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
Uproar as Bennett dedicates academic year to ‘united Jerusalem’-Education minister’s plan slammed by opposition lawmakers; Herzog: We must separate from Palestinians ‘who hate us’-By Marissa Newman and Joshua Davidovich February 22, 2016, 6:50 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Monday announced the upcoming school year would be designated as the “year of united Jerusalem,” drawing fierce criticism from the opposition Zionist Union party.As part of the plan — which would mark 50 years since the Six Day War when Israel took control of the entire city for the first time — students in schools around the country will visit the capital, touring the Knesset, Supreme Court, Old City, and other sites. The schools will also focus on Jerusalem in history, geography, civics, literature, and Bible classes.“Our history began in Jerusalem, and it from there that we draw all our energies during these times. If anyone tries to cut us off from the city they will only do the opposite — make us more attached to Jerusalem,” he said.The proposal, which comes amid an ongoing controversy over a civics textbook written under Bennett’s leadership, was criticized by members of the Zionist Union party, who see East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.“This morning I heard Education Minister Naftali Bennett — who woke up with a need to make headlines — declare a year of a united Jerusalem,” said opposition leader Isaac Herzog. “I love Jerusalem, we all love Jerusalem, but I wonder to which Jerusalem Bennett was referring — a Jewish, safe Jerusalem or a Jerusalem with 300,000 Palestinians who hate us annexed into it.”Referencing his own plan to exclude Arab neighborhoods from the Israeli capital, Herzog continued: “Whoever loves Jerusalem must demand a separation from the Palestinians.”Addressing Bennett, Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli said that Israelis were too afraid to visit Jerusalem due to the security situation.“I want to tell you, education minister, I was at the Western Wall this morning, and I don’t recall it ever being so empty and desolate,” she told him, as Jerusalem was experiencing cold and stormy weather.Meanwhile, Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir was being mocked on social media for a misguided attempt to school Bennett in Jewish history.After Bennett announced his education plan, Shaffir wrote on Twitter: “Sorry for being petty, but the education minister should know that according to the Torah, we came from Egypt.”Humorist Hanoch Daum responded on Facebook with an iconic photo of Israeli soldiers in the Old City of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, replacing the Western Wall with the Egyptian pyramids.Other jokes included imaginary scenarios in which Shaffir accuses the grand mufti of Jerusalem of enslaving the Jewish people.The Jewish Home party wrote on Facebook that Shaffir’s comments show that the Labor Party has deteriorated greatly since the days of Yitzhak Rabin.Bennett later reiterated his support for the plan.“Our history began in Jerusalem, and our mission is to raise a new generation of lovers of the city,” he said at his faction meeting.On Saturday, Bennett also hit back at criticism that the new high school civics textbook had a nationalist bias.“I don’t understand what the storm is about,” Bennett said in a Channel 2 interview. The textbook “is a wonderful book that passed muster with many experts, and has been stuck in the pipeline for five years. I came [to the Education Ministry] to act. I won’t let an excellent book to be stuck in the pipeline.”“The book reflects all the perspectives of Israeli society,” he added. “But let me tell you a secret: I wasn’t elected to advance the agenda of [Meretz party leader] Zehava Galon, of [Labor Party leader Isaac] Herzog, of [Yesh Atid party leader] Yair Lapid, of the left. I’m the education minister of the entire State of Israel.”The row over Israel’s main high school civics textbook became a new battleground in the debate over how much religion and Jewish history should be included in the country’s national curriculum.Three of the book’s authors have removed their names from chapters they wrote, claiming Education Ministry professionals altered their work beyond recognition to include a nationalist slant. The book’s editor has submitted a six-page protest letter, and the sole Arab member of the committee overseeing civics education has quit in protest. The book is scheduled to be published in March.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Defense minister: American aid package to be finalized in ‘weeks’-Kicking off joint US-Israeli drill, Ya’alon says US and Russia understand Israel will only intervene in Syria to protect its interests-By Joshua Davidovich and Judah Ari Gross February 22, 2016, 7:02 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Marking the start of a biennial US-Israeli ballistic missile defense drill in Haifa, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Monday that a new 10-year military aid package from Washington should be finalized “in the coming weeks.”“Israel has held talks over the last months on keeping its high-quality security in the Middle East with the goal of finalizing a budget for the next decade,” he said, speaking alongside US ambassador Dan Shapiro, after touring the USS Carney.The US and Israel have been renegotiating the military aid package, which currently stands at $3 billion annually. Israel wants to up the amount to $5 billion annually, according to reports, and some Israeli officials have threatened to hold out until US President Barack Obama leaves office in the hopes of securing a better deal.Ya’alon, who last week criticized the West’s approach to Syria, also expressed doubt that a US-Russian ceasefire in the works for the country could hold, and said Israel would not intervene except to preserve its interests, “something the US and Russia understand.”Members of the Obama administration’s national security team arrived in Israel in late January to advance talks on a new US defense assistance package to the country. In November, Israel was said to have completed its “shopping list” of desired American military material as part of a new long-term agreement for US defense assistance to Israel to maintain its qualitative edge in the region.On the list, and reportedly approved in principle by the US, is an Israeli request for V-22 Ospreys, planes which are believed capable of reaching Iran and which Israel reportedly sought from the US in 2012 — but later decided not to purchase due to budgetary restraints — when contemplating a strike on Iran’s Fordo enrichment facility.The Juniper Cobra exercise is held every two years and is meant to prepare the two militaries for the threat of a missile attack, as well as allowing the armies to learn how to better work together.In 2014, the last time the exercise was held, thousands of soldiers from both armies took part in the five-day event, which included computer-assisted simulations of a missile attack.The US has either jointly developed or financed all three tiers in Israel’s missile defense program — Iron Dome (short-range missile interceptor), David’s Sling (medium range) and Arrow (long range).“The exercise will employ Israel’s entire rocket and ballistic missile architecture, including Iron Dome, Arrow, and David’s Sling: assets that the United States is proud to have helped Israel finance and develop,” then-US defense secretary Chuck Hagel said at the start of the 2014 exercise.JTA contributed to this report.
