Sequester Cuts to Cost Israel $155 million

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

The sequester is expected to cost Israel $155 million in defense assistance. A senior staffer on the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee told JTA that defense assistance to Israel would likely be cut by 5 percent, or between $150 million and $160 million of the $3.1 billion Israel was to have been allocated [...]

Head of US Central Command: Iran Sanctions Useless

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

"I'm paid to take a rather dim view of the Iranians, frankly."

Locust in Israel – Delicious!

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Here’s a a farmer displaying a captured locust in a farm outside Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 5, 2013. Gaza officials said the locusts had not hit Gaza in several decades. In the Negev, on Israel’s side of the border, on Wednesday morning aircraft will begin spraying the areas where swarms of [...]

UTJ Calls for New Elections

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

The Hareidi party, UTJ, proposed a bill in the Knesset calling for new elections to be held within 90 days. The bill, drafted by MK Uri Maklev, and signed by all the UTJ members, stated that the results of the elections were too inconclusive, the current configuration is not governable, and too many inexperienced newcomers [...]

Hugo Chavez Dies

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58. He has been the president of Venezuela since 1999.

Bennett to Get Finance Ministry

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Netanyahu challenged them, but Bennett and Lapid apparently worked it out.

You Know Who Destroyed the Israeli Buses for Arab Towns

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Whoever actually burned the buses, the fire was lit by the anti-Israel - or just lazy - media and their fans. So now no Israeli public buses will serve the Arab towns.

Blockbuster Probe Could Wreck Coalition

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Netanyahu’s ground gets shakier every day. He promised to hold the Foreign Ministry for Lieberman during criminal proceedings. The Attorney General now orders a probe of the legality of the deal.

British Envoy Flees for his Life from Arab Students (Video)

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

The British Consul-general learned first-hand Tuesday about a dialogue with PA university students.

Israel Capitulates, Reopens Gaza Crossing in Recognition of Hamas Rule

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

The PA has lost its last foothold in Gaza and taxes on goods will go straight to Hamas.

Hamas’ Gender Ban Forces UNWRA to Ban Marathon

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Long live feminism in Gaza. Hamas believes women are so special that it allows men only in the annual Gaza marathon. UNRWA refused to “respect tradition” and cancels the annual race.

Sharansky Opens Agency in Munich, Fears Assimilation

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky opened a new Jewish campus in Munich this week and declared, “The Jewish community in Germany is indeed unique” but faces the challenge of assimilation. The campus will house the Jewish Agency’s Munich office and the European Janusz Korczak Academy, a Jewish Agency-supported school that integrates traditional Jewish learning with [...]

Chicken Shortage Rumor a Bad Egg

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Hatched fears of a chicken shortage for Passover because of a one-day shutdown at Empire Kosher’s poultry plant are not even worth chickenfeed, according to an industry source. Empire shut down its large Mifflintown, Pa. plant on Monday a week ago, either because the chickens were underweight or had leg problems that made them non-kosher, [...]

Hamas on Manhunt to Execute Israeli Collaborators

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Gaza Arabs who risk being executed for helping Israel are in Hamas crosshairs again. Eight collaborators were brutally executed last November, Now, Hamas wants more.

Obama ‘Damned If He Visits and Damned If He Doesn’t’

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Israelis, who were so anxious the past four years for President Barack Obama to show his support by visiting Israel, now are increasingly anxious about his trip in two weeks. “People are concerned about what the real goal is,” Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations Michael Hoenlein told Politico. “There’s a lot of [...]

Knesset Member Peretz Suspected of Vote-Buying

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Two Knesset Members from the last Knesset’s Labor party were involved in vote-buying in the party’s 2012 primaries, according to Yediot Acharonot. Labor leader Shelly Yechimovich named one of them as Amir Peretz, who ditched Labor to run with Tzipi Livni’s party in the January general elections. She told Army Radio Tuesday that she knows [...]

Poll: US Voters Say Obama Does not Support Israel Enough

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

The more Obama says he supports Israel, the more voters don’t believe him. A new poll shows a new high of those who view him as anti-Israel and not supportive enough of Israel.

App Helps Israelis Seek Bomb Shelters

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Smartphone apps provide a wide range of services, including information and entertainment, but in Israel, the apps have another unique life-saving use – finding a bomb shelter. Following the recent security-related tension in northern Israel as civil war rages in Syria, i-Apps, an Israeli Smartphone application development company, has updated its “Merkhav Mugan” [residential secure [...]

Five Years Ago

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

On July 22, 2008, then U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., greeted a tribal sheikh in Ramadi, Iraq. Hagel was part of a congressional delegate visit with then Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Senator Jack Reed, D-R.I. Funny how things work out. Today defense secretary Hagel serves in President Obama’s cabinet. Jack Reed is still in [...]

Hamas Manhunt to Execute Israeli Collaborators

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

The Hamas regime in Gaza has launched an all-out manhunt to round up collaborators with Israel, most of whom usually end up being executed. Hamas interior ministry official Mohammed Lafi said, “We monitor the tools and techniques used by the Israeli occupation to recruit collaborators and we are working to dismantle them,” according to the [...]