayers at the holy site.
Jews praying at Joseph’s Tomb – Photo: Moti Milrod
The worshipers entered the compound near Nablus under tight security, supervised by both Israel Defense Forces soldiers and Border Police forces. Entrance to Jews is restricted to special circumstances only. Continue Reading »
Soldiers caught four young terrorists on Wednesday night, just moments before they could attack Israelis on a nearby highway.
The dramatic capture took place in the Hevron Hills in the Judea region, south of Jerusalem.
Soldiers with the Kfir Brigade noticed four suspicious figures hiding near a heavily used junction. They approached the four, who attempted to escape into the nearby Arab town of Kfar Awa. The soldiers were faster, and managed to apprehend them. Continue Reading »
Tel Aviv, the city that never sleeps, is now making sure its residents and visitors can stay connected to the Internet at all times. The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality has established 60 free Wi-Fi hot spots around the city, covering a total of 3.6 square kilometers (1.4 square miles), including shopping centers, main commercial streets, parks and beaches.
A sunbather can now read ‘Israel and Stuff’ on a Tel Aviv beach – Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
The network was set up by Motorola Solutions Israel after winning the tender from the municipality.
JERUSALEM — The Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades called on followers to launch attacks against Israel.
A masked militant from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah movement in Hebron, August 3, 2008. – Photo: REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
The Fatah-aligned Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades on Tuesday distributed a leaflet calling for its “units and sleeping cells” to start launching attacks against “the Zionist enemy” beginning on Friday, the eve of Yom Kippur.
Eli Senyor
One man was killed and five people were injured Wednesday when a ceiling in a three-story building in south Tel Aviv‘s Herzl Street collapsed.
The incident occurred as infrastructure work was being held at the site. One man in his thirties who sustained critical injuries died shortly after the collapse. Five others, all construction workers working at the site, were caught under the rubble and pulled out by rescue forces. Continue Reading »
Battalion commanders in the infantry are expected to play decisive roles in future wars, and as such, the army is equipping them with a revolutionary command-and-control system that will give them more independence over their battle arenas than ever before, a senior military source told The Jerusalem Post this week.
An officer speaks on the phone at the new IDF cyber-defense control center. – Photo: IDF Spokesman’s Office
The system, called Digital Ground Army (DGA), generates and updates a computer map of all army and enemy locations in a given area.
Ynetnews
Israel’s labor productivity is among the lowest among developed countries, as shown in the soon to be published 2013 State of the Nation report by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel. In addition, a labor productivity gap has been growing between the leading Western countries and Israel – with the G7 steadily pulling away from Israel since the 1970s.
Wages are highly dependent on the amount produced per hour – or what is commonly referred to as labor productivity. Continue Reading »
Israel has signed an agreement with the family of former Mossad agent Ben Zygier, Channel 2 reports. The state will pay 4 million shekels in compensation to the family for Zygier’s death in an Israeli prison in December 2010.
Zygier’s grave – Reuters
Zygier managed to commit suicide in a solitary confinement cell, despite being under supervision.
According to the report, 2,400,000 shekels will be paid this year, and another 400,000 will be given per year for the four years that follow. Continue Reading »
An Israeli delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin recently joined dignitaries from around the world in celebrating the inauguration of the new president of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes.
Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin & the new president of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes
These celebrations also had an important Israeli point: Cartes, a local businessman, won the presidential elections with the help of an Israeli strategic advisor who also happens to be a former advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue Reading »
By Daniel Pipes
Here’s advice to the members of the U.S. Congress as they are asked to endorse an American-led attack on the government of Syria:
Start your consideration by establishing priorities, clarifying what matters most to the country. The Obama administration rightly points to two urgent matters: stopping the Iranian nuclear buildup and maintaining the security of Israel. To these, I add a third: re-establishing the U.S. deterrent credibility laid low by Barack Obama himself.
By JTA
JERUSALEM — Gold and silver coins and jewelry dated from the seventh century were discovered at an excavation at the foot of the Temple Mount, Hebrew University researchers said.
The discovery of the two bundles of treasure at the Temple Mount’s southern wall, at the Ophel excavation site, was announced Monday by the researchers.
The artifacts can be dated to the late Byzantine period, or early seventh century CE.
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