JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE
PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that
summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT
COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A
fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES
AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the
garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea,
and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and
their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM
ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD
PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they
shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand
shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN
WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say
to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour
every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall
not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be
burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor
their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for
he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC
BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here
are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through
war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump said set to
join end-of-May visit; new US ambassador expected here on May 15-Israeli
newspaper claims Trump will recognize entire Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital during trip-US president won’t, however, announce move of
embassy from Tel Aviv, and will call for establishment of Palestinian
state, Yedioth Ahronoth says-By Sue Surkes April 27, 2017, 8:42 am-THE
TIMES OF ISRAEL
US President Donald Trump will reverse
longstanding US policy by officially recognizing the entire city of
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but will not implement his election
campaign pledge to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv, the
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper claimed Thursday. There was no confirmation
of the report.According to the paper, Israel’s biggest selling daily,
Trump will make the announcement during his upcoming visit to Israel,
reportedly in late May — a trip the White House has confirmed it is
“exploring.” He is also expected to express support for the
establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the paper
said.Since Israel declared independence in 1948, US policy has been not
to recognize any party as sovereign in any part of Jerusalem. During his
election campaign, Trump vowed repeatedly to move the US Embassy to
Jerusalem, drawing fierce objections from the Palestinians. He will not
announce an embassy move during his visit, the newspaper said, in its
unsourced front page report.Israel extended sovereignty to East
Jerusalem and the Old City and claims the entire city as its capital;
the Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent
Palestinian state.No US president has visited Israel in the first months
of his term.The report said a delegation of some 25 US officials was
due to arrive in Israel Thursday to start planning what will be a key
stop on Trump’s first overseas trip as president.The officials were
expected to hold meetings at the Foreign Ministry, the President’s
Residence and the Prime Minister’s Office.Trump — expected to visit
Israel and the Palestinian Authority during a lightning visit of around
36 hours in late May or early June — will be accompanied by his daughter
Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both among his closest advisers,
the report said. His wife Melania is expected to remain in the US.The
president will likely combine the trip with visits to Jordan and Saudi
Arabia, key players in any moves to establish regional peace. It will
probably be timed to coincide with a NATO summit in Belgium on May
25.Next week, Trump will host Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas at the White House, as a prelude to a possible summit involving
Abbas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of the Sunni Arab
world.Such a summit would likely focus on the Saudi-proposed Arab Peace
Initiative, which was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002, as the path
toward reaching a final-status agreement.Part of that framework includes
a two-state outcome where Israel would withdraw from
Palestinian-claimed territories and arrive at a “just” solution to the
refugee issue in exchange for normalized ties with the entire Arab
world.Yedioth Ahronoth said Netanyahu had already agreed to limit West
Bank settlement building while Abbas had promised to try to curb
Palestinian terror as confidence-building measures by both sides.Trump’s
visit will reportedly be followed by trips to the region by his
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the
United Nations. The latter has already reportedly been set to come in
June.Trump’s visit so early in his presidency stands in marked contrast
to his predecessor Barack Obama’s first trip to the Jewish state, which
only took place during his second presidential term.The new US
ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is due to arrive in Jerusalem on
May 15 and to present his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin in
June.
