Jordanian Arab shot after injuring Israeli driver in rock attack

Jordanian infiltrator attacks Israeli car on Highway 90, causing young female driver to swerve into security barrier, then tries to force her out of the car.

By Reut Hadar

 

Twenty-three-year-old Rotem Aharoni from Had Nes was driving to work when an Arab man in a grey kaftan threw a large rock at her car.

Rotem Aharoni at Poria Hospital

Rotem slammed on the breaks and the car struck a safety rail. The Arab then ran towards her, opened the door and tried to force her out of the vehicle, all the while yelling in Arabic.

Rotem fought back and pushed him away. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Hateful al-Quds Day Protest in London Meets Pro-Israel Protesters

 

view videoEvery year, hundreds of pro-terror Hezbollah, Hamas and pro-Palestinian supporters march through London professing their hate unopposed, but this year the Israel Advocacy Movement planned a counter-protest.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Every year, hundreds of pro-terror Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian supporters march through London unopposed.

This year, the Israel Advocacy Movement had a great surprise for the protesters and it was epic.

Initially a handful of Zionist supporters stopped the progress of the hateful marchers in their tracks.

It was not not long afterwards that the terror supporting marchers were outnumbered by a sea of blue and white to counter the annual ‘Al Quds Day’ anti-Israel, pro-terror march in London. Continue Reading »

CNN backtracks with new graphic after ignoring terrorism against Israelis

 

MEDIA BIAS EXPOSED: CNN finally includes Tel Aviv after mass protests highlighted Israel’s exclusion from a featured graphic of the worst terror attacks that occurred throughout Ramadan.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

 

News network CNN has updated a graphic it featured this week listing some of the deadliest terror attacks that occurred throughout the month of Ramadan to include reference to the July 8 shooting attack in Tel Aviv.

CNN graphic excludes Israel on map of terror attacks during Ramadan in 2016

An advocacy group for Israel, Stand With Us, pointed out the update on its social media, claiming that “criticism” led to the change.

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Watch: India successfully tests Israel’s Barak 8 defensive missile

 

view videoIndia has become the 1st country in the world to incorporate the ‘Made in Israel’ ground-based Barak 8 defensive surface-to-air missile into its armed forces.
• The Barak 8, currently used by the Israeli navy, will shortly be incorporated into the German navy as well.

By Yoav Zitun

 

India carried out a successful test of the Israeli made Barak 8 surface to air missile last week. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), which produces the missile, carried out a successful joint test with the Indian Ministry of Defense and Indian Air Force. The test saw the SAM missile take out targets at mid-range, including hitting an “enemy drone.” Continue Reading »

Report from Kuwait: Assassination attempt on Netanyahu in Kenya thwarted

view videoKuwaiti based newspaper reports Prime Minister’s convoy in Kenya was changed at last moment by local authorities, thwarting plans to attack Netanyahu.

By Nitsan Keidar

 

According to a report in the Kuwaiti-based Al Jarida newspaper, Kenyan security forces foiled an attack targeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s convoy during his visit to Kenya earlier this week.

Binyamin and Sara Netanyahu – Photo: Kobi Gideon(PMO)

A senior security official told the paper that Kenyan police altered the convoy’s route just before its departure from the Nairobi airport.

The change was so sudden it sparked an argument between Netanyahu’s body guards and local security forces, according to the paper.

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Germany: Iran still trying to acquire illicit materials for nuclear program

 

A year after Iran signed a deal with Obama’s administration promising to curtail its nuclear program, Germany’s domestic intel agency warns of Iran’s continued efforts to violate agreement and acquire forbidden materials.

By Polina Garaev

 

Iran is still making extensive attempts to acquire materials to further its nuclear program, a year after signing a deal promising its curtailment, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency warned last week.

A building housing the reactor at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Iranian port town of Bushehr – Photo: AFP

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) says it has detected extensive Iranian attempts to acquire illicit materials in Germany, “especially goods that can be used in the field of nuclear technology,” noted the agency in its recently released annual report. Continue Reading »

Watch: Congressman concerned over US aid to Palestinians used as payments to convicted killers

 

view videoWatch Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee outraged that financial assistance to the Palestinians is used to pay killers, inciting more and more to murder Jews, which is sustained indirectly with US foreign aid.

 

WASHINGTON — Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee agreed on Wednesday to strategize an end to a Palestine Liberation Organization program that offers monthly stipends to convicted murderers and terrorists.

Chairman Royce’s Opening Statement at Hearing on Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West Bank
At a hearing on the matter, Democratic and Republican members vowed to coordinate on closing a loophole in US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority, which allows parent and subsidiary Palestinian organizations, such as the PLO, to continue the decade-old practice.
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WATCH: IDF neutralize Palestinian woman attempting to stab soldiers

 

view videoDriver films a graphic video catching an armed Palestinian woman being shot after trying to stab two soldiers at a bus stop.
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By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Dressed in a light pink tunic and jeans a young female Palestinian assailant attempting to stab two soldiers and a civilian on Tuesday evening.

A video of the attack was posted on Youtube. It was shot from a vehicle that passed the site of the attack, a bus stop at the Gitai Avisar junction near the West Bank city of Ariel.

