Hamas to execute two Gazans as “collaborators” with Israel

Both men to hang before month’s end, or as early as next week.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

Hamas is planning to execute two Palestinians from the Gaza who were recently convicted of “collaborating” with Israel.

Gaza children

A Hamas official said that the two men, who were not identified, would be executed by hanging before the end of this month, or probably as early as next week.

The official said that the two men had been convicted by a Palestinian court of passing on to Israeli authorities information that led to the killing of Palestinians.

Salah Eddin Abu Sharkh, a senior official with the Hamas-run Ministry of Interior, confirmed that his government was planning to execute convicted “collaborators” in the near future.

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Wounded Syrian sent to Israel with thank you note from doctor.

 

Syrian being treated in Safed hospital brings note from doctors who treated him before being transfer to Israel.

Note reads: ‘Patient was hit by bullet that penetrated his chest and caused a fracture in the lungs. Please do what is needed. Thank you in advance’ 

By Maor Buchnik

One of the two injured Syrians who were admitted to Safed‘s Ziv Medical Center on Saturday entered Israel with a note from the doctor who gave him first aid on the other side of the border.

The note, which was written in Arabic and addressed to Israeli doctors, includes details about the injured young Syrian’s condition: “To the respectable surgeon hello. Continue Reading »

Auschwitz youth center to receive $1.3 million donation from Volkswagen

Volkswagen, which used concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust, says work at site is an ‘important undertaking’ for staff & company.

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Volkswagen said Tuesday it was donating $1.3 million to the Auschwitz International Youth Meeting Center.

Volkswagen Type 82E

Volkswagen Type 82E Photo by Wikipedia Commons

The automaker made the announcement at a meeting at the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said in a statement that the money will be used for educational work and modernization of the facility.

He said Volkswagen has been involved with the center, an educational site located next to the Nazi death camp in Poland, for more than 20 years. Continue Reading »

Is the IDF to Choose: Hareidim or Women Soldiers?

Women’s groups and political organizations have been pressuring the IDF to place more women in more combat units throughout the IDF.

By Arutz Sheva

 

 

Political organizations and women’s groups are putting pressure on the IDF to press on with the integration of women in the army’s combat units.

Elinor JosephThe organizations are joined by senior reserve officers who are offering a wide strategic plan for embedding women in all levels of the combat array.

One of the senior officers is the head of the Institute for National Security Studies, Major General (res.) Amos Yadlin, who said at a round table conference held by the Israeli Democracy Institute Tuesday that the integration of women into military units enhances Israel’s strength. Continue Reading »

Rabbi Asserts Israel’s Existence Disproves Christian Replacement Theology

 

Rabbi rebukes Jews who refuse to accept Israel’s Independence Day, arguing that it is a ‘holy day’ fulfilled in biblical prophecy & disproves hateful Christian doctrine used against the Jews & the State of Israel.

By Ryan Jones

 

In an article published in a local Israeli newspaper around the time of Israel’s 65th Independence Day, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Har-Noy puzzled over the fact that there are still so many Bible-believing Jews who refuse to celebrate the Jewish state’s modern rebirth.

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Jews not Allow – Photo Israel Today

“Perhaps these dear Jews missed the words of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik in his wonderful speech ‘Kol Dodi Dofek’ (The Voice of My Beloved Knocks),” mused Har-Noy. Continue Reading »

Austria began withdrawing their peacekeepers from Syrian Golan Heights

Because of the escalating encounters between Syrian rebels & gov’t forces, which left 2 UN soldiers wounded last week, Austria decided to pull out of the region and entered the protection of Israel.

Austrian troops made up the biggest contingent in the 1,000-strong UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Austria has begun withdrawing peacekeepers from the Golan Heights, winding down a four-decade mission due to spillover fighting from the Syrian civil war, the Austrian Defense Ministry said.

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Abbas declares to Colombian President: Palestinians want peace

Abbas tells President Juan Manuel Santos of Columbia, Palestinians committed to peace process based on pre-1967 lines.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday reiterated the Palestinians’ commitment to the peace process with Israel on the basis of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as its capital.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos. Photo Reuters

PA President Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos.

Abbas’s statement came during a meeting in Ramallah with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.

The PA’s official news agency Wafa reported that Abbas briefed his guest on the latest developments surrounding the peace process and international efforts to resume talks between the Palestinians and Israel.

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Almost seven decades later, Holocaust memorials continue to proliferate.

Hardly an unusual sight in big American cities, but Holocaust museums & memorials are cropping up almost 70 years after WWII, in more out-of-the-way places like Terre Haute, Ind. or Alexandria, La.

Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded $400,000 monument will soon rise. A succession of speakers delivered somber homilies remembering one of the darkest chapters in human history.