Israel unveils Remembrance Hall for fallen soldiers
ahead of Memorial Day-The site, located at the entrance to the Mount
Herzl national cemetery, will commemorate each of the country’s 23,000
killed-By Luke Tress April 27, 2017, 5:00 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel’s
Defense Ministry unveiled a Remembrance Hall for the country’s fallen
soldiers for the first time on Thursday, ahead of next week’s Memorial
Day.The site, located at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl
national cemetery and next to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, is
currently in the final stage of construction and is meant to commemorate
every one of the more than 23,000 soldiers killed since before the
establishment of the state.“To remember each one is not a simple thing,”
said Aryeh Mualem, head of the Defense Ministry’s Families and
Commemoration Department. “This is exactly the place to remember each
one of them.”Visitors will descend a flight of broad stone steps into a
corridor where video of soldiers from different eras, starting with the
pre-IDF Palmach forces, are projected onto a wall. The hall leads to an
open space lined with benches, with an 18-meter-tall (59 feet) column
made from over 6,000 stone bricks opening like a chimney into the sky
overhead.A spiral path, supported by concrete pillars, winds upward
around the column. The names of the fallen soldiers and the dates of
their deaths are inscribed on the bricks lining the wall of the
260-meter (853-foot) path. A candle will be lit on the anniversary of
each death. The names are arranged by the date the soldiers were killed,
regardless of rank or unit, starting with the most recently killed at
the bottom of the path. Light from the outdoors shines through gaps in
the bricks. Commemorative columns toward the top of the path will
display photos and information on soldiers who were killed on that day
of the year.The end of the passageway, bearing the names of fighters
killed in the 1930s, opens into the Mount Herzl cemetery.Many visitors
will have a personal connection with soldiers who were killed, Mualem
said, and will be able to locate their specific stone in the wall on a
series of computers spaced throughout the path. Visitors will also be
able to take a photo of a name and get information on the soldier and
their story through an app.The memorial will allow the country to
remember the soldiers as individuals, Mualem said, which is especially
important today because many of their parents and relatives are getting
old.“Who will remember their son when they pass on?” Mualem said. “We
need to remember every one of them.”Construction of the memorial began
in January 2015. The structure cost NIS 75 million ($20 million), with
another NIS 14 million invested in multimedia. The site will first open
to families of fallen soldiers on this year’s Memorial Day, May 1.
Intelligence
minister appears to confirm Israeli strike on Syria-Yisrael Katz says
preventing weapons from reaching Hezbollah is ‘completely compatible’
with Jerusalem’s policy; Syrian state media says raid targeted military
installation-By Times of Israel staff and Agencies April 27, 2017, 9:53
am
Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz on Thursday
appeared to confirm reports that Israel was behind an overnight
airstrike near the Damascus airport.Katz, who is also transportation
minister, told Army Radio in an interview Thursday morning that “the
incident is completely compatible with our policy of preventing weapons
transfer to Hezbollah,” the Lebanon-based terror group supported by the
Syrian regime and Iran.“Every time we receive intelligence information
on plans to transfer advanced weaponry to Hezbollah, we will act,” the
minister added. “We must prevent Iran from establishing a military
presence in Syria.”Explosions rocked the area around Damascus’s airport
earlier on Thursday morning, setting off fires. Syria’s state media SANA
said Israel fired several missiles from inside the Golan Heights south
of the capital at a military installation near the capital’s main
airport, triggering several blasts and causing damage.There were no
immediate reports of casualties.An unnamed regional intelligence source,
quoted by Reuters, said the strike was carried out by Israel and
targeted an Iran-supplied Hezbollah arms depot.The Hezbollah-linked
Al-Manar news site also attributed the raid to the Jewish state, saying
an initial missile strike against a weapons warehouse belonging to
government forces caused fuel silos to explode, leading to a cascade of
explosions that damaged a few nearby homes.Explosions were also reported
in the Al-Mazzeh area of the Syrian capital, apparently at the Mazzeh
Air Base, a military airstrip used by regime forces.Israel is widely
believed to have carried out airstrikes on advanced weapons systems in
Syria — including Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles and Iranian-made
missiles — as well as Hezbollah positions, but it rarely confirms such
operations on an individual basis.Video shows moments explosions start
near Damascus airport tonight. Local media attributing to Israel. More
details likely to emerge later. pic.twitter.com/jhiOZjUHnV— Israel
Breaking (@IsraelBreaking) April 27, 2017-In April 2016, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time that Israel had attacked
dozens of convoys transporting weapons in Syria destined for Hezbollah,
which fought a 2006 war with Israel and is now battling alongside the
Damascus regime.Late last month, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said
the IDF only carries out raids in Syria for three reasons: when Israel
comes under fire, to prevent arms transfers, and to avert a “ticking
timebomb,” namely to thwart imminent terror attacks on Israel by groups
on its borders.The alleged Israeli airstrike on Thursday came a day
after Liberman met with Russian ministers in Moscow. Despite Russia’s
alliance with both Iran and Hezbollah, Israel and Russia have maintained
a level of security coordination in order to prevent conflicts between
their two militaries in Syria, where Moscow is fighting against
opponents of the Assad regime.
