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| June 19, 2012
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Third Gaza Rocket Attack Strikes Sderot

A third rocket attack launched at southern Israel from Gaza Monday evening exploded in the town of Sderot at about 10:00 p.m.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

 

A third rocket attack launched at southern Israel from Gaza Monday evening exploded in the town of Sderot. The short-range Qassam rocket landed in an open area of the town, about 15 seconds after the Color Red incoming missile alert system was activated.

No one was physically injured, although a number of residents who suffer from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) had trauma symptoms re-triggered by the attack. No property damage was reported, authorities said. Continue Reading »

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| June 18, 2012
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Ivory Coast President: “Strong historic links with Israel”

PM Netanyahu meets with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. “Links between us are strengthening quickly”

By Yoni Kempinski

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this afternoon (Monday) with Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara. Ivory Coast Foreign Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan and Ministers Yossi Peled and Limor Livnat also attended the meeting.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Ivory Coast President Ouattara noted the close state of bilateral cooperation. They discussed the terrorist threats facing both countries, as well as cooperation in the fields of health, agriculture, science and technology.

 

Ivory Coast President Ouattara expressed agreement that Israel should repatriate Ivory Coast nationals who arrived here without permits. Continue Reading »

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| June 18, 2012
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Paris School Under Fire for Blatantly Anti-Israel Exam Question

French Jews outraged after a university in Paris posed a question on an exam as to whether IDF strikes can be classified as “genocide.”

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

 

An umbrella organization of French Jewry, CRIF, responded with “indignance” after an exam from the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine at Paris’s Diderot University included a question on whether IDF strikes in Gaza can be classified as genocide, Agence France Presse reported.

students taking exam

students taking exam - Reuters

According to the CRIF and corroborated by a report by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, Professor Christophe Oberlin set the students of humane medicine the question, using the example of the deaths of 22 members of the same family in a “classic bombing” during the Gaza conflict of 2008-2009. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2012
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Jewish Trucker Ends Arab Carjack Terror in Hevron Hills

A Jewish trucker ended the lives of two Palestinian Authority Arabs who attempted to kidnap him and steal his vehicle on Sunday in Judea.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

A Jewish trucker ended the lives of two Palestinian Authority Arabs who attempted to kidnap him and steal his vehicle on a road in the Hevron Hills area of Judea (Yehuda) on Sunday. A third Arab who was involved in the attempted robbery and kidnapping was wounded.

The 52-year-old trucker, a resident of the coastal city of Ashkelon, was also injured in the incident.

The three Arabs hurled a blunt object at him, according to IDF Army Radio. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2012
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Katsav threatened in prison

Five inmates caught threatening former president: ‘Don’t go to the canteen, we’ll get you’. Perpetrators punished with loss of privileges

By Meir Turgeman

 

 

Former president Moshe Katsav has become a target of other inmates at the Maasiyahu Prison, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday.

According to residents of the prison’s religious wing, for three nights shouts and insults were aimed at the former president by inmates of the adjacent wing. Five prisoners have been disciplined in the matter and had their privileges revoked.

The shouts began one evening last week. According to one prisneor, Katsav with sitting in the religious wing when prisoners next door began swearing at him, calling his name and hurling sexual insults and threats. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2012
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Israel-Loving Ex-Terrorist in Open Visit

The ‘Son of Hamas’ who helped Israel’s war on terror has made his first open visit, expresses love for Israeli people.

 

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

Mosab Hassan Yousef’s life has been far from simple. Born in Ramallah to the founder and leader of Hamas, he made an about-face as a young adult and for several years helped Israel fight terrorism.

Yousef later converted to Christianity and moved to the United States. He wrote a book about his life story, titled Son of Hamas.

Now he is making his first open trip to Israel, as a guest of Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2012
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Settlement Committee won’t cut Barak’s authority

Despite expected establishment of committee on settlement affairs, Defense Ministry sources say Ehud Barak’s jurisdiction over settlement matters will not diminish

By Attila Somfalvi

 

The Government is expected to approve the establishment of a Ministerial Committee for Settlement Affairs led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during its Sunday session. However, sources in the Defense Ministry have said that the PM’s move, which is meant to placate right-wing ministers and settlers, will not rescind Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s authority over settlement matters.

The committee, which was established last week as the settlement regulation bill failed to pass its Knesset vote, will be authorized to present government policy pertaining to unregulated construction on private and State land, including fundamental issues that will reach the courts. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2012
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Haaretz Reporter: “Israelis Believe There is no Peace Partner”

At American Jewish Journalists’ Conference, Haaretz reporter says: PA incitement is not important enough for his paper to report.

By Mark Langfan

 

 

Today, in his on-the-record remarks in front a conference of American Jewish journalists at the annual American Jewish Press Association convention, Chemi Shalev, a veteran Haaretz reporter, calmly stated that PM Netanyahu has no Israeli domestic pressure to make concessions in the peace process.

