Friday, February 05, 2016

WHO ARE THE 10,000 JEWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.AND ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE DESTROYED-PERSONAL OR GROUP OR COUNTRY.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

UN chief ‘ashamed’ over stalled Mideast peace process-Decrying lack of progess, Ban Ki-moon says Jerusalem, Ramallah ultimately responsible for ending conflict-By AFP and Times of Israel staff February 5, 2016, 7:21 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday he was “ashamed” at a lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.“I feel guilty, ashamed of the lack of progress,” he told an event organized by foreign affairs think-tank Chatham House in London.“Basically it’s up to the leadership of Israel and the Palestinians to put an end to the conflict,” he said.“I am not working for a particular country or a particular policy but for the people in the region.”The peace process has been deadlocked since a US peace mission collapsed in April 2014.UN diplomats say Ban is hoping to get peace talks moving again before he steps down as secretary-general at the end of the year.But last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused him of “stoking terrorism” after the UN chief told the UN Security Council that Palestinian attacks, that have killed more than 26 Israelis of the past four months, were the result of “human nature to reacting to occupation.”Days after the Security Council address, Ban said his remarks were misinterpreted, but doubled down on his criticisms of Israel in a Monday Op-Ed in The New York Times titled “Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Israel.”The UN chief also last week expressed “alarm” at Hamas’s pledge to keep building attack tunnels from the Gaza Strip into Israel and to advance the development of rockets to fire at the Jewish state.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

God Rains Down Divine Retribution Upon Detractors of Israel-By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz February 5, 2016 , 8:00 am-BREAKINGISRAELNEWS   

“And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me; then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.” (Leviticus 26:23-24)-Margot Wallström, Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, has earned a reputation for Israel-bashing. The first blatant anti-Israel offense came in 2014, when she became the first European Union foreign minister to recognize the state of Palestine.After the horrifying terror attacks in Paris last November, she came out with a statement linking Islamic anger to the lack of a two-state solution. Even worse, after months of terror in which Palestinians were attacking Israelis in the streets on an almost daily basis,  she accused Israel in January of carrying out “extrajudicial executions”.Israel reacted through diplomatic channels, but a more powerful force stepped in. Three days after Wallström accused Israel of executing Palestinians, it was revealed that she had jumped to the head of an eight-year waiting list for apartments owned by a labor union. Stockholm is suffering from a serious shortage of housing and this was viewed by the Swedish public as an egregious misuse of her position. Anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating the case now to determine if it constitutes bribery, which carries a potential two-year prison term.This type of instant karma is the rule and not the exception when it comes to politicians that treat Israel badly. One of the clearest examples of divine slap-down came on January 21, 1998, when US President Bill Clinton gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a decidedly cold reception at the White House, and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright refused to have lunch with Netanyahu. Things looked grim for Israel, but later that day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke out, ultimately resulting in Clinton’s impeachment.President George H.W. Bush signed the Oslo Accords on October 30, 1991, setting the stage for the disastrous “Land for Peace” process. The very next day, a hurricane dubbed “The Perfect Storm” hit the east coast of the United States, destroying Bush’s house in Kennebunkport, Maine.Occasionally, divine intervention can take an ironic turn. As president, Jimmy Carter was not nearly as involved with Israel as he has been since leaving office. In his book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, he blames Israel’s “colonization of Palestinian land” as being “the primary obstacle to a comprehensive peace agreement”.Carter was a proponent of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) since it seemed to produce results and bear pressure on Israel to negotiate. He has also met with many leaders of Hamas and during the 2014 war in Gaza, called for Israel to negotiate with Hamas.-Wear the Jerusalem sky-One year later, he was diagnosed with cancer and melanomas were found in his brain and liver. After only a few months of treatment, the doctors  pronounced him cancer-free. Pembrolizumab, a drug developed in Israel, was a key element in his treatment. His adherence to boycotting Israeli products and innovations obviously had its limits.Carter’s miracle cure may not have been solely attributed to Israeli science. His sins against the Jewish people may have been forgiven in December 2009, when Carter published an open letter apologizing for any words or deeds that may have upset the Jewish community. In the letter, he said he was offering an Al Het, a prayer of repentance, said on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.Divine retribution is not restricted to non-Jews. Ariel Sharon had achieved almost legendary status in Israel. After a spectacular army career, he entered politics and, at the head of the Likud party, was elected prime minister in 2001. He endorsed the Roadmap for Peace and began plans to remove the Jewish population of Gush Katif from the Gaza Strip. The dismantling of the Jewish settlements was scheduled for August 15th, 2005, the day after Tisha b’Av, the anniversary of both Jewish Temples being destroyed.In July, one month before the IDF dismantled Gush Katif and evicted almost 9,000 Jews from their homes, Rabbi Yosef Dayan, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin who can trace his lineage back to King David, led a group of ten rabbis in performing an obscure, ancient Kabbalistic ceremony, the Pulsa diNura, on Sharon. The Pulsa diNura invokes the angels of destruction to block heavenly forgiveness of the subject’s sins, causing all the curses named in the Bible to befall him and resulting in his death.Sharon’s health deteriorated, and by January, he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke, entering a vegetative state from which he never recovered. Rabbi Dayan also led rabbis in the Pulsa diNura against Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin a few months before he was assassinated. Rabin was shot and killed in 1995 by Yigal Amir, an extremist who  opposed Rabin’s peace initiative and particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.Rabbi Dayan told Breaking Israel News that none of these events were simple coincidence, but divine justice. “Today, there isn’t prophecy. God presents circumstances for us to try to understand him, to express our belief in him,” he explained. “These aren’t things that happen by chance or coincidence. This is not just true for politics, but it is also true for politics. Politicians are, after all, simple servants of God, no less or more than the rest of us.”

GIVING AWAY THE KOTEL (TEMPLE MOUNT)-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL- February 5, 2016, 2:27 am BY Alden Solovy

When did “separate but equal” become the goal of any civil rights movement? When were civil rights leaders ever proud of trading one group’s rights for another? When did Robinson’s Arch magically become “the Kotel”? Sunday. That’s the day. On Sunday, the State of Israel, via the Prime Minister’s cabinet, blessed the creation of an enhanced egalitarian prayer plaza at Robinson’s Arch.An enhanced prayer plaza at Robinson’s Arch is an important advancement. Control of that plaza by Progressive Judaism is a victory. Funding from the State of Israel — if it comes from the State — would be another.-At what cost?-The deal plays into the hands of the Haredi extreme by moving women’s prayer away from the Kotel. With the consent of the Reform and Conservative Movements, it legitimizes Haredi governance there. The cost is simply too high. Some observations: Proponents say that the deal represents critical political acceptance of non-Orthodox Judaism in Israel. Here’s the rub: it comes with accepting ultra-Orthodox rule over a national historic site. The Kotel shouldn’t be run by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which the deal concedes. We’ll rue the day Progressive Judaism agreed to let a public treasure be controlled by the Haredi establishment.There’s already an egalitarian prayer plaza near the Kotel. The enhanced space will be in the same spot, Robinson’s Arch, an archaeological park once declared unacceptable by those touting this deal. The enhanced plaza will share an entrance with the main Kotel plaza, but it’s behind the Mughrabi Bridge, separate and segregated. When did segregation — when did ‘separate but equal’ — become the goal of any civil rights movement? Progressive Orthodox women are the losers. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, past president of the Union for Reform Judaism, wrote: “Many of those who originally joined Women of the Wall (WOW) were never interested in participating in mixed prayer, or in praying in any space other than the women’s section of the Kotel… These women are the losers of the process.” When was any respected civil rights leader proud of trading one group’s rights for another? Calling Robinson’s Arch ‘the Kotel’ is an obfuscation, pure spin. Yes, this is the same external wall of the Temple Mount. When you say you’re spending the day Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, it’s understood that you’re downtown, not on the South Side. Same street name; different meaning. Robinson’s Arch has not been the focal point of our prayers for 2,000 years.Robinson’s Arch has its own special beauty. I’ve heard Eicha read there on Tisha B’Av for the past two years. A newly-stated goal of WOW, making Robinson’s Arch into the new Kotel for a new age, is also beautiful. To be clear, I support the concept of a prayer plaza at Robinson’s Arch. In this deal, however, the cost is too high.When it’s done, women’s voices in prayer and Torah at the Kotel will never be heard there again. Silencing women has been the goal of Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, administrator of the site, who declared that women will not be allowed to wear tallit and tefillin at the Kotel. We’ve become a willing partner in his tyranny.-Timing is everything-This has been a hard fight. Feminist proponents and opponents of this deal — women and men who’ve championed women’s rights at the Kotel — have been harassed, threatened and arrested. We’ve earned a right to our opinions the hard way.I know these struggles first hand. I’ve been shoved, egged, kicked and called a Nazi in my years as a WOW supporter here. When I helped pass a Sefer Torah to WOW in April 2015, I was physically brutalized while defending the women’s Torah reading.It’s been a stalemate at the Kotel for the past few years, a stalemate that favored Rabinovitch. Why should he budge? Why now? It turns out that January 29 — the day pre-publicity for the deal appeared in the press — was the deadline for the State to respond to a private civil case asking the Supreme Court to enforce previous rulings giving women the right to pray with tallit, tefillin and Torah at the Kotel. As the deal was announced, the State was granted a one-month delay in responding. After three years of negotiations, what are the odds that undermining this case was part of the government’s incentive to concluded a deal now? What’s at stake is American Reform and Conservative Jewish leadership gaining a voice in the religious politic of Israel. Sidelined as irrelevant throughout the history of the State, the real victory was being invited to the table. That’s huge. Proponents see this deal as a watershed moment in both Israeli consciousness and governmental policy toward Progressive Judaism.It’s hard to fathom that giving up our claim to the Kotel is anything but reckless and optimistic.-Bye-bye, non-Jewish Jews-From a Haredi point of view, we went to the back of the bus. Women have been silenced. The non-Jewish Jews willingly left the Kotel plaza. They’ll continue to believe that they can harass us out of the public sphere. We just agreed to let them do it.Sunday may well go down in history as the day the split between Haredi and Progressive Judaism was officially sanctioned and enshrined in Israeli policy. A “Church of England” moment. Perhaps more fittingly: the division of Judaism into Northern and Southern Kingdoms.It may be remembered as the day that Progressive Judaism sanctioned Haredi Judaism as the official religion of the Jewish state, yielding control of a national historic site to ultra-Orthodoxy.The spin, however, is about forgetting.When the hype ends, when women are silenced at the Kotel, after we’ve given away a national treasure, what we’re supposed to forget is clear: this isn’t what we were fighting for in the first place.We were fighting for the Kotel.

