Tag Archive for Reuven Rivlin

| October 9, 2015
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Israeli team signs deal with SpaceX for lead in Google moon race

 

Israel’s SpaceIL makes deal with California-based SpaceX for a rocket launch, accelerating them to front of 16 rival teams and on schedule for blast-off in late 2017.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Israeli team competing in a race to the moon sponsored by Google has signed a deal with California-based SpaceX for a rocket launch, putting it at the front of the pack and on target for blast-off in late 2017, officials said on Wednesday.

With the deadline to win a $20 million first-place prize just two years off, pressure is mounting on the 16 rivals from around the world hoping to complete a privately funded moon landing. Continue Reading »

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| August 25, 2015
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Israeli Wins Silver at World Athletics Championships

 

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko receives congratulatory phone-call from Israel’s President Rivlin, on her win in the triple-jump at the athletics world championships in Beijing.

By i24news

 

Fourteen years after Israel’s last medal at the World Athletics Championships, Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko has won the silver medal in the triple-jump. She also broke the national record, achieving a jump of 14.78 meters.

Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen comfortably retained her world title at the games in Beijing, stretching her winning streak to 29 competitions and achieving a best of 14.90 meters for the gold medal. Olympic champion Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan took the bronze.

Hannah Minenko – Photo: AFP

This is Israel’s third ever medal at the championships, with previous awards going to pole-vaulter Alex Averbukh, who won bronze in 1999 and silver in 2001. Continue Reading »

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| May 14, 2015
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Israel’s President inspects new IDF submarine during visit to Germany

President Rivlin visits German shipyard in Kiel, where Israeli commandos are presently training to operate new INS Rahav, which is expected to arrive in Haifa during the upcoming year.

By Roi Yanovsky

 

President Reuven Rivlin visited the Kiel shipyards in Germany on Wednesday, receiving a private tour aboard the INS Rahav – the fifth submarine expected to arrive in Israel.

Rivlin visits new submarine in Germany – עמוס בן גרשום, לע”מ

“You are our fortified wall on our maritime borders, and nowhere is too far for you when it comes to Israel’s safety,” the president told the submarine commandos.

The tour of the submarine was held on the last day of Rivlin’s visit to Germany to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations. Continue Reading »

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| April 16, 2015
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Watch: Israelis stop and stand still as sirens mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

Sirens went off for 2 minutes at 10:00 a.m. throughout Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jews, Christians and tourists alike stop whatever they’re doing to honor the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

By SAM SOKOL, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

At 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, Israel came to a standstill as sirens blared throughout the country to commemorate the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. During the two minute siren, traffic came to a standstill and people stopped working to remember the Holocaust.

Holocaust Remembrance Day in Tel Aviv, israel – YouTube screenshot

The siren will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem’s Warsaw Ghetto Square attended by President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other senior governmental, military, and political figures. Continue Reading »

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| April 15, 2015
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Prime Minister Netanyahu: P5+1 deal proves lessons of Holocaust have not been learned

Addressing the Jewish nation, Israel’s President Rivlin says State of Israel is not compensation for the Holocaust, “Israel was established by right, and by love of the ancient homeland.”

By SAM SOKOL

 

Israelis across the country began to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with memorials and ceremonies on Wednesday evening. Ceremonies across the country will continue through Thursday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Holocaust memorial ceremony. – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

The commemoration of the six million Jews murdered by the Germans began with a torch-lighting ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and other senior officials at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| March 13, 2015
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Israel’s President Tells Envoys, ‘The Jewish State is Turning Eastwards’

President Rivlin hosts 20 ambassadors to Asian countries, stressing ‘connection with Asia is now more important to Israel than ever.’

By Ari Yashar

 

President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday afternoon hosted 20 Israeli ambassadors and diplomatic mission heads to Asian-Pacific countries at the Presidential Residence in Jerusalem.

“The friendly relationship between Israel and the rising powers in Asia represents an economic and strategic opportunity for both sides,” Rivlin told them. “As a state which seeks new markets for trade, the connection with Asia is more important than ever to Israel.”

The president stressed “Israel is more and more turning to face the East, we are witnessing cross-fertilization in the fields of education, industry, tourism, and security.”

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| February 26, 2015
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Praises Israel’s President Rivlin for Integration of Minorities

Apple’s Tim Cook counters the false claims of ‘Israeli apartheid’ by acknowledging the Jewish State as an example of successful integration.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently in Israel to oversee the opening of a new Apple research and development center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. Even as campuses around the world begin their annual “Israel Apartheid Week” festivities, Cook openly praised Israel’s integration of minorities in its burgeoning hi-tech sector.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Apple VP of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji, an Israeli Arab and graduate of Israel’s Technion Institute – Photo: YouTube 9to5mac screenshot

“True innovation can only result from full access to education for all, regardless of race, religion, or sex,” said Cook, noting that Israel had done just that.

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| February 3, 2015
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Israel’s President Rivlin, ‘Jewish connection to Hebron cannot be denied’

President Reuven Rivlin, the 1st Israeli President to visit Hebron in 17 years, gives way for dozens of left-wing activists to protest his official visit and his attendance at the inauguration of Jewish Heritage Museum’s new visitors center.