Hundreds of London tube trains plastered with anti-Israel ads-BDS activists target 500 trains in what local government calls ‘an act of vandalism’ at start of Israeli Apartheid Week-By Sue Surkes February 22, 2016, 5:06 pm-the times of israel
Millions of Londoners were exposed Monday to a series of anti-Israel posters on the underground network to mark the beginning of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s 12th annual Israeli Apartheid Week.Transport for London, which is responsible for the tube service, said this was “an act of vandalism,” the ads were not authorized and staff members were working to take them down, the Jewish Chronicle reported.The posters, designed in the style of BBC reports, attacked the UK broadcasting organization [which is frequently criticized for pro-Palestinian leanings] for biased pro-Israel reporting and claimed Israel used British arms to “massacre Palestinians” during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.A third poster criticized the global security company G4S for working in Israel, while a fourth, titled “Apartheid is Great….Britain,” alleged that more than 100 UK companies continue to supply military equipment to the Jewish State.The Jewish Chronicle estimated that the ads appeared in some 500 trains.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold, who is currently in London, to demand that the British government see to it that the offending posters were taken down.MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) said he had contacted London Mayor Boris Johnson and asked him to intervene. “He explained that they were put up without authorization and would give the instruction for them to be taken down immediately,” Lapid said.Johnson lashed out against boycotters of Israel as “lefty academics” who wield no real influence, during a visit to Tel Aviv in November.Dore Gold meanwhile told Army Radio that the issue had been dealt with before Israeli politicians intervened. Israeli embassy officials became aware of the posters around midnight Sunday and by first thing Monday, were talking with London’s council about having the adverts removed.On Wednesday, the British government formally announced guidelines that prohibit publicly funded bodies from boycotting Israeli-made products. Bodies to which it applies include government agencies, the National Health Service and local authorities.
Opinion-Six EU double standards on Israel By Martin Konecny-FEB 22,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:06-Over the last few months, the Israeli government has stepped up its accusations that the EU employs a “double standard” in relation to Israel.According to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “there’s a natural tendency in the EU establishment to single out Israel and treat it in ways that other countries are not being dealt with.” This double-standards allegation has become the key Israeli talking point with regard to Europe, repeated at every opportunity.So let us check the facts. Are the Israeli claims true? Does Europe really hold Israel to a different standard than other countries? Yes: It turns out that Netanyahu is absolutely right. Europe does indeed apply double standards towards Israel - except that all of them happen to be to Israel's advantage rather than the other way around. Here are six examples.-Human rights-The EU has no subcommittee for human rights with Israel, although such bodies have been a standard component of the EU's relations with Mediterranean partner countries, from Morocco to Lebanon.Years ago, the EU yielded to Israel's refusal and agreed instead to a mere informal working group on human rights.Similarly, the EU-Israel action plan that has been in place for the last 10 years has the weakest human rights commitments of all EU action plans with neighbouring countries.Although the EU has deeper relations with Israel than with any other country in the region, Israel’s human-rights issues have been given the lowest priority.-International Criminal Court-The EU strongly supports the International Criminal Court (ICC). It uses trade and development agreements with many countries to encourage them to join the Hague Court, and has withheld assistance from Sudan and South Sudan which have refused to join.But in the case of Palestine, foremost EU states including the UK and France pressured president Mahmoud Abbas not to seek membership, which could lead to prosecution of both Israelis and Palestinians for war crimes.At the time, they claimed that ICC involvement could undermine the (defunct) Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Yet the same governments have led efforts to bring other countries embroiled in conflict - Sudan, Libya and Syria - to the Court through the United Nations Security Council, and condemned Russia and China for blocking the referral in the Syrian case.When Palestine eventually joined the ICC in April 2015, it was the first time that the EU did not issue a welcoming statement.-Sanctions-The EU applies sanctions to more than 30 countries around the world. Sanctions seem to have become the EU's default response to international challenges, with their use massively increasing in recent years.But Israel is not on the list.This is despite its well-known, large-scale violations of international law and human rights in the occupied territories, which are, moreover, making a peaceful two-state solution to the conflict practically impossible; expansion of settlements in the West Bank is just one example. Yet the EU does not apply even the mildest sanctions against those pushing for settlement expansion, or against extremist settlers who violently attack Palestinians and destroy their property.The few measures that the EU has taken so far - such as differentiated labelling of settlement products - are not sanctions, as the Israeli press likes to describe them. They merely ensure correct application of existing EU law based on its non-recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the occupied Palestinian territory.In contrast, to underscore its non-recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, the EU has imposed real, sweeping sanctions, including a ban on all trade with and investment in the peninsula.-Security-The EU often emphasises its commitment to Israel's security, but rarely mentions the security of the Palestinians. This is despite the fact that the latter have been suffering far greater levels of insecurity and much higher casualties during decades of conflict.The EU affirms Israel's right to defend itself against Palestinian attacks but never says whether the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves against Israeli attacks, within the bounds of international law.The EU also regularly calls on Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip to stop firing rockets and mortars on Israel, but not on Israel to curb its almost daily attacks, which also have been shown to violate international law.In 2015, there were 35 attacks from Gaza that caused no Israeli injuries or damage. In the same year, Israeli forces conducted 56 raids into Gaza and opened fire on Gazans in over 600 cases, killing 25 people and injuring over 1,300.These incidents often target civilians who pose no threat. Yet the latest EU Council conclusions on the conflict once again only addressed rocket fire by Palestinian militants.