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1,500-year-old church, elaborate mosaic found in south

Archaeologists announce the uncovering of an impressive Byzantine structure in the south; site open to public for two days

By Lazar Berman January 22, 2014, 4:24 pm 0-The times of Israel

A 1,500-year-old church with an impressive mosaic and five inscriptions was uncovered in a town in the south of Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authorities announced Wednesday.“An impressive basilica building was discovered at the site, 22 meters long and 12 meters wide,” said Daniel Varga, one of the two archaeologists directing the excavations, which were funded by the Israel Land Authority and located near Kiryat Gat. “The building consists of a central hall with two side aisles divided by marble pillars. At the front of the building is a wide open courtyard (atrium) paved with a white mosaic floor, and with a cistern. Leading off the courtyard is a rectangular transverse hall (narthex) with a fine mosaic floor decorated with colored geometric designs; at its center, opposite the entrance to the main hall, is a twelve-row dedicatory inscription in Greek containing the names Mary and Jesus, and the name of the person who funded the mosaic’s construction.”The mosaic in the nave, or main hall, was especially striking, with 40 medallions depicting a zebra, leopard, turtle, wild boar, birds, and various geometrical designs. The medallions also contain dedicatory inscriptions in honor of two local church figures, Demetrios and Herakles. Two narrow halls to side of the nave also featured colored mosaic floors.Archaeologists uncovered evidence of a flourishing local Byzantine culture at the site, including a pottery workshop and glass vessels. The region, near Israel’s southern coastal plain, was home to an important Byzantine settlement. Archaeologists believe that residents produced and sold wine that found its way across the Mediterranean region. The church itself, which served the surrounding towns, sat on the road between Ashkelon and Jerusalem, where archaeologists have uncovered other Byzantine settlements.

This, however, is the first Byzantine church found in the area.The site, at Moshav Aluma. will be open to the public Thursday and Friday of this week, before it is covered again.IAA said it will cover over again the remains of the church itself, but it plans on removing the mosaic and putting it on display in a local museum or visitors’ center.

Dept. Foreign Minister Tells EU Envoy to End 'Double-Standards'

In meeting with EU Ambassador, Elkin gives documents showing PA incitement and EU hypocrisy in different conflict zones.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 1/22/2014, 5:19 PM-Israelnationalnews

Ze'ev Elkin and Lars Andersen-Noa Arad, Foreign Ministry

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud Beytenu) met with EU Ambassador Lars Andersen on Wednesday, to discuss the summoning of Israeli ambassadors by EU states last Thursday after plans to build roughly 1,800 new homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem were announced. EU envoys were summoned by Israel in response, to explain their countries' "hypocrisy" in attacking Israeli building plans whilst ignoring Palestinian incitement.Elkin expressed his disappointed with the EU's one-sided policy against Israel in the meeting. It is worth noting that a building freeze was not stipulated as a precondition for the ongoing peace talks."At the same time that they're criticizing us on every building announced, there's no declared criticism on the (rocket) firing from Gaza and the barrage in the region," said Elkin, referring to the outburst of at least 6 rockets last Wednesday that has security officials saying that for all intents and purposes the Gaza ceasefire is dead."The source of the conflict does not lie in the settlements of Judea and Samaria," emphasized Elkin. "After all, the conflict started well before 1967. The conflict started because the Arabs didn't agree to accept the fact that the Jews have the right to a country in any borders."Elkin also gave Andersen a document detailing the Palestinian Authority's (PA) systemic incitement dehumanizing Jews and idolizing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The documents also showed how the PA funds terrorists in Israeli prisons and awards them massive stipends.The minister showed another documented detailing the difference in the EU's policy on Israel with it's policy on different conflict regions, such as their support of the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus, which Elkin himself called out last Friday.In an even more blatant double-standard, the document also notes how the EU voted in favor of allowing its members to fish in the waters of occupied Western Sahara. That police stands in sharp contrast to the recently-issued European Union "guidelines" which boycott Jewish businesses in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem, on the grounds that the EU considers those areas to be "occupied territories".Last Thursday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu similarly criticized the EU for its "hypocrisy" in opposing Jewish housing in Judea and Samaria."This is hypocrisy. The EU calls our ambassadors in because of the construction of a few houses? When did the EU call in the Palestinian ambassadors about incitement that calls for Israel's destruction?" Netanyahu asked foreign correspondents at his annual new year reception. "It's time to stop this hypocrisy. This imbalance... doesn't advance peace, I think it pushes peace further away."

