Haredi enlistment begins in 6 weeks

‘Equal share of burden’ committee has 1st meeting. ‘IDF’s needs are our first priority,’ Science Minister Yaakov Perry says.

Attila Somfalvi

 

 

The Knesset Committee for Promoting Equal Share of the Burden, headed by Science Minister Yaakov Perry (Yesh Atid), convened for the first time Sunday. Representatives of the IDF and the Civil Service Administration attended the meeting and stressed they were prepared to intake haredi enlistees.

At the end of the meeting, Perry said: “In six weeks we will have a historic law – the process is sensitive, but the IDF’s needs are our first priority.”

The committee’s meeting took place only a few hours before the beginning of Memorial Day, and while leading the meeting, Minister Perry stressed the symbolic importance of the coincidence. Continue Reading »

Over 1,000 Hizbullah Terrorists Enter Syria to Fight for Assad

More than 1,000 members of Hizbullah have entered Syria in the past few days in order to render support for regime troops.

By Elad Benari

 

 

Hizbullah is continuing to assist Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his fight against the rebels. Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediterranean Sea, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported on Sunday.

Hezbollah terrorists - Photo by EPA

Hezbollah terrorists – Photo by EPA

According to the report, around 1,200 fighters arrived at Syria’s Tartus port in order to fight alongside regime troops.

The armed members who arrived from Lebanon to Syria committed “a hideous crime” in the town of Talkalkh, the daily said, adding that tens of thousands of fighters entered from Iraq to aid the Syrian regime. Continue Reading »

VIDEO: How the U.S & Europe fund Palestinian hatred

The UN agency that administers most Palestinian schools is bankrolled by the EU & US, and it is using their tax money to perpetuate another generation of young Arabs to hate the Jews.

By Israel Today Staff

 

For Israel, the biggest obstacle to concluding a genuine and lasting peace agreement is that the Palestinians have been indoctrinated with a deep-seated hatred for the Jews, and therefore any deal is likely to fall apart at the first opportunity.

UNRWAAnd those portraying themselves as the overseers of this peace process are actually guilty of both initiating and perpetuating this phenomenon.

The first and greatest mistake of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was importing Yasser Arafat’s PLO to speak for and rule the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

Druse Share in Israel’s Joy & Sorrow

392 Israeli Druse have been killed while serving in the IDF.

The Druse have served & defended Israel in all its wars

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

Israel’s Druse community is proud to take part in both Remembrance Day and Independence Day, identifying itself as an integral part of the state whose members have served in all of the wars in its history.

Druse hospitality – Photo Courtesy

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, there are around 130,000 Druse in Israel.

Among them, 20,000 live on the Golan and are seen as distinct in terms of national loyalty as they tend to identify with Syria as opposed to Israel.

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Israel’s population passes the 8 million mark

 

More than 6 million Jews, 1.6 million Arabs live in Israel, almost 10-fold increase since 1948.

70% of the population were born in Israel

Yaron Druckman

 

On the eve of the Day of Remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terrorism, Israel‘s population numbers some 8,018,000 people, stated the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on Sunday.

Israel’s population increased almost 10-fold since the founding of the State in 1948, when it stood at only 806,000.

According to the new data, the Jewish population stands at about 6,042,000 (75.3% of the total population), the Arab at 1,658,000 (20.7%) and the “others” – non-Arab Christians, other religions and non-specified – stand at 318,000 (4.0%). Continue Reading »

Peres tells bereaved families: Israel’s enemies know the IDF will always win

President Peres, at the state Memorial Day ceremony for Israel’s fallen soldiers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, told the guests that the faces of the fallen, ‘will never be erased’ from memory of the Jewish people.

By Gili Cohen and

 

A one-minute siren sounded throughout Israel on Sunday night, marking the official opening of Memorial Day. A torch was lit at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, in the presence of President Shimon Peres and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz.

Israeli national flags are seen on graves at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery

Israeli flags on military cemetery. – Photo: AFP

“We know full well that there are no words we can say this night to assuage your pain,” Peres told bereaved families in his speech. Continue Reading »

Hamas Reports: 123 Israeli Spies Exposed by Anonymous

Gaza terror group says Anonymous broke into Mossad website server & relayed names to Hamas.

By Gil Ronen

 

 

Terror group Hamas was quoted Saturday as saying that members of the hacking group Anonymous broke into a Mossad website and revealed the names of 123 Israeli spies.

According to a report in Egyptian newspaper Al Shaab al Masri, the claim was made by an officer for the “internal security intelligence” mechanism in the interior ministry of the Hamas government of Gaza.

The officer said that 48 of the spies work in Egypt’s and Saudi Arabia’s stock exchanges. Another 52 work in the EMPC building, where Egypt’s central television studios are located, 15 work on oil rigs in the Persian Gulf and Libya, ten in Egyptian communications media networks, and three in private firms. Continue Reading »

Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin, to sue PA for terrorism at The Hague

 

Israeli organization urges terror victims to tell their stories on Facebook for the ICC lawsuit in ‘Terrorizing Terror’ campaign.