-Quartet principles-As part of the Middle East Quartet, the EU demands that any Palestinian government recognise Israel, accept previous agreements and renounce violence.In 2006 and 2007, the EU financially boycotted Palestinian governments that included Hamas as they did not commit to these three principles. The EU's stance contributed to the disastrous political split between Gaza and the West Bank that lasts until today.Yet neither the Quartet nor the EU have demanded that the Israeli government adhere to the same principles. In fact, Israel would hardly pass the test: it has not recognised Palestine, does not abide by key elements of past agreements including the Oslo Accords or the Roadmap, and frequently resorts to violence to sustain the occupation.But rather than holding Palestinian and Israeli governments to the same principles, the Quartet has employed them as one-sided demands.-Nuclear weapons-Europe tolerates Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons arsenal and its evasion of international inspections.In fact, it was France and Britain that secretly helped Israel to get “the bomb” in the 1950s and 60s. Germany still provides Israel with government-subsidised submarines, while reportedly knowing that Israel arms them with nuclear missiles.Europeans often vote against international resolutions calling on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which would open its nuclear facilities to inspections.This stands in stark contrast to the immense pressure the EU put on Iran to curb its nuclear programme, notwithstanding the differences between the two cases.Undeniably, Europeans - and Germans in particular - have a vast historical debt to the Jewish people, which factors into their stance on Israel's nuclear weapons. But it remains that there is a double standard in Israel's favour.-Redressing the imbalance-Some inconsistencies in foreign policy are inevitable - Israel is not the only area in which the EU is guilty of double standards. The reasons for Europe’s privileged treatment of Israel are multiple, and many of them are easy to understand: cultural affinity, historical guilt, sympathy for democracies, and admiration for cultural and scientific achievements (as well as organised pro-Israel lobbies).Yet Europe has every reason to redress its imbalanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and be more even-handed. After all, as the Israeli government rightly says, the double standard “prevents the EU from being an honest broker in the conflict.”And while there is no effective broker willing to hold both sides to the same standard, the very possibility of a peaceful solution is rapidly disappearing, promising more violence and instability on Europe’s doorstep and more fuel for global extremism in the decades to come.Martin Konecny runs the European Middle East Project (EuMEP), a Brussels-based NGO
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-developed ‘nano-nose’ can sniff out bombs, drugs-Tracense’s homeland security odor-detection technology is set to come on the market soon, a company official said-By David Shamah February 22, 2016, 7:32 pm-the times of israel
An Israeli-developed “nano-nose” could help homeland security officers sniff out explosives — as well as drugs, large amounts of cash, and even small metal items that are banned from planes. “And we do it with far less false positives than dogs or other technologies that are being used now to analyze the odor of explosives and other items,” said Matan Barami, chief chemist at Israeli nanotech start-up Tracense.Barami was speaking Monday at this year’s edition of NanoIsrael, a biennial event on the burgeoning Israeli nanotechnology industry. Over the past nine years, Israeli nanotechnology researchers have filed 1,590 patents (769 granted so far), published 12,392 scholarly articles on the subject, and had 129 nano-success stories, which include establishing start-ups, selling ideas or technology to multinationals, licensing a patent, etc., according to Rafi Koriat, chairman of the event at Tel Aviv University.The conference, Koriat said, is a place for top researchers and leaders from Israel and abroad to meet and discuss the latest developments in nanotechnology, “and provides visitors with a first look at cutting-edge technologies, leading scientific achievements and unique business and investment opportunities.”Tracense, which developed the world’s first nanotech-based “electronic nose” to sniff out security threats, including bombs, biological warfare agents, and toxic liquids and materials, could be included in that “latest developments” category. “We use nanotechnology to treat electronic wires that respond to the ‘smell’ of objects, comparing them to very specific odor profiles we equip our Tracense device with. Sensors detect an odor and send its profile to the wires, which respond when a substance that shouldn’t be there shows up.”Although most people don’t realize it, “smell” is just a manifestation of specific molecules, with each smell giving off its own specific chemical qualities. Detecting an odor, thus, is just a matter of figuring out which molecules are being “smelled” — no biggie for modern science, with several systems in use to do just that, using analytical chemistry-based equipment.While there are such systems on the market, said Barami, they do not use nanotechnology, and thus are not accurate enough to use in “live” situations at airports, bus stations, and shopping centers. “Most systems, for example, will detect whether there are traces of fertilizers — which can be used to manufacture bombs — on a person. But what if he or she is a farmer?” That’s one reason similar systems are not widely used — and why Tracense will be when it hits the market, “because our system can distinguish between the chemical composition of fertilizer when it is used for farming, and the changes it undergoes when it’s used for bombs,” added Barami.Dogs have a much better record than most “artificial noses,” but deploying them on a wide basis makes people uncomfortable, “and you can’t have a dog sniff every person or every piece of luggage.” With a Tracense device unobtrusively stationed at the appropriate place in the airport, people won’t even know they are being inspected, Barami continued.The Tracense system uses an electric sensor to detect molecules, with the information passed on to wires equipped with nano-sensors. Each sensor stores a smell profile, so when an odor is detected, the system provides a very specific reaction. In numerous beta tests, the Tracense system has been able to detect ultra-low concentrations of explosives, including improvised explosive devices and home-made explosives from solid particles, gaseous streams and liquid samples, the company said.Technically, the Tracense system could be programmed to detect any odor on earth, and it may just be deployed in other areas, such as in medicine. “The system could certainly detect bacteria, insulin, sugar and other things,” added Barami, but for now the company is concentrating on the homeland security market.The system should be available commercially “soon,” said Barami. “We are putting the finishing touches on our odor profile library, and I imagine it will be very popular, considering that we are able to do something that no one else can.”
