Israeli Arabic video guide for nursing, big hit in Arab world

 

 

While Israel remains unpopular among Arab countries, its locally produced HMO’s breastfeeding training videos have been watched by half a million Arab viewers world-wide so far.

Yaron Kelner

VIDEO – In almost every Arab country, threats, curses or swears are heard when Israel is mentioned. But in this sea of hostility there is now a new ray of light: Breastfeeding training videos in Arabic by Clalit Health Services, an Israeli health maintenance organization, are gain tremendous popularity in countries which have mostly been fighting Israel in the past few decades.

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Israeli Health Care Service produced an educational video for it’s Arabic speaking population.

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Turkish FM says ‘Israel must do more to normalize ties’

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said speaking about Israel to a news conference at the UNGA: ‘some progress’ has been made but, they have yet to fulfill all 3 conditions.

 

There has been “some progress” in improving Turkish-Israeli relations but Israel has not yet fulfilled all conditions for normalizing ties, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a news conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Wednesday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu – Photo: AP

Relations between the former allies soured dramatically after Israeli commandos stormed the Gaza flotilla trying to breach a blockade of the Gaza Strip in May 2010. Continue Reading »

Jewish Pilgrims Attacked by Arabs Next to Mount of Olives

Local resident, after looking at the destroyed car, calls family’s escape miraculous.

By Uzi Baruch and Ernie Singer

A hareidi-religious family from New York was the victim of a serious attack by rioting Arabs Wednesday afternoon, asthey were making their way to pray on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem’s Old City. One of the passengers

in their rented car was taken to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital with wounds to the head and one of his hands.

Area resident Nitai Shilo, who helped the family after the attempted lynch, told Arutz Sheva that the family, including children, got stuck in a big traffic jam next to the Mount of Olives. Continue Reading »

Jewish Establishments in India Warned to Strengthen its Security

REPORT: Jewish establishments in Mumbai have been surveyed by Indian Mujahideen members for possible terrorist strikes.

By JTA

 

 

Amid a terror threat, Jewish establishments in India have been instructed by police to tighten security in and around their businesses.

A file photo of the inside of Chabad's Nariman House in south Mumbai taken sometime after the terror attack that killed its rabbi, his wife and several guests  - Photo: AFP

A file photo of the inside of Chabad’s Nariman House in south Mumbai taken sometime after the terror attack that killed its rabbi, his wife and several guests – Photo: AFP

The call came following the interrogation of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal by the National Investigation Agency in New Delhi, as well as in the wake of the Islamist attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

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US President’s startling linkage of Iran & Palestinian-Israel peace

View entire address to UN: Obama’s decision to equate the Palestinian-Israel violence with the Iranian nuclear threat shows the depth of Obama’s vested interest in Israel’s existence & well-being.

 

 

 

By equating Israeli-Palestinian violence with an Iranian nuclear bomb, US President Barack Obama in his speech Tuesday morning before the UN General Assembly appeared at first glance to have blown this conflict out of all reasonable proportions.

US President Barack Obama addresses the 68th UN General Assembly in New York, September 24, 2013.

US President Barack Obama addresses the 68th UN General Assembly in New York, September 24, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS

Hard to imagine how continued violence in Jerusalem or Ramallah could compare to a mushroom cloud from Tehran.

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Int’l Congress of Parliamentarians urge EU to Rescind Settlement Ban

 

 

Lawmakers from several countries, including the UK, US, South Africa & Guatemala say planned EU restrictions on Israeli institutions outside the 1967 lines are ‘woefully misguided at best & discriminatory at worst’.

By Ynetnews

Two dozen parliamentarians from around the world are urging the EU to halt a planned ban on Israeli institutions in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

MK Danon (holding declaration) with foreign MPs Photo: Yissachar Ruas

MK Danon (holding declaration) with foreign MPs – Photo: Yissachar Ruas

The move, following in the footsteps of action taken in the US Congress against the EU guidelines, which were made public as peace negotiations resumed between Israelis and Palestinians after a three year hiatus came at the culmination of the Israel Allies Caucus international chairman’s conference held in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Iranian President: Holocaust a ‘Reprehensible’ Crime Against Jews

The new Iranian president Rouhani, admits the Holocaust took place, tells CNN it was a “reprehensible and condemnable” crime against the Jewish people.

By Elad Benari

 

Iran’s new president admitted on Tuesday that the Holocaust took place, in a sharp contrast to his predecessor.

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani – Reuters

Speaking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the Nazis committed a “reprehensible” crime against the Jewish people.

The remark came in response to Amanpour’s question if he accepted that the Holocaust occurred.

“I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it is the historians that should reflect,” he said. Continue Reading »

Outrageous Tel Aviv prices : 2-room apt. sold for $1.3m

 

A New Zealand artist paid NIS 4.7M ($1.3 million) for a 60 sq-meter flat in luxurious residential tower near neighborhood of Neve Tzedek.

Huge apartment on Hayarkon Street bought for as much as $22.5 million

Ofer Petersburg

 

The real estate bubble in Israel is breaking new records: How much would you pay for a two-room apartment in Tel Aviv, measuring 60 square meters (645 square feet) in size?