Israel at 69 has 8,680,000
citizens, 43% of world Jewry-Central Bureau of Statistics figures show
number of residents increased by 1.9% in the past year, including
174,000 babies-By Stuart Winer April 27, 2017, 4:55 pm-THE TIMES OF
ISRAEL
Israel’s population stands at 8,680,000 and is
increasing at nearly two percent a year, according to figures released
on Thursday by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of the country’s
69th Independence Day next week.Over the past 12 months some 174,000
babies were born, 44,000 people died and 30,000 new immigrants arrived
in the country. Overall, the population increased by 1.9%, and at the
current rate will hit 15.2 million by the time Israel celebrates its
centenary in 2048.Independence Day begins with celebrations on Monday
night, as the country transitions from Memorial Day — 24 hours of
mourning for its fallen soldiers and terror victims.In 1948 there were
just 806,000 people in Israel, less than a tenth of the current number.
At the time, the global Jewish population was 11.5 million, and just 6%
were in Israel. There are now estimated to be 14.4 million Jewish people
in the world and 43% of them are in the Jewish state.Whereas in 1949
the life expectancy for women in Israel was 67.6 years and 64.9 for men,
by the end of 2015 it was 84.5 for women and 80.9 for men.The 6,484,000
Jews in the country make up 74.4% of all residents, while 1.8 million
Arabs account for 20.8% and non-Arab Christians and other ethnic groups
number 388,000 people, or 4.4% of the population.Among today’s Jewish
population, 75% were born in Israel, and over half are second-generation
Israelis. In 1948, however, just 35% of the Jews living in Israel were
born in pre-state Palestine.Just over half of the population, 54.3%, are
between the ages of 19 and 64. The over-65 set makes up 11.1% of the
population, and those 18 years old or less are 34.6%. At the end of 2015
there were 45,000 residents over the age of 90, the CBS noted.Less than
half of Israel’s Jews, 44%, consider themselves secular, 24% are
traditional but not so religious, 12% are traditional religious, 11% are
religious, and 9% are ultra-Orthodox.Among the non-Jewish population,
52% see themselves as religious, 21% are secular, 23% not so religious,
and 4% very religious.Jerusalem is the biggest city with 865,700
residents, while the smallest community is the southern hamlet of Neve
Zohar, in the Tamar Regional Council, with a population of 71.
PA
tells Israel it will no longer pay for Gaza’s electricity-Hamas calls
move ‘a dangerous escalation, and a fit of insanity’ as enclave’s energy
crisis spirals-By Dov Lieber April 27, 2017, 11:57 am-THE TIMES OF
ISRAEL
The Palestinian Authority on Thursday informed
Israel it would no longer pay for electricity that the Jewish state
supplies to the Gaza Strip, as a power crisis in the Hamas-run enclave
deepened.News of the PA refusal to sponsor electricity came in a
statement by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories
(COGAT).Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri called the move “a dangerous
escalation, and a fit of insanity.”“We warn Israel against taking this
move,” he said.The move is one of a series of measures taken recently by
the PA, aimed at forcing Hamas to either take full responsibility for
the territory it governs, or to relinquish control back to the PA.The
PA’s power play comes during an existing energy crisis, after Hamas
refused to buy fuel from the PA for the enclave’s only power
plant.Currently, the energy shortage in Gaza has left the Strip’s
residents with as little as four hours of power a day.The World Bank
said on Thursday the power cuts have led to a “humanitarian crisis,”
hitting hospitals, clinics, water supply and other vital services, as
well as household needs.Without energy provided by Israel, it is unclear
how Gaza can maintain even its current scarce levels of
electricity.Israel has been providing Gaza energy through 10 power
lines, supplying 125 megawatts, which is 30 percent of the amount needed
to power Gaza 24 hours a day.The cost of this energy supply, which was
paid for by the PA, was NIS 40 million a month.The only other source of
energy is provided by Egyptian power lines, which provide 25 megawatts —
just 6.25% of the amount necessary to power Gaza for a full day.Private
individuals or international donors can pick up the energy bill for
