Tel Aviv marathon cancelled after 75 runners injured & unseasonable heat

Tel Aviv marathon cancelled midway after 75 runners were given first-aid treatment by MDA for injuries, with 15 taken to the hospital, & leaving 2 in serious condition.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

The organizers of the Tel Aviv Marathon were forced to cancel the event in the middle on Friday morning, after numerous runners suffered injuries due to the unseasonable heat. While most of the runners had completed their tracks, there were about 500 runners on the full marathon track who had not yet finished.

Tel Aviv marathon 2015. – Photo courtesy: ISRAEL POLICE SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT

MDA treated at least 75 runners during the event. Continue Reading »

Israel Foreign Ministry Supplying Desalination Vehicle to Marshall Islands

Israel to supply the first water purification vehicle to the Pacific island nation, which suffers from serious water shortages.

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

 

The Pacific island nation known as the Marshall Islands will soon have its first water purification vehicle – thanks to Israel.

Water purification vehicle – Photo: G.A.L. Water Technologies Ltd.


The Israel Foreign Ministry is supplying desalination vehicle to the tiny nation with a population of about 70,000 people. Located near the equator in the northern Pacific Ocean, the Marshall Islands suffers from a serious water shortage, which Israel hopes to help the country overcome.

Continue Reading »

Madonna: Intolerance in France is ‘Scary, Feels Like Nazi Germany’

Int’l pop-star warns “anti-Semitism is at an all-time high” in France,”The level of intolerance is so enormous, it’s scary.”

By Ben Ariel

 

Pop star Madonna told French radio on Thursday that “intolerance” was now so high in France and Europe that “it feels like Nazi Germany,” according to the AFP news agency.

Madonna – Reuters

Speaking to Europe 1 radio in an interview to be aired Friday morning, Madonna said “anti-Semitism is at an all-time high” in France and elsewhere in Europe, and likened the current atmosphere to the period when German fascism was on the ascent.

“We’re living in crazy times.

Continue Reading »

Palestinian Authority Settle its Electricity Debt with Israel Electric Company

After forced blackouts in Jenin and Shechem over unpaid electric bills, 300 million shekels of PA tax money to be transferred to the Israel Electric Company.

By Avi Haim & Tova Dvorin

 

The Israel Electric Company (IEC) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) reached a temporary settlement Thursday, after the IEC introduced rolling blackouts in protest to outstanding debts.

Electricity on the way to the Palestinians – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Under the agreement, the PA will transfer some 300 million shekel (about $75,800,000) in tax money to the IEC in exchange for a halt on the blackouts, which the IEC introduced earlier this week after multiple warnings over the debt.

Continue Reading »

Lieberman: We’ll seek death penalty to terrorists, end of Hamas control over Gaza

Israel’s Foreign Minister tells i24news he’ll push for ouster of Hamas, death penalty for terrorists and will never a form coalition with leftists.

By i24news

 

The first law Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will push for during his party’s next tenure in the Knesset will be capital punishment for terrorists, the official told i24news in an exclusive interview.

Avigdor Lieberman – Photo: i24news

Capital punishment is currently not practiced in Israel, and only two people were executed in the state’s history: the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and a soldier accused of treason and exonerated posthumously.

The hawkish statesman said he was not overly concerned over his party’s performance in the polls, which predicted it might struggle to pass the electoral barrier and could face a spell on the sidelines of Israeli politics. Continue Reading »

Jordan and Israel sign historic deal to save Dead Sea

The new Two Seas Canal will rehabilitate Dead Sea by pumping water from the Red Sea, provide drinking water alleviating Jordan’s chronic water problems, and produce electricity to power entire project and more.

By AFP

 

Jordan and Israel signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea and combat regional water shortages. The official Petra news agency said that the agreement signed in the Jordanian capital, Amman, would set in motion the implementation of the first phase of a long-awaited project.

Israel’s Silvan Shalom with Jordan’s Nasser sign deal

The Red Sea–Dead Sea Conduit also known as the Two Seas Canal will carry some 100 million metric cubes of water to the north annually, thus hopefully slowing down the process Dead Sea’s desiccation. Continue Reading »

Likud MK: No Classified Intel Discussed if Arab MKs on Committee

MK Yariv Levin states that ‘no one’ trusts Balad MKs with classified information, even when they’re serving on Knesset committees.

By Hezki Ezra & Tova Dvorin

 

Any Arab MKs to join the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 20th Knesset will not be privy to classified information, MK Yariv Levin (Likud) stated Thursday.

“The general committee will only hold discussions which do not contain classified information, whereas sub-committees will include classified intel,” he said, during an address at the Israel Democracy Institute in Tel Aviv Thursday.

“If a party insists on an MK being appointed to a committee, whether Jewish or Arab, they will get the spot, as established in the Knesset regulations,” Levin said.

Continue Reading »

Apple CEO Tim Cook Praises Israel’s President Rivlin for Integration of Minorities

Apple’s Tim Cook counters the false claims of ‘Israeli apartheid’ by acknowledging the Jewish State as an example of successful integration.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently in Israel to oversee the opening of a new Apple research and development center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. Even as campuses around the world begin their annual “Israel Apartheid Week” festivities, Cook openly praised Israel’s integration of minorities in its burgeoning hi-tech sector.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Apple VP of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji, an Israeli Arab and graduate of Israel’s Technion Institute – Photo: YouTube 9to5mac screenshot

“True innovation can only result from full access to education for all, regardless of race, religion, or sex,” said Cook, noting that Israel had done just that.

