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Date |
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| 7-30-2009 | Construction Started On The Temple Altar: |
| 7-6-2009 | Temple Quarry Found: |
| 6-8-2009 | Reform Movement Ordains First Black Female Rabbi: |
| 3-31-2009 | New Prime Minister For Israel: |
| 3-30-2009 | Obama Pressed To End Cast Lead: |
| 3-15-2009 | 50,000 Rockets Aimed At Israel: |
| 3-3-2009 | US To Pump $900 Million Into P.A.: |
| 2-20-2009 | Iran Has Enough Uranium For Bomb: |
| 2-6-2009 | UN Halts Aid To Gaza, Accuses Hamas Of Stealing Supplies: |
| 1-25-2009 | Pope Welcomes Holocaust Denier: (by David Shammah): |
| 1-17-2009 | Israel Declares Unilateral Cease Fire: |
| 1-3-2009 | Israel Enters Gaza: |
During Thursday’s (July 30-2009) ceremony, which took place in Mitzpe Yericho just east of Jerusalem, the Temple Institute laid the cornerstone for the altar and demonstrated how tar will be used to cement the stones together. The Institute plans on bringing the altar to its proper place on the Temple Mount when the Temple is rebuilt.
Source: Israel National News
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132664
JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have uncovered an ancient quarry where they believe King Herod extracted stones for the construction of the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday. The archaeologists believe the 1,000-square-foot (100-square-meter) quarry was part of a much larger network of quarries used by Herod in the city.
The biggest stones extracted from the quarry would have measured three yards (meters) long, two yards (meters) across, and two yards (meters) high."The dimensions of the stones that were produced in the quarry that was revealed are suitable for the Temple walls," said Ofer Sion, the dig's director.
"Finding a large quarry related to the largest building project ever undertaken in Jerusalem ... that's more than just another discovery," said archaeologist Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University, who was not involved in the excavation. "It's an additional block that slowly reveals the picture of construction in ancient Jerusalem."
Because of the amount of ancient remains in Israel, builders are required to carry out a salvage excavation before beginning construction. Such digs regularly turn up important finds.
Source: By Jen Thomas, Associated Press Writer - Mon Jul. 6 2009.
The Reform movement in the United States ordained the first African-American female rabbi on Saturday in Cincinnati. Alysa Stanton, 45 is also a trained psychotherapist. Stanton was one of 14 rabbis ordained by the Hebrew Union College in the weekend ceremony. She will become the rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, South Carolina.
Source: (IsraelNN.com)
Incoming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is set to present this afternoon the largest government in Israel’s history – 30 ministers and 8 deputy ministers.
The Kadima party will lead the new Knesset opposition, which will also comprise the National Union, Meretz and the Arab parties.
Source: Arutz Sheva (news@israelnationalnews.com) 3-31-2009
President Obama, before he took office, pressured outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to put a quick end to the Cast Lead counterterrorist operation against Hamas, according to New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh.
Hersh, who previously has divulged conversations with leaders promoting pro-Arab positions vis-à-vis Israel, reported in the current edition that President Obama approved of recent talks between American officials and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“The Obama transition team…helped persuade Israel to end the bombing of Gaza and to withdraw its ground troops before the Inauguration,” Hersh wrote. Israel stopped the campaign and agreed to a cease fire without demanding the return of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and without the establishment of measures promised by the United States and other Western countries to stop weapons smuggling for Hamas.
The success of Hamas to remain in power throughout the Cast Lead campaign gives Assad “enough political room to continue the negotiations without losing credibility in the Arab world.”
Source: Arutz Sheva (news@israelnationalnews.com) Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (3-30-2009)
Hamas and Hizbullah terrorists have amassed an arsenal of 50,000 rockets aimed at Israel, United Press International (UPI) has reported. Israel still has no defense against the threat, and the government’s highly touted Iron Dome short-range missile defense system is far from being in operation and may not even be practical.
“Even if Iron Dome works perfectly, it is never going to have the firepower in interceptors to credibly intercept most, let alone all,” of the rockets, according to the UPI report.
Hizbullah has amassed far more rockets than it possessed before the Second Lebanon War in 2006, despite Israel’s agreeing to a ceasefire on the condition that United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL) would prevent arms smuggling into Lebanon.
In the south, Hamas continues to smuggle weapons into Gaza despite a similar ceasefire agreement, supposedly conditioned on a cessation of arms smuggling, that the Olmert administration announced when concluding Operation Cast Lead in mid-January.
Source: Arutz Sheva (news@israelnationalnews.com) (3-15-2009) by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday (3-2-2009) pledged $900 million in aid to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, including $300 million for rebuilding Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Source: Arutz Sheva (news@israelnationalnews.com) by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
United Nations officials declared Thursday for the first time that Tehran has amassed more than a ton of uranium – an amount which is sufficient, with added purification, to make an atom bomb. According to the New York Times, atomic inspectors found that Iran recently understated by a third how much uranium it has enriched. “It’s worse than we thought,” Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, told the newspaper.
Source: Arutz Sheva (news@israelnationalnews.com) by Gil Ronen.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees suspended aid to the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing the territory's Hamas rulers of stealing a delivery of humanitarian supplies for the second time this week. In a statement, UNRWA said it had suspended aid deliveries to Gaza after the Hamas-run Ministry of Social Affairs stole 10 truckloads of flour and rice delivered to Gaza on Thursday. Earlier this week, Hamas police took thousands of blankets and food parcels meant for needy residents. Hamas has got to hand back all the aid that they have taken and they have to give credible assurances that this will not happen again. Until this happens, our imports into Gaza will be suspended," said UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness.
Source: ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6817483
In a move that many Jewish community officials said would cause relations between Jews and Catholics to further deteriorate, the Vatican on Saturday lifted an excommunication ban against Bishop Richard Williamson, one of four bishops who were banned in 1988 for taking on the office of bishop against the wishes of then-Pope John Paul II.
Williamson is a Holocaust denier, and has repeatedly said that the gas chambers did not exist and that no more than 300,000 Jews were killed during World War II, mostly of starvation. In addition, Williamson has declared that the Jews are plotting to take over the world, and that the U.S. and Israel were behind 9/11.
In an interview with Swedish television conducted last November but broadcast last week, Williamson said that he believed that there were “no gas chambers."
“Between 200,000-300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber,” he said, adding, “I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.”
Source: Arutz Sheva (news@israelnationalnews.com) 1-25-2009
Israel declares unilateral cease-fire with effect from midnight (0000 GMT). Hamas guerrillas say the war will go on.
Israeli troops have entered Gaza in an effort to stop Hamas from launching missiles towards innocent civilians in Israel. This military operation has been named operation Cast Lead.
To better understand the events that led up to this military operation, please read Gaza Strip Timeline.
