PM sprains ankle at Arab-Jewish kids soccer game

After 5 minutes of game-time, Netanyahu misses swipe at soccer ball, falls; Likud cancels faction meeting following injury

 

 

By JPOST.COM STAFF

With leadership like this, it’s no wonder Israel failed to qualify for the Euro 2012.

 

 

joint Arab-Jewish soccer gameJoint Arab-Jewish soccer game – Photo: Moshe Milner GPO

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday sprained his ankle while participating in a joint Arab-Jewish soccer game for children at Jerusalem’s Kraft Stadium.

The Likud party canceled its faction meeting in light of the injury.

Netanyahu joined the game, staged for Peter Greenberg’s show “The Royal Tour,” but fell after five minutes following a failed swipe at the soccer ball.

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South Sudan migrants ‘ready to go home’

African migrants come to terms with imminent deportation as Immigration Authority inspectors sweep through major cities: ‘Now we are free to return to an independent country’

 

By Ynet reporters

 

“All South Sudanese migrants want to go back home. Israel is not our country,” one migrant told Ynet Monday as dozens of Africans were detained nationwide ahead of their deportation.

Detained migrants in Eilat Photo courtesy of Immigration Authority

Detained migrants in Eilat - Photo courtesy of Immigration Authority

“When I came here my country was at war and it was dangerous,” said John, who crossed into Israel from Egypt five years ago and settled in Eilat. “Now I’m ready to go back. Continue Reading »

Mubarak in ‘full coma,’ Egyptian government says

Lawyer Fareed El Deeb said a prosecutor had denied his request to transfer Mubarak from prison to a military hospital. El Deeb said he was appealing that decision, arguing that the prison hospital was poorly equipped to handle Mubarak’s care.

 

By the CNN Wire Staff

 

Cairo (CNN) — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was in a coma Monday in a Cairo prison hospital, a spokesman for the country’s Interior Ministry said.

“Mubarak entered today into full coma. His two sons Gamal and Alaa submitted a request to the prison authority to move beside him and it has been accepted,” ministry spokesman Alaa Mahmoud said. Continue Reading »

With New Cameras, IAF Could Peek into the Ground

Hyperspectral camera could allow UAVs to detect hidden weapons and chemical agents.

By Gil Ronen

 

The Israel Air Force is currently examining hyper-spectral camera technology, which could allow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect a wide variety of information, some invisible to the human eye, the IAF Website writes. Among other things, the camera could identify hidden weapons and underground bunkers camouflaged with vegetation.

“The camera will alert its operator regarding the location of suspicious targets and even of spots that are saturated with chemicals and other substances,” Lt. Col. Yoav, chief of the Intelligence Department of the IAF’s Equipment Squadron, told the website. Continue Reading »

Pollard clemency campaign shifts into high gear with Peres visit

Freed soldier Gilad Schalit, Israeli Nobel laureates and intellectuals sign online petition asking President Shimon Peres to use his rapport with U.S. President Barack Obama during this week’s Washington visit to secure Israeli spy’s release • Peres reportedly planning to seek clemency for convicted spy on humanitarian grounds.

 

 

Bt Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff

Some 70,000 Israelis have signed an online petition asking President Shimon Peres to use his upcoming meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to seek the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Peres is traveling to Washington this week to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the U.S.
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Vatican: Christians expelled from war-torn Syrian town

Most of the city’s 10,000 Christians have fled the city, situated in the battleground province of Homs.

BEIRUT — Much of the Christian population of the besieged Syrian city of Qusair has abandoned the town after an “ultimatum” from the rebel military chief there, reports Agenzia Fides, the official Vatican news agency.The ultimatum expired Thursday, the agency reported, adding that most of the city’s 10,000 Christians have fled the city, situated in the battleground province of Homs.
Christians flee Syrian city

New recruits to the Free Syrian Army participate in a parade last week in Qusair, Syria, near the city of Homs - Photo: AFP/Getty Images

“Some mosques in the city have relaunched the message, announcing from the minarets: ‘Christians must leave Quasir,’ ” read the report from the Vatican agency, which has sought to document the parlous plight of Syria’s ancient Christian community. Continue Reading »

Jerusalem man calls on US A-G to support flotilla lawsuit

American Alan Bauer cites rarely-used law allowing US to seize vessels that tried to break Gaza blockade.

 

By JOANNA PARASZCZUK

A US citizen who filed a lawsuit asking the US authorities to seize the Mavi Marmara and 13 other Gaza flotilla ships has called on US Attorney-General Eric Holder to support the suit, The Jerusalem Post learned on Sunday.

Dr. Alan J. Bauer, an American citizen living in Jerusalem, filed the suit last June in the US federal court in New York with the help of Shurat HaDin (The Israel Law Center).

The precedent-setting lawsuit, which has since been transferred to the District of Columbia District Court, asks the US authorities to seize the flotilla vessels on the grounds that groups and individuals – including the Free Gaza and US to Gaza campaigns – violated US law by raising funds in the US to furnish and fit out the ships, whose intent was to commit hostilities against US ally Israel.

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Bibi tours: PM to act as tour guide for 300 million viewers

Netanyahu will join journalist Peter Greenberg on Royal Tour, popular TV show that follows heads of state as they present their country’s tourism sites

By Ynet

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon add another role to his impressive resume – that of tour guide.

