After BDS threats, 4 festival participants say they fear for their lives

 

International musicians due to perform at ‘Titans of Metal’ festival in Israel next month admitted to producers they fear for their lives after receiving BDS threats.

Ami Friedman

 

Any Israeli producer who wants to bring an artist over to the Holy Land can anticipate in advance the responses from pro-Palestinian organizations asking the artist to change their mind and cancel their visit. When a big name is involved, there’s a good chance they’ll get an email from Roger Waters himself, asking that they forgo the planned performance and join the cultural boycott of Israel, led by the BDS movement. Continue Reading »

Israel Aircraft Bomb Hamas Compound Following Gaza Rocket Attack on Southern Israel

 

Following a terrorist’s rocket attack on Southern Israel Monday morning, Israel’s Air Force launch airstrike on a Hamas military compound in Gaza.

By Ben Ariel

 

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Monday night a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in central Gaza, the IDF said in a statement.

According to the statement, the airstrike was in retaliation for a rocket attack on the Eshkol Regional Council of southern Israel on Monday morning.“The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for Gaza and will continue to operate firmly to maintain the peace in the southern localities,” the IDF statement said.

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WATCH CC security camera captures police neutralizing attackers outside Jerusalem market

 

view videoTwo teenage female Arabs attack a Jewish and Palestinian man with scissors outside Jerusalem market before security shoots one dead and leaving other terrorist in serious condition.

 

The footage shows the two Palestinian teenage assailants attempting to stab passersby before being shot by security forces.

Security camera footage emerged Monday of the earlier terror attack near the Jerusalem outdoor market in which two people were injured.

The footage captures the two Palestinian teenage assailants attempting to stab passersby before being shot by security forces.

One female teenaged Palestinian terrorist was killed, and her female teen accomplice is in critical condition, after attacking a Jewish and Palestinian man with scissors outside the Mahane Yehuda Market Monday morning, in the heart of downtown Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Attempted stabbing in Samaria by Arab; no one hurt thanks to IDF shooting terrorist dead

 

An Arab attempting to butcher Jews at the Hatmar intersection in Samaria was unsuccessful, as the stabber was quickly neutralized by alert IDF soldiers in the area.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

An Arab attempted a stabbing attack in the Hatmar Junction (also known as the Territorial Brigade junction – ed.) in Samaria on Monday afternoon, close to 3:00 pm.

The stabber was eliminated by IDF soldiers at the scene before he was able to harm anyone.

The incident is one of a series of attacks Monday. Just minutes after, an Israeli was murdered in a stabbing at a gas station along Highway 443north of Jerusalem, which also left another person wounded.

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Hamas to pay officials’ salaries with evacuated Jewish settlement land

 

Fatah chief & PA President Mahmoud Abbas calls Hamas’ decision to divvy up old settlement land among their officials as ‘dangerous, illegal, & politically unfair.’

By i24news

 

The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that it will compensate its officials’ partially paid salaries by distributing land from former Israeli settlements evacuated during Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the strip in 2005.

Gush Katif, a former Israeli settlement evacuated in Israel’s 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip – Photo: GADI KABALO

Around 40,000 Hamas officials earn only partial salaries, equivalent to approximately $260 for 50 days of work.
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IDF closes Hebron radio station for encouraging terror and acts of violence

 

IDF statement after soldiers confiscated equipment, including computers & transmitters, “The El-Halil radio station has repeatedly broadcast content which promotes & encourages terror and acts of violence against Israeli civilians & security forces.”

By Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom Staff & News Agencies

 

The Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) shut down on Saturday night a radio station in Hebron which the IDF said was broadcasting content that incited Palestinian listeners to attack Israelis.

An employee of the El-Halil radio station after it was shut down Saturday night – Photo: AFP

Employees at El-Halil radio station said IDF soldiers confiscated their equipment, including computers and transmitters, forcing the radio station off the air. Continue Reading »

German department store apologizes, restocks Israeli wines from Golan Heights

 

view videoGerman department-store apologizes after Israeli PM’s condemnation of German store for turning EU’s decision to label Jewish ‘settlement’ products into outright boycott.

By HERB KEINON

 

The German Department store KaDeWe, which on Saturday removed from its store wine produced in the Golan Heights, apologized for the move on Sunday and returned the bottles to the shelves.

Following a great deal of criticism on social media and a protest from the Green Party’s Volker Beck, president of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Bundestag, a spokesman for the department store sent him a letter of apology.