Top Iranian General Threatens Israel With “Defensive” ICBM’s-By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz February 5, 2016 , 3:36 pm-BREAKINGISRAELNEWS   

“If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.” (Proverbs 29:12)-The Iranian Army’s Chief of Staff announced plans to upgrade their missile program, despite threats of renewed sanctions, and accompanied his statement with an implied threat to Israel.Major General Ataollah Salehi was quoted by the Tasneem news agency as saying, “Iran’s future missile program will become more precise and stronger, and these are deterrent weapons that pose no threat to our neighbors and friends, but are against enemies.”“They are rather a threat to the enemies of this establishment. Israel should fully realize the meaning of this concept,” he added.Iran was prohibited from conducting ballistic missile tests under UN Security Council resolution 1929, passed five years ago. This was valid until the recent nuclear deal went into effect January 16, when another UN Security Council resolution, passed immediately after the nuclear deal, went into effect, The revised resolution calls upon Iran to refrain for up to eight years from any work on ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear weapons.When asked by Tasneem reporters about the UN resolution and the possibility of sanctions, he explained that Iran will not be bound to comply with those possible resolutions and the Armed Forces will not care about them.-Iranium: Iran's Quest to Go Nuclear-In October, Iran tested an Emad medium range ballistic missile, which UN sanctions monitors confirmed is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. This was followed one month later by yet another ballistic missile test, both of which were in direct violation of the UN resolution. Iran also publicized 14 underground “missile cities”.In response to the missile tests, in December, US President Barack Obama threatened to implement new sanctions on Iran’s missile program. A day later Rouhani threatened that Tehran would accelerate the development of its arsenal. One day after Rouhani’s threat, President Obama announced he would delay the new sanctions.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani responded by ordering the Defense Ministry to continue production of missiles needed by the country’s Armed Forces “more quickly and seriously”.The US has since implemented sanctions on 11 entities and individuals connected to the Iranian missile program, while, at the same time, lifting sanctions connected with Iran’s nuclear program.This is not the first time a high-ranking Iranian official has taunted the US over missile restrictions. In response to the threats of US sanctions last month, General Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, said to Fars new agency:“We tell the Americans that we will further expedite enhancement of our missile capabilities as long as they massacre the Palestinian children, as long as they bury Yemen’s oppressed children in their houses, as long as they displace the Muslim nation of Syria, as long as they attack the houses of the Pakistanis, as long as they occupy the Islamic lands and as long as they support the Zionist regime to bomb Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.

Who are the 10,000 Jews of New Hampshire?-With all eyes on the tiny state, a few fun facts and Jewish quirks of the Granite State-By Uriel Heilman February 4, 2016, 1:39 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (JTA) – Campaigning is reaching fever pitch in New Hampshire, days before the February 9 presidential primary here. On Wednesday, longtime Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton stressed her commitment to campaigning in the state, while acknowledging that rival Bernie Sanders, who lost to her by a tiny margin in Iowa, is leading the polls here. On the Republican side, Ted Cruz’s campaign staff popped champagne on the flight to New Hampshire early Tuesday, following Cruz’s unexpected Iowa victory. Donald Trump, the clear New Hampshire frontrunner, accused Cruz of stealing the Iowa win. And in a blitz of New Hampshire campaigning, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was casting himself as the sole “unifier” in a deeply fractured party and the man best positioned to beat a Democrat in November.Though home to just one-third of one percent of all Americans, New Hampshire long has played an outsized role in the US presidential nominating process.Just who are the Jews of the Granite State? Here a few highlights.About 10,000 Jews live among white, mostly old New Hampshirites.A few characteristics distinguish the 1.3 million residents of New Hampshire. They’re old, with a median age of 41.9 (third-oldest in the country), and 94 percent white (fourth-whitest state in America). Fewer than 20,000 of the state’s residents are black.There aren’t too many Jews, either. Jewish federation officials say they know of 3,000 households with at least one Jewish person, leading them to an estimate of 10,000 Jews in all of the state.“It’s not easy being Jewish in New Hampshire compared to New York,” said Joel Funk, who grew up in New Jersey and moved to the Granite State in 1975. “You have to make it happen.”Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman are from New Hampshire.Among the better-known Jews from New Hampshire are comedians Adam Sandler, who moved to Manchester from Brooklyn at age 6, and Sarah Silverman, who was born and raised in the Manchester area. Among the lesser-known: the late Warren Rudman, who served as a US senator from New Hampshire from 1980 to 1993.The first Jew to make New Hampshire his home arrived in 1693 from the Holy Land, settling in New Castle, according to the Strawbery Banke museum of living history in Portsmouth.‘Live free or die’ = no income tax or sales tax.Though New Hampshire is a geographic mirror image of neighboring Vermont, the two states have very different cultures and reputations. Vermont is known as more hippie-dippy, tourist friendly and progressive. The state, home to Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders — an avowed democratic socialist — has voted Democrat in every presidential election since 1992.‘There’s a rugged individualism that permeates New Hampshire’-Granite Staters tend to be more libertarian and gruff, and they are twice as numerous as Vermonters. With no state income tax or sales tax, New Hampshire draws the kind of people who want government to leave them alone.“There’s a rugged individualism that permeates New Hampshire,” said Rabbi Robin Nafshi, who moved to New Hampshire nearly six years ago to lead Temple Beth Jacob, a Reform synagogue in Concord. “The state motto, ‘Live free or die,’ is taken very seriously here. People don’t like to be told how or what to do.”In summer, Hasidim flock to Bethlehem (it’s supposedly pollen-free!).Nobody moves to New Hampshire for its Jewish life, and some have left because of its dearth. But the state still has pockets of Jewish vibrancy.New Hampshire boasts about a dozen synagogues representing all the non-Orthodox Jewish movements, from Reform and Conservative to Reconstructionist and unaffiliated. The only year-round Orthodox presence in the state is a pair of Chabad centers, in Manchester and at Dartmouth College in Hanover.In the summer, however, the northern town of Bethlehem fills with Satmar Hasidim who have been coming to the White Mountains for a century to escape the heat and foul air in New York. Hasidim stricken with allergies began coming to New Hampshire as early as 1916 to escape the pollen in their hometowns. Bethlehem, home to the National Hay Fever Relief Association, is reputed to be pollen-free.The town’s longtime kosher hotel, a rundown B&B called the Arlington, shut down a few years ago. A new kosher hotel is being built in its place.A historic mikvah was discovered in Portsmouth.A century-old mikvah in Portsmouth was unearthed in 2014 by archaeologists working in a neighborhood that used to be home to Russian Jewish immigrant families. The ritual bath there is one of only four historic mikvahs unearthed in the Northeast, according to the Strawbery Banke Museum, which manages the historic site where the mikvah was found.Among the two dozen or so historic buildings at Strawbery Banke is Shapiro House, a living-history museum where visitors can learn about what life was like for early 20th-century Jewish immigrants in Portsmouth through re-enactments performed by actors dressed in period costume.Descendants of the Shapiros, who owned the house, still live in the area and are members of nearby Temple Israel, a Conservative synagogue established in 1905.Jewish highlights: Havurot, a klezmer band, film and food-Among the major events on the Jewish communal calendar are an annual Jewish film festival each spring, the National Havurah Institute’s weeklong summer program in Rindge and the annual Jewish food festival hosted by Temple B’nai Israel in Laconia. Nashua’s Raymond Street Klezmer Band, led by a retired doctor who is also a mohel, Alan Green, is a point of pride for local Jews. ‘It’s pretty much an assimilated community here’-Aside from the synagogues and a single Jewish federation that serves the entire state, New Hampshire has no other Jewish institutions. There is a small federation-run preschool but no Jewish day school, no JCC, no Jewish senior center and no Jewish family services — signs both of the dearth of Jewish New Hampshirites and the high degree to which local Jews are assimilated, longtime Jewish locals say.“It’s pretty much an assimilated community here,” said Steve Clayman of Manchester. “We moved here from New York over 30 years ago because of the lifestyle, to live in an area closer to the outdoors-related things we love to do. It’s a challenge to connect with Jewish life.”New Hampshire also has several Jewish summer camps, but they primarily serve kids from elsewhere.Dartmouth has New Hampshire’s only kosher eatery and Hillel chapter.Dartmouth College is home to the state’s only kosher eatery: a dining hall called The Pavilion that serves kosher and halal meals and was conceived jointly by Jewish and Muslim students. If you want kosher food elsewhere, you’ll have to go to Trader Joe’s, which carries Empire kosher chicken, challah and some kosher cheeses.Dartmouth is also home to one of the only full-fledged Hillel college chapter in the state. One other New Hampshire school, New England College in Henniker, is served by the Hillel Council of New England.Jews once were barred from holding elected office in New Hampshire.New Hampshire’s first state constitution, ratified in 1784, did not allow Jews (or any non-Protestants) to hold elected office. Restricted Jew-free hotels persisted in New Hampshire’s White Mountains until the mid-20th century. Until four years ago, the tiny town of Mont Vernon had a recreational water hole with the offensive-sounding name Jew Pond — residents voted to change it in 2012.“In New Hampshire, unless you were born here or your grandparents or great-grandparents were born here, you’re left to feel like you’re an outsider,” Temple Beth Jacob’s Rabbi Nafshi said. “If you’re not a white Christian, you’re welcomed here to an extent, but you’re never really fully integrated into the society.”New Hampshirites tend to be clueless about Jews.Jews who live in New Hampshire today say they don’t encounter much anti-Semitism, just lack of awareness. Schools routinely schedule tests or picture days on Jewish holy days. Nafshi recalls a child in her congregation being benched from his school’s basketball games because he missed two practices due to religious conflicts — the first night of Hanukkah and the Friday evening his religious school class led Shabbat services.‘It’s a complete lack of knowledge or sensitivity to the Jewish community’-“It’s a complete lack of knowledge or sensitivity to the Jewish community,” Nafshi said. “It often makes our kids make feel lesser or outside the norm.”The rabbi recalled the story of a second-grader from her congregation whose best friend came to school one day and told him they couldn’t be friends anymore because “you killed Jesus.” The Jewish family soon decided to leave New Hampshire, according to Nafshi.Nevertheless, the state has unusually strong Holocaust education programming in the public schools, thanks to the efforts of the Cohen Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Keene State College, which provides educational materials and runs public workshops. The center is run by non-Jewish leadership.The Jewish federation recently sold its building and is retooling.When the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire sold its building last year in the heart of Manchester and moved into rented space, there were rumors around town that the state’s largest Jewish charity was teetering. In addition to the sale, the federation has been downsizing, and last summer replaced a full-time executive director with a shared director, Lauren Tishler Mindlin, who splits her time between New Hampshire and the other small federation she runs in Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley.But lay leaders at the federation, which netted about $1 million from the real estate deal, said the sale was more of a strategic decision to unload an underutilized building with rising costs, use the proceeds to strengthen the federation’s endowment and focus more on programming. Serving such a widespread area, the federation wants to become a convener of Jewish institutions in New Hampshire.“We’re trying to define ourselves really meaningfully as a statewide organization,” Jeff Crocker, the federation co-chair, told JTA. “We’re talking about what that means. We want to enhance collaboration between Jewish institutions in the state, to fill the voids where necessary. We try to provide some leadership. We help them think about ways to be innovative and try new things.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Japan weighs change to swastika-like temple symbol-With 2020 Olympics approaching, officials worry foreigners may confuse traditional Buddhist icon on maps with Nazi emblem-By Mari Yamaguchi February 5, 2016, 7:15 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