The prime minister has been taking part in an international project to promote Israeli tourism through the international TV show ‘The Royal Tour’ where heads of state present their country’s major tourist sites.

Netanyahu and Greenberg at Banana plantation Photo: GPO

Netanyahu and Greenberg at Banana plantation - Photo: GP

Netanyahu began filming for the show on Saturday in Rosh Hanikra in northern Israel. Continue Reading »

Hate Vandals Deface Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum

Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum officials were shocked Monday morning to discover anti-Zionist hate slogans and graffiti praising Hitler.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

“Hitler, thanks for the Holocaust” and “If Hitler didn’t exist the Zionists would have had to invent him” were among the graffiti scrawled on the walls of the plaza. Another hate message stated, “Jews wake up – the Zionist regime is dangerous,” and the vandalism was signed by “The global Zionist mafia.”

Yad VaShem director Avner Shalev said, “I am shocked and horrified by this blatant act of burning hatred against the country and against Zionism. It has crossed the red line and is very worrisome.” Continue Reading »

Researchers Find Cluster Of Genes That Predict Parkinson’s

Technion researchers from the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine have identified five genes that predict Parkinson’s disease.

 

 

Blood Test - Health News - Israel - Photo by Jeremy L. Grisham for the U.S. Navy

Blood Test – Health News – Israel – Photo by Jeremy L. Grisham for the U.S. Navy

 

“Currently, there is no blood test that can diagnose PD, making the detection of individuals at risk or at earliest stages of PD practically impossible. Instead it is identified by a clinical neurological examination based on findings suggestive of Parkinson’s disease,” says Dr. Silvia Mandel, Vice Director of the Eve Topf Center

Mandel adds that “finding biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease will help to capture those high-risk subjects before symptoms develop, a stage where prevention treatment efforts might be expected to have their greatest impact to slow disease progression.” Continue Reading »

Without a Trace

Russia may sell technology to cover up tracks made by Russian-produced ballistic missile launchers

Russia may sell a new technology to countries that utilizes Russian-produced ballistic missiles. According to Israeli assessments, the technology in question covers up tracks made by missile launchers from their hiding-place up to the launch point.

A Russian missile launcher

A Russian missile launcher

According to reports from foreign sources, Russia will soon equip all of its portable ballistic missile launchers with a system that covers up the traces left on the ground by the launcher’s wheels. These traces aid intelligence sensors, such as espionage satellites, to identify the hiding places of the missiles, which can destroy the missile in advance.

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Israeli company develops diagnostic device to map brain disorders

Every third person suffers from a brain-related disorder – be it Alzheimer’s, Parkinson, attention deficiency hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), chronic pain or depression. But there is no definite diagnosis to document the effects of treatment, which is still based lot on guesswork, resulting in low success rates at high costs.

 

By Indian Science Journal

 

 

Brain

An Israeli company – EIMindA, has developed a technology, which promises in clinical studies of brain-related disorders. The company claims the non-invasive brain network activation (BNA) technology helps in diagnostics in a way no other existing technology can do.

The procedure is simple and painless. Continue Reading »

Knesset to mark Armenian genocide on eve of publication of Gaza flotilla report

Recognition of Armenian genocide perpetrated by Turkey comes alongside Turkish lawsuit against senior Israeli officials involved in IDF raid on the Gaza-bound ship, the Mavi Marmara.

On the eve of the publication of the State Comptroller’s report regarding the 2009 Gaza flotilla, the Knesset is expected to hold a public discussion about the genocide of the Armenian people, as requested by MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz).

Knesset chairperson Reuven Rivlin decided to permit the debate for Tuesday, following the Turkish decision to try senior Israeli officials in court for their involvement in the IDF raid on the Gaza-bound ship the Mavi Marmara, and the publication of the State Comptroller’s report on the affair on Wednesday. Continue Reading »

Israeli Scientists Try to Create ‘Green’ Car Fuel

Israeli scientists are working on creating “green” fuel for cars from greenhouse gas emissions.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

 

The project makes use of technology developed by Professor Jacob Karni, head of the Weizmann Institute of Science Energy Center in the department of environmental sciences of energy research. Karni is also a supervisor for the institute’s solar program.

Together with Dr. Avner Rothschild from the Technion in Haifa, Karni received a $200,000 grant in 2010 to carry out the research from the Israel Strategic Alternative Energy Foundation, based in Silicon Valley.

The technology uses concentrated solar energy to divide the two oxygen molecules in carbon dioxide, thereby creating oxygen and carbon monoxide. Continue Reading »

This virus will self-destruct in 5,4,3,2,1 …

The operators of the highly advanced Flame virus activated a self-destruct mechanism over the weekend, removing any traces of the virus from infected computers they managed to control.

By Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The operators of the highly advanced Flame virus activated a self-destruct mechanism over the weekend, removing any traces of the virus from infected computers they managed to control.

Iranian technicians at work in the Bushehr nuclear power plant in 2010. | Photo credit: AP

Iranian technicians at work in the Bushehr nuclear power plant - Photo: AP

Analysts from security software giant Symantec released a statement saying the virus included a module called Suicide, which could have enabled the virus to delete itself.

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