Gaza.In the past, Qatar has stepped in to buy fuel for the power plant,
but has so far showed no intention of coming to the Strip’s rescue in
the current crisis.The Hamas terror group seized power in Gaza in 2007
from the Ramallah-based Fatah organization of Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas.Since then, however, the PA has continued to use
a large amount of its small budget to pay for vital infrastructure in
the enclave.In 2016, the PA’s overall budget was $4.14 billion, of which
the Gaza Strip’s share was $1.65 billion–approximately 40 percent of PA
funds.At the same time, Hamas has continued to impose high taxes on
Gaza’s residents, while funneling the revenue into its coffers and
military wing for weaponry to fight Israel.The renewed push by the PA to
regain a foothold in Gaza comes ahead of Abbas’s meeting with US
President Donald Trump at the White House next week. Ahead of the
Washington confab, Abbas was under pressure to show that he represents
all Palestinians, including those in Gaza.In March, Hamas announced it
would form an administrative committee to further its governance in
Gaza. The announcement infuriated Abbas, who immediately began taking
steps to squeeze Hamas out of power.In early April, Abbas reduced by
one-third the salaries of tens of thousands of employees of the
pre-Hamas government in Gaza who had been paid for the last decade, on
condition that they stay home.The ongoing salary payments had been
intended to ensure loyalty to Abbas, but inadvertently also propped up
Hamas by injecting cash into Gaza’s fragile economy.Khalil al-Haya, the
second-highest ranking Hamas leader in Gaza, told The Associated Press
on Wednesday that Abbas will fail “if he tries to make Gaza kneel or
expects to win our loyalty by force.”“You can’t punish the one who lives
in tough conditions,” al-Haya said. “Gaza is an explosive barrel and he
(Abbas) cannot press this barrel more. If he does, it’s going to
explode in his face and in all directions.”Avi Issacharoff and agencies
contributed to this report.
Hundreds hold up traffic in Tel
Aviv to protest ammonia tank closure-Workers demonstrate against
possible loss of 1,500 jobs in run-up to High Court ruling on state
request to delay facility shutdown-By Sue Surkes April 27, 2017, 2:19
pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hundreds of workers from a
chemical company in the northern city of Haifa on Thursday blocked
traffic on a main junction in Tel Aviv in protest of the expected loss
of some 1,500 jobs when the ammonia factory that employs them closes
down.The High Court of Justice was scheduled to rule later in the day on
a government request, submitted Wednesday, to issue another injunction
to further delay the court-ordered closure of the facility.The
protesters called on Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin to
find a solution that would avoid mass layoffs.“The lack of a solution
will lead to the firing of thousands of workers on the periphery [of the
country],” said Yehuda Peretz, chair of Haifa Chemicals South.In its
request to the court, the government asked that the emptying of the
ammonia storage facility owned by Haifa Chemicals, slated to be carried
out this month, be delayed until June in order to allow fertilizer
companies that rely on the ammonia sufficient time to prepare for the
tank’s closure and prevent “a possible shutdown of the fertilizer
industry in Israel.”The request came after Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu met on Monday with Elkin and Economy Minister Eli Cohen, as
well as representatives of other government ministries, and asked them
to consider keeping the massive tank operating for another two years
until an alternative is found, according to documents submitted to the
court.Following reports on Monday about the new postponement request,
Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav accused Netanyahu of endangering the lives of
Haifa area residents.Local officials, led by Yahav, say that tens of
thousands of people could die if the 12,000-ton-capacity tank should
rupture, and that even more would be at risk if a monthly delivery ship
that brings ammonia to the massive tank from abroad is hit by a
missile.Netanyahu’s office clarified in a statement on Monday that the
delay that was discussed was for a number of weeks, not two years, and
was aimed at finding a solution to avoid the mass layoffs.
