2 wounded Syrian kids treated in Israeli hospital – 2nd time this week

IDF medics transferred the 2 civilian casualties, a child & a teenager into Israel late Tuesday night for treatment in Safed’s Rivka Sieff Medical Center.

30 Syrian civilians have been hospitalized there since start of civil war.

 

Israel Defense Forces medical teams transferred two wounded Syrian children into Israel late Tuesday night for treatment in Safed’s Rivka Sieff Medical Center.

IDF troops on Israel-Syria border

IDF troops on Israel-Syria border, June 25, 2013. – Photo: Ap

 

One of the wounded, a 15-year-old, is in serious condition after suffering multiple internal wounds and having already undergone surgery in Syria. The other, 9-years-old, is in moderate condition after suffering shrapnel wounds all over his body and losing his right eye. Continue Reading »

Nigeria adds charges against 3 suspected Hezbollah terrorists

The 3 Lebanese men captured in Nigeria with a massive weapons cache admitted Hezbollah membership.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
 

 

BERLIN – Nigeria’s security agency issued last week new terrorism charges against three Lebanese men suspected of membership in Hezbollah who were captured with a massive weapons cache.

Military officials stand near ammunitions seized from suspected members of Hezbollah after a raid

Military officials stand near ammunitions seized from suspected members of Hezbollah after a raid – Photo: REUTERS

The Nigerian media outlet Vanguard reported on Saturday that a legal representative for Nigeria’s State Security Service, Clifford Osagie, termed Hezbollah’s military wing a terrorist entity.

Nigeria’s military said in May that the weapons were to be used in attacks on American and Israeli targets.

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Verdict: Supreme Court rules TA to enforce closing businesses on Shabbat

Supreme Court tells Tel Aviv Municipality must ensure AM:PM & Tiv Ta’am supermarket chains are not open on Saturdays, following petition by city’s grocers.

 

Tel Aviv Municipality says they will find a solution to balance Sabbath rest & city’s freedom.

By Aviel Magnezi

 

 

The Supreme Court approved Tuesday an appeal filed by Tel Aviv grocers, and stated that the Tel Aviv Municipality should act more decisively to ensure that the AM:PM and Tiv Ta’am stores do not open on Saturdays.

סניף טיב טעם (צילום: ערן יופי כהן)

Tiv Ta’am – Photo: Eran Yuppy Cohen

The judges ruled that the municipality should consider using other enforcement measures, since imposing fines alone, as done today, fails to achieve the purpose of the law. Continue Reading »

Knesset receives bill to make Declaration of Independence a Basic Law

 

MK Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid) wants to enshrine the principles of Israel’s Declaration of Independence as a Basic Law.

Calderon: ‘The concept of a Jewish state does not refer to Judaism as a religion, but rather as a culture & nationality.’

By Israel Hayom Staff

Yesh Atid MK Ruth Calderon has proposed a bill in the Knesset that would enshrine the principles of Israel’s Declaration of Independence as one of the country’s Basic Laws.

David Ben-Gurion reads the Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv – Photo: GPO

Israel does not have a written constitution. Instead, there is a system of Basic Laws. Continue Reading »

Pope slams anti-Semitism at Vatican meeting with Jewish delegation

“Because of our commons roots, a true Christian cannot be anti-Semitic,” Pope Francis I said.

By JTA

 

 

Pope Francis condemned anti-Semitism during a meeting with representatives of the international Jewish community at the Vatican.

Pope Francis I in Vatican City, April 2013 – Photo: Franco Origlia, Getty

“Because of our commons roots, a true Christian cannot be anti-Semitic,” Francis said Monday at a meeting with a delegation of the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, or IJCIC.

He added that the Catholic Church “firmly condemns hatred, persecution and all manifestations of anti-Semitism.”

While Francis has met with several Jewish leaders since becoming pope, he said Monday’s meeting was the first time he has spoken with an official group of representatives of Jewish organizations and communities.

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Prince Charles concerned over rise in anti-Semitism in United Kingdom

Britain’s Prince Charles says he’s worried by “poisonous, debilitating intolerance.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Charles Prince of Wales has warned that Britain is suffering from an “apparent rise in anti-Semitism,” in a speech that praised the work of Britain’s outgoing Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, the Guardian reported on Monday.

Britain's Prince Charles at the opening of the Jewish Community Center in Krakow April 29, 2008.

Britain’s Prince Charles at the opening of the Jewish Community Center in Krakow April 29, 2008. – Photo: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Prince Charles also expressed concern at the rise of “forms of intolerance.”

“I sometimes fear not enough recognition is given to the role of the faith communities in the life of our country in promoting such a critical principle, and I join with you, in mounting anxiety, at the apparent rise in anti-Semitism, along with other poisonous and debilitating forms of intolerance,” Prince Charles was quoted by the Guardian as saying.

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Arabs fire at bus in Samaria, no injuries

Head of Shomron Regional Council blasts gov’t for lack of adequate response to stone-hurling attacks and shootings behind ‘green line’.

By Itamar Fleishman

 

 

An Israeli bus driver on Tuesday reported there were shots fired at his vehicle while he was traveling in the West Bank, south of Nablus. Security forces founded a bullet lodged in the vehicle. IDF forces are scouring the territory for the perpetrators of the attack.