TOKYO (AP) — As Japan gears up to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and caters to a surging influx of foreign visitors, the country faces a cultural dilemma: Should it stop identifying Buddhist temples on maps with the traditional “manji” symbol that is often confused with a Nazi swastika? The symbol, from ancient Sanskrit, means happiness and prosperity. It has been used for centuries by Hindus and Buddhists, and has turned up in archaeological digs in Europe. But many Western tourists associate it with anti-Semitism and the Holocaust because the emblem was adopted by Nazi Germany to try to enhance a sense of ancient lineage.The swastika in Japan — which usually points counter-clockwise, the reverse of the Nazi symbol — has been used for centuries in Buddhist decorations and to denote Buddhist temples on maps.At Sensoji Temple, a top tourist destination in Tokyo, a big gold “manji” emblem appears on a pair of lotus-shaped bronze ornaments, while smaller, more subtle ones decorate roof tiles. It’s even an official emblem for Hirosaki, a city in northern Japan.In a report released last month, a government panel at the Geospatial Information Authority proposed a three-tiered pagoda symbol to replace the swastika. It is one of 18 suggested icons for landmarks like hospitals and convenience stores for foreign-language maps, part of a broader push to create user-friendly maps for the growing number of foreign tourists, which jumped more than 40 percent last year to a record 19.7 million.A final decision is expected in late March following a period of seeking public comment.Japan’s main Buddhist group is nonchalant because the change doesn’t affect domestic maps and therefore likely won’t alter perceptions at home.“We are aware that some people say the ‘manji’ symbol could remind them of the ‘hakenkreuz’ symbol, which was created much later in history,” said Ryoka Nishino, a spokesman for Japan Buddhist Federation, referring to the “hooked cross” term often used to denote the Nazi emblem.“Even though we have more foreign visitors, our symbol that decorates each temple will stay,” he said.Public opinion seems divided on Twitter and other social networks.Supporters for the change say it would help avoid confusion among tourists, while opponents say there is no need to change the ancient sign just to cater to foreigners. Instead, they say, the symbol should be kept as a way to teach people about the ancient history behind it. Others point out that the “manji” symbol turns the opposite way from the Nazi symbol, so it is different.The objective is to make symbols easier to understand, said geospatial authority mapping officer Takayuki Nakamura.“A good symbol on the map should be able to tell a visitor what it is at the first glance,” he said. “The question is whether one can easily tell it’s a temple by looking at the current symbol.”The recommendation was based on survey results collected from more than 1,000 foreigners, including embassy officials, exchange students as well as tourists.Other symbols that would be altered for foreign maps include the one for a hotel, which currently looks like the symbol for helipads, and a saluting policeman would replace the current giant X sign supposedly representing a pair of clubs for police station.The maps would add a new symbol for convenience stores, which are ubiquitous in Japan — a sandwich and water bottle.

Palestinian youth said killed in Hebron clashes with IDF-Army says troops fired at assailant preparing to hurl firebomb; village of Qabatiya closed for second day after 3 residents killed young policewoman-By Times of Israel staff February 5, 2016, 4:10 pm

A Palestinian teenager was killed Friday by IDF fire during clashes near the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian media reported.According to the Ma’an news agency, the incident occurred in the town of Halhul, some five kilometers from Hebron.An army spokesperson told Army Radio that troops had fired at one person in a group of rioters preparing to attack them with Molotov cocktails.Ma’an also reported that the West Bank village of Qabatiya, near Jenin, was closed off by the IDF for the second consecutive day, following an attack in Jerusalem by three of its residents on Wednesday that killed 19-year-old Border Police officer Hadar Cohen and wounded several members of the security forces.Irael on Friday returned the bodies of three terrorists to their families. Military officials told Channel 2 news that the bodies were returned after the families promised the funerals of the three would not be transformed into rallies of incitement to further violence.Qabatiya is one of a handful of Palestinian population centers from which terrorists have emerged in the current round of violence, a list that includes the village of Samua near Hebron, and the Shuafat and Qalandiya refugee camps around Jerusalem.Channel 10 television said that a pipe bomb was hurled at IDF troops manning a roadblock on the outskirts of Qabatiya on Friday. There were no injuries reported.Overnight IDF troops and Border Police forces arrested eight wanted Palestinians in the West Bank, the army said Friday morning. The IDF also issued advance notice of house demolition for the homes of seven Palestinians who carried out deadly terror attacks on Israelis.

Israel, Hamas ‘exchange calming messages’ on Gaza-Both sides seek to clarify they are uninterested in tensions over terror tunnels escalating into open conflict-By Times of Israel staff February 5, 2016, 6:29 pm

Israel and Hamas have exchanged calming messages in recent days, assuring one another that they are not interested in open conflict, Hebrew media reported Friday.The messages were conveyed through Turkey and Qatar, among other countries.Security officials told Ynet news that Israeli security officials were concerned that rising tensions, on both sides of the border, over Hamas’s renewed efforts to tunnel under the Gaza border would cause the terror group to assume an Israeli assault was forthcoming. This could possibly lead it to attack Israel preemptively.A senior Hamas official told The Times of Israel Thursday that Hamas does not want war and is committed to maintaining the fragile ceasefire with Israel.Despite Hamas’s recent pronouncements that its tunnels reach into Israeli territory and it is working to launch “high-quality” terror attacks against Israelis from the West Bank, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity: “Our stance is clear: we don’t want an escalation [of violence] and we don’t want war.”“We have no intention at this time or in the future to begin a war, and from our perspective that option is not on the table,” the official said, urging Israel to respond with restraint to the recent Hamas rhetoric.On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to hit Gaza harder than during the 2014 war with Gaza-based fighters, amid mounting public pressure over reports of increased tunnel building out of Gaza.“In the event we are attacked from tunnels in the Gaza Strip, we will act very forcefully against Hamas, and with much more force than Operation Protective Edge,” Netanyahu told a conference of Israeli diplomats, referring to the 50-day war in the Gaza Strip in 2014.IDF officials and southern residents have expressed concern in recent days that Hamas is rebuilding the subterranean passages, used for attacking Israel, which were destroyed during the 2014 war. Some residents have reported hearing digging sounds, but IDF checks have turned up no actual tunnels.The last week has seen at least three separate tunnel collapses in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian reports, killing several diggers.Avi Issacharoff contributed to this report.

