“The Caucus for Eretz Israel [the Land of Israel] needs to be the compass of the government and the Knesset,” Levin wrote Monday on Facebook. “We will act to strengthen our hold on all parts of Eretz Israel, and will safeguard the settlement enterprise out of faith and the knowledge that exercising our rights to this land is our duty but also the best guarantee for Israel’s security.” Levin is on record as supporting Israeli annexation of the West Bank. More
Internet search giant confirms acquisition of popular Israeli navigation company, making it most expensive app purchase in history. Development center to remain in Israel, employees won’t be laid off.
This is a rare achievement for the Raanana-based company's founders - Uri Levine, Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar – and CEO Noam Bardin, who within five years turned Waze into one of the most popular mapping applications in the world, which serves some 50 million users on a daily basis.
Waze achieved all the demands it presented to Google in the negotiations: Waze's activity will remain in Israel for years, Google cannot fire a single employee out of Waze's 107 workers, and the entire acquisition sum – about $1 billion – will go into the pockets of the investors, founders and employees in cash, without stocks whose value would change unexpectedly. More
"There was no official government decision on the housing units in question," Akunis said in response to a question about construction of new housing units in two Jerusalem neighborhoods, asked by Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) MK Ayelet Shaked on Wednesday.
"On the contrary, nearly 1,000 units in Yesha (the Hebrew acronym for Yehuda and Shomron, or Judea and Samaria) are under construction," Akunis said. "As former Yesha Council Chairman Danny Dayan put it, ‘I love the sound of all these bulldozers and jackhammers.’" More
In an article published in a local Israeli newspaper around the time of Israel's 65th Independence Day, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Har-Noy puzzled over the fact that there are still so many Bible-believing Jews who refuse to celebrate the Jewish state's modern rebirth.
"Perhaps these dear Jews missed the words of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik in his wonderful speech 'Kol Dodi Dofek' (The Voice of My Beloved Knocks)," mused Har-Noy.
Soloveitchik, a Boston-based rabbinical leader and one of the msot renowned of modern Jewish philosophers, delivered a powerful public address in 1956 on the occasion of Israel's eighth Independence Day. In it, Soloveitchik argued that "all the claims of Christian theologians that God deprived the Jewish people of its rights in the land of Israel, and that all the biblical promises regarding Zion and Jerusalem refer, in an allegorical sense, to Christianity and the Christian Church, have been publicly refuted by the establishment of the State of Israel and have been exposed as falsehoods, lacking all validity." More
Without mentioning Danon by name, Netanyahu said, "Building in Judea and Samaria will continue. It is continuing even today, but we have to understand what is happening around us. We have to be smart, not only right. Settlement in the main blocs do not fundamentally change our ability to reach an agreement, and the real question is whether or not there is a willingness on the other side to accept the Jewish state." More
The US government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two.
Rosenberg was an early and powerful Nazi ideologue, particularly on racial issues. He directed the Nazi party’s foreign affairs department and edited the Nazi newspaper. Several of his memos to Hitler were cited as evidence during the post-war Nuremberg trials.
The recovery is expected to be announced this week at a news conference in Delaware held jointly by officials from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Justice and Holocaust museum. More
Encouraging more high-tech businesses to open up offices in Jerusalem is a sure way to strengthen Israel's presence in the city, Bennett said. As more businesses come to Jerusalem, more young Israeli professionals will move there, too, with the attendant increase in housing, shopping opportunities, services, and the like which goes together with increased population. A building boom in Jerusalem could even lower prices for homes, encouraging even more Israelis to move to Jerusalem. More
According to the JTA, the exhibition of 68 photos entitled “Death” by Ahlam Shibli opened on May 28 at the Jeu de Paume museum of contemporary art in Paris. The museum is subsidized by the French government. More
But this is yet another appalling euphemism which in reality will spell out the eventual destruction of the reconstituted Jewish state and the extermination of its people by a Muslim world that will never accept a non-Muslim nation and will wage eternal war against it – the Dar al-Harb – until it is utterly destroyed. This is what Islam requires of its adherents. Remember that other evil euphemism – the Final Solution? There is no difference in what it portends for the Jews. The Nazi’s “Final Solution” served to usher in the Holocaust. The “Two-State-Solution” ushers in the eventual destruction of the Jewish state.
Of course the morally compromised world opinion would consider that if Israel declared its justified rejection of the Two-State-Solution, such a statement of the truth would be considered inflammatory and guaranteed to provoke another Palestinian Arab outburst of violence and bloodletting (dignified by the Arabic term intifada). But isn’t that what is happening on the roads of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) with almost daily outrages committed by Arab thugs against Jewish civilians? More
In the past, the IHH has praised Hamas, called the United Nations and Israel terrorists, and been investigated by Turkey for financing Al Qaeda activity.
And now the Red Cross is promoting the IHH as a legitimate humanitarian aid organization that only wants the best for all mankind. Click here to read (and view) the full breakdown and analysis of this farce over at Harry's Place.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Ps. 122:6 “The road map to peace
only moves in one direction and that direction is from the West Bank to
the Mediterranean Sea. The only thing in the way is Israel.” Anyone who doesn't recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel does not recognize the State of Israel.
