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Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Kinneret Rises Four Centimeters (IsraelNN.com)
The Kinneret rose four more centimeters over the weekend, the Water Authority said Sunday. The Kinneret is now 4.5 meters below the "upper red line," the maximum amount the lake is supposed to hold. Levels are expected to continue rising because of the heavy streams of water now flowing towards the lake after heavy rain and snow last week.
Israeli Ships Cross Suez Canal (IsraelNN.com)
Two Israeli missile ships crossed the Suez Canal on their way to the Red Sea, weekend reports in Arab media said. The reports said that Egyptian authorities held up other sea traffic in order to allow the Israeli ships to pass through.
If correct, this would be the first time that Egypt stopped other canal traffic in order to enable Israeli ships to pass through with full security, Israeli officials said. However, the officials said, this was not the first time Egypt had allowed Israeli weapons ships to pass through the canal.
Yemen Allowed Al-Qaeda Wants to Block Red Sea to Israeli Shipping (Reuters)
The Yemen-based wing of al-Qaeda has called for a regional Muslim holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea to Israeli shipping.
"The Christians, the Jews, and the treacherous apostate rulers have pounced on you...you have no other way out from this plight other than to wage jihad," said the group's deputy leader, Saeed al-Shehri, a former Guantanamo inmate from Saudi Arabia, in an audio tape.
Shehri called on Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab to help block the narrow strait at the mouth of the Red Sea that separates Yemen from the Horn of Africa.
"At such a time the Bab (al Mandab) will be closed and that will tighten the noose on the Jews (Israe! l), because through it America supports them by the Red Sea," Shehri said.
MKs Studying Torah at Noon Today (IsraelNN.com) 09/02/10
In the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee room, a special session will be held at noon today: Members of Knesset and representatives of the Jewish Federation of New York will be joining each other in a Torah learning session. Specifically, they will deal with the importance of contribution to society, a topic that is intended to connect the Federation representatives and the MKs.
MK Wilf: Israel at the Height of Third Intifada (IsraelNN.com)
Member of Knesset Einat Wilf (Labor) said Tuesday morning that Israel was "at the height of the third intifada". Responding to the verbal attack on Ambassador Michael Oren during a speech at the University of California's Irvine campus, Wilf explained, "This is an intifada based on intellectual attacks, not on this or that government policy, but the essence of the legitimacy of the Zionist enterprise and the right of Israel to exist as the national home of the Jewish people in the land of Israel."
Wilf, who replaced Ofer Pines a month ago, added, "While we dedicate many resources to defense from physical threats on the state's existence, the government of Israel and the foreign ministry have not even begun to prepare appropriately for defense on the intellectual front."
7 reasons to stand with Israel - Speaker Joyce Kaufman: At an event commemorating the first full year of weekly rallies in support of Israel held at Broward Boulevard and Northeast Third Avenue in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Watch
New Revelations about the UN Goldstone Report - Dore Gold and Jonathan D. Halevi ( Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers, the Goldstone Commission's military expert, displayed a fundamental bias against the Israel Defense Forces, reported false information about IDF weapons systems, claimed that Hamas fired only two rockets at Israel prior to last winter's conflict, and displayed a clear lack of professionalism in conducting his investigations. more
IDF Soldier Stabbed to Death by PA Security Officer - Efrat Weiss IDF Sergeant Major Ihab Khatib from the Druze village of Maghar was killed Wednesday after being stabbed while sitting in his jeep by Palestinian security officer Mohammad Khatib near Tapuach junction, south of the West Bank city of Nablus. The incident occurred while the jeep was stuck in traffic. The Palestinian stabbed the soldier twice in the chest through the open car window. ( Ynet News) more
London's Islamic Radicals Speak Out - Great Britain recently raised its terror alert to "severe" following reports that al Qaeda was plotting new attacks. But Britain may be facing an even greater threat from within -- one the British government helped to create. Watch
Iran Is Now A 'Nuclear State' Thousands of cheering Iranians celebrated as their president announced the country is now a "nuclear state". Scientists there have produced their first batch of enriched uranium, which can be used as fuel in power plants - or to create weapons of mass destruction. The announcement came as Iran was threatened with new UN sanctions for expanding its nuclear programme. Yesterday, the Middle Eastern country's supreme leader said it would deliver a "punch" that would stun the West.
