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| May 30, 2013
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Prominent Pakistani Muslim author insists: Israel is no apartheid state

Outspoken female Muslim doctor & author who’s visiting Israel for the 1st time, says Israel is the only country in the region that allows a woman to speak freely.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel does not fit the description of an apartheid state, as so many of its antagonists charge, and in fact is by far the most tolerant country in the region, declared a prominent Muslim author and doctor last week in Jerusalem.

Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a prominent Pakistani Muslim author & doctor

Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a prominent Pakistani Muslim author & doctor

Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a British-born Pakistani Muslim who today lives in New York, is a specialist in sleeping disorders, and an outspoken critic of radical Islam and the lies its perpetrates against Israel and the West. Continue Reading »

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| May 30, 2013
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Lapid relays ‘revolutionary’ plan for lower housing prices

 

Israel’s Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s plan calls for the construction of 25,000 new residential units annually, and for first time, greater Tel Aviv & central Israel would be home for majority of the building.

Zeev Klein

 

 

Finance Minister Yair Lapid unveiled on Wednesday his plan to reduce housing prices in Israel, calling for 25,000 new residential units to be built annually.

The greater Tel Aviv area is a priority region under Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s housing plan – Photo: Moshe Shai

The plan will be presented to the Housing Cabinet at its upcoming meeting on Monday.

The greater Tel Aviv area, greater Ashkelon area, central Israel, Jerusalem and Haifa would be defined as regions of demand, where 15,000 residential units would be built annually.

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| May 30, 2013
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Canadian Protestants Boycotts 3 Israeli Companies

Canada’s Protestant church approves banning of settlement products.

By JTA

 

 

 

Canada’s largest Protestant church targeted three Israeli companies with operations in Jewish settlements for economic sanctions and boycott.

Protester calling for a boycott of Israel - Photo: REUTERS

Protester calling for a boycott of Israel – Photo: REUTERS

Last week, the United Church of Canada’s governing General Council approved the start of a boycott campaign, encouraging “economic action” against Keter Plastic, SodaStream and Ahava.

The move is an outgrowth of the church’s decision last year to boycott products exported by settlements on the West Bank and in eastern Jerusalem. At the time, the church called the settlements the “principal obstacle to peace in the region.”

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| May 30, 2013
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WARNING: Palestinian Coke not kosher

 

 

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate warns public against drinking Coca-Cola bottled without Kosher supervision in PA.

Businesses asked to avoid selling the cola as not to get public used to ‘purchasing products without kosher mark’.

By Itzchak Tessler

 

 

The Chief Rabbinate released an urgent statement this week, warning the Israeli public against Coca-Cola manufactured in the West Bank town of Beitunia, near Ramallah, which is marketed alongside the strictly kosher beverage that has been manufactured in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak for the past decades.

Coca-Cola from Ramallah and Jordan - IsraelandStuff/PP

Coca-Cola from Ramallah and Jordan – IsraelandStuff/PP

According to the statement, written by Rabbi Yaakov Sabag, director of the Chief Rabbinates Kashrut Department, and Rabbi Rafi Yochai, head of the Kashrut Fraud Division, “We have recently discovered the marketing of a four-pack Coca-Cola, in which each bottle carries a caption in Arabic with no kashrut mark. Continue Reading »

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| May 30, 2013
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Natanyahu’s Gov’t to Build 80,000 Housing Units

Gov’t plan calls 80,000 new housing units to be made available by end of 2014, and for marketing of plots for construction of at least 25,000 units per year.

By Gil Ronen

 

The Finance Ministry published the government’s housing plan for 2013-2014 Wednesday evening.

Har Homa neighborhood in Jerusalem

The multi-year plan calls for improvement of coordination between official agencies, enlarging the stock of housing plans, especially in the areas where there is high demand, and for a policy of urban renewal.

The plan calls for at least 80,000 new housing units to be made available by the end of 2014, and for marketing of plots for construction of at least 25,000 units annually. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Robert De Niro to Attend Peres’ Birthday Party in June

One of America’s

greatest Hollywood

actors to arrive in June for President Shimon Peres’ 90th birthday extravaganza. 

Itamar Eichner

Robert De Niro, considered one of the greatest American actors of all times, will arrive in Israel next month to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference and take part in President Shimon Peres‘ 90th birthday celebrations, Yedioth Ahronoth has learned.

Robert De Niro - Photo EPA

Robert De Niro – Photo: EPA

De Niro, 70, has won two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, and has starred in 74 films, many of which have become box-office hits, including “The Godfather,” “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull” and “The Deer Hunter.” Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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4th Time in Month Synagogue Defaced

Synagogue established & frequented by Holocaust survivors is defaced with crosses, sending one member into shock.

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

Jews who came to pray at the Haohel synagogue in Bat Yam on Wednesday morning were shocked and appalled to find that it had been defaced for the fourth time in a month.

Vandalism at Haohel synagogue, Bat Yam - Photo Moetza Datit Bat Yam

Vandalism at Haohel synagogue, Bat Yam – Photo: Moetza Datit Bat Yam

This time, vandals spray-painted two large crosses on the building, one on either side of the main entrance.

The gabbai, who is tasked with helping to run the synagogue, was one of the first on the scene. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Bennett Tells Peres: We have no more land to give away

Senior gov’t minister challenges President Shimon Peres for suggesting Jerusalem is ready to continue peace negotiations on Arab terms.

