By: Julie Stahl; CBN News – cbn.com
TEL AVIV, Israel – Thousands of Jewish people from around the world are expected to immigrate to Israel this summer, fulfilling the words of the biblical prophets. CBN News was at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport when the first planeload of the summer arrived.
A big welcome party awaited two hundred new immigrants who arrived in Israel to make the Jewish State their home.
Idan, 29, who now lives in California, appeared twice before the 41st session of the UNHRC on June 25 and 26. She also sparked uproar in her home country in November 2017 when she posed for an Instagram photo with Miss Israel Adar Gandelsman at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/12/support-for-israel-may-cost-miss-iraq-her-citizenship/
By: Tovah Lazaroff; The Jerusalem Post – jpost.com
Israel is prepared for “a large scale military operation in Gaza” if calm cannot be maintained, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, during a visit to Ashkelon.
“I prefer to maintain the tranquility, although we do not have the illusion that it is possible to reach a political agreement with this group [Hamas] that wants to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the earth,” Netanyahu said. “We are preparing for the offensive side, and the campaign is not only going to be broad, but also surprising.”
The Australian Jewish News; jewishnews.net.au
IT’S not the usual way to get a business class upgrade. But then, it’s not every day you’re called upon to keep an ailing fellow passenger alive.
Kate Kessel, a registered nurse at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, was four hours into a flight from Bangkok to Tel Aviv with husband Noel, a former AJN photographer, and children when an Israeli man in his 70s a few rows behind them became seriously ill.
By: Raphael Ahren; The Times of Israel – timesofisrael.com
MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain sees the US-led economic workshop taking place in Manama this week as a possible “gamechanger” tantamount in its scope to the 1978 Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt, the Gulf state’s foreign minister said Wednesday, also firmly backing Israel’s right to exist.
By: Tre Goins-Phillips; The Christian Broadcasting Network – cbn.com
A Christian doctor in England could lose his medical license for interjecting faith into his meetings with patients.
Dr. Richard Scott, a general practitioner at the Bethesda Medical Center in Margate, Kent, is currently under investigation by the General Medical Council and the National Health Service.
By: Gil Hoffman; The Jerusalem Post – jpost.com
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein have temporarily paused their effort to cancel the election and form a unity government, but sources close to them declared on Thursday night that the initiative is still not dead.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Effort-to-cancel-elections-on-hold-but-not-dead-593932
By: Anna Ahronheim; The Jerusalem Post – jpost.com
Several fires broke out in southern Israel over the weekend sparked by incendiary balloons on Friday as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated along the Gaza border, despite an understanding reached between Israel and Hamas to restore calm.
By: Julie Stahl; Christian Broadcast Network – cbn.com
For years, the Sea of Galilee has been shrinking. Then, this past winter delivered a pleasant surprise to the biblical lake. While this ancient body of water isn’t out of danger, a rainy winter has helped bring relief.
“A miracle,” said Roni Manor from Kibbutz Ginnosar on the Sea of Galilee.
By: Emily Jones – Christian Broadcasting Network; cbn.com
The eastern European country of Moldova announced Tuesday that it will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would make it the first European country to have an embassy in Jerusalem.
The Cabinet of Ministers also decided to approve an agreement on the sale of the plot of land for the construction of the Embassy of the United States of America in the Republic of Moldova.