Jerusalem News (1 February 2016, 22 Shevet, 5776)
Contents:
1. Interesting Video Clips.
(a) Israel - a hi-tech superpower
(b)Â Rabbi Shmuel Boteach Gives Impressive Speech Against Hamas at Oxford Union, UK
2. Third World Countries Utilize Israeli Ingenuity to Produce Water from Thin Air
3. REVEALED: US, UK INFILTRATED ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE
by Ari Yashar
4. STEINITZ 'DISAPPOINTED' IN 18-YEARS OF US SPYING
5. Israel Reportedly Warned Germany of Attack on Hannover Soccer Stadium
by Ofer Aderet Nov 25, 2015 6:09 PM
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1. Interesting Video Clips.
(a) Israel - a hi-tech superpower
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From: OvadYah Avrahami <ovadyah777@gmail.com>
Subject: [KHT Forum - Honorary List] Hitler would turn in his grave if he saw this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ytInWKL1k
(b)Â Rabbi Shmuel Boteach Gives Impressive Speech Against Hamas at Oxford Union, UK
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach-exploded-on-the-oxford-union-in-this-epic-speech/?omhide=true&utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Rabbi+Shmuley+Boteach+exploded+on+the+Oxford+Union+in+this+epic+speech&utm_campaign=20160128_m129521321_1%2F28+Today%27s+Israel+Connection%3A+Rabbi+Shmuley+Boteach+exploded+on+the+Oxford+Union+in+this+epic+speech&utm_term=shmuley-boteach-hamas-email_png_3F1453969882
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2. Third World Countries Utilize Israeli Ingenuity to Produce Water from Thin Air
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/third-world-countries-utilize-israeli-ingenuity-to-produce-water-from-thin-air/2016/01/19/
by the Tazpit News Agency
Extracts:
A lack of water on the battlefield is not something that soldiers can afford to worry about in the heat of combat. Supplying clean water however, is not always an easy task given the dangers of any battle.
Aware of this fact, Arye Kohavi, a former company commander in the IDF Special Forces, set about creating technology which would ensure that soldiers are never short of clean water and that the water supply is never delayed.
Water-Gen, a company founded by Kohavi in 2009, developed revolutionary technology designed for the military which can produce clean water out of thin air by extracting water from the ambient air humidity. The technology is now being supplied to the Israeli, British, French and American armies.
Kohavi told Tazpit Press Service (TPS) that Israeli soldiers are often forbidden from drinking water on foreign soil for a variety of reasons including the fact that it can be unclean or even poisonous.
'This innovation was intended for when soldiers go into places like Lebanon or Gaza. The logistics of supplying water in convoys or helicopters is something that needed to be resolved so we wanted to produce water immediately when needed,' Kohavi said.
Following the successes of the technology, Kohavi set about bringing the appliance to the civilians in third world countries two years ago. The GENNY, as the civilian version of the appliance is called, is now used in India, Africa, Central America and China.
Kohavi's innovation earned him a place among the world's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 and one of the world's top innovators in Foreign Policy magazine. Moreover, during the same year, Water-Gen was ranked 21st in the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies in Fast Company magazine, with Google receiving the top spot.
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3. REVEALED: US, UK INFILTRATED ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207233
by Ari Yashar
Extracts:
A shocking revelation on Friday morning shows that the US and Britain have infiltrated Israeli intelligence for the last 18 years, spying on imagery sent by drones on sensitive missions in the Middle East back to their home bases in Israel.
The revelation comes from documents and images exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden and published for the first time on Friday by Yedioth Aharonoth.
The infiltration of Israeli intelligence has been going on for the past 18 years from a fortified base in Cyprus, according to the documents.
In the breach, Israeli coding was cracked by the US and Britain, allowing them direct access to imagery broadcast by a large fleet of Israeli UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) flying sensitive missions in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, as well as throughout the Middle East back to their home bases including Tel Nof, Palmachim and Ein Shemer.
According to the revelations, the Israeli drones even flew missions to gather information so as to plan a bombing of Iran's nuclear program. Two of the drones were revealed to be armed with missiles and bombs, allowing them to be used in precise assassination missions against terrorists.
Thanks to the hacking, the US and UK were able to see Israel's targets, preferences and abilities, all from the eyes of Israel's own drones.
