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Israeli curators Ory Dessau • Maayan Strauss • Natan Sharansky • Amnon Barzel • Joseph Heller (zoologist) Snipview added this a year ago in Museums in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.prisonplanet.com/turkish... List of Israeli assassinations The following is a list of alleged and confirmed assassinations reported to have been conducted by the State of Israel. It includes attempts on notable persons who were reported to have been specifically targeted by the various Israeli security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. According to Eyal Weizman, 'targeted assassinations have become the most significant and frequent form of Israeli military attack', and serve not only to contain terror but as a 'political tool' to control Palestinian territories Israel has otherwise withdrawn from. In response to protests over the number of civilians killed in targeting operations, and the refusal of a number of pilots to engage in such missions in 2003, Israel set up groups to minimize collateral damage in 2003 to establish acceptable levels of damage to bystanders. In 2006 'focused lethality munitions', missiles with intense but highly localized explosive were introduced to this end, and in November a legal committee was set up to rule on assassinations. There is no clear definition of "Targeted killing" under international law. The Supreme Court of Israel, in response to a suit on the practice, mainly regarded actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, ruled on 14 December 2006 that such actions took place in an 'international armed conflict' but that the "terrorists", as civilians, lacked combatant status under international law. Yet they were, in the court's view, civilians participating directly in hostilities, which would mean they lose their immunity. It also ruled, following a precedent set forth by the European Court of Human Rights in its McCann and Others v. the United Kingdom judgement, that a'law of proportionality', balancing military necessity with humanity, must apply. Assassination were permitted if ('strong and persuasive information' concerning the target's identity existed; if the mission served to curtail terror; and if other techniques, such as attempting to arrest the target, would gravely endanger soldiers' lives. Nils Melzer in his 2006 study Targeted Killing in International Law definestargeted killings in terms of five criteria, summed up as 'the use of lethal force attributable to a subject of international law with the intent, premeditation and deliberation to kill individually selected persons who are not in the physical custody of those targeting them.' Before 2001 Israel denied it practiced or has a policy of conducting extrajudicial executions. The term itself gained widespread currency only after Israel went public concerning its policy regarding alleged terrorists in the Palestinian territories. Early into the Al Aqsa Intifada, it became the first state to publicly outline a policy of “liquidation” and “preemptive targeted killing,” when two female bystanders were killed during an operation to kill a Palestinian militant, Hussein ‘Abayat, on 9 November 2000. Killings in the past were often premised on revenge for earlier crimes, and required a quasi-judicial commission to convict the target of culpability before action was taken. The policy, re-introduced by Ariel Sharon in the face of suicide bombings, no longer took evidence of potential involvement by the target in future attacks on Israel as decisive, and the decision was left to the discretion of the Prime Minister and Shin Bet. According to the former Legal Advisor to the State Department Judge Abraham Sofaer: A state engaged in such activities must however, Sofaer concluded, openly acknowledge its responsibility and accept accountability for mistakes made. This characterization is criticized by many, including Amnesty International. B'tselem has calculated that between 2002 and May 2008, at least 387 Palestinians died as a result of Israeli targeted killings, of which 234 were the targets, and the rest collateral casualties. The majority of Israeli targeted killings have taken place in Area A of the West Bank lying within the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority. Some of killings listed below have been denied by Israel. Most fall within a series of campaigns, including Operation Wrath of God (launched in response to the 1972Munich massacre), Israeli actions in the wake of the al-Aqsa Intifada(2000–), and strikes during the 2008–09 Gaza War. Gaza, according to Eyal Weizman, has now become 'the world's largest laboratory for airborne assassinations.' According to reports, as part of the long-term cease-fire terms negotiated between Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian groups to end the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, Israel pledged it would desist from its targeted assassinations against Palestinian resistance activists and faction leaders. The policy of targeted killings is known in Hebrew as "focused foiling" (Hebrew: סיכול ממוקד sikul memukad).  more from Wikipedia Operation Wrath of God • Ali Hassan Salameh • Imad Mughniyah • Wael Zwaiter • Wadie Haddad Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel... Israeli naval campaign in Operation Yoav The Israeli naval campaign in Operation Yoav refers to the operations of the Israeli naval service (later Israel Navy) during Operation Yoav (October 15–22, 1948) in the final stage of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The main objective of the naval service was to disrupt the supply lines from Egypt to Palestine, completing the Egyptian expeditionary force's encirclement, and force Egypt to allocate large forces to fight against targets at sea instead of on the ground, where Operation Yoav was conducted. Israel's four warships at the time, INS Wedgwood (K-18), INS Haganah (K-20), INS Ma'oz (K-24) and INS Noga (K-26), participated in the operation. The two main naval engagements were the October 19 battle in the waters of Majdal (today Ashkelon), and the sinking of the Egyptian flagship theEmir Farouk on October 22, which also damaged an Egyptianminesweeper. The latter operation helped shape the Israeli navy's doctrine of the use of small weapon systems as opposed to conventional fleets.  more from Wikipedia Israel Navy • Operation Yoav Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.bentov.com/golan_heights... Bnei Yehuda, Golan Heights Bnei Yehuda (Hebrew: בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה) is an Israeli settlement, moshav, located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav was built in 1972. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of theGolan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Fo... The Founding Myths of Modern Israel In 1996, Roger Garaudy published his most controversial work, Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israélienne (The Founding Myths of Modern Israel), whose contents were translated into English in 2000 by theHolocaust denial organization The Institute for Historical Review. The work was determined under French Law to be "racial libel."  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.flickr.com/photos/yaffam... Hagada Hasmalit Hagada Hasmalit (Hebrew: הגדה השמאלית, "The Left Bank") is an Israelradical left-wing website. First published in Hebrew in Spring 2002, anEnglish version began to be published in March 2007. Hagada Hasmalit features articles and commentary by Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians from an anti-Zionist, Marxist or anarchistperspective. The magazine opposes continuing the Israeli presence in theIsraeli-occupied territories, and critique social and economic issues inside Israel. Hagada Hasmalit supported various campaigns over the years including the campaign to free Mordechai Vanunu, the struggle against the Israeli West Bank barrier in Bil'in, Tali Fahima and the refuseniks. Hagada Hasmalit is also a club run by the Maki, the Israeli communist party, at 70 Ahad Ha'am Street, Tel Aviv. The Hagada club hosts jazzevenings, film showings, lectures and performances. Some of the members of the club launched the website.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967 l... 1967 lines Green Line refers to the demarcation lines set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors (Egypt,Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The name derives from the green ink used to draw the line on the map while the armistice talks were going on. From Israel's perspective, the territories "beyond" the Green Line came to be designated as East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula. The Green Line became especially significant in Israel after Israel captured these territories in the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israeli maps contained the Green Line. These territories have since 1967 often been referred to as Israeli occupied territories. (The Sinai Peninsula has since been returned to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty.) The Green Line was not intended to be a border. The 1949 Armistice Agreements were clear (at Arab insistence) that they were not creating permanent borders. The Egyptian-Israeli agreement, for example, stated "The Armistice Demarcation Line is not to be construed in any sense as a political or territorial boundary, and is delineated without prejudice to rights, claims and positions of either Party to the Armistice as regards ultimate settlement of the Palestine question." Similar provisions are contained in the Armistice Agreements with Jordan and Syria. The Agreement with Lebanon stipulated that forces shall be withdrawn to the Israel-Lebanon international border. The Green Line is often referred to as the "pre-1967 borders", the "1967 borders" by many international bodies and national leaders, including theUnited States president, currently Barack Obama, Palestinian presidentMahmoud Abbas, and by the United Nations in informal texts and in the text of UN GA Resolutions.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David-... David-Zvi Pinkas David-Zvi Pinkas (Hebrew: דוד-צבי פנקס‎, 5 December 1895 – 14 August 1952) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he was the country's third Minister of Transport.