New academic scholarships awarded to 40 Christian IDF veterans

 

By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

 

For the first time, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the Israeli Christians Recruitment Forum will award academic scholarships to 40 Christians who served in Israel’s armed forces or performed national service.

Father Naddaf of Nazareth with Christian Israeli IDF soldiers at a Christmas party on December 21, 2015. - Photo: ISRAELI CHRISTIAN RECRUITMENT FORUM

Father Naddaf of Nazareth with Christian Israeli IDF soldiers at a Christmas party on December 21, 2015. – Photo: ISRAELI CHRISTIAN RECRUITMENT FORUM

The aim of the scholarship program is to continue to encourage the integration of young members of the Christian community into Israeli society, while reducing gaps and providing opportunities to acquire a higher education. Continue Reading »

1 Dead Smuggler, Another Missing After Hamas’ 7th Tunnel Collapsed Thursday

 

Terrorist body unearthed after Hamas’ latest Gaza tunnel collapse 3 days ago, this one an underground smuggling tunnel into Egypt, that has ISIS members working on the Sinai side.

By Ben Ariel

 

A Gazan was found dead on Saturday and another remains missing after the collapse of yet another tunnel on the Egypt border, the interior ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said, according to AFP.

On Thursday, rescue services said seven men had been trapped in the collapse of a tunnel.

Five were rescued, but “the body of Fadi Abu Dan was pulled out as the search continues for someone else,” the ministry said on Saturday. Continue Reading »

MIT mathematician confirms: Israeli 10th-grader postulated new geometric theorem

 

Although a MIT mathematician confirmed Tamar Barbi’s discovery of a working theorem she used solving geometry homework problems wasn’t previously known, she still prefers a future in theater rather than mathematics.

By Yael Branovsky

 

Tamar Barbi from Hod Hasharon is only in the 10th grade, but she has already chalked up an impressive achievement: developing a new geometric theorem.

Israeli 10th grader, Tamar Barbi: The theorem is very logical and basic.

Barbi, who is studying mathematics on the highest matriculation track offered in Israel, discovered while doing her geometry homework that the theorem she was using to solve one of the problems on her homework didn’t actually exist. Continue Reading »

IAF retaliates for rockets fired on Israel, Palestinian killed

 

When Israel struck 4 Hamas targets in Gaza for firing several rockets into Israeli communities late Friday night, 10 yr-old Yasmin Abu Khoussa, whose home is near a Hamas training camp, was unintentionally killed by flying shrapnel. Although tragic, Hamas must realize, the IDF will never, ever, allow Gaza terrorist groups to attack Israel with impunity. 

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Fragments from a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Saturday, medical officials said, hours after militants launched rockets into Israel.

Rocket fire from Gaza. – Archive photo: AFP

A statement by the Israeli military said aircraft had targeted four militant training camps belonging to Hamas after four missiles landed in open areas in southern Israel late on Friday. Continue Reading »

At least 2 Gaza rockets strike open fields near southern Israeli towns

 

By MAARIV ONLINE

 

The Israeli military confirmed late Friday that at least two rockets fired by Palestinians in Gaza landed in communities near the border.

A rocket is launched from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel. – Photo: REUTERS

Just moments earlier, rocket sirens sounded in Israeli towns adjacent to the border with the Gaza Strip. The sirens were heard in Sderot and the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council.

Authorities are now searching the area for signs of a rocket or missile. Continue Reading »

Arab League: Hezbollah blacklisted as terrorist organization 

 

Days after Gulf nations deem Iran-backed group as terrorist organization, Arab League follows suit, with only Iraq and Lebanon expressing ‘reservations’.

By Roi Kais and AFP

 

Arab League foreign ministers on Friday declared Lebanon’s Shi’ite movement Hezbollah a “terrorist” group, after Sunni-dominated Gulf monarchies adopted the same stance.

Arab League meeting in Cairo – Photo: EPA

Nearly all members of the pan-Arab body supported the decision, but not Lebanon and Iraq which expressed “reservations”, the bloc said in a statement read out at a news conference by Bahraini diplomat Wahid Mubarak Sayar.

The announcement was made at a Cairo summit that raised a number of divisions between member states. Continue Reading »

Revealed: Hamas Exploits Gaza, Milks the Palestinians, Scams the World to Demonize Israel

 

From ‘free’ homes with hidden surprise taxes or charges for calling police, Hamas’ tricks for fleecing Gazans and fooling the world about ‘Israeli blockade’ are revealed.

By Ari Yashar

 

Aside from siphoning off international aid for its missile and tunnel programs, Hamas has been cynically manipulating the residents in Gaza by imposing unreasonable taxes to prop up its terror activities, even while deceiving the world into blaming Israel for the bleak situation.

 Hamas continues to complain of the “Israeli blockade” in the international press and accuse it for Gaza’s economic crisis, but meanwhile the terrorist organization is fleecing its residents in various forms of taxes and funneling tens of millions of dollars into its “military arm” every month.
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Israel’s Security Cabinet approves completion of 2007 security wall around Jerusalem

 

Opposition leader Issac Herzog spoke with the vice president explaining, “Only separation will stop terrorism. If we do not separate from the Palestinians, the Jews will continue to be killed here.”

