Approved: 35,000 new residential units in metro Tel Aviv-Jaffa

 

Interior Ministry approves construction plans through 2025 for Tel Aviv- Jaffa.

Plan permits 35,000 new residential units, relocation of central bus station, including a high-rise construction restriction near the city center.

By Alfi Shauly

A new city plan for Tel Aviv-Jaffa was approved on Sunday, after the regional committee decided to open the plan for public discussion. The plan, which included the construction of 35,000 residential units, sets the planning direction for the city until 2025.

Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station – HaTachana HaMerkazit

The plan was created by the municipality’s engineering department and was approved by the local committee last March. Continue Reading »

Iran announces plans for 2 more nuclear power plants

Fars news agency reports, new construction declaration made by top nuclear official at Tehran conference.

 

 

Iran’s atomic agency is planning to construct two more nuclear plants, a top official at the agency said in a conference in Tehran on Saturday.

Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran

The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran.- Photo: AP

“The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has put construction of the second and third (nuclear) power stations on its agenda due to the government’s programs and the emphasis laid by the President (Hassan Rouhani),” said AEOI Deputy Chief Hossein Khalfi, according to the Iranian Fars news agency. Continue Reading »

Passengers Threatened by Arab on board British Airways Flight to Israel

Plane landed at secured area at Ben Gurion Airport where security men exited with handcuffed man, who was unarmed.

By Gil Ronen

 

An Arab man, aged 21, behaved wildly and threatened to harm passengers on a British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv Saturday, reported Israel Hayom.

The plane was about 30 miles away from Ben Gurion Airport when its pilots radioed in the report about the incident. At about 6:00 a.m., the plane landed and was diverted to a separate parking spot, far from the terminal.

A team of security guards boarded the plane, subdued the passenger and made sure he was not carrying any weapons. Continue Reading »

Israeli medical delegation restores Philippines’ eyesight

 

 

 

Israel’s Medical delegation to Philippines treats patients with ‘growth-induced’ blindness. Removal of growth was made possible due to ingenuity of staff nurse who redesigned surgical tools to enable procedure.

‘Patients who all of a sudden could see after the operation were so excited – it’s a miracle happening before your very eyes,’ Dr. says

By Yoav Zitun

“The patients who all of a sudden could see after the operation were so excited – it’s a miracle happening before your very eyes,” the doctor said.The Israeli medical delegation to the Philippines has managed to restore the eyesight of four residents of the Philippines, aged 40 to 74, who were blind as a result of pterygia – growths in the eyes, associated with ultraviolet-light exposure, low humidity and dust. Continue Reading »

Kibbutz Security Squad Capture 3 Infiltrators from Gaza

IDF Soldiers fire rubber bullets at stone-throwing rioters north of Beit El, wounding four of them.

IDF puts area under alert, leading kibbutzniks to capture 3 Gazans.

By Gil Ronen

 

Israeli soldiers opened fire on Arab rioters north of Beit El on Saturday, wounding four of them, Palestinian Authority (PA) medical sources said.

The shooting happened near the Jalazoun neighborhood, the sources said. Beit El is located in the biblical heartland of Samaria, north of Jerusalem.

An Israeli military spokesman told AFP that troops fired rubber bullets at a group of around 150 Palestinians who were throwing stones at them, but were unable to determine how many demonstrators were wounded. Continue Reading »

UN hosts 1st conference on Jewish refugees exiled from Arab countries

Israel is compiling a list of assets left behind by Jewish refugees, minister Silvan Shalom tells U.N. conference, “We hear a lot about the plight of Arab refugees, but we do not hear a word about 900,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries,” 

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Publisher Fined $10K by French Court for 5 Anti-Semitic books

Publisher of Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” and “The Anthology of Quotes against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue fined over $10K for “incitement to racial hatred” and “denials of genocide”.

By JTA

 

 

Citing anti-Semitic content, a French court sanctioned a publishing house for five books, including one first printed more than a century ago.

Far Right Winger Paul-Eric Blanrue

Far Right Winger Paul-Eric Blanrue – Sceenshot

The court in Bobigny, near Paris, last week handed down a blanket ban on the publication and dissemination of one book, “The Anthology of Quotes against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue.

The court said the book contained “incitement to racial hatred” and “denials of genocide,” which are illegal in France.

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Cairo expels Turkish ambassador, Ankara says Egyptian envoy “persona non grata”

Egypt accuses Ankara of backing Muslim Brotherhood, inciting against current gov’t.

Turkey deems Egyptian envoy “persona non grata.”

By REUTERS

 

 

CAIRO – Egypt said on Saturday it was expelling Turkey’s ambassador and accused Ankara of backing organizations bent on spreading instability – an apparent reference to the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.

Turkish Prime Minsiter Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish Prime Minsiter Tayyip Erdoğan. – Photo: REUTERS/Umit Bektas 

Turkey, which had forged close ties with Egypt under Morsi, responded by declaring the Egyptian ambassador, currently out of the country, persona non grata.