Jerusalem: Poison on Scene 'the Highest Level Ever Recorded'

Fire commander tells Arutz Sheva that poison found in Givat Mordechai apartment which killed two infants was at record-breaking levels.-By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 1/22/2014, 5:27 PM-Israelnationalnews

Fire brigade, medics at Jerusalem poisoning scene-Flash90

Commander Reshef Eli Basson, whose fire brigade unit arrived at the scene of a Jerusalem family's poisoning Wednesday, revealed to Arutz Sheva that the poison levels at the Givat Mordechai home were the highest ever recorded. Basson stated that when the meter was brought out, the toxicity level astounded his team - to the point where "I wondered how the exterminator could have left his materials inside the apartment."
"Jerusalem residents have suffered a difficult week," he continued. "I advise everyone to be careful."

Basson is referring to this week's double tragedy: Wednesday's poisoning of a Givat Mordechai family, which killed a 2 year-old and a 4 year-old and left two older children hospitalized in serious condition, and Sunday's gas explosion in Gilo, which killed a young couple and their infant son. Wednesday's tragedy occurred after an exterminator left highly toxic materials - the same agents used in Syria's chemical weapons - in the apartment's enclosed security room, also known as the "Mamad" or bomb shelter.Apparently, the security room's seal was less effective than the storage requirements for the chemical require, and the poison spread throughout the apartment over several days. The exterminator has been arrested and an investigation has been launched.The family's youngest children, ages 2 and 4, died from the poison Wednesday. The rest of the family has been recovering - albeit slowly - as no medication exists to treat the poison, according to hospital staff. It has also been released that the family visited a Terem medical center Tuesday after complaining of symptoms similar to a stomach virus from the poisoning. The family was told to take paracetamol and prescribed medication for morning sickness to take the next morning. 

After Gaza strike, defense minister warns Hamas of ‘heavy price’

‘We will not hesitate to continue to act with force,’ Ya’alon says hours after Israeli planes take out terror chief

By Times of Israel staff January 22, 2014, 10:37 am 4

Hours after Israel assassinated a senior Gaza terrorist, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned the Strip’s ruling Hamas organization that it would “pay a heavy price” for rocket fire on Israel.“If [Hamas] doesn’t know how to impose its authority on terrorist organizations operating from its territory we will continue to act to make it, and those who are active in terror and fire at Israel, pay a heavy price,” Ya’alon said in a statement released by his ministry on Wednesday.The Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun early Wednesday morning, killing two men, said by Israel to be terrorists behind some of the missile attacks on southern Israeli towns and communities. The air force said it carried out the strike to stop an imminent attack.Strikes on high profile targets often draw responses from Gazan rocket launchers. The eight-day Operation Pillar of Defense began in November 2012 with the assassination of Hamas chief Ahmed Jabari.While Hamas is not seen as behind the latest rocket attacks, Ya’alon said Israel still held it responsible.“We will not hesitate to continue to act with force in order to hit those who are threatening our security, and we will do that with all the methods and tools at our disposal,” he warned.

President Shimon Peres said that while Israel wants things to be quiet, it won’t refrain from responding when provoked.“It is important to stress that if it is not quiet on one side then it won’t be quiet on both sides,” Peres said. “The Gaza ruler-ship needs to decide what it wants – exchanges of fire or existence. Israel is interested in things being quiet, but if the quiet is disturbed we will respond with forcefully.”The IDF identified the target of the strike as Ahmad Zaanin, 21, a commander Gaza-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s military wing, responsible for recent rocket fire against Israel. It said he fired the rockets that targeted Israel after the funeral for prime minister Ariel Sharon ended last Monday. A second man, said to be his relative and a member of Islamic Jihad, was also killed.The Palestinian Ma’an News Agency identified the second man as Mahmoud Yousef Zaanin, 23.The men were reportedly sitting in a parked car when it was hit by an IAF missile, residents told Reuters. Unconfirmed photos which claimed to show Ahmad Zaanin circulated on social media shortly after the airstrike.The IDF said the airstrike prevented an imminent rocket attack against Israel.“Since 2009 Zaanin, with the cooperation of other terror bodies in the Gaza Strip, has endorsed numerous attacks such as sniping attacks and detonating explosive devices against IDF soldiers,” the IDF said in a statement.“In his earlier days Zaanin was affiliated with the Islamic Palestinian Jihad, during which the terrorist operated towards the execution of terror attacks, most of which were rocket attacks, against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers,” the military said.The airstrike came amid increased violence along the Israel-Gaza border. Since January 1, several dozen rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have exploded in Israel, the first escalation of its kind since the ceasefire that ended November 2012′s Operation Pillar of Defense.Earlier this week, three rockets from the Gaza Strip were fired at the western Negev shortly before midnight on Monday. On Tuesday morning, an explosive device detonated near an army patrol along the border fence. There were no injuries.Earlier Monday evening, two Grad rockets were fired from the Sinai at the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, striking an open area close to the city.Israel has also taken several defensive measures lately, moving an Iron Dome anti-missile battery to Beersheba and canceling school for some Ashdod students.