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.al-awda.org/camps.html Palestine refugee camps Palestinian refugee camps were established after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to accommodate the Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian exodus. United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) Resolution 194 grants Palestinians the right to return to their homeland if they wish to "live at peace with their neighbors". The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) defines a Palestinian refugee as: In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Jewish refugees who fled or had been expelled during the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countrieswere initially resettled in refugee camps known variously as Immigrant camps, Ma'abarot, and "development towns" prior to absorption into mainstream Israeli society. Conversely, many Palestinian refugees remain in Palestinian refugee camps, while others have been absorbed into Jordanian society or the Palestinian territories. Since 1948, the State of Israel has guaranteed citizenship to Jews from anywhere in the world, while barring return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, due to the demographic threat that they pose.  more from Wikipedia Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip • Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank •Palestinian refugee camps in Syria • Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon • Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.oberlin.edu/library/digi... King-Crane Commission The King–Crane Commission, officially called the 1919 Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, was an official investigation by the United States government concerning the disposition of non-Turkish areas within the former Ottoman Empire. It was conducted to inform American policy about the region's people and their desired future in regard to the previously decided partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and the League of Nations Mandate System. The Commission visited areas of Palestine, Syria,Lebanon, and Anatolia, surveyed local public opinion, and assessed its view on the best course of action for the region. The Commission was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson and comprised Henry Churchill King andCharles R. Crane. It began work in June 1919 and produced its report on 28 August 1919, though the report was not published until 1922. The Commission's work was undercut from the beginning by continuing and competing colonialist designs on the part of the United Kingdom and France, as indicated by their previous secret deals, their lack of a similar belief in public opinion, as well as the commission's late start, and encountered delays; the 1919 Paris Peace Conference had largely concluded the area's future by the time the report was finished. The King-Crane commission was "the first-ever survey of Arab public opinion" and the fact its results went largely unheeded was bemoaned by pollster James Zogby.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://imeu.net/ Institute for Middle East Understanding Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a 501(c)(3) pro-Palestinian non-profit organisation, not aligned to any political or government organisation. It was founded by Americans and describes its mission as entailing working "with journalists to increase the public's understanding about the socio-economic, political and cultural aspects ofPalestine, Palestinians and Palestinian Americans." The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is an independent non-profit organization that provides journalists with quick access to information about Palestine and the Palestinians, as well as expert sources, both in the United States and in the Middle East. Both through its website and its staff, the IMEU works with journalists to increase the public's understanding about the socio-economic, political and cultural aspects of Palestine, Palestinians and Palestinian Americans. The IMEU assists journalists who are working on stories about Palestine or the Palestinians by: The IMEU was founded in 2005 by a group of concerned Americans who want to foster an increased understanding among Americans about Palestine and the Palestinians. The IMEU is an independent organization and is not affiliated with any government or political party. It is funded through individual donations and foundations. In 2006 it received a grant from the The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development which was used to undertake the first compilation of profiles of prominent Palestinian-Americans in the fields of the arts, literature, academia, business and community service, which were then disseminated to news media and on the Internet As an example, the IMEU sent a letter to news outlets in November 2007 that provided the names and profiles of Palestinian-Americans who could be contacted to discuss the upcoming Annapolis conference. The names included, Samar Assad, Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, Diana Buttu, a Ramallah-based attorney and former advisor to Palestinian negotiators,Omar Dajani, a San Francisco-based law professor and former legal advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larson and Nadia Hijab, a Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Palestine Studies. One of the organization's co-founders is Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who is also a member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)Seattle chapter. As Secretary and Treasurer of the IMEU, she and the organization were featured in the Non-Profit Spotlight of the e-magazineThe Mideast Connect. The IMEU also publishes 'Letters from Palestine' (2006), which are cited as a good resource for first-hand testimonies from Palestinians about their daily lives by Deborah Pike in the Borderlands journal.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalal ... Dalal Mughrabi Dalal Mughrabi (Arabic: دلال المغربي‎, Dalāl al-Muɣrabī; c. 1959 – 11 March 1978) was a Palestinian militant who was a member of the Fatahfaction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel. The attack resulted in the death of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children. Mughrabi and eight other militants were also killed in the course of the operation. She has been hailed as a martyr and a national hero among Palestinians, while in Israel she is seen as a terrorist.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List o... List of places in Jerusalem  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this 4 years ago in Jerusalem•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967 A... 1967 Arab League summit The 1967 Arab League summit was held on August 29 in Khartoum as the fourth Arab League Summit. The summit came in the aftermath of the Arab defeat to Israel in the Six-Day War and is famous for its Khartoum Resolution known as "The Three No's"; No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. The summit also resolved that the "oil-rich Arab states" give financial aid to the states who lost the war and to "help them rebuild their military forces." The final communique of the meeting "underscored the Palestinians' right to regain the whole of Palestine—that is, to destroy the State of Israel." The outcome of this summit influenced Israeli foreign policy for decades.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yafit Yafit Yafit (Hebrew: יַפִית, lit. Beautiful) is a moshav shitufi and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. In 2011, Yafit had a population of 106. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bankillegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag

Image via http://www.knesset.gov.il/review/Re... Provisional State Council The Provisional State Council (Hebrew: מועצת המדינה הזמנית‎, Moetzet HaMedina HaZmanit) was the temporary legislature of Israel from shortly before independence until the election of the first Knesset in January 1949. It took the place of His Majesty's Privy Council, through which the British Government had legislated for Mandatory Palestine. It began life as Moetzet HaAm (Hebrew: מועצת העם‎, lit. People's Council) on 12 April 1948 in preparation for independence just over a month later. There were 37 members representing all sides of the Jewish political spectrum, from the Revisionists to the Communists. A separate body,Minhelet HaAm was set up as the proto-cabinet, all of whose members were also members of Moetzet HaAm. On 14 May at 13:50, Moetzet HaAm met at the JNF building in Tel Aviv to vote on the text of the declaration of independence. Despite disagreements over issues such as borders and religion, it was passed unanimously and the meeting ended at 15:00, an hour before the declaration was to be made. The 37 members were those that signed the declaration. Following independence, the body was renamed the Provisional State Council. Its last meeting was held on 3 February 1949, after which the Council was titled the Knesset. The council's titular figurehead, Chaim Weizmann, was Israel's de facto head of state until he was elected president in February 1949.  more from Wikipedia I Image via https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wa... When Israel, The Soviets And The US Nearly Destroyed The Middle East During the Cold War many countries were on high alert, none more so than Israel, the US and the Soviet Union. One of the tensest occasions was in October of 1973 when Israel lost over 2000 troops and had more than 7000 wounded by a coordinated attack by Egypt and Syria.The two Middle Eastern countries launched the surprise attack on Israel on the Golan Heights in Syria and along the Suez Canal in Sinai. The two-pronged attack ensured Israel had to call up thousands of army reservists to join the fight to defend Israel. Read on Andre added this 2 months ago in Israel• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art... Israel Condemns Vatican Treaty With The 'State of Palestine' The Vatican has signed a treaty with the 'State of Palestine' today and hopes it will stimulate peace with Israel. It is the first time the RC Church has signed a treaty with the State of Palestine and believe it could serve as a model for other Mideast countries. However Israel has condemned the treaty for 'ignoring the rights of the Jewish people' and called it one-sided. Vatican Foreign Minister Paul Gallagher and his Palestinian counterpart, Riad al-Malki, signed the historic treaty at a ceremony inside the Vatican.  Read on Andre added this 3 months ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict• Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.filmfestivals.com/festiv... Eilat International Film Festival The Eilat International Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in the resort city of Eilat, on the southern tip of Israel, on the northern shores of the Red Sea. The festival was established in 2003 by Chen Sadan Shelach, former leading Israeli publicist (who died recently). The festival focuses on quality films the world over, Israeli premieres, children's films and each edition hosts a different specialized category. In addition, every festival hosts a variety of workshops and related events. Guests who have attended the festival include, American actress Valerie Harper, Oscar winner Ari Sandel, cinematographer Adam Greenberg, TV director Jeremy Kagan, leading Hollywood producers Avi Lerner and Dan Dimbort and additionally a host of Israeli leading industry professionals and celebrities. The first festival opened the night the Iraq War started - an event which caused increased interest from leading international media outlets who in turn interviewed the international guests whom decided to attend the festival despite the threat of imminent missile attack on Israel.