German
soldier, posing as refugee, arrested in attack plot-Suspect had been
temporarily detained in February when he tried to retrieve an
unregistered handgun from an airport toilet seat-By AFP April 27, 2017,
3:01 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
BERLIN — A German soldier who
pretended to be a Syrian refugee has been arrested on suspicion he
planned a gun attack with racist motives, prosecutors said Thursday.The
28-year-old suspect who was not identified was thought to have a
“xenophobic background,” they said — while Die Welt daily reported he
may have plotted to pin the blame for an attack on foreigners.The
strange case involved a joint police operation across Germany, France
and Austria with raids on 16 locations, prosecutors in Frankfurt said in
a statement.They arrested the soldier — a lieutenant usually stationed
on a Franco-German military base near Strasbourg — in the southern
German city of Hammelburg on Wednesday.German soldier posed as Syrian
refugee, planned attack: cops https://t.co/kZUsSvxtC1
pic.twitter.com/mu7rzfs1Db— integra_hellsing (@integra_66) April 27,
2017-On the same day they also arrested a second German man, a
24-year-old student and alleged co-conspirator in possession of objects
that breach weapons and explosives laws, they said.The lieutenant had
been temporarily detained by Austrian police on February 3 at Vienna
airport when he tried to retrieve a loaded, unregistered handgun he had
days earlier hidden in a toilet there.This sparked an investigation that
threw up an even bigger surprise: the suspect had in December 2015
created a false identity as a Syrian refugee.He had registered himself
at a refugee shelter in the central German state of Hesse and later even
launched a request for political asylum in Bavaria state, said the
prosecution statement.Die Welt reported that the request was accepted,
even though the man speaks no Arabic.He was alloted a place in the
refugee home and has since January 2016 received monthly financial
payments under this false identity, the prosecutors said.“These
findings, and indications of a xenophobic background of the Bundeswehr
soldier, suggest that the accused was planning a serious crime
endangering state security with the weapon that was earlier deposited at
Vienna airport,” said the statement.Security services in the sweeping
cross-border raids targeting contacts of the two men confiscated mobile
phones, laptops and written materials, said the statement.
Lawyer
jailed for 7.5 years for serving as Hamas agent-Muhammed Abad,
convicted of relaying info between terror group’s leadership and
security prisoners, to appeal sentence-By Sue Surkes April 27, 2017,
4:22 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
An Israeli court on Thursday
sentenced a lawyer to seven and a half years in prison for helping to
relay information between Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails and the
terror group’s leaders in the Gaza Strip.Muhammad Abed, whose clients
included security prisoners, was in contact with Firas Fidi, a Hamas
activist who was convicted of carrying out terror attacks in Israel,
sentenced to life imprisonment, and then released to Gaza as part of the
2011 prisoner swap for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.He was also
convicted of being in touch with five “foreign agents,” with the aim of
helping Hamas and harming state security.In addition to the prison term,
the Haifa District Court gave Abed a choice between one year’s
suspended sentence, a NIS 50,000 ($13,700) fine to be paid by May 1,
2018, and an additional five months behind bars.Responding to the
sentence, Abed told Channel 2 news that he’d been done an injustice and
would appeal to the Supreme Court.Abed’s lawyer, Ahmad Yunis, said the
charges were “absurd” and noted that former Joint (Arab) List lawymaker
Basel Ghattas was given only two years in prison as part of a plea
bargain for the worse crime of smuggling cellphones to inmates.