A senior Israeli intelligence official exposed to the revelation told the paper that "this is an earthquake."
"Apparently none of our encoded communications processes are secure from them," he said. "This is the most serious leak in the history of Israeli intelligence."
The revelation casts the case of Jonathan Pollard in a light of even greater hypocrisy. Pollard was jailed by the US for 30 years - half his life - on charges of spying for Israel after he passed information about regional threats to the Jewish state. Even after recently being paroled, he continues to suffer unprecedented draconian parole conditions.
The infiltration mission, entitled "Anarchist," has been up and running since 1998. Its goal was to crack and intercept the broadcasts of major armies in the Middle East, along with their air forces and advanced weapon systems and radars.
In the framework of the mission, the codes of advanced combat and tracking systems of Hezbollah, Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Syria were cracked.
However, at the center of the operation was one state which the majority of the resources and efforts were invested in - Israel, the supposed ally of the US and UK.
"Anarchy" was operated by the American NSA and the British GCHQ from two bases. One was a base in Menwith Hill, in northern England, that is jointly run with the US, and the other a British base located on the peak of the Troodos Mountains, the highest point in Cyprus. The base is massive, full of antennas, receivers and decoding equipment, with portions of the base dug underground.
The Snowden files include screenshots from intercepted broadcasts from Israeli drones in the midst of their operations. All that the powerful cameras of the UAVs picked up was transmitted to the American and British spies.
The US invested serious resources in tracking Israeli preparations for a strike on Iran, as revealed by the documents which also showed great American concerns that Israel would conduct significant military actions in the region without coordination with the US causing instability.
The documents and pictures, published for the first time Friday in Yedioth Aharonoth as well as The Intercept and the German Der Spiegel, include images showing missiles that are said to be able to weigh up to a ton hanging from the wings of the Eitan drone. The images likewise show the takeoff and landing of the drone, also known as the Heron.
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4. STEINITZ 'DISAPPOINTED' IN 18-YEARS OF US SPYING
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207243
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Extracts:
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) responded on Friday to the morning's report revealing that the US and UK have infiltrated Israeli intelligence for the past 18 years, hacking into the video broadcasts of Israeli drones conducting sensitive missions in the region.
Steinitz, who served as Intelligence Minister in the last government, said he was disappointed by the revelation, made by Yedioth Aharonoth from documents and images exposed by National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
"We are not surprised. We know that the Americans spy on everyone including us, their friends," he told Army Radio.
"It's disappointing nonetheless because of the fact that for decades we haven't spied or gathered intelligence or broken codes in the United States."
Steinitz's comment refers to the case of former US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, who was arrested in 1985 and jailed for 30 years - half his life - before being paroled recently. Pollard was charged with spying for Israel, after passing information on regional threats to the Jewish state, and even now he suffers from unprecedented draconian parole conditions.
The American and British spying operation, called "Anarchist," focused on Israel and saw codes cracked allowing access to broadcasts from drones to Israeli bases in various areas, including in Iran ahead of an apparent planned attack on Tehran's nuclear program.
Despite Israel being an ally of the US and UK, they also penetrated F16 fighter pilots' heads-up display, in one case showing the aircraft tracking a target on the ground.
"It's as if they sat with them in the cockpit," wrote Yedioth Aharonoth. "It's a look into the secret Israeli combat world. Potential targets, aims, priorities and capabilities, from Israel's view of its enemies. The United States and Britain profited from Israel's superb intelligence abilities and saw everything that Israel saw."
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5. Israel Reportedly Warned Germany of Attack on Hannover Soccer Stadium
by Ofer Aderet Nov 25, 2015 6:09 PM
According to report in Germany's Stern magazine, unnamed Israeli agency warned German intel of planned attack the day before the game, which was to be held four days after the Paris attacks.
 Israel provided Germany with the intelligence information that led to the cancellation of the soccer match between Germany and Holland in Hannover last week, German magazine Stern reported on its website on Wednesday.
Quoting German government sources, Stern said that an unnamed Israeli intelligence organization warned German intelligence of the attack the day before the game, which was scheduled for November 17.
The game was canceled and the stadium was evacuated only 90 minutes before the game was scheduled to begin, and only four days after the terror attacks in Paris which killed 130 people.