Today’s Top Stories
1. Is Israel ready to ratify nuclear test ban treaty?
2. With both the Israeli and PA Presidents due to address the European Parliament this week, the question people are asking is, Will Reuven Rivlin and Mohammed Abbas meet in Brussels?
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3. PA foreign ministry accused Israel of poisoning Palestinian wells. This on top of media reports debunked by HonestReporting claiming Israel cut off water to the West Bank.
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Israel and the Palestinians
• The Israeli government approved an NIS 82 million ($21 million) funding package to West Bank settlements. Money will be boost security and infrastructure, stipends to local authorities, youth programming, tourism development, and small business aid. Times of Israel coverage.
• Students use Internet to fight against BDS
• Gazans squeezed by triple taxes as Hamas replaces lost income, reports the BBC.
• Palestinian unity efforts being pushed by Qatar are going nowhere, reports Asharq al-Awsat.
• Israel’s building in the Negev what will be the world’s largest solar tower, which will be surrounded by a field of mirrors “the size of more than 400 football pitches.” AFP visited the site.
Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 metres (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government and the consortium building it . . .
The tower should provide 121 megawatts, or two percent of Israel’s electricity needs, enough for a city of 110,000 households.
The country of eight million people is seeking to make renewable energy account for 10 percent of its total consumption by 2020.
• How gas could warm relations between Israel and Turkey.
• Doesn’t seem so long ago that there were reports of various countries interested in purchasing Iron Dome. But Defense News reports that not one system has been sold. Zero.
That’s primarily because few countries in the world face the persistent threat of rocket barrages the way Israel does, sources here say . . .
Rafael executives say they aim to change the “no sales yet” status of Iron Dome through an expanded mission set, including sea-based defense, drone killing missions and the ability to intercept anything from mortars to precision-guided munitions (PGMs).
Around the World
• This anti-Semitic incident in a Belgian school reported by YNet is rather disturbing.
12-year-old Jewish student claims he underwent anti-Semitic ‘gas attack’ in school showers as he was sprayed with deodorant and was repeatedly verbally and physically abused; Police and school launch investigation.
• It would’ve been easier to write a letter to the editor, but some higher-up evidently wanted more satisfaction.
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Brenda Power: Israel victimised and under attack — from misguided luvvies
– Khaled Abu Toameh: “Selling a House to a Jew is a Betrayal of Allah”
– Ron Ben-Yishai: Ten years of lessons learned
– Mary Anastasia O’Grady: Iran’s infiltration of Latin America (click via Google News)
Featured image: CC BY-NC Daniel Hoherdr with additions by HonestReporting; Iron Dome CC BY-NC Israel Defense Forces;
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