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WATCH: Digital analysis brings charred Leviticus scroll back to life

 

view videoThe burned scroll from the 1st centuries C.E., found to contain Torah verses that are identical to modern versions, was deciphered using unprecedented digital technology by American researchers along with a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

By Yori Yalon

 

Cutting-edge digital technology has brought a charred ancient Torah scroll dated to the first centuries C.E. back to life, and revealed that the scroll contains chapters from the biblical book of Leviticus.

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Ein Gedi Scroll, also known as the Leviticus Scroll, is most ancient Hebrew scroll since the Dead Sea Scrolls. – PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY PROF SEALES ET AL.

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Quartet harps on Israel’s ongoing settlement activity

 

view videoIsrael’s PM Netanyahu, forced to declare the reality of the conflict: “The real settlements Palestinians are after are Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv.”

By DANIELLE ZIRI

 

NEW YORK – The Middle East Quartet called Israel out on Friday for its ongoing settlement activity, which they said is “an obstacle to peace.”

Quartet Flags

Quartet Flags, US, UN, Russia & EU – Photoshopped: IsraelandStuff/PP

Representatives of the Quartet, which include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, United States Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union Representative Federica Mogherini, met in New York on the last day of the UN General debate. Continue Reading »

France reprimanded for part in illegal construction in Israel

 

view videoIsraeli Foreign Ministry clarifies that France must coordinate with Israel before building in ‘Area C’ as agreed in the EU signed Oslo Accords, which it didn’t do, and thus can’t complain that Israeli courts exercised its right to have illegally constructed buildings demolished.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

This morning, the Israeli Foreign Ministry responded to criticism from French citizens regarding the destruction of illegally constructed buildings in Area C. France intervened in the matter, due to the fact that it sponsored one of the buildings that were demolished.

Sources within the Ministry wish to clarify that “the claim that is being spread by the French Foreign Ministry is wrong.

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Watch Interview: Trump won’t force a peace solution on Israel

 

view videoIn a TV10 news interview, David Friedman, Donald Trump’s adviser on Israel affairs, says a President Trump would support Israel and let Jerusalem decide how to solve its conflict with the Palestinian Authority.

Israel Channel 10 News

 

David Friedman, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s adviser on Israel affairs, said on Wednesday that if Trump is elected president, he will not try to force a solution on Israel with regards to its conflict with the Palestinian Authority (PA).

“He’s not for or against, per se, a two-state solution,” Friedman told Channel 10 News’s Tamar Ish Shalom in an interview.
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Watch Videos: Israel Remembers 9/11 

view videoHundreds of Americans & Israelis gather at the Israeli Memorial to remember the victims on the 15 year anniversary of attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.

By Yoni Kempinski

 

A memorial ceremony for the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks is being held at the Jewish National Fund 9/11 Living Memorial.

MK Michel Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the US at 9-11 Memorial in Israel. - Photo: Gail Hopke, IsraelandStuff

MK Michel Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the US at 9-11 Memorial in Israel. – Photos: Gail Hopke / IsraelandStuff

Ronald Lauder, Chairman of JNF-USA:

“On September 11th, 2001, Americans showed a great courage and bravery, risking and giving their lives to save people that they never met.

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WATCH: Netanyahu rejects calls for ethnic cleansing in Judea & Samaria

 

view videoWith a possible meeting with Abbas in Russia, Israel’s PM Netanyahu appeals to the public, rejecting out of hand the absurd idea that the presence of Jews in Judea & Samaria is an obstacle to peace.

Elad Benari, Canada

 

The Palestinian Authority leadership’s demand that a Palestinian state be free of Jews is ethnic cleansing, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Friday, and the concept of ethnic cleansing for peace is absurd.

Netanyahu’s comments came in a video he released in Hebrew and English and which was also released in a version with Arabic subtitles.

“I’m sure many of you have heard the claim that Jewish communities in Judea Samaria, the West Bank, are an obstacle to peace. Continue Reading »

Israel’s genetically altered algae can power a green energy revolution

view videoTel Aviv University researchers genetically altered algae, allowing the organism to increase its hydrogen output 5 fold, transforming the humble pond slime into a clean fuel source.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

Israeli researchers have transformed humble pond slime into an engine to drive a green energy revolution.

Dr. Iftach Yacoby and his team at Tel Aviv University genetically altered single-celled algae, which naturally emit hydrogen throughout the day, allowing the organism to increase its efficiency to five times its natural ability.

TAU’s Dr. Iftach Yacoby and his algae. – Photo: Tel Aviv University

Hydrogen fuel cells are already being introduced into vehicles, and the new discovery could mean algae becomes a key player in the push for green energies. Continue Reading »

Muslim nations cooperate with Israel on Mid-East particle-accelerator project

view videoIsraelis are working with Muslim scientists on a landmark science project, and their collaborating colleagues are from Pakistan and Iran!