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Eilat•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-... Israeli elections: Benjamin Netanyahu clinches deal to form new government just before deadline Mr Netanyahu struggled to put together a coalition for nearly two months after winning an easy election victory, after a former ally abandoned him this week. Barely two hours before a midnight deadline mandated by law, Mr Netanyahu's right-wing Likud sealed an agreement with ultranationalist Jewish Home, which advocates annexation of parts of occupied territory Palestinians seek for a state. Read on Snipview added this 4 months ago in Israel• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Virtual tour - Cairo museum Holiday video of a visit to Cairo museum back in the days when cameras were allowed inside, albeit for a considerable fee. Read on Maria added this 7 years ago in Virtual tour• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.washingtonpost.com/poste... Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II Given recent history, it's a story that deserves retelling. Noor Inayat Khan led a very unusual life. She was born in 1914 to an Indian Sufi mystic of noble lineage and an American half-sister of Perry Baker, often credited with introducing yoga into America. As a child, she and her parents escaped the chaos of revolutionary Moscow in a carriage belonging to Tolstoy’s son. Raised in Paris in a mansion filled with her father’s students and devotees, Khan became a virtuoso of the harp and the veena, dressed in Western clothes, graduated from the Sorbonne and published a book of children’s tales — all before she was 25. Read on Philip added this 5 months ago in Jews• 1 • Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag IDF playing war games, but with real Palestinians GOC Central Command Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon concluded nearly a decade in the West Bank this week. He had served in the territories since 2005, apart from a two-year break in which he established the intelligence operations division. Alon was commander of the territorial brigade in the Bethlehem region, chief of the Judea and Samaria Division, and GOC. On Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Roni Numa took over the key role. Alon will become head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Operations Directorate in two months. Even if he doesn’t say so, it’s a safe bet he won’t miss his old job. Read on Andre added this 6 months ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict• 1 • Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://shelf3d.com/i/List%20of%20sk... Lists of buildings and structures in Israel List of Israeli airports • List of Israel Defense Forces bases • List of cemeteries in Israel • List of football stadiums in Israel • List of tallest buildings in Tel Aviv Snipview added this a year ago in Israel-related lists•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://rt.com/news/242929-dead-sea-... €˜Nature revenge: Dead Sea surrounded by 3,000+ sinkholes growing at alarming rate Hundreds of sinkholes are forming each year around the drying Dead Sea that could face being completely parched by 2050. Its basin shrinks by a meter per year due to severe water mismanagement. Read on Angela added this 6 months ago in Dead Sea• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w... Isis posts video of child militant shooting dead 'Israeli spy' Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam Isis has released a shocking video purporting to show a child shooting dead a 19-year-old Israeli Arab man the group claimed was a spy. Read on Andre added this 6 months ago in Israel• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich... Munich (film) Munich is a 2005 historical drama and political thriller film based onOperation Wrath of God, the Israeli government's secret retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. The film was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. Based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team about Yuval Aviv, who states he was a Mossad agent,Munich follows a squad of assassins as they track down and kill alleged members of the group Black September, which had kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes. Shot in Malta, Budapest, Paris and New York, Munich was a critical success but is also one of Spielberg's lowest-grossing films. It garnered positive reviews and five Academy Awards nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay (Kushner and Roth), Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn) and Best Original Score (John Williams). Its worldwide box office gross was $130,358,911.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d36... Graffiti king Banksy takes his art to Gaza Mysterious graffiti artist Banksy has taken his airbrush to the Gaza Strip, where he has created several works highlighting the destruction caused in the recent conflict with Israel. He also posted on YouTube. Read on Andre added this 7 months ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict• 1 • Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Anonymous  7 months ago in Snipview Luv this guy Anonymous  6 months ago in Snipview Great platform.. Andre  a month ago in Banksy Agreed Press Enter to post your comment Image via http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-ca... US tries Rabbi Mendel Epstein over divorce kidnap scheme A New York rabbi goes on trial accused of plotting to abduct and beat Jewish men who refuse to grant their wives a divorce.  Read on Angela added this 7 months ago in Israelis• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.theguardian.com/world/20... Ethiopian women in Israel 'given contraceptive without consent Israel's health ministry is investigating claims that Ethiopian immigrants have unwittingly had Depo-Provera jabs for years Read on Andre added this 7 months ago in Israel• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C... Senate warns "strong response" prepared to Palestinian ICC action - Jerusalem Post Key members of the United States Senate issued a warning to the Palestinian Authority on Friday, warning the "deplorable, counterproductive" decision to join the International Criminal Court "will be met with a strong response." "Existing US law makes clear that if the Palestinians initiate an ICC judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, all economic assistance to the PA must end," senators said in a statement. "In light of this legal requirement, Congress will reassess its support for assistance to the PA and seek additional ways to make clear to President Abbas that we strongly oppose his efforts to seek membership in the ICC." Read on Snipview added this 8 months ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict• Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjam... Benjamin H. Freedman Benjamin Harrison Freedman (1890 – May 1984) was an American businessman, Holocaust denier, and vocal anti-Zionist. Born in a Jewish family, he converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism. Outside of political activism, Freedman was a partner in a dermatological institute and investor for small businesses.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://notesfromtheninthcircle.blog... History of the Levant The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east. It stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert. The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Cyprus,Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The term normally does not include Anatolia (although at times Cilicia may be included), the Caucasus Mountains, Mesopotamia or any part of theArabian Peninsula proper. The Sinai Peninsula is sometimes included, though it is more considered an intermediate, peripheral or marginal area forming a land bridge between the Levant and northern Egypt.  more from Wikipedia Byzantine Empire • Ottoman Empire • Umayyad Caliphate • Babylonia • Assyria Radu added this 4 years ago in Ancient Israel and Judah•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://flashbak.com/photos-of-pales... Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949 The British, the rebels, the pain and the glory... Read on Radu added this 10 months ago in History of Palestine• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krayot Krayot The Krayot (Hebrew: הקריות‎, "townships") are a cluster of five small cities founded in the 1930s in the Haifa Bay area, on the outskirts of the city ofHaifa, Israel. The Krayot (plural of Kirya, "township") are Kiryat Yam (pop. 36,700),Kiryat Motzkin (pop. 39,800), Kiryat Bialik (pop. 36,200), Kiryat Ata (pop. 33,800) and Kiryat Haim (pop. 26,960). In 2003, there was a proposal to merge the Krayot to form a city calledZevulun with a population of 250,000, which would make it one of the ten largest cities in Israel. However, in 2008, the plan was cancelled.  more from Wikipedia Kiryat Haim • Kiryat Yam • Kiryat Bialik • Maccabi Avishai Motzkin • Kiryat Motzkin Snipview added this a year ago in Regions of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F... Environment of Israel Wildlife of Israel • Environmental issues in Israel • Land management in Israel • Forests of Israel • Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip Snipview added this a year ago•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List o... List of diplomatic missions in Israel Diplomatic missions in Israel refers to foreign embassies and consulates inIsrael. There are currently 86 embassies in Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (not including honorary consulates). Previously some states maintained embassies in Jerusalem, but currently they are all relocated to Tel Aviv with the last post-1982 being these ofCosta Rica and El Salvador whose relocation was announced in August 2006.  