February 2016 – JNi.media

Israeli Police Chief: 60% of Murders Committed by Arabs

The number of traffic fatalities in 2015 jumped by 10.6%, to 357 dead, compared with 2014, that had 319 dead.

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Netanyahu: Israel and Africa’s Common Challenge Is Radical Islam

South Sudan’s first ambassador to Israel said a Netanyahu visit to his country "could unite the torn tribes, bring peace and end the bloodshed."

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Gallup Survey: Americans Still Love Israel, Dislike Palestinians

Still, a majority of Americans continue to favor the creation of a Palestinian state.

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Rabbi Aviner Compares IDF Order on Shaving Beards to Nazi Era

The incident follows new rules adopted by the IDF which require submitting requests for growing beards to HR, rather than the military rabbinate.

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National Religious Rabbis Accusing Haifa Rabbinate of Falsifying Documents to Deny Marriages

In a Channel 2 report, senior officials from the Haifa Rabbinate admitted that the denials were not substantiated.

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Thousands of Syrians Stuck in Greece as Passage through Balkans Narrowed

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing a plan calling on Turkey to stop the flow of refugees and take some of them back — for a price.

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Attorney General Mandelblit Objects to Expulsion of Terrorists’ Families

The idea would have been turned into official policy but for the unequivocal objection of the AG.

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Deputy FM Hotoveli: Israel Courted by Western World

"Our foreign trade was doubled over the past seven years."

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Likud MK Demanding Expulsion of BDS Founder

Barghouti is not Palestinian, having been born in Qatar and grown up in Egypt.

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Prosecutor Confirms: Alberto Nisman Was Murdered

Nisman was the chief investigator of the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85.

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Survey: If Elections Were Held Today Likud Down 3 Seats, Coalition Down to 57

Naftali Bennett's Religious Zionist startup goes up from 8 to 11, likely those seats that were lured by Netanyahu in the last elections.

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Analysis: UK Premier ‘Shocked’ by Eastern Jerusalem Jewish Construction

The British prime minister was speaking during a parliamentary question period in response to a query from opposition Labor MP Imran Hussain.

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President Blocks Palace Entry of Arab MK

Using humor to fuse a tense situation, MK Zahalka said, "I didn't know they were short on chairs in the presidential palace."

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Steinitz: Natural Gas Deposits Three Times Bigger than Estimated

The Energy Ministry based its revised estimate on a new report it ordered from a French petroleum and natural gas consultancy firm.

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Now, This Is News: Mir Yeshiva Starts Teaching in Hebrew

"Better to give up the Yiddish and let everyone understand the material, rather than maintain the tradition and lose the students' attention."

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Israeli Defense Split on Turkey’s Gaza Port Demands — They Even Consider Artificial Island

There are five alternatives being discussed by the Israeli leadership, to appease to Turks while both helping the Gazans without harming Israeli security.

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ZOA Warning CUNY on Palestinian Anti-Semitism

On Nov. 12 at Hunter College, during a demonstration for free tuition, Jewish students were denounced as "racist sons of bitches," "fascists" and "Nazis" and were greeted with comments such as "Jews out of CUNY."

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Five women from Ancient Chinese Jewish Community to Make Aliyah

Believed to have been founded by Iraqi or Persian Jewish merchants, Kaifeng's Jewish community built a large and beautiful synagogue in 1163.

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Textiles Dating Back to King David’s Era Found at Timna Dig

The ancient copper mines in Timna, deep in Israel’s Arava Valley, are believed by some to be the site of King Solomon's mines.

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Analysis: Reform Success Enabled by Ultra-Orthodox 4-Seat Loss

UTJ MK Israel Eichler turned their lemons into a kind of lemonade saying he wouldn't give the Reform the satisfaction by leaving government.

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Oracle Acquires Israeli Ravello for Half a Billion Dollars

The Ravello technology allows a development team to upload a virtual machine without requiring any changes, so that every team developer can spin up an application from the blueprint.

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Dead Sea Scrolls Puzzle Pieces to Be Matched via Digitizing

The hands-on virtual workspace that will allow scholars around the world to work together simultaneously.

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Sanders: Pope Francis Also a Socialist

“When [the pope] talks about wealth being used to serve people, not as an end in itself, I agree with that.”

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MK Oren: Israel Must Realize Full Potential in Latin America

Closing missions in South America costs the Israel more money than keeping them active would have done.

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Duma Village Arson Murder Defendant Describes 17 Days of Shabak Torture

Former Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein gave his approval to using severe interrogation techniques against the Duma suspects.

