Watch: Arab Child Admits PA School Teaches ‘To Kill Jews’ For the Homeland

Education,[sic] Palestinian style: On official PA TV, young Arab boy in Hevron theater says he joined to ‘boycott Israel & kill the Jews.’

By Ari Yashar

 

How does the Palestinian Authority (PA) education system look? A broadcast aired on official PA TV this Sunday and Wednesday gave an in-depth look at how children are being exposed to arts, theater – along with boycotting Israel and “killing Jews.”

In a broadcast from a school in Hevron holding a theater contest that was meant to use “culture” to teach children to boycott Israeli products, a boy interviewed said “I came to rehearse the play in order to boycott Israeli products and fight the Jews, kill them, and defeat them,” as translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

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Switzerland, Not EU Member, Bankrolls Hamas to Retain Control in Gaza

Even as the EU continues to sanction Hamas, the influx of Swiss financial support now bolsters the terrorist regime that was on its last legs.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Switzerland has put together a generous financial package to prop up the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after billions in promised foreign donations following last summer’s Gaza war failed to materialize.

That according to Palestinian officials who spoke to Israel’s NRG news portal, which reported that as part of the deal, the Swiss government would pay the salaries of thousands of Hamas members – many of whom are known terrorists – thereby propping up Hamas rule.

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MAGAV’s diligent security patrol defuse discovered bomb near Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs

The pipe-bomb was discovered during a routine check around a Border Police Guard (MAGAV) station; “We are aware of attempts by terrorists to hurt security forces & that is why we perform checks like this.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Border Police thwarted a terror attempt near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron after discovering an explosive around their guard station.

IDF soldiers visit Cave of the Patriarchs. – Photo: REUTERS

On Wednesday night, Border Police performed a search of the area around the guard station, located very close to the famous holy site where both Jews and Muslims pray. During the search, they found the explosive device, a pipe bomb. Continue Reading »

Israeli scientists determine correct length of Saturn’s day

New research at Tel Aviv University established that the 6th planet takes 7 minutes less than what scientists previously determined to complete a full turn on its axis.

BY Ynet

 

Israeli scientists have solved the mystery of Saturn’s days, determining that one day on the planet lasts 10 hours and a little more than 32 minutes – seven minutes shorter than originally calculated.

Saturn – Photo: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The new research at Tel Aviv University was published this week in the Nature journal.

The length of a day for most of the planets in the solar system is clear physical data and well-known to modern science. Continue Reading »

Amnesty Int’l Reports: Palestinians guilty of war crimes during Gaza war

Amnesty International report: Unguided mortar & rocket attacks by Palestinian groups during Operation Protective Edge were violations under int’l law.
• Report also corroborates IDF reports of Palestinian groups storing munitions in civilian buildings and UN schools.

By The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that Palestinian groups committed war crimes during Operation Protective Edge last summer by killing both Israeli and Palestinian civilians using indiscriminate projectiles.
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Palestinians protest when Egypt stops electricity supply to Gaza

Egyptian government cuts electricity to Palestinians as a result of their outstanding debt, leaving one Gazan to declare,  “Even when we had the war with the Zionists, they did not cut off our power supply and water like el-Sissi the criminal.”

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French cable car company quits Jerusalem project

Decision to drop out of the agreement was made ‘to avoid any political interpretations’ that may result in legal charges by Palestinians.

 

PARIS – For political reasons, the French company SAFEGE has withdrawn from the Jerusalem cable-car project, which is largely located over the Green Line.

THE SAFEGE FIRM built this experimental transport system in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, in northcentral France. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

After two years of involvement in the project during the feasibility-study stage, the company decided to forgo any further participation, Le Figaro. The decision was made “to avoid any political interpretations,” a representative of SAFEGE’s parent company, Suez Environnement, told the newspaper. Continue Reading »

Precedential Ruling: Fallen soldier’s sperm goes to parents not widow

Judge’s groundbreaking decision: In spite of widow’s strenuous objections, Israeli court finds parents of deceased combat soldier can use their son’s sperm to father a child.

By Yoram Yarkoni

 

This is a story involving some tough dilemmas: Who owns sperm left behind by a reserve soldier killed during an army training exercise – his widow or his parents? What was the will of the deceased, and does the state have the right to allow a child to be born already an orphan?

The bereaved mother with her son. ‘He definitely wanted children.’

