WATCH: Netanyahu Opens Up on ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ News Program

Ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli elections, Fox News host and conservative radio & TV pundit, Mark Levin, urges Israelis to go out and vote Likud, endorsing Binyamin Netanyahu for 5th term as Prime Minister.

By David Rosenberg

 

Mark Levin, a popular conservative pundit and Fox News television host, has endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s reelection bid, and called on Israeli voters to back the incumbent premier in his effort to win a fifth term as Israel’s head of government.

Netanyahu, whose Likud party is narrowly trailing the Blue and White party of ex-IDF chief Benny Gantz in the final pre-election polls, received Levin’s endorsement on last week’s Wednesday evening edition of The Mark Levin Show radio program. Continue Reading »

Irish BDS activist awarded 6 months jail for racist tantrum on flight

Simone O’Broin, 50, a Northern Irish barrister and BDS activist, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for her racist, drunken assault and threatening an Air India crew with a boycott.

By Marcy Oster, JTA

 

A British activist promoting boycotts against Israel was sentenced to six months in jail for her drunken racist tirade on an Air India flight.

Simone O’Broin was filmed on the flight last November threatening to organize a boycott against Air India unless flight attendants served her more wine on the flight, that ended with her arrest.

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Israeli city paints 3-D pedestrian crossing to curtail accidents

With road accidents still a major concern for the Jewish State, one southern city introduces a creative solution.

By i24NEWS

 

The southern Israeli city of Ashkelon unveiled the country’s first three-dimensional pedestrian crossing on Sunday.

Painted on the ground to give the illusion to incoming drivers they are coming into an obstacle, the innovative design was engineered to reduce the risk of collision.

Originally inspired by a 2016 Indian street-art project, the installation has been set up in several locations in the world, although it still hasn’t seen mass adoption.

“We are constantly thinking about how to improve road safety,” Ashkelon mayor Tomer Glam said, according to Israeli daily Maariv. Continue Reading »

Corbyn’s Labour Party ignored or interfered in most reports of antisemitism

Jeremy Corbyn’s office actively interfered, delayed or outright ignored most of the 863 reported cases of hate-filled antisemitism within his party, rendering only 30 suspensions, less than 3.5%.
– Examples include posts of “Heil Hitler,” Jewish MPs being accused of being “Zionist infiltrators,” and blaming Israeli Jews for the 9/11 attacks.

By URI BOLLAG

 

The extent of antisemitism raging in the British Labour party was displayed once more on Sunday morning, when The Sunday Times published an article exposing shocking messages Labour members shared online without being sanctioned.

The report titled “Labour’s hate files expose Jeremy Corbyn’s anti‑semite army” revealed how Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s office actively interfered, delayed and disrupted the inquiry into the hate-filled and conspiratorial posts by many Labour members. Continue Reading »

Israel’s spacecraft ‘Beresheet’ successfully maneuvers around the moon

The engineering teams of SpaceIL & IAI successfully performed their first maneuver around the moon, taking more photos of the far side from 550 km from the moon and 2500 km from the moon.

By Yoni Kempinski

 

On Sunday morning at 04:36, the engineering team of SpaceIL and IAI, successfully performed the first maneuver around the moon.

During the maneuver, Beresheet’s engines operated for about 271 seconds and the amount of fuel burned was approximately 55 kg.

Beresheet’s image of the Earth & moon. – Photo: SpaceIL, Instagram

In this maneuver, all the engines operated at the same time to slow the spacecraft with maximum thrust to date. Continue Reading »

You’re FIRED!… Again! – Dr. Kollab fired for threatening to harm/kill Jews

Ohio Doctor who has already been expelled from a residency program there, over scores of anti-Semitic posts on Twitter, just got fired from a second residency program, now in California.

Marcy Oster, JTA,

 

Dr. Lara Kollab, who was fired from her residency at the Cleveland Clinic after old anti-Semitic tweets surfaced, was expelled from a second residency program in California.

Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California said in a statement dated Monday that it notified Kollab on March 15 that her position as a first-year internal medicine resident was withdrawn effective immediately.

“Dr. Kollab submitted information that was false, misleading, and incomplete to Kern Medical during the interview and match process,” the statement said. Continue Reading »

Israel Completes World‘s Largest Solar & Thermal Electric Facility

The state-of-the-art thermal electric power plant in Israel’s Negev Desert is equipped with more than 50,000 computer-controlled heliostats that produce enough power for 150,000 homes, keeping 110,000 tons of CO2 emissions out of the air per year.

