Israel Faxx back issues from March 2008:
LET'S SEE YOU SMILE.
Mar 03, 2008 ... Israel Faxx News Services God is talking to one of his angels. He says, "I just created a 24-hour period of ...
Israel Purchases Pills to Protect Against Nuclear Radiation.
Mar 03, 2008 ... By Ha'aretz Israeli defense establishment officials reported on Sunday that Israel has recently purchased a new supply of "Logol" pills against nuclear radiation. The pills were first experimentally distributed in 2004 to residents of Arad and Yavneh in southern ...
At Least 100 Palestinians Killed, Israel to Continue Offensive in Gaza.
Mar 03, 2008 ... By VOA News & IsraelNationalNews.com Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel would expand its offensive against terrorists in the Gaza Strip - an operation that has killed at least 100 Palestinian militants and civilians since Wednesday. At the start of his ...
Media Bias.
Mar 03, 2008 ... By Ed Ziegler (Commentary) Throughout history war was relatively simple compared to current days. For the most part one army fired at the other until one side relinquished territory or surrendered. The "War on Terrorism" is far more complex. With the advancement of ...
Ramon Blasts Abbas' 'Holocaust' Comment.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services Ehud Olmert's senior deputy lambasted Mahmoud Abbas for likening Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip to the Holocaust. Abbas said Friday that Israeli attacks in Gaza, which targeted Hamas rocket crews but also caused ...
IDF Pulls Out of Northern Gaza Strip.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By VOA News & DEBKAfile Israeli soldiers pulled out of the northern Gaza Strip on Monday after several days of heavy fighting that left two Israeli soldiers and 117 Palestinians dead. Israeli air strikes continued against targets in Gaza and Palestinian terrorists continued ...
Donkey Cart Transports Grad Missile.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Few would think twice about an old Arab man driving his wagon through a grove of trees while clashes between IDF soldiers and Palestinian Authority terrorists rage in the streets of Gaza. But, the elderly Arab and the cart pulled by his ...
Jewish Civilian Faces Arrest After Shooting at Lynch Mob.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Ambushed by Arabs in Samaria, a Jew fired a warning shot in the air and then killed an attacker. The incident began around 9 a.m. when a Jewish man was walking along a road just outside the town of Neriah in southern Shomron, towards a compound in which ...
Dershowitz Calls Jimmy Carter an "Anti-Israel Bigot".
Mar 04, 2008 ... By Shalom TV "If you're an Israeli, Carter doesn't like you. If you're an Arab or a Muslim, he likes you." In an exclusive cable television interview, Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz blasted President Jimmy Carter's lack of understanding of the Jewish people, saying that ...
Holocaust Memoir Author Admits Fake.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services The author of a best-selling Holocaust memoir admitted she made up the story. Misha Defonseca, a Belgian writer living in Massachusetts, also acknowledged in a statement given by her lawyers to The Associated Press that she is not Jewish. ...
Anti-Gay Lawmaker Threatened.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services An Israeli lawmaker said he has been receiving death threats since blaming homosexuals for earthquakes. Shlomo Benizri of the religious party Shas told reporters Sunday that he was warned by the Knesset's security service that someone using the ...
Man Butchers 15-Month-Old Nephew in Jeddah Supermarket.
Mar 04, 2008 ... By ArabNews.com Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, were left reeling Sunday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store's fruit and ...
Olmert: Israel Can Defend Itself Against Iran.
Mar 05, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel is capable of defending itself against Iran. In a visit to the Druze town of Julis, Olmert explained that the UN Security Council did not vote for new sanctions on Iran ...
Israeli Troops Re-enter Gaza.
Mar 05, 2008 ... By Jim Teeple (VOA-Jerusalem) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, trying to get the Palestinian leader to return to peace talks with Israel. Reports from the Gaza Strip say Israeli forces backed by ...
US Denies Plotting Hamas Overthrow.
Mar 05, 2008 ... By David Gollust (VOA-State Department) The Bush administration Tuesday denied a published report that it covertly sought to oust Hamas from power after the radical group won Palestinian elections in 2006, triggering a Palestinian civil conflict a year later. The State ...
Bush Bypasses Congressional Ban: Give PA $$$.
Mar 05, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services President Bush waived congressional restrictions to directly transfer $150 million to the Palestinian Authority. The transfer ordered Friday is part of a package of more than $500 million in Palestinian assistance earmarked for use this ...
Was Moses High on Drugs at Mount Sinai?
Mar 05, 2008 ... By AFP and Israel Faxx News Services High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments; an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. "And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, ...
