Israel’s solar-powered desert oasis confronts world hunger

 

The best of Israel’s clean-tech & agri-tech  innovations are combined into a new ‘oasis’ system that could feed millions of desert-dwellers.

 

Growing the most crop per drop of water is an Israeli specialty. With little rain and a hot desert sun as unforgiving as the Sahara, Israel’s high-tech researchers and farmers have combined their expertise to grow a cornucopia of salt-tolerant crops in dry desert conditions. People from hungry countries far and wide come to learn from Israel’s expertise.

These crops are being grown with solar-energy desalinated water.

These crops are being grown with solar-energy desalinated water.

Now, a new research project by two desert research institutes has strung several Israeli agriculture and clean-tech specialties together to help alleviate world hunger and push back the desert through an artificial desert oasis using low-cost desalination technology that runs on solar power. Continue Reading »

BUSTED: Security forces arrest 2 suspects in the ‘Ramallah Lynch’ of 2000

IDF, Police, & Shin Bet operation uncovers Hamas terrorist organization in Ramallah/Binyamin region; 2 suspects confess to beating to death IDF reservists Yossi Avrahami & Vadim Nurzhitz ז”ל.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Abed El Aziz Salha coming from inside the police station with blood on his hands

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), IDF, and Judea and Samaria district police arrested two men who confessed to taking part in the brutal October 2000 lynch of two IDF soldiers, security forces announced Thursday.

The arrests came after the Shin Bet and police uncovered an extensive Hamas terror structure in Ramallah and the Binyamin region, and arrested other suspects along with the two men.

Continue Reading »

The Shadow Wars of Israel and Iran

Just enough ambiguity where the seed of doubt  makes it difficult for Israel or the US to respond

By and

 

BERLIN — A magnetic bomb detonated on a diplomatic car in New Delhi. The police uncovered a cache of explosives at a golf course in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed in an attack outside the airport in the Black Sea coastal city of Burgas.

New Delhi


A car belonging to the Israeli embassy following a bomb blast in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 – Photo by AP

These were just a few of what some Israeli and American intelligence officials say were nearly a dozen plots that form the backbone of a continuing offensive by Iran and Hezbollah against Israel and its allies abroad.
Continue Reading »

Egyptian Police and Sinai gunmen clash in al-Arish

Armed militants stage drive-by shooting near police station in Northern Sinai; Egyptian army resumes 2nd day of crackdown

By Roi Kais

 

Egyptian police clashed with armed men in northern Sinai’s main town al-Arish, state television reported on Thursday, a day after security forces began a crackdown on Islamist militants in the region.

Security forces in Sinai – Photo: AFP

“Clashes resumed between armed men and police forces in front of police station number two in al-Arish,” Nile News television reported, citing its correspondent there.

Palestinian news agency Maan reported that Egyptian police officers were taken by surprise when gunmen opened fire at the station from a moving vehicle and escaped the scene. Continue Reading »

Tehran reports Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels are alive & well

Syrian rebels seized a busload (48) of religious Iranian pilgrims in Damascus on August 4 on suspicion of being military personnel.

By Reuters

All the Iranians kidnapped by Syrian rebels last week are alive and well, an Iranian foreign ministry official said, contrary to statements by rebels holding them that three of the captives had been killed in an air attack.

Bashar Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd R) review the guard of honor in Damascus January 19, 2006. – Photo by Reuters

Syrian rebels waging an uprising against the government of President Bashar Assad seized a busload of 48 Iranians in Damascus on August 4 on suspicion of being military personnel. Continue Reading »

Report: Saudis Threaten to Shoot Down Israeli Planes Bound to Iran

The Saudis threaten to shoot down Israeli aircraft that fly over its airspace on its way to or from Iran

By David Lev

 

Saudi Arabia has informed Israel in recent weeks that it will shoot down any Israeli planes that fly over its airspace on their way to or from Iran. A report in Yediot Achronot Thursday said that the Saudis have made it known that they will not allow their airspace to be used for any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities by Israel, the U.S., or any other country.

F-35 stealth fighter

F-35 stealth fighter
Photo: IDF

According to the report, the Saudis transferred the message to Israel via senior officials in the administration of U.S. Continue Reading »

IDF believed to be operating armed UAVs

Although reported that Israel has been operating UAVs for nearly a decade, Jerusalem doesn’t admit to using them

By YAAKOV KATZ

 

 

It has been seen in public, filmed by Palestinians in Gaza and displayed at international air shows.

What is it? According to foreign reports, the IDF uses armed unmanned aerial vehicles to attack targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Elbit Systems’ Hermes 900 UAV

Elbit Systems’ Hermes 900 UAV
Photo: Elbit Systems

The Palestinians even have a name for it – Waziz – a reference to the buzzing sound the UAVs make as they fly over the Gaza Strip.

While Jerusalem does not admit to possessing armed UAVs, it has been reported in the rest of the world that Israel has been using them for nearly a decade. Continue Reading »

Swiss experts asked to perform Arafat’s autopsy

Palestinians formally request Swiss lab for help in testing exhumed remains for possible poisoning

By Associated Press

 

Swiss experts have been invited to the West Bank to test Yasser Arafat‘s remains for possible poisoning, the chief investigator looking into the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader said Wednesday.

