Iranian Families of the assassinated nuclear scientists to sue U.S., U.K. & Israel.

At press conference in Tehran, the Father of 1 of the scientists reported that they  demanded Iran’s judiciary to pursue their complaints through int’l bodies & bring those behind the murders to justice.

 

Families of Iran’s slain nuclear scientists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the U.S. and Britain accusing them of involvement in the assassination of their loved ones.

Iran’s Natanz reactor

Iran’s Natanz reactor. – Photo by AP

Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, the father of one of the scientists, told a press conference in Tehran Wednesday that the families have demanded Iran’s judiciary to pursue their complaint through international bodies and bring those behind the murders to justice. Continue Reading »

Arab Tycoon Talks Peace with Jew in Supermarket, Angering Boycotters

A Palestinian Authority tycoon talked peace with Rami Levyatn one of his food outlets, angering boycotters.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

A Palestinian Authority tycoon talked peace with Israeli supermarket mogul Rami Levy in one of his outlets in Judea and Samaria, angering the boycott movement.

Arabs shop at Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion

Arabs shoping at Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion
Israel news photo: Flash 9

Arab billionaire Munib Al-Masri met with Levy, who has backed nationalist causes and has promoted Arab-Jewish co-existence by hiring workers from both sectors in his supermarkets, several of which are located in Judea and Samaria. The newest store, located in Gush Etzion, is filled with Jewish and Arab shoppers, especially on Thursday, the day before the Muslim day of rest and the eve of Jewish Sabbath. Continue Reading »

Anti-Semitic Party Leader In Hungary Discovers He’s a Jew

Szegedi resigned last month from all party positions but that wasn’t good enough for the party: It asked him to give up his seat in the European Parliament because of the suspected bribery, not his Jewish roots.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — As a rising star in Hungary’s far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of “buying up” the country, railed about the “Jewishness” of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.

Then came a revelation that knocked him off his perch as ultra-nationalist standard-bearer: Szegedi himself is a Jew. Continue Reading »

Foreign Ministry: African countries yern to revive ‘golden era’ of Israel ties

Deputy FM Ayalon to launch joint health & agricultural projects in Uganda & Kenya; Foreign Ministry official says African leaders who recently visited Israel  ‘expressed disappointed at Arab promises’ from the 70’s – 80’s

By Rina Bassist

 

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon landed on Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he met senior officials. He continued to Kenya and Uganda, where he was expected to inaugurate two Israeli-cooperation projects in the fields of agriculture and health.

Daniel Ayalon Photo: EPA

Daniel Ayalon – Photo: EPA

An outstanding number of state and professional visits by African heads of state and ministers were recorded in Jerusalem this year. Continue Reading »

The lost tribes of Israel lead to Jewish communities in Africa

Jewish filmmaker Laurence Gavron, the first Senegalese-naturalized white person to be elected for parliament, will soon release a documentary on the Jewish history of African tribes.

By JTA

 

Filmmaker Laurence Gavron is on a journey to document lost Jewish tribes in Africa. The French-born Gavron, who has made Senegal her home since 1989, says she was immediately taken by the project, which she says combines her passion for Africa with the mystery of rediscovering Judaism.

The film, titled “Black Jews, Juifs noir en Afrique,” focuses on a dozen African tribes – in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and other countries – each with a Jewish story. Continue Reading »

The European Union says City of Modiin is Not Part of Israel

The EU decided that the city of Modiin, home to 80,000, was built on ‘no-man’s land’ and is not in the State of Israel.

By Maayana Miskin

 

The European Union has decided that the city of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut (Modiin) is not a part of Israel. The city was built on what was no-man’s land after the 1948 War of Independence, and therefore will not be considered Israel proper, EU officials said.

The decision was made as part of an EU initiative to decide which Israeli products will benefit from tax breaks under a 1995 agreement.

Israeli and EU officials reached an understanding years ago according to which items produced in areas settled by Israel after 1967 will not enjoy tax breaks despite the 1995 deal. Continue Reading »

Residents not Worried that Jerusalem Lacks Bomb Shelters

Survey shows older neighborhoods of Jerusalem haven’t enough bomb shelters, but the residents are nonchalant.

 

Jerusalem does not have enough public bomb shelters in older neighborhoods, but that doesn’t really bother residents of those neighborhoods, The Jerusalem Post found on Tuesday during an informal survey judging the city’s readiness for emergency situations.

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Israelis sit in a bomb shelter – Photo: Amir Cohen / Reuters

According to a municipality spokeswoman, there are approximately 200 public bomb shelters concentrated in the city center and south of the city. Newer neighborhoods, including Ramot, Gilo, Pisgat Zeev, and Ramat Eshkol, are better prepared because later zoning laws required contractors to build bomb shelters within new buildings.

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Hamas inmate has a son after sneaking out a sperm sample to his wife

A Palestinian  prisoner serving 32 life sentences fathers 3rd child after smuggling sperm sample out of Hadarim prison

By AFP

 

A baby boy was born by Caesarian section on Monday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out a sperm sample to his wife.

No conjugal visits (archive) Photo: Moti Kimhi

No conjugal visits – Photo: Moti Kimhi

Baby Muhammad was born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the northern West Bank, whose husband Ammar is currently serving 32 life sentences in an Israeli prison.

