Hague Israel losing support in UK because of settlements

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

After Steinitz questions whether Britain is still a friend of Israel, British foreign secretary says settlement activity causing support for Israel to wane in UK, other European ...

Analysis Sinai is becoming a major threat to Egypt

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula . They were released unhurt after marathon negotiations that lasted until dawn Wednesday between a representative of military intelligence, a Salafi sheikh and a representative of the Swarka tribe, one of the largest in the peninsula.No one will guarantee it will be the last kidnapping. The official version is that no deal was struck, and it may ...

Olmert W. Bank policies behind bad intl press

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

The government is at fault for its own negative image in the international press because of its policies in the West Bank, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday."I think it is inarguable that Israel's main problem isn't public diplomacy; it's first of all a policy problem," Olmert said. "We won't be able to convince the world we're right ...

Nochi Dankner set to lose control of IDB

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

An agreement bondholders reached overnight on Thursday may oust Nochi Dankner from controlling IDB, the Israeli conglomerate that controls companies such as Cellcom and Shufersal.The bondholders from two tiers of the pyramid company, IDB Holdings and IDB Development, would merge the two companies and convert bonds to stocks, thus wresting control from Dankner. IDB Holdings bondholders would get ...

Google mulls buying Waze presaging bidding war

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Google Inc., maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying Israeli map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The ...

Israel near bottom of BBC poll ranking countries

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world's most positively viewed countries.Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a "mainly positive" or "mainly negative" influence in the ...

Muslim writer touts Israeli tolerance of minorities

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

British author Dr. Qanta Ahmed spoke on Wednesday at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem about the difficulties for minorities in Islamic societies and how Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates them.The event was organized by Alan Schneider, director of the B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem, and cosponsored by the Ecumenical Theological ...

UK Israel agree to expand scientific cooperation

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Britain and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their scientific cooperation - despite calls in Britain for an academic boycott of this country. It was signed in Jerusalem on Thursday by Science, Technology and Space Minister Yaakov Peri and British Foreign Secretary William Hague.British Ambassador Matthew Gould and HU president Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, along with ...

Star Catcher Astrology for the week of May 24 2013

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

GEMINI (AIR) MAY 21 - JUNE 21 Your mind is working overtime and you are so highly charged right now that it may be difficult for you to unwind enough to sleep. Rather than working things out in your mind, write them down and give your hard disc a breather. This is the week for taking care of personal business and for putting your own needs first. Someone from your past is seriously ...

Couple charged with killing woman melting body

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office on Thursday filed an indictment against Ze'ev and Olga Gorelik for allegedly murdering Iris Gorelik Visilib and melting her body with chemicals to cover up the crime.The alleged murder was also shocking in the defendants' alleged use of the Internet to research techniques for melting the body and use of Skype to coordinate the ...

Israel backing Hungary to chair Holocaust forum

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

The Foreign Ministry is backing Hungary's quest to assume the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015, Hungarian prime ministerial chief adviser Zsigmond Perenyi ...

Shalom Zemach Committee protocols to be published

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom announced on Thursday that he has decided to publish, in the near future, all of the protocols of the Zemach Committee, which made recommendations this fall about natural gas export quantities."I studied the issue at length since I took office and after talks with the Justice Ministry, I reached the conclusion that we must increase transparency ...

Walking buses Parents bring kids to school on foot

Jerusalem Post - Friday 24th May, 2013

Every Tuesday and Friday - barring inclement weather - groups of children mill their way through the streets of Binyamina together, with a parent acting as their "driver" for their "walking bus" to school."It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in ...

John Kerry in Talks With Netanyahu Abbas

Hispanic Business Magazine - Friday 24th May, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry held talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah Thursday, pushing on - despite widespread "scepticism" - with his bid to resuscitate the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace ...

Russia says Syrian government agrees in principle to conference

General Sources - Friday 24th May, 2013

Russia and the United States , and criticized what it called attempts to undermine peace efforts. "Damascus has expressed its readiness in principle to participate in ...

William Hague Israel Losing Support In UK

Sky News - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Britain's Foreign Secretary has brushed aside an Israeli minister's allegation that anti-Israeli sentiment was growing in the United Kingdom - by agreeing with him. William Hague's comments come after Yuval Steinitz, a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said perceptions of Israel were more negative in Britain than in other countries. ...

Five palestinians killed 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Arabic News - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Five palestinians killed, 22 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/26/2011 Five Palestinians were killed and 22 were injured at dawn yesterday in two Israeli air strikes targeting a sports club in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza, and a tunnel in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Israeli F16 warplanes bombed the sports club, located in a ...

PMW Bulletin PA TV calls to raise Palestinian flags over all Israeli cities and villagesso it will be clear to everyonethat this is Palestine

IMRA - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

PMW Bulletin: PA TV calls to raise Palestinian flags over all Israeli cities and villages "so it will be clear to everyone that this is ...

Eight Swimmers Set to Represent Israel at World Championships

Swimming World - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. THE Israel swimming foundation announced this week that seven men and one woman will represent the country at the FINA world championships this summer in Barcelona, Spain.College swimming fans will recognize the names of three of the swimmers on the roster. Guy Barnea (UC-Berkeley), Gal Nevo (Georgia Tech) and Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (Arizona) have each represented their ...

Experts reject that Israel may directly intervene in Syria

Jerusalem Post - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

Following 'NY Times' report that Israel mulling creation of buffer zone inside Syria or support of proxy force, several Israeli experts, ex-officials say any direct intervention in civil war ...

Senate resolution US will back Israeli force on Iran

Jerusalem Post - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

NEW YORK - With the support of 99 senators both Republican and Democrat, a resolution passed Congress's upper chamber on Wednesday declaring US support for Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.Asserting that such preemptive action is within Israel's right to defend itself, the Senate resolution - strategically telling, but not self-binding by any ...

Rabbi Mertzbachs Daughter Allow Soldiers to Protect Themselves

Arutz Sheva - Thursday 23rd May, 2013

The daughter of Rabbi Dan Mertzbach z"l, who was mistakenly shot to death by IDF soldiers 18 months ago, said on Thursday that the family expects that just as the IDF soldier who shot her father received backing from the army, so will soldiers who serve in Judea and Samaria be backed when fighting ...