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| December 16, 2015
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US District Judge: Restrictions placed for Jonathan Pollard’s parole appear superfluous

 

Less than a month since being paroled from federal prison, Jonathan Pollard achieves court victory when Judge admits electronic bracelet & computer monitoring may not be needed since former Israeli spy no longer has access to secrets.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

The U.S. government must reassess the threat posed by former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard and adjust his parole conditions accordingly, a U.S. judge said on Monday.

Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, last month, shortly after his release from federal prison. – Photo: AP

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said the U.S. Parole Commission had provided little basis to justify why Pollard must wear an electronic bracelet and submit to monitoring of his work computer despite not being exposed to classified material during his 30-year incarceration. Continue Reading »

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| December 15, 2015
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Israeli firm opens America’s largest desalination plant in southern California

 

The Israeli IDE water desalination facility, the Western Hemisphere’s largest plant, will produce some 190 million liters of water daily for the residents of San Diego country.

By SHARON UDASIN

 

Israeli water sector giant IDE Technologies dedicated the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere on Monday – a facility that will produce some 190 million liters of water daily for the residents of southern California.

The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant in California. – Photo: IDE TECHNOLOGIES

Providing a new source of water in a state that has long suffered severe droughts, the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant will be quenching the thirst of roughly 10 percent of San Diego country, according to IDE. Continue Reading »

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| December 13, 2015
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Netanyahu applauds Argentina’s new gov’t decision to ignore previous Iran deal

 

Israel’s PM thinks the new Argentinian government’s decision not to abide by deal made on Iran’s behalf may improve Israel’s relations with Argentina, as well as all of South America.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed at his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday Argentina’s decision not to appeal a court’s ruling to strike down a deal with Iran over investigating the 1994 deadly bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.

Netanyahu addresses Masa Israel participants – Amos Ben Gershom/GPO

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed at his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday Argentina’s decision not to appeal a court’s ruling to strike down a deal with Iran over investigating the 1994 deadly bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.
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| December 10, 2015
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First time since 1948: King of Bahrain invites Rabbi to light Hanukkah candles in Manama synagogue

 

view videoWATCH: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa invites French Rabbi and French Imam to royal palace for interfaith meeting before lighting Hanukkah candles for the first time since the founding of the Jewish State.

By i24news

 

Hannukah candles were lit Monday night in the Jewish synagogue in Bahrain’s capital for the first time since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, Israel’sArutz 7 reported.

Rabbi Levin and Imam Hassan Chalghoumi light Hanukkah candles at the Manama synagogue in Bahrain – Screenshot

French Rabbi Moshe Levin of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) along with French Imam Hassan Chalghoumi traveled to Bahrain under invitation from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to join a special interfaith conference hosted at the the palace in Manama. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2015
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German court fines Danish imam for seeking murder of ‘Zionist Jews’ in videotaped sermon

 

The Berlin court ruled Abu Bilal Ismail was guilty of incitement to hatred by preaching Jews are “criminals who kill prophets & children,” and that “Allah should kill Jews.”

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

A German criminal court has fined Danish imam Sheikh Abu Bilal Ismail for incitement to hatred after convicting him of calling at a Berlin mosque for the extermination of Jews during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge.

A SCENE from Berlin, with the Oberbaum Bridge in the foreground. – Photo: REUTERS

The Jerusalem Post obtained a copy of the 16-page court verdict on Tuesday.

It said that Ismail had been fined €1,300 for delivering a fiery anti-Western and anti-Jewish sermon in July 2014 in which he said it was necessary to “destroy the Zionist Jews…,” and to “count them and kill them to the very last one. Continue Reading »

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| December 7, 2015
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Ex-Cambridge researcher who boycotted Israeli schoolgirl under police investigation

 

Former Cambridge professor who boycotted Israeli 13 yr-old schoolgirl, saying won’t help because ‘Jews have become Nazis’, is now being investigated for possible hate-crime.

By JTA

 

The British-American Jewish academic who told a 13-year-old Israeli girl that she would not answer her questions for a school project until there is peace in Palestine is under police investigation.

Building at Cambridge University in England. – Photo: REUTERS

The Cambridgeshire Constabulary confirmed on Friday to the London-based Jewish Chronicle that it was investigating a complaint about a comment by archaeozoologist Marsha Levine, a former academic at the University of Cambridge, who told the Jewish Chronicle in response to an interview about the girl’s request that “the Jews have become the Nazis.” Continue Reading »

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| December 7, 2015
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Watch: Arnold Schwarzenegger lights  Hanukkiah in Paris

 

view videoWATCH: After getting call from Chief Rabbi of France, the Hollywood megastar who’s in Paris for the climate change conference,  says at lighting, ‘the menorah means light. Light prevails darkness, good prevails evil.’

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Hollywood superstar and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday night took part in a public Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony at the feet of the Eiffel Tower, for the first night of the holiday.

Schwarzenegger, who is in Paris to take part in the international Climate Change Conference and advocate for renewable energy, said he was invited to the annual lighting of the 30-foot-tall menorah, which is organized by Chabad-Lubavitch. Continue Reading »

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| December 5, 2015
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Sweden’s FM response to Palestinian terrorism was bashing Israel for ‘extrajudicial executions’ of terrorists

 

Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s remarks during a session of parliament distracted attention away from the victims of terrorism and the horrific acts of Palestinian terrorists, by focusing blame on the Jewish State.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Sweden’s foreign minister is apparently mastering the craft of angering Israel when the opportunity arises.