 

hursday night approved the immediate renewal of construction work on the security barrier around the area of Jerusalem, in an effort to halt Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis.

It was one of a series of measures the cabinet took just hours after US Vice President Joe Biden flew out of Ben-Gurion Airport for Jordan.

The security barrier has been largely frozen since 2007. Continue Reading »

Peres Center for Peace & UNESCO join forces

 

UNESCO seeks to establish strategic cooperation with the Peres Center in order to put the center’s educational methods into practice by championing peace & interfaith dialogue all over the world.

By Itamar Eichner

 

The UN agency for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) has decided to sign a partnership agreement with the Peres Center for Peace. Under this partnership, UNESCO is to promote several Peres Center projects in the fields of education and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israeli envoy to UNESCO Carmel Shama HaCohen

Peres was invited to tour UNESCO headquarters in Paris this coming month, where he also plans to sign the agreement with the organization’s leaders. Continue Reading »

Survey: 56% of Israeli-Arabs polled feel their elected Knesset Members don’t represent them

 

view videoA survey published by Israel TV channel 2 shows 56% of Israeli-Arabs think condemning Saudi Arabia for blacklisting Hezbollah as a terrorist organization was not justified.

By Shoshana Miskin

 

Most Israeli Arabs think that the Joint List Knesset members do not properly represent them, according to a survey published by Channel 2.

According to the survey, which was completed by 350 people from the Arab sector alone, 56% believe that the Arab MKs do not represent them or represent them to a lesser extent.

On the other hand, 40% Israel’s Arab citizenry feel that the Joint List MKs represent them quite or considerably well. Continue Reading »

At 112, Holocaust survivor in Haifa is deemed ‘World’s Oldest Man’

 

After providing an official document issued in 1918 as proof, Israeli Holocaust survivor who’s living in Haifa, Yisrael Kristal, has acquired Guinness World Records recognition.

By i24news

 

Yisrael Kristal, a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor living in Israel, has been formally recognized as the world’s oldest man, Haaretz reports.

Taken on January 21, 2016, Yisrael Kristal sitting in his home in the Israeli city of Haifa, Israel – Photo: AFP

Reports surfaced at the end of January that Kristal’s grandson Oren had received an email from the Gerontology Research Group informing him that Yasutaro Koide of Japan had passed away, just two months short of his 113th birthday. Continue Reading »

Analysis: Dispelling myths on Palestinian terrorism

 

view videoPalestinian terrorism exploded in the 1990s after the successful diplomatic process with Arafat. Then, the Left called our dead “victims of peace.” That was wrong then, just as it is wrong now to call those butchered in recent terrorist attacks as, “victims of despair.” The fact is, they were/are all victims of the Palestinians’ sanctification of death and refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.

Dr. Limor Samimian-Darash

 

Not even 24 hours passed after Tuesday’s spate of terrorist attacks before we heard Opposition Leader MK Isaac Herzog tell us that only separation from the Palestinians could halt the wave of terrorism we have been experiencing since last fall.

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Movement seeks continuing anti-terror wall to separate Palestinian towns from Jerusalem

 

In the midst of the current Palestinian terror attacks, the Save Jewish Jerusalem movement, a collection of ex-MKs, Police & IDF officers, are proposing a plan that would annex about 200,000 Palestinians into areas B and C.

By Elior Levy

 

The current escalation in Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in East Jerusalem, has led to the establishment of the Save Jewish Jerusalem (SJJ) movement, whose founders – former high-ranking politicians and military leaders – are calling for a partial separation from Palestinian villages in East Jerusalem. They conducted a tour of Palestinian villages on Wednesday, which began in Qalandia and concluded in Jabel Mukaber. Continue Reading »

Still Dropping Like Flies: 6 Hamas smugglers buried alive in 6th tunnel collapse in 2016

With 12 Hamas terrorists already dead from previous collapses since January, Hamas blames Egypt for the latest, as 6 smugglers are buried alive and one unaccounted for.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Six Palestinians were trapped and another was missing Thursday after a Gaza smuggling tunnel collapsed, a local Hamas official said.

He described the underground passage from the southern Gaza town of Rafah into neighbouring Egypt as a “trade tunnel.”

The cave-in, the sixth since January, was caused by Egyptian flooding of the border zone in its campaign to stop smuggling, the official told AFP.

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Authorities have spoken to one of the trapped men by mobile telephone and rescue efforts are under way, he added. Continue Reading »

Abbas’ Fatah party celebrates Palestinian terror attack that killed American veteran touring Jaffa

 

view videoPA President Abbas’ Palestinian faction, Fatah, posted a photo describing the 21 yr-old murderer of Taylor Force as a “heroic martyr”… that remained online while meeting US vice president.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Fatah, the largest faction within the PLO, and the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,  celebrated the Tuesday murder of an American tourist in Jaffa on its Facebook page, the media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch has reported.

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Text on arm: The heroic Martyr (Shahid); Text on map is name of Taylor Force’s murderer: Bashar Masalha‏. – Photo: PMW – TAKEN FROM OFFICIAL FATAH FACEBOOK PAGE

The group posted a hand drawn sketch of a hand gripping a knife over a map of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Continue Reading »