By David Lazarus

 

The Ashalim solar and thermal electric power plant in Israel’s Negev Desert is up and running. The state-of-the-art facility is equipped with more than 50,000 computer-controlled heliostats or mirrors, which can track the sun in two dimensions and reflect the sunlight onto a boiler placed on top of a tower measuring 240 m-high (787.4 ft). That’s higher than some of the tallest sky scrapers in the world and by far the tallest solar tower ever built. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Trump’s “Deal of the Century” will settle 1M Palestinians in Jordan

Beirut-based Al Akhbar sources in Jordan & Egypt both reported Trump’s peace plan includes Jordan ceding land to Israel (that will be replaced with equal size from Saudi Arabia), settling 1 million Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship awarded, and forming confederation with the PA.
– Peace Plan scheduled to be made public in May, on Israel’s Independence Day

By David Rosenberg

 

A report released Friday morning claims that the soon-to-be released Middle East peace plan drawn up by the Trump administration – dubbed the “Deal of the Century” – includes large-scale resettlement of Palestinian Arabs in Jordan, the ceding of Jordanian territory to Israel, and the formation of a tripartite confederation between Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel’s Civil Administration to administer Judea and Samaria. Continue Reading »

ImageSat Intl releases satellite images of IDF strike on Iranian assets in Syria

The Israeli intelligence images detail IDF’s powerful March 27 attack on Iranian munitions production & storage facilities that was so powerful it also caused an electrical blackout in Aleppo, Syria’s 2nd-largest city.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

Satellite images released by the Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat Intl. (ISI) on Thursday show the destruction of an industrial zone in Aleppo in northern Syria allegedly struck by Israel in late March.

The images show destruction to two structures, a hanger and a building, in the north-western part of the Sheikh Najjar industrial area, both approximately 70×35 meters and some 450 meters apart.

Here are the results of the attack (27 March 2019) on the Aleppo’s Sheikh Najjar industrial area, Syria.

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In Official Ceremony Russia gives Netanyahu Israeli MIA’s Personal Effects 

During an official ceremony at Russia’s Defense Ministry in Moscow, PM Netanyahu is given the last personal effects belonging to Israel’s soldier, Sgt 1st Class, Zachary Baumel ז”ל who was returned to Israel yesterday, 37 years after becoming MIA in Lebanon.

Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended an official ceremony of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Thursday afternoon, during which the remaining items belonging to the late Zachary Baumel were handed over to the prime minister.

Among the objects delivered were Baumel’s tank suit and military boots. The ceremony was attended by Chief of Staff of the Russian Army Valery Gerasimov. Continue Reading »

Where Israel’s Reservist and Art Meet in Most Remarkable Way

Major General (Res) Chen Winkler, artist, sculptor and 30 years in the IDF reserves, has prepared an unprecedented appreciatory exhibit to convey his gratitude for the exceptional service of all IDF reservists.

By Shimon Yeshaya Weinbach

 

When most people think about the IDF, they think about those serving their three year mandatory service. The recognition and appreciation for those reservists who drop everything to go and defend Israel is not as widespread.

Chen Winkler, artist, sculptor and 30 years a Major General in the IDF reserves, has prepared an unprecedented appreciatory exhibit to convey his gratitude for the exceptional service of all IDF reservists. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Google Earth reveals first Saudi nuclear reactor nears completion

Though Riyadh has repeatedly assured the facility’s purpose is ‘strictly peaceful,’ both Israel and the United States feel the facility’s real purpose is to counter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal then president Obama choreographed into acceptance with the P5+1 and the European Union.

By i24NEWS

 

Satellite imagery revealed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is nearly finished constructing its first nuclear reactor, much to the alarm of arms control experts, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

The report notes that the images, captured by Google Earth from April 2017 to now, are the first public documentation of the facility’s progression.

Saudi Arabia is nearing completion of its first nuclear reactor in the southwest corner of the King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology.

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#BDSfail: Israel-Hater’s Tweet Inadvertently Spurs Sellout of Israeli Wines

By trying to aid the ‘Palestinian cause’, a Dutch BDS activist spotlighted the sell of Israeli wines in an openly anti-Israeli Tweet; she unintentionally motivated Netherland’s pro-Israel supporters to go out and buy every bottle of Efrat wines at many of the supermarket’s locations.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement suffered a major setback in the Netherlands last week when one of its activists inadvertently sparked a rush on Israeli wines in the European country.

Mieke Zagt thought she was serving the Palestinian cause when she took to Twitter to call out local supermarket chain Hema for carrying Efrat wines. Continue Reading »

US freezes F35 deal with Turkey over purchase of Russian S-400 missile system

Having ignored NATO & US warnings against Turkey’s instance to acquire the Russian S-400 missile defense system, Washington halts F-35 equipment transfers to Ankara and will possibly freeze deal where two jets are expected to be handed over this month.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

The Pentagon’s decision to stop the delivery of equipment related to the F-35 stealth fighter jet to Turkey due to Ankara’s decision to purchase the Russian-made S-400 air defense system will allow Israel to keep it’s aerial superiority in the Middle East.

Washington’s move follows repeated warnings both from the United States and NATO allies to Ankara that buying the Russian system alongside the Lockheed Martin-produced jets would threaten the security of the F-35s by learning how to spot and track it. Continue Reading »

After 37 years, body of IDF MIA Zachary Baumel returned to Israel

The remains of U.S. born Zachary Baumel, who was deemed MIA since the June 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon, was repatriated to Israel this week and returned to his family once his identity was confirmed by a DNA test.

By Yoav Zitun, Daniel Salami

 

The body of an Israeli soldier who disappeared in battle during the First Lebanon War has been returned to his family after 37 years, the IDF said Wednesday. The remains of Brooklyn-born First Sergeant  Zachary Baumel were repatriated to Israel several days ago via a third country. According to IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, the body was returned to Israel on an El Al plane. Continue Reading »