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| June 17, 2013
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Fiji troops replaced UN Austrian peacekeepers who fled from the Golan

Nearly 170 Fiji  soldiers to join UNDOF on Israel-Syria border after Austria’s soldiers withdrew before replacements took over.

By Ynet

 

The United Nations announced Monday that 170 peacekeepers from Fiji will join the UN’s Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) stationed on the Israel– Syria border by the end of the month.

עזבו את הגבול ונכנסו לישראל. נסיגת הכוח האוסטרי (צילום: EPA)

Fiji force to replace Austrians – Photo: EPA

They will be replacing Austrian forces who have pulled out of the area following an escalation in the fighting between Assad’s forces and the rebels.

The Austrian troops left the Golan Heights area last week. Austria’s dramatic decision to withdraw from the area led the UN’s Security Council to harshly condemn the spread of violence to the demilitarized buffer zone. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2013
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Israel & Christian foundation save Syrian child’s heart

Israel, with the help of a Christian organization, has been providing life-saving heart care to Arab kids from around the region. Recently, they saved a little Syrian girl.

By Israel Today Staff

 

For several months now Israel has been treating Syrian civilians wounded in their country’s ongoing civil war. The situation has also given Israel an opportunity to add Syrian children to the list of those from around the Middle East who are receiving life-saving heart treatment in the Jewish state.

Treatment in Israeli Hospital - Photo credit, Shevet Achim

Treatment in Israeli Hospital – Photo credit, Shevet Achim

The Times of Israel has an absolutely moving story in which a reporter spends the day with a Syrian mother, her afflicted daughter, and a staff member of Shevet Achim, an Israel-based Christian organization that arranges to bring Arab, Kurdish and Turkish children from across the region to Israel for treatment. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2013
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Suggested legislation to include all Israelis in organ donor pool

Israel’s Health Minister German to draft legislation that would proliferate organ donation. Gov’t to assume Israelis agree to harvest their organs unless they actively opt out.

Meital Yasur Beit-Or

New draft legislation would let Israeli doctors recover the organs of deceased Israelis even without their explicit consent, Israeli Health Minister Yael German announced on Sunday.

All Israelis could soon be added to the organ donor registry if Israel moves to an opt-out system - Photo Getty Images

All Israelis could soon be added to the organ donor registry if Israel moves to an opt-out system – Photo: Getty Images

German would like to transform the current opt-in system, where Israelis have to make an express wish to donate their organs upon death, into an opt-out system, in which all adults would be presumed to have granted permission to harvest their organs unless they actively choose to be taken out of the donor pool.

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| June 17, 2013
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EU’s Obsession against Israel is hindrance towards peace

Officials in Jerusalem to tell EU foreign policy chief Ashton, that “obsessive” focus on settlements and nothing on violent Palestinian attacks, incitement, or corruption gives the PA a ‘free pass’, undermining efforts to resume peace talks.

By HERB KEINON

 

 

 

Israeli leaders are expected to tell EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, when she arrives in the country on Thursday, that the EU’s “obsessive” focus on settlements is “undermining” efforts to restart peace negotiations by giving the Palestinians the impression that no matter what they do, European diplomatic fire will always be aimed at Israel.

Catherine Ashton and PM Binyamin Netanyahu

Catherine Ashton and PM Binyamin Netanyahu – Photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO

Ashton is scheduled to visit the country as part of a regional tour that will also take her to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and areas under the Palestinian Authority’s control.

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| June 17, 2013
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Israeli & Palestinian finance ministers meet to boost the PA

Israel’s finance minister

Lapid meets Palestinian counterpart to discuss economic cooperation renewal, including joint investments & trade to make the PA economy viable.

Attila Somfalvi

 

In their first meeting, Israeli and Palestinian finance ministers have agreed on a series of economic cooperation projects.

Lapid, Bashara Photo: Anat Hamami, Finance Ministry SpokespersonSunday’s meeting between Israel’s Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and the Palestinians’ Shukri Bashara marked the first high-profile meeting between officials since the new Israeli government took office in March.

Lapid said cooperation would include joint investments and trade between the sides. He said it would benefit both and vowed to “continue to strengthen the connection and promote important economic issues that are important to both sides.” Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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First time a Direct Syria Hospital to Israeli Hospital transfer

Over a dozen wounded Syrians have been ferried to their border and given to IDF medics for transfer & treatment in Israel’s Northern hospital.

To guarantee the patients life, a wounded man after surgery was sent by his Syrian doctors to an Israeli hospital. This cooperation should be made public with hopes of ending hostilities between two old neighbors.

By Sara Gates  

  

A Syrian doctor recently asked Israel for help in saving the life of a critically wounded patient. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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Uri Geller was CIA Spy

Documentary film explores work Israeli psychic carried out for Israeli military, American intelligence agencies across 3 continents.

Geller, ‘I only executed positive missions.’

Ynet

 

A new documentary claims that controversial Israeli paranormalist Uri Geller has also been leading a secret life as a CIA spy, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

גלר. חפשו את עקבותיו במבצע אנטבה (באדיבות © ProSieben Television GmbH)

Refused to carry out ‘dark things.’ Geller – Photo courtesy of ProSieben Television GmbH

A new documentary by Vikram Jayanti claims Geller admitted he was once asked by the CIA to use telepathy to stop a pig’s heart, but he refused as he suspected he would next be asked to perform the act on a human. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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Covert Armed American Security for UN Personnel in Judea

Video shows armed Americans providing security for UN vehicle that was on an unknown assignment in the Arab village of Walajeh, near Bethlehem . A new phenomenon?

