Israel News - Last Generation Network News for Saturday April 29 2017

Israel News - Last Generation Network News for Saturday April 29 2017

Russia Risks a Showdown With Israel over Hezbollah in Syria

Newsweek - ‎6 hours ago‎
Back in 1967, Moscow shrugged when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran, cutting shipping routes to the Israeli port of Eilat—Israel's only one in the Red Sea. Egyptian and Syrian troop movements on the Israeli border ...

Donald Trump visited Israel in the 1980s. Me too!

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎17 hours ago‎
NEW YORK (JTA) - I never thought I had much in common with Donald Trump, until I learned this week that we both visited Israel for the first time in the 1980s. Haaretz reports on the “Trump file” kept in the Israeli state archives, detailing the real ...

US approves possible $440 million arms sale to Israel

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎5 hours ago‎
The DSCA said that the Israeli government requested to purchase 13 76mm naval guns, as well as a variety of naval maintenance materials and tools, US Government and engineering technical, logistics and support services, operations and maintenance ...

Israel Sees Critics as Enemies

New York Times - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
The refusal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to receive the German foreign minister because of a meeting the German held with a veterans' peace group is not in itself a major incident in Israeli-German relations. Germany's history alone ...

Israeli 'sex mania' a global threat, says PA TV

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎5 hours ago‎
In a broadcast translated by the Palestinian Media Watch, Hamato, who was appointed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as dean of Gaza's Al-Azhar institutes in October 2016, can be seen denouncing Israel's threats to Muslim modesty ...

Israeli Airstrikes Are Turning Syria Into a Proxy War With Iran

TIME - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
(BEIRUT) - Syria's military said Israel struck a military installation southwest of Damascus International Airport before dawn Thursday, setting off a series of explosions and raising tensions further between the two neighbors.

All 100 senators sign letter asking for equal treatment of Israel at the UN

Washington Post - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
All 100 U.S. senators signed a letter released Friday asking U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to address what the lawmakers call entrenched bias against Israel at the world body. The unanimous message notes that the United States is the largest ...

Le Pen's choice of PM noted critic of Israel

Ynetnews - ‎1 hour ago‎
Le Pen's choice of PM noted critic of Israel. Le Pen's far-right choice for Prime Minister, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, is known as a strong critic of Israel who made headlines for harsh criticism of the IDF, PM Netanyahu and French President Hollande ...

Student groups must stop targeting Israel

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
The Left's obsession with Israel is disquieting. Many student groups have signed up to a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which aims, in effect, to drive Israeli academic influence from the university campus. Charities law bans them ...

Why Radiohead's Israel show matters

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎18 hours ago‎
“We'd like to ask you to think again - because by playing in Israel you'll be playing in a state where, UN rapporteurs say, 'a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people,'” the letter reads.

Trump: I want to see peace with Israel and the Palestinians

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎19 hours ago‎
In an interview with Reuters, Trump confirmed his administration was in talks about possible visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel in the second half of May. He is due to make his first trip abroad as president for a May 25 NATO summit in Brussels and ...

University of Wisconsin student resolution blames Israel for police violence against African-Americans

Cleveland Jewish News - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
The student government of the University of Wisconsin-Madison included an amendment specifically about Israel in a divestment resolution targeting companies operating in many countries.

Who is Israel's Eurovision Song Contest 2017 entry? Imri Ziv set to perform I Feel Alive

The Sun - ‎Apr 28, 2017‎
How was Imri Ziv chosen to represent Israel? Imri Ziv entered a national competition to become the artist that would represent Israel in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The show, HaKokhav HaBa L'Eurovizion, was organised by the Israel Broadcasting ...

Meet the IDF soldiers declared 'enemies of the Israeli state'

The Independent - ‎20 hours ago‎
“Silence is not a specifically Israeli disease. It's a human epidemic. When you don't look well you don't spend too many hours in front of the mirror,” Yahuda Shaul, Israel Defence Force (IDF) veteran and founder of Breaking the Silence says. “The ...

Sixty Soldiers and Officers Died Since Israel's Last Memorial Day

Haaretz - ‎18 hours ago‎
Since last Memorial Day, 60 soldiers and officers have joined the ranks of those who fell while serving in Israel's security forces.

Israeli ambassador speaks of fresh Palestine peace initiative

The Guardian - ‎Apr 27, 2017‎
Israel is pressing for a fresh Middle East peace initiative involving Arab states, Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador to the UK, told a meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London as pro-Palestinian activists mounted a vocal protest ...

White House considering Rome, Israel for Trump's first foreign trip

Washington Examiner - ‎18 hours ago‎
President Trump is weighing trips this summer to Italy and Israel, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday. Despite reports this week that Trump is considering Israel as the destination for his first trip abroad since taking office, Spicer ...

Much more than power at stake in Israel-Hamas electricity standoff

Al-Monitor - ‎17 hours ago‎
It seems real this time. Barring a last-minute turnaround, the Gaza Strip will find itself in the worst humanitarian crisis it has known since the 2007 revolution that brought Hamas to power, with disastrous repercussions for its two million residents ...

A US government body on religious freedom is accused of going easy on Israel

Jewish Telegraphic Agency - ‎17 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The U.S. State Department's most recent religious freedoms report includes more than 1,400 words on access to holy sites in Israel. The most recent report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has zero words on ...

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