New International Airport Proposed for Negev (IsraelNN.com) International travelers in and out Israel may find themselves in the Negev instead of at the venerable Ben Gurion Airport in a few years. Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, who also is Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee, has proposed a new international facility to boost growth in the Negev and take the load off the Ben Gurion airport, located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. more
Geert Wilders to INN: (IsraelNN.com)
Wilders to IsraelNationalNews: "I'm fighting for the preservation of our culture. It is based on Christianity, Judaism & humanism- not on Islam."
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Israeli Film AJAMI Nominated for Oscar:
For the third year in a row, an Israeli film has been selected as one of the five nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Monday, 08 February 2010
The Power of Prayer is more powerful than Atomic Power.
The info is not given to depress you but to be aware and to send petitions to our Father to avoid disasters.
Lunar Calendar Conference at Jerusalem Museum (IsraelNN.com)
The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem will host a conference, "Living the Lunar Calendar, Time, Text and Tradition" from Saturday night to Monday evening. Leading international scholars will investigate the place of calendar reckoning in human society and culture. more
Kara Tells Pope: No Jerusalem Internationalization (IsraelNN.com)
Deputy Regional Development Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud) returns from a visit to the Vatican Sunday. Kara met with church officials, and with Pope Benedict XVI last Wednesday, International Holocaust Memorial Day, to whom he said that "it is the obligation of every person to remember the Holocaust and prevent such atrocities from occurring again."
Kara told Vatican officials that he would work to ensure easier entry for church officials into Israel, but said that he absolutely opposed internationalization of the city, as the Vatican has long demanded.
Two More Huge Israeli Gas Field Found(Globes)
Canada's Bontan Oil and Gas Exploration announced Tuesday that its Mira and Sarah prospects offshore from Israel have up to 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, worth up to $7.54 billion, at current prices.
The prospects are located just south of the Tamar and Dalit prospects where natural gas estimated to be worth up to $40 billion was found last year.
U.S Picks New Ambassador to Syria.
Syria has received a request from Washington to accredit a U.S. ambassador to Damascus, ending a four-year diplomatic absence, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Wednesday. Moualem confirmed media reports that Washington intended to name Robert Ford for the post. Ford, an Arabist, is the U.S. deputy ambassador in Iraq and was U.S. ambassador to Algeria in 2006-2008. (Reuters)
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Fayyad: Plan for Palestinian State by 2011 Jerusalem Post - In a rare speech to an Israeli audience, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Tuesday... more
Fatah Planted Explosives on Israeli Beaches (IsraelNN.com)
An Islamic Jihad militant in the Gaza region revealed on Tuesday that explosives found hidden in barrels on the beaches of Ashkelon and Ashdod earlier in the week were part of a joint operation between his organization and the military wing of the American-backed Fatah movement, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Response to Hamas Rockets: IDF Strikes in Southern Gaza(IsraelNN.com)
IDF aircraft bombed two terrorist tunnels before dawn Wednesday, reporting precise hits. more
Ayalon to PA: Stop Your Culture of Hate (IsraelNN.com)
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon (Yisrael Beiteinu) and the London Tax Payers Alliance claim that international donor funds to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority are being directly used for anti-Israel incitement & hate education. more
Jewish Growth in Judea/Samaria Tops the Charts (IsraelNN.com)
Number of Jews in Judea/Samaria grows to 313,000, more than double the growth rate of the rest of Israel. Settlement leaders promise "millions". more
Dramatic Delivery of Deuteronomy Deer Documented (IsraelNN.com)
The dramatic story of the return of the fallow deer to the Israel at the time of the Islamic revolution in Iran was documented this week by the Wall Street Journal. The species is mentioned as a kosher animal in the book of Deuteronomy and is listed in the book of Kings as one of the many animals presented to King Solomon as a tithe.