In the end, the court handed down a precedential and groundbreaking ruling: The parents are entitled to a grandchild from their son’s sperm.

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In Unprecedented Anti-Israel Move, Pentagon Reveals Israel’s Nuclear Program

In another move to undermine Israel, US declassifies 1987 report on Israel’s top secret nuclear program.

By Ari Yashar, Matt Wanderman

 

In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel’s nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent.

Dimona nuclear reactor circa 1960s – Photo: National Security Archive

But by publishing the declassified document from 1987, the US reportedly breached the silent agreement to keep quiet on Israel’s nuclear powers for the first time ever, detailing the nuclear program in great depth.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Bret Stephens slams Obama as ‘Orwellian’ in WSJ column

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WATCH: Religious Jews’ ‘Wedding Dance’ in Jordanian airport causes massive controversy

 

After posted on YouTube as a “Victory Dance”… “celebrating the mass murder of Arab men, women, & children. The mass rape & torture of young women & children,” it aroused anger on Jordanian social media & in the their parliament.

 

A group of Israeli Hassidim are being accused of carrying out a “ritual Talmudic dance” on Tuesday morning while waiting to board their plane in Queen Alia International Airport in Amman.

dancing Jews

What was in fact a traditional Jewish circle dance, accompanied by guitar music and Hebrew singing, has morphed into a social media controversy in Jordan, and was considered so offensive to Jordanians that it had to be denounced in the Jordanian parliament. Continue Reading »

VIEW REPORT: EU to Impose anti-Israel sanctions to force Palestinian State

EU diplomatic source: In wake of Netanyahu’s rejection of Palestinian state, EU plans to pressure Israel, according to report outlining 40 suggestions in blackmailing Jerusalem, to force a change in Israeli policy.

By Elior Levy

 

A European Union report obtained by Ynet on Wednesday outlines suggestions on how to pressure Israel into returning to negotiations, in a list of 40 possible decisions.

Netanyahu and Merkel. Israel and Europe are at loggerheads.  (Photo: Reuters)
Netanyahu and Merkel. Israel and Europe are at loggerheads. – Photo: Reuters

An EU diplomatic source told Ynet that there was a definite chance that the recommendations in the report, which the member states have yet to approve, were more likely to be implemented following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement during his election campaign that a Palestinian state would not be created under his rule. Continue Reading »

Jerusalem to open Gazelle Valley, 60 acre urban nature park in city next week

A new urban nature park, the first of its kind, like a ‘Central Park’, but with ‘wild animals’, will open in the middle of Jerusalem this coming Monday.

By Hillel Fendel

 

After two decades of persistent public battle, the Jerusalem Municipality will be dedicating and opening this week an urban nature park, replete with gazelles, ponds, bicycle paths and more, smack in the middle of the city.

Gazelles – Thinkstock

The park, named Gazelle Valley, stretches over 60 acres (250 dunams), and is located between the busy Begin Highway, the Katamon neighborhood, and Givat Mordechai. The Central Park-like (New York) natural areas is also within walking distance of Bayit V’gan, the Malha Mall, and other residential neighborhoods. Continue Reading »

110 Jewish Ukrainian Immigrants Arrive in Israel in Time for Passover

Escaping war-torn Ukraine, 110 Jews, the majority refugees, fled the fighting and landed in Israel just in time for the holidays.

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

 

With one week to go before Passover, 110 new Ukrainian immigrants landed in Israel on Tuesday morning.

110 Ukrainian immigrants land in Israel – Photo: Buzz Ratner

The majority of newcomers are refugees who fled the fighting zones in the eastern part of the Ukraine including the husband of a woman killed by a direct rock hit that slammed into their house in early February.

Launched by pro-Russian separatists at the city of Donetsk, a rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, the rocket killed Irina Shelkayeba, a teacher, as she was cooking supper. Continue Reading »

Palestinians Hesitate Due to Serious Backfire at the ICC

Despite a stacked deck against Israel, the International Criminal Court cannot overlook the multitude of indiscriminate attacks on civilians by both Hamas & Fatah, as irrefutable crimes against humanity.

By Gedalyah Reback

 

The Palestinian Authority is far more confident than it was just a few short weeks ago about its diplomatic offensive. With tensions at a purportedly unprecedented level between Jerusalem and Washington, Mahmoud Abbas might think he will get a silent or even overt go-ahead from the United States to pursue its recognition campaign. But the gambit to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) might be the PA’s Achilles‘ heel.

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