After deadly stabbing, West Bank supermarket steps up security-At the request of police, all Rami Levy stores across Green Line to be equipped with cameras, metal detectors and more guards-By Times of Israel staff February 22, 2016, 4:30 pm
Days after an Israeli man was killed by Palestinian assailants at a Rami Levy grocery store in the Sha’ar Binyamin settlement, the discount supermarket chain on Monday announced that bolstered security measures would be implemented at all of their stores in the West Bank.The announcement came after two senior Rami Levy executives attended a security hearing at the request of police who, after the attack, said the store’s lax security was partly to blame for the Thursday stabbing that killed 21-year-old off-duty soldier Tuvia Yanai Weissman.Under the new security measures outlined by police, Rami Levy locations in the West Bank must be equipped with security cameras, metal detectors and an increased number of guards, Channel 2 reported.Police noted the hearing was held in a “positive atmosphere” and said the Rami Levy representatives offered to extend the ramped up security measures to some of their Jerusalem locations.The executives said a metal detector had already been erected at the store in Sha’ar Binyamin.According to a report Monday in the Hebrew-language NRG news website, Israeli security forces have barred Palestinians under the age of 25 from entering Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone until further notice.Like dozens of other attacks in recent months, the fatal stabbing on Thursday was carried out by two Palestinian teens, Omar Rimawi and Ihad Sabah, both 14, from the nearby village of Beitunia outside Ramallah.Investigators found that Rimawi and Sabah, who stabbed Weissman to death and seriously wounded another man, were able to bring knives into the store without being inspected by the security guard at the entrance.Security footage from the attack showed that three Palestinians sought to enter the supermarket. A security guard turned one away, but allowed Rimawi and Sabah in without a physical check.After the attack, officials ordered the store shuttered until serious security flaws were remedied. The Rami Levy chain also faced a forced closure of all four of its West Bank stores unless security was boosted across the board.A senior police official told Channel 2 news Sunday the measures were intended mainly a deterrent to other businesses to increase their vigilance.Rami Levy, the owner of the eponymous discount supermarkets, insisted Sunday that security arrangements at the site were adequate, and said it was only extreme bad luck that the terrorist attack had not been prevented.Weissman, a dual Israeli-US citizen and resident of the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Mikhmas, was stabbed and critically injured while shopping with his wife, Yael, and 4-month-old daughter, Neta. He later died of his wounds in the hospital.Sabah and Rimawi were shot by an armed civilian who rushed to the scene after hearing screaming. Sabah died of his wounds, while Rimawi remains hospitalized.Police later released photographs from the supermarket showing blood splattered on the floor of an aisle stocked with laundry detergent on display near a shopping cart.
After killing Dafna Meir, teen terrorist went home to watch movie — indictment-Charge sheet against 16-year-old Palestinian, accused of murdering mother of six with knife, provides chilling details of the attack-By Judah Ari Gross February 22, 2016, 8:13 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
On January 17, Morad Bader Abdullah Adais went into his kitchen, took a knife that his family used for cutting meat and decided to use it to kill Jews, according to the indictment filed against him Monday.Earlier that day, the 16-year-old had been watching Palestinian television, notably the “Falastin” and “Ma’an” networks, and videos posted on Facebook, which described Israeli soldiers as murderers who “disgraced young Palestinian women,” Adais told his Shin Bet security service interrogators.At approximately four o’clock in the afternoon, Adais took the six-inch (14-centimeter) knife from his kitchen and set out for Otniel, where he planned to kill residents and eventually “die a holy death as a martyr.”According to the indictment, he then climbed the fence into the Otniel settlement and began searching for a victim.A short time later, Adais spotted Dafna Meir, a 39-year-old biological mother of four and foster mother to two. Meir, a nurse at Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, was speaking on the phone in her house.Meir, as a religious woman, had her hair covered and was clearly identifiable as a Jewish resident of the West Bank settlement.After a few minutes, Meir hung up the phone and handed the device to one of her children. As she walked outside, Adais ran at her with the knife in his hand.Adais plunged the knife into her stomach in the doorway to her family’s home. Meir and her children began screaming as she grappled with the terrorist, trying to push him out of the house and away from her and her kids, the indictment said.But Adais overpowered the mother of six. He stabbed Meir a number of times in the upper body before finally stabbing her in the head, above her right eye, according to the charges against him.Adais tried to remove the knife in order to continue his rampage, but was unable to do so. He fled the scene, as Meir lay on the floor of her kitchen bleeding to death.When Adais returned home, he “realized that he had blood on his left hand, and washed it off. Afterwards, he sat down to watch a movie with his family,” according to the indictment.Two days later, on January 19, soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan Unit arrested Adais in the nearby village of Beit Amra. He was handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning. There he confessed to the murder and provided many of the details in the case.In addition to the crime of murder, Adais has been charged with illegally carrying a knife.
US envoy takes a ride in Israeli driverless car-Dan Shapiro says he’s ‘impressed’ with MobilEye’s technology, as car cruises autonomously on Jerusalem highway-By Times of Israel staff February 18, 2016, 7:43 pm
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro recently went for a spin on Israeli company MobilEye’s driverless car and left impressed.Shapiro joined MobilEye CEO Ziv Aviram for a drive on a highway outside Jerusalem, in a vehicle sporting MobilEye’s innovative autonomous car technology.“I have to say this is the first time I’ve ever been in a vehicle where the driver was not in control and I already feel much much safer than I ever would have imagined,” Shapiro said in a video of the ride released by the US Embassy on Thursday. “I can see that it’s probably safer than if a driver was in control of the vehicle, because drivers can be distracted but this vehicle cannot.”MobilEye currently sells driver assistance technology intended to prevent accidents. In recent years it has been one of the major developers of autonomous car technology, and its systems come preinstalled in cars made by companies including Audi and Tesla Motors. It’s systems use video cameras and advanced algorithms to identify and respond to other vehicles, bends in the road, pedestrians and traffic signs.“His hands are not on the wheel, his feet are not on the pedals, and the car is able to completely navigate at a safe speed and aware of all its surroundings,” an enthusiastic Shapiro said in the video.“So it’s pretty impressive and I’m looking forward to ‘driving’ one of these myself.”MobilEye raised nearly a billion dollars in its initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange in July 2014, making it the largest ever Israeli IPO. It was founded in 1999 by Aviram and Amnon Shashua, the Hebrew University professor who developed the technology.
