Netanyahu Angry over EU ‘Hypocrisy’ on Settlements while ignoring Arab Incitement

After Israeli envoys in Europe were called to explain new settlement construction, Netanyahu quips, ‘When did the EU summon the Palestinian ambassadors over their incitement calls for Israel’s destruction?’

By Gil Ronen and AFP

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed the European Union Thursday for summoning envoys over recently unveiled plans for some 1,800 new homes for Jews in the ancient Jewish capital of Jerusalem, and the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria.

“This is hypocrisy. The EU calls our ambassadors in because of the construction of a few houses? When did the EU call in the Palestinian ambassadors about incitement that calls for Israel’s destruction?” Continue Reading »

Legendary Woodstock rocker Neil Young will perform in Israel this summer

 

The world famous rock musician will perform in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park in his 1st Israeli show since 1995, when he played with Pearl Jam.
The show was years in the making and is a dream come true, says promoter Shuki Weiss.
By Yoav Kutner and Eran Susia

 

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Now explosives discovered at Czech Palestine mission after explosion & cache found

CZECH investigators have reported that after the discovery of a large illegal weapons cache, they later discovered explosives at the Palestinian embassy complex in Prague where a possibly booby-trapped safe killed the ambassador on New Year’s day.

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Police discovered 12 illegal weapons following the explosion at the embassy that killed Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal, but this is the first time that authorities said explosives were also found in the new complex that includes the embassy and the ambassador’s residence.

Explosion at home of Palestinian ambassador in Czech Republic

Firefighters search the area after the explosion, Prague January 1, 2014 – Photo: Reuters

It remains unclear what caused the safe to explode but the ambassador’s death is being investigated as a case of negligence.

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WATCH: IDF releases video of morning retaliatory IAF airstrike on Gaza terror targets

Watch Israel Air Force’s reaction after Iron Dome intercepted 5 rockets fired from Gaza at Ashkelon.

There were no reports of injury or property damage with the 6th rocket landing in an open, uninhabited area.

 

The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted five rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza at Ashkelon early Thursday morning. An additional rocket may have landed in an open, uninhabited area.
There were no injuries in the Palestinian attack.

Israel Air Force - Phot courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's Unit

Israel Air Force – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The IAF responded to the rocket fire on Thursday by attacking four targets in the northern Gaza Strip: a terror site, an underground rocket launcher, a weapons storage facility and a weapons manufacturing site, the IDF Spokesperson said. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu meets King in Amman for talks on Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative

Israel’s PM conducting quiet closed-door meetings with King Abdullah at his palace in visit that was not publicly announced.

 

 

Jordan’s Royal Palace says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Amman for talks with the king on the latest in Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets Jordan's King Abdulla at the Royal Palace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets Jordan’s King Abdulla at the Royal Palace, Aqaba, May 14, 2009. – Photo: Reuters/Haaretz Archive

The palace said in a statement to The Associated Press that Netanyahu and King Abdullah are holding talks behind closed doors today about the “developments in the peace process” and Israeli-Palestinian negotiations sponsored by the United States. Continue Reading »

Israel Strikes Gaza Back Just Hours After Hamas Rocket Attack on Ashkelon

Israel Air Force jets hit terror-related sites in northern Gaza, a few hours after a rocket barrage targeted the city of Ashkelon.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted terror-related sites in Gaza early Thursday morning, several hours after a rocket barrage targeted the city of Ashkelon.

Early morning IAF retaliatory strikes Gaza (archive) – Reuters

A statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that a concealed rocket launcher, a weapons storage site and a center of terrorist activity in northern Gaza were targeted.

Direct hits were confirmed, said the statement, which noted that the airstrikes came in retaliation to the rocket attack on Ashkelon earlier in the night. Continue Reading »

Gag order lifted: It’s a can of worms with Senior Police Officers, FBI, Bribes & Rabbi Pinto

 

Judge lifts gag-order: FBI wiretaps will reveal suspected misconduct by senior Israeli officials, in both Israel Police and within political echelon.

‘If this can of worms is opened, many Israeli officials will be embarrassed by findings,’ source says

By Aviel Magnezi

 

It was cleared for publication Thursday that Israel Police is conducting an investigation of senior police officers on suspicion of accepting bribe from Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto

 Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto - Photo: ILAN ASSAYAG/HAARETZ

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto – Photo: ILAN ASSAYAG/HAARETZ

In Wednesday’s issue of newsletter the rabbi releases periodically to his supporters, he wrote: “I will reveal my emotions before you. Dear brothers, this dark time forced upon us haunts us without us having committed any crime, and only due to narrow-minded and cruel considerations of those who use scare tactics.” Continue Reading »

Proposed Bill Would Cancel Gov’t Stipends to Early Release of Terrorists

MK Yariv Levin: The bill is to guarantee that early released terrorists should not also benefit by receiving ‘acclimation’ payments.

By Gil Ronen

 

Terrorists prisoners released before the end of their jail terms in diplomatic deals and exchanges like the Schalit deal will not receive “acclimation stipends” from the National Insurance Institute (NII), and their eligibility for other NII payments will be limited, according to a bill proposed by MK Yariv Levin (Likud-Beytenu).

Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli jail - Photo: Tal Cohen

Palestinian prisoners in an Israeli jail – Photo: Tal Cohen

Levin told Arutz Sheva that the proposed law will make released terrorists ineligible for any NII payments for the duration of the term that they were sentenced to, so that terrorists who had received life sentences would never be eligible for payments. Continue Reading »

Pamela Anderson & Rick Salomon honeymooning at King David Hotel in Jerusalem

After quietly remarrying her ex-husband Rick Salomon on Sunday, the 46 yr-old Baywatch actress boarded an El Al flight & headed straight for Israel.

By Jana Banin

 

Forget Hawaii! Newly remarried couple Pamela Anderson and Rick Salomon took an El Al flight straight to Israel after exchanging vows on Sunday. According to The Times of Israel, the former “Baywatch” star and her film producer hubby (of Paris Hilton sex tape fame) are staying in a suite at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. They have already visited the Dead Sea.

It’s not Anderson’s first trip down the aisle with Salomon (the two were married briefly in 2007) or her first trip to Israel.

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WATCH: Iron Dome intercepts 5 Gaza rockets fired towards Ashkelon

Additional rocket lands in open, unused areas, with no reports of injury or damage.

Earlier in week, Israel Air Force jets hit targets in Gaza coastal territory after rockets were fired on the day of  Ariel Sharon’s funeral.

 

 

The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted five rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza at Ashkelon early Thursday morning. An additional rocket may have landed in an open, uninhabited area.

 the Iron Dome

the Iron Dome – photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

There were no injuries in the Palestinian attack.

On Monday, the Israel Air Force struck two targets in Gaza evening in response to rocket fire on southern Israel earlier in the day. Continue Reading »

US-Iranian duel-citizen tries to smuggle F-35 blueprints to Teheran

 

Iranian born, and former US air defense contractor, was caught smuggling boxes of secret blueprints & documents to Iran, including ‘thousands of pages contained in dozens of binders/manuals relating’ to the top-secret F-35 fighter jet that is expected to be sold to Israel.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – A US-Iranian engineer was arrested at Newark International Airport while attempting to smuggle secret documents to Iran – among them the blueprint for the coveted F-35 multi-role fighter jet, which Israel is set to receive in 2016.

F-35

F-35

Mozaffar Khazaee, a former US defense contractor employee, was arrested on January 9 at Newark International Airport in New Jersey following the first leg of his flight to Tehran via Germany. Continue Reading »

King Mohamed VI of Morocco asks country’s Jews to pray for rain

Throughout Morocco, prayers are recited at mosques & synagogues to remedy news of impending drought.

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Prayers were recited at synagogues and mosques across the country at the request of the king upon learning that Morocco may suffer a drought this year.

King Mohamed VI of Morocco.

King Mohamed VI of Morocco. – Photo: AP

At the request of the king, prayers for rain were held over the weekend at synagogues throughout Morocco.

The prayers were recited on Saturday, one day after Muslims said similar prayers in mosques at the request of King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan daily Le Matin reported. The king made the request upon learning that Morocco may suffer a drought this year. Continue Reading »

Rabbi Visiting Murdered Son’s Grave on Mount of Olives Gets Attacked by Arab Gang

Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen reports of a harrowing attack, the full 40-minute assault highlighted the lack of police presence by the Mt. of Olives, a well known hotbed of Palestinian attacks.

By Tova Dvorin and Ari Soffer

 

 

Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen, whose son Neria Cohen was murdered in the Mercaz HaRav attack in 2008, was violently attacked by Arab youths as he visited his son’s grave on the Mount of Olives yesterday.

“Yesterday I went with my wife and children to my son’s gravesite,” the Rabbi recounted, in an interview with Arutz Sheva. “At the end of the road on Mount of Olives, I saw a group of Arab youths – they immediately began throwing stones at our car.” Continue Reading »

Galilee woman proudly relinquishes archaeological collection from her basement

 

A Female resident of the northern town of Poriya Illit, reveals ancient sunken artifacts to the IAA, including pottery from the Biblical Period, all carefully stored in her basement.

By ROZ WOLBERGER

 

 

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday the staggering find of a large number of ancient pottery pieces, fully intact and safely stored…in a basement.

Ancient Pottery – Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority

It all began with a phone call to the IAA:  “In my basement there are full boxes of ancient vases and pottery, that a member of my family, a fisherman, left before he died…” said Osnat Lester, a resident of Galilee town Poriya Illit. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Law: Abbas Lacks Authority to Make Peace Agreement

Mahmoud Abbas:
President of the State of Palestine
President of the Palestinian Authority
Chairman of the PLO
Leader of Fatah

Abbas’ 1st objective in the Palestinian’s order of priorities is to receive full sovereignty on the territory of 1967 – while leaving the conflict wide open.

By Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi

 

 

Mahmoud Abbas – “the president of the state of Palestine,” chairman of the Palestinian Authority, leader of the PLO, and head of Fatah – must recognize that he is not a serious partner for negotiating with Israel because he does not have the authority to make decisions for the Palestinian people. Continue Reading »