Bennett: Paris victims’ families won’t be burdened with costs of plots & funeral

 

After Jewish burial association planned to charge Paris Jewry 40,000 shekels per burial plot and 10,000 per funeral for each victim of the kosher market terror attack, Minister Naftali Bennett decided Israel would cover the costs.

By Akiva Novik

 

 

Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett announced Tuesday night that the Jewish community of Paris will not have to pay for the burial plots and funerals of the Hyper Cacher victims.

Each of the families of the four Paris kosher market victims, laid to rest Tuesday in Jerusalem, was asked to pay 50,000 shekels to the Chevra Kaddisha for the burial plot and funeral, Ynet was told, after refusing to bury their loves ones in multi-storey tombs. Continue Reading »

China’s ‘5-Star’ Hainan Airlines to begin new Tel Aviv-Beijing route

China’s largest privately owned & managed airline, Hainan Airlines, submitted request with Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority to run 3 weekly direct flights between Beijing & Ben-Gurion Int’l Airport
• Flights scheduled for Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays.

By Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

 

China’s Hainan Airlines has filed a request with Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority to operate three weekly direct flights between Beijing and Tel Aviv from September.

A Hainan Airlines Airbus 330 – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons/Paul Spijkers

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Palestinian Authority Defendant in First Ever Trial in US, Linked to 6 Terrorist Attacks

Plaintiff’s lead Attorney: “More than a decade after these 6 horrific terrorist attacks left Americans dead or wounded. Today marks the day that survivors brought the perpetrators to face justice.”

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, FRANK G. RUNYEON

 

With the first trial ever in US history against the Palestinian Authority for terrorism charges kicking off on Tuesday, plaintiffs’ lawyer Kent Yalowitz said, “More than a decade after these six horrific terrorist attacks left Americans dead or wounded, today marks the day that survivors brought the perpetrators to face justice.”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greets released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Dec.

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Israel’s President: “Terror has never kept us down, and we do not want terror to subdue you.”

At the State funeral for the 4 Paris terror victims in Jerusalem, President Rivlin calls on French Jews to choose to make aliyah to Israel, rather than come out of fear for their safety in Europe: ‘We will continue to fight for your right to live as Jews – wherever you may be’.

By Roi Yanovsky

 

“This is not how we wanted to welcome you to Israel,” President Reuven Rivlin told the families of Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada and Phillipe Braham – the four victims of the terror attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris. Thousands turned out in force on Tuesday to the state funeral held for the four men at the Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Once Again Jimmy Carter Blames Israeli-Palestinian Conflict For Radical Islamic Terror

While a BBC reporter apologized for linking anti-Semitic attacks in France to Palestinian ‘suffering’ at Israeli hands, Jimmy Carter, blames the Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket attacks in France squarely on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By i24news

 

 

Muslim frustration over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the factors that led to the attacks on satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris last week, former US President Jimmy Carter told Jon Stewart on the Daily Show on Monday.

Former 1-time President, Jimmy Carter – Photo by AP

When Stewart asked Carter what he believed led to the massacre, which claimed the lives of 17 people, the latter replied: “Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. Continue Reading »

PLO Faces $1Billion Civil Trial in US Over Multiple Terror Attacks in Israel

 

New York court to decide whether PLO & Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority should pay $1 billion in compensation over 7 ‘Palestinian’ terrorist attacks that killed 33 people & wounded hundreds during 2001-2004.
• Expectedly, the PLO & PA deny the allegations.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

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Released for Publication: Shin Bet Arrest Israeli Arab After Seeking Martyrdom in Syria

Israeli Arab who illegally entered Syria, seeking to fight and die a Shaheed, was ‘captured and tortured by Assad security forces’ to gain intel on Israel, before returning home in a poor state of health from his ‘interrogations’.

Security forces arrest resident of Kalansuwa, 20, upon his return to Israel.
Islamist fighters

A man holds up a knife as he celebrates the conquest of a town in Syria by Islamist fighters. – Photo: REUTERS

Security forces arrested an Israeli Arab in December who had returned to the country after attempting to join a jihadist group in Syria, but instead was captured by Assad regime security forces and tortured, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said on Monday. Continue Reading »

Turkey’s Erdogan Criticizes Netanyahu’s Attendance at Paris Rally

Turkish president says Israel’s PM Netanyahu must 1st answer for Gaza crimes, boasting “The West’s hypocrisy is obvious. As Muslims, we’ve never taken part in terrorist massacres. Behind these, lie racism, hate speech & Islamophobia.”

