The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 may not be held in Jerusalem. This said the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport, Yossi Sharabi, against Israeli media.
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The oldest man in the world, Yisrael Kristal, who survived the Holocaust, died in Haifa on Friday at the age of 113. The newspaper Haaretz recalled that he celebrated his 'bar mitswah' last year, the ceremony and ratification of religious adulthood. That was a century later than usual for a Jewish boy. He missed that celebration at the time of the First World War.
The Haaks mountains, missing in Haifa, Joey Hoffman, Bjorn Breukers and Sabahat Derya Un were together in Silifke, Turkey. Joey traveled with Bjorn and Sabahat to Silifke to help with the construction of their house.
With the possible death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the big question is: who is following him? Largest contenders are two former officers from Saddam Hussein's army. Not strange because the backbone of Islamic State is formed from the beginning by soldiers of the former dictator, which was sold by America in 2003.
A forest fire in the middle of Portugal killed at least 43 people. Below is an overview of recent forest fires where deaths have fallen.
If Assad has already taken revenge, it was not very impressive. On Thursday evening, Israel crossed the Golan Hoogvlakte, an object of the sky with a Patriot rocket. The army did not want to clarify what was shot out of the air, but according to media it was an unmanned drone.
A large fire in a refinery in the Israeli town of Haifa with bright orange flames and a thick black cloud of smoke as a result. The fire occurred on an industrial estate. That report local media.
The fires that have plagued Israel for nearly a week are virtually over. In the Jerusalem area, there are scattered still some fires due to dry weather with strong winds, but they pose no threat anymore. Israeli media reported Sunday that at least 35 people have been arrested, mostly Palestinians, who are suspected to have anything to do with the origin of the fires. The authorities maintain that the fires are ignited.
When fighting forest fires in the country has made progress Israeli fire Friday. A fire in Nataf, near Jerusalem, was brought under control. The fire has let to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz know. To combat the flames were deployed around sixty firefighters. Among them were firefighters who had sent the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli police have twelve people arrested in connection with the fires which swept recent days Israel. Which police said Friday.
Thousands of people have their homes in and around the Israeli port city of Haifa fled to the forest fires that ravage the area for days. Police have evacuated several neighborhoods.
Israel has enlisted the help of Greece and Croatia to fight several major wildfires that plague since Tuesday wooded areas near Jerusalem and Haifa. Government Leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to send the Foreign Ministers requested fire-fighting planes from both countries. They have undertaken.
The shutdown of rail operations has during the Sabbath in Israel led to chaotic conditions. Commuters arrived in kilometer-long queues and hundreds of people demonstrated against the disruption of rail traffic between the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Israeli divers in the Mediterranean found a spectacular treasure with thousands of ancient coins and several bronzes.
It can happen. Yisrael Kristal was arrested at the age of forty by the Germans in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz with his wife, a place where a human life was worth nothing. But he survived the extermination camp and the year 2016 is the former candy merchant at 112 years of age, against all expectations, the oldest man in the world.
A Jewish Israeli who presumably wanted to take personal revenge after several acts of Palestinian terrorism on any Arab, was mistaken and another Jewish Israeli stabbed to death. The fatal attack happened Tuesday in place Kiryat Ata , near Haifa.
