Netanyahu Takes Aim at Weapons Leakage in Syria

Israel News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013

JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides in the civil war between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him, Western and Israeli sources say it has ...

Israel to keep preventing arms transfer to Hezbollah

Israel News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government remains committed to prevent transfer of the advanced weaponry to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. "We are acting in accordance with the policy we had set to prevent as much as possible the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements," reported Xinhua citing Netanyahu as saying Sunday. "The Israeli ...

Israel to return settlements land to Palestinian owners

Israel News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The state of Israel has said it would return the lands of a settlement evacuated in 2005 back to its original Palestinian owners, an Israeli daily said Sunday. The announcement came after a petition was filed by the Palestinian land owners in the Supreme Court, Xinhua reported citing the Ha'aretz daily. Homesh, a 0.7 square km settlement, was established in 1980 on lands belonging to residents ...

Iran executes two spies working for CIA Mossad

Israel News.Net - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Two Iranian spies, allegedly working for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad were Sunday hanged in Iran, state-run IRIB TV reported. Mohammad Heidari, one of the executed men, had prepared information in a number of security issues and had given them to Mossad in several meetings outside the country, Xinhua cited the report as saying. Heidari received money in ...

Israels Badier and Davidovitch retire

UEFA - Monday 20th May, 2013

Two famous names in Israeli football announced their retirement, with Walid Badier and Nir Davidovitch bowing out with 12 championships, seven cups and 125 caps between ...

Minister Lapid No Building Freeze in Judea Samaria

Arutz Sheva - Monday 20th May, 2013

, Finance Minister Yair Lapid said that that Israel should not change its policy on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria in order to revive the stalemated peace process, and that Jerusalem should not serve as the capital of a future Palestinian state. Lapid said he would not stop the so-called "natural expansion" of the Jewish communities, nor curtail the financial incentives ...

Edward Prescott slams Israeli fiscal policy

Globes - Monday 20th May, 2013

Opponents of the government's economic and fiscal policies received a strong boost yesterday from Nobel Prize laureate in economics Edward Prescott, who criticized Israel's economic policy, and said that tax hikes would cause a recession. Prescott, one of the most quoted economists of all time, currently serves as the senior monetary adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, ...

Thirty Hezbollah fighters killed in Syrias Qusair activists

The Daily Star - Monday 20th May, 2013

This Saturday, May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. (AP Photo/Qusair ...

Syria gunfire hits Israel-occupied Golan army

Channel News Asia - Monday 20th May, 2013

Shots fired from Syria hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokeswoman said Monday morning, causing no harm or ...

23 Hezbollah fighters killed

The Courier Mail - Monday 20th May, 2013

AT least 23 members of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been killed fighting alongside regime troops in the Syrian town of Qusayr, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. "Reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that 23 members of Hezbollah's elite forces were killed and more than 70 others wounded in clashes in the town of Qusayr ...

Min. Lapid NYT interview no freeze united Jerusalem

IMRA - Monday 20th May, 2013

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: On the one hand, Minister Yair Lapid's remarks against a settlement freeze and the division of Jerusalem should serve to dash hopes among those who saw him as the point man for pushing through such policies. On the other hand, Mr. Lapid takes the profoundly dangerous position supporting the immediate creation of an interim Palestinian state. If the idea is to ...

Tensions between Israel Syria highest since 1973 war

Ya Libnan - Monday 20th May, 2013

Fears about a possible escalation of violence between Israel and Syria grew Sunday amid renewed Israeli threats to destroy Syrian weapons caches and Syria’s warnings of retaliation. After decades of relative ...

Lapid Jlem shouldnt be capital of Palestinian state

Jerusalem Post - Monday 20th May, 2013

Lapid tops Post's 50 most influential Jews list In regard to Israeli settlements, Lapid said he would make no move to obstruct their "natural expansion" in the West Bank. The finance minister told ...

Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume sons body

Jerusalem Post - Monday 20th May, 2013

Jamal al-Dura, father of 12-year-old Gazan Muhammad al-Dura who became a symbol of the second intifada, dismisses Israel inquiry c'tee's findings as "lies," calls for impartial international investigation into son's ...

Coming Soon Smartphones for Haredi Community

Arutz Sheva - Monday 20th May, 2013

A smartphone catering to the haredi community and approved by a rabbinical committee is set to be launched in Israel in the near future, announced Rabbi David Zilbershlag at the Ariel Conference for Ethics in the Media. Haredi rabbis have in the past strongly opposed advanced mobile devices, claiming that they are a corrupting influence. Zilbershlag however said that the smartphones would not ...

Imprisoned Alan Gross Settles Lawsuit Against US Employer

Arutz Sheva - Monday 20th May, 2013

American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross, who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 2009, settled a negligence lawsuit against his U.S. government employer, claiming the risks associated with his mission had been underestimated. Gross and his wife, Judy, settled the suit against Development Alternatives Inc (DAI)., a for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Maryland, according to a ...

TV Host Feminism Felling Divorced Dads

Arutz Sheva - Monday 20th May, 2013

Avri Gilad, one of Israel's most popular TV personalities, has decried what he calls a "fad" of false accusations against divorced ...

Hezbollah militants among 58 killed in fierce battle for Qusayr Syria

albawaba - Monday 20th May, 2013

Syrian troops celebrate as they take control of the village of Western Dumayna, some seven kilometers north of the rebel-held city of Qusayr, on May 13 (Joseph Eid/ AFP) Around 20 Hezbollah fighters have been reportedly killed in the Syrian town ...

Hezbollah takes fight to anti-Assad rebels as they storm rebel-held town of Qusair

The Independent - Monday 20th May, 2013

Hezbollah launched a major offensive in support of the Assad regime today, with fighters from the Lebanese militant group playing their most significant role yet in Syria's two-year-old civil ...

Syrian Hezbollah forces launch major attack on rebel-held city

Denver Post - Monday 20th May, 2013

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes position by pointing an artillery weapon toward the sky Saturday in Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria. IPTC: A Free Syrian Army fighter takes position by pointing an artillery weapon towards the sky in Idlib, May 18, 2013. Picture taken May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Abdalghne Karoof (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)--> (Abdalghne Karoof, Reuters) BEIRUT ...

Right things done in Kubuqi desert Israeli ambassador

People's Daily - Monday 20th May, 2013

By Fang YangAmos Nadai, ambassador of Israel to China, spoke highly of the desertification control efforts in the Kubuqi desert of China during an exclusive interview with Xinhuanet here Saturday. "It's a huge area, which is more than half of my country," Nadai said, "I see a lot of planting and it's very beautiful." Nadai was here for the 2011 Kubuqi International ...

Gunfire at IDF from Syria Border

Arutz Sheva - Monday 20th May, 2013

IDF soldiers carrying out routine security assignments along the border with Syria reported that shots were fired in their direction from the Syrian side of the border Monday morning. No one was reported hurt in the incident. The IDF's general assessment is that the gunfire is spillover from the fighting in Syria, between forces loyal to President Bashar Assad and rebels. There have been ...