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Yet Another Video of Naked IDF Soldiers Goes Viral

 

After 1st set of naked photos of IDF girls gain global glory as the ‘Gaza Strip,’ now a new video of female soldiers dancing ‘half-naked’ goes public.

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One week after the naked IDF soldiers’ photos scandal, which reached headlines in tabloids worldwide, a video distributed through social media is threatening to one-up the last high jinks.

IDF girls“Dance like whores on a pole,” one of the soldiers is heard saying at the beginning of the clip. Contrary to the previous photographs, the identity of the participants in the video is unknown, as is the date it was shot.

In the clip, one of the soldiers tells her friend she will upload the video to Facebook, and warns her: “I’m uploading this, you shouldn’t look at the video. Continue Reading »

Turkish News reports: Mossad chief made secret visit to meet Erdogan

Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News reports that Tamir Pardo met Turkish counterpart to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, the situation in Syria & the current protests against Erdogan. 

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Mossad director Tamir Pardo secretly visited Ankara several days ago and met with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan. According to a report in the Hurriyet Daily News, Pardo asked Fidan to arrange a meeting for him with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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Mossad chief Tamir Pardo – Photo: Moti Milrod

According to the newspaper report, the secret meeting took place in Ankara on Monday, June 10. During the meeting, Pardo and Fidan discussed the situation in Syria, the Iranian nuclear program and the demonstrations and protests against Erdogan in Turkey. Continue Reading »

MK Porush: Israel Won’t be a Home for All Jews If Gov’t Forces IDF Enlistment

MK Meir Porush: If Torah students are forced to enlist, ‘We will tell the world this won’t be a national home for Torah observant Jews.’

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

If hareidi-religious Jews are forced to enlist in the IDF, many Jews will no longer see Israel as their home, MK Meir Porush (Yahadut Hatorah) has warned.

Porush met recently with French Ambassador to Israel Cristophe Bigot. During the meeting, Bigot asked Porush what the hareidi-religious community in Israel thinks of the government’s plan to require more hareidi men to enlist in the army.

Porush began by explaining the hareidi-religious view of Torah study. Continue Reading »

Holocaust survivors invited to Israel Air Force bases

Some 10,000 survivors arrived at 12 IAF bases across Israel as part of special out-reach project.

 

IAF chief says, ‘We need to do everything so that horrors our people endured will not recur,’

By Yoav Zitun

Air Force bases held an event in honor of Holocaust survivors Tuesday, hosting some 10,000 survivors in 12 bases nationwide.

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Survivors at IAF base – Photo: Yaron Brener

The project is held for the first time in the IDF in collaboration with the Center for Holocaust-Survivor Organizations in Israel, Yad Vashem and JDC in Israel

The survivors toured the bases and conversed with soldiers and pilots. Continue Reading »

4 Lebanese citizens receive U.S. sanctions for helping Hezbollah in West Africa

Hezbollah representatives penalized for recruiting & fundraising on behalf of militant terrorist group.

By Reuters

 

The United States imposed sanctions on four Lebanese citizens on Tuesday, accusing them of fundraising and recruiting for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in West Africa.

Hezbollah members holding Hezbollah and Lebanese flags during a rally in Lebanon

Hezbollah members holding Hezbollah and Lebanese flags during a rally in Lebanon. – Photo: Haaretz Archive

The U.S. Treasury Department said the four men were sanctioned for effectively acting as “ambassadors” for Hezbollah, which Washington considers a terrorist group. They were acting in Sierra Leone, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire and the Gambia, it said.

The sanctions mean the men are effectively cut off from the U.S. Continue Reading »

It’s Official! Google announces acquisition of Israeli app Waze

World Record paid for app.  Acquisition comes after speculation involving Facebook & Apple. Google says Waze remains in Israel.

Netanyahu calls to congratulate owners and thanks them for their ‘contribution’ to putting Israel on the map and the future taxes they’ll be adding to the country’s treasury.

 

 

 

Google and Waze on Tuesday announced that the search giant had purchased the Israeli traffic app, but did not specify the sum of the deal.”[Google’s leaders] share our vision of a global mapping service, updated in real time by local communities, and wish to help us accelerate,” Waze CEO Noam Bardin wrote in a post on the company’s site.
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Peres vows to Colombian President Israel’s Help to Boost Their Economy

President Shimon Peres promises that Jerusalem will help develop Colombia’s economy, as he welcomed Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to Israel.

By Rina Tzvi

 

President Shimon Peres on Monday said that Israel would help develop Colombia’s economy, as he welcomed his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos who is on an official visit to the region.

President Shimon Peres and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos - Photo: Mark Neiamn/GPO

President Shimon Peres and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos – Photo: Mark Neiamn/GPO

The two leaders also took part in the signing of a raft of agreements between the two countries.

“I welcome you here as an important and influential leader of Latin America,” Peres told Santos at a reception in his Jerusalem residence. Continue Reading »