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{image_1}Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has told peace-talk negotiators that Jerusalem will be the capital of the proposed new Palestinian state. Protests have not been as loud or demonstrative as many might have expected.
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{image_1}Nazi-related graffiti is appearing on synagogues and other buildings throughout Israel in a markedly increased fashion. In September, eight members of a neo-Nazi cell in Petah Tikva were arrested. The cell members were charged with several violent attacks, as well as defacing property, including several synagogues last year. Upon searching their homes, police found neo-Nazi movies, posters, and other materials, as well as weapons such as brass knuckles, knives, and an improvised pistol. The suspects were taken into custody awaiting trial.
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{image_1}A Gaza Christian director of an all-Christian bookstore was found murdered in October after he had vanished the day before. The attack came after the ministry associated with the bookstore, the Palestinian Bible Society, was bombed earlier this year. Rami Khader Ayyad, 32, had received death threats prior to the attack, during which he was stabbed and shot. His death was not the first incident of violence toward the 2,500 Christians living in Gaza. An elderly woman was beaten with a club and sharp objects the month prior.
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{image_1}Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Member Benny Elon has a new way of approaching the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and his plan has received international endorsement from US Senator Sam Brownback, a Republi-can presidential hopeful from Kansas. Elon’s “Israeli Initiative” would provide humanitarian aid for the Palestinian refugees, as well as Jordanian citi-zenship for Palestinians in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). This would eliminate the political solution of a Palestinian state and would place the West Bank under Israeli sovereignty.
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{image_1}Armored and infantry units from the Israel Defense Forces’
Givati Brigade held a large-scale four-day exercise on the Golan
Heights recently. The declared aim of the exercise was to ensure full
combat readiness. It also included exercises in collaboration with
Israeli Air Force units. Such exercises have occurred repeatedly in
2007. It is no secret that Syrian troops are also
“practicing” war.
{image_1}Israel launched its most advanced spy satellite in September. The
Tecsar spy satellite was put into orbit by an Indian rocket. Although
Israeli officials declined to give exact details of its expected
performance, they did say it is the most advanced in operation. Tecsar
uses advanced radar technology to produce very high-resolution images.
Israel has several spy and communication satellites currently in orbit.
In the coming months, Israel plans to launch the Amos 3 communication
satellite.
{image_1}American and Israeli scientists are at loggerheads over whether they will be able to plant electronic sensors inside butterflies and other insects and activate them by remote control. The aim of exhaustive experiments conducted by these scientists over a number of years, both in the United States and in Israel, is to eventually use the insects that will be fitted with electronic sensors to take aerial shots for intelligence use as well as detect explosives.
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{image_1}“Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!…Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed…and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south” (Psalm 107:1–3). In August, 27 American youths came to Israel to enlist in the army. They were among 210 new immigrants from North America, who were greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their flight was the third of 15 planned this past summer by Nefesh B’Nefesh, who announced that 3,200 will arrive from the United States and Canada this year.
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{image_1}In August, Israeli army units operating in the village of Salim, near the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus (Shechem, Samaria), discovered a 22-lb (10-kg) bomb hidden inside the carcass of a lamb. Similar bombs were also found packed inside an old car battery and a gas cylinder. All these terrorist devices were safely diffused by sappers.
Continue Reading »An Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system is the talk of the town in Israel. Rafael, the national authority for the development of weapons and military technology, has said that the Iron Dome can be operational in 18 months. Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes a future pullout from the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) depends heavily on the Iron Dome being operative. During an inspection of the project at Rafael, Barak said the system was of “national importance.”
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