By Nitzi Yakov & Efrat Forsher

 

President Reuven Rivlin visited Kiryat Arba and Hebron on Monday, becoming the first Israeli president to do so in 17 years. Rivlin attended the inaugural ceremony of a new visitors center at the Jewish Heritage Museum in Beit Hadassah and also visited the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Israeli President Rivlin visits the inauguration of Jewish Heritage Museum’s new visitors center.

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| January 27, 2015
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Israel’s President Rivlin calls for UN action against anti-Semitism

 

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tells U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at NYC meeting,  there must be increased global awareness of anti-Semitism.
• Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day event at UN HQ in New York was postponed due to snowstorm.

By Yoni Hersch & Shlomo Cesana

 

The blizzard in the northeastern U.S. did not pass over President Reuven Rivlin, whose scheduled speech for International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the United Nations on Tuesday was postponed by one day due to the harsh weather.

President Reuven Rivlin and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Monday – Photo: Reuters

With a forecast of more than three feet of snow in New York, Rivlin’s entourage attempted to stick to the original schedule as best as they could.

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| January 25, 2015
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Israel’s President Rivlin rejects Obama’s offer to meet during first visit to US

White House officials plays down current rift, saying no room for ‘blame game’, after Israel’s President declined invitation to meet with Obama during his official 5-day trip to the US.
Video icon JPEGRivlin will address UN Holocaust memorial in NY, hold talks with UN head, Ban & meet representatives of Jewish, African-American communities.

By Itamar Eichner

 

President Reuven Rivlin has rejected an offer to meet with US President Obama, a statement from his office said Sunday as he left on his first official visit to the United States, where he will address a UN session marking 70 years since the end of the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| January 19, 2015
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Israel’s President Calls on Abbas to Come to Jerusalem Instead of Going to The Hague

At a meeting with American senators in Jerusalem, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin calls on PA Chairman Abbas to renew peace talks.

By Ben Ariel

 

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday urged Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to renew peace talks instead of pursuing efforts at the International Criminal Court (ICC) or United Nations.

“There is no other way than direct negotiations. Unilateral steps will not solve the conflict, but just give more power to the extremists,” Rivlin was quoted by AFP as having said during a visit by a delegation of U.S. senators headed by Republican John McCain.

“I call upon President Abbas: instead of going to The Hague or to the United Nations, come to Jerusalem.

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| January 13, 2015
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Israel’s President: “Terror has never kept us down, and we do not want terror to subdue you.”

At the State funeral for the 4 Paris terror victims in Jerusalem, President Rivlin calls on French Jews to choose to make aliyah to Israel, rather than come out of fear for their safety in Europe: ‘We will continue to fight for your right to live as Jews – wherever you may be’.

By Roi Yanovsky

 

“This is not how we wanted to welcome you to Israel,” President Reuven Rivlin told the families of Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada and Phillipe Braham – the four victims of the terror attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris. Thousands turned out in force on Tuesday to the state funeral held for the four men at the Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| November 19, 2014
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Druze Officer Killed in Jerusalem Terror Attack Honored by Israel’s President, Ministers & Head Rabbi

Thousands came to attend Sgt. Major Zidan Seif funeral in his home town of Yanuh-Jatand, & pay last respects including President Reuven Rivlin, Minister Yitzhak Aharonvich, Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino & many hareidi mourners.

By Ari Soffer

 

The funeral for a Druze police officer killed in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem has begun in his home town of Yanuh-Jat.

Sergeant Major Zidan Seif (30) was shot in a firefight with terrorists as he heroically intervened to stop the massacre at the Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Har Nof; he died of his wounds late Tuesday night.

His funeral began at 2 p.m. Continue Reading »

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| October 26, 2014
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Israeli President makes history by attending massacre ceremony

Local residents hope for formal apology as President Rivlin becomes 1st sitting Israeli president to attend & participate at Kafr Qasimin’s annual massacre ceremony.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

Reuven Rivlin became the first sitting Israeli president on Sunday to participate in an annual ceremony marking the Kafr Qasim massacre. “It was an atrocious massacre. A severe crime was perpetrated here. It is a dark and irregular episode in the relations between us, the Jews and Arabs who live here.”

President Rivlin speaks at anniversary ceremony (Photo: Hassan Shaalan)

President Rivlin speaks at anniversary ceremony – Photo: Hassan Shaalan

President Rivlin emphasized the importance of preserving positive ties between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 10, 2014
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Watch Knesset Video of Reuven Rivlin Announced as Israel’s Tenth President

Knesset Member & Former Knesset speaker Reuven “Ruby” Rivlin, wins 2nd round of votes, making him Israel’s 10th president.

By Gil Ronen and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

 

Former Knesset speaker, Likud MK Reuven Rivlin, has won Israel’s presidential elections, beating his opponent MK Meir Sheetrit (Hatnua) in the second round of votes.

 

While the office of president is almost completely ceremonial in nature, Israel’s president plays a key role in summoning a party leader to try and form a coalition, after elections to the Knesset are held. If the next election results are close, as many expect them to be, the identity of the president could determine which party leader is summoned first to try and put together a coalition. Continue Reading »

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