Thursday, February 04, 2016

ISRAELI GENERALS SAID TO BE AMOUNG 1,600 GLOBAL TARGETS OF IRAN CYBER ATTACKS.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Israeli generals said among 1,600 global targets of Iran cyber-attack-Cyber-defense expert Gil Shwed says a quarter of recipients opened emails and thus unknowingly enabled hackers to steal information from their hard drives-By Times of Israel staff January 28, 2016, 6:40 pm

Iran launched a cyber-attack targeting Israeli army generals, human rights activists in the Persian Gulf and scientists, an Israeli cyber-security firm said Thursday.Gil Shwed, CEO of Check Point Software Technologies, said the attack began two months ago and was directed at some 1,600 people worldwide. They received email messages aimed at sending spyware into their computers, Shwed told Israel Radio.More than a quarter of the recipients opened the emails and thus unknowingly downloaded spyware, allowing the hackers to steal information from their hard drives.Over the last two years, Israel has been targeted by a number of cyber-attacks. Officials say hackers affiliated with Hezbollah and the Iranian government were behind some of the infiltration attempts.On Tuesday, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz revealed that Israel’s Electric Authority was being targeted by a “severe cyber-attack,” although he did not say where it was coming from.In June, the Israeli ClearSky cyber-security company said it had discovered an ongoing wave of cyber attacks originating from Iran on targets in Israel and the Middle East, with Israeli generals again among the targets. The goal is “espionage or other nation-state interests,” the firm said. The hackers use techniques such as targeted phishing — in which hackers gather user identification data using false web pages that look like real and reputable ones — to hack into 40 targets in Israel and 500 worldwide, said ClearSky. In Israel the targets have included retired generals, employees of security consulting firms and researchers in academia.Shwed warned Thursday that the pace of cyber-attacks is accelerating faster than the pace of investment in cyber safety, the Calcalist newspaper reported.Israel is second only to the United States in cyber-security technology, according to Gadi Tirosh, managing partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners, which has been one of the country’s most active investors in the field.There are currently 173 companies in Israel big enough to be backed by venture capital companies and other major investors. That does not include the hundreds of others that are bootstrapped or relying on other sources of funds; altogether, there are 430 cyber companies currently operating in Israel, according to a report released earlier this month by the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center, with an average of 52 new cyber startups established annually since 2000.

Netanyahu: Islamists use cyber-tech to ‘push humanity backwards’-Israel is the modern cyber-bulwark against groups that are medieval in outlook but modern in their methods, says the prime minister-By David Shamah January 26, 2016, 5:40 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Cyber-security isn’t just about keeping hacktivists and hacker criminals at bay, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In remarks at the third annual Cybertech Conference Tuesday, Netanyahu lauded Israel’s cyber-security prowess as a bulwark against “the forces of medievalism.”Those medievalists, the prime minister noted, “are led by the two forces of the militant Islam, those led by Iran on the extreme Shiite Muslim side and those led by Islamic State on the extreme Sunni Muslim side.”But although medieval in philosophy, the Islamists on both sides are quite modern in their methods. “These militants are using the technologies that we use,” he said. Israel, he added, needs to be the counterbalance to that – a tech superpower that uses technology to advance humanity, not push it backwards.Learning how Israel does that, as well as how it defends individuals, companies, and governments from more run of the mill cyber-threats like hackers who steal credit card information or breach databases, brought over 3,000 people to Cybertech 2016, an annual event organized by IsraelDefense magazine and academic, corporate, and government sponsors.The event brings together leading multi-national corporations, start-ups, major Israeli companies, investors, entrepreneurs, and a bevy of speakers who discuss cyber-tech in all its aspects – technical, financial, national defense-oriented, and more. Among the speakers appearing along with Netanyahu are Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Yuval Steinitz; Science Minister Ofir Akunis, and MK Erel Margalit, who heads the Cyber-Security Lobby in the Knesset, along with ministers, governors, mayors, and other government officials from around the world, as well as executives from multi-national firms like Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and many others.Already accounting for 10 percent of the sales in the world cyber-security business, Israel has become a world power in the area – but there’s no reason it cannot go further, Netanyahu said. At the first cybertech conference in 2014, Netanyahu set a goal for Israel to become “one of the five leading cyber powers in the world. We have achieved that, but we should strive to be the first.”Although the focus was on Israel’s accomplishments in cyber-business, Netanyahu stressed the need for global cooperation. “There is a critical need for like-minded governments to have serious discussions about cooperation in the broader international realm,” he said.“I do not seek to have a universal code, because it will work for cyber peacekeeping just like the UN works for international peacekeeping — it doesn’t. What we need is a meeting of international leaders to discuss what could be done among countries that want to maintain freedom and safety in their societies. We will then be able to establish international standards that will increase cyber-security. This is something that has yet to be done, but I’ve been speaking about this with world leaders.”And the sooner the better, Netanyahu said – because beyond the usual annoyances and threats posed by run-of-the-mill hackers, the world now has to contend with medieval Islamist fanatics who have gone to some of the world’s best universities and are using the ultra-modern skills learned there to bring the world back to the dark ages.“We have the possibility of what appears to be almost a limitless future. Yet at the same time we are facing another force that challenges modernity, and that force is a savage, early, and primitive medievalism that seeks to take our world back to the dark ages of humanity, over a thousand years ago,” said Netanyahu. “This is one of those few times in history in which the forces that seem to take humanity back are using some of the forces that take humanity forward. And this presents a greater challenge to us. Israel is at the forefront of modernity.”

Steinitz: Israel’s Electric Authority hit by ‘severe’ cyber-attack-Some computers shut down since Monday, says energy minister; ministry and cyber authority ‘handling it,’ but problem not yet solved-By Times of Israel staff January 26, 2016, 10:05 pm

Israel’s Electric Authority is currently being targeted by a “severe cyber-attack,” Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Tuesday, adding that steps are being taken to counter the assault.Addressing the Cybertech Conference in Tel Aviv, Steinitz said the attack was discovered on Monday, and that his ministry was “already handling it,” along with the Israel National Cyber Bureau.“The virus was already identified and the right software was already prepared to neutralize it,” he said. “We had to paralyze many of the computers of the Israeli Electricity Authority. We are handling the situation and I hope that soon, this very serious event will be over … but as of now, computer systems are still not working as they should.”“This is a fresh example of the sensitivity of infrastructure to cyberattacks, and the importance of preparing ourselves in order to defend ourselves against such attacks,” he said.Steinitz did not say whether Israel has identified any suspects behind the attack.The Electricity Authority is a department in the Ministry of Energy, and is a separate entity to the Israel Electric Corporation, the country’s state-owned utility company.In mid-July, the Israel’s National Cyber Authority warned that the country would be targeted by a massive cyberattack.Government ministries and security agencies were alerted to look for any changes in their computer systems, and security officials were instructed to prepare for “any possible scenario,” the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.The warning went into effect immediately and included computer systems and cellular phones, according to the report.Over the last two years, Israel has been targeted by a number of cyberattacks. Officials estimated hackers affiliated with Hezbollah and the Iranian government were behind the infiltration attempts.In April, members of the Anonymous hacking group defaced dozens of Israeli websites in what it warned would be an “electronic holocaust.” Dubbed OpIsrael, the anti-Israel hackers targeted websites of the Israeli government and organizations, Facebook pages and gained access to personal emails. The annual attacks have thus far not caused disruption of Internet services in Israel, and failed to bring down any major governmental websites.In response, Israel has invested resources to streamline its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, and announced last month the establishment of a new IDF corps responsible for all such cyber activity.Israel has also become a center of cybersecurity research and development, with multinationals from the US, Europe and Asia setting up R&D labs to develop better and more effective cyberdefense strategies and technologies.Israeli cybersecurity firms are said to export $3 billion in knowledge, services and solutions each year, developing many of the technologies the world will need in the coming years to protect banks, infrastructure and government servers.

Israeli bulldozers demolish EU-funded buildings By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER-FEB 3,16

BRUSSELS, Today, 09:24-Israeli bulldozers have demolished more than 20 Palestinian buildings in the West Bank, including EU-funded structures, amid mounting European frustration on the peace process.B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO, said the bulldozers arrived early on Tuesday (2 February) in the villages of Jinba and Halawa, making some 110 people, including 60 children, homeless in one of the coldest months of the year.Israeli media report that children were seen digging in rubble for their toys after the operation.Ten of the structures had been funded by the European Commission. Others were co-funded by Denmark and the UK as part of UN programmes.The villages date back to the 19th century. But Israel designated the area as a military firing range in the 1970s and said the villagers must go, prompting a long legal battle.-EU 'expects protection'-Cogat, the Israeli authority which controls most of the occupied land, said "measures were taken in accordance with the law”.Ten more villages, home to about 1,000 people, also face demolition pending a temporary court injunction.Breaking The Silence, another Israeli NGO, said Tuesday’s operation was the largest of its kind in a decade.It believes the measures are designed to force Palestinian Bedouin to move to Yatta, a nearby town, so that Israeli settlers can carve off a chunk of land adjacent to the old 1967 border.More than half a million Jewish settlers have moved to the West Bank over the past 50 years, a number now growing by 16,000 a year.The demolitions and settlement expansions put in doubt the viability of a future Palestinian state, the EU and US say.“The EU expects its investments in support of the Palestinian people to be protected from damage and destruction,” an EU spokesman told the French press agency AFP on Tuesday.EU states last month threatened “action” against settlers, following the publication last year of a code on labelling settler-made food, wine, and cosmetics in European shops.-French deadline-France last week went further.Laurent Fabius, its foreign minister, told a meeting of French diplomats on Friday he aimed to convene a high-level conference to try to restart Arab-Israeli peace talks.He indicated that if it fails, he'll set a deadline after which France will formally recognise Palestinian statehood.“Unfortunately, Israeli settlement construction continues. We must not let the two-state solution unravel. It is our responsibility as a permanent member of the UN security council,” he said.Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the initiative.But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “an incentive for the Palestinians to … not make any compromises".

