Entries by Arnie Singer

Israel News for September 21, 2015

< back to sign up Stones and Punishments There’s no question that there will soon be a mandatory minimum sentence for stone throwers. The only questions are how long will the regulation last for and how long will the sentences be. The PM and the Justice Minister want the mandatory minimum sentence regulation to be in […]

Israel News for September 18, 2015

< back to sign up Bus Stoned An Egged bus driving through the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras Al-Amud yesterday was stoned and later torched. The driver escaped unharmed. In another incident a bus driver was lightly wounded by shattered glass after stones were thrown at his vehicle near the Hizma checkpoint, at the northeastern entrance […]

Israel News for September 17, 2015

< back to sign up Here We Go Again Remember Mohammed Allan, the Palestinian prisoner who conducted a 66 day hunger strike and stopped after the High Court temporarily suspended his administrative detention? Well, the good news for Allan is that he finally got well enough to be released from the Ashkelon hospital he was recovering […]

Israel News for September 11, 2015

< back to sign up Iran and Russia According to Israeli defense officials, hundreds of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrived in Syria over the last few days to help the Assad regime fight rebel forces. They’ll most likely deploy near the Lebanese border to assist Hezbollah fighters there. Russia already has military advisors and security forces […]

Israel News for September 10, 2015

< back to sign up Temple Mount Crackdown Jews who visit the Temple Mount are often harassed by groups of Muslims called Mourabitoon and Mourabitaat — Arabic for male and female “sentries”. The mission of the “sentries” is to protect the Al Aqsa Mosque from the infidels, and they use physical violence and intimidation to get […]

Israel News for September 9, 2015

< back to sign up The Book of Life In anticipation of the upcoming Rosh Hashana accounting of “who shall live and who shall die”, the Central Bureau of Statistics has released its own accounting of the Holy Land’s population for the year 5776 (Hebrew calendar). The population in Israel grew by 158,000 or 1.9%, in […]

Israel News for September 8, 2015

< back to sign up Third Duma Victim Just over a month ago Jewish assailants threw firebombs into a house in the Arab village of Duma in the West Bank, killing an 18 month old boy and wounding his parents and brother. Soon after, the boy’s father succumbed to his wounds. Yesterday, the mother, Rihad Dawabsheh, […]

Israel News for September 4, 2015

< back to sign up Jews Attacked in Hebron Five Chassidic yeshiva students visiting Israel from America decided to pray at the Ma’arat Hamachpela (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron yesterday. They used Waze for driving directions. Unfortunately for them, Waze doesn’t always take politics into account when it gives directions. In Israel that can be […]

Israel News for September 3, 2015

< back to sign up Shots from Gaza Several shots were fired from Gaza yesterday at Israeli moshav Netiv Ha’asarah. Three homes were hit. Miraculously, no one was injured even though the inhabitants were home. In one of the homes a bullet hit the TV that the kids were watching at the time. The IDF is […]

Israel News for September 2, 2015

< back to sign up ISIS and the Israeli In a totally unexpected turn of events, an Israeli 21 yr old male was apprehended by Turkish police for allegedly attempting to join ISIS forces in Syria. The man flew from Israel to Crete, then to Izmir, Turkey and then to the Turkish city of Adana. From […]