A 16-year-old Israeli boy was critically wounded on April 6, 2011 when an antitank missile fired out of Gaza struck a school bus in southern Israel - Photo by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times

A 16-year-old Israeli boy was killed on April 7, 2011 when an antitank missile fired out of Gaza struck a school bus in southern Israel – Photo by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times

IDF sources told Ynet that in additional to the operational procedures, investigators are also active on the intelligence front. Continue Reading »

White House trying to ‘rein in’ Kerry over pledges to allies & rivals alike

America’s top diplomat, US Sec. of St. John Kerry has issued several as yet undelivered & perhaps undeliverable foreign policy promises, including a historic breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In four months as secretary of state, John Kerry has certainly promised great things. Now he has to deliver.

In the Middle East, he has raised hopes his solo diplomatic effort can produce a historic breakthrough ending six decades of Arab-Israeli conflict.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on visit to New Delhi, India.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on visit to New Delhi, India. – Photo: Reuters

 

He has pledged to bring Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government to heel and to work with Russia to end Syria’s civil war. Continue Reading »

Poll: Majority of Israeli Arabs Support Another Intifada

58% of Israel’s Arabs oppose a Jewish majority, support a Palestinian  Intifada & want Iran to possess nukes.

By Gil Ronen

 

About 58% of the Arab citizens of Israel say that the Palestinian Authority Arabs would be justified in starting a violent rebellion (“intifada”) if the diplomatic process does not advance. A similar percentage advocate an “intifada” by Israeli Arab citizens if their situation does not improve considerably, according to a poll, which was carried out by Prof. Sami Samoha of Haifa University, with the Israeli Democracy Institute.

The views are in line with the call Monday by an Arab Knesset Member, for an Arab intifada inside Israel. Continue Reading »

China pressuring Jerusalem to stop assisting US terror funding lawsuit

Beijing is asking Netanyahu to stop testimony against the Bank of China allegedly allowing Iran to transfer funds to Islamic Jihad organizations for a 2006 Tel Aviv suicide terrorist bombing.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

 

Beijing is pressuring Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to backtrack on a promise to help in a US terror funding lawsuit involving a Chinese bank’s alleged involvement in a 2006 Tel Aviv suicide bombing, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a gala dinner in Shanghai , May 6

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a gala dinner in Shanghai , May 6 – Photo: REUTERS

The Bank of China allegedly allowed Iran to deliver funding to terrorist organizations, including Islamic Jihad, that carried out an attack killing 16-year-old Daniel Wultz and 10 others at the Rosh Ha’ir shwarma restaurant near the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station.

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Anti-Semitism rampant throughout Europe

New report presented to the gov’t says 1 of every 4 European Jews was harassed in the past year, many considering making aliyah as they no longer feel safe. 

By Itamar Eichner

A troubling report presented to the government on Sunday verifies what many in Europe have been feeling in recent months – anti-Semitism in the continent is on the rise, and is breaking new records.

Protest against anti-Semitism in Hungary - Photo AFP

Protest against anti-Semitism in Hungary – Photo: AFP

The anti-Semitism survey was conducted on behalf of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in nine countries in Europe.

According to its main findings, 26% of Jews have suffered from anti-Semitic harassment at least once in the past year, 34% experienced such harassment in the past five years, 5% reported that their property was intentionally vandalized because they are Jewish, about 7% were physically hurt or threatened in the past five years. Continue Reading »

More Israeli Arabs are Volunteering for National Service

Despite pressure from their more anti-Israel elders to shun the Jewish state, there’s a significant rise this year in the number of young Israeli Arabs volunteering for national service.

By Yossi Aloni

 

 

At a time when the Israeli government is struggling to get ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army, a record number of Israeli Arabs are volunteering for national service.

Despite calls from leaders in the Arab community to shun national service, 3,000 young Israeli Arabs answered the call this year, a 76 percent increase from the 1,700 who volunteered last year.

At a ceremony earlier this week in Haifa, the National Service Administration welcomed the 3,000th Arab volunteer this year, Suriah Suad, who will do her national service by volunteering in the maternity ward at Ziv Hospital in Safed. Continue Reading »

Lebanon edges toward war as armed sectarian battles enter 2nd day

 

Ethnic groups in Lebanon are up in arms because of the Syrian civil war. Ethnic violence erupts in Tripoli and in Bekaa Valley.

Sunni Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir says attacks on Lebanese army meant to protest Hezbollah’s active support for Syrian president Assad.

By Daniel Siryoti and David Baron

Lebanese soldiers fought Sunni Islamist gunmen in the southern city of Sidon for a second day on Monday. The ongoing violence is fueled by sectarian rifts over the civil war in neighboring Syria.

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Bulgaria reveals to the EU new evidence on Hezbollah terrorist link

Israel’s PM message to the EU: “If Hezbollah isn’t a terrorist organization, I don’t know what is a terrorist organization. I mean, they’re butchering people left and right across the world and now in the cities of Syria.”

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Egypt floods more Gaza tunnels at the dismay of Hamas

Only 50 – 70 tunnels, out of hundreds that have provide smuggled weapons and taxes to Hamas are still open and in partial operation.

By REUTERS
 

 

GAZA – Egypt has intensified a crackdown on smuggling tunnels between its volatile Sinai desert and the Gaza Strip, causing a steep hike in petrol and cement prices in the Palestinian territory.

Tunnel smuggler

Palestinians involved in the tunnel business say that the campaign, which began in March and has included flooding of underground passages, was ramped up in the past two weeks before a wave of opposition-led protests in Egypt expected to start on June 30.

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