Continue Reading »

Fatah spokesman: 90% of Gazans want to emigrate because of Hamas

Fatah spokesman Qawassmeh, asks Hamas leaders: “Do you feel any national responsibility toward the Palestinians and their cause?”

 

More than 90 percent of Gaza Strip residents want to leave because of Hamas, Fatah spokesman Osama Qawassmeh said on Wednesday.

Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad (L) and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh – Photo: REUTERS

Addressing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the Fatah spokesman asked: “Do you know that more than 90 percent of our people in the Gaza Strip want to emigrate, if given the chance, so they could escape from your regime? Do you feel any national responsibility toward the Palestinians and their cause?” Continue Reading »

Palestinian bullies impose Israel boycott: ‘You have 48 hrs to remove all Israeli products’

Activists in Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli products in the West Bank begin bullying Ramallah shop owners in what they called ‘a national duty.’

By Elior Levy

 

An entourage of about 20 people, among them the leaders of the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli products in the West Bank and a number of Fatah officials, made their way through the Palestinian capital of Ramallah, enforcing what they called a “national duty”.

Inspectors find Israeli milk brand being sold at shop despite boycott of Israeli goods. – Photo: Elior Levy

The group moved in and out of different stores in Ramallah, embarrassing store owners who had yet to get rid of Israeli made products. Continue Reading »

Rumsfeld: Obama’s Treatment of Netanyahu is Simply a ‘Big Mistake’

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he is “shocked” at the “shabby treatment”  Netanyahu has been experiencing at the hands of President Barack Obama.

By Yaakov Levi

 

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that he is “shocked” at the way the White House has been treating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – Screenshot foxbusiness interview

“These statements not only deflect the conversation from the important issues to the peripheral ones, they also strengthen the states who oppose Israel, and aid those who support Iran,” Rumsfeld said.

In an interview with Yisrael Hayom, which will appear in the newspaper’s Friday edition, Rumsfeld recounted the “shabby treatment” he argues Netanyahu has been experiencing at the hands of President Barack Obama, who has made it clear that the Israeli Prime Minister will be an unwanted guest in Washington when he speaks to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program next week. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Disenchanted Israeli Ambassador to UN Presents ‘Oscars’ to Israel’s Antagonists

Israeli ambassador to the UN mocks the “theater of the absurd” for celebrating their cynical  commitment to peace & security around the world by handing then out phony ‘Oscars’.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The UN Security Council this week held a special session on its commitment to peace and security in the world in honor of the world body’s 70th anniversary. Taking place a day after the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor mocked the gathering by handing out phony “Oscar” awards to Middle East abusers of human rights whom the UN has categorically failed to curtail.

Continue Reading »

Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports: ‘Libya’s Sisi’ said to meet Israelis in Jordan

Libyan president proposed appointing former army general Khalifa Haftar as country’s chief military commander.
Libyan PM criticizes EU, US & UK for failing to supply weapons to battle Islamist militancy.

 

Former Libyan army general, Khalifa Haftar, who has set himself up as a warrior against Islamist militancy and who some also see as their savior, was planning to meet with Israeli officials on a visit in Amman, an Arab newspaper reported.

Khalifa Haftar

Khalifa Haftar – Photo: REUTERS

The London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Tuesday that informed sources said that Haftar secretly visited Egypt twice last week and received 400 different kinds of weapons for his forces in Libya. Continue Reading »

Forced out of Damascus, Hamas now centered in Turkey, a NATO member state

Radical Islamist militant group sets up its ‘West Bank & Jerusalem Headquarters’ in Istanbul, using it as base for recruitment, financing & operational planning for anti-Israel terrorism, with the blessings of Turkey’s President Erdoğan.

By Alex Fishman

 

Relations been Israel and Turkey have been on a slippery downward slope in recent years; of late, however, the situation has led to grave consequences beyond the realm of politics: Turkey has become a Hamas hotbed, and members of the organization’s military wing are undergoing military training on Turkish soil, with the knowledge, support and assistance of the local authorities.

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashal, left, with Turkish President Erdoğan in Turkey last year.

Continue Reading »

Wall Street Journal: Saudis tell Europeans of willingness to help Israel attack Iran

Israel’s TV2 news report said Saudi ministers have passed this message in private talks to European sources.

 

In private talks with European sources, the Saudis have expressed their willingness to cooperate with Israel on Iran, including use of Saudi air space by the IDF for a possible air strike, according to a report by Channel 2.

MEMBERS OF the palace staff stand in waiting during Saudi Arabia’s King Salman’s meeting with US President Barack Obama at Erga Palace in Riyadh in January. – Photo: REUTERS

Cooperation with Saudi Arabia would not come free, however. According to the report, the Saudi officials said they would need to see progress between Israelis and Palestinians before having enough legitimacy to allow Israel to use their air space. Continue Reading »