Foreign Ministry War Game to Simulate Gaza Conquest.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com The Foreign Ministry will hold a war game Thursday simulating a situation in which Israel captures Gaza militarily, either completely or partially. The game is intended to prepare for all possible diplomatic and political scenarios. Former ...
Ashdod Prepares to be Next Target of Gaza Missiles.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com The city of Ashdod, several kilometers north of Ashkelon on the Mediterranean and home to more than 200,000 residents, is preparing to be the next city to come within range of rockets from Gaza. The Ashdod Municipality says it does not intend ...
Rice Says Mideast Peace Negotiations Back on Track.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By Jim Teeple (VOA-Jerusalem) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to resume peace talks. The announcement came on a day of intense diplomatic activity and an easing of tensions in the Gaza Strip. Rice ended two days of ...
Pope to Meet With Muslim Leaders.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By Sabina Castelfranco (VOA-Rome) Pope Benedict XVI plans to meet later this year with Muslim religious leaders and scholars as part of a push for greater dialogue between Catholics and Muslims. A seminar has been scheduled in Rome for November. The Vatican has been ...
New Jewish Genealogy Service.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By Ha'aretz Haaretz.com, in cooperation with Israeli start-up Famillion, announced the launch of a new genealogy and social network search engine, aimed at connecting the Jewish people worldwide (http://tinyurl.com/2cbkfr). The initiative aspires to bring together ...
Warsaw Ghetto Borders to be Marked in Red.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By YnetNews.com Sixty-five years ago it was a place of sorrow and suffering, where hundreds of thousands of Jews lost their lives. But residents or tourists walking in the heart of Warsaw's business district cannot imagine that at the same place, so many years back, 460,000 ...
Red for Cancer, Green for Normal.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com It's simple. In the new cancer test kit developed by Zetiq Technologies, if the cells in a tissue test stain green, they are normal. If they stain red they are cancerous. Dr. Adi Elkeles, CEO of Zetiq, called the test "a very simple discrimination that ...
Commercial Ties Between Ancient Israel and China.
Mar 06, 2008 ... By Newswise Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries - during the time of the Crusades -ceramic vessels reached Acre from: Mediterranean regions, the Levant, Europe, North Africa and even China. The items reveal new research, which examined trade of ceramic vessels, and was ...
Eight Killed in Terrorist Attack at Jerusalem Yeshiva.
Mar 07, 2008 ... By Ha'aretz, WorldNetDaily.com, VOA News & IsraelNationalNews.com Eight people were killed and six others wounded Thursday evening when a terrorist infiltrated a Jerusalem yeshiva and opened fire. (Editor's Note: Related article "War game scenario: How one rocket could start ...
Israel Allows Mourning Tent for Terrorist.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Likud Knesset Member Gilad Erdan says he will propose a ban on any form of public mourning for a terrorist, saying that the State of Israel is "more like a suicidal democracy than a democracy that is defending itself." Although Ala Abu ...
Olmert: Yeshiva Shooting was Attack on Zionism.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By Robert Berger (VOA-Jerusalem) Last week's Jerusalem seminary attack, in which eight students were killed, topped the agenda at the weekly meeting of the Israeli Cabinet. Israel also announced plans for new settlement construction in the West Bank, putting further strain on ...
Weapons of Choice.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By WorldNetDaily.com An American gun rights organization has accused the media of trying to conceal the fact that a gunman who attacked students at Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav Kook seminary was stopped by an armed student at the school. Authorities reported that Ytizhak Dadon, 40, ...
PA Daily: Mass Murderer is a Martyr.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Mahmoud Abbas' official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has honored the terrorist who gunned down eight high school students at point blank range with the status of shahid, or holy Islamic martyr. The official PA daily Al-Hayat ...
Kuwaiti Analyst: Best if Israel, Not U.S., Destroys Iranian Nukes.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services The destruction of Iran's nuclear capabilities would be in the interest of the Arab nations in the Gulf, and it would be less embarrassing if Israel rather than the U.S. did it, a top Kuwaiti strategist said in remarks published Sunday. ...
Peres: Iran is the World's Greatest Problem.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By YnetNews.com President Shimon Peres on Sunday called Iran the world's greatest problem but said Israel would not act on its own against the Islamic nation's nuclear program. "Iran is a danger not just for Israel but for the rest of the world, the combination of being a ...
Iranian Group Puts Price on Barak's Head.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By YnetNews.com Do Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan and Amos Yadlin need to be worried? In the Iranian capital of Tehran, it was reported that an unprecedented ceremony took place on Sunday in which a price was put on the heads of the top ranking Israeli security officials as revenge for ...
2,000+ Requests Received for Ahmadinejad Purim Masks.