“The eight Israeli wines will be immediately returned,” the letter read. Continue Reading »

A Story of Coexistence: A Jew, an Arab and a Druze Share an Apartment in Israel

 

view videoThey are not just refusing to be enemies, the three 20 yr-olds, all of whom are disabled, share an apartment in Israel and have become best friends.

By Noam Barkan

 

They live together in the same apartment, they cook together, do their supermarket shopping together and go out to restaurants together, and won’t let any obstacle stand in their way – not even religion. If we could learn from them how to live together in harmony – an Arab, a Druze and a Jew, all youngsters – we would already have achieved peace.

Naji, Mohammed and Maor live together happily in spite of their different backgrounds.

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U.S. Christian group helps protect Jerusalem against Arab terror-attacks

 

The $600,000 funded from US Christians will be used to provide aid to terror victims, purchase security equipment for Jerusalem, and other means of support for the Border Police, fighting in the front line against Arab terror.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The (The Fellowship), led by President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Jerusalem, Border Police, and local social-service groups counter the ongoing terror wave against Israel.

The $600,000 funded from Christians across North America will be used to purchase security equipment and other means of support for those fighting in the front line against terror. Continue Reading »

Abbas’s Fatah: ‘It is the right of our young men to kill Israelis’

 

Top Fatah official at rally puts up memorial to the murderer of Jews, lauding the Old City stabber declaring ‘right’ to cause ‘Israeli women to cry.’

By Ari Yashar

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction is at it again, heaping praise on the Arab terrorist who stabbed two Jews to death in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October and declaring that the murder of Jews is a Palestinian “right.”

PMW

Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen took part in a rally honoring the terrorist Muhannad Halabi, as reported by the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency and translated and revealed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Continue Reading »

US law enforcement officials in Israel to learn counter-terrorism ops

 

The program is designed for senior officials, police chiefs, sheriffs, and state & federal law enforcement officials all over the US to meet with elite units from the Jerusalem Police, Border Police & Shin Bet.
– ‘Israel is the best at dealing with terrorism, and we want to learn from your experience,’ says former FBI counter-terrorism head.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

 

Citing Israel as the world leader in counter-terrorism, 15 senior American law enforcement officials from the Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) are spending 10 days in the country to observe multiple security agencies.

 SENIOR US law enforcement officials in Jerusalem participating in LEEP, a counterterrorism exchange

SENIOR US law enforcement officials in Jerusalem participating in LEEP, a counterterrorism exchange program.

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New Israel Fund Financed Video to Persuade Israeli Arabs, Minorities Not to Join IDF

 

The New Israel Fund, which claims to promote Jewish-Arab coexistence, does exactly the opposite when it funds anti-Zionist organizations that incite against integrating the Arab youth into Israeli society.

By Gil Ronen

 

Deputy Minister of Defense Eli Ben-Dahan and MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home), MK Merav Ben-Ari (Kulanu) and MK Miki Zohar (Likud) dispatched a letter this week to Talia Sasson, President of the New Israel Fund, in which they demanded that the Fund cease its support for the “Baladna Association for Arab Youth” organization.

Baladna recently produced a music video inciting against Arabs and members of other minorities who enlist in the Israeli Defense Forces, and calling on minorities to refuse to enlist.
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“Occupied Palestine” Streets Have More Mercedes, BMWs Than Tel Aviv, Haifa or Jerusalem

 

While the media & human rights groups blame the Israeli “occupation” for poor living conditions in the Palestinian-controlled areas of Judea & Samaria, a new JCPA report shows Palestinians living in luxury, in a fast-developing society where literacy is high, infant mortality is low, & citizens are happier than most Americans.

 

A recent report published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) brings to light some painfully glaring contrasts developing amongst the ranks of the Palestinian Authority.

While many left-wing and human rights groups blame the Israeli “occupation” for poor living conditions in Gaza and Palestinian-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria, the report paints a picture of a new class of Palestinians living in comfort and even luxury in a fast-developing society where literacy is high, infant mortality is low and citizens are happier than most Americans. Continue Reading »

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 »

PA Official: Palestinian Kids Have Right to Stone Jews

 

Palestinian gov’t official condemns jail terms in Israel for minors who stone Jews, insisting that it’s a right of every Palestinian child.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Earlier this month, Israel’s Knesset enacted a minimum prison term for minors who throw stones and firebombs at vehicles. An outraged Palestinian Authority called the measure “punitive and racist.”

Palestinian prepare for terror attack, dropping huge stones on passing cars.

Stoning attacks in Israel go largely unreported, but on average there are several such incidents every day. The perpetrators are usually Palestinian Arab youth, and their victims are almost always Israeli Jewish motorists. Continue Reading »