Report: Hezbollah intends maritime siege in next war
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hezbollah has a stock of advanced sea-to-sea missiles with which it intends to impose a maritime siege on Israel if the two sides enter another war, Lebanese media outlets reported on Monday.
According to the reports, Hezbollah apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made Yakhont sea-to-sea missiles, which were recently transferred from Russia to Syria as part of an arms deal between the two countries. Moscow has also allegedly transferred more advanced S-300 anti-aircraft batteries to Syria. It is possible that some of these have been transferred to Hezbollah.
In the case of a war with Israel, the report said, Hezbollah intends to target Israeli and foreign vessels inside Israel’s territorial waters.
One senior Hezbollah official said, “The organization has modern long-range missiles and advanced weapons systems that alter strategic balance between Israel and Hezbollah.”
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Two Israeli start-ups finalists in world startup contest in France
(JNS.org) Two Israeli startups, Pixoneye and Pzartech, are two of the six super finalists in the iiAwards, a world startup competition organized by the Paris Region Lab and supported by the City of Paris, France.
Ofri Ben Porat of the computer vision startup Pixonyey and Jeremie Brabet-Adonajlo of the 3D printing startup Pzartech will make a final pitch on Dec. 2 at the Grands Prix de l’Innovation. As super finalists they will be able to join an entrepreneurship incubator program in Paris and compete for a 20.000€ prize.
“The iiAwards is an opportunity to work with the ecosystem of Paris, we feel it’s a moment when this region is investing a lot of energy in support of the entrepreneurs and we really appreciate that,” said Brabet-Adonajlo and his partner Joachim Hagege.
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3 Palestinians arrested for possible carjacking
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli police and military forces arrested three Palestinians Monday night over a vehicular attack earlier that day that left a 50-year-old Israeli critically wounded. Police are still trying to determine whether the attack was nationalistically motivated or a car theft that turned violent.
Security forces arrested the three men in the Palestinian town of Qabalan, southeast of Nablus in Samaria.
Earlier on Monday, police received reports that a 50-year-old man had been wounded after a vehicle hit him and drove off in the West Bank. Police and medical personnel who arrived at the scene presumed it was either a hit-and-run accident or a nationalistically motivated vehicular attack.
However, it is now thought the incident may have been a violent carjacking. Police believe the Israeli man was driving along the road when the Palestinian car forced him to stop, and one or two assailants pulled him from his car. Based on the trauma to the victim’s head, it is believed he fought his assailants and that they may have run him over while fleeing the scene.
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Online service matches families with affordable Jewish summer camps
The Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) has launched BunkConnect, a new online service matching eligible families with well-regarded, non-profit Jewish summer camps. The families are then allowed to register their children to the camps at a more affordable price.
Using the online system, income-eligible Jewish families can register by supplying basic, confidential information. The service then matches them to summer camps and offers them 40 to 60 percent lower registration charges.
BunkConnect launched at the end of November with 75 participating camps representing various Jewish movements and denominations. The program is for first-time campers and is part of the Foundation for Jewish Camp with The Center for Entrepreneurial Jewish Philanthropy (CEJP).
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Jerusalem teachers’ association chairman says all Palestine is Arab
The Chairman of the Jerusalem Teachers’ Association has said that the educational message in Arab schools in Jerusalem is that all of Israel is occupied and must be returned to the Palestinians.
“In our schools, we teach what our religion and conscience dictate: That Jerusalem is Arab and that Palestine – from north to south, from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea – is Islamic Palestinian Arab, and will remain so in spite of the damned occupier,” Issa Salman said on Palestinian Authority (PA) television, Palestinian Media Watch reported.
Public Arab schools in Jerusalem fall under under the authority of the Education Administration of Jerusalem, which belongs the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israeli Ministry of Education.
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