more from Wikipedia Jerusalem Embassy Act • Diplomatic missions in Jerusalem • Diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv Snipview added this a year ago in Buildings and structures in Israel•Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archit... Buildings and structures in Israel Israeli architecture • Archaeological sites in Israel • Nightclubs in Israel • Supreme Court of Israel • Cemeteries in Israel Snipview added this a year ago•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.gtek.hk/en/CaseInfo/Case... Sports venues in Israel Indoor arenas in Israel • Football venues in Israel • Sports venues in Israel by district • Multi-purpose stadiums in Israel • Kibbutz Gezer Field Snipview added this 6 months ago• 1 •Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timna ... Timna Valley The Timna Valley is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arabah, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the town of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore and has been mined since the 5th millennium BCE. There is controversy whether the mines were active during the Kingdom of Israel and the biblical King Solomon. A large section of the valley, containing ancient remnants of copper mining and ancient worship, is encompassed in a recreation park. In July 2011, the Israeli government approved the construction of aninternational airport, the Timna Airport, in the Timna valley.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Regions of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation... National Sport Center – Tel Aviv 34°49′21″E32.104873°N 34.822463°E National Sport Center – Tel Aviv (also Hadar Yosef Sports Center) is a compound of stadiums and sports facilities. It also houses the Olympic Committee of Israel and the National Athletics Stadium with the Israeli Athletic Association. Nearby is a multi-purpose sports hall with the Israel Judo Federation and several Israeli sports associations. The National Sport Center – Tel Aviv is located in the Hadar Yosef neighborhood in north Tel Aviv, in the Yarkon Park. Near the compound is the Ramat Gan Stadium. National Sport Center – Tel Aviv is a supplementary compound to Wingate Institute in Netanya. While most training is done at the Wingate Institute, the National Sport Center oversees sports processes.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Sports venues in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa ... Haifa metropolitan area Haifa metropolitan area (Hebrew: מטרופולין חיפה) is a metropolitan areaincluding areas from both the Haifa and the North Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli Mediterranean coastline. The Haifa metropolitan area is the third largest metropolitan area in Israel, with an estimated population of almost 1 million.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Regions of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoseft... Yoseftal Medical Center Yoseftal Medical Center (Hebrew: הַמֶּרְכָּז הָרְפוּאִי יוֹסֵפְטַל) is a hospital inEilat, Israel. Yoseftal Hospital, founded in 1968, is the southernmost hospital in Israel and the only hospital covering the southern Negev desert. It is named afterGiora Yoseftal. It is Israel's smallest general hospital with 65 beds. Economic problems led to proposals for the hospital's closure; however, after protests from area residents and local government officials, who argued that not having a hospital within a 3-hour radius would be highly dangerous, it was decided to keep the hospital open. The hospital is run by the Clalit health maintenance organization. It has a fully equipped recompression chamber for treating diving accidents. The hospital also has kidney dialysis facilities open to vacationers and local residents.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Eilat•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/11... World Heritage Sites in Israel Tel Megiddo • Es Skhul • Masada • White City (Tel Aviv) • Mount Carmel Snipview added this a year ago•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eretz_... List of museums in Israel Below is an incomplete list of Israeli museums. Some of them are located in the Israeli-occupied territories.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Museums in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarona... Sarona (colony) Sarona was a German Templer colony in Tel Aviv, Israel, which is now a neighborhood of the city. It was one of the earliest modern villages established in Palestine.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Israeli architecture•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.o... Israel-related lists Israeli sports-related lists • Lists of Israeli award winners • Israeli military-related lists • Lists of Israeli people • Lists of companies of Israel Snipview added this a year ago•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archit... Architecture of Israel The architecture of Israel has been influenced by the different styles of architecture brought in by those who have occupied the country over time, sometimes modified to suit the local climate and landscape. FortifiedCrusader castles, Islamic madrassas, Byzantine churches, Templer houses,Bauhaus-style modernist buildings, Arab arches and minarets, Russian Orthodox onion domes, and soaring glass-sided skyscrapers - all are part of the architecture of Israel.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Buildings and structures in Israel•Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.cija.ca/issues/whats-the... Populated places in Israel Nahal settlement • Arab localities in Israel • Villages in Israel • Templer settlements •Neighborhoods in Israel Snipview added this 6 months ago• 1 •Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Gu... Ben-Gurion International Airport Garden The Ben-Gurion International Airport Garden is a garden outside Terminal 3 of Ben-Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, designed by the architecture firm of Shlomo Aronson.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Gardens in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiv... Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip is about thefauna and flora in the geographical region of Israel, the West Bank, andGaza Strip. This geographical area extends from the Jordan River and Wadi Araba in the east, to the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai desert in the west, to Lebanon in the north, and to the gulf of Aqaba, or Eilat in the south. The area is part of the Palearctic ecozone, located in the Mediterranean Basin, whose climate supports the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. This includes the ecoregions of the Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests and the Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests. There are five different geographical zones and the climate varies from semi-arid to temperate to subtropical. The region is home to a variety of plants and animals; at least 47,000 living species have been identified, with another 4,000 assumed to exist. 116 species of mammals are native to Israel, as well as 511 bird species, 97 reptile species, and seven amphibian species. There are also an estimated 2,780 plant species.  more from Wikipedia Geography of Israel • List of adventive wild plants in Israel • List of native plants of Palestine (A-D)• List of native plants of Palestine (P-Z) • Geography of the West Bank Snipview added this a year ago in Environment of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleco... Israel communications-related lists Israel transport-related lists • Lists of Israeli media • Telephone numbers in Israel Snipview added this a year ago in Communications in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archae... Archaeological sites in Israel The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history. The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Despite the importance of the country to three major religions, serious archaeological research only began in the 15th century. The first major work on the antiquities of Israel was Adrian Reland's Palestina ex monumentis veteribus, published in 1709. Edward Robinson, an American theologian who visited the country in 1838, published the first topographical studies. A Frenchman, Louis Felicien de Saucy, embarked on the first "modern" excavations in 1850. In discussing the state of archaeology in Israel in his time, David Ussishkincommented in the 1980s that the designation "Israeli archeology" no longer represents a single uniform methodological approach; rather, its scope covers numerous different archaeological schools, disciplines, concepts, and methods currently in existence in Israel.  more from Wikipedia Judea • Acre, Israel • Archaeological sites in Jerusalem • Tiberias • Archaeological sites on the Golan Heights Snipview added this a year ago in Buildings and structures in Israel•Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusa... Jerusalem Bird Observatory The Jerusalem Bird Observatory is an urban bird observatory in Israel, sited on a 5000 m plot in central Jerusalem between the Knesset and theSupreme Court. It has a strategic location on the bird migration route between Africa and Eurasia along the Great Rift Valley. Every spring and fall more than 500 million birds migrate through Israel. Two-thirds of the species seen in Jerusalem are migratory. Established in 1994 by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, the observatory serves as the national bird banding center. It was founded, and is directed, by naturalist Amir Balaban and ornithologist Gidon Perleman. Two hundred birds are banded every day by trained volunteers during the spring and fall migrations.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Environment of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indepe... Parks in Jerusalem City of David National Park • Independence Park (Jerusalem) • Gazelle Valley • Wohl Rose Park • Emek Tzurim National Park Snipview added this 8 months ago in Jerusalem•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.shalomlife.com/news/2089... Non-religious Israeli communities Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old Ci... Old City (Jerusalem) The Old City (Hebrew: העיר העתיקה‎, Ha'Ir Ha'Atiqah, Arabic: البلدة القديمة‎, al-Balda al-Qadimah, Armenian: Երուսաղեմի հին քաղաք, Yerusaghemi hin k'aghak' ) is a 0.9 square kilometers (0.35 sq mi) walled area within the modern city of Jerusalem. Until 1860, when the Jewish neighborhoodMishkenot Sha'ananim was established, this area constituted the entire city of Jerusalem. The Old City is home to several sites of key religious importance: the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque for Muslims, theTemple Mount and Western Wall for Jews and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for Christians, It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage SiteList in 1981. Traditionally, the Old City has been divided into four uneven quarters, although the current designations were introduced only in the 19th century. Today, the Old City is roughly divided into the Muslim Quarter, theChristian Quarter, the Jewish Quarter and the Armenian Quarter. The Old City's monumental defensive walls and city gates were built in the late 16th century by the Ottomans. The current population of the Old City resides mostly in the Islamic and Christian quarters. As of 2007 the total population was 36,965; the breakdown of religious groups in 2006 was 27,500 Muslims, 5,681 Christians, 790 Armenians and 3,089 Jews. