Israel’s museum’s on Jewish humor opens – So funny, you’re gonna plotz

Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People opens a new exhibit, “Let There Be Laughter,” hosting the Marx Brothers, Jerry Seinfeld, Woody Allen, Wise Men of Chelm among scores of Jewish comedians presented at the Tel Aviv exhibit.

By Maya Cohen

 

A new exhibit at the Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv explores Jewish humor throughout history and across the world.

A new exhibit at the Beit Hatfutsot Museum focuses on Jewish humor – Screenshot: The Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People

The “Let There Be Laughter – Jewish Humor Around the World” exhibit, which launched over the weekend, includes film clips, stand-up performances, collectors’ items, posters, photographs and more. Continue Reading »

Jordanian Minister condemns Jewish ritual performed near al-Aqsa

Jordanian Minister, “Israel must cease all such acts that offend Muslims worldwide and would only feed religious conflict and extremism in the region.”

By THE JORDAN TIMES

 

AMMAN (TNS) — Jordanian Minister of State for Media Affairs Mohammad Momani on Tuesday condemned an Israeli decision to allow a Passover Sacrifice celebration by activists and supporters near Al Aqsa Mosque, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

“Passover sacrifice” ritual at the foot of the Temple Mount – Sceanshot: Udi Shaham/The Jerusalem Post

Momani blamed the Israeli government for its “provocative and unacceptable practices [carried out] for well-known intentions.”

He said that Israel, as the “occupying power,” must comply with its responsibilities under international and humanitarian laws related to the safety and sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque and any properties of the Jerusalem Wakf Islamic religious trust, instituted by Jordan after Israel’s War of Independence, including the Umayyad palaces south of the mosque where the celebration was organized on Monday, stressing that the venue falls under the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem Wakf Department. Continue Reading »

IDF kill 16 Gazans – Palestinian autocrat Abbas: Israel to blame for deaths

IDF responds to attacks with snipers, tanks killing 16 Palestinians on Friday, for which PA autocrat blamed Israel “for the deaths of the martyrs in Gaza,” declares a day of mourning.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday evening blamed Israel for the deaths of Gazans who took part in the large-scale “March of the Return” towards the border with Israel.

“I express my pride in the sacrifice of the Palestinian people today. I place the responsibility  today on Israel,” Abbas declared in a televised address.

Hamas calls on Gazans to protest on Israel’s border – PLO/Twitter

“The occupation army attacked non-violent demonstrators who went out to mark Land Day and to emphasize that they adhere to their right to self-determination. Continue Reading »

Defiantly Abbas vows to pay jailed terrorists directly from PA coffers

Senior officials at Palestinian autocrat Mahmoud Abbas’ office said the decision was part of Abbas’ sworn ‘policies of rejectionism,’ crafted in response to President Trump’s policies on Jerusalem.
• In 2017, the PA spent $358 million ‬for “pay to slay” to the families of terrorists killed or jailed for carrying out attacks against Israel.

By Daniel Siryoti and Shlomo Cesana

 

The Palestinian Authority announced Wednesday that it will begin making direct payments to terrorists imprisoned in Israel, despite the United States’ efforts to curb what has been criticized as “pay to slay” benefits.

Last week, the U.S. government passed the Taylor Force Act, which suspends some financial aid to the Palestinian Authority over the stipends it pays the families of terrorists killed or jailed for carrying out attacks against Israel. Continue Reading »

Report: Israeli jets fly over Iran, photograph, collect intel undetected

According to a Kuwaiti report, two Israel Air Force Adir stealth fighter jets entered Iranian airspace, via Syria & Iraq unnoticed, including undetected by the Russian radar systems located in Syria.

BY YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Two Israeli F-35 fighter jets entered Iranian airspace over the past month, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Thursday. The act is a signal of heightened regional tensions, especially in light of recent Israeli military attacks in Syria, including against Iranian bases in the country.

Sources quoted in Al-Jarida stated that two stealth fighters flew over Syrian and Iraqi airspace to reach Iran, and even targeted locations in the Iranian cities Bandar Abbas, Esfahan and Shiraz. Continue Reading »

Palestinians boast of ‘Gender Equality’ by seeking more female terrorists

As Western nations work for gender equality in society, Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority proudly noted on International Women’s Day, how it has always allowed women to be suicide-bombers and armed terrorists.

By Ryan Jones

 

Not wanting to miss out on the gender equality movement that’s all the rage in most of the Western world these days, the Palestinian Authority has been talking up the prominent role of women in its society.

For instance, most Palestinian leaders have absolutely no problem with women joining men as equals in the merciless slaughter of Israeli Jews.

In fact, the most deadly Palestinian terrorist attack on Israelis ever was led by a women. Continue Reading »

Hordes of Gazans flock to Israel’s border fence demanding ‘Right of Return’

Although a Hamas organizer of the demonstration emphasized it will be “peaceful & nonviolent,” Israel considers the border area a ‘closed military zone’, so an IDF commander said live fire will be used, if the protesters threaten Israeli lives.

BY ADAM RASGON

 

Masses of Palestinians are expected to come to the Gaza border on Friday and move into tents there for a planned six-week-long protest “to demand the right of return to the homes and villages that they were expelled from in 1948,” Ahmad Abu Ratima, an organizer of the protest, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

The beginning of the protest on Friday is scheduled to coincide with Land Day, which Palestinians annually commemorate the six Arab-Israelis who Israeli security forces killed during demonstrations in 1976 over government land confiscations in northern Israel. Continue Reading »

Croatia announces purchase of 12 Israeli F-16s with upgraded IAF avionics

Israel Air Force F-16i (Sufa) - Photo Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's office

Croatia’s acquisition of an Israel Air Force squadron of 12 used F-16 fighters is meant to replace their old MiG-21 jets Zagreb believes will upgrade their defenses against its neighbor, Kremlin-backed Serbia.