By ILTV

 

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Israeli designed glass bridge in China closed due to over-popularity

 

view videoChina’s glass bridge, that was designed by an Israeli architect, was temporarily closed due to the need for maintenance caused by the overwhelming volume of visitors.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Nearly shy of two weeks after China opened the world’s longest and highest glass-bottom bridge designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, the suspended structure closed on Friday.

People visit a glass bridge at a gorge as it opens to the public in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China. – Photo: REUTERS

The 430-meter-long skywalk suspended across Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in Hunan Province’s scenic Zhangjiajie National Park temporarily closed after opening to the public on August 20. Continue Reading »

VIDEO: Israel Air Force returns from USAF 2016 Red Flag aerial exercise

view videoA senior official from the Israeli team who participated in the ‘Red Flag’ exercise refused to comment on reports that the IAF had participated in the exercise with the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan Air Forces.

By Kobi Finkler

 

An Israeli air force team returned today (Thursday) from the renowned multi-annual “Red Flag” aerial training exercise that takes place at the Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and sometimes sees the participation of aerial teams from foreign countries.

The Israeli team included F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, in addition to a refueling plane.

The exercise is big – to the degree that it strives to simulate a war-time situation. Continue Reading »

WATCH: IDF’s ‘Drakonit’ system allows soldier’s firing without exiting APC, tank

 

IDF’s newly integrated Drakonit system will permit its soldiers to fire at targets up to 1.5 kilometers away without having to exit, or expose themselves on their armored vehicles, providing the soldiers with optimum protection.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The IDF Ground Forces’ Technological Brigade have begun installing in recent months the “Drakonit” computerized firing network in “Achzarit” APCs, which are used in regular and reserve infantry brigades, and on the Combat Engineering Corps’s older “Puma” armored vehicles.

The Drakonit, manufactured by Elbit, allows the operation of a heavy machine gun on the roof of armored vehicles directly from the fighter’s box without the soldier needing to extend their body outside and thus endanger themselves. Continue Reading »

Syrian schoolgirl returns home after being cured of blood cancer in Israel

 

view videoWith the help of the Israeli gov’t, the IDF tracked down her family in Syria and covertly spirited her brother to Israel, so a bone-marrow transplant at Rambam Hospital was able to cure her cancer.

 

A six-year-old girl from Syria who was treated for her wound and a blood disease at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center was discharged and sent home on Tuesday after her new Israeli friends held a farewell party and gave her with many gifts, including a first-grade backpack — in the hope that her school is still standing.

Photo Rambam Hospital

She was one of the 140 Syrian civilians — men, women and children — that Rambam doctors, nurses and other personnel have treated over the past three years of civil war there. Continue Reading »

WATCH: IDF raids illegal Palestinian weapons factory

 

view videoIn the largest raid of the year, conducted by hundreds of IDF soldiers, along with the Shin Bet and Border Police, improvised-weapons-making factories in Hebron and Bethlehem areas were raided, with no one hurt as violent protesters attempted to thwart the early-morning operation.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Hundreds of soldiers from five different battalions rushed in at 1:30am Tuesday morning to improvised-weapons-making facilities in the Hebron and Bethlehem areas in an operation that was run by the IDF along with the Shin Bet and Border Police.

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Israel’s PM to offer African leaders new technology at September UN meeting

 

Exhibition featuring Israel’s cutting-edge technology in the fields of science, agriculture, and medicine is organized by Israeli envoy to the U.N. Danny Danon, with the purpose of assisting rural African villages and further strengthen Israel-Africa ties.

By Mati Tuchfeld

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with African leaders in New York in September, as part of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting.

Netanyahu visited Africa in July for a four-day trip that included meeting with the leaders of Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia.

The meetings scheduled for September will take place as part of a special exhibition organized by Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Continue Reading »

WATCH: IDF Combat Engineering Corps demolish home of Palestinian terrorist

 

IDF filmed the house of Mohammed Tarayra , the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed 13 yr-old Hallel Ariel to death as she slept in her bed, being demolished according to a court-order, by the IDF Combat Engineering Corps, as punishment for terrorism.

 

The IDF early Monday morning announced that it had demolished the house of the family of Muhammad Tarayrah, 17, in the Palestinian village of Bani Naim, located near Kiryat Arba, where he murdered 13-year old Hallel Yafa Ariel in June.

Tarayrah stabbed Ariel to death in her bedroom on June 30 and injured another resident while infiltrating the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron. Continue Reading »