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Old City was captured by Jordanand Jewish residents were evicted. During the Six-Day War in 1967, which saw hand-to-hand fighting on the Temple Mount, Israeli forces captured the Old City along with the rest of East Jerusalem, subsequently annexing them as Israeli territory and reuniting them with the western part of the city. Today, the Israeli government controls the entire area, which it considers part of its national capital. However, the Jerusalem Law of 1980, which effectively annexed East Jerusalem to Israel, was declared null and void byUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 478. East Jerusalem is now regarded by the international community as part of occupied Palestinian territory. In 2010, Jerusalem's oldest fragment of writing was found outside the Old City's walls.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in World Heritage Sites in Israel•Like•Comment•Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Develo... Development towns Development town (Hebrew: עיירת פיתוח‎, Ayarat Pitu'ah) is a term used to refer to the new settlements that were built in Israel during the 1950s in order to provide permanent housing to a large influx of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, Holocaust survivors from Europe and other new immigrants (Olim), who arrived to the newly established State of Israel. The towns were designated to expand the population of the country's peripheral areas and to ease development pressure on the country's crowded centre. The towns are the results of the Sharon plan - the master plan of Israel. The majority of such towns were built in the Galilee in the north of Israel, and in the northern Negev desert in the south. In addition to the new towns, Jerusalem was also given development town status in the 1960s. In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Jewish refugees were initially resettled in refugee camps known variously as Immigrant camps,Ma'abarot, and "development towns" prior to absorption into mainstreamIsraeli society. Conversely, many Palestinian refugees remain settled inPalestinian refugee camps, while others have been absorbed into Jordanian society or the Palestinian territories. Since 1948, the sovereign State of Israel has guaranteed asylum and citizenship to Jewish refugees, while the self-declared State of Palestine remains unable to absorb the Palestinian refugees, due to lack of de facto sovereignty over its claimed territories.  more from Wikipedia Or Yehuda • Yavne • Beit She'an • Kiryat Shmona • Hatzor HaGlilit Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.greenprophet.com/2009/06... Villages in Israel Moshav • Kibbutz • Arab villages in Israel • Youth villages in Israel • Settlement movements in Israel Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein Ge... Ein Gedi Spa Ein Gedi Spa is a wellness center along the Dead Sea, Israel, fed by the waters of the Dead Sea. It provides health by the four elements of the area: water, air, sun, and mud. The spa has hot pools that are filled with sulphur water. It is a famous attraction on the shore of the Dead Sea. The spa is known for its unpleasant odor resulting from the sulphur springs. However, it still draws large crowds who believe in its health benefits. The spa is run by the Ein Gedi Kibbutz. Initially built directly along the shoreline of the Dead Sea, due to the sea's shrinkage, the spa is now found at quite a distance from the lake. The annual Ein Gedi Race starts off at the spa's location.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Visitor attractions in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via  Mediterranean port cities and towns in Israel Acre, Israel • Tel Aviv • Ashdod • Haifa • Jaffa Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minist... Ministers of Defense of Israel Ministry of Defense (Israel) • Ezer Weizman • David Ben-Gurion • Shimon Peres • Yitzhak Rabin Snipview added this a year ago in Military of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Locati... Scots Hotel The Scots Hotel is a hotel in Tiberias, founded in 1885 by the Scottish doctor and minister David Watt Torrance as a mission hospital. that accepted patients of all races and religions. In 1894, it moved to larger premises at Beit abu Shamnel abu Hannah. In 1923 his son, Dr. Herbert Watt Torrance, was appointed head of the hospital. After the establishment of the State of Israel, it became a maternity hospital supervised by theIsraeli Department of Health. After its closure in 1959, the building became a guesthouse. In 1999, it was renovated at the cost of around £10,000,000 and reopened as the Scots Hotel.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Hotels in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen... Arab localities in Israel Arab localities in Israel includes all population centers with a 50% or higher Arab population in Israel. East Jerusalem and Golan Heights are not internationally recognized parts of Israel proper but have been included in this list. The city of Acre has an Arab minority of approximately 25%, while its Old City is 95% Arab. While Arabs constitute 10% of Haifa's total population, they make up 70% of Lower Haifa's residents. The central cities of Lod andRamla each have Arab populations of 20%.  more from Wikipedia Wadi Ara • Arab villages in Israel • Ramla • Arab Christian localities in Israel • Druze localities in Israel Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2012/0... Retail markets in Israel Carmel Market • Mahane Yehuda Market Snipview added this a year ago in Visitor attractions in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judean... Judean Desert The Judaean Desert (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה‎ Midbar Yehuda, both Desert of Judah or Judaean Desert; Arabic: صحراء يهودا‎ Sahara Yahudan) is a desert in Israel and the West Bank that lies east of Jerusalem and descends to theDead Sea. It stretches from the northeastern Negev to the east of Beit El, and is marked by terraces with escarpments. It ends in a steep escarpment dropping to the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. The Judaean Desert is crossed by numerous wadis from northeast to southeast and has manyravines, most of them deep, from 1,200 feet in the west to 600 feet in the east. The Judaean Desert is an area with a special morphological structure along the east of the Judaean Mountains. It is sometimes known as יְשִׁימוֹן Yeshimon, meaning desert or wildland, or yet Wilderness of Judah or Wilderness of Judaea, among others.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Deserts of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max Br... Max Brenner Max Brenner is a worldwide chocolate restaurant and retail brand headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel. The company operates more than 50 locations internationally, the majority (38) of which are in Australia. Other locations include five in the United States, one each in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Bethesda, MD and Paramus, NJ, as well as in Israel, Japan, Singapore and Russia. The company's mantra is that it is creating a new chocolate culture by inviting people to watch, taste and smell its love story. It specializes in decadent, chocolate-based desserts such as fondue,crepes, milkshakes, waffles, and hot chocolate, many of which it serves in signature utensils. Max Brenner operates as a subsidiary of the Strauss Group, Israel’s second-largest food and beverage company.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Restaurants in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3233... Botanical gardens in Israel Ein Gedi • Jerusalem Botanical Gardens Snipview added this a year ago in Gardens in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal... Postal codes in Israel Postal codes in Israel (Hebrew: מיקוד‎, Mikud) are numeric and consist of seven digits. They are assigned from north to south, thus, Metula in the north has 10292 as its postal code, and Eilat in the south was assigned 88xxx. Jerusalem postal codes start with the digit 9, although this does not correspond with its geographical location. Each postal code corresponds to a mail carrier route or RR, thus, when the letters are sorted by the postal code, they are assigned to a specific carrier. Army unit postal codes start with a 0 and are not changed even if a unit is roaming. In March 2012 the Israel Post service announced that it will move to a seven-digit postal code from 5 December 2012, although this date was subsequently put back to 1 February 2013. Changes to specific postal codes may be searched on Israel Post's website. Starting on February 2013 the Israel postcodes change from 5 to 7-digit. The 5-Digit codes will be valid until 31. January 2013.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Communications in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.wyattsailing.com/savanna... Gothic Revival architecture in Israel Snipview added this a year ago in Israeli architecture•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.go-telaviv.com/tel-aviv-... Entertainment events in Israel Beauty pageants in Israel • Sports competitions in Israel • Festivals in Israel • Competitions in Israel • The International Harp Contest in Israel Snipview added this a year ago in Visitor attractions in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... Indoor arenas in Israel Basketball venues in Israel • Ashkelon Sports Arena • Romema Arena • Gan Ner Sports Hall• Malha Arena Snipview added this a year ago in Music venues in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabah Arabah The Arabah (Hebrew: הָעֲרָבָה, HaAravah, lit. "desolate and dry area";Arabic: وادي عربة‎, Wādī ʻAraba), known in Hebrew as Aravah, is a geographic name used with two different meanings in antiquity and in modern times. The old meaning, which was in use up to the early 20th century, covered almost the entire length of what is today called the Jordan Rift Valley, running in a north-south orientation between the southern end of the Sea of Galilee and the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba atAqaba/Eilat. This included the Jordan River Valley between Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea, the Dead Sea itself, and what is commonly called today the Wadi Arabah or Arava Valley. The modern use of the term is restricted to this southern section alone. In both cases, it forms part of the border between Israel to the west and Jordan to the east.