Tzfat-Area Resident Killed in Auto Accident.
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-17 00:48:43 -0700 | travel-news
A 26-year-old resident of one of the communities next to the central Galilee city of Tzfat was killed, Thursday evening, next to Ayelet Hashachar, according to Kol Yisrael government radio. A preliminary police report indicates that the driver lost control...
Israel rabbi speaks out on being gay and Orthodox
Source: Kuwait News Top Stories
Netanya :: Israel | updated 2013-05-17 00:34:51 -0700 | entertainment-news
Israel, May 17, 2013 (AFP) -In openly displaying his homosexuality while serving as an Orthodox rabbi, Ron Yosef has broken a major taboo in the closed religious world that he inhabits. Although May 17 is to be marked International Day...
Ministry: Israel Not Ready for Unconventional Attack
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 21:59:51 -0700 | travel-news
One of the central problems is the low level of readiness in self-defense kits, where only 60 percent of the population is equipped. The inventory to equip the rest of the population is not enough because of insufficient budget. Within...
Police offering amnesty for return of illegal guns
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 19:15:44 -0700 | travel-news
Ben Hartman The Israel Police will be launching a nationwide illegal- gun return on Sunday, allowing citizens to bring back illegally possessed firearms in exchange for amnesty. The operation follows a district- wide effort in the Northern District in recent...
Remains of Air Force Mosquito Found at Sea
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 18:21:27 -0700 | technology-news
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are checking to see if the plane was the one flown by Second Lieutenant Oded Shatil and First Lieutenant Uriel Eshel who were listed as killed in action following their disappearance during a training mission in...
Gilad Schalit Recites Blessing of Deliverance
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 16:58:02 -0700 | political-news
The former soldier was held captive for more than five years until he was released in exchange for more than 1,000 security prisoners. It was hinted that Moreno was part of a plan to rescue Schalit from his Hamas captors,...
Slomiansky: Delay VAT hike until after Shabbat
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 16:36:08 -0700 | political-news
Wikimedia Commons The upcoming value-added tax increase must be postponed to avoid desecrating Shabbat, Knesset Finance Committee chairman Nissan Slomiansky (Bayit Yehudi) wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday.
IDF to use spongetipped bullets in W. Bank
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 16:36:08 -0700 | travel-news
11 Non-lethal bullets to replace rubber bullets for riot dispersal. IDF tear gas fire at stone throwers in Nebi Salah Photo: IDF Spokesman As sporadic clashes continue between Palestinian rioters and security forces in Judea and Samaria, the IDF's Central...
Lapid ups the ante in war of words with Deri
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 16:36:07 -0700 | political-news
You don't need me to establish that he's a liar, three courts have already done so, Lapid said in an interview on the Reshet Bet radio station on Thursday morning in reference to Deri's conviction for bribery in 1999. The...
Kinneret water to be released into Jordan River
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tel Aviv :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 16:36:06 -0700 | green-news
Replenishing the flow of the river will only be the first stage in its rehabilitation, stressed Water Authority Commissioner Alexander Kushnir, to representatives of the Israeli and Jordanian governments gathered at a seminar in Tel Aviv on Thursday organized by...
Settler Installs Mobile Home In Palestinian Land near Jerusalem
Source: International Middle East Media Center
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 15:53:45 -0700 | political-news
RB2000 Resident Eid Barakat, one of the owners of the land, stated that, as the family went to plant their land, they found the mobile home, in their land, with an armed settler sitting in it. Barakat added that the...
Soldiers, commanders recorded in Egoz hazing video dismissed
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 14:26:26 -0700 | political-news
Breaking News The combat soldiers documented in the Egoz Unit hazing video, in which one soldier was seen defecating on the head of another, have been dismissed from the elite unit together with their commanders. The dismissal took place...
MK Litzman under investigation for fraud, breach of trust
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 23:56:03 -0700 | political-news
Breaking News MK Yakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) was investigated by police Thursday evening for possible fraud and breach of public trust offences. The investigation took place as part of a larger fraud investigation being conducted by Social Security regarding...
Injuries at Anti-Induction Demonstration
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 13:34:28 -0700 | travel-news
The demonstration was against proposals to increase national service among the hareidim. One person was treated for moderate injuries and two were treated for light injuries before they were sent to hospital, after a staircase collapsed with dozens of people...
Tens of thousands of Haredim protest IDF draft
Source: Haaretz
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-16 21:42:28 -0700 | sports-news
Some 30,000 ultra-Orthodox protesters arrived Thursday at the IDF's regional recruitment center in Jerusalem, located in the Haredi neighborhood of Mekor Barukh, to rally against government plans to conscript yeshiva students to the Israel Defense Forces.
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