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PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Start of his Meeting with US Secy. of State John Kerry
pmo.gov.il
5 mentions — 11 hours ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, made the following remarks at the start of his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry: Netanyahu:John, it’s a pleasure to welcome you in Jerusalem. You’re an old personal friend and a long-standing friend of Israel, and that friendship was demonstrated in President Obama’s historic visit here in March. It was demonstrated yesterday in an extraordinary resolution by the U.S. Senate to stand with Israel against Iran’s nuclear program. I want to commend the House Foreign Affairs Committee for upgrading the sanctions so ...
Tel Aviv Student Day. May 23, 2013
touristisrael.com
3 mentions — 9 hours ago
Tel Aviv Student Day (Yom Student Tel Aviv) brings some of Israel’s biggest musical names to one venue for a day of music and festivities each May. The Student Day features dozens of leading Israeli singers on three stages, as well as other activities, films, lectures, workshops, and ...
"Call Hezbollah What It Truly Is – a Terrorist Organization"
The Official Blog of the Israel Defense Forces
5 mentions — 7 hours ago
Right now, hundreds of Hezbollah members are fighting rebels in Syria alongside the Syrian regime. Europe is currently debating placing Hezbollah on its list of global terrorist organizations. Hezbollah meets all the criteria to be defined as a terrorist organization: suicide bombings, using civilians as human shields, and ...
PM Netanyahu Meets with British Foreign Secretary Wiliam Hague
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3 mentions — 10 hours ago
PM Netanyahu Meets with British Foreign Secretary Wiliam HagueSign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like IsraeliPM's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike IsraeliPM's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+,
Israelis developing 'Google glasses' for the blind
Size Doesn't Matter
2 mentions — 5 hours ago
Israeli researchers are using holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing a new strategy for bionic vision restoration.About one in 4,000 people in the United States suffers from retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a genetic disease of the retina that causes light-sensing cells to degenerate ...
‘Post’ launches daily online newscast
Israel News
4 mentions — 5 days ago
The Jerusalem Post is delighted to announce the launch on Sunday of its online TV news edition, The Jerusalem Post News. The program, aired exclusively on JPost.com, is to offer a round-up of the events making the headlines in Israel, the region and the Jewish world, as well ...
PM: IAEA reports shows Iran’s expanding its nuclear program
Israel News
3 mentions — 3 hours ago
Netanyahu and Hague meet in Jerusalem, May 23, 2013 Photo: GPO / Moshe MilnerEconomic and diplomatic pressure has failed to stop Iran’s nuclear program, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told British Foreign Minister William Hague before meeting with him in Jerusalem on Thursday.“The just released report of the International ...
Israel and Britain signed Today Memorandum of Understanding on Science Cooperation
News & Media
3 mentions — 11 hours ago
Foreign Secretary William Hague and Israel’s Minister for Science, Technology and Space Yaakov Peri, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on science cooperation between the UK and Israel.The memorandum sets out five priority areas of science cooperation between the UK and Israel: advanced materials and nano-technology; agri-sciences ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Deal the Palestinians Rejected, The History that Was Never Made
TheTower.org
5 mentions — 16 hours ago
In a stunning development that calls into question the basic willingness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept any peace agreement with the Jewish State, TheTower.org has obtained a hand-drawn map created by Abbas documenting a 2008 peace proposal outlined to him by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ...
UK’s Islamist problem
Israel News
2 mentions — 2 hours ago
A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, London Photo: REUTERSSince 9/11, the West’s perception of violence perpetrated in the name of a warped interpretation of Islam has changed. No longer can this violence be seen as an exclusively external threat ...
From our Director
Yiddishkayt
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Since Yiddishkayt started working to get the Helix Project off the ground, I thought I wouldn’t be surprised by the response of major Jewish philanthropies and that, although there would be the inevitable disappointments associated with starting something new, I’d be prepared for whatever came our way. But ...
Obama to limit drones; moves to shut Guantanamo Bay
Israel News
2 mentions — 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison.In a major foreign policy speech after two weeks of fending off domestic ...
Was the London machete killing of a British soldier 'terrorism'?
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 10 hours ago
What definition of the term includes this horrific act of violence but excludes the acts of the US, the UK and its allies?Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using a machete to hack to death a British soldier.
Amnesty: Both Israel, Hamas guilty of war crimes
Israel News
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
A Palestinian inmate stands behind the bars of a Hamas-run jail in Gaza City, July 23, 2012. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed SalemBoth Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law during Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza in November of last year, Amnesty International concluded ...
Al Jazeera roiled by US manager’s decision to censor Joseph Massad article
The Electronic Intifada
8 mentions — 2 days ago
Days after a top Al Jazeera executive ordered the removal of an op-ed critical of Zionism by Joseph Massad, the article was today restored to the network’s English-language website.Imad Musa, the head of Al Jazeera English Online, also posted a statement on the Editor’s Blog denying that Al ...
Palestinian protests greet Kerry in Ramallah
Israel News
3 mentions — 9 hours ago
Palestinian protester holds a poster with a caricature of John Kerry in Ramallah May 23, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanUS Secretary of State John Kerry met in Ramallah Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and discussed with him ways of resuming the peace talks with Israel.As Kerry arrived ...