By  Tommy Mueller

 

Israeli Economic and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett this week publicly disagreed with President Shimon Peres that Israel has any more land to give in an already failed land-for-peace process.

Naftali Bennett

Naftali Bennett

“Every time we leave an area, more people are killed,” said Bennett in response to Peres’ appearance at the World Economic Forum in neighboring Jordan, where the Israeli president gushed that Israel is prepared to pay almost any price for a peace deal with the Palestinians.

Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party and an influential member of the ruling coalition, said Peres’ vision of birthing a Palestinian Arab state on ancient Jewish lands is beyond faulty: “Now is the time to make it clear that this is our country and it is not for sale.” Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Axis of Evil: Syrian chemical weapons, Hezbollah rockets, Iranian nuclear program

 

By Israel Hayom Staff and Reuters

 

The radical axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah has crossed all red lines recently, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday.

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman – Photo: AP

Speaking at a meeting of his committee, Lieberman said that Iran was moving at a “crazy pace” toward obtaining a nuclear weapon, and that he hoped Israel would be able to make the correct decisions. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Terrorist who killed 38 Israelis elevated to PA adviser to cease hunger strike

Madman behind 1978 Coastal Road massacre made adviser to President Abbas, when he stopped his hunger-strike after being ignored & publicly humiliated.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

Hussein Fayyad, one of the commanders of the terror group that carried out the 1978 Coastal Road massacre, revealed on Tuesday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had appointed him as one of his advisers.

Coastal Road Massacre Bus - Photo by Wikimedia Commons

Coastal Road Massacre Bus – Photo by Wikimedia Commons

The attack, which led to the killing of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, was planned and carried out by Abbas’s Fatah faction.

Fayyad, who was released in a prisoner swap with Israel in 1985, said that Abbas signed a decree in 2008 promoting him to the position of “advisor” to the PA president.

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| May 29, 2013
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Soldier lightly injured as his ‘Chariot’ overturns during IDF tank training

 

Tank rolls over during training

after it

 diverged from its route

 in Zeelim base in southern Israel. A soldier was lightly injured and taken to hospital.

By Yoav Zitun

A tank diverged from its route and rolled over on Tuesday during an IDF training exercise in the southern base of Zeelim. One soldier was lightly injured and taken to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

Merkava Mark III tank flips over - Photo courtesy IDF

Merkava Mark III tank flips over – Photo courtesy IDF

Three other soldiers who were manning the tank were not injured, but were taken for medical examinations nonetheless.

The reserve brigade commander, who commanded the exercise, arrived at the the scene with senior officers to examine the circumstances of the accident. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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World’s Oldest Complete Torah Scroll Discovered in Italy

The University of Bologna reports that an 850-year-old Jewish Scroll, written in the Babylonian tradition, had been mislabeled by a librarian in 1889.

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An Italian university has found what it claims to be the oldest complete Torah scroll known to exist, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

torah scrolls, Hebrew

A Torah scroll – Photo: Dreamstime

The scroll, which was found at the library of the University of Bologna, was believed to be no more than a few hundred years old, the report said. But recent carbon dating tests suggest it was written some 850 years ago, making it the oldest complete Torah ever found, Mauro Perani, the university’s Hebrew professor said. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Arab trespasser: ‘This Isn’t Jerusalem, it’s Palestine’

After moving to Jerusalem 10 years ago, a woman describes daily Arab terror in her neighborhood. As the police speak eloquently, ‘The situation gets worse from day to day.’

By Maayana Miskin

 

Ten years ago Batya Kayman and her newlywed husband decided to move from New York to Jerusalem and to build their home in the Jewish state. The couple moved to the French Hill (Giva Hatzarfatit) neighborhood, fulfilling their dream of aliyah.

Now, ten years on, the dream is becoming a nightmare, Batya Kayman told Arutz Sheva.

Jewish families in the neighborhood are constantly harassed by Arab youth from surrounding Arab neighborhoods, she said. Continue Reading »

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| May 29, 2013
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Gov’t ‘Stealing’ Jordan Valley Land for new PA City

Jordan Valley Council chief: We will fight to prevent the construction of a PA city on council lands.

By David Lev

David Alhiani, chairman of the Jordan Valley Regional Council, told Arutz Sheva in an interview Tuesday that Israel was set to lose the Valley – and it was all the fault of the government. The construction of a new Arab city in the Jordan Valley, as announced by the Civil Administration, will effectively close off a large portion of the Valley to Israelis, he said.

Greenhouses in the Jordan Valley - Photo Hagai Huberman

Greenhouses in the Jordan Valley – Photo Hagai Huberman

“The city will consist of over 1,100 lots, and will have housing for 10,000 people,” Alhiani said.

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| May 28, 2013
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Video: Israel’s PM says his compromises for peace lacks reciprocation

Netanyahu says at global forum, ‘anti-Semitism is back in fashion.’

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

“We are prepared to compromise for genuine peace, but it’s not reciprocated,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - IsraelMFA Screenshot

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – Israel MFA Screenshot

In a video message to the delegates at the 4th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that anti-Semitism has taken a new form since the rise of Israel, and that it is a myth it has disappeared since the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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