By Reuters

 

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for attending a rally in France with other world leaders after a string of attacks in Paris, including a hostage-taking at a Kosher market in which four Jews were killed.

Erdogan and Abbas – Photo: AP

Speaking alongside visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Erdogan attacked the Israeli leader’s conduct and policies.

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Did ‘Smiling’ Palestinian president Abbas go to Paris to Honor the Victims or the Terrorists?

Op-Ed: Abbas’ arrival in Paris was brazen hypocrisy. He names streets, city squares & schools after mass murderers, so who did he really come to honor, the fallen victims, 4 of whom were Jewish or the 3 killed Muslim terrorists?

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Israeli drug benefits 92% of ALS patients (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease)

Israeli firm BrainStorm reports final results in its clinical trial of stem cell treatment NurOwnat, at Jerusalem‘s Hadassah Medical Center, showing improvement in 92% of participants.

By Reuters

 

Israel’s BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics said final results from a clinical trial of its adult stem cell treatment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were positive, with most patients showing a slowing in the disease’s progression.

According to the ALS Association, 5,600 people in the United States are diagnosed each year with the neurodegenerative disease, which has severely disabled British physicist Stephen Hawking.

Illustrative (right): Shutterstock

A single dose of the stem cell treatment called NurOwn was administered in a mid-stage phase 2a trial in 14 patients with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

French Jewish Community Living in Fear

Friday’s antisemitic terrorist attack didn’t rattle the already nervous Jewish community, but it did instill genuine heartache and concern.
• Paris’ major synagogues suspended their Shabbat services for the 1st time since World War II.

By Boaz Bismuth

 

The last time I saw a Jewish minyan relocate from a synagogue to a private residence for security reasons was in 2010. I was in Rayda, Yemen, where the Jews were still reeling from the assassination of Moshe Nahari, the brother of a prominent rabbi.

I never thought I would find myself at the same exact same setting in Paris, only four years later.

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Leaked Al Jazeera emails expose ideological decent over support for Charlie Hebdo

 

The leaked internal Al Jazeera emails exposed a clear moral conflict between the Qatar-based network’s Muslim & non-Muslim employees.

 

Leaked internal emails from The Qatari-based Al Jazeera news to the New York-based National Review magazine revealed a split in the network’s employees that ran across lines of the global campaigns “I am Charlie” and “I am not Charlie” in the wake of multiple terror attacks in France.

Al Jazeera logo - Wikimedia CommonAl Jazeera logo – Photo Courtesy: Wikimedia Common

Al Jazeera English editor and executive producer Salah-Aldeen Khadr sent out a staff-wide e-mail last Thursday, reminding his staffers that “We are Al Jazeera!!!” Continue Reading »

French PM Declares, ‘If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France’

 

With possibility of 100,000 Jews fleeing France, French PM urges Jews not to leave the country, in an interview with The Atlantic.
• European Union rabbi urges Jerusalem to help fund security for French Jews, as 2nd option, not just urge Aliyah.

By Ynet

 

“If 100,000 French people of Spanish origin were to leave, I would never say that France is not France anymore. But if 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday ahead of a memorial rally in honor of those killed in France in recent days. Continue Reading »

Israel’s PM Spoke with Freed French Hostage About Slain Jewish Man’s Heroism

Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “Celine (Charki) told me about the terrorist’s unfathomable cruelty & the heroism of a Jewish youth who tried to take his gun & shoot him.”

By Hezki Ezra, Gil Ronen

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Saturday evening that he spoke by phone with Celine Charki, who was one of the hostages held at the kosher supermarket in Paris Friday. “Celine told me about the terrorist’s unfathomable cruelty and the heroism of a Jewish youth who tried to take his gun and shoot him,” he said.

The heroic action was apparently taken by hostage Johan Cohen, who was killed.

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Hamas Hails ‘Heroic’ Paris Terrorist Attack on Friday, Condemns Them on Saturday

Hamas-linked publication praises attacks against Charlie Hebdo, by ‘the martyrs dispatched by God’ but reconsiders after Islamic leaders condemn the attack without mentioning the murdered French Jews.

By Ari Soffer

 

A Hamas-linked publication has praised the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, and hailed those responsible as “martyrs”.

Post praising Cherif, Said Kouachi, Amedy Coulibaly – Screenshot/Facebook/GPO

An image posted on Friday evening to the Facebook page of the Al-Rasalah publication featured the faces of the three Islamist terrorists eliminated by French security forces Friday, with a caption reading: “The shahidim [martyrs] who were dispatched by God, the heroes of the raid in Paris.”

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