How Does One Eulogize a 4-Year-Old Terror Victim?

February 23, 2015 Adel Biton, who was hit in the head during a Palestine terrorist rock-throwing attack two years ago, is dead. Four-year-old Adele died of pneumonia. Her body had been severely compromised after a gang of Palestinian Authority Arab teens from the village of Haras sent a hail of rocks, hitting the car her mother was driving on route 5 in Samaria. The attack caused the car to swerve off the road and collide with an oncoming truck.

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Albanian Storyteller Kadare Wins Jerusalem Prize

February 15, 2015 Every two years, the Jerusalem International Book Fair (February 8–12, 2015) brings thousands of bound stories to the Israeli capital and rewards a writer who has woven together a narrative emphasizing "the freedom of the individual in society."

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Two Killed as Hezbollah Attacks Israeli Soldiers Across Lebanese Border

February 1, 2015 Last Wednesday morning, it looked as if there might be war between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah after it fired anti-tank missiles toward Mount Dov, killing Israeli soldiers Major Yohai Klinger (25) and First Sergeant Dor Nini (20). An additional seven wounded were evacuated to hospitals in the north. An early investigation revealed that a minimum of five anti-tank missiles had been fired at the IDF convoy hitting at least two army vehicles on route 999, which is a public highway, in the Shebaa Farms area of Israel. The IDF responded with artillery fire into South Lebanon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “those behind the attack will pay.”

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Iran Arms Terrorists in Judea and Samaria

January 26, 2015 Iran continues to threaten Israel in a variety of ways, including by arming terrorists in Judea and Samaria. “The arming policy of the West Bank is one of the policies of Iran and we will use all our capabilities in this way,” Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said last week while speaking at a memorial service for the Iranian General Abu Ali Tabtabai, who was killed recently in an Israeli Air Force strike on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights border.

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Terrorist Seeks “Paradise” on Tel Aviv Bus

January 26, 2015 Israelis suffered yet another “lone wolf” terrorist attack on Wednesday when a 23-year-old Palestinian stabbed 12 riders in a Tel Aviv bus. While the Palestinian ran amok on the bus, 62-year-old bus driver, Herzl Biton, who although critically wounded by a series of stab wounds to the abdomen, managed to hold the attacker off long enough for many of his passengers to leave the bus.

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Iranian-Backed Hezbollah Threatens to Invade Israel

January 20, 2015 Israel’s army went on high alert Monday and Iron Dome batteries have been deployed along the northern border in anticipation of retaliation from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah for an alleged Israeli airstrike that killed six Hezbollah operatives, including a senior commander. Outgoing IDF intelligence head Brig. Gen. Itai Brun considers the threat of Hezbollah real. “Unlike in the Second Lebanon War, I believe that next time we will see Hezbollah sources on Israel soil,” he said. (Israel HaYom)

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UN Human Rights Commission Probes Israeli War Crimes

January 20, 2015 The mother of Daniel Tregerman appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), which is investigating the possible war crimes committed during Operation Protective Edge in last summer's war with Gaza.

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West Silent on Slaughter of Middle East Christians

January 13, 2015 In their bid to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate, the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has run thousands of Christians out of their homes in Iraq and Syria since last summer—telling them to "convert or die." In its 2015 World Watch List, Open Doors stated that the Islamic State, Boko Haram, and other Muslim militant groups are the greatest threat to Christian lives in 18 of the 20 most dangerous countries to people with faith in Yeshua.

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Israelis Save Arab Infant from Death After Heart Attack

January 4, 2015 Last Saturday, Israel's emergency and medical relief agency Magen David Adom (MDA) and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at a Jordanian border crossing intervened to save a 6-month-old Palestinian child from Judea-Samaria, whose heart condition triggered what seemed to be a heart attack.

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Aliyah Hits 10-Year High

January 4, 2015 Last year's summer war did not stop 2014 from drawing record immigration numbers in ten years, as 26,500 new Israelis disembarked at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, a 32 percent increase from the year before. While French and Ukrainian Jews led the surge, North America also claimed its highest immigration numbers to Israel in a decade, with 3,700 Jews leaving the United States and Canada in a 7 percent jump from 2013.

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