Penthouse at Neve Tzedek project. Armani design (Simulation: ArcDeco)

An apartment on the 16th floor of the White City Tower, bordering on the southwestern neighborhood of Neve Tzedek, was sold recently for NIS 4.7 million (about $1.3 million), or NIS 78,000 ($21,400) per square meter. Continue Reading »

Apple iOS 7 lists Jerusalem without country

Taipei & Vatican City are the 2 other cities listed in the World Clock without a country in Apple’s new operating system.

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Apple’s new iOS 7 operating system, like its predecessor, lists Jerusalem without a country.

The iPhone 5s

The iPhone 5s – Photo by AP

Jerusalem is one of only three cities to be listed in the World Clock without a country, The Blaze reported this week. The others are Vatican City and Taipei.

World Clock screenshot

The Blaze showed a screenshot of the World Clock in a post on Sept. 22.

On Tuesday, Jerusalem did not appear on the list. Continue Reading »

Israel’s PM: Iranian President Trying to Buy Time

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declares, Iranian President’s speech at the UN was “cynical & full of hypocrisy,” 

By Elad Benari

 

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly was “cynical and full of hypocrisy,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday night.

In a statement he released shortly after Rouhani’s speech, Netanyahu said that the speech reflects the Iranian plan, namely to “talk and buy time in order to promote the ability of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.”

“Rouhani spoke about human rights while Iranian forces are taking part in the massacre of innocent civilians in Syria, he condemned terrorism while the Iranian regime carries out terrorism in dozens of countries around the world,” said Netanyahu, who added that although Rouhani said that nuclear weapons “contradict Iranian morality” a report by the UN’s atomic agency indicates otherwise. Continue Reading »

Bahrain’s FM: Hezbollah leader, ‘a criminal stained by the blood of innocents’

Foreign Minister Khalid al-Khalifa slams Hezbollah leader for past remarks on Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom’s treatment of Shiites.

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Bahrain’s foreign minister slammed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday for criticizing the Sunni-led Gulf kingdom’s treatment of its opposition Shi’ite population, AFP reported.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in rare public speech, August 3, 2013.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in rare public speech, August 3, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS/Sharif Karim

“The people of Bahrain are above being addressed by a criminal whose hands are stained by the blood of innocents in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq,” Khalid al-Khalifa wrote on his Twitter account.

Al-Khalifa’s comments came in response to Nasrallah’s warning on Monday that the government of Bahrain “should not assume it can continue to oppress its people and pressure the outside world to remain silent.” Continue Reading »

Jewish Couple & Child, Narrowly Escape Arab Mob in Jerusalem

Young Jewish couple, with their 4 yr-old son, barely escape Arab lynch-mob; “if they’d had a gun, we would have left there dead.”

By Oranit Etzer

 

A young Jewish couple from the town of Beit El, along with their four year-old son, narrowly escaped death after an Arab lynch mob attacked their car near Jerusalem’s A-Tur neighborhood.

One of the rocks hurled by attackers – Photo: Asaf Bruchi

Asaf and Naama Bruchi were travelling through the largely Arab neighborhood when their car stopped in traffic. Suddenly, they were pelted by rocks and other missiles, and found their car surrounded by Arab thugs. Continue Reading »

Emergency cabinet meeting after 2nd Israeli soldier killed

With the Palestinian leadership continuing its policy of incitement & resistance, Israeli ministers call for freezing of faltering peace process after Palestinians kill 2 IDF soldiers, with no condemnation from the PA.

By  Tommy Mueller

 

 

Israel’s security cabinet held a crisis meeting on Monday. The reason: the killing of two Israeli soldiers by Palestinians since Friday.

Earlier the weekend, Tomer Hazan (20) was killed in an Arab village. He was buried on Sunday (photo). Hours later, a Palestinian sniper in Hebron shot and killed another soldier, Kobi Gal, also 20-years-old.

Gal was shot as Israeli soldiers battled a violent Palestinian mob that was hurling stones and firebombs at Jewish worshippers visiting the Tomb of the Patriarchs, burial place of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah. Continue Reading »

1st Half-Dozen, Now Dozens of MKs Demand End of Prisoners’ Release

Deputy ministers & MKs from across the political spectrum join calls for gov’t to terminate the practice of releasing imprisoned convicted terrorists. 

By Ari Soffer

 

Following the slaying of two IDF soldiers in three days, dozens of Knesset members, including deputy government ministers, have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to cancel all planned releases of terrorist prisoners as part of a series of “goodwill gestures” to the PA.

26 out of a list of 104 convicted terrorists – many of whom are responsible for the murders of Israeli civilians and soldiers – have already been released in an Israeli concession to the PA. Continue Reading »

AGAIN: Discussions on ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ at UN

 

With all the world’s conflicts, the only permanent agenda point on the Geneva-based UNHRC roster for discussion is, the “Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.

By MAYA SHWAYDER

 

 

 

NEW YORK – The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva met on Monday to discuss item seven on its agenda – the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem.
Palestinians hold a flag in the West Bank

Palestinians hold a flag in the West Bank – Photo: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman

Item seven is the only permanent agenda item on the UNHRC’s roster. Israel’s representative in Geneva was reportedly not present for the discussion.

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