Last month, Israel condemned as “shockingly hostile” comments by Margot Wallstrom that seemed to link the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the ISIS-backed terrorist attacks in Paris.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom – Photo: AFP

In October, Wallstrom irked Israel with a tweet about the wave of terror sweeping the country. Continue Reading »

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| December 3, 2015
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Trump announces he’ll force peace talks on Israel – Obama II?

 

Ahead of a trip to Israel, the Republican contender places the responsibility for a lack of a peace deal on Israel, saying the Jewish State has to prove if it’s ‘willing to sacrifice.’
By Ari Yashar

 

Ahead of his trip to Israel this month, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump revealed in an interview Thursday that forcing peace talks on Israel will head his priorities if elected – and that the onus for the lack of peace lies on the Jewish state, not the Palestinian Authority (PA).

“I have a real question as to whether or not both sides want to make it,” Trump told The Associated Press, clarifying that he has more concerns regarding “one side in particular.”
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| November 26, 2015
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Photo Essay: Ancient Jewish community on Tunisian isle

 

Having seen little persecution, the Jewish community on the Tunisian island of Djerba traces its roots back to the Babylonian exile of 586 B.C.E., and is one of the few communities not exiled due to the creation of Israel.

By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

When school lets out, the streets around the ancient synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba fill with rambunctious boys wearing kippot and girls in long skirts, shouting to each other in Hebrew, Arabic and French.

A girl walks home after sunset at Hara Kbira, the main Jewish neighborhood on Djerba – Photo: AP

The Jewish community in the resort island traces its roots all the way back to Babylonian exile of 586 B.C.E., Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2015
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NOT FUNNY! – Nazi symbols painted on dormroom wall of Jewish student as ‘initiation rite’

 

Seniors at prestigious Dutch university turn Jewish student’s room into ‘Nazi death camp’ with Swastikas & other Nazi symbols as part of an initiation rite.

By i24news

 

A Jewish student at a Dutch university was shocked to discover recently that his fellow students had spray-painted swastikas and Nazi symbols on the walls of his room as part of an initiation rite.

The management at the Netherlands’ prestigious Leiden University said it would take harsh measures against the students responsible for the incident, which took place several days ago.

A family crosses the “Arbeit macht frei” gate of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland, where some 1.1 million people, most of them European Jews, perished between 1940 and 1945 – Photo: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/FILE

The senior students redesigned the Jewish freshman’s dorm room by painting mass graves and train tracks on the walls and also hung barbed wire on the pipes and created a swastika from sticks, Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported. Continue Reading »

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| November 20, 2015
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French Special Police Forces’ Unit Chief Said His Commandos’ Methods Learned From Israelis

French intelligence officials received pertinent intel from a foreign spy service regarding the whereabouts of Abu Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the architect of last week’s Paris atrocities.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Jean-Michel Fauvergue, the commander of the RAID special police forces unit which carried out the raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday, said that many of the methods used by his charges were learned from their Israeli counterpart.

Jean Michel Fauvergue, head of the RAID special police forces unit, poses in Bievres, outside of Paris. – Photo: AFP

In an interview with the French-language daily Le Figaro, Fauvergue said that the operation, which resulted in the deaths of two terrorists and the arrest of five others, took seven hours. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2015
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French Jews Don’t Feel Safe, Yearn to Come to Israel

 

Parisian Jews describe their feelings and emotions experienced after multiple Islamic terror attacks. ‘We were really scared, at least in Israel we feel safe.”

By Itay Blumenthal, Itamar Eichner, Adam Evenhaim &Becky Azran

 

Paris awoke to a new reality on Saturday morning. Jews or Israelis may not have been the target of the attacks, but members of the community were taking every precaution in the wake of the terror. “There are orders to close schools and education facilities, both Jewish and public for the coming days, there is widespread panic,” a Hashomer Hatzair representitive, Yonathan Hefetz, said in a conversation with ynet. Continue Reading »

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| November 13, 2015
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Bamboozled: 75% of British Jews believe settlements are ‘major’ obstacle to peace

 

New survey conducted by a British pro-peace group ‘Yachad’ finds 24% of British Jews willing to ‘support sanctions against Israel’ if they thought it would push Israel’s gov’t towards making peace with the Palestinians.

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A new report, released Thursday by a “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization in the UK, has revealed British Jews’ nuanced approach to Israel, with a large majority considering themselves pro-Israel at the same time as being critical of the government’s actions – particularly with regard to settlements.

NYT - It's about hatred of Jews, pure and simple.

Of course the UN, EU & US need to make excuses for the Arabs, and the Arabs exploit Christian morality to explain away their blood thirst and hatred of Jews.

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| November 10, 2015
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Obama reportedly refuses to annul Jonathan Pollard travel ban after parole

 

It’s reported in the Washington Post that US President Obama will not get involved in ‘compassionate appeal’ allowing longtime prisoner Jonathan Pollard to travel to Israel after serving an unprecedented 30 years in federal prison.

By Tova Dvorin

 

A ban may still be placed on Jonathan Pollard to travel to Israel after his release from US prison, officials from US President Barack Obama’s administration revealed late Monday to the Washington Post.

Jonathan Pollard – Photo: Yehuda Glick

Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes stated last week that Pollard’s release, which was due for this month according to the terms of his parole, could be brought up during the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Obama Monday night. Continue Reading »

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