Palestinians are not permitted to receive conjugal visits, and although Dallal Ziben has not set eyes on her husband for 15 years, she says she fell pregnant after being artificially inseminated by sperm her 37-year-old husband managed to sneak out of Hadarim prison in central Israel. Continue Reading »

IDF Naval Commandos Rescue Family from Sinking Yacht near Lebanon

IDF’s Elite Navy commandos rescued parents & their 3 children whose disabled yacht was stranded dangerously close to Lebanon.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Elite Navy commandos rescued parents and three children whose disabled yacht was stranded dangerously close to Lebanon early Tuesday.

  Israeli navy ship to the rescue

Israeli navy ship to the rescue!
Israel news photo: IDF spokesman

The Navy ship, outfitted with missiles, rushed out on the high seas after officials received an SOS call from the yacht ”Odelia” late Monday night.

Water began seeping in after the boat’s engine failed approximately 30 miles off the Lebanese coast.

The family had left the port of Haifa and was on the way to Cyprus, Voice of Israel government radio reported. Continue Reading »

The Iranian Quake Death Toll is Still Rising

Dozens more have died since the two earthquakes struck Iran’s East Azerbaijan province on Saturday.

By Chana Ya’ar and Reuters

 

Dozens more people have died since twin earthquakes struck the towns of Ahar, Haris and Varzaqan in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province on Saturday.

From an initial death toll of 250, the numbers have now reached as high as 306, including 219 women and children.

More than 3,000 people were injured in the 6.3 and 6.4-magnitude temblors that struck northwestern Iran, according to Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjierdi.

Iran’s Red Crescent Society spokesman Pouya Haijan told the ISNA news agency the organization can handle the crisis on its own. Continue Reading »

Hamas says to Egypt: Open Rafah crossing, We’ll close tunnels.

Report: U.S. may pass Cairo intel assistance against terrorists in Sinai. • Salah al-Bardawil, a Hamas official, says his org will stop smuggling, only if Egypt permanently opens the Rafah border crossing to Gazans

By Daniel Siryoti, Israel Hayom Staff and News Agencies

 

Hamas is prepared to stop tunnel smuggling activity between Sinai and the Gaza Strip if the Egyptians order the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, which has been closed since the Sinai terror attack last week, Hamas senior official Salah al-Bardawil said on Sunday.

Egyptian security forces arrest suspected militants in Sinai – Photo: Reuters

Egypt completely closed the border crossing to the passage of people and goods after terrorists, some of whom were suspected of coming from the Gaza Strip, attacked an army outpost in Sinai on August 5, killing 16 Egyptian soldiers.

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Jerusalem: Why is South Africa boycotting Israel?

Israel’s envoy to Pretoria will ask why South African Deputy FM Ebrahim is calling on countrymen not to go to Israel, which he calls “an occupier country that is oppressing Palestine.”

 

Ambassador to South Africa Dov Segev-Steinberg will ask Pretoria for clarifications regarding what is viewed in Jerusalem as nothing less than a South African call for a boycott of Israel, diplomatic sources said on Monday.

South Africans protest Israel - Photo: Reuters

South Africans protest Israel – Photo: Reuters

The sources said a call by South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ismael Ebrahim on Sunday to his countrymen to refrain from visiting Israel “let the cat out of the bag,” and demonstrated the hollowness of South African government protestations that it was against boycotts, and that the recent move to label items from the settlements was just trying to “promote transparency.” Continue Reading »

Lebanese protest against anal exams on suspected homosexuals

Arab world’s Lesbian & Gay group says tests on men suspected of homosexuality is ‘shameful, illegal and irrelevant scientifically’

AFP

Dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts in the Lebanese capital on Saturday to protest the use of anal “tests” on men suspected of homosexuality, which is a criminal offence in the Arab country.

Rally in Beirut – Photo: AFP

The rally followed a July 28 police raid on a gay venue in a working class district of Beirut when 36 men were taken into custody and forced to undergo the examinations, reportedly to determine their sexual orientation.

Lebanon-based HELEM, considered the Arab world’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group, called for the rally under the slogan: “Stand up against the tests of shame, vaginal or anal.” Continue Reading »

Russia says the new U.S. sanctions on Iran are ‘overt blackmail,’

 

Russian Foreign Ministry says it supports sanctions by UN Security Council and called the U.S. measures a “crude contradiction of int’l law.”

By Reuters

 

Russia sharply criticized new U.S. sanctions against Iran on Monday, saying the measures to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Iran sell its oil would harm Moscow’s ties with Washington if Russian firms are affected.

Iran’s Natanz reactor

Iran’s Natanz reactor – Photo by AP

Russia, which has long opposed sanctions beyond those approved by the UN Security Council to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program, called the measures “overt blackmail” and a “crude contradiction of international law.”

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Israel’s $US Cash Reserves a Weapon Against Possible Iranian War Disaster

Gloom & doomers warn that a war against Iran may cripple the economy, but Israel has a weapon: $70 billion in US dollar reserves.

Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Gloom and doomers warn that war with Iran could cripple the economy, but Israel has a weapon: $70 billion in dollar reserves.

Many international financial wizards scoffed at Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer three years when he bought billions of dollars, ostensibly to keep the then-mighty shekel from growing even stronger. Israeli exporters were suffering from low revenue due to a lower shekel rate for the dollar and the euro.

Globes reported that a senior Bank of Israel official said, “We have $76 billion in foreign currency reserves, which says it all. Continue Reading »