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Israeli Advances in Technology: Mini Robots That Clean Solar Panels

April 2, 2014 As the world energy demands continue to grow, solar power represents a promising alternative. However, the efficiency of solar panels is reduced by dirt and grime. Enter the world’s first self-cleaning solar park in Israel’s Arava Valley, where every night 100 Israeli-built robots clean off dusty PV panels, increasing production by as much as 35% at Kibbutz Ketura. These robots represent a real solution for solar energy farms, most of which are located in the wide open spaces of deserts where the sun is strong, the dust is ubiquitous, and water is scarce.

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Israel Marks the 35th Anniversary of the Peace Treaty with Egypt

April 2, 2014 On the 35th anniversary of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, the Israel State Archives declassified and published online 67 documents, 18 of them in English, including telegrams and letters, records of conversations and government meetings. They tell the tale of Israel's first set of negotiations with Egypt, perhaps, since the Exodus and a peace treaty signed on the White House lawn by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on March 26, 1979.

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Hungarian Jews Boycott State’s Holocaust Remembrance

April 2, 2014 Hungary’s Jewish community is boycotting state ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in protest of efforts made by the Hungarian government to downplay Hungary’s role in the World War Two atrocities against millions of Jews and others.

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Israeli Doctors Save Jordanian Boy

March 26, 2014 Last week, even as the Jordanian parliament was calling for the ousting of Israel’s envoy to Jordan (due to the self-defense killing of a Jordanian judge at the Allenby Bridge crossing), Israeli doctors at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center provided a 7-year-old Jordanian boy with his mother's donated kidney. After the boy faced critical kidney failure, his parents wrote a request to the Civil Administration Health Services for the operation to go forward at Rambam Medical Center.

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Israeli Troops Get Ready for Possible Iranian Strike as Iran Prepares for Nuclear Holocaust Against Israel

March 26, 2014 Last week, it was reported that Iran is recognized by the United States intelligence community as being in the "top 10" of the world's offensive cyber powers (The Christian Science Monitor), 85 US legislators also signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to enforce sanctions against Iran. "We must signal unequivocally to Iran that rejecting negotiations and continuing its nuclear weapon program will lead to much more dramatic sanctions, including further limitations on Iran’s exports of crude oil and petroleum products," the letter states. "We believe any agreement must dismantle Iran’s nuclear weapons program and prevent it from ever having a uranium or plutonium path to a nuclear bomb."

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British Prime Minister David Cameron Speaks at the Knesset

March 19, 2014 Last week, during British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first visit to Israel as prime minister, he assured Israelis of his solidarity with the Jewish nation. “With me, you have a British Prime Minister whose belief in Israel is unbreakable and whose commitment to Israel’s security will always be rock solid.‬ “I will always stand up for the right of Israel to defend its citizens, a right enshrined in international law, in natural justice and fundamental morality, and in decades of common endeavor between Israel and her allies,” he told the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

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Hamas Unveils Monument to Missiles

March 19, 2014 Last week, as Israel was presenting to the world the haul of weapons caught in passage from Iran to Gaza, Hamas unveiled a statue with a rocket on the top, designed to honor its ability to strike Israel. At the unveiling, a Hamas leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades military wing said, “Hamas managed to take the battle to the heart of the Zionist entity (Israel) after developing its rocket system, succeeding where many Arab armies had failed.”

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Norwegian Cruise Line Drops Tunisian Port Calls Over Anti-Israel Bias

March 19, 2014 After Tunisia prevented over a dozen Israeli passengers from disembarking from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship, a line based in Miami, announced that it will no longer be making stops in Tunisia. The Israeli passengers were singled out from hundreds of passengers aboard the Norwegian Jade and barred entry to the port of Tunis after the Tunisian government apparently made a last minute decision.

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Love Bombing and Rising European Anti-Semitism

March 19, 2014 Members of Sweden’s Liberal Party youth wing organized a “love bombing,” placing cut-out hearts on the doors of a school in Sweden a day after it was covered with Nazi slogans that included "Jewish swine" and "Disgusting Jews." In response, other youth wrote messages to the school’s Jewish students voicing their support. Included were such positive messages such as “Love overcomes hate” and “Love comes in all shapes and colours.”

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Iranian General Says Iran is Ready to Destroy Israel

March 19, 2014 Last week, Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami announced that the Iranian military is ready to attack and to destroy Israel when ordered to do so. “Today, we can destroy every spot which is under the Zionist regime’s control with any volume of fire power (that we want) right from here,” Salami told a conference in Tehran last week.

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