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Regions of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.tel-aviv-insider.com/par... Parks in Tel Aviv Yarkon Park • Charles Clore Park • Meir Park, Tel Aviv • Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden •Dubnow Park Snipview added this a year ago in Parks in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.gregoryhaimovsky.com/?pa... Theatres and concert halls in Israel Cameri Theater • Jerusalem Theater • Beit Lessin Theater • Habima Theatre • Culture Palace (Tel Aviv) Snipview added this a year ago in Music venues in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austra... Australian Soldier Park The Australian Soldier Park, in Beersheba, Israel is dedicated to the memory of the Australian Light Horse regiments, that captured the town from the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The park was established in 2008 on a large area, and is maintained by a team of its own employees. On its eastern corner there is a memorial statue of a mounted Australian lighthorseman as well as documentary materiel on aluminum boards, written in three languages. The park also includes an area for picnics, gardens, artificial waterfalls, a maze, and a large playgroundunder a circuses-tent-like shade that defends the visitors from the desertsunlight. Most of the playground facilities are fully accessible for children who usewheelchairs. It includes slides one can climb to via a wheelchair ramp, acarousel with two regular benches and two secured places for wheelchairs,hammock and swings one can easily use without sitting straightly and without holding tight, and so on. The handicap parking is located in the middle of the park, much closer to the facilities than the rest of the parking spaces. The currency for the park establishment summed up to three million dollars, was contributed by an Australian fund, and by the Fund for Beersheba Development.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Parks in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat ... Ramat HaNadiv Ramat Hanadiv (Hebrew: רמת הנדיב‎, Heights of the Benefactor, also known as Umm el-'Aleq ("Mother of leeches") in Arabic) is a nature park and garden in northern Israel, covering 4.5 km (3 mi) at the southern end ofMount Carmel between Zikhron Ya'akov to the north and Binyamina to the south. The Jewish National Fund planted pine and cypress groves in most of the area.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Parks in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev Negev The Negev (Hebrew: הַנֶּגֶב, Tiberian vocalization: han-Néḡeḇ , Arabic: النقب‎an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. 196,000), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city of Eilat. It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin cities, including Rahat andTel as-Sabi. There are also several kibbutzim, including Revivim and Sde Boker; the latter became the home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, after his retirement from politics. The desert is home to the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, whose faculties include the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and theAlbert Katz International School for Desert Studies, both located on theMidreshet Ben-Gurion campus adjacent to Sde Boker. In October 2012, global travel guide publisher Lonely Planet rated the Negev second on a list of the world's top ten regional travel destinations for 2013, noting its current transformation through development.  more from Wikipedia Bedouin • Solar power in Israel • Negev Bedouin • Liman irrigation system • Israeli Air Force Museum Snipview added this a year ago in Regions of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port o... Port of Eilat The Port of Eilat is the only Israeli port on the Red Sea, located at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Eilat•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahel Yahel Yahel (Hebrew: יַהֵל) is a Reform kibbutz in the Arabah region of theNegev desert in the southern part of Israel, 60 miles from the city of Eilat. It is the first kibbutz founded by the Reform movement. The name of the kibbutz is symbolic and means "(he) will put up a tent". It comes from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 13:20).  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Eilat•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien... Ancient Israel and Judah Israel and Judah were related Iron Age kingdoms of the ancient Levant. TheKingdom of Israel emerged as an important local power by the 9th century BCE before falling to the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 722 BCE. Israel's southern neighbor, the Kingdom of Judah, emerged in the 8th century BCE and enjoyed a period of prosperity as a client-state of first Assyria and thenBabylon before a revolt against the Neo-Babylonian Empire led to its destruction in 586 BCE. Following the fall of Babylon to the Persian kingCyrus the Great in 539 BCE, some Judean exiles returned to Jerusalem, inaugurating the formative period in the development of a distinctive Judahite identity in the Persian province of Yehud. Yehud was absorbed into the subsequent Hellenistic kingdoms that followed the conquests ofAlexander the Great, but in the 2nd century BCE the Judaeans revolted against the Hellenist Seleucid Empire and created the Hasmonean kingdom. This, the last nominally independent Judean kingdom, came to an end in63 BCE with its conquest by Pompey of Rome. With the installation of client kingdoms under the Herodian Dynasty, the Kingdom of Israel was wracked by civil disturbances which culminated in the First Jewish–Roman War, the destruction of the Temple, the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism andEarly Christianity.  more from Wikipedia History of the Levant • Early Christianity • Herodian Dynasty • History of Jerusalem • Tribes of Israel Snipview added this a year ago•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via https://www.flickr.com/photos/suraa... Persian gardens in Israel Terraces (Bahá'í) • Mansion of Bahjí Snipview added this a year ago in Gardens in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.whenwegetthere.com/touri... Visitor attractions in Israel Archaeological sites in Israel • Rivers of Israel • National parks and nature reserves of Israel •World Heritage Sites in Israel • Safed Snipview added this 6 months ago• 1 •Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port o... Port of Haifa The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel's three major internationalseaports, which include the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and handles about 26 million tons of cargo a year. The port employs over 1,000 people, with the number rising to 5,000 when cruise ships dock in Haifa. The Port of Haifa lies to the north of Haifa's downtown quarter on the Mediterranean, and stretches to some 3 kilometers along the city's central shore with activities ranging frommilitary, industrial and commercial next to a nowadays-smaller passengercruising facility.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Ports and harbours of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office... Office of the Chief Scientist (Israel) The Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) (Hebrew: לשכת המדען הראשי) ofIsrael’s Ministry of Economy is the support arm of the Israeli government, charged with fostering the development of industrial R&D within the State of Israel. The mission of the OCS has been defined through the country's "Law for the Encouragement of Industrial Research and Development—1984" (The R&D Law) and its operations are facilitated through Israel's R&D Fund, as well as a variety of international programs, agreements and collaborations. Its mission is to assist the advancement of Israel's knowledge-based science and technology industries in order to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship while stimulating economic growth. Legal aspects of agreements which may include R&D funding, as well as royalties, are governed under the Regulatory Framework of Office of the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of the Economy.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-pm-visi... Israel - Egypt in Gaza truce bid as rocket jolts Tel Aviv GAZA (Reuters) - Egypt tried to open a tiny window to emergency peace diplomacy in Gaza on Friday, but hopes for even a brief ceasefire while its prime minister was inside the bombarded enclave to talk to leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement were immediately dashed. Prime Minister Hisham Kandil visited the Gaza Strip officially to show solidarity with the Palestinian people after two days of relentless attacks by Israeli warplanes determined to end militant rocket fire at Israel. ... Read on Radu added this 3 years ago in Israel• Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper ... Upper Galilee The Upper Galilee (Hebrew: הגליל העליון‎, HaGalil Ha'Elion) is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit HaKerem valley andLower Galilee in the south and the Jordan river and Hula Valley in the east. In present-day Israeli terminology, the term is mainly used in reference to the northern part of the Galilee, that is under Israeli sovereignty.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Regions of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List o... List of Israeli twin towns and sister cities This is a list of Israeli localities, additionally the Israeli owned West Bank and Gaza, having standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (though other terms, such as "partner towns" or "sister cities" are sometimes used instead), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also comprises villages, cities, districts, counties, etc. with similar links.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via  Chronology of the Jewish settlement in the land of Israel in modern times This is a chronology of the colonization of the Land of Israel, recording the founding dates of Jewish settlements.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzl ... Herzl Rosenblum Herzl Rosenblum (Hebrew: הרצל רוזנבלום‎, also known as Herzl Vardi, born 14 August 1903, died 1 February 1991) was an Israeli journalist and politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he worked as editor of Yedioth Ahronoth for more than 35 years.