Herzog presents Kerry with West Bank disengagement plan-Opposition leader says separation from Palestinians only way forward; Kerry said to respond positively to unreleased proposal-By Ari Solomon February 3, 2016, 7:14 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog presented US Secretary of State John Kerry with a plan for an Israeli pullout from the West Bank, telling him that separation is the only way forward with the Palestinians.Meeting in Rome for the fourth time in six months, Herzog also suggested convening a regional security conference in cooperation with Arab nations before the end of US President Barack Obama’s term next year.“Israels are killed in the streets and the world advances surreal initiatives and boycotts. Disengagement is the only path to advance a two-state solution,” Herzog said, according to a statement from his office.Herzog, head of the dovish Zionist Union faction, did not release details of his disengagement plan to the public.Kerry expressed interest in the plan and said it contained elements similar to his own initiative of advancing security and cooperation in the Middle East, according to the statement.There was no official statement after the meeting from the State Department or Kerry.The US has largely put efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal on the backburner since talks broke down in 2014. US officials have indicated that the White House does not intend to make the issue a priority while Obama remains in office.But Herzog pointed to near daily violence wracking the country as a reason to not put off efforts to leave the West Bank on hold.“Our citizens are being murdered and we must carry out a separation that will lead to a two-state solution,” he said.

EU: €155m in R&D deals proves there’s no boycott of Israel-Lars Faaborg-Andersen tells business officials that the European Union wants to work with Israel to be more competitive-By David Shamah February 3, 2016, 7:36 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Whatever individuals or groups in Europe do, the European Union does not boycott Israel, EU ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen said this week in Tel Aviv in a meeting with the head of the Federation of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce.“Our wide-ranging economic cooperation is thriving and remains very strong. It is possible that our economic ties with Israel are stronger than they are with any other non-EU country,” Faaborg-Andersen told Federation president Uriel Lynn Tuesday.According to Faaborg-Andersen’s office, Israel has signed no fewer than 240 agreements with the EU as part of the Horizon 2020 research and development program, with grants to Israeli start-ups and research groups worth up to €155 million euros ($170 million). In its previous R&D project, FP7, Israeli companies got NIS 1.6 for every shekel invested, his spokesperson added.Israel has provided the EU with top-notch technology in a wide range of areas, Faaborg-Andersen said, and now it’s the turn of the EU to reciprocate by helping to reduce the cost of living for Israelis.Competition from imports can be a key element to reducing the cost of living,” said Faaborg-Andersen, and the EU is ready to help – with advice, economic programs, and, of course, lower-cost goods that could help Israelis to more easily make ends meet.Recent studies by the OECD have shown that the standard of living in Israel is lower than in Europe, and that is a problem that can be resolved by the Israeli government allowing the free import of more basic goods, such as food and consumer products.During the meeting with Lynn, whose organization represents over 5,000 Israeli businesses and organizations operating in more than 120 industries, Faaborg-Andersen stressed that the EU does not boycott Israel.“The EU simply does not consider the West Bank to be part of Israel, so the economic benefits that Israel enjoys from its relationship with Europe do not apply there,” said a spokesperson for the Federation of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce. “Just the opposite – the ambassador was very clear that Europe does a lot of business with Israel, and wants to do more.”Israel should “reconsider its many regulations that prevent foreign service providers from working in Israel,” said Faaborg-Andersen, and that the EU is ready to help Israel develop a more competitive economy.Lynn praised the ambassador’s stance, saying that he, too, saw the benefit it removing duties and other charges on foreign products and services, especially on food and agricultural products.Israel and the EU could, he added, do great things together – and that process could be advanced even further if “Europe would just disconnect politics from the economy, and not use economic policy as a tool to achieve political purposes.”

LUKEWARM CHURCHES

REVELATION 3:15-19
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I(GOD) will spue (VOMIT) thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Presbyterian group promotes two-state solution in pamphlet-Grassroots ‘Presbyterians for Middle East Peace’ aims to counter growing anti-Israel activity in church-By JTA February 3, 2016, 6:43 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

A Presbyterian Middle East advocacy group published a pamphlet aimed at stopping the church from abandoning support for the two-state solution.“Two States for Two Peoples,” released this week, comes “as activists from the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement are working toward persuading the Presbyterian Church, USA. to drop its support for the two-state solution when the denomination holds its biennial meeting in Portland, Oregon, in June,” Presbyterians for Middle East Peace said in announcing the book.The grassroots group was established in the late 2000s to preserve the church’s commitment to the two-state solution in the face of growing anti-Israel activity in the church.Jewish groups specializing in interfaith dialogue, led by the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, worked with Presbyterians for Middle East Peace at the church’s 2012 biennial to successfully deflect a bid to divest the church from three companies that dealt with Israel’s army.Backers of divestment, however, succeeded in 2014 in getting the church to divest from the three companies, although an amendment to the resolution explicitly rejected BDS, which advances a much broader divestment strategy.The 2014 debate was characterized by unusual bitterness, precipitated in part by the publication of an anti-Zionist tract by a group within the church that backs divestment.

EZEKIEL 38:3-15
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13  Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDI-ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(SPAIN) with all the young lions thereof,(ENGLAND,AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATES-CANADA,AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND, USA, AND WESTERN ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS) shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?(OIL IS IN SPOIL-I BELIEVE THATS WHY RUSSIA,ARAB/MUSLIMS MARCH TO ISRAEL)
14  Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15  And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

Iran, Germany call for cooperation against terrorism-German foreign minister visits Tehran, heads next to Saudi Arabia-By AFP February 3, 2016, 6:29 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

TEHRAN — Iran and Germany agreed on the need to cooperate against “terrorism” Wednesday as Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier became the latest official to visit Tehran since the implementation of a landmark nuclear deal.Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the two countries could “cooperate on resolving regional and international issues, especially on fighting terrorism,” the official IRNA news agency reported.“The flow of arms and financial resources to terrorism must be stopped,” Rouhani said.Steinmeier’s visit comes after a landmark deal between Tehran and world powers to limit Iran’s nuclear program in return for lifting international sanctions against it came into force last month.The German foreign minister will next visit Saudi Arabia.The Gulf kingdom severed all ties with Iran last month after demonstrators stormed its embassy in Tehran and consulate in second city Mashhad following Riyadh’s execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric.

Damascus Gate killers planned to attack group of civilians, police believe-One of the Palestinan gunmen had posted on Facebook that he intended to carry out a shooting, Channel 2 reports-By Times of Israel staff February 3, 2016, 7:28 pm

Israeli security officials said Wednesday’s fatal attack at the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, in which Border Police officer Hadar Cohen was killed and a second policewoman badly injured, marked “an escalation” in the ongoing terror wave.The three West Bank Palestinians who stabbed and shot at the Israeli forces had been sitting and waiting for a large group of Israeli civilians to enter or leave the Old City, and had planned to target them, Israel’s Channel 2 news reported on Wednesday evening, citing police sources.“As far as we can tell from the armaments, [the terrorists] planned a larger, more sophisticated attack,” Jerusalem Deputy Police Chief Avshalom Peled said. “This is an escalation from what we’ve seen thus far. The police officers prevented a combined and much larger attack.”Husam Badran, an official with the Hamas terror group, also called the attack “a turning point,” apparently referring to its severity and sophistication during a terror wave that has mostly consisted of lone stabbers.Two of three attackers, who hailed from the northern West Bank, were spotted by the Border Police unit and were asked to identify themselves. As one pulled out an ID card, the second pulled out a knife, and attacked the policewomen. Then the first one pulled out a rifle from under his coat and opened fire on the policewomen.At this point, the third attacker, waiting nearby, who had not previously been spotted, also began firing, Channel 2 said.Cohen, 19, who was shot in the head, managed to return fire before collapsing.The three terrorists were also found to be carrying explosive devices.The police and Shin Bet were investigating whether the trio acted alone, or had been dispatched by an established terrorist organization. They were also trying to establish whether the trio traveled with their guns and explosives, or whether accomplices helped them once they were in Jerusalem.One of three terrorists had vowed in a Facebook post to carry out a shooting attack, Channel 2 reported, ostensibly to avenge the killing of another Palestinian who attempted an attack at a border crossing in the northern West Bank last November.The TV report said all three of the attackers were members of families associated with Fatah.The three were identified by the Palestinian news agency Ma’an as Ahmad Rajeh Ismail Zakarneh, Muhammad Ahmad Hilmi Kamil and Najeh Ibrahim Abu al-Rub, all hailing from the village of Qabatiya near the West Bank city of Jenin.