Mar 10, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services More than 2,000 people have requested Purim masks depicting Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. B'nai Haman, which plans a Purim Ball on March 20 featuring modern Purim masks, said it has received requests from as far away as India, Japan and ...
Circumcision at 70.
Mar 11, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Vladamir Frintz, 70, has become the oldest immigrant to undergo a ritual circumcision (brit mila) in Israel, according to Scope. Frintz's grandson spoke at the ceremony and expressed his pride for his elderly ...
Unofficial Truce Takes Hold in Gaza Strip.
Mar 11, 2008 ... By Jim Teeple (VOA-Jerusalem) An unofficial truce has taken effect in the Gaza Strip where Palestinian terrorists have nearly stopped rocket attacks against Israel. This lull follows a violent period in which more than 120 Palestinians were killed in recent Israeli military ...
Yeshiva Gunman's Family: Funeral will be at Dawn to Avoid Media Frenzy.
Mar 11, 2008 ... By Ha'aretz The family of the terrorist who killed eight people and wounded 9 others at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem last week has announced that the gunman's funeral would be held at dawn in order to comply with police demands to avoid a media frenzy surrounding the ...
Jerusalem Officials Fear Major Earthquake.
Mar 11, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Several Jerusalem city officials spoke to members of the Knesset on Monday, warning them of the disaster that could take place in case of a strong earthquake. Aaron Ben-Nun, head of the Public Buildings Department in Jerusalem, warned that many public ...
Family Threatens to Blow Up Home if they are Evicted.
Mar 11, 2008 ... By Ha'aretz A woman in her sixth month of pregnancy, along with her two toddlers, is threatening to blow up their public housing apartment in Petah Tikva if the Housing and Construction Ministry carries through with its plan to evict the family. "My husband will hole ...
'Death to Jews' Scrawled on El Al Plane.
Mar 12, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services El Al is on a security alert after Arabic invective was found scrawled in the cargo hold of a plane returning from Italy. The phrase "Death to Jews" was hand-written in an El Al jet that flew to Milan's Malpensa Airport on Monday, ...
Israel Holding Hamas Responsible for All Rockets Fired from Gaza.
Mar 12, 2008 ... By VOA News & IsraelNationalNews.com Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza ended a four-day lull Tuesday with a rocket attack on Ashkelon. The missile exploded in an area south of the coastal city just hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned residents while touring ...
Mideast Peace Process Under Scrutiny Before Arab Summit.
Mar 12, 2008 ... By Challiss McDonough (VOA-Cairo) Many Arabs say recent violence in Gaza and Israel is placing the Middle East peace process in jeopardy again. The process is under review in Cairo ahead of a planned Arab League Summit, set for later this month in Damascus. Although ...
Israel TV: Rabbi Endorses Jewish Revenge Attack.
Mar 12, 2008 ... By YnetNews.com Several Jews reportedly granted rabbinical approval to avenge Jerusalem yeshiva attack Ynet Jewish revenge in the works? A group of Jewish men have apparently been granted religious approval to carry out an act of retribution in ...
Google's Latest Anti-Jewish Outrage: 'Also Try Zyklon B'.
Mar 12, 2008 ... By WorldNetDaily.com (Commentary) A Google image search of the word "Yiddish" indicates a possible anti-Semitic programming troublemaker at work. Is some nitwit just making ghastly and inappropriate decisions about search suggestions, or is the whole ...
Israeli Tomato Extract Could Save People's Skin.
Mar 12, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com A tomato-based diet supplement produced by Israeli firm LycoRed, which protects the skin against harmful UV radiation will soon be available in the U.S. LycoRed's cosmetic pharmaceutical, Lyc-O-Mato, is already protecting European skin from ...
Facebook Group Memorializes Yeshiva Terrorist.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services A new Facebook group memorializes the Palestinian attacker who murdered eight yeshiva students. In addition to glorifying the students' murders, the Facebook page dedicated to Abu Ala Dhaim, 25, refers to him as a "martyr" and links to a page that ...
Israel Unprepared for Cruise-Missile Attack.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services Israel would not be able to fend off future cruise missile attacks by Iran. However, Israel's strong air defense systems may answer the threat of long-range ballistic missile strikes by Iran or Syria, but they would not defeat a low-altitude cruise ...
Rocket Fire Ends Brief Lull in Israeli-Palestinian Fighting.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By Robert Berger (VOA-Jerusalem), Ha'aretz & Reuters A brief lull in Israeli-Palestinian fighting is over but a new spike in violence is eroding hopes for a ceasefire. The Islamic Jihad terrorist group fired rockets at Israel Thursday from the Gaza Strip, ending a ...
