IDF destroys explosives-laden tunnel under Gaza borders
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces blew up an explosives-laden tunnel under Israel’s border with the central part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, outgoing IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.
The tunnel was a previously undiscovered segment of a tunnel that was uncovered before Operation Pillar of Defense last November. It contained barrels of explosives intended for use by Gaza-based terrorists against IDF troops patrolling the border.
Last week, the IDF uncovered a different tunnel, running 1.5 miles under the border from the Gaza Strip until Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha. Gaza terrorists intended to use that tunnel to abduct soldiers or to carry out a large terrorist attack.
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Nobel laureates to hold convention in Israel next year
(JNS.org) More than 30 Nobel Prize winners plan to visit Israel in the summer of 2014 for the first Science and Technology for the Future conference, a joint initiative of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and its Science and Technology Ministry.
The Nobel laureates plan to visit Israel’s universities to meet with budding Israeli scientists.
“This will be the first conference of its kind,” said Dr. Roger Kornberg, who is heading the event’s steering committee, according to Israel Hayom.
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Iran nuclear program activity indicates non-peaceful intent, Israel says
(JNS.org) While negotiations between Western countries and Iran began Tuesday in Geneva, Israel sounded a skeptical note on Iran’s characterization of its nuclear program as peaceful.
“Israel does not oppose Iran having a peaceful nuclear energy program,” the Israeli Diplomatic-Security Cabinet said in a statement. “But as has been demonstrated in many countries, from Canada to Indonesia, peaceful programs do not require uranium enrichment or plutonium production. Iran’s nuclear weapons program does.”
A country like Iran “that regularly deceives the international community, that violates U.N. Security Council resolutions, that participates in the slaughter of civilians in Syria and that promotes terror worldwide” has no right to enrich uranium, Israel added.
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Iran’s Khamenei slams ‘criminal Zionist network’
(JNS.org) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his annual address to Muslims on the Hajj pilgrimage, identifying Iran’s “main enemy” as the “criminal Zionist network.”
Khamenei said that Syria “has come under the attack of arrogant powers and their regional agents because of supporting anti-Zionist orientations” and that these powers, “headed by the USA, conceal their true character with the help of comprehensive and advanced propaganda tools,” Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
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World Jewish Congress commends blocking of Erich Priebke funeral
(JNS.org) World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder applauded reports that Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman has given an order not to accept the body of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke. Italian and Catholic authorities have also refused to bury Priebke or hold a funeral, Fox News reported.
Priebke took part in a 1944 massacre outside of Rome that saw the deaths of 335 men and boys, including about 75 Jews. He was extradited from Argentina to Italy in 1995 and was later ordered to house arrest, where he remained until his death Friday at age 100.
The corpse of Priebke “should be cremated and its ashes scattered in an unknown location, as was done with Adolf Eichmann and Osama Bin Laden,” Lauder said.
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