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| December 10, 2014
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Jerusalem District Court has ruled against gender segregation at funerals

The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that unless deceased’s family specifically requests segregation, Chevra Kadisha burial society can no longer place signs separating between men & women at cemeteries.

By Kobi Nachshoni

 

The Chevra Kadisha burial society will not be able to place signs separating between men and women in cemeteries, unless the deceased’s family specifically asks for it, the Jerusalem District Court has ruled.

Sign reads, ‘Men to the right, women to the left’ (archives)

The outline suggested by the court has been accepted by both Chevra Kadisha and groups opposing gender segregation. The parties are now waiting for Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to confirm that the proposal does not fall under the category of forbidden exclusion of women in the public domain. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2014
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No one makes notice that Arabs are moving into Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem

Int’l media, in maintaining their double standard, ignore how middle-class Arab families are steadily moving to the Pisgat Ze’ev, French Hill & Neveh Ya’acov neighborhoods of ‘Jewish’ Jerusalem for cheaper rent & better municipal services.

By REUTERS

 

Little noticed amid the furor over one of Israel’s most contentious policies, a small but growing number of Arabs are moving into Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem, drawn by cheaper rent and better services.

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A view of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus -Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

For decades, Israel has encouraged Jews to settle in east Jerusalem, changing the population balance, provoking Palestinian anger and drawing international condemnation.

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| December 4, 2014
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Jerusalem Municipality allocates NIS 50m. ($12.56m.) in Har Homa construction

 

According to municipality officials, the funds are to be invested toward improving neighborhood’s roads, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds & street lights for the 25,000 Jewish residents.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD

 

The Jerusalem Municipality announced Thursday that it intends to invest NIS 50 million into the development of the south-east Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, also known as Homat Shmuel.

Har Homa in Jerusalem

Har Homa in Jerusalem. – Photo: REUTERS

According to the municipality, which worked in coordination with the Construction Ministry, the funds will be allocated toward improving the neighborhood’s infrastructure, including roads, sidewalks, parks, children’s playgrounds, sporting areas and street lighting.

Construction in the contested community is part of a large-scale project approved in August 2011 to build roughly 1,000 units in the area, for which tenders were issued in April 2012.

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| November 28, 2014
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Chief IDF Rabbi: Praying Muslims face Mecca, with back towards Jerusalem & Temple Mount

Chief IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz makes controversial comments on Muslims’ relation to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem: ‘In the Qur’an, the word Jerusalem isn’t mentioned a single time, and that most Muslims have no idea what’s written in Qur’an.’

By Ynetnews

 

 

“In the Qur’an, the word Jerusalem is not mentioned even once. Nothing. It’s not even hinted at,” Chief IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz was recorded saying in an explosive comments first broadcast by Israeli media.

Chief IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz (Photo: Ido Erez)

Chief IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz – Photo: Ido Erez

Speaking to a group of seminary students, Peretz said also said that “90% of Arabs have no idea what is written in the Qur’an,” the Channel 10 recording revealed. Continue Reading »

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| November 28, 2014
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Israel Police’s new ‘spy balloons’ gives added security to Jerusalem residents

 

Israel’s aerial optical security technology provides police a “3rd dimension” in efforts to quell Arab rioters
• Skystar 180 aerostat can be airborne for 72-hrs, using its sensitive cameras.
• Imam of Al-Aqsa mosque: “It is practically over the houses. It violates the privacy of people”

The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

In the face of Jerusalem’s worst wave of violence in nearly a decade, Israeli police are watching from above in their attempts to keep control in the city.

The Skystar aerostat surveillance system, which the Israeli police recently started using in Jerusalem to track clashes – Photo: AP

Police have been flying surveillance balloons over the city’s eastern sector and Old City — the location of its most sensitive holy sites — to monitor protests and move in on them quickly.

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| November 24, 2014
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Yeshiva students stabbed by Arabs in Jerusalem’s Old City

 

45 yr-old Jewish man arrives at police station with stab wounds to abdomen along with yeshiva students  that suffered wounds to neck & hand.

A suspect is being held for questioning, while police are searching for additional suspects.

By Noam (Dabul) Dvir, Yaron Kelner

 

A 45-year-old Jewish man arrived at a police station in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday evening with stab wounds to his abdomen. The man, who was moderately wounded, said he had been stabbed by Arabs.

Border Police at Jerusalem's Old City (Photo: Reuters)

Border Police at Jerusalem’s Old City – Photo: Reuters

An initial investigation found that three yeshiva students from the ‘Shuvu Ahim’ yeshiva were attacked by several Arabs, during which the man had been stabbed. Continue Reading »

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| November 24, 2014
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Analysis: Jerusalem, A City Divided by Terrorism

The majority of Israelis have never entered the Palestinian neighborhoods, limiting themselves to the Jewish, western part of the capital & the Old City where Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount & Kotel are.

By Ruti Sinai

 

The recent terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, carried out by residents of the city’s Palestinian neighborhoods, have placed an explosive issue on Israel’s public and political agenda: the extent to which the 28 Palestinian villages that Israel annexed to Jerusalem 47 years ago are a part of the city.

Palestinian boys with a toy gun in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat - Photo: AFP/Thomas Coex

Palestinian boys with a toy gun in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat – Photo: AFP/Thomas Coex

The 1967 annexation was enshrined in a Basic Law, which enjoys special status and is a type of constitutional amendment.

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| November 21, 2014
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Sister of ‘Synagogue Butcher’ is Employee at Jerusalem’s City Hall

Following the deadly synagogue attack, Jerusalem municipality grants terrorist’s sister’s request to take several days leave, saying employee is ‘outstanding social worker’.