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
Uproar as Bennett dedicates academic year to ‘united Jerusalem’-Education minister’s plan slammed by opposition lawmakers; Herzog: We must separate from Palestinians ‘who hate us’-By Marissa Newman and Joshua Davidovich February 22, 2016, 6:50 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Monday announced the upcoming school year would be designated as the “year of united Jerusalem,” drawing fierce criticism from the opposition Zionist Union party.As part of the plan — which would mark 50 years since the Six Day War when Israel took control of the entire city for the first time — students in schools around the country will visit the capital, touring the Knesset, Supreme Court, Old City, and other sites. The schools will also focus on Jerusalem in history, geography, civics, literature, and Bible classes.“Our history began in Jerusalem, and it from there that we draw all our energies during these times. If anyone tries to cut us off from the city they will only do the opposite — make us more attached to Jerusalem,” he said.The proposal, which comes amid an ongoing controversy over a civics textbook written under Bennett’s leadership, was criticized by members of the Zionist Union party, who see East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.“This morning I heard Education Minister Naftali Bennett — who woke up with a need to make headlines — declare a year of a united Jerusalem,” said opposition leader Isaac Herzog. “I love Jerusalem, we all love Jerusalem, but I wonder to which Jerusalem Bennett was referring — a Jewish, safe Jerusalem or a Jerusalem with 300,000 Palestinians who hate us annexed into it.”Referencing his own plan to exclude Arab neighborhoods from the Israeli capital, Herzog continued: “Whoever loves Jerusalem must demand a separation from the Palestinians.”Addressing Bennett, Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli said that Israelis were too afraid to visit Jerusalem due to the security situation.“I want to tell you, education minister, I was at the Western Wall this morning, and I don’t recall it ever being so empty and desolate,” she told him, as Jerusalem was experiencing cold and stormy weather.Meanwhile, Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir was being mocked on social media for a misguided attempt to school Bennett in Jewish history.After Bennett announced his education plan, Shaffir wrote on Twitter: “Sorry for being petty, but the education minister should know that according to the Torah, we came from Egypt.”Humorist Hanoch Daum responded on Facebook with an iconic photo of Israeli soldiers in the Old City of Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, replacing the Western Wall with the Egyptian pyramids.Other jokes included imaginary scenarios in which Shaffir accuses the grand mufti of Jerusalem of enslaving the Jewish people.The Jewish Home party wrote on Facebook that Shaffir’s comments show that the Labor Party has deteriorated greatly since the days of Yitzhak Rabin.Bennett later reiterated his support for the plan.“Our history began in Jerusalem, and our mission is to raise a new generation of lovers of the city,” he said at his faction meeting.On Saturday, Bennett also hit back at criticism that the new high school civics textbook had a nationalist bias.“I don’t understand what the storm is about,” Bennett said in a Channel 2 interview. The textbook “is a wonderful book that passed muster with many experts, and has been stuck in the pipeline for five years. I came [to the Education Ministry] to act. I won’t let an excellent book to be stuck in the pipeline.”“The book reflects all the perspectives of Israeli society,” he added. “But let me tell you a secret: I wasn’t elected to advance the agenda of [Meretz party leader] Zehava Galon, of [Labor Party leader Isaac] Herzog, of [Yesh Atid party leader] Yair Lapid, of the left. I’m the education minister of the entire State of Israel.”The row over Israel’s main high school civics textbook became a new battleground in the debate over how much religion and Jewish history should be included in the country’s national curriculum.Three of the book’s authors have removed their names from chapters they wrote, claiming Education Ministry professionals altered their work beyond recognition to include a nationalist slant. The book’s editor has submitted a six-page protest letter, and the sole Arab member of the committee overseeing civics education has quit in protest. The book is scheduled to be published in March.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Defense minister: American aid package to be finalized in ‘weeks’-Kicking off joint US-Israeli drill, Ya’alon says US and Russia understand Israel will only intervene in Syria to protect its interests-By Joshua Davidovich and Judah Ari Gross February 22, 2016, 7:02 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Marking the start of a biennial US-Israeli ballistic missile defense drill in Haifa, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Monday that a new 10-year military aid package from Washington should be finalized “in the coming weeks.”“Israel has held talks over the last months on keeping its high-quality security in the Middle East with the goal of finalizing a budget for the next decade,” he said, speaking alongside US ambassador Dan Shapiro, after touring the USS Carney.The US and Israel have been renegotiating the military aid package, which currently stands at $3 billion annually. Israel wants to up the amount to $5 billion annually, according to reports, and some Israeli officials have threatened to hold out until US President Barack Obama leaves office in the hopes of securing a better deal.Ya’alon, who last week criticized the West’s approach to Syria, also expressed doubt that a US-Russian ceasefire in the works for the country could hold, and said Israel would not intervene except to preserve its interests, “something the US and Russia understand.”Members of the Obama administration’s national security team arrived in Israel in late January to advance talks on a new US defense assistance package to the country. In November, Israel was said to have completed its “shopping list” of desired American military material as part of a new long-term agreement for US defense assistance to Israel to maintain its qualitative edge in the region.On the list, and reportedly approved in principle by the US, is an Israeli request for V-22 Ospreys, planes which are believed capable of reaching Iran and which Israel reportedly sought from the US in 2012 — but later decided not to purchase due to budgetary restraints — when contemplating a strike on Iran’s Fordo enrichment facility.The Juniper Cobra exercise is held every two years and is meant to prepare the two militaries for the threat of a missile attack, as well as allowing the armies to learn how to better work together.In 2014, the last time the exercise was held, thousands of soldiers from both armies took part in the five-day event, which included computer-assisted simulations of a missile attack.The US has either jointly developed or financed all three tiers in Israel’s missile defense program — Iron Dome (short-range missile interceptor), David’s Sling (medium range) and Arrow (long range).“The exercise will employ Israel’s entire rocket and ballistic missile architecture, including Iron Dome, Arrow, and David’s Sling: assets that the United States is proud to have helped Israel finance and develop,” then-US defense secretary Chuck Hagel said at the start of the 2014 exercise.JTA contributed to this report.