Border Police officer, 19, dies after Jerusalem terror attack-Hadar Cohen of Or Yehuda succumbs to wounds in hospital, second officer in serious but stable condition; 3 Palestinian assailants killed by police after assault outside Damascus Gate-By Times of Israel staff and Judah Ari Gross February 3, 2016, 6:04 pm

A Border Police officer succumbed to wounds suffered during a shooting and stabbing attack near Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday, after efforts to save her life at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus failed.The woman was identified as Hadar Cohen, 19, from Or Yehuda.Cohen was rushed to hospital in critical condition after she was wounded in the attack shortly after 2 p.m. local time. Paramedics who treated her at the scene said she was fighting for her life.Hospital officials said she was shot in the head. “We succeeded in stabilizing her condition for a time, but her head wound was so severe she never had a chance,” a hospital spokeswoman said.Another policewomen was in serious but stable condition at the hospital, with wounds all over her body, including her head, the spokeswoman said.The three attackers, identified by the Palestinian news agency Ma’an as Ahmed Abou Al-Roub, Mohammed Kameel and Mohammed Nassar, all hailing from the northern West Bank, arrived at the scene armed with apparently locally fabricated “Carl Gustav” rifles, knives and two pipe bombs, police said. Police initially suspected a third item found at the scene was a bomb, but sappers determined it was an abandoned bag.Border police officer, injured in the Damascus Gate attack, died of her wounds. Her name is Hadar Cohen, she was 19. pic.twitter.com/QRo2qQzdH6— Judah Ari Gross (@JudahAriGross) February 3, 2016-A third victim, identified only as a 20-year-old Israeli, was lightly wounded and treated at the scene.Cohen was drafted into the Border Police only two months ago, and was still in training as she patrolled the area outside Damascus Gate on Wednesday.Cohen is survived by her parents, a brother and a sister.Cohen was part of a three-member squad that spotted the three Palestinians behaving in a suspicious manner and asked to see their identification papers. As one attacker withdrew his ID card, the others opened fire and pulled out knives to attack the officers.According to police, Cohen managed to return fire before she was mortally wounded, despite being surprised by the attackers.After the attackers were killed by police forces who responded to the scene, police found pipe bombs on their person.“As far as we can tell from the armaments, [the terrorists] planned a larger, more sophisticated attack,” Jerusalem Deputy Police Chief Avshalom Peled said. “This is an escalation from what we’ve seen thus far. The police officers prevented a combined and much larger attack.”Magen David Adom rescue service director Eli Bin said medics who arrived on the scene attempted to resuscitate Cohen. He told Channel 2 that she had been stabbed in the neck multiple times and had lost a lot of blood.“When we arrived at the scene we saw two young women, approximately 20 years old, lying on the ground with puncture wounds to the upper body. One was unconscious, the other was still conscious but dazed,” MDA paramedic Nissan Hefetz said.Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the scene shortly after the attack.“I had a chance to speak to our brave warriors, who were not afraid to engage” the terrorists, he said at the scene. “This was a real battle. In this battle, the police and Border Police officers of Jerusalem prevented a much larger disaster. Their readiness allowed them to [quickly] engage [the attackers] and save lives. The public in Jerusalem must keep their eyes open, and not hesitate to engage [attackers]. That readiness will prevent attacks.”Two of the attackers were from Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, and the third was from nearby Jenin. Police said they were all 20-21 years old.According to the Shin Bet, they had no prior involvement in terror activities.In a statement Wednesday, Hamas congratulated the “unique and heroic operation,” describing it as a “blow to the security system of the occupation.”Avi Issacharoff and Marissa Newman contributed to this report.

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU THREATENS TO DO WORSE DAMAGE ON GAZA TUNNELS NOW THEN BACK IN 2014 WAR WITH ARABS IN GAZA.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Netanyahu threatens to eclipse 2014 war to destroy Gaza tunnels-Amid increasing public pressure, PM says Israel working to thwart subterranean Hamas threat, counsels terror group not to ‘try us’-By Times of Israel staff January 31, 2016, 9:54 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded Sunday to critics charging his government was failing to deal with newly dug tunnels under the Israel-Hamas frontier, threatening to blow up the underground passages if need be.“We are working methodically and calmly against all threats, including threats from Hamas, both with defensive and offensive measures. And of course, in the event we are attacked from tunnels in the Gaza Strip, we will act very forcefully against Hamas, and with much more force than Operation Protective Edge,” Netanyahu told a conference of Israeli diplomats, referring to the 50-day war in the Gaza Strip in 2014.Israel Defense Forces officials and southern residents have expressed concern in recent days that Hamas is rebuilding a series of subterranean passages, used for attacking Israel, which were destroyed during the 2014 war between Israel and Gazan fighters.During that war, Israeli troops uncovered and destroyed dozens of tunnels, but only after Netanyahu approved a ground invasion of the Strip amid heavy pressure from coalition allies to expand what had — to that point — been a ground campaign.Netanyahu, who is also Israel’s foreign minister, told the diplomats that Jerusalem would have international backing for such a move, and warned Hamas not to “try us.”“I think they understand this in the region, understand this in the world,” he continued. “I hope we won’t need to, but our capabilities — both defensive and offensive — are developing rapidly.”Hours earlier, opposition chief Isaac Herzog called for the government to take action and bomb the tunnels, accusing Netanyahu’s cabinet of being “idle” in the face of the Hamas threat.“The political leadership must provide a clear public answer to the citizens. [It must] stop hesitating…. They must instruct the IDF to bomb the tunnels and destroy this threat. Especially if there are tunnels that have already crossed the border into Israel,” Herzog said.“Why are we waiting? For terrorists, with their weapons drawn, to emerge in a kibbutz or a moshav? The prime minister and the defense minister must provide an answer to the citizens.“One day, we’ll wake up and discover that, once again, we underestimated the seriousness of the threat,” Herzog warned. “It will cost us in blood and terrible sorrow.”Last week, a senior defense official said Hamas’s military wing had rehabilitated itself and was ready for a fresh round of hostilities with Israel. Other military leaders have said intensive tunnel rebuilding is underway.On Saturday, the terror group publicized a new video clip, lauding what it called the unknown fighters who are “toiling day and night” to build the attack tunnels.Over the weekend, residents of areas near the Gaza Strip complained that tunnel digging into Israel from the Hamas-run territory has come so close to their homes that it has caused their floors to shake.The head of the Eshkol Regional Council, Gadi Yarkoni, told Israel Radio that many residents have been complaining of hearing — and feeling — increased underground digging activity in recent weeks. In addition, they were disappointed that the IDF has failed to build protective barriers against the cross-border terror tunnels — as it had promised it would after the summer 2014 war in Gaza.Hamas, the Islamist terror group that rules the Gaza Strip, built dozens of tunnels into Israel, many of which were used to carry out attacks against soldiers during the 2014 war. The IDF said it destroyed over 30 tunnels during the war, and some officials said the army was surprised at the extent of the tunnel building.A number of tunnels were used during the war to attack army installations. The IDF later said the tunnels had been dug as part of a plan to carry out a massive attack against an Israeli community, but when war broke out, Hamas fighters abandoned the plot.

At least one killed in another Hamas tunnel collapse-Conflicting reports say as many as four may be dead, several wounded, one week after similar accident kills seven operatives-By Times of Israel staff February 2, 2016, 11:24 pm

At least one person was killed Tuesday evening when a tunnel collapsed in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media reports. Some sources put the death toll as high as four.Hamas would not confirm or deny the reports. But the Hamas-run Al-Quds television network identified the fatality as 23-year-old Haider a-Zaher, a Hamas operative.Separately, IDF bulldozers were reportedly digging near the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, near the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, across the border from the Israeli villages of Nir Oz and Nirim.Last week, seven people were confirmed killed and four were missing after a tunnel collapsed in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in northeastern Gaza City.That collapse occurred amid heavy winter rain. Hamas accused Israel of causing the collapse by opening dams to flood Gaza with water — an annual claim made by Palestinians and flatly rejected by Israel. There are no dams in southern Israel.In a bid to keep a lid on last week’s disaster, Hamas forbade local media from reporting the incident.The nature of the tunnel that collapsed today was not immediately clear. Hamas has in the past dug cross-border tunnels into Israel in order to stage attacks on civilians and soldiers. Other tunnels are used by the terror group as part of its defensive infrastructure.It has recently been reported that Hamas accelerated its tunnel-digging program.Several days ago, the head of the Eshkol Regional Council, Gadi Yarkoni, told Israel Radio that many residents have been complaining of hearing — and feeling — increased underground digging activity in recent weeks.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have warned Hamas not to prepare new tunnel attacks, amid a welter of reports that the terror group has been speedily rebuilding its network of cross-border tunnels. It’s former prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh bragged on Friday that Hamas was advancing its terror tunnels and its rocket production ahead of a further conflict with Israel.Hamas has built dozens of tunnels into Israel, many of which were used to carry out attacks during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The IDF said it destroyed over 30 tunnels during that conflict.The Strip has been subject to a blockade by Israel and Egypt, designed in part to prevent the terror group from importing arms and building new tunnels with imported concrete.Egypt has embarked on a massive campaign aimed at stemming cross-border smuggling between Gaza and Sinai, where it is fighting an insurgency by Islamist militants. The operation has included flooding hundreds of tunnels that once dotted the border region and building a 500-meter-wide buffer zone filled with seawater.Avi Issacharoff contributed to this report.

PROVERBS 14:28,30,31,33-35
28   In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
30   A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
31   He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
33   Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
34   Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
35   The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.

PROVERBS 16:4,9,18-19
4   The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
9   A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
18   Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
19   Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Huckabee ends presidential bid after dismal Iowa result-Eight years after winning caucus, former Arkansas governor failed to garner support in crowded GOP field; O’Malley also throws in towel-By AP February 2, 2016, 9:27 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