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Prosecutor Siding with Reform, Missionaries, Against Rightwing Author

Naturally, in a country without a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, the policeman is king.

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Damascus Elfrange Synagogue Still Active, Serving Community of 16 Amidst War’s Chaos [video]

"Most of the synagogues have been robbed and all of them, save for Elfrange, are shut and neglected."

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Chief Rabbi: It’s a Mitzvah to Turn in Negligent Drivers

"Right away take down his license plate number and call the police. It's a mitzvah to tell."

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IDF Reservists Debunk ‘Breaking the Silence’ Tantrums, Offer Grownup Approach to Irregularities [video]

"Our challenge is to deal in a practical, real and purposeful way with complex situations."

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Fatherly Love: Watch Dad Preparing 11-Year-Old Suicide Bomber [video]

The suicide mission was carried out in mid-January in a village north of Aleppo, which was taken over by ISIS later that day.

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Clinton E-Mail Reveals Hezbollah Base in Cuba

Hassan Nasrallah vowed to keep a “very low profile inside of Cuba.”

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Facebook: Welcome to Tel Aviv – Al-Mas’udiya, Israel

Check out the weather report for Israel, Tel Aviv district, Al Mas‘udiya.

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In Concession to Jews Illinois-Chicago U Students Vote to Boycott Israel, But Also US, UK

"Negotiations over the resolution were not easy but we tempered it so that it does not single out one nation, Israel, for condemnation."

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SodaStream Boss Fighting for Arab Employees

“These are ambassadors of peace, whom we bus in every day, and it’s been a long, terrible fight with the government to get them to keep their work permits."

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Supreme Court to Hear Petition on Barring Arabs from ‘Occupying’ Afula

Last December, hundreds of Afula's Jewish residents demonstrated against a bid which sold 45 housing units to Arabs only.

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Ha’aretz: Palestinians Can’t Afford to Give Up Israeli ‘Occupation’ (Analysis)

It's a catch-22: they can't get a Palestinian State without giving up their right of return, and they can't have a Palestinian State without the right of Return.

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Had to Happen: ‘Bernie Singles’ Invites Sanders Supporters to Date Each Other

Now the Democratic brass has something to worry about.

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‘Angel’ on Train Pays $500 to Restore Crying Soldier’s Electric Sevice

He grabbed her phone, paid out of his own pocket her sizable debt of $499.65, and gave her the confirmation number.

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Knesset Defense Committee Chairman in Brussels: Talks Need Brave Palestinian Leader

Hanegbi advised the MEPs that measures such as the labeling of goods produced in Judea and Samaria do not contribute to the peace process.

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Excavation Reveals: Jerusalem Has Been Prime Real-Estate Location for 7000 Years

"The buildings uncovered are of a standard that would not fall short of Jerusalem's [current] architecture."

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Merck, Weizmann, Sign New Research Collaboration Agreement

“We have focused our healthcare research activities on the highly promising fields of immuno-oncology, immunology and oncology."

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Ultra-Orthodox MK Bill Punishes Disseminating Disaster Victims’ Names, Images

"This is a brutal vice that hurts those injured and adds pain to the families, all because of a wild lust to shoot and distribute horrific images that reduce the value of human life."

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Humanitarian Aid: Russia to Transfer Needy Ukrainian Refugees to Siberia

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a district in the Russian Far East, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China.

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MK Slomiansky Suspends the MK Suspension Bill

The bill allows a majority of 90 MKs to suspend an MK over inappropriate behavior.

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Shabak Report: 228 Attacks in 5 Months, Mostly by Young Arabs

Only 24 women or teenage girls were cited in the report, constituting 11% of the terrorist attacks.

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New Bill Compels Burial Societies to Work on Shabbat

Burial societies that receive their funding form the state must arrive within three hours of receiving the request, even if the death occurred on Shabbat.

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‘I Was Pope John Paul II’s Girlfriend’ Tonight on BBC

In 2008, Tymieniecka sold her archive of letters to the Polish National Library, which kept them from public view until the BBC was invited to take a peek.

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Analysis: Olmert Has Last Word on Eve of Prison Day, Defending an Abysmal Record [video]

Olmert was a cheerleader for the eviction of close to 10,000 Jews from the Gaza Strip and the withdrawal of IDF forces from Gaza.

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Netanyahu Testifies at Supreme Court: Gas Regulator Harmed Israeli Geopolitical Interests

With the pesky commissioner out, Netanyahu went about protecting the deal by using Article 52 of the Antitrust Law.

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PM Olmert, Two More Holy Land Hotel Defendants to Start Prison Terms

On Monday a new chapter will be written in Israel's annals of politics and crime.

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