Hundreds of London tube trains plastered with anti-Israel ads-BDS activists target 500 trains in what local government calls ‘an act of vandalism’ at start of Israeli Apartheid Week-By Sue Surkes February 22, 2016, 5:06 pm-the times of israel
Millions of Londoners were exposed Monday to a series of anti-Israel posters on the underground network to mark the beginning of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s 12th annual Israeli Apartheid Week.Transport for London, which is responsible for the tube service, said this was “an act of vandalism,” the ads were not authorized and staff members were working to take them down, the Jewish Chronicle reported.The posters, designed in the style of BBC reports, attacked the UK broadcasting organization [which is frequently criticized for pro-Palestinian leanings] for biased pro-Israel reporting and claimed Israel used British arms to “massacre Palestinians” during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.A third poster criticized the global security company G4S for working in Israel, while a fourth, titled “Apartheid is Great….Britain,” alleged that more than 100 UK companies continue to supply military equipment to the Jewish State.The Jewish Chronicle estimated that the ads appeared in some 500 trains.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had asked Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold, who is currently in London, to demand that the British government see to it that the offending posters were taken down.MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) said he had contacted London Mayor Boris Johnson and asked him to intervene. “He explained that they were put up without authorization and would give the instruction for them to be taken down immediately,” Lapid said.Johnson lashed out against boycotters of Israel as “lefty academics” who wield no real influence, during a visit to Tel Aviv in November.Dore Gold meanwhile told Army Radio that the issue had been dealt with before Israeli politicians intervened. Israeli embassy officials became aware of the posters around midnight Sunday and by first thing Monday, were talking with London’s council about having the adverts removed.On Wednesday, the British government formally announced guidelines that prohibit publicly funded bodies from boycotting Israeli-made products. Bodies to which it applies include government agencies, the National Health Service and local authorities.
Opinion-Six EU double standards on Israel By Martin Konecny-FEB 22,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:06-Over the last few months, the Israeli government has stepped up its accusations that the EU employs a “double standard” in relation to Israel.According to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “there’s a natural tendency in the EU establishment to single out Israel and treat it in ways that other countries are not being dealt with.” This double-standards allegation has become the key Israeli talking point with regard to Europe, repeated at every opportunity.So let us check the facts. Are the Israeli claims true? Does Europe really hold Israel to a different standard than other countries? Yes: It turns out that Netanyahu is absolutely right. Europe does indeed apply double standards towards Israel - except that all of them happen to be to Israel's advantage rather than the other way around. Here are six examples.-Human rights-The EU has no subcommittee for human rights with Israel, although such bodies have been a standard component of the EU's relations with Mediterranean partner countries, from Morocco to Lebanon.Years ago, the EU yielded to Israel's refusal and agreed instead to a mere informal working group on human rights.Similarly, the EU-Israel action plan that has been in place for the last 10 years has the weakest human rights commitments of all EU action plans with neighbouring countries.Although the EU has deeper relations with Israel than with any other country in the region, Israel’s human-rights issues have been given the lowest priority.-International Criminal Court-The EU strongly supports the International Criminal Court (ICC). It uses trade and development agreements with many countries to encourage them to join the Hague Court, and has withheld assistance from Sudan and South Sudan which have refused to join.But in the case of Palestine, foremost EU states including the UK and France pressured president Mahmoud Abbas not to seek membership, which could lead to prosecution of both Israelis and Palestinians for war crimes.At the time, they claimed that ICC involvement could undermine the (defunct) Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Yet the same governments have led efforts to bring other countries embroiled in conflict - Sudan, Libya and Syria - to the Court through the United Nations Security Council, and condemned Russia and China for blocking the referral in the Syrian case.When Palestine eventually joined the ICC in April 2015, it was the first time that the EU did not issue a welcoming statement.-Sanctions-The EU applies sanctions to more than 30 countries around the world. Sanctions seem to have become the EU's default response to international challenges, with their use massively increasing in recent years.But Israel is not on the list.This is despite its well-known, large-scale violations of international law and human rights in the occupied territories, which are, moreover, making a peaceful two-state solution to the conflict practically impossible; expansion of settlements in the West Bank is just one example. Yet the EU does not apply even the mildest sanctions against those pushing for settlement expansion, or against extremist settlers who violently attack Palestinians and destroy their property.The few measures that the EU has taken so far - such as differentiated labelling of settlement products - are not sanctions, as the Israeli press likes to describe them. They merely ensure correct application of existing EU law based on its non-recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the occupied Palestinian territory.In contrast, to underscore its non-recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, the EU has imposed real, sweeping sanctions, including a ban on all trade with and investment in the peninsula.-Security-The EU often emphasises its commitment to Israel's security, but rarely mentions the security of the Palestinians. This is despite the fact that the latter have been suffering far greater levels of insecurity and much higher casualties during decades of conflict.The EU affirms Israel's right to defend itself against Palestinian attacks but never says whether the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves against Israeli attacks, within the bounds of international law.The EU also regularly calls on Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip to stop firing rockets and mortars on Israel, but not on Israel to curb its almost daily attacks, which also have been shown to violate international law.In 2015, there were 35 attacks from Gaza that caused no Israeli injuries or damage. In the same year, Israeli forces conducted 56 raids into Gaza and opened fire on Gazans in over 600 cases, killing 25 people and injuring over 1,300.These incidents often target civilians who pose no threat. Yet the latest EU Council conclusions on the conflict once again only addressed rocket fire by Palestinian militants.