WASHINGTON — Mike Huckabee ended his second campaign for the White House on Monday amid a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses that he won in his first bid eight years ago.The former Arkansas governor and ardent Israel supporter announced his 2016 bid in May in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton, joining what would become a crowded Republican field that included many political newcomers.His campaign failed to take off early on, with candidates like billionaire Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio dominating the race.As caucus results were still streaming in, Huckabee wrote on Twitter that he was “officially suspending my campaign.” He thanked his backers for their loyal support, adding the hashtag #ImWithHuck. Calls to the Huckabee campaign for comment were not immediately returned. I am officially suspending my campaign. Thank you for all your loyal support. #ImWithHucK-— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) February 2, 2016-In 2008, he captivated evangelical Republicans but couldn’t build wide enough support to win the Republican nomination. After ending his 2008 campaign, he took up hosting a weekend cable show on FOX News, but then stopped before announcing his latest White House bid.A populist but no Democrat, he did not endorse a minimum-wage increase, instead calling for policies encouraging a “maximum wage” for workers. But he did align himself with labor interests in criticizing “unbalanced trade deals” and describing President Barack Obama’s immigration policy as a way to “import low-wage labor, undercut American workers and drive wages lower than the Dead Sea.”The ordained minister — he was Arkansas Baptist Convention president before getting into politics — has played up the cultural conservatism learned in this small town where many of his relatives — and a few Clinton relatives — still live. He stood by his opposition to abortion rights and same-sex marriage, declaring that “the Supreme Court is not the supreme being, and they cannot overturn the laws of nature or of nature’s God.”Huckabee has boasted that in Arkansas politics, he found success in “challenging the deeply entrenched political machine that ran this state. It was tough sledding, but I learned how to govern and how to lead.” An introductory video about the governor who fought “the Clinton machine” made clear he meant Bill and Hillary. Bill Clinton was governor before Huckabee, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now vying for the Democratic nomination for president.Huckabee, who first visited Israel more than 40 years ago and regularly leads tourist trips to the country, caused an uproar in July 2015 when he accused US President Barack Obama of “marching the Israelis to the doors of the oven” with the Iranian nuclear deal.Tell Congress to do their constitutional duty & reject the Obama-Kerry #IranDeal –> http://t.co/SaIyuq4w01 pic.twitter.com/2rFJgdDHhV-— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) July 26, 2015-The accusation drew wide criticism, including from Israel’s Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer who described the comments as “inappropriate.”After a similarly unimpressive showing in the Democratic caucuses, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley also ended his Democratic presidential campaign Monday midway through vote-counting, terminating a bid that failed to gain traction against rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.O’Malley’s decision to drop out of the race came even before a winner had been declared but as early results showed O’Malley garnering negligible support in the first primary contest.“We fought very, very hard … in order to give the people a choice, and the people have made their choice tonight,” O’Malley told supporters in Des Moines after bowing out Monday.The former two-term governor and Baltimore mayor campaigned as a can-do chief executive who had pushed through key parts of the Democratic agenda in Maryland, including gun control, support for gay marriage and an increase in the minimum wage.Times of Israel contributed to this report.

O’Malley drops out of Democratic race for president-With negligible support in Iowa caucuses, former Maryland governor’s ‘uphill battle’ comes to an end-By Ken Thomas February 2, 2016, 5:44 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley ended his Democratic presidential campaign Monday midway through vote-counting in the Iowa caucuses, terminating a bid that failed to gain traction against rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.O’Malley’s decision to drop out of the race came even before a winner had been declared but as early results showed O’Malley garnering negligible support in the first primary contest. His plans were disclosed by two people familiar with his decision, who weren’t authorized to discuss the decision publicly and requested anonymity.The former two-term governor and Baltimore mayor campaigned as a can-do chief executive who had pushed through key parts of the Democratic agenda in Maryland, including gun control, support for gay marriage and an increase in the minimum wage.A veteran of Colorado Sen. Gary Hart’s presidential campaigns in the 1980s, O’Malley sought to portray himself as a fresh face for a party searching for new ideas. He launched some of the toughest critiques of the race, accusing Clinton of being on “three sides” of the gun control debate and offering “weak tea” when it came to policing Wall Street.But the ex-governor struggled to raise money and was mired in single-digit polls for months, despite an active operation in Iowa and New Hampshire. His campaign was forced to accept federal matching funds in the fall and he failed to become Clinton’s chief alternative as Sanders tapped into the party’s liberal base.Along the way, O’Malley’s campaign dealt with poor timing and some bad breaks. His campaign kickoff was complicated by riots in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, bringing fresh scrutiny of O’Malley’s law enforcement record as the city’s mayor.Jason Yates, a precinct captain Monday night for O’Malley at a caucus site outside Des Moines, said he was disappointed but not surprised.“Pretty uphill battle from the start for him here,” he said.O’Malley performed well in the televised debates but it never amounted to a marked boost in poll numbers or fundraising. He entered the race after Sanders, who quickly generated massive crowds around the country and a loyal following in the early states. Sanders’s appeal with liberals — and his online fundraising machine — gave O’Malley little room to become the face of the party’s smaller anti-Clinton wing.

On to New Hampshire as Cruz beats Trump, Democrats tight-Clinton defeats Sanders by less than three-tenths of 1 percent in contest that showcases voter dissatisfaction on both sides-By AP February 2, 2016, 8:55 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Republicans and Democrats scrambling for their party’s 2016 nomination for president descended on the tiny New England state of New Hampshire on Tuesday, leaving behind the Iowa caucuses where Ted Cruz, a fiery, conservative Texas senator loathed by his own party’s leaders, swept to victory over billionaire Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.Among Democrats, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rode a wave of voter enthusiasm to a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton, long considered her party’s front-runner.With all precincts reporting, Clinton led Sanders by less than three-tenths of 1 percent. The Iowa Democratic Party declared the contest “the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history.” Sanders did not concede the race to Clinton, and his spokesman Michael Briggs said they were “still assessing” whether to ask for a recount.The outcome in the country’s first nominating contest drew a line under voter dissatisfaction, especially among Republicans, with the way government in Washington operates, with anger over growing income inequality and fears of global turmoil and terrorism.Cruz’s victory in Monday’s caucuses, which drew a record turnout, was a blow to Trump, the real estate mogul who has roiled the Republican field for months with controversial statements about women and minorities.Cruz now heads to next Tuesday’s first-in-the nation primary vote in New Hampshire as an undisputed favorite of the furthest right voters, including evangelical voters and others who prioritize an abrupt break with President Barack Obama’s policies.But Trump still holds a commanding lead in New Hampshire and national polls.New Hampshire has historically favored more moderate candidates than Iowa, and more than 40 percent of the state’s electorate are not registered in any political party, giving them the power to choose which parties’ primary to vote in on Feb. 9.Cruz on Tuesday suggested he was focused on New Hampshire but also on South Carolina, which votes 11 days later.Trump came in second slightly ahead of Rubio, whose stronger-than-expected finish could help cement his status as the favorite of mainstream Republican voters who worry that Cruz and Trump are too caustic to win the November general election.Trump sounded humble in defeat, saying he was “honored” by the support of Iowans. And he vowed to keep up his fight, telling cheering supporters that “we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever the hell they throw up.”In the Democratic race, Iowa caucus-goers were choosing between Clinton’s pledge to use her wealth of experience in government to bring about steady progress on party ideals and Sanders’s call for radical change in a system rigged against ordinary Americans. Young voters overwhelmingly backed Sanders.Clinton, the former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, was hoping to banish the possibility of dual losses in Iowa and in New Hampshire, where she trails Sanders, who is from neighboring Vermont. Two straight defeats could throw into question her ability to defeat the Republican nominee.Clinton appeared before supporters to declare she was “breathing a big sigh of relief.” She stopped short of claiming victory.Sanders had hoped to replicate Obama’s pathway to the presidency by using a victory in Iowa to catapult his passion and ideals of “democratic socialism” deep into the primaries.Sanders still faces an uphill battle against Clinton, who has deep ties throughout the party’s establishment and a strong following among a more diverse electorate that plays a larger role in primary contests in February and March.Iowa has long led off the state-by-state contests to choose delegates for the parties’ national conventions. Historically, a victory has hardly assured the nomination, but a win or an unexpectedly strong showing can give a candidate momentum, while a poor showing can end a candidacy.Some of the establishment Republican candidates have been focusing more on New Hampshire than Iowa, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.The caucuses marked the end of at least two candidates’ White House hopes. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley ended his longshot bid for the Democratic nomination, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee dropped out of the Republican race.The state’s 30 Republican delegates to the national convention are awarded proportionally based on the vote, with at least eight delegates going to Cruz, seven to Trump and six to Rubio. Even without a declared winner, The Associated Press awarded all but one of the 44 Democratic convention delegates. Clinton led Sanders 22 to 21, with the remaining delegate to be awarded to the statewide winner.

