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• Israel extends “State of Emergency” status over ice cream

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  In a strange move, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense declared a “state of emergency” at the cabinet’s request yesterday.  The reason was even stranger:  In order to ensure government control over ice cream production and tickets to theatrical performances.

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• Knesset to Debate Bill That Would Apply Israeli Law to Settlements

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  A potential bombshell of a bill will be debated on Sunday in the Knesset – one that would apply Israeli law to West Bank Settlements currently subject to military law and make all future cosntruction freeze and evacuations impossible.  It would also strip Defense Minister Ehud Barak of the ability to authorize and prohibit construction in Jude and Samaria as any construction would be then subject to the Ministry of Housing like construction projects within the Green Line.

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• IDF Helps Palestinian Woman in Labor Give Birth

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on February 08, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  Shirin Muhammad Salamin, a 27 year old woman from a Palestinian village south of Jericho is happy but exhausted as she recuperates from giving birth to a son in the Hadassah-Ein Kerem maternity ward in Jerusalem, as her experience was quite different from the typical Israeli.

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• Herzl’s Essential Christian Support Recognized in London

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on February 03, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  This week a previously unknown contributor to the Zionist cause and Theodor Herzl received his long overdue recognition in London. Rev. William Henry Hechler, a English tutor living in Vienna in the late 1890s, a close friend of Archduke Frederick I of Baden and tutor to his children, read Herzl’s work and viewed it as complimentary to his own religious beliefs.

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• Right-wing Knesset Member to Head Probe into Left-wing NGOs

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  An initiative proposed by the Yisrael Beiteinu party to investigate where Leftist Human Rights NGOs are receiving their funding from has taken form and will be headed by Michael Ben-Ari, one of the National Union representatives in the Knesset.

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• Bil’in Activist’s Death Investigated by Media, IDF and PA

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on January 05, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s death last week was broadcast around the world.  According to reports from nearly every source, the 36 year old Palestinian woman died after inhaling tear gas released by the IDS during a protest in Bil’in, a town in the West Bank.

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• Hamas Terrorists Plot to Shoot Missile into Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on January 02, 2011 | Leave a Comment

  

  The Shabak and Jerusalem police arrested two Jerusalem residents suspected of working with Hamas, and planning to fire a missile at Teddy Stadium,the Jerusalem soccer stadium during a game.

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• Qassam Explodes in Ashkelon, Lightly Wounding Israeli girl

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  A Qassam rocket fell on the Ashkelon beach on early Tuesday morning, exploding in an open field seven meters away from a kindergarten.

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• Four Suspected Israeli Spies Arrested in Egypt

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on December 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  Four local citizens were arrested on suspicion of spying and plotting to kidnap tourists in a scheme to jeopardize Egypt’s economy.

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• IDF Conversion Bill Passes Preliminary Knesset Reading

  Posted By Mike Rosenthal on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment

  

  Despite opposition from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, the IDF conversion bill to certify the validity of all Jewish conversions conducted by the Israel Defense Forcespassed a preliminary reading in the Knesset on Wednesday, December 15th.

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