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace ... Peace Is Possible Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present is a book by S. Daniel Abraham, with a foreword by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The book was released in hardcover format on March 13, 2006 by Newmarket Press. The book is a first-hand account of Slim Fast founder Abraham's more than 15 years of peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, as well as the various reasons he believes peace is possible. Hillary Clinton spoke about Abraham's book at Princeton University, while recognizing the creation of the "S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professorship in Middle East Policy Studies" and its first holder, Daniel C. Kurtzer. The book is utilized as a resource by Case Western Reserve University, and the United States Air Force utilizes other books by Abraham as part of Middle-East peace workshops. With former congressman Wayne Owens, Abraham established the Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation. Abraham's work on peace is also featured as part of the Clinton Global Initiative.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979 N... 1979 Nahariya attack The 1979 Nahariya attack (codenamed by its perpetrators as the Nasser Operation) was a raid by four Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) militants inNahariya, Israel on April 22, 1979. The group, consisting of Abdel Majeed Asslan, Mhanna Salim al-Muayed, and Ahmed al-Abras, and led by 16-year-old Samir Kuntar, used a small, 55 horsepower (41 kW) boat to travel from Tyre, Lebanon to Israel. The raid resulted in the deaths of four Israelis – including a father and two of his young children – and two of the perpetrators. Kuntar and al-Abras were captured, convicted of murder by an Israeli court, and sentenced to several life sentences. Both Kuntar and al-Abras were later set free in prisoner swap deals conducted between Israel and Lebanese militant organizations – al-Abras in 1985, and Kuntar in 2008.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War Palestinian domestic weapons production Even before the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, various militantPalestinian (Palestinian resistance) groups built domestically-produced weapons for use against the Israel Defense Forces and for attacks againstIsrael. Most of the effort has been in the production of unguided artillery rockets, though Hamas has built its own versions of anti-tank missiles androcket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Though usually smuggled across theEgyptian border into the Gaza Strip and to a lesser extent Jordanian border into the West Bank, various small arms are believed to be produced in thePalestinian territories. On 14 August 2008 the Popular Resistance Committees showed off the Nasser-4 missile, an upgraded version of the existing Nasser-3.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.theguardian.com/world/is... Arab-Israeli conflict in sports Boycotts of Israel in sports refer to various diqualifications and denial of Israeli athletes. Due to the Arab–Israeli conflict, Israeli athletes and teams have been barred from some competitions. In many worldwide competitions, where Israel does take part, such as the Olympics, some Araband Muslim competitors avoid competing against Israelis. Some countries even force their athletes not to compete against Israelis or in Israel.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Sport in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F... Yair Farm Yair Farm (Hebrew: חוות יאיר‎, Havat Yair) is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank. Located near Nofim and Yakir, it falls under the jurisdiction ofShomron Regional Council. It is home to around 15 families. It was first established in 1999, and named after Yair Stern, leader of the pre-state underground militant group Lehi, though the community's website notes the name of Yair ben Menashe. Although it was later evacuated, it was re-established in February 2001. According to Peace Now, the parent settlement of this outpost is Yakir and 17,666 square metres (190,160 sq ft) of the area that this outpost is built on is expropriated private Palestinian land. The Sasson Report reported that the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction had allocated 1 million NIS for the construction of several structures at the outpost. Yair Farm, like all Israeli outposts, is illegal under Israeli law. The international community views Israeli outposts as Israeli settlements and considers them also illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein Bokek Ein Bokek Ein Bokek (Hebrew: עין בוקק‎) is a hotel and resort district on the Israelishore of the Dead Sea, near Neve Zohar. It is under the jurisdiction of theTamar Regional Council. Archaeological findings at Ein Bokek include the ruins of Metzad Bokek, a small Roman fortress commanding the main road, and the remains of an ancient partly reconstructed perfume and medicine factory. The Bokek Stream, for which the district is named, is a canyon-like gorge with water springs and unique fauna and flora. The Zohar Hot Springs (Hebrew: חמי זוהר‎, Hamei Zohar) are located three kilometers south of Ein Bokek. Rich in sulphur, the water is believed to be particularly beneficial in the treatment of muscular ailments, diseases of the joints and allergies. The world's lowest installed ATM is at Ein Bokek; it was installed independently by a grocery store at 421 metres (1381 feet) below sea level.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this 4 years ago in Dead Sea•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://www.israelenvironment.net/ Israel Union for Environmental Defense The Israel Union for Environmental Defense (Hebrew: אדם טבע ודין‎, Adam Teva veDin, lit. Man Nature and Law), is an environmentalist group inIsrael.  more from Wikipedia Snipview added this a year ago in Environment of Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite• Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List o... List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2012 This is a detailed list of Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel in2012. All of the attacks originated in the Gaza Strip, unless stated otherwise. In total, an estimated sum of 2,257 rockets had been launched at Israel from Gaza in 2012.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://maps.arij.org/ggl/atlas40.kmz Mitzpe Kramim Mitzpe Kramim (Hebrew: מצפה כרמים‎, lit. Vineyards Lookout) is an Israeli outpost in the West Bank. Located on a mountain ridge overlooking theJordan River Valley in the West Bank, it falls under the jurisdiction of theMateh Binyamin Regional Council. Mitzpe Keramim was established in 1999 on Israeli Independence Day nearKokhav HaShahar. Several second generation families from Kokhav HaShahar left their homes and moved to a hill south of the village. Less than a year later, after an agreement with the Barak government, the group was relocated to a hilltop closer to Kokhav HaShahar. Only a few months afterwards though, a new village, Ma'ale Shlomo, was established on the original site. Today seventeen families including about forty children live in Mitzpe Kramim. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bankillegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_A... 1974 Arab League summit The 1974 Arab League summit was a meeting of Arab leaders held inRabat, Morocco in 1974. Leaders to twenty Arab countries were present, including King Hussein of Jordan and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, together with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). A unanimous resolution was passed which, for the first time, declared the PLO to be the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." Furthermore, the Arab League resolved that the "oil-rich Arab states ... [provide] multi-annual financial aid to the [states in confrontation with Israel] and the PLO" (Sela 158). The summit shaped the future of the conflict in several ways. First, it forcedKing Hussein to relinquish his claim to be able to speak for the Palestinians and to acknowledge that a future Palestinian state would have to be independent of Jordan. Second, it "weakened the American position. [U.S. Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger agreed with the Israelis that it was preferable to negotiate with Hussein rather than with the PLO" (Bickerton 176).  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beersh... Metropolitan areas of Israel Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area • Haifa metropolitan area • Beersheba metropolitan area Snipview added this a year ago in Populated places in Israel•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://middleeasthospital.com/?page... Medical Aid for Palestinians Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Lebanon and, advocates for the universal right to health.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://biodiversity-group.huji.ac.i... Sal'it Sal'it (Hebrew: סַלְעִית, lit. Wheatear) is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the eastern Sharon plain around eight kilometres south of Tulkarm, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 429. The village was established in 1979 by the Mishkei Herut Beitar movement. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bankillegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch... Baruch Goldstein Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קופל גולדשטיין‎; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-born Israeli physician and religious extremist. He is known for being the mass murderer who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125. He was beaten to death by survivors of the massacre. The Israeli government condemned the massacre and responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, criminalizing the Kach movement and affiliated movements as terrorist, forbidding certain Israeli settlers from entering Palestinian towns and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles, although rejecting a PLO demand that all settlers in theWest Bank be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Jewish Israelis were barred from entering major Arab communities in Hebron. The Israeli government also took extreme measures against Palestinians following the deadly riots after the massacre, expelling them from certain streets near Jewish settlements in Hebron, such as Al-Shuhada Street, where many Palestinians had homes and businesses, and allowing access exclusively to Jewish Israelis and foreign tourists. In the early 2000s, the street was completely reopened to Palestinian vehicular traffic, however the shops remained closed. The street was closed again to Palestinians after the Second Intifada began. Goldstein's gravesite became a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists. Upon the tomb, the following words are inscribed: “He gave his life for the people of Israel, its Torah and land.” In 1999, after the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli Army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment. The tombstone and its epitaph, calling Goldstein a martyr with clean hands and a pure heart, was left untouched. After the flagstones around it were pried away under the eye of a military chaplain, the ground was covered with gravel.