The reason?  It is because “Israelis believe Israel has no Palestinian partner for peace.” Shalev, US Editor and a veteran foreign policy analyst, further explained, “Israelis are very happy with the status quo.” Continue Reading »

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| June 14, 2012
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White House Pours Cold Water on Pollard Release Plea

Ahead of meeting between Obama and Peres on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tells reporters, “Our position [on Pollard] has not changed and will not change today” • Peres still asks Obama to give Pollard clemency, expresses optimism.

By Yoni Hirsch, Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

The White House’s position on granting clemency to convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard has not changed “and will not change today,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday, essentially pouring cold water on any prospects for Pollard’s release after 26 years in a U.S. prison.

Carney’s comments came just a few hours before President Shimon Peres met U.S.

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| June 14, 2012
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Obama: Peres is a True Founding Father

President Obama gives the Medal of Freedom to President Shimon Peres, says Peres “is nothing short of extraordinary.”

By Elad Benari

 

U.S. President Barack Obama gave the Medal of Freedom to Israeli President Shimon Peres in a special ceremony at the White House on Wednesday evening (Washington time).

Obama presents Medal of Freedom to Peres Reuters

Obama presents Medal of Freedom to Peres - Reuters

In remarks he made prior to handing Peres the medal, Obama described Israel as “one of our strongest allies and one of our closest friends.” He said that Peres “is nothing short of extraordinary.”

Obama noted that Peres joined the Haganah Jewish defense organization in 1947, when he was in his 20s, and that he ran for President at the age of 83. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2012
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Perfectly preserved German bunker uncovered by IDF

Massive weapons’ reservoir believed to belong to German imperial army from WWI discovered in Dead Sea due to receding waterline; preserved in near perfect condition thanks to high salt content

By Yoav Zitun

 

 

The IDF‘s Combat Engineering Corps will soon uncover another layer of the ‘ancient German bunker’ which was concealed in the northern Dead Searegion.

The Dead Sea’s receding waterline led to the exposure of a massive weapons’ reservoir with thousands of artillery shells, bullets, rifles, guns, mines, explosives and even ancient walkie-talkies which were preserved in near perfect condition thanks to the high salt content in the water. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2012
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Norwegian Student Fire Brands Jew with Burning Coin

Fear and loathing for Jews in Norway: A high school student grilled a coin at a barbecue and burned it into the neck of a Jewish boy.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

 

Anti-Semitism in Norway reached new depths this week when a high school student literally fire branded a Jewish student with a red-hot coin that was grilled at school barbecue. Even worse for the Jewish community was the reaction from the school – silence.

Fire branded. This is the burns the Jewish student sustained at a school barbecue, Monday, June 11, 2012. MIFF stresses that they have been unable to verify the story from another source.
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| June 13, 2012
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Israeli wins World Food Prize for 1st time in history

Growing up in what was then Palestine, Prof. Daniel Hillel became fascinated with plants thriving in tough conditions.

 

 

Growing up as a young boy on a Jezreel Valley kibbutz in what was then Palestine, Prof. Daniel Hillel became fascinated with plants thriving in less than favorable conditions.“That’s where I discovered and became enthralled by open spaces – and land and water and plants and sunshine,” Hillel, now 81, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday evening.
Produce, agriculture [illustrative photo]                        Agricultural fields – Photo: Thinkstock/Imagebank

Earlier that afternoon, the World Food Prize Foundation, in the presence of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, announced Hillel as this year’s winner of the World Food Prize at a ceremony in Washington. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2012
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Soldiers beware: Agents to monitor ‘chatter’ on trains

Operations, deployments and secret units – soldiers who talk on the phone on their way to base occasionally reveal classified information. IDF to deploy undercover agents on trains in hopes of preventing leaks

Yossi Yehoshua

 

 

While the IDF is using advanced technological means to keep its secrets from leaking, it appears the most classified information can be easily accessed on Israel‘s railways.

Soldiers board train Photo: Ido Erez

Soldiers board train - Photo: Ido Erez

Commuters who regularly use the train are familiar with the phenomenon. IDF soldiers who talk among themselves or use their mobile phones occasionally reveal sensitive information such as military deployments, future operations or names of secret units. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2012
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Israel in Secret Pact with Vatican

Will Israel give the Church sovereignty over King David’s Tomb? The sides are talking, but won’t make their agreements public for now.

By Elad Benari

A special meeting was held at the Pope’s palace on Tuesday, attended by delegations from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vatican. During the meeting, the sides discussed some of the unresolved issues between them.

At the conclusion of the meeting, which was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, the Foreign Ministry released a statement saying, “The talks took place in an open, balanced and constructive environment, during which significant progress was made towards an agreement.” Continue Reading »

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