ISRAEL NEWS - Last Generation Network News for Sunday April 30 2017

ISRAEL NEWS - Last Generation Network News for Sunday  April 30 2017

Israel's population nearly 8.7m

Globes - ‎2 hours ago‎
There are 8.68 million people in Israel today, with the population having grown 1.9% - 159,000 - over the past year. Israel has 6.484 million Jews, (74.7%), 1.808 million Arabs (20.8%) and 388,000 others (4.5%), mainly Russian-speaking immigrants who ...

60 Servicemen, 11 Civilians Added to Tally of Israel's Fallen Since Last Memorial Day

Haaretz - ‎2 hours ago‎
The numbers include soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, officers of the police, the Shin Bet security service, the Mossad and the Israel Prisons Service, as well as those killed fighting in the pre-state defense forces and units such as the Jewish ...

New Tensions Between Israel and Germany

The Media Line - ‎1 hour ago‎
The relations between Israel and Germany are growing increasingly tense after a cancelled meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, new comments by Gabriel about the Holocaust, and involvement in a new ...

Israel blames Germany for EU support of UNESCO anti-Israel resolution

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎7 hours ago‎
Israel is angry at Germany for the anticipated European support for the resolution attacking Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, which UNESCO's Executive Board in Paris is scheduled to approve this Tuesday, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post.

The Observer view on the future of Israel and Palestine

The Guardian - ‎14 hours ago‎
It has long been considered axiomatic, at least on Europe's political left, that Palestine lies at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict and that lasting peace in the Middle East depends, first and foremost, on resolution of this decades-old struggle ...

North Korea Threatens Israel With 'Merciless' Punishment

Forward - ‎41 minutes ago‎
The country's Foreign Ministry in Pyongyang issued a statement blasting Israel on Saturday, after Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in an interview with the Hebrew-language news website Walla!

How Arabs Made Israel's Desert Bloom More Than 1500 Years Ago

Haaretz - ‎5 hours ago‎
They may be among the last living witnesses to a complex civilization that built prosperous towns and farmed the Negev during the Byzantine period, more than 15 centuries before Zionists started imagining they could make Israel's desert bloom.

Massachusetts Democrats table controversial resolution on Israeli settlements in West Bank

The Boston Globe - ‎16 hours ago‎
Massachusetts Democrats voted Saturday to table a provocative proposal for the state committee to declare opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank without mentioning Palestinian violence. “I'm not real surprised at the result,” said Carol ...

Hezbollah Plays Up Efforts To Oppose Israel

NPR - ‎Apr 29, 2017‎
Hezbollah's support of Syria's government has been controversial, so the Lebanese militant group is trying to remind people what made it popular before: fighting Israel. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For the past four years, a Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah ...

Why not a probe of Israel-gate?

Mondoweiss - ‎21 hours ago‎
So, the open secret of Israeli influence is studiously ignored, even as presidential candidates prostrate themselves before the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both appeared before ...

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.

Nasreen Qadri Is Singing On Israel's Memorial Day

Forward - ‎4 hours ago‎
On Sundown on Sunday, Israel will pause to mourn the nation's fallen soldiers on Yom HaZikaron, or Memorial Day. This year, an Arab pop singer is helping to usher in the somber mood.

US approves possible $440 million arms sale to Israel

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎Apr 29, 2017‎
The agency said that the Israeli government requested to purchase 13 76-mm. naval guns, as well as a variety of naval maintenance materials and tools, technical, logistics and support services, operations and maintenance training and other related ...

Following earlier snub, Ukraine's Jewish PM to visit Israel in May

The Times of Israel - ‎1 hour ago‎
The Ukrainian prime minister was originally scheduled to arrive in Israel for a two-day visit in December, that was set to include meetings with Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and other top officials.

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

St. Louis Jewish Light - ‎Apr 29, 2017‎
Of course, Trump got the red carpet treatment, at a time when the Israeli government only owned one red carpet and it had to be checked out of the Knesset equipment closet when bigwigs visited.

Despite protests, Israeli ambassador speaks at London university

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎14 hours ago‎
LONDON - Amid relentless chants of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” that could be heard from outside the venue, Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom Mark Regev spoke at London's School of Oriental and African Studies on Thursday ...

Israel resumes building 'apartheid wall' in West Bank

Press TV - ‎9 hours ago‎
Israel has resumed constructing its controversial separation wall northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem that is viewed as an embodiment of Tel Aviv's oppression against the Palestinians.

Israel says 14 arrested in overnight West Bank raids

i24NEWS (press release) (registration) - ‎9 hours ago‎
Israeli security services announced Sunday morning that 14 terror suspects were arrested in separate overnight raids in the West Bank.

Jordan to Israel: Withdraw and you'll get security

Arutz Sheva - ‎10 hours ago‎
“In order for Israel to live in peace with the Arabs, it is necessary for them to leave the territories occupied after 1967.

Adelson's Israel Hayom Getting New Editor After Bucking Netanyahu's Office

Haaretz - ‎7 hours ago‎
Under Regev, Israel Hayom has given Netanyahu positive coverage, to the point that some claim it is illegal propaganda. In 2015 Netanyahu even dismantled his own coalition to protect the newspaper against a legislative proposal that would have forced ...

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