Woolwich attack suspect identified as Michael Adebolajo
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
The identity of the suspect pictured carrying bloodied knives in the aftermath of the murder of a British soldier is Michael Olumide Adebolajo, Guardian sources have confirmed.Adebolajo was an ordinary British schoolboy; born in Lambeth in December 1984, he grew up in Romford, travelled to school on the ...
Vultures
Washington Free Beacon
8 mentions — 1 day ago
A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.The Israeli government report ...
PM to Hague: Together we face battle against terrorism
Israel News
2 mentions — 10 hours ago
Netanyahu and Hague meet in Jerusalem, May 23, 2013 Photo: GPO / Moshe MilnerIsrael and the United Kingdom both face the battle against savagery and terrorism at home and around the world, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday in a press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague ...
Prisoners who starved for art honored by Gaza show
The Electronic Intifada
4 mentions — 1 day ago
“At the beginning, it was really hard,” he said of painting, embroidery and sculpture during his first detention by Israeli forces in 1983. “It wasn’t allowed. We had to keep it hidden from the guards. And we had to smuggle the tools, like beads and threads, to make ...
PM Netanyahu Meets with U.S. Sec. of State Kerry
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3 mentions — 11 hours ago
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Study improves lives of AIDS patients' kids
Israel Culture, Ynetnews
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
In halachic precedent, Israel's former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron rules life-saving organ donation can be received from HIV-positive patient, even if recipient may be infected with disease The goal of the research, headed by Prof. Michael Boivin, of Michigan State University, was to determine whether children whose parents ...
EU: UN report stokes concern over Iran nuke program
Israel News
3 mentions — 12 hours ago
BRUSSELS - Iran's expansion of sensitive nuclear activity breaks United Nations resolutions and increases concerns about whether its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, the European Union said on Thursday.A UN nuclear agency report released on Wednesday showed Iran was expanding nuclear activities, in clear violation of resolutions of ...
Green roofs 22 May 2013
mfa.gov.il
3 mentions — 18 hours ago
Planting a green roof isn’t just a way to prettify an urban space. It can offer major environmental and ecological benefits to the surrounding areas, and that’s one reason the concept is gaining attention from researchers in many countries.In October 2012, the University of Haifa dedicated its own ...
Safe and Sound: Mauricio’s Journey from Venezuela to Israel
idfblog.com
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Few people will ever have a life or death experience. This young Venezuelan soldier has already had several in his mere 21 years. Few would be able to overcome the obstacles he went through, but he did it and thrived.Pvt. Mauricio Glucksmann was born on October 10, 1991 ...
Is Israel in touch with Syria villagers?
Israel News
2 mentions — 14 hours ago
Anti-government protesters hold up a picture of Assad. Photo: REUTERS
The Palestine Liberation Movement is not about Anti-Semitism
Dissident Voice
2 mentions — 8 hours ago
I don’t disagree that the cowardly removal by Aljazeera of everything written by Joseph Massad is a travesty of justice and journalism and that their reinstatement is justified.But why was Massad trying to defend Palestinian rights based upon them being “the last of the Semites?”The term “Semite” was ...
CultureBuzz's Ultimate Exhibition Guided Tour: with Yael Nitzan & "Holocaust, Seal & Break"
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2 mentions — 11 hours ago
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Under Hamas, No More Coed Classes in Gaza
The Atlantic
2 mentions — 8 hours ago
Teachers stand among school girls at al-Qahera school in Gaza City on April 2, 2013. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)A community of animals elects its new king. The candidates are a wily green crocodile who makes grandiose promises and a yellow lion whose father was the previous king. In the end,
Peres to Sarkozy at breakfast: Friends are friends
Israel News
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Shimon Peres Photo: Mark Neiman/GPOFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to Israel primarily to receive an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College had a breakfast meeting on Thursday morning with President Shimon Peres, whom he knows well and with whom he ...
The Jewish Week
The Jewish Week
3 mentions — 10 hours ago
It was no ordinary marriage proposal. Rotem Langer is a 31-year-old disabled veteran of the Israeli army whose speech was affected by his injuries. “Sometimes I forget words,” says Rotem. “I didn’t want that to happen when I proposed to Shelly.” Six months after they met, on April ...
Medea Benjamin escorted out of Obama speech
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2 mentions — 4 hours ago
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J Street | Ask the Israeli Government: Do they support two states or not?
Ask the Israeli Government: Do they support two s...
3 mentions — 1 day ago
J Street is a 501(c)(4) organization that primarily focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues. Contact J Street at info [at] jstreet [dot] org.JStreetPAC is a federal political action committee that primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect our values through a variety of activities ...
John Kerry makes unscheduled shawarma sandwich stop in West Bank
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 5 hours ago
US secretary of state darted into fast-food restaurant Samer's in Ramallah for a shawarma sandwich and dessertIt's enough to give the healthy eating lobby a heart attack. US secretary of state John Kerry made an unscheduled pitstop in his diplomatic circuit on Thursday, darting into a fast-food restaurant ...
Israel in Space: From global competition to global cooperation
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2 mentions — 13 hours ago
Israel in Space: From global competition to global cooperationSign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like Israel's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike Israel's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+,
Hamas Takes Charity Money, Uses it to Fund Terror
by the IDF
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Last week, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, published an article on their website entitled ‘Jihad with Money’ (link in Arabic).“The general meaning [of the term] is to give money to charitable causes for the pleasure of God Almighty: to help the poor and needy, construct ...