Oklahoma Teacher Shielded Students Despite Injury

Arutz Sheva - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

A heroic teacher who shielded her students from Oklahoma’s tornado this week is recovering in the hospital after the metal leg of a desk speared her in the ...

Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...

Shapira to investigate Netanyahu over foreign trips

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

investigate the financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as other public officials relating to their foreign trips.It was unclear what the scope of the investigation would be and what aspects it would add to ongoing investigations, but it was expected to include all of the latest developments in everything from the "Bibi Tours" affair to the ...

Govt bulldozers demolish 2 east Jerusalem homes

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Government bulldozers demolished two residential buildings in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning for being illegally constructed on a national park, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.However, Meretz city councilman Dr. Meir Margalit, who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, dismissed the ministry's claim as a "dirty trick" that the government was using to confiscate land ...

High Court summons A-G over east Jlem property

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

In an unheard-of development, a seven-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state's position on using a 1950 property law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs for the benefit of Jews and the state, the courts announced on Wednesday.Weinstein essentially never attends hearings; he sends ...

Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps ...

Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...

Danon IDF Has Backing for Heavy Hand Against Rock Rioters

Arutz Sheva - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon on Wednesday visited the town of Beit El in the Binyamin region. With the visit, Danon sought to show solidarity with residents of the town, who suffer from incessant rock attacks by Arabs from villages in the ...

Sidon on edge after tense burial of Hezbollah fighter

The Daily Star - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Hezbollah while fighting for the Islamist party, which supports President Bashar Assad’s regime, during the raging battle for the town of Qusair in the Syrian province of Homs. The son of a Sunni father and a Shiite mother, Sabbagh became a Shiite and joined Hezbollah years ago. His family, with the exception of his mother, insisted he be buried at a Sunni cemetery in Sidon. But a group ...

France seeks to brand Hezbollah as terrorist group

Times of India - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as a terrorist organisation," Fabius told reporters in English. The United States has long designated the Lebanon-based militant group, ...

Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters

Baltimore Sun - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiqué issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a ...

France wants Hezbollah on terror blacklist

The Courier Mail - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

FRANCE will call for the military arm of Hezbollah to be added to an EU terror blacklist due to its backing of the Syrian regime, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as ...

Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...

Complaints lead ministry to examine math tests

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

The Education Ministry said on Wednesday it will conduct an "organized examination" of the mathematics matriculation exam that took place on Tuesday afternoon, after students complained about the difficulty of the test.The ministry added that if the claims are found to be justified, it will deal with the matter so that no harm is done to students.After the test, students from ...

Bar-Ilan honors Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Former Mossad director Efraim Halevy and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra were among those who received honorary doctorates from Bar- Ilan University on Tuesday night, as was South African immigrant, venture capitalist and philanthropist Morris Kahn.Also honored in the conferment ceremony on the lawns of the Dahan Family Unity Park were Nobel laureates Prof.Dan Shechtman and Prof. Edward ...

Non-Orthodox Jews can use mikvaot for conversion

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said on Wednesday that ritual baths, or mikvaot, could be used by Conservative and Reform groups for their conversion process, even though the Chief Rabbinate does not recognize conversions conducted by non-Orthodox Jewish denominations.Ben-Dahan was speaking during a hearing of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, which was reviewing the ...

Labor faction chairman Herzog forms lobby for IBA

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Labor Party faction chairman Isaac Herzog has set up a Knesset lobby to protect the interests of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, for which he was responsible when he served as welfare and social services minister.Herzog formed the lobby in response to a report in ...

J’lem to offer free checkups for hearing awareness

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Jerusalem's Hadassah Academic College will conduct free hearing tests for the general public, performed by Hadassah University Medical Center ear-nose-and-throat specialists along with the college's clinical-communications students on Tuesday as part of National Hearing Awareness Day events.Events will be held on Tuesday, May 28 at starting at 8 a.m. in cooperation with various ...

Jordan Red Cross tours J’lem women’s health clinic

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

A delegation from the Jordanian Red Cross came to Jerusalem on Wednesday to tour Bishvilaych, a nonprofit medical clinic for haredi and Modern Orthodox Jewish women in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood.Many traditionally religious women feel uncomfortable about being examined by male doctors and discussing intimate matters with them - and according to the heads of the clinic, ...

Shalom Gas exports to be capped at 40

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom intends to set the maximum natural gas export allocation at 40 percent rather than the expected 53% figure, he told Channel 2 on Wednesday night. As companies continue to explore and drill through Israel's eastern Mediterranean waters, export allowances have become a topic of contention across the country. The 282-billion cubic meter Tamar ...

Smartphone app updates bus proximity in real time

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Rather than pacing at a bus stop wondering why the 8 a.m. line still has yet to show up at 8:15, Israeli travelers are now able to take advantage of a smartphone application that provides updates about their bus's proximity in real time.The iPhone and Android app NetBus is the brainchild of four young men who came up with the idea during their army service and are equal partners in the ...

Claims Conference leaders must resign now

Jerusalem Post - Wednesday 22nd May, 2013

Over the past few days, there have been additional mind-boggling exposures of further scandals, lack of transparency, cover-ups and ethical failures at the highest possible levels of the Claims Conference leadership and management. Unless these latest reports appearing ...