-Quartet principles-As part of the Middle East Quartet, the EU demands that any Palestinian government recognise Israel, accept previous agreements and renounce violence.In 2006 and 2007, the EU financially boycotted Palestinian governments that included Hamas as they did not commit to these three principles. The EU's stance contributed to the disastrous political split between Gaza and the West Bank that lasts until today.Yet neither the Quartet nor the EU have demanded that the Israeli government adhere to the same principles. In fact, Israel would hardly pass the test: it has not recognised Palestine, does not abide by key elements of past agreements including the Oslo Accords or the Roadmap, and frequently resorts to violence to sustain the occupation.But rather than holding Palestinian and Israeli governments to the same principles, the Quartet has employed them as one-sided demands.-Nuclear weapons-Europe tolerates Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons arsenal and its evasion of international inspections.In fact, it was France and Britain that secretly helped Israel to get “the bomb” in the 1950s and 60s. Germany still provides Israel with government-subsidised submarines, while reportedly knowing that Israel arms them with nuclear missiles.Europeans often vote against international resolutions calling on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which would open its nuclear facilities to inspections.This stands in stark contrast to the immense pressure the EU put on Iran to curb its nuclear programme, notwithstanding the differences between the two cases.Undeniably, Europeans - and Germans in particular - have a vast historical debt to the Jewish people, which factors into their stance on Israel's nuclear weapons. But it remains that there is a double standard in Israel's favour.-Redressing the imbalance-Some inconsistencies in foreign policy are inevitable - Israel is not the only area in which the EU is guilty of double standards. The reasons for Europe’s privileged treatment of Israel are multiple, and many of them are easy to understand: cultural affinity, historical guilt, sympathy for democracies, and admiration for cultural and scientific achievements (as well as organised pro-Israel lobbies).Yet Europe has every reason to redress its imbalanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and be more even-handed. After all, as the Israeli government rightly says, the double standard “prevents the EU from being an honest broker in the conflict.”And while there is no effective broker willing to hold both sides to the same standard, the very possibility of a peaceful solution is rapidly disappearing, promising more violence and instability on Europe’s doorstep and more fuel for global extremism in the decades to come.Martin Konecny runs the European Middle East Project (EuMEP), a Brussels-based NGO
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-developed ‘nano-nose’ can sniff out bombs, drugs-Tracense’s homeland security odor-detection technology is set to come on the market soon, a company official said-By David Shamah February 22, 2016, 7:32 pm-the times of israel
An Israeli-developed “nano-nose” could help homeland security officers sniff out explosives — as well as drugs, large amounts of cash, and even small metal items that are banned from planes. “And we do it with far less false positives than dogs or other technologies that are being used now to analyze the odor of explosives and other items,” said Matan Barami, chief chemist at Israeli nanotech start-up Tracense.Barami was speaking Monday at this year’s edition of NanoIsrael, a biennial event on the burgeoning Israeli nanotechnology industry. Over the past nine years, Israeli nanotechnology researchers have filed 1,590 patents (769 granted so far), published 12,392 scholarly articles on the subject, and had 129 nano-success stories, which include establishing start-ups, selling ideas or technology to multinationals, licensing a patent, etc., according to Rafi Koriat, chairman of the event at Tel Aviv University.The conference, Koriat said, is a place for top researchers and leaders from Israel and abroad to meet and discuss the latest developments in nanotechnology, “and provides visitors with a first look at cutting-edge technologies, leading scientific achievements and unique business and investment opportunities.”Tracense, which developed the world’s first nanotech-based “electronic nose” to sniff out security threats, including bombs, biological warfare agents, and toxic liquids and materials, could be included in that “latest developments” category. “We use nanotechnology to treat electronic wires that respond to the ‘smell’ of objects, comparing them to very specific odor profiles we equip our Tracense device with. Sensors detect an odor and send its profile to the wires, which respond when a substance that shouldn’t be there shows up.”Although most people don’t realize it, “smell” is just a manifestation of specific molecules, with each smell giving off its own specific chemical qualities. Detecting an odor, thus, is just a matter of figuring out which molecules are being “smelled” — no biggie for modern science, with several systems in use to do just that, using analytical chemistry-based equipment.While there are such systems on the market, said Barami, they do not use nanotechnology, and thus are not accurate enough to use in “live” situations at airports, bus stations, and shopping centers. “Most systems, for example, will detect whether there are traces of fertilizers — which can be used to manufacture bombs — on a person. But what if he or she is a farmer?” That’s one reason similar systems are not widely used — and why Tracense will be when it hits the market, “because our system can distinguish between the chemical composition of fertilizer when it is used for farming, and the changes it undergoes when it’s used for bombs,” added Barami.Dogs have a much better record than most “artificial noses,” but deploying them on a wide basis makes people uncomfortable, “and you can’t have a dog sniff every person or every piece of luggage.” With a Tracense device unobtrusively stationed at the appropriate place in the airport, people won’t even know they are being inspected, Barami continued.The Tracense system uses an electric sensor to detect molecules, with the information passed on to wires equipped with nano-sensors. Each sensor stores a smell profile, so when an odor is detected, the system provides a very specific reaction. In numerous beta tests, the Tracense system has been able to detect ultra-low concentrations of explosives, including improvised explosive devices and home-made explosives from solid particles, gaseous streams and liquid samples, the company said.Technically, the Tracense system could be programmed to detect any odor on earth, and it may just be deployed in other areas, such as in medicine. “The system could certainly detect bacteria, insulin, sugar and other things,” added Barami, but for now the company is concentrating on the homeland security market.The system should be available commercially “soon,” said Barami. “We are putting the finishing touches on our odor profile library, and I imagine it will be very popular, considering that we are able to do something that no one else can.”
