Olmert says on TV: I don’t trust Barak with security matters

Israel’s channel 2 investigative report, shows spat between former PM & defense minister as they struggled to cope with growing Iranian nuclear threat

Netanyahu allegedly ordered IDF on alert to strike Iran in 2010.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

In a rare public spat between what were once two of Israel’s highest-ranking politicians, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said he did not trust Defense Minister Ehud Barak with Israel’s most serious military matters, in a Channel 2 investigative report aired Monday.

Olmert & Barak – Photo: REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

“I would very much prefer that this large a responsibility on these subjects (such as the Iranian nuclear program) will be in the hands of somebody else, not his,” Olmert said.

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24hrs later Abbas already takes back ‘right of return’ remarks

“What I said about Safed is my personal stance. It means nothing about giving up the right of return,” he said. “No one would give up their right of return.” said Abbas

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said that he has not given up on the right of return for Palestinians, rowing back on his comments to Israel’s Channel 2 two days previously.

President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN

President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN

President Abbas had spoken to Channel 2 on Thursday about his childhood home in Israel, saying: “I visited Safed before once. But I want to see Safed. Continue Reading »

RAY: A Unique Israeli Smartphone For The Visually-Impaired

RAY can be used for messaging, voice recording, email, automatic backup & even location services.

RAY will also combine the functions of various customized gadgets such as audio book-readers and voice-enabled MP3 players.

 

The visually impaired may have been using phones adapted for them for years, but access to smartphones and more specifically apps, is still beyond reach. An Israeli company called Project Ray recently announced the development of a smartphone for the visually impaired, called the RAY.

Technology News – RAY: The Israeli Smartphone For The Visually-Impaired – Photo (reproduction) by Project RAY

Compatible with any Android smartphone, RAY’s user interface combines touch screen, haptics, sensors, text-to-speech and audio feedback allowing for efficient operation of the device functions. Continue Reading »

TEST: Long-range rocket successfully intercepted by Iron Dome

Defense Minister Ehud Barak reports that the test was a great accomplishment in Israel’s strategic plan for a multi-layered anti-missile defense system.

5th battery to be transferred to IAF by next summer.

Lilach Shoval

 

 

The Defense Ministry successfully completed tests meant to upgrade the capability of the Iron Dome anti-rocket system last week. During the tests, an Iron Dome battery launched missiles against long-rang rockets and successfully intercepted them.

Iron Dome anti-rocket battery in action. – Photo: AP

The ministry is set to transfer an additional Iron Dome battery to the air force by next summer, bringing the total number of operational batteries in the country to five. Continue Reading »

Forensic experts meet to discuss Arafat’s exhumation

Swiss forensic experts meet in West Bank to investigate alleged traces of polonium-210 found on the dead PLO chairman’s clothes.

By REUTERS

 

GENEVA – Swiss forensic experts are in the West Bank for talks on exhuming the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to investigate whether he may have been poisoned, a spokesman said on Monday.

Deceased PLO chairman Yasser Arafat - Photo: REUTERS

Deceased PLO chairman Yasser Arafat – Photo: REUTERS

The team is working closely with the Palestinian Authority and French judicial authorities on the case which is complicated technically, legally and politically, said Darcy Christen, spokesman of Lausanne University Hospital.

“We have sent our best experts for final consultations,” Christen told Reuters.

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Iran says it is allowed to build & oversee arms facilities

 

Tehran halfheartedly admits to its connection to weapons factory in Sudan

FM Salehi reports: ‘If Israel was ready to strike Iran it would have done so by now’

By Roi Kais

Iran halfheartedly admitted that it had established the Sudanese weapons factory that was destroyed in an air raid last week, defiantly stating that it has the right to build arms facilities overseas.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi – Photo: Reuters

In a Sunday interview with Qatari newspaper Al-Waten, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was asked about the the Iranian link to Sudanese military complex that was allegedly bombed by Israel. Continue Reading »

Palestinians to pursue UN bid, despite Netanyahu’s call for direct talks immediately

WATCH: Israeli PM Netanyahu renews his call for immediate resumption of negotiations & warns against unilateral moves.
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah: Direct talks must await the UN vote.

By Reuters

 

The Palestinians will press ahead with a bid to upgrade their status at the United Nations, a senior PA official said on Monday, brushing off a request by Israel to halt the initiative.

Mahmoud Abbas speaking at the UN General Assembly

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 27, 2012. Photo by AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed his call for an immediate resumption of peace talks and has warned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas against making any unilateral moves in the UN General Assembly. Continue Reading »

I Didn’t Leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party Left Me, says Adelson

Sheldon Adelson writes in The WSJ, “There is now a visceral anti-Israel movement among rank-and-file Democrats,”

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

“When members of the Democratic Party booed the inclusion of G-d and Jerusalem in their party platform this year, I thought of my parents,” writes Jewish philanthropist Sheldon Adelson in the Sunday edition of The Wall Street Journal. “They would have been astounded.”

Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson – Reuters

Adelson, who has emerged as one of the largest patrons of Republican causes, explains that he grew up in an immigrant family, which aligned itself with the Democratic party, platform and ideals—as did most Jews of Boston in the 1930s and ’40s. Continue Reading »

Israeli company participates at US Army exhibition

Israel’s Al-Sorag was chosen to participate in the U.S.’s annual Defense Meeting & Exposition, one of world’s largest land-warfare exhibitions & professional development forums

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Israeli company Al-Sorag from Moshav Emunin was chosen by the AUSA (Association of the United States Army) to participate in the annual Defense Meeting & Exposition – one of the largest land warfare expositions and professional development forums in the world.