By Noam ‘Dabul’ Dvir

 

Two cousins were responsible for the deadliest terror attack in Jerusalem in six years. It was revealed Thursday that the sister of one of the terrorists was an employee at Jerusalem’s city hall.

Security forces in Jabel Mukaber. (Photo: Mohammed Shinawi)

Security forces in Jabel Mukaber. – Photo: Mohammed Shinawi

The sister took several days off work following the horrific attack. Jerusalem municipality issued a statement on the employee. “She is an outstanding social worker who deals with disadvantaged populations. We have no evidence that she has expressed any support whatsoever for her relatives’ actions,” it said. Continue Reading »

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| November 21, 2014
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UN Security Council strongly condemns ‘despicable terrorist attack’ at Jerusalem synagogue

 

UNSC members expressed their condolences to the families of all those who were savagely killed & expressed their sympathy to those injured & to the Israeli people.

By UN Website

 

The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned yesterday’s “despicable terrorist attack” in a synagogue in Jerusalem, resulting in the murder of four innocent civilians worshiping there and a police officer, as well as the injury of many more.

Wide view of the Security Council. – UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

In a statement to the press, the members of the Council strongly condemned all such acts of violence, and expressed concern about increased tensions, “which have affected both the Israeli and Palestinian people, and urged all sides to take immediate steps to restore calm.” Continue Reading »

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| November 13, 2014
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Kerry to meet Abdullah & Netanyahu in Jordan over Jerusalem tensions, without Abbas

US Sec of state will meet separately with Abbas to discuss ways to end incitement to Jerusalem violence.

Abbas spokesman: ‘The Israeli violations are a red line & cannot be tolerated.’ 

By AFP & Reuters

 

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordan’s King Abdullah II will meet Thursday to discuss rising tensions in Jerusalem, particularly at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the US State Department said.

Clashes in East Jerusalem (Photo: Mohammed Shinawi)

Clashes in East Jerusalem – Photo: Mohammed Shinawi

Kerry was also set to meet separately with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday in an attempt to ease a surge of violence across Israel and Palestinian territories. Continue Reading »

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| November 10, 2014
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EU Chief: Divide Jerusalem – Israel’s PM: Not a Chance

EU’s new Foreign Policy Chief, insists that the Palestinians must have a state with Jerusalem as its capital, and that is ‘a necessity for the world at large.’

By Ryan Jones

 

The European Union’s new foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, visited the region over the weekend and insisted on the urgent need for a Palestinian state with the eastern half of Jerusalem as its capital.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. – Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO

“We need a Palestinian state – that is the ultimate goal and this is the position of all the European Union,” said Mogherini while in the Gaza Strip, adding later during her stop in Ramallah that “Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states.”

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| November 9, 2014
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Watch: Arab knife-wielding attacker shot dead by police in Kafr Kana

At least 6 wounded, including baby, in Arab rock attacks as police battle rioters in the Galilee, Samaria & Jerusalem.

By Ido Ben-Porat

 

A three-year-old baby boy was among several Israelis injured Saturday evening in a string of rock attacks by Arabs. The baby was taken to hospital with “light” wounds when the car he was traveling in was targeted by rock-throwing Palestinians close to Shiloh Junction in southern Samaria’s Binyamin region.

Magen David Adom medics provided first aid treatment to the infant, who suffered from a head wound, before evacuating him to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem.

Arab extremists have stepped up a campaign of rock-attacks against Israeli motorists Saturday night. Continue Reading »

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| November 6, 2014
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Watch MAGAV Officer Kills Jerusalem Terrorist: ‘Any Officer Would Act in Exact Same Way’

 

The unidentified Border Guard police (MAGAV) officer recounts the moment the terrorist “noticed us,” and “ran towards us,” as he describes reacting to the berserk terrorist.

  By JPOST.COM STAFF

After a Hamas-affiliated terrorist from east Jerusalem killed a Border Police officer and wounded 14 others in a vehicular terror attack on Wednesday, the man who took him down speaks out.

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Border Police officer who shot and killed terrorist in Jerusalem attack, November 5. Photo by ISRAEL POLICE

The Border Police officer who fired at least 10 shots at the terrorist, described the scene as it unfolded: “We noticed a car ram into a number of police officers and civilians near the light rail.” Continue Reading »

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| November 5, 2014
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Minister Naftali Bennett: ‘Jerusalem terror driver was Abbas’s emissary of death’

 

 “PA President Mahmoud Abbas encourages terrorism,” said Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi)

 “This is a direct result of the continuing incitement,” said MK Alex Miller (Yisrael Beytenu)

MK Danny Danon (Likud) said Abbas’s letter of condolence to the family of the terrorist who shot Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick last week encouraged this Wednesday’s terror attack.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas encourages terrorism, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said after the vehicular attack in Jerusalem Wednesday.

Naftali Bennett

Naftali Bennett. – Photo:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

“[Abbas] is the driver in the car of death in Jerusalem and the terrorists are his emissaries,” Bennett declared. Continue Reading »

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| November 5, 2014
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Arab Terrorist Shot Dead in Jerusalem After Driving into Crowd Killing 1

—– Special Report —–

WATCH: After violent morning clashes on Temple Mount, Palestinian plows into group of pedestrians in East Jerusalem, leaves his vehicle & continues his violent attack with a metal bar until shot dead by police.

Noam (Dabul) Dvir

 

 

A pickup truck rammed into a group of pedestrians waiting for Jerusalem’s Light Rail, killing one person and wounding a number of others, in what seems to be an additional terror attack on Wednesday. The suspected terrorist was identified as a Hamas operative from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.

Scene of attack – Photo source: Ynet

According to the police a “a vehicle struck a number of people in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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