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| June 6, 2018
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🇮🇱 Netanyahu: Israel search & rescue teams for Guatemala are ready 🇬🇹

Israeli PM tells Gautemalan president following volcanic eruption, search & rescue, first aid, recovery provision, anything you need, we’re sending it.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to assist Guatemala in rescue and recovery efforts, following a devastating earthquake that killed dozens of people earlier this week.

Israel’s ZAKA Search & Rescue volunteeres arrive in Gautemala and begin coordinating with local officials. – Photo courtesy: ZAKA Search & Rescue NGO/Facebook

On Sunday, the Volcan del Fuego volcano southwest of Guatemala City erupted, killing more than 60 people and burying nearby towns in ash.

The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction in Guatemala said that fiery clouds of smoke were billowing from the volcano and that soot blanketed cars and houses in the nearby villages of San Pedro Yepocapa and Sangre de Cristo. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2018
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ANALYSIS: Saudi’s attitude changing with grandiose plans for Israel

 

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince has a $500 billion plan for the construction of Neom, a new city that includes hydro-agriculture projects, which will be reportedly realized, with Israel’s help.
– With the Saudis moving closer and closer to Israel, the entrenched, uncompromising Palestinian are losing a major supporter and benefactor.

By Yochanan Visser

 

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is known for his out of the box thinking and his ambitious sweeping reforms in Saudi Arabia where he has made many enemies during a purge which robbed elites, including members of the royal family, of their illegally obtained wealth last year. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2018
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UNESCO publishes educational guide to fight anti-Semitism

Audrey Azoulay, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s first Jewish director-general had the educational guide published after Israel threatened to leave UNESCO for their numerous anti-Israel resolutions.

By Tali Farkash, AP

 

The United Nations has released its first ever guidelines on fighting anti-Semitism in education.

UNESCO, the UN’s cultural body, launched the publication on Monday in Paris in collaboration with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the OSCE.

Audrey Azoulay – Twitter

The guide, aimed to be used by young people, the teaching world, as well as political leaders, was presented by Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s first Jewish director general. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2018
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Unadulterated antisemitism spews from MSNBC’S Joy Reid unbridled

MSNBC management remains uninterested as their national correspondent Joy Reid actually called for the ethnically cleansing in Israel of all its Jews.

By Daniel Greenfield

 

MSNBC continues to maintain its red wall of silence on Joy Reid. But the ugliness just keeps rising.

Joy Reid – Taken from: nowtheendbegins.com

The old blog posts by the progressive personality reek of every bigotry that the left claims to condemn. And, as Bre Payton at the Federalist notes, there’s even a call to ethnically cleanse Jews from Israel.

Iran’s pres strikes again Says “move Israel to Europe”

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“You believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price?

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| June 5, 2018
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Al-Arabiya news: Mossad assassinated Iranian operatives in Libya

The Saudi Al-Arabiya news network reported Monday that Israel’s security and special operations agency is responsible for the deaths of two Revolutionary Guards members who arrived in Libya seeking to obtain uranium.

By Daniel Salami

 

Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, was responsible for the liquidation of two Revolutionary Guards members in Libya, the Saudi Al-Arabiya news network reported Monday.

Mossad agents allegedly followed the two men when they were still in Tunisia, and killed them after they crossed the border to Libya.

Iran’s regime is one of the main players attempting to take advantage of the chaos created in Libya after the demise of its ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2018
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Eastern Christians on trip to Holy Land find common language with Israel

Twenty-three Eastern Christian millennials, Assyrians, Chaldeans and members of the Syriac Orthodox Church living in Canada and the US, have arrived in the Holy Land with the goal of strengthening their faith and connection to Israel.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

David Mando discovered Israel through Krav Maga.

“I was fascinated by it. I loved the passion where you’re taught that survival mentality and I see that very present in Israel today.”

EASTERN CHRISTIANS on their way to Passport Control at the airport to begin their trip to Israel with the Philos Project and Passages leadership course. – Both Photos: JULIANA TAIMOORAZY, Facebook

Mando, a member of the Assyrian Church of the East who was born and raised in Chicago, was on an organized trip to Israel last week with a group of Christians who have roots in the region. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2018
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IDF shot dead axe-wielding Palestinian terrorist breaching Gaza border

IDF forces open fire on two Palestinian terrorists armed with hatchets, infiltrating through the border fence into Israel from Gaza, killing one, while the second skedaddled back into Gaza.

By David Rosenberg

 

Two Arab terrorists attempted to infiltrate into Israel Monday from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The terrorists damaged the Israeli fence on the Gaza border, and attempted to cross over into Israeli territory near Kibbutz Nirim.

Israeli security forces stationed along the border spotted the two terrorists and opened fire.

Two Palestinian terrorists destroying security fence on Border with Gaza. – Screen Shot: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

One of the two terrorists was killed in the incident. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2018
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Palestinian stabs Franciscan friar in Bethlehem after harassing tourists

After 2 unidentified Palestinian men harassed a group of tourists entering the holy site and were asked to stop, one pulled his knife and stabbed the cleric in the chest.
– Robert Nicholson, founder of the Philos Project wrote, “This is what Palestinian Christians really have to deal with.”

