Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the Israeli national election, securing a record fifth term in office on Wednesday after nearly complete results from Israel’s general election put him in position to form a rightwing coalition. With 96 percent of the votes counted, Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud won 37 of Knesset seats,[Read More…]
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2,000-year-old Jewish village discovered in Israel
Jerusalem: Remains of an over 2,000-year old rural Jewish settlement with luxurious burial ground were discovered in excavations in southern Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported on Wednesday. A large winepress was discovered at the site with fragments of jars, a large columbarium and a cave for pigeons nesting,[Read More…]
Indian historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam wins $500,000 Dan David Prize
Kenneth Pomeranz, another well-known historian is sharing the $1 million prize with Subrahmanyam.
Israel registers 34% drop in tech exit deals in 2018: PwC report
Jerusalem, A total of 66 Israeli technology companies signed “exit” deals worth 4.9 billion US dollars in 2018, said a report published by accounting and consulting firm PwC-Israel. The report shows a decrease of about 34 percent in the total value, compared with 7.4 billion dollars in 70 deals in[Read More…]
Israeli policy won’t change after US withdrawal from Syria: Netanyahu
Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government will maintain its current policy regarding the conflict in Syria despite the US decision to withdraw its forces deployed there. Netanyahu made these remarks on Sunday after the White House said that the withdrawal of US troops had already begun,[Read More…]
UNSC adopts resolution supporting peacekeepers’ return to Syria-Israel border
United Nations, The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution that stressed no military activity should occur in the de-militarised zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights amid the UN peacekeepers’ return to the area. Through Resolution 2450, the Security Council on Friday stressed the obligation on Syria and[Read More…]
Hezbollah vows to continue resistance against Israel
Beirut, Hezbollah’s Deputy Leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has said resistance is the only way to confront Israel’s aggression and violations in the region. “When the resistance and its people and its will are present, Israel cannot achieve its goals in the region and it cannot exist among us in the[Read More…]
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh seeks Israel’s help in water management
Chandigarh: Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday sought Israel’s cooperation for sewerage water treatment in five major cities of Punjab, as the state looks to tackle pollution and boost irrigation. The Chief Minister, who is on an official visit to Israel, held talks in Jerusalem with Israel’s Minister of Energy[Read More…]
Israel’s only Olympic gold medallist to sell his medal
Jerusalem: The only Israeli Olympic gold medal winner ever Gal Fridman, announced on Monday that he would sell the medal at an auction. The 43-year-old Fridman wrote in Facebook: “I’m looking for an eBay expert that understands an auction of the rare item, the only one of its kind in[Read More…]
India sells Petrol at Rs 34 litre to 15 countries, but double price to Indians: RTI Report
Through an RTI report, RTI activist from Punjab, Rohit Sabrawal revealed that India is selling Rs 34 per litre Petrol to 15 countries and Rs 37 per litre diesel to 29 countries while Indian citizens have been availing the same Petrol and diesel for more than double the price. In[Read More…]
Israel attacks group launching ‘arson balloons’ from Gaza
Israel has carried out an airstrike against a group of Gazans launching arson balloons to burn the Israeli farmlands, the military said. A terrorist squad was launching arson balloons from the northern Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, a military spokesperson said in a statement on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported.[Read More…]
Israelis demand equal gay surrogacy rights
Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters have rallied here against a law denying surrogacy to gay couples and single fathers. Demonstrators held their gathering in the central Rabin Square, and at one point briefly blocked a major motorway. At least one person was arrested, BBC reported on Sunday. Israel’s parliament[Read More…]
UN chief concerned over escalation of violence in Gaza
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed his grave concern over the dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel. I deeply regret the loss of life. It is imperative that all sides urgently step back from the brink of another devastating conflict, the Secretary-General said in[Read More…]
Israel passes ‘Jewish state law’, says “Israel is the historic homeland of Jewish people”
Israel’s parliament on Thursday passed the controversial bill that defines the country as an exclusively Jewish state. The Jewish nation state bill downgrades Arabic as an official language and says advancing Jewish settlement is a national interest. It also states that the whole and united Jerusalem is its capital, BBC[Read More…]
Israel says its former Minister Gonen Segev spied for Iran
Jerusalem: Israel has charged a former cabinet minister with spying for Iran, the Shin Bet internal security service says. Gonen Segev, a medical doctor who served as Energy Minister in the 1990s, was allegedly recruited by Iranian intelligence while living in Nigeria. He was detained during a visit to Equatorial[Read More…]
Do not quit Iran deal: UN urges Trump
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Donald Trump not to walk away from an international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. Speaking to the BBC, Guterres said there was a real risk of war if the 2015 agreement was not preserved. Trump has been a strong[Read More…]
India, Israel to enhance agriculture, S&T, security cooperation
New Delhi: India and Israel have agreed to enhance cooperation in the areas of agriculture, science and technology and security, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. “We will strengthen the existing pillars of cooperation in areas that touch the lives of our peoples,” Modi said in a joint address[Read More…]
Rebuffing US, General Assembly votes resolution on Jerusalem; India backs move
United Nations: In a rebuff to the US, the UN General Assembly on Thursday, passed by a two-thirds majority, a resolution criticising President Donald Trump‘s decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move Washington’s embassy there. India joined the overwhelming Assembly majority to vote for the resolution that[Read More…]
Now Israeli sniffer dogs will protect PM Modi!
India, Israel ties have always been warm, especially after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jerusalem last month. With Israel being India’s top defence equipment suppliers, the total bilateral trade between the two democracies stands at $4.52 billion, according to Indian embassy at Tel Aviv. India and Israel established full[Read More…]
Israel attempt to shut down Al Jazeera, bans journalists
Israel plans to cancel media credentials of Al Jazeera journalists and close the network’s office in Jerusalem, the country’s communication minister has announced. Israel’s communications minister has said he wants to shut down pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera in the country. Ayoob Kara, of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said on[Read More…]
Netanyahu’s ‘reported remarks’ on PM Modi raised in Rajya Sabha
Israeli PM’s remarks on PM Modi’s reason to skip Palestine in his recent visit to Israel were raised in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress on Monday. Anand Sharma of the Congress party gave a notice under rule 267 and sought suspension of listed activities of the house, saying that[Read More…]
Yogi Adityanath claims to be undeterred by allegations of saffronisation
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath denied saffronisation charges against him and the Union government. People saying so are erroneous in their analysis, he said. “The people who say so are the ones who wake up in the afternoon and hence they miss the colour of the morning,” he said.[Read More…]
India, Israel and the Jews of India
India’s relationship with Israel started when India formally recognised Israel as a state on September 17, 1950. However, embassies were started in 1992 only. Both the countries see themselves as isolated democracies threatened by neighbours that train, finance, and encourage terrorism, attack their borders, therefore they view their cooperative relationship[Read More…]
Gen Bipin Rawat: Indian Army open to appoint women
Women cadets will now be first inducted into the military force before considering other options in the armed force for them, said Chief of Army Staff General, Bipin Rawat. He told media that, “First, we will start with women as military police jawans, will take next step after success”. “Because[Read More…]
Did you know that your router could secretly leak sensitive data?
Scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to secretly draw off sensitive files, passwords or other critical data from any common router. The researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel explained how functionality light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can be quietly overridden by malware they developed (code named[Read More…]