By Gil Ronen

 

Armed American guards provided security for a UN vehicle that was on an unknown assignment in the Arab village of Walajeh, near Bethlehem, several days ago.

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A Jewish man – a senior officer in the IDF reserves – noticed the unusual sight and got out of his car to videotape it. He did not receive clear answers regarding the identity of the security men.

The security detail used impressive bulletproofed black SUVs that caught the reserve officer’s attention. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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Palestinian Arabs in Judea & Samaria Dig Tunnels Under Security Fence

Israel’s main concern is that terrorists would use these tunnels to abduct hitchhiking soldiers since tunnels would only serve clandestine scenarios.

 

 

 

Until recently, Judea and Samaria Arabs would sneak into Israel by climbing the fence, cutting the barbed wire and severing the alarm system. But now security forces have foiled at least two infiltration attempts through tunnels dug under the fence near the Israeli Arab town of Taiba, Maariv reported.

The main concern is that terrorists would use these tunnels to abduct hitchhiking soldiers.

The Gaza tunnels, connecting the Hamas ruled strip to Egypt, are being used to smuggle weapons, food and construction materials, have long become the primary means of supplying the local Arab population. Continue Reading »

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| June 16, 2013
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German neo-Nazis & Green Party proposes anti-Israel legislation

 

Neo Nazi & Green parties submit legislation to label settlement products. Professor calls the move “political warfare & demonization” of Israel.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

 

 

MADRID – An initiative by Germany’s neo-Nazi NPD party last year in a state parliament to demarcate Israeli products came to light this month and closely resembles the recent Green Party bill that would label Israeli products from settlements.

 

The Reichstag building seen from the west. Inscription translates to “For/To the German People” – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The revelation last week that an anti-Israel bill from the mainstream left-liberal Green Party in the Federal Bundestag mirrors, in key provisions, the language of a far-right party stirred criticism from Israeli and German experts on modern anti-Semitism.

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| June 16, 2013
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Queen Elizabeth to Honor Israeli Professor for Opposing Academic Boycott

As part of the Queen’s ‘Birthday Honours List,’ Queen Elizabeth will recognize Prof. David Newman of Ben-Gurion University for advocating academic partnership between countries & for his opposing the U.K. academic boycott of Israel.

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Buckingham Palace announced Saturday that an Israeli professor is among the more than 1,000 people being presented an award by Queen Elizabeth as part of her Birthday Honours list.

Prof. David Newman with Ben-Gurion University President Rivka Carmi

Prof. David Newman with Ben-Gurion University President Rivka Carmi – Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

 

Professor David Newman, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, will receive the award for his promotion of the academic partnership between Britain and Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2013
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Op-Ed: Why France Glorifies Arab Terrorists

Why haven’t Europe’s philo-Semites, ever set up any exhibition on the real effects of Arab terrorism on Jewish lives?

By Giulio Meotti

 

The Jeu de Paume museum in Paris served as the “Einsatzstab’s”, the storage facility for 22,000 works of art confiscated by the Nazis from 200 Jewish collections in France.

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For four years, from 1940 to 1944, the Jeu de Paume became a notorious “concentration camp” for confiscated works of art. The Museum was frequently visited by high ranking Nazi officials, including the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.

Now, in the same state-funded museum, there is an exhibition calling the Palestinian Arab suicide bombers “martyrs”.

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| June 14, 2013
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PM’s Office Reconsidering an Israeli ‘Air Force One’ for Official Gov’t Use

 

Natanyahu still considering recommendationdespite viability of purchasing an aircraft having already been verified and even recommended, The reason: A NIS 30 million ($8.3 million) price tag that would only pay for itself in five years, and fear of public scorn.

Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff

The Prime Minister’s Office is evaluating the possibility of purchasing an airplane for Israel’s top politicians similar to the U.S.’ Air Force One. The goal of the purchase would be to allow official work to be done during flights and to meet the needs of the prime minister, president and various officials who would be on board.

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| June 14, 2013
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UN’s Chief Again Calls Israeli Settlements ‘illegal’

 

UN’s Ban: Israel is again undermining progress toward two-state solution.

By MICHAEL WILNER, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

 

 

WASHINGTON — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon remains “deeply concerned” over plans to construct hundreds of new housing units in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, his spokesperson said in a statement on Friday.

The Itamar settlement in the West Bank.

The Itamar settlement in the West Bank. – Photo: Abed Omar Qusini / Reuters

“These are unhelpful decisions that undermine progress towards the two-state solution,” the statement reads. “They constitute a deeply worrisome trend at a moment of ongoing efforts to re-launch Ipeace negotiations.”

The note referred specifically to the settlement of Itamar– “deep into the West Bank,” it says– as well as the 1,000 new settlement units planned in east Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2013
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Lapid wants public transportation for Shabbat as well

On a

Facebook chat, finance minister Lapid wrote ‘grandfather who cannot afford taxi should be able to visit his grandchildren on Shabbat.’

On stalled peace talks: Oslo Accords boosted economy

Ynet

 

“We need public transportation on Shabbat in secular neighborhoods and in secular cities,” Finance Minister Yair Lapid said Thursday evening during a live chat on Facebook. However, he said, more time was needed to sense the changes regarding this issue and economic issues.

Lapid during Facebook chat

Lapid during Facebook chat

“I think there should be public transportation on Shabbat. I said this during my (election) campaign and I’m saying it again – not in religious areas, but in secular neighborhoods and secular cities – because this issue is not related to religion and state; it is a simple social matter,” the Yesh Atid chairman wrote on Facebook. Continue Reading »

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