By News agencies

 

Croatia said Wednesday it will purchase upgraded Israeli F-16 fighter aircraft as it seeks to bolster its defenses amid Russia’s arming of neighboring Serbia.

Once formally approved by the government, it will be Croatia’s largest single military deal since it split from Serb-led Yugoslavia in the bloody 1991-95 war.

F-16i -Sufa, Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson’s Office

Croatia’s Defense Council accepted an Israeli offer that will replace the country’s aging MiG-21 fighters. Continue Reading »

Israeli Minister to Palestinians: Make Demands AFTER Returning Hadar and Oron

Israel’s Welfare Minister tells his Palestinian counterpart at meeting under German mediation, “the parties can cooperate and increase awareness and guidance for the Palestinian workers,” but as a first step of cooperation, Minister Katz demanded the Palestinian side “return the bodies of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul to Israel.”

By Mordechai Sones

 

Labor and Social Affairs Minister Chaim Katz met yesterday with his Palestinian Authority counterpart, PA Labor Minister Mamoun Abu-Shahla.

The meeting was held with mediation and participation of the German Ambassador to Israel, Dr. Clemens von Goetze.

During the meeting, Minister Katz told his PA counterpart, “Bring Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul to Israel for burial.

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IDF tanks destroy Hamas posts after Palestinians ignite fire on Gaza border-fence

Having attempted to destroy Israel’s security infrastructure, IDF tanks retaliate after 2 Palestinians, without entering into Israel, started a brush fire that they hoped would incapacitate the operations of Israel’s electronic border fence with Gaza.

By i24NEWS

 

The Israeli army shelled two Hamas observation posts in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday after two Palestinians arrived at the border fence and started a fire, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) reported on Wednesday.

The suspects approached the Karni Crossing but “did not cross the fence nor infiltrate into Israel,” the IDF statement said.

Palestinian protesters along the Israel-Gaza border. – Photo: JACKGUEZ/AFP

“The IDF views with severity any attempt to damage and destroy the security fence and security infrastructure,” the statement ended.

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German Foreign Minister passes message to Abbas: ‘Stop Antagonizing Trump’

Meeting with autocrat Abbas and his regime in Ramallah, Germany’s new foreign minister, Heiko Maas, told the Palestinian leaders that their insults and efforts to remove the U.S. from the peace process won’t end well for them.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Palestinian leadership might not like it, but the unavoidable fact is that the United States, even under President Donald Trump, is an absolutely necessary player in brokering any Middle East peace agreement.

Germany’s Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas – Photo: ©Superbass/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons

That was the message that Germany’s new foreign minister, Heiko Maas, sought to convey to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Hamas seeks Iran’s help securing release of fuel expect in Iraqi jail

The importance that the collapsing Hamas gov’t is seeking Iran’s assistance for an issue in Iraq, is more demonstrative of Hamas’ relations with Tehran and, Iran’s influence in Iraq. – This is of greater concern to Israel, than al-Jabouri’s release.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

Hamas has turned to its friends in Tehran to seek mediation with Baghdad in the case of a rocket fuel expert named Taha Mohamed al-Jabouri. The incident shows Hamas’s increasing desperation and its links to Iran.

The Philippine National Police detained an Iraqi citizen on January 21 in Pampanga, according to the website Rappler, which follows the Philippines and security issues. Continue Reading »

Sapper robot neutralized grenades found on 3 nabbed Palestinian terrorists from Gaza

With the help of a robot, Israel Police sapper neutralized the grenades after the IDF captured 3 Palestinian terrorists who infiltrated from Gaza; no injuries reported.

By Matazn Tzuri, Yoav Zitun

 

An IDF force on Tuesday morning arrested three Palestinians armed with knives and grenades after they had infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip. The terrorists were caught in the Tze’elim area, about 20 kilometers from the Gaza border.

A police sapper was dispatched to the area to neutralize the grenades with the help of a police robot.

The incident is being investigated. There were no reports of injuries. The IDF instructed Gaza vicinity residents to return to their routine schedule. Continue Reading »

When a King meets a Rabbi

Having run into Rabbi Goldberg at a Chabad tefillin stand in France, the two discussed the Seven Noahide Laws, the importance of charity in Judaism and recited a Hebrew blessing together.

By David Rosenberg

 

For decades, emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement have set up tefillin stands in universities and at street corners around the world, looking to encourage Jewish passersby to put on phylacteries.

One such tefillin stand in Paris received a most unusual visitor on Monday, when a middle-aged tourist from Morocco approached the stand and began chatting about the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

As Chabad emissary Israel Goldberg soon learned, the visitor was not the run-of-the-mill tourist, but Mohammed VI, the King of Morocco. Continue Reading »

In a surprise move, Facebook disables Gaza based Palestinian media page

A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on the disabling of Safa news site account, or on the accounts of 10 Safa editors, all closed.

By ADAM RASGON

 

Over the weekend, Facebook disabled the account of Safa, a Gaza-based Palestinian news site; it had almost 1.3 million followers.

Safa is widely seen as sympathetic to Hamas, but an employee at the news site said in a phone call that the media outlet is “independent” and “has no relationship with Hamas.”

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