 

NGO Chairwoman: PA starting war against soldiers, ‘we’ll defend them’.

Shahar Chai’

 

 

An Israeli civil rights NGO is preparing to sue the Palestinian Authority in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its alleged responsibility for thousands of terrorist attacks on Israel.

Shurat HaDin’s Nitsana Darshan-Leitner – Photo: Zvika Tishler

The publicity material shows the tagline on top of photographs of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Prime Minister Ismayil Haniyeh behind bars.

After the United Nations upgraded its status to non-member observer state in late November, the Palestinian Authority hinted its intentions to sue Israelis for alleged war crimes at the ICC in The Hague. Continue Reading »

Israel honors 23,085 fallen soldiers & police officers this Memorial Day

At 8:00 P.M. a 1-minute siren will sound nation-wide, marking the opening of IDF and Terror Victims Remembrance Day, followed by commemoration ceremonies.

By Gili Cohen and

 

Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers will begin at 4 P.M. on Sunday with a ceremony at Yad Lebanim in Jerusalem, attended by the prime minister, the speaker of the Knesset and the Sephardi and Ashkenazi chief rabbis.

A woman placing flowers on the grave of a relative at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery last week.


A woman placing flowers on the grave of a relative at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery last week. – Photo: KoKo

 

At 8 P.M. a one-minute siren will sound throughout the country, marking the official opening of Memorial Day, followed by commemoration ceremonies. Continue Reading »

Western gov’ts should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad

When Assad & Tehran fight the rebels & Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support then can then go to helping Syria offer a moderate alternative to today’s wretched choices and lead to a better future.

By  Daniel Pipes

Analysts agree that “the erosion of the Syrian regime’s capabilities is accelerating,” that it step-by-step continues to retreat, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation from neutrality to something that causes me, as a humanitarian and decades-long foe of the Assad dynasty, to pause before writing:

Western governments should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. Continue Reading »

Mavi Marmara Activist: ‘We Asked For It’

A senior activist aboard the Mavi Marmara has admitted that Turkey should have taken actions in preventing its activists from attempting to breach the legal Israeli blockade.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

One of the chief activists on the Mavi Marmara flotilla has announced that the Turkish government should have taken measures to prevent the activists from attempting to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in 2010.

“What is the importance of the apology? ‘We killed nine people and are sorry’ – of course it sounds ridiculous. I say this is what the state should have done. If only it had prevented this at the start. Continue Reading »

12th Grade Student Suspended for Forging Test Grades

12th grade student from Ashkelon hacked into his high school’s grading site & adjusted his grades by 10-15 points.


 

 
A high school student in Ashkelon was suspended from classes this week after he had hacked into the school’s grading site, which is usually reserved exclusively for the teaching staff, and increased his grades by 10 to 15 points.
Hacking [illustrative]

Hacking – Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Peter

The case came to light after one of the teachers realized that the scores displayed in the computer system did not match those she had in hard copy.

In order to blur the evidence, the student, who is in 12th grade, also modified some of his classmates’ scores.

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Haredi man photographed inside plastic bag puzzles foreign media

Websites & media outlets post photo of Haredi man inside a large plastic bag during his flight to Israel, sparked  speculation as to his motives.

By Ynet

A photo posted on Facebook showing a Ben-Gurion Airport flight has caught the attention of international media. In the picture, a haredi man can be seen sitting in his seat on a commercial flight wrapped in a large plastic bag.

(צילום: מתוך ניו יורק דיילי ניוז)

Haredi in plastic bag. – Photo from: New York Daily News

The New York Daily News offered an explanation. The man is said to be a Kohen, and as the aircraft flew over a cemetery, he covered himself in a plastic bag so he could remain pure. Continue Reading »

Will PM Fayyad’s resignation be the beginning of the end for the PA?

It was actually Fayyad successes that eventually led to his downfall. His relative popularity, vision & effective management meant he was a threat to too many people.

 

The resignation of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Saturday is a dramatic development. Its ramifications won’t just reverberate in the part of the West Bank under Palestinian control, but also affect Israel and the Obama administration’s efforts to renew the peace process, as well as, the European Union’s policy towards the Palestinians.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in 2010.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in 2010. – Photo: Reuters

 

For Israel’s government and defense establishment, the U.S., Continue Reading »

Knesset honors Michael Levin fallen US-born IDF soldier

Philadelphia native Levin, fell while bravely fighting during the Second Lebanon War.



 
The Knesset and Defense Ministry will honor the memory of American-born IDF soldier Michael Levin in its Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars ceremony on Sunday night.
Michael Levin

Michael Levin – Photo: Courtesy Lone Soldier Center

Short documentary videos will be combined with songs and poetry readings about the fallen.

Levin immigrated to Israel from Philadelphia in 2002 and joined the Paratroop Brigade. He fought in the Second Lebanon War, cutting short a vacation to the US to rejoin his comrades.

On August 21, 2006, a Hezbollah sniper killed Levin in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta a-Shayeb.

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