The young woman held her hand up and clenched a knife. Continue Reading »

Israeli politician Yair Lapid lambastes UNRWA ‘insanity’, leader’s motives

 

Yesh Atid chief rejects UNRWA criticism over the demolition of terrorist homes, rebukes UNRWA for its incitement, employment of Hamas members, deletion of Israel on its school maps, and asks Americans, why do you “fund over a $100 million a year of this insanity?”

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid lambasted the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Tuesday, following the organization’s condemnation of the recent demolitions of the homes of two terrorists responsible for a deadly stabbing attack last December.

Ann Dismorr, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, with a map that shows all of Israel as “Palestine”.-

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Yelling “Allahu akbar” on Temple Mount declared illegal if not during prayer

 

Shouting “Allahu akbar” (Arabic for “God is greater”) at non-Muslims on the Temple Mount now constitutes a ‘disturbance of the peace,’ ruled a Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court judge.

By Israel Today Staff

 

A Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court judge ruled that Shouting “Allahu akbar” – Arabic for “God is greater” at non-Muslims on the Temple Mount constitutes a disturbance of the peace.

Paid Palestinian activists yelling “Allahu akbar” at visiting Jewish Israelis on the Temple Mount

From experience it is known that shouting the chant other than in times of prayer is often used during riots and usually accompanies violence and terrorism.

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WATCH: At historic visit, Kenyan president tells Netanyahu, ‘Africa needs Israel’

 

view videoKenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta commits to upgrading Israel’s status in the African Union since ‘it was critical for Africa to re-evaluate its relationship with Israel in order to better enable Africa to deal with common challenges in security & counter-terrorism.’

By HERB KEINON

 

NAIROBI — Kenya will work to restore Israel’s observer status at the African Union because Israel is a critical partner in the battle against terrorism, the most serious challenge facing the world today, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Tuesday.

Kenyatta said that the upgrading of Israel’s status in the pan-African body is critical not for Israel, “but for all those who see this [terrorism] as a common challenge. Continue Reading »

2 arrested Gazans spill all on tunnels, smuggling ‘blood-money’, & Hamas activities

 

Faiz Attar & Itallah Sarhan told Israel’s Shin Bet the location of Hamas’ terror tunnels & rocket-launchers, and how they smuggled 10’s of thousands of euros from Gaza into the West Bank by hiding them in specially made shoes provided by Hamas operatives.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The Shin Bet and Israel Police arrested two Palestinians last month on the suspicion they were involved in the smuggling of money from Gaza to Hamas operatives in the West Bank, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday.

Shoe, provided by Hamas, was fitted to hide money in. – Photo courtesy: Israel Security Service

In his interrogation, Itallah Sarhan, 27, a truck driver working for a company Hamas and Islamic Jihad employ to clear sand from tunnel-digging sites, revealed a lot of information about tunnel openings he saw during his work. Continue Reading »

Furious at report, Abu Mazen boycotts Middle East Quartet

 

Apparently the PA can’t take criticism: In response to the Palestinian Authority being called out in the Quartet report for supporting those who commit acts of terror, by glorifying them among the Palestinian public, Abbas calls for the boycott of Mid-East Quartet.

By Rachel Kaplan

 

In an odd turn of events, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly boycotting the UN’s Middle East Quartet, according to the Al-Hayat news service.

The Palestinian Authority president, Fatah’s Mahmoud Abbas (right) and prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas. – Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP

The Quartet issued a report last week, detailing several recommendations in order to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Continue Reading »

Israel revokes Hebron governor’s entry permit into Israel after visiting terrorists’ families

 

After visiting the mourning tents of two families of terrorists who attacked Israelis on Friday, COGAT head revoked Hebron governor’s entry permit into Israel, explaining, ‘Israel will not reward the supporters of terrorism.’

By Elior Levy

 

The Palestinian Authority has so far avoided condemning the two serious attacks last week in which two Israelis were murdered, with the PA’s Hebron Governor, Kamal Hamid, visiting on Saturday the mourners’ tents of two terrorists. In response, Israel has revoked his permit to visit Israel.

Kamal Hamid shaking the hands of mourners – Facebook

The governor visited the two mourners’ tents in the village of Bani Na’im: Mohammed Taraireh’s, who killed 13-year-old Hallel Ariel in her sleep, and Sara Hajaj’s, a relative of Taraireh’s who attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
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Israeli Ministers okays 800 new homes for construction in greater Jerusalem area

 

The approval of 800 new homes in Jewish towns comes in the wake of the recent surge in Palestinian terrorist activity, but at a delicate time, since the recent Quartet report lambasted Jewish home-building in Judea & Samaria as, ‘undermining the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.’

By Shlomo Cesana & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday approved the construction of 800 new homes in the greater Jerusalem area.

Archive photo of construction in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. -Photo: AP

The plan includes the construction of 560 homes in the eastern Jerusalem suburb of Maaleh Adumim, 140 homes in the northeastern neighborhood of Ramot, 50 homes in the southeastern neighborhood of Har Homa, and 50 homes in the Pisgat Zeev neighborhood in east Jerusalem. Continue Reading »