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 ...

Jlem to vie for 2019 UNSC seat despite Berlin bid

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Israel will go ahead with its candidacy for an unprecedented seat on the UN Security Council in 2019 despite Germany's determination to run against it, diplomatic officials ...

A-G told IDF to remove remaining Migron homes

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The state should remove the structures that were left intact at the site of the former Migron outpost, Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein told the Civil Administration last week according to his office.The IDF had forcibly evacuated 50 families from the outpost in September, after the High Court of Justice ruled that their homes were built without permits on land classified by the state as ...

Beduin pelt Retamim residents with stones

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Masked Beduin men blocked the road to Kibbutz Retamim in the Negev, throwing stones at residents' cars on Sunday afternoon.Following a complaint from a Retamim woman, who managed to drive around the makeshift roadblocks while the masked men on all-terrain vehicles threw stones at her car, which also contained her three children, without getting hurt, Negev Police sent a special force ...

WJC to probe Claims Conference fraud cover-up

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder has asked Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany chairman Julius Berman and executive vice president Gregory Schneider to respond to allegations of covering up ...

Swastikas Scrawled on Michigan Student Lockers Stir Outrage

Arutz Sheva - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Three high school teenagers in Michigan could face criminal charges for scratching swastikas into student lockers. The president of the Congregation Sharrey Zedek, Elliot Spoon, said that while he is not surprised by the incident, he is extremely disappointed. "Swastikas on lockers under any circumstance is inappropriate and offensive," he ...

Israel demands French TV change 13-year-old report on boys death

One News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Israel strikes open up 'all possibilities' - Syrian minister Israel has demanded a French television station correct a report from nearly 13 years ago which helped fuel anger across the world and ignite a bloody uprising against the Jewish state. Twelve-year-old Mohammed al-Dura and his father, Jamal, were filmed crouching in terror by a wall in the Gaza Strip in September 2000, ...

PM Israel has no ‘favorite’ in Syrian civil war

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Israel is not taking sides in the Syrian civil war, but will act if necessary to prevent game-changing weapons from being transferred to Hezbollah, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.Speaking at the outset of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said Israel was closely monitoring the developments and changes in Syria, and was "prepared for any ...

Golden Dawn MP Shouts Heil Hitler In Parliament Chambers

Arutz Sheva - Sunday 19th May, 2013

A Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party member provoked controversy on Friday after shouting 'Heil Hitler' in parliament chambers, causing him to be ejected from the building. Golden Dawn MP Panagiotis Iliopoulos was ousted by the acting speaker after he poked fun at the leader of the main leftist opposition Syriza party, ...

Syrian army Hezbollah kill over 30 in border town

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

AMMAN - Syrian troops supported by Hezbollah operatives launched an offensive to retake a major town near Lebanon from rebels on Sunday, the heaviest fighting yet involving Lebanese armed group, opposition activists said.At least 32 people were killed when rebel fighters clashed with mechanized Syrian army units and Hezbollah guerrillas in nine points in and around the town of Qusair, 10 km (six ...

UNESCO delegation arrives on rare inspection trip to Jlem

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Israel lets delegation inspect preservation work in Old City in exchange for Palestinians postponing anti-Israel resolutions pending before the body; agreement viewed as diplomatic achievement, brokered by US and ...

Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests

MSNBC - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Ahmed Jawabreh, 14, was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank refugee camp where he lives and wasn't released for another 18 days. His was only one of a recent wave of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities, human rights groups ...

Benjamin Netanyahu threatens more Israeli strikes on Syria

The Telegraph - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Benjamin Netanyahu raised the prospect of further Israeli strikes on Syria today, amid claims that Bashar al-Assad's regime has installed high-tech weapons aimed at hitting Tel ...

Report Palestinian lost speech ability after PA torture

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

A Palestinian man who was detained by the Palestinian Authority security forces in Hebron has lost the ability to speak as a result of severe torture, according to a report released by the Independent Commission for Human Rights.Mohamed Abdel Karim Dar of Hebron was hospitalized after being tortured while in detention, the report, which documented 28 cases of torture in PA prisons in the ...

Damascus Gate clashes inflame tensions in east Jlem

Jerusalem Post - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Palestinians expressed their anger outside Damascus Gate on Sunday afternoon, claiming it was "impossible" for any man under the age of 50 to go through it to enter the mosque.Violent clashes broke out Saturday afternoon in east Jerusalem between over 100 Palestinians and police following what authorities described as an "illegal march" from Damascus Gate to al-Aksa ...

Despite Cuts Govt. to Build Homes for Gush Katif Evictees

Arutz Sheva - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Housing Minister Uri Ariel said Sunday that he had allocated NIS 80 million to build permanent housing for refugees from Gush Katif, who nearly a decade after the forced abandonment of their homes, are still living in temporary quarters. Besides being Housing Minister, Ariel is officially responsible for the fate of the Jews who were dispossessed from their homes in Gush Katif and northern ...

Player Barred Over Being Covered Head to Toe in Nazi Tattoos

Arutz Sheva - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Reuters A Hungarian martial arts fighter was banned from participating in a tournament in Prague, after coming under fire for being "covered from head to toe in Nazi tattoos." Marital Arts artist Attila Petrovszki was reportedly disinvited from the May 17 event after organizers of the show found themselves immersed in a wave of controversy. According ...

North Korea Launches Fourth Short Range Missile Test

Arutz Sheva - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Reuters North Korea on Sunday launched its fourth short-range projectile into waters off its east coast, marking the latest provocation from Pyongyang. South Korean officials had called the weapons tested "short-range guided missiles." On Sunday, they began referring to what was launched over the last two days as "projectiles," saying they may have included not only ...

Israel’s ‘illegal’ military entry permit bars selected tourists from West Bank - report

RT - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Tourism Many tourists hoping to visit the West Bank are finding it impossible to do so - because Israel requires certain visitors to have an entry permit. Obtaining permission is anything but easy, because Tel Aviv doesn't explain the process, Haaretz reported. The requirement for military entry permits reportedly began at the beginning of 2013. However, not everyone is required to ...

Key Israeli leader calls for interim peace deal with Palestinians

Canada.com - Sunday 19th May, 2013

File - In this Jan.16, 2013 file photo, Yair Lapid, popular former TV anchorman and head of the new centrist party Yesh Atid, poses for a portrait at his house during an interview for the Associated Press, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lapid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior coalition partner, said in a published interview Sunday, May 19, 2013, that reaching a final peace agreement with ...