The species was believed to have been hunted to extinction in the early 1900s, but was discovered in Iran in the late 1950s. To read how some of them were brought to Israel. more
Anti-Semitic Acts Soar in France (AP/Washington Post)
France's Jewish Community Protection Service tallied 832 anti-Semitic acts in 2009, up from 474 a year earlier - an increase of 75%.
The group said Wednesday that 354 incidents took place in January 2009 alone, at the time of Israel's response to rocket attacks from Gaza.
Berlusconi says wants to see Israel in EU Italian premier visits Israel along with several of his ministers; describes meeting with PM Netanyahu as 'extremely important' to Jerusalem-Rome relations more and also
Monday, 21 September 2009
Israel's ambassador to Sweden will lodge a formal complaint with Swedish Authorites on Wednesday, against the blood libel printed in Aftonbladet, one of Sweden's most popular newspapers. On Tuesday the paper published an article claiming IDF soldiers execute Arabs in Judea and Samaria, harvest their organs and sell them. The report carried a photograph that purportedly shows the body of a victim of such an execution, with a large scar running from his chin to his abdomen. The article is based on testimony of Palestinian Arabs.
Israeli officials have been shocked by the incitement and say antisemitism has no place in the modern press. On Wednesday, the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv issued a sharp condemnation of the article. A competing newspaper, Sydsvenskan, ran an op-ed on the story under the headline "Antisemitbladet," in an obvious reference to Aftonbladet's name. The Foreign Ministry also responded fharshly, saying the story was a grotesque throwback to the blood libels of the Middle Ages.
Friday, 21 August 2009
The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority has received 255 million dollars in aid from Saudi Arabia and the European Union, prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Monday. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia has ordered the transfer of 200 million dollars the Palestinian Authority, Fayyad told reporters at a ceremony during which the EU signed over to the Palestinians 39 million euros (55 million dollars). [...] The Palestinian Authority received pledges totalling some 12 billion dollars from international conferences in Paris in 2007 and Sharm el-Sheikh in March this year. more
Friday, 21 August 2009
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to pay a state visit to Iran in the near future, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. The Syrian leader is to visit Iran, the report quoted a Syrian official, who declined to give his name, as saying in Damascus, but he failed to mention the exact date of the visit. During his stay in Iran, al-Assad is to felicitate his Iranian counterpart on his re-election and is to discuss expansion of mutual relations as well as regional developments, according to the report. more
Friday, 21 August 2009
by Lyubov Pronina
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a "united future world currency."
"Here it is," Medvedev told reporters today in L'Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. "You can see it and touch it."
The coin, which bears the words "unity in diversity," was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8 delegations, Medvedev said. The question of a supranational currency "concerns everyone now, even the mints," Medvedev said. The test coin "means they're getting ready. I think it's a good sign that we understand how interdependent we are." more
Friday, 21 August 2009
Nearly two-thirds of Israelis say the time is right to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple, according to a Ynet-Gesher survey.
Even half of non-religious Jews favor rebuilding the Holy Temple - an idea politically unthinkable in Israel just 10 or 20 years ago.
The poll was release on the saddest day on the Jewish calendar - the fasting day of Tisha B'Av, or the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av. It commemorates a series of tragedies that befell the Jewish people all on the same day, most significantly the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, which occurred about 656 years apart on the same day. Jewish tradition calls for the reading of Lamentations. more
Friday, 21 August 2009
Israeli sources confirmed on Thursday Yemeni media reports that the overwhelming majority of the final remnant of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, numbering some 250 people, are looking to leave the country due to persecution and violence.
"About 120 of the Yemeni Jews want to move to Israel, 100 want to move to the US" - where there is a small Yemenite Jewish community - "and between 20 and 30 want to stay," the source said, citing information obtained from the community.
Some of the Jews wishing to leave are unable to do so because they are having trouble selling their property, the source said.
Saba, Yemen's official state news agency, reported Wednesday on a "mini-exodus" of Jews from the country "triggered by alleged harassment" and "fear of persecution." more
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