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

A Franciscan friar was reportedly assaulted at Bethlehem’s Milk Grotto over the weekend in an incident caught on video. Fr. Fadi Shallufi, who administers the Catholic chapel site, was struck by an assailant on Friday.

According to a report on Arab48.com, two unidentified men harassed a group of tourists entering the church site. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2018
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French envoy to Israel chides Deputy minister Michael Oren on Twitter

After French Ambassador to Israel Hélène Le Gal Tweets, ‘Shame on you Oren. You didn’t read the resolution.’ for his condemnation of French support of UN’s resolution on ‘international protection’ for Palestinians, she ‘liked’ Emmanuel Navon‏’s tweet that said, “The draft resolution was wrong, one-sided and unbalanced.”

Itamar Eichner

 

Deputy Minister Michael Oren got into an exchange of condemnations on Twitter with the French ambassador on Saturday after France voted in favor of a Kuwait-proposed resolution draft on “international protection” for the Palestinian people.

“Praise for the US for vetoing Security Council resolution on Gaza that didn’t mention Hamas and condemned the IDF for defending Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2018
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Israeli jets hit 5 additional Hamas targets after continued rocket attacks

Earlier Saturday night, IAF fighter jets hit 10 terrorists’ sites in 3 Hamas compounds, including 2 munition manufacturing facilities and storage sites. Second wave went after Hamas’ ‘naval force’ in the northern part of the terrorist enclave.

Kobi Finkler

 

IAF fighter jets on Sunday morning targeted five terror targets at a military compound belonging to the Hamas terror organization’s naval force in the northern Gaza Strip, said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.

“This was an additional IDF strike carried out last night targeting terror sites belonging to the Hamas terror organization, which is responsible for all events that transpire and emanate from the Gaza Strip – most notably the severe attacks it conducts against Israel and its civilians,” it said. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2018
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NATO Chairman: NATO won’t defend Israel in case of war with Iran

Jens Stoltenberg’s comment comes despite closer cooperation seen by Israel’s and NATO’s growing alliance that was demonstrated this May by Israel’s participation in a joint naval exercise.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

Jens Stoltenberg, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), told a German media outlet on Saturday that NATO would not side with Israel in the event that the Islamic Republic of Iran attacks the Jewish state.

The NATO chief told Der Spiegel magazine that “the security guarantee [of NATO] does not apply to Israel” because the Jewish state is not a member of the 29 country alliance. Continue Reading »

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| June 2, 2018
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Hamas’ self-declared cease fire ends Saturday with 2 mortars fired at Israel

– SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT –

Israel’s Iron Dome intercepts one mortar shell fired from Gaza that was to reach Israel, with additional mortar shells apparently falling short, landing inside the terror enclave after ‘Code Red’ sirens sounded 3 times in Israeli communities along the Gaza border.
– IDF reports no one reported hurt.

By Matan Tzuri, Yoav Zitun

 

The Iron Dome missile-defense system intercepted a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, while another mortar shell apparently landed inside the Gaza Strip.

The mortar fire was preceded by Code Red rocket-alert sirens, which were sounded three times in the Eshkol Regional Council at around 7:50pm. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2018
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Report: Russia allows IDF action in Syria against Iran

London-based, Saudi media quotes “Russian sources” as saying that Israel was given ‘green light’ to continue attacks on Iranian targets deep inside Syria, as long as Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s facilities were not hit.

By i24NEWS

 

Russia gave Israel a “green light” to attack Iranian bases inside Syria during conversations between senior leaders over the last two days, according to a Saudi newspaper report published Friday.

On Thursday Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman met his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu in Moscow [Pictured Above – Photo: IDF] to discuss the situation in Syria, followed quickly by a phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2018
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Israel’s Supreme Court: Facebook can be sued in Israel

Israel’s Supreme Court rejected Facebook’s request to dismiss lawsuit filed in Israel and determined that the stipulations in the user-license-agreement should be annulled, allowing lawsuits to be filed in Israel.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Supreme Court ruled that Israeli claims filed against Facebook will be heard in Israeli courts, even though the user-license-agreement to join the site says suits can only be filed in a California court.

The court accepted the position of the Attorney General, according to which giving multinational corporations the ability to determine jurisdiction in cases involving customers represented a major imbalance of power, even if the user-agreement states that it must be so. Continue Reading »

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| June 1, 2018
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IDF Video details ‘secret’ Gaza targets destroyed, including Hamas subs

Among the 60 some targets hit by Israel’s Air Force, the IDF video shows stockpiles of weapons and ammunitions, destroyed, as well as a naval base housing a small fleet of unmanned submarines. The reprisal led Hamas to end all rocket attacks on Israel.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week published a list of some of the 60+ terrorist targets it hit in the Gaza Strip following rocket fire against communities in southern Israel.

The IDF had apparently collected a rather long list of locations where Hamas and its allied terror groups were stockpiling weapons and ammunitions, and destroyed nearly all of them. Continue Reading »

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