After deadly stabbing, West Bank supermarket steps up security-At the request of police, all Rami Levy stores across Green Line to be equipped with cameras, metal detectors and more guards-By Times of Israel staff February 22, 2016, 4:30 pm
Days after an Israeli man was killed by Palestinian assailants at a Rami Levy grocery store in the Sha’ar Binyamin settlement, the discount supermarket chain on Monday announced that bolstered security measures would be implemented at all of their stores in the West Bank.The announcement came after two senior Rami Levy executives attended a security hearing at the request of police who, after the attack, said the store’s lax security was partly to blame for the Thursday stabbing that killed 21-year-old off-duty soldier Tuvia Yanai Weissman.Under the new security measures outlined by police, Rami Levy locations in the West Bank must be equipped with security cameras, metal detectors and an increased number of guards, Channel 2 reported.Police noted the hearing was held in a “positive atmosphere” and said the Rami Levy representatives offered to extend the ramped up security measures to some of their Jerusalem locations.The executives said a metal detector had already been erected at the store in Sha’ar Binyamin.According to a report Monday in the Hebrew-language NRG news website, Israeli security forces have barred Palestinians under the age of 25 from entering Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone until further notice.Like dozens of other attacks in recent months, the fatal stabbing on Thursday was carried out by two Palestinian teens, Omar Rimawi and Ihad Sabah, both 14, from the nearby village of Beitunia outside Ramallah.Investigators found that Rimawi and Sabah, who stabbed Weissman to death and seriously wounded another man, were able to bring knives into the store without being inspected by the security guard at the entrance.Security footage from the attack showed that three Palestinians sought to enter the supermarket. A security guard turned one away, but allowed Rimawi and Sabah in without a physical check.After the attack, officials ordered the store shuttered until serious security flaws were remedied. The Rami Levy chain also faced a forced closure of all four of its West Bank stores unless security was boosted across the board.A senior police official told Channel 2 news Sunday the measures were intended mainly a deterrent to other businesses to increase their vigilance.Rami Levy, the owner of the eponymous discount supermarkets, insisted Sunday that security arrangements at the site were adequate, and said it was only extreme bad luck that the terrorist attack had not been prevented.Weissman, a dual Israeli-US citizen and resident of the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Mikhmas, was stabbed and critically injured while shopping with his wife, Yael, and 4-month-old daughter, Neta. He later died of his wounds in the hospital.Sabah and Rimawi were shot by an armed civilian who rushed to the scene after hearing screaming. Sabah died of his wounds, while Rimawi remains hospitalized.Police later released photographs from the supermarket showing blood splattered on the floor of an aisle stocked with laundry detergent on display near a shopping cart.
After killing Dafna Meir, teen terrorist went home to watch movie — indictment-Charge sheet against 16-year-old Palestinian, accused of murdering mother of six with knife, provides chilling details of the attack-By Judah Ari Gross February 22, 2016, 8:13 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
On January 17, Morad Bader Abdullah Adais went into his kitchen, took a knife that his family used for cutting meat and decided to use it to kill Jews, according to the indictment filed against him Monday.Earlier that day, the 16-year-old had been watching Palestinian television, notably the “Falastin” and “Ma’an” networks, and videos posted on Facebook, which described Israeli soldiers as murderers who “disgraced young Palestinian women,” Adais told his Shin Bet security service interrogators.At approximately four o’clock in the afternoon, Adais took the six-inch (14-centimeter) knife from his kitchen and set out for Otniel, where he planned to kill residents and eventually “die a holy death as a martyr.”According to the indictment, he then climbed the fence into the Otniel settlement and began searching for a victim.A short time later, Adais spotted Dafna Meir, a 39-year-old biological mother of four and foster mother to two. Meir, a nurse at Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, was speaking on the phone in her house.Meir, as a religious woman, had her hair covered and was clearly identifiable as a Jewish resident of the West Bank settlement.After a few minutes, Meir hung up the phone and handed the device to one of her children. As she walked outside, Adais ran at her with the knife in his hand.Adais plunged the knife into her stomach in the doorway to her family’s home. Meir and her children began screaming as she grappled with the terrorist, trying to push him out of the house and away from her and her kids, the indictment said.But Adais overpowered the mother of six. He stabbed Meir a number of times in the upper body before finally stabbing her in the head, above her right eye, according to the charges against him.Adais tried to remove the knife in order to continue his rampage, but was unable to do so. He fled the scene, as Meir lay on the floor of her kitchen bleeding to death.When Adais returned home, he “realized that he had blood on his left hand, and washed it off. Afterwards, he sat down to watch a movie with his family,” according to the indictment.Two days later, on January 19, soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan Unit arrested Adais in the nearby village of Beit Amra. He was handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning. There he confessed to the murder and provided many of the details in the case.In addition to the crime of murder, Adais has been charged with illegally carrying a knife.
US envoy takes a ride in Israeli driverless car-Dan Shapiro says he’s ‘impressed’ with MobilEye’s technology, as car cruises autonomously on Jerusalem highway-By Times of Israel staff February 18, 2016, 7:43 pm
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro recently went for a spin on Israeli company MobilEye’s driverless car and left impressed.Shapiro joined MobilEye CEO Ziv Aviram for a drive on a highway outside Jerusalem, in a vehicle sporting MobilEye’s innovative autonomous car technology.“I have to say this is the first time I’ve ever been in a vehicle where the driver was not in control and I already feel much much safer than I ever would have imagined,” Shapiro said in a video of the ride released by the US Embassy on Thursday. “I can see that it’s probably safer than if a driver was in control of the vehicle, because drivers can be distracted but this vehicle cannot.”MobilEye currently sells driver assistance technology intended to prevent accidents. In recent years it has been one of the major developers of autonomous car technology, and its systems come preinstalled in cars made by companies including Audi and Tesla Motors. It’s systems use video cameras and advanced algorithms to identify and respond to other vehicles, bends in the road, pedestrians and traffic signs.“His hands are not on the wheel, his feet are not on the pedals, and the car is able to completely navigate at a safe speed and aware of all its surroundings,” an enthusiastic Shapiro said in the video.“So it’s pretty impressive and I’m looking forward to ‘driving’ one of these myself.”MobilEye raised nearly a billion dollars in its initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange in July 2014, making it the largest ever Israeli IPO. It was founded in 1999 by Aviram and Amnon Shashua, the Hebrew University professor who developed the technology.