If the Palestinian president could be gracious, 'I would hope that a member of the Israeli Knesset could'

Canadians ‘taken aback’ at Arab MKs’ heckling of Harper

Canada’s parliament wouldn’t disrupt the speech of a visiting foreign leader, says PM’s ministerial colleague Jason Kenney

By David Horovitz January 21, 2014, 9:51 pm 28-The times of israel

Many members of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s delegation were “surprised” and “taken aback” that he was heckled by two Arab MKs during his address to the Knesset on Monday, a minister who is traveling with Harper said.“A lot of us were a bit taken aback that members of a national parliament would heckle a visiting foreign leader,” Jason Kenney, Canada’s minister of employment and social development, told The Times of Israel Tuesday.Kenney added that the Arab MKs’ conduct contrasted strikingly with the attitude of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who hosted Harper earlier on Monday in Ramallah. “I attended our meetings with President Abbas earlier in the day,” said Kenney. Abbas “was extremely gracious, offered nothing but warm words of welcome and partnership, expressed gratitude for Canada’s constructive role that we’re playing here.”Abbas was also “asked by Canadian media to criticize us,” but “refrained from doing so,” added Kenney. “I mean if the president of the Palestinian Authority could do that, I would hope that a member of the Israeli Knesset could.”Kenney was referring to heckling midway through Harper’s stirringly pro-Israel address to the Knesset on Monday evening. Two Arab MKs, Ahmad Tibi and Taleb Abu Arar, who had also heckled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) and opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) when they spoke prior to Harper, shouted interruptions and then got up and left after the Canadian prime minister castigated those who sought to brand Israel an Apartheid state.“Most disgracefully of all, some openly call Israel an apartheid state,” Harper said. “Think about that. Think about the twisted logic and outright malice behind that: A state, based on freedom, democracy and the rule of law, that was founded so Jews can flourish, as Jews, and seek shelter from the shadow of the worst racist experiment in history, that is condemned, and that condemnation is masked in the language of anti-racism. It is nothing short of sickening.”The two Arab MKs shouted that Israeli Arabs faced apartheid, citing the situation of Bedouin in the Negev, and Tibi said Harper “should be sitting there, with the Likud,” and pointed to the relevant benches in the chamber. The pair then got up and left.After the walkout, and before Harper resumed his speech, much of the Knesset rose to its feet, led by Netanyahu, and gave the Canadian leader a standing ovation.Tibi had earlier heckled Netanyahu, claiming that his colleague Abu Arar, a Bedouin MK from Ar’arat in the Negev, did not have water or electricity in his home, because of Israeli discrimination. “There’s no water or electricity in his village,” Tibi shouted at Netanyahu. “No water, no electricity. Give him water and electricity and he’ll stop shouting.” In fact, Channel 2 News showed on Tuesday, Abu Arar, a former school teacher and head of his local council, lives in a three-story home with water, electricity, air-conditioning and a satellite dish, and his street is well lit by street lamps. Tibi acknowledged this in the Knesset on Tuesday, but said he had been speaking more generally about alleged discrimination against Negev Bedouin.Kenney said Harper “was prepared” for possible interruptions, “because he saw what was happening with the prime minister’s [Netanyahu's] speech.” He noted, too, that Harper had plenty of experience with heckling, since “our House of Commons is as boisterous as the Knesset… Everyone here thinks you’ve got the wildest show in town” but a quick YouTube search can show “how rancorous our Question Time can be.”Nonetheless, Canada’s parliament wouldn’t heckle a visiting foreign leader, Kenney stressed. “It only happened once, in the 1980s, when a Socialist [member of parliament] heckled Ronald Reagan. But that was really an exception.”The interruptions did “prove a point,” however, Kenney noted. “This is the only parliament in the Middle East where that could possibly happen. I think that’s fair to say.”(The Times of Israel’s full interview with Kenney will appear on Wednesday. The full text of Harper’s Knesset speech is here.)