Yasser Arafat Photo: Atta Awisat

Yasser Arafat
Photo: Atta Awisat

The announcement followed weeks of zigzagging on the autopsy issue by officials in the Palestinian Authority, the self-rule government that Arafat established. Their conflicting positions and hesitation triggered speculation they were trying to quietly kill the investigation.

Last month, Switzerland’s Institute of Radiation Physics said it had detected elevated levels of radioactive polonium-210 on stains on Arafat’s clothing, reviving longstanding rumors in the Arab world that the Palestinian leader was poisoned. Continue Reading »

BUSTED: Israeli-Arab Hizbullah Cell had Bombs & Guns

Police & Shin-Bet arrest Israeli-Arab terrorists who had accumulated serious weaponry in preparation for an attack.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Police and the Shin Bet have nabbed an Israeli-Arab terrorist cell affiliated with Hizbullah. The cell was holding many weapons, including powerful bombs and M-16 rifles.

The bombs were smuggled into Israel from Lebanon, and were intended for use in terrorist attacks within Israel.

A total of 12 people were arrested in connection to the affair, and eight have been indicted. The case was initially under a gag order.

Most of the suspects are drug smugglers from the town of Ghajar in the north and terrorists from the Nazareth area in the Galilee. Continue Reading »

Apparently, Hassan Nasrallah Gets a Taste of his own Medicine

Hezbollah’s support of the Assad regime is no longer a secret. One can assume that these senior Hezbollah people were not innocent pilgrims, but rather on a mission to Iran, to coordinate operations of the Assad regime & its allies, Hezbollah & the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

By Avi Melamed

 
While the world continues to witness the ongoing tragedy in Syria, there is another “mini-drama” simultaneously taking place in that country which is no less significant.

Hassan Nasrallah tells Israel to keep its hands off Lebanon’s oil & gas.

On May 22nd reports began to flow in from different sources that Lebanese Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran had been kidnapped inside Syria. Continue Reading »

Black Swan’s Millepied & Natalie Portman wed in a Jewish ceremony

In 2011 Portman got engaged, won an Academy Award, & gave birth to their 1st son Aleph. Now after 2 year engagement, the movie star said “I do” to “Black Swan” choreographer in a private Jewish ceremony.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

On Monday, Israeli-American movie star Natalie Portman wed her fiancé, French choreographer Benjamin Millepied in a small Jewish ceremony in Big Sur, California. According to People Magazine, guests included fellow child actor Macaulay Culkin and real estate mogul Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism before marrying her husband Jared Kushner.

The blushing bride, Portman, in “Black Swan.”

Continue Reading »

Knesset Member Kara: Israel is helping Syrian refugees in ‘hidden ways’

“I spoke to Syrian ministers disillusioned by Assad’s regime,” says MK Kara; Foreign Ministry & diplomatic officials deny sending any aid.

By LAHAV HARKOV, HERB KEINON

 

Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud) said he is facilitating aid to Syrian refugees and has been in contact with Syrian government officials considering defection.

A number of diplomatic officials in Jerusalem, however, said they were unaware of humanitarian aid from Israel being sent to Syrian refugees.

Deputy Minister of the Negev and Galilee Ayoub Kar

Ayoub Kara, Deputy Minister of the Negev and Galilee

Earlier this year Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman turned to the International Committee of the Red Cross with an offer of humanitarian aid for the Syrians. Continue Reading »

Druze students returning from Syria say the ‘media is exaggerating’

Dozens of Golan residents return home from studies in Damascus; some say we were in constant danger’ while others say ‘not as bad as depicted by the press’  

By Hassan Shaalan

Hundreds of Druze from the village of Bukata in the Golan Heights welcomed back 80 students who returned from Syria Tuesday through the Quneitra Crossing.

Protest in Syria – Reuters

Gadir Zuha, a med student, said she was very glad to return to Israel in good health. “It is true that while in Syria we were frightened and sometimes had to remain indoors, but we looked out for one another. Continue Reading »

Norwegian children’s watchdog: Replace circumcision with symbolic ritual

Children’s watchdog, Dr. Anne Lindboe,  says Circumcising boys violates their right to decide over their own body.

By JTA

 

Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual.

Circumcision protest

Anti-circumcision movements have been gaining momentum: A demonstration in Canada. – Photo by Reuters

Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcising boys was a violation of their right to decide over their own body.

“Muslim and Jewish children are entitled to the same protection as all other children,” Lindboe said, adding that the practice caused unnecessary pain and was medically unbeneficial. Continue Reading »

Egyptian Army Hits Terrorists Hard Killing 20

Egyptian military strikes Sinai terrorists after large-scale attack. Helicopters strike camps, killing 20.

By Maayana Miskin

 

The Egyptian army struck terrorist camps in the Sinai over the course of Tuesday night, killing an estimated 20 terrorists. The strikes followed a large-scale attack near Gaza on Sunday, where terrorists attacked Egyptian army posts and then attempted to enter Israel, and a shooting attack late Tuesday night in Al-Arish.

The army used combat helicopters to hit the camps. The counter-terror assault is the first time the Egyptian army has used missiles in Sinai since attacking Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Continue Reading »