“We are saddened by this situation,” Turkey’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Continue Reading »

Female IDF soldier attacked in Jaffa

 

Suspected 16 yr-old punches soldier on her way from Army Radio (Galatz) station to parking lot.

Motive behind attack still unclear.

By Eli Senyor

A 20-year-old soldier serving in the Army Radio (Galatz) was attacked Friday evening outside the radio station in the heart of Jaffa. According to the soldier’s testimony, an unknown man hit her in the face.

 Magen David Adom in Jerusalem. illustrative - Photo: Jini

Magen David Adom in Jerusalem. illustrative – Photo: Jini

Magen David Adom emergency services evacuated the soldier in light condition to Edith Wolfson Medical Center in Holon.

Police arrested a 16-year-old boy, resident of Jaffa, on suspicion of being involved in the event. Continue Reading »

Palestinian identified as 2nd Iran embassy bomber

Lebanese authorities identified the 1st suicide car-bomber as Lebanese with ties to extreme Sunni Muslim groups & 2nd as Palestinian from southern Lebanon.

By Reuters

 

 

Lebanese authorities have identified the second suicide bomber who attacked the Iranian embassy in Beirut this week as a Palestinian man with ties to a fugitive Lebanese Islamist cleric, a security source said on Saturday.

Beirut car bombing.

Two Lebanese men remove a dead body from a burned car, at the scene where two explosions have struck near the Iranian Embassy killing many, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013. – Photo: AP

Lebanese authorities had identified the first suicide bomber a day earlier as a Lebanese man with ties to hardline Sunni Muslim groups. Continue Reading »

Rouhani tells the West: Ignore Israel, Make the Deal

Iran’s President Rouhani tweeted Israel is only concerned about its own interests when it warns against a deal over Iran’s nuclear program.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

As world powers and Iran continued talks in Geneva in hopes of reaching a deal about Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s president on Friday called on the West to ignore Israel and reach a deal with his country.

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani – Reuters

“The world powers should reach an independent decision that is disconnected from Israel’s position,” President Hassan Rouhani tweeted.

“Israel is only concerned about its own interests, and it does not think about the interests of the world,” he charged. Continue Reading »

Isolation is Pushing Hamas to Further Radicalize

 

 

Hamas is dictating ever harsher Sharia restrictions on the Palestinians of Gaza as it loses backing throughout the region.

By Aviel Schneider

 

 

Hamas finds itself increasingly isolated and under pressure after the fall of its Muslim Brotherhood patrons in Egypt, the combined Israeli-Egyptian effort to shut down Gaza’s smuggling and terror tunnels, and Iran’s newfound reluctance to fund the group.

Members of Hamas police take part in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, Dec. 17, 2012. – Photo REUTERS-Suhaib Salem

Hamas’ response to this situation has been increasing radicalization. In Gaza today, the Islamists rule by brute force, imposing something of a reign of terror. Continue Reading »

2 day-old lion cubs die in Gaza zoo

 

Although acknowledging “a lack of experience & resources for the birth & treatment of cubs”, zoo workers blame Israel for death of cubs born to smuggled in felines, AFP reports.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

 

Two lion cubs born in a zoo in the Gaza Strip died Thursday two days after their birth.

2 day-old lion cubs Fajr and Sijil are seen at a zoo in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, on November 19, 2013 – Photo AFP, Mohammed Abed

“The lions named Fajr and Sijil died today due to a deterioration of their health at birth,” Shadi Hamad, supervisor of animals at the Hamas-run Bissan park told AFP.

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Wine cellar that dates back to 1700 B.C.E. discovered in Northern Israel

The discovery confirms how sophisticated wines were 3,700 years ago. Wine cellar was where the Canaanites kept ‘the good stuff’.

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Scientists have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wine cellar in the ruins of a Canaanite palace in Israel, and chemical analysis shows this is where they kept the good stuff.

The ruins of a recently discovered wine cellar in a Canaanite palace

The ruins of a recently discovered wine cellar in a Canaanite palace that dates back to approximately 1700 B.C.E., near the modern town of Nahariya in northern Israel. – Photo: AP

Samples from the ceramic jars suggest they held a luxurious beverage that was evidently reserved for banquets, researchers said.

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U.S. General: United States in Greatest Danger Since 1930’s

Senior American military analyst Gen. McInerney warns that the U.S. is in comparable danger to the pre-WWII era, specifically from Russian & Iranian hegemonies.

By Ari Yashar& Orli Harari

Senior military analyst Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney spoke to Arutz Sheva on Tuesday, warning that rising Russian and Iranian influence, coupled with America’s waning Middle East presence, has put the US in the most dangerous situation it has been in since the 1930s just prior to World War II.

General Thomas McInerney – Screenshot

McInerney addressed the global security situation following the “EMPact” conference in Washington DC, in which analysts warned that the US is unprepared for an Iranian “Electromagnetic Pulse” attack. Continue Reading »