Al-Sorag showcases advanced protection solutions Photo: Al-Sorag

Al-Sorag showcases advanced protection solutions – Photo: Al-Sorag

The Exposition took place on October 22-24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, with over 35,000 attendees, including senior leaders from the US Army, DoD and congress, as well as foreign dignitaries. Continue Reading »

IDF Kills Suspicious Palestinian Approaching Gaza Border Fence

IDF reports unidentified man failed to obey warning shots and orders to turn around to exit buffer zone.
Palestinians say victim was unarmed & mentally unfit.

By Reuters

 

Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached a fence near the border with Israel, medics said on Monday.

IDF soldiers near Gaza.

IDF soldiers during maintenance work at the security fence with Gaza – Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz

An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the shooting took place after darkness fell on Sunday, saying troops opened warning shots when a man walking west of the border in a riverbed failed to heed orders to leave the buffer area Israel maintains to try and prevent cross-border attacks. Continue Reading »

Israel Aid Finds Its Way to Sandy Victims

Israel Flying Aid Supplies Food, Generators, Gas To Sandy New York &  New Jersey Victims

By Karen Levy

 

New York, NY — November 4, 2012 … Israel Flying Aid, the Israeli global humanitarian organization which was first to land in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, has been distributing large supplies of gas to hospitals, food, batteries and generators to Hurricane Sandy victims.

Roger Parrott, Jacob Parrott and Joel Leyden deliver a generator and
gas to a Hurricane Sandy New York victim. Photo: Rebecca McCann / INA

“We have many years of disaster relief experience,” said Israel Flying Aid North American Operations Manager Moti Kahana. Continue Reading »

Pallywood: Crying Blond Arab Girl Resurfaces to Abuse Soldiers

Video shows Arabs in Judea & Samaria have brought soldier-baiting for propaganda  purposes to the degree of ‘art’

By Gil Ronen

 

A video that has been uploaded to Youtube shows how Arabs in Judea and Samaria abuse their own children and manipulate unwitting Israeli soldiers in order to manufacture photographs that can be used for propaganda purposes.

The case in point is a situation that appears to have been masterfully directed by an unknown propagandist, starring a blond girl who was successfully used for the same purpose three months earlier.

In August, Arab propagandists produced photos of a soldier manhandling a crying Arab girl – an excellent illustration of the theme propagated by Israel’s enemies, regarding Israel’s allegedly evil military occupation of Judea and Samaria. Continue Reading »

The Palestinians are Stealing Rachel’s Tomb

Using deceit, the Palestinians over the past several years have succeeded in convincing UNESCO that Rachel’s Tomb is actually a mosque built to commemorate the Prophet Mohammed’s first muezzin.

Historical documentation & hundreds of thousands of Jews who remain loyal to Rachel’s Tomb continue to hinder the Palestinian’s attempt into turning it into a Muslim site.

By Nadav Shragai

 

It is doubtful whether any other place between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River illustrates the concept of self-defense that has trickled into Israel’s security mindset as well as Rachel’s Tomb. The formerly picturesque site is engraved in the memory of many people as a stone building with a dome on top and an ancient olive tree in front of it, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.

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$20 Eco-Friendly Bicycles Soon to Hit the Market

Israel inventor will soon begin mass-production of his eco-friendly, durable cardboard bicycle

 

What started as the vision of a self-proclaimed bike freak — the mass-production of bicycles made entirely from recycled materials — is rapidly becoming a reality. And one amazing success story. After we reported on 50-year-old Izhar Gafni’s cardboard bikes, media outlets around the world followed suit.

Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni holds his cardboard bicycle as he poses for a photo in Moshav Ahituv, central Israel September 24, 2012. The bicycle, made almost entirely of cardboard, has the potential to change transportation habits from the world's most congested cities to the poorest reaches of Africa, Gafni, an expert in designing automated mass-production lines and an amateur cycling enthusiast, says. Picture taken September 24, 2012. To match ISRAEL-CARDBOARDBIKE/     REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SPORT CYCLING SOCIETY)

Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni holds his cardboard bicycle as he poses for a photo in Moshav Ahituv, central Israel. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

After four years of perfecting the bicycle, it is about to be mass-produced and sold for $20 a piece. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Top 10 ways algae boost medicine, energy & science.

 

Israel’s scientists find novel approaches to tap into the potential of this slimy plantlike organism for nutrition, fuel, & innovative medical therapies.

 

Algae come in different shapes, sizes and colors — from unicellular micro-algae to macro forms, and from red to yellow to blue to green. The plantlike organisms bloom in ponds, rivers, lakes and neglected swimming pools; the biblical prophet Jonah complained about algae enveloping his head his when he was dumped out of the boat at sea.

Israeli innovation is turning algae into a range of vital new products. Photo by www.shutterstock.com

Israeli innovation is turning algae into a range of vital new products. – Photo by www.shutterstock.com

 

But while algae can be a pest to prophets and pool cleaners, thanks to Israeli innovation algae are forming the basis of next-generation biofuels, medical therapies and sustainable vegan-based vitamins. Continue Reading »