New Hampshire Jews all over the map ahead of presidential primary-With more independents in the state than either registered Democrats or Republicans, ballot results often surprise-By Uriel Heilman February 2, 2016, 5:29 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (JTA) – Michael Harris probably isn’t your typical New Hampshire Republican.A 71-year-old from Hollis and president of his synagogue in nearby Nashua, Harris isn’t sure who he would support if the general election came down to the two iconoclasts on either side, Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders.While the brash real estate mogul running as a Republican and the independent lawmaker from Vermont seeking the Democratic nomination might seem like polar opposites, there are a couple of traits they share that appeal to Harris: their independent-mindedness and their New York bona fides – Trump grew up in Queens, Sanders in Brooklyn.“There’s certain basic things about people from New York that they have in common philosophically, like liberalism on social issues,” Harris said. “Trump makes these outlandish comments, but a lot of his policies are sort of similar to Bernie Sanders’ policies. I might support Trump in the primary and Sanders in the general election.”‘Trump makes these outlandish comments, but a lot of his policies are sort of similar to Bernie Sanders’-As the Granite State gears up for the nation’s first presidential primary on February 9, America is paying close attention to the political proclivities of this state’s tiny population of 1.3 million. And like their non-Jewish neighbors, the political leanings of the state’s estimated 10,000 Jews are all over the map.Ken Kowalchek, a Jew from Portsmouth who spent his life in the foreign service until his retirement not long ago, is an independent who plans to vote Republican – either for Sen. Ted Cruz or Ben Carson.“They’re both brilliant, humble and truthful,” Kowalchek said. “I like Carson’s tax policy of tithing. That’s also in the Torah. I think everyone should contribute something, even the poorest.”The New Hampshire election makes for great political theater not just because of its place on the primary calendar, but because it’s one of the few states where independent voters – known here as undeclared – can vote in either party’s primary (but just one). With more independent voters in New Hampshire than either registered Democrats or Republicans, that can make for an unpredictable result.While many independents vote for their favored candidate, some try to game the system by casting ballots for their opponent of choice – aiming to weaken the political opposition to their favored candidate. Roberta, a Jewish voter in her 60s from Swanzey and one of New Hampshire’s undeclareds, says she likes the Democrats but may cast her vote in the Republican primary to help steer the GOP away from candidates she considers extreme.“I’m not fond of Trump or some of the other leading candidates, so I might vote in the Republican primary,” said Roberta, who asked that her last name not be published to protect her privacy. “In general, I don’t think the Republican candidates reflect the values that I hold. They don’t seem to be open to the needs of ordinary people.”‘Part of me wanted to vote Republican against He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken’On the Democratic side, Roberta said she has yet to make up her mind between Clinton, whom she considers “eminently qualified” to be president, or Sanders, whom she says is “an eminently honest man.”In interview after interview, Jewish Democrats in New Hampshire leaning toward Sanders cited his authenticity as one of his most appealing characteristics.“I was on the fence between Sanders and Clinton, but after watching the Republican and Democratic debates, the one thing that stood out for me was there was an honest politician and a man of his word on stage, and I haven’t ever seen that,” independent voter Jenny Rosenson said of Sanders.“Part of me wanted to vote Republican against He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken,” Rosenson said, indicating Trump, “but I think I want to send my vote to the Democratic Party.”Asked if she had any concerns about Sanders’ electability in the general election, Rosenson said, “Does he have a chance? Golly gosh, I don’t think so.”Steve Clayman, a Jewish architect in the Manchester area and a lifelong Democrat, shares that view – which is why he’s planning to vote for Clinton.“I like Bernie Sanders a lot and I would align myself with a lot of his positions, but I just can’t visualize him as a president, and I can’t visualize him winning beyond New Hampshire, Vermont and a few other areas,” Clayman said. “I think Hillary Clinton has the experience in the political arena internationally as well as nationally, and also is politically astute.‘I’m a little bit disappointed that there isn’t a deeper field on the Democratic side’-“I’m a little bit disappointed that there isn’t a deeper field on the Democratic side. If it wasn’t for Bernie being there, the discussion would be pretty limited.”Ron Abramson, a 47-year-old immigration lawyer from Bow, said he’s voting for Sanders – and that his being Jewish has nothing to do with it.“He feels like a conscience that’s been lacking in our political discourse for a while,” Abramson said. “I’m more drawn to the fact that he was a runner in his younger days – I used to be a distance runner – than him being a Jew. Like me, he’s a pretty secular Reform Jew, and like me he didn’t marry a Jew.”Sanders’ wife, Jane, is Roman Catholic. His first wife, whom he divorced in 1966, is Jewish.Joel Funk, a professor of psychology at Plymouth State University, said he’s voting Sanders, too – “not because he’s Jewish, but because his policies are progressive, fair, long overdue and he’s the kind of candidate I feel I can trust.”David Kochman, 60, of Swanzey, who lost his job two years ago after 26 years at Liberty Mutual and has not been employed since, said he’s voting for Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida – in part because of the Republican candidate’s position on Israel.“What I really like about him is his leadership and his temperament,” Kochman said of Rubio. “I think he has got the temperament to be president of the United States. I think it’s good that he’s young, Hispanic, has a nice family. And he’s a lot less divisive, frankly, than either Cruz or Trump.”Kochman said he attended a couple of events with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie but was turned off by his bluster and the so-called Bridgegate scandal in which Christie’s aides shut down traffic lanes to the George Washington Bridge, creating epic gridlock, as political retribution against a local Democratic mayor.“It’s not only what happened, but what he did as a leader that made the people who work for him act that way. I didn’t like it,” Kochman said. “Of course, in New Hampshire we would have just knocked down the barriers and driven right throug

Sanders jubilant after nearly edging out Clinton in Iowa-Jewish Democratic hopeful says ‘political revolution’ has begun; Clinton barely ekes out win, declares victory before results finalized: Cruz trumps Trump-By AFP, AP and Times of Israel staff February 2, 2016, 2:45 pm

Democratic White House hopeful Bernie Sanders told supporters his “virtual tie” in Iowa had “astounded the world” and vowed to repeat the feat again as attention shifted from the US Midwest to New Hampshire.Hillary Clinton narrowly eked out victory in the state, garnering 49.9 percent to Sanders’s 49.6% with 99.9% of precincts in Iowa reporting, but the surprisingly strong showing by the Jewish candidate seemed to put the wind at his back.Sanders was jubilant as he took the stage in a packed hotel ballroom close to Des Moines airport Monday night, where enthusiastic supporters waved signs saying “A future to believe in” and chanting “Bernie! Bernie!”Later on, on his campaign plane, he said, “What Iowa has begun tonight is a political revolution,” the Politico website reported.He said the Iowa results had “kickstarted” his campaign.The result further strengthens Sanders’s hand in the upcoming contest in New Hampshire — which neighbors his Vermont constituency.“The reason that we have done so well here in Iowa, the reason I believe we’re going to do so well in New Hampshire, and in the other states that follow, the reason is, the American people are saying no to a rigged economy,” Sanders said.“We do not represent the interests of the billionaire class, Wall Street or corporate America,” said the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist.Although Clinton said she was “breathing a big sigh of relief,” and her campaign said it had won an outright victory, the neck-and-neck contest was a blow, evoking the setback she faced in 2008 after her upset loss to then-Sen. Obama. Given the closeness of the Democratic caucuses, the AP did not declare a winner.That did not stop Clinton’s supporters from claiming victory on Tuesday. Matt Paul, Iowa state director for the Hillary for America campaign, said in a statement that “statistically, there is no outstanding information that could change the results and no way that Senator Sanders can overcome Secretary Clinton’s advantage.”The Iowa Democratic Party, however, said the results from one precinct had not yet come in, even as the candidates flew out for New Hampshire.Nearly all the candidates planned to return to New Hampshire by midday Tuesday after hopping overnight flights from Iowa. Voters will hold the first primary of the season here on February 9.Eight years ago, Clinton’s victory in New Hampshire breathed fresh life into her campaign. But New Hampshire is also familiar territory for Sanders, who represents neighboring Vermont in the Senate and is well known among the state’s voters. Sanders’ sizable lead over Clinton in New Hampshire polls has held steady or increased in recent weeks.Benjamin Erkan, a 26-year-old volunteer for Sanders, said the duel with Clinton “wasn’t an uphill battle.”“It was a mountain scaling up a vertical wall with an adversary who had a temperature-controlled escalator, and we met her at the top.”“The main thing Hillary has against us is the false statement that Bernie is not electable.”“Tonight has proven that this is not true.”‘A movement against the Washington cartel’On the Republican side, a victorious Ted Cruz and buoyant Marco Rubio emerged from Iowa with compelling claims to the outsider and mainstream mantles in the fractured Republican primary.Donald Trump, uncharacteristically humble after a second-place Iowa finish, was headed for far friendlier territory in New Hampshire, where the billionaire firebrand had a commanding lead.Amid historically large turnout in Iowa, the unexpected benefactor was Rubio, who came within striking distance of Trump. Republicans had already been looking to New Hampshire to winnow their congested field, and the Florida senator’s strong showing bolsters his case that Republicans should coalesce behind him as the mainstream alternative to the rowdier Trump or Cruz.“We have taken the first step, but an important step, to winning the nomination,” Rubio told supporters in Des Moines.Cruz, the Texas conservative known for his scorched-earth approach to compromise, hoped his triumph in the Iowa caucuses would bolster his standing as the top choice of Republicans seeking an agitator to upend the legacy of eight years under President Barack Obama. Having run a textbook Iowa campaign targeting rural and evangelical voters, Cruz faced a steeper climb in New Hampshire, with its tradition of favoring more mainstream candidates.“We’ve built our campaign as a movement for Americans to organize, rallying and banding together against the disaster of the Washington cartel,” Cruz told The Associated Press as he made his way to New Hampshire.Despite falling short of victory, Trump proved he could transform many of his die-hard fans into actual voters — the key question facing his campaign heading into Monday’s voting. Yet the results raised an equally curious question: how Trump, who’s branded himself as a reliable winner, can handle being a loser.Thanking supporters at a rally, Trump displayed a rare hint of modesty as he congratulated Cruz and the other Republicans.“We finished second, and I want to tell you something: I’m just honored,” Trump said. “We’re just so happy with the way everything worked out.”Behind Trump, who has led by double digits in New Hampshire in recent polls, the GOP race remained hotly contested. Facing dim prospects in Iowa, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Jeb Bush — all current or former governors — were laser-focused on New Hampshire.Those three Republicans were clustered close together with Rubio and Cruz, separated by just a handful of percentage points in a CNN/WMUR poll conducted last week. Yet 6 in 10 Republicans said they hadn’t yet made up their mind, suggesting plenty could change over the next seven days.As the GOP winner in Iowa, Cruz collected at least eight of the state’s 30 Republican delegates, with Trump winning seven and Rubio six. Democrats apportion their delegates differently, and even with no declared winner, the AP awarded Clinton 22 delegates and Sanders 21. The statewide winner will collect the final delegate.New Hampshire’s primary process, in which voters cast ordinary ballots, offers the candidates a more straightforward sprint toward victory than the quixotic Iowa caucuses. But undeclared voters, who make up the largest bloc in New Hampshire, can vote in either party’s primary, infusing the race with an added level of uncertainty. Democrats have 24 delegates at stake in New Hampshire and Republicans have 23.Both parties were offering New Hampshire voters a candidate roster that was shorter than a day earlier. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, both dropped out Monday night following dismal showings in Iowa.Before voters in New Hampshire weigh in, candidates in both parties may have another opportunity to debate. Sanders and Clinton will likely square off Thursday at the University of New Hampshire. The Republicans will meet Saturday in Manchester.