Trump
reported to set Israel visit for May 22-Russian warship collides with
freighter in Black Sea north of Istanbul; Iran’s defense minister
condemns reported Israeli strike on Damascus-By Ilan Ben Zion April 27,
2017, 2:10 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
16:06-Russia urges
restraint, ‘respect of the sovereignty of Syria’-The Kremlin on Thursday
called for restraint after Syria accused Israel of firing several
missiles at a military position near the Damascus airport.“We continue
to consider that all countries need to refrain from any kind of actions
that lead to an increase in tension in this already restive region and
call for respect of the sovereignty of Syria,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov told reporters.— AFP-16:01-Trump may visit on May 22-A handful of
Israeli reporters cite an unnamed Israeli official saying the date
being discussed for a prospective visit by US President Donald Trump is
May 22. Tal Shalev of Walla news says Trump would stay in Israel for a
single night.The current date being discussed for @POTUS visit to Israel
is the 22th of may, with one night of stay— Tal Shalev (@talshalev1)
April 27, 2017-15:52-Jewish Home votes for party leader-Members of the
national religious Jewish Home party are going to the polls today for
internal elections to pick a party leader.All 69 polling stations have
opened in the Jewish Home party leadership primaries.Polling stations
opened across the country at 2 p.m. but there were issues with the
computer system in 3 locations in Jerusalem, Beersheba and Efrat. The
problems have been resolved and voting is underway.In total, 30,734
Jewish Home members are eligible to vote in the election in which
incumbent leader Naftali Bennett is facing challenges from former IDF
colonel Yonatan Branski and Rabbi Yizhak Zagha.Polling stations close at
9 p.m. and results are expected be released around 11 p.m.— Raoul
Wootliff-15:48-Russia warship sinks with none aboard — Turkish coast
guard-Turkish coast guard says that Russian navy ship has sunk off
Istanbul with nobody on board.— AP-15:16-Russian intelligence ship
reportedly sinking in Black Sea-The Russian navy research ship Liman
“sustained a hull breach due to a collision” with the ship Ashot-7, 40
kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the Bosphorus Strait, the Russia’s
defense ministry says in a statement carried by Russian agencies.The
ship was reportedly sinking.— AFP contributed-15:07-At least 45 people
rescued from Russian warship-Private Turkish television station NTV says
45 Russian soldiers were rescued after a warship collided with another
vessel in the Black Sea on Thursday.Reuters quotes a Turkish official
saying at least 78 people were evacuated from the warship.NTV says
rescue boats and helicopters have been dispatched to the area.— AP and
Times of Israel staff-14:44-Russian warship collides with freighter off
Istanbul-A Russian warship has reportedly collided with a freighter
north of Istanbul in the Black Sea.The ship was a livestock carrier
heading from Romania to Jordan’s port at Aqaba.Turkish media reports
that 15 Russian soldiers are missing.— AP contributed-14:30-Syrian
official says Israeli strike aimed to help rebels-A Syrian military
source quoted by the official state news agency says that Israel’s
missile strike on a Damascus airport was an attempt to help rebel groups
fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.The SANA news
agency reports that the attack “comes as a desperate attempt to raise
the collapsed morale of terrorist groups due to the Syrian army’s blows
and this aggression will not dissuade the army from continuing the war
against terrorism and crushing it.”-14:12-German soldier, posing as
refugee, arrested in attack plot-A German soldier who pretended to be a
Syrian refugee has been arrested on suspicion he planned a gun attack
with racist motives, prosecutors said Thursday.The 28-year-old suspect
who was not identified was thought to have a “xenophobic background,”
they said — while Die Welt daily reported he may have plotted to pin the
blame for an attack on foreigners.The strange case involved a joint
police operation across Germany, France and Austria with raids on 16
locations, prosecutors in Frankfurt said in a statement.They arrested
the soldier — a lieutenant usually stationed on a Franco-German military
base near Strasbourg — in the southern German city of Hammelburg on
Wednesday.On the same day they also arrested a second German man, a
24-year-old student and alleged co-conspirator in possession of objects
that breach weapons and explosives laws, they said.— AFP-14:11-Lawyer
jailed for sending messages for Hamas-Haifa’s District Court sentences a
lawyer to 7.5 years in prison for passing intelligence to Hamas
prisoners in Israeli jails.Mohammed Abed was found guilty of
communicating with the Hamas leadership and communicating messages to
imprisoned terror group members.14:11-Iranian minister condemns reported
Israeli strike-Iran’s defense minister has condemned the reported
Israeli airstrike on a Damascus airport.Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan
was quoted by Russia Today’s Arabic language broadcaster a day after he
met with his Russian and Syrian counterparts in Moscow.