Israeli Researcher: Cannabidiol Might Help Alzheimer's.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Hebrew University researcher Prof. Raphael Mechoulam found, in a study conducted in Israel and Spain, that cannabis-based treatments may improve memory loss in Alzheimer's sufferers. A compound present in cannabis significantly slows memory problems ...
First-Ever: First-Temple Building Remains Found Near Temple Mount.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that for the first time in the history of the archaeological research of Jerusalem, building remains from the First Temple period have been exposed so close to the Temple Mount - on the eastern slopes of the ...
Israel to Embargo Al Jazeera.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Israel has decided to impose an official embargo of the Arabic Al Jazeera satellite TV network due to the Foreign Ministry's assessment that the station functions as a propaganda arm in the Arab war against the Jewish State. "After ...
Jewish Mother Re-United with Son.
Mar 14, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Four years ago, a Jewish mother lacked the financial means to raise her two children, and gave the younger one to a Christian-Arab foster family in Jerusalem "until she was able to take him back." When she came to reclaim her son last year, however, the ...
Shabak Agents to Write Blogs.
Mar 17, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Four members of the General Security Services (Shabak) will write about their work in Internet blogs. The four, three men and one woman who work in information ...
Israeli Police, Jewish Activists Clash in Jerusalem.
Mar 17, 2008 ... By VOA News, Ha'aretz & IsraelNationalNews.com Israeli police have clashed with about 200 right-wing Jewish activists trying to destroy the East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian who killed eight students at a Jewish seminary earlier this month. One of the arrestees was ...
Report: Assad's Brother-in-Law Behind Death of Mughniyeh.
Mar 17, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's brother-in-law is suspected of engineering the assassination of Hizbullah's operations officer Imad Mughniyeh, according to a weekend report in Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siasa ("Politics"). The news report appeared under the ...
German Chancellor Confronts Holocaust on Visit to Israel.
Mar 17, 2008 ... By Robert Berger (VOA-Jerusalem) The leader of Germany and several members of her cabinet are in Israel on a highly symbolic visit that comes against the background of their nation's Nazi past. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Israel to express her country's strong ...
Report: Eichmann Intervened to Save 800 Jews in Berlin in WW2.
Mar 17, 2008 ... By Ha'aretz Adolf Eichmann was among a group of top Nazi officials who intervened in order to save the lives of 800 Jews in the heyday of World War II, The Sunday Times has reported. The report relates the staggering story of 800 Jewish men and women who were found ...
Hamas Using U.S. Weapons.
Mar 17, 2008 ... By WorldNetDaily.com The Hamas terrorist group used U.S. weapons against the Israel Defense Forces this weekend, a Hamas official told WND. The weapons were seized when Hamas last June took complete control of the Gaza Strip, overtaking all U.S.-backed security ...
Chief Rabbis Ban Firecrackers.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Chief Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger announced Monday that Jews should not use firecrackers during the upcoming Purim holiday. Firecrackers are dangerous and therefore ...
Olmert: Building to Continue in East Jerusalem.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By VOA News Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that Israel would continue to build in east Jerusalem despite international concern that such action might harm the Mideast peace process. Israel plans to build hundreds of new apartments in Har Homa, a Jewish ...
Israeli, German Leaders Share Concerns about Iran.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By Jim Teeple (VOA-Jerusalem) The leaders of Israel and Germany say they share concerns over Iran's nuclear program. The comments were made during a visit to Israel by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on the second day of her ...
Israel Tests 'Iron Dome' Anti-Rocket System But May Not Use It.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com The IDF has tested an anti-rocket missile system being designed to intercept and destroy short-range enemy rockets, despite doubts that Israel will continue the $200 million project. The 'Iron Dome' ("Kipat Barzel" in Hebrew) system ...
Outrage over 'Swastika' Retirement Home.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By Israel Faxx News Services The Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks just like any other building - from the ground - but fly over it in a plane and its giant swastika outline is unmistakable. Now the agency that owns the US government-funded building in ...
Artifacts Reveal Jews Were in Austria in Third Century.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By IsraelNationalNews.com Archaeologists in Austria have discovered artifacts, one of which bears the prayer Shema Yisrael, that archaeologists say proves the existence of a Jewish community in the area since at least the third century in the Common Era. (Deuteronomy 6:4 ("Hear, ...
Tibetans Rally in Tel Aviv.
Mar 18, 2008 ... By YnetNews.com Dozens of Tibetans rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday in support of their brethren back in the homeland, who have been clashing with Tibet's security forces over the past few days. The protestors said a silent prayer in memory of the 100 people who were ...