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://imaginaction.org/christines-... Tears of Gaza Tears of Gaza is a Norwegian anti-war movie from 2010 concerning theGaza War as seen through the eyes of a group of Palestinian children. The documentary was directed by Vibeke Løkkeberg. The film is based on the imagery taken by people themselves in Gaza while the war continued, with some additional material from the few foreign journalists who were present while the conflict unfolded. Løkkeberg was not present in Gaza during the war. The film was met with strong reactions from Israel and the pro-Israeli organization "Israel For Peace" (MIFF) because the film is seen as a propaganda film for Palestine. It has been argued that the film was only created to defame Israel, and that it has been produced to portray Israel as the world's most brutal military power. Regardless of the motives of the directors, the documentary uses authentic footage from Gaza.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.geschichteinchronologie.... Biltmore Conference The Biltmore Conference, also known by its resolution as the Biltmore Program, was a fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy with its demand "that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth." The meeting was held in New York City at the prestigious Biltmore Hotel from May 6 to May 11, 1942 with 600 delegates and Zionist leaders from 18 countries attending. Prior to Biltmore, official Zionism steadfastly refused to formulate the ultimate aim of the movement preferring instead to concentrate on the practical task of building the Jewish National Home. The Biltmore Program became the official Zionist stand on the ultimate aim of the movement. According to Ben-Gurion, the "first and essential" stage of the program was the immigration of two million additional Jews to Palestine, a target which later became official Zionist policy after being revised downwards in theOne Million Plan. The major shift at Biltmore was prompted by intense common opposition to the British White Paper of 1939, which interpreted the terms of the Mandate in a way that would freeze "the Jewish community to a permanent minority status," and the then-current war negative situation. It was also prompted by the realization that America would play a larger part in fulfillment of Zionist designs after the war. Official Zionism’s firm, unequivocal stand did not please every one, however. The pro-British Chaim Weizmann had bristled at them and bi-nationalists such as Henrietta Szold and Judah L. Magnes rejected them and broke off to establish their own party, Ichud (Unification), that advocated an Arab – Jewish Federation. Opposition to the Biltmore Program also lead to the founding of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism. Various Zionist organizations were represented in the American Emergency Committee of Zionist Affairs, which called an "Extraordinary Zionist Conference" as a substitute for the full (22nd) Zionist Congress which had been cancelled due to World War II. Attendees included Chaim Weizmann, as President of the World Zionist Organization, David Ben-Gurion as Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, and Nahum Goldmann as a member of the Executive of the Zionist Organization of America. The four main organisations of American Jewry represented were: the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, Mizrahi, and Poale Zion. Among the American organizers was Reform Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via https://plus.google.com/10776369360... Samer Saadi Samer Saadi (died 29 September 2005) was a leading figure in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin. He was killed during an Israeli incursion into Jenin in the West Bank, along with two other Palestinian militants. (There are different reports of the names of the two others, but most accounts describe them as his cousin, also called Samer Saadi, and Nidal Ahluf.) Later the same day, Zakaria Zubeidi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades in Jenin, announced that his group's six-month ceasefire was now at an end.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://www.knesset.gov.il/review/Re... Provisional State Council The Provisional State Council (Hebrew: מועצת המדינה הזמנית‎, Moetzet HaMedina HaZmanit) was the temporary legislature of Israel from shortly before independence until the election of the first Knesset in January 1949. It took the place of His Majesty's Privy Council, through which the British Government had legislated for Mandatory Palestine. It began life as Moetzet HaAm (Hebrew: מועצת העם‎, lit. People's Council) on 12 April 1948 in preparation for independence just over a month later. There were 37 members representing all sides of the Jewish political spectrum, from the Revisionists to the Communists. A separate body,Minhelet HaAm was set up as the proto-cabinet, all of whose members were also members of Moetzet HaAm. On 14 May at 13:50, Moetzet HaAm met at the JNF building in Tel Aviv to vote on the text of the declaration of independence. Despite disagreements over issues such as borders and religion, it was passed unanimously and the meeting ended at 15:00, an hour before the declaration was to be made. The 37 members were those that signed the declaration. Following independence, the body was renamed the Provisional State Council. Its last meeting was held on 3 February 1949, after which the Council was titled the Knesset. The council's titular figurehead, Chaim Weizmann, was Israel's de facto head of state until he was elected president in February 1949.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 4 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgal... Hamra, Bik'at HaYarden Hamra (Hebrew: חַמְרָה, lit. Red Soil) is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley and covering 3,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. In 2011 it had a population of 94. The moshav was founded in 1971 and was initially named Atarot, before being renamed after nearby Tel Hamra. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bankillegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag Image via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palest... Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) was founded in Jerusalem in March 1987 by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi and a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals. PASSIA is not affiliated with any government, political party organization, and maintains a completely independent financial and legal independent status. PASSIA deals with the various national, Arab and international aspects of the Palestinian Question through its academic Research Studies Program, dialogue and publication. A major component of PASSIA’s activities is its Roundtable Meetings Program, and with over 100 publications to its credit, many of which include the minutes of these meetings, PASSIA has proved most successful at promoting understanding of international relations as they affect the Palestinian struggle for justice and peace. As part of its Religious Studies Unit PASSIA also holds regular meetings with religious leaders (mainly local Muslim and Christian dignitaries, but also involving Jews and foreign scholars) in an effort to foster scholarly understanding. Considered to be of equal importance by those familiar with PASSIA’s activities is its Seminar Program, which provides a much-needed venue for Palestinian graduates to benefit from the experience and knowledge of local and foreign experts of the highest caliber. PASSIA’s educational and training seminars are divided into two categories: International Affairs – including seminars on Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies and Security, the EU, Education on Democracy, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, Japan and the Middle East, and The United States and Canada: Political Systems, Policy-Making and the Middle East – and Civil Society Empowerment, with seminars held to date including those on Policy-Making, Strategic Planning & Media & Communication Skills. Jerusalem has been and will continue to be the core of the Palestine Question. It is also the focus of the majority of PASSIA’s activities due, in part, to its centrality to the Palestinian-Israeli struggle and the now inevitable establishment of a Palestinian state. PASSIA hosts regular workshops that address different but inter-connected issues pertaining to Jerusalem, such as freedom of access, Israeli settlements, and the various religious, political, cultural, historical, and civil aspects of life in the city, in addition to municipal arrangements for Jerusalem as the capital of two independent states. In these meetings, as during all other events held at PASSIA, it is the desire to promote communication, cooperation and coordination between those with an interest in the fate of this region that overrides any other consideration, and which inevitably results in a dialogue that is as stimulating as it is productive.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag   Image via http://en.climate-data.org/location... Kela Alon Kela Alon (Hebrew: קלע אלון‎) is an Israeli settlement organized as acommunal settlement, in the Golan Regional Council, Israel. Until its depopulation in 1967, the site was occupied by the Syrian village of Qanaabé (Kana'beh), which had about 480 inhabitants. Kela Alon was founded in 1991. It had earlier been established in 1981 as Nahal settlementbut the close distance to army regions as well as presence of landminescaused its abandonment at 1988. Initially called 'Bruchim' (Hebrew: ברוכים‎), the current name was adapted in 1997. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. The first settlers there were immigrants from the Soviet Union.  more from Wikipedia Radu added this 3 years ago in Israeli-Palestinian conflict•Like•Comment• Share•Invite•Flag   Image via http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/... Encounter Point Encounter Point is an award-winning film directed by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha. It depicts different families that have been affected by the violence in Israel between Israelis and Palestinians. In this film, Just Vision, a non-profit organization, follows these families for 16 months. It begins this journey by documenting the ongoing troubles between the Israelis and Palestinians. The team conducted 475 preliminary interviews and did two years of research before embarking on this 16 month journey. The crew traveled throughout Israel, from Tel Mond, Tulkarem, Hebron, and Haifa. These parents and loved ones have been attempting to end the violence by joining, or beginning their own peace organizations and awareness campaigns.  more from Wikipedia http://www.snipview.com/q/Tourism%20in%20Israel

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