By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 13-hour voyage by cruise ship from Israel to Cyprus was conducted under the protection of the Israeli Navy.
It wasn’t clear if the people on board had drowned or abandoned the boat.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Navy boats approached the vessel and called on it to halt, and when he did not respond to their calls, the soldiers fired at it in accordance with open fire regulations.
LORA is a sea-to-ground and ground-to-ground system which includes a long-range ballistic missile, a unique launcher, a command and control system, and ground or marine support system.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A foreign trade ship sailing from Turkey that was docking off Israel’s northern shore sent a message of distress.
The "Dragon Boats Carnival" in Park HaYarkon in Tel Aviv.
Fishermen from Kibbutz Ein Gev on the fishing boat "Gil", on the sea of Galilee, Northern Israel. The fishing team, led by Menachem Lev, is composed of third-generation Kinneret fishermen as well as volunteers and new immigrants.
Netanyahu attends a ceremony of the unveiling of a new monument to the victims of the 1948 Altalena affair.
One of the scenarios the drill simulated was the hijacking of a civilian Israeli vessel by the Islamic State (ISIS).
An alert Watertown resident found the wanted man.
Police in Gaza have finally captured a five-foot-nine crocodile which escaped two years ago from a zoo in the Gaza city of Umm al-Naser.
As of early Tuesday morning, there are numerous reports of residents trapped in their homes facing the high waters that submerged many parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Rockaways. The Fire Department is forced to reach those trapped by boat.
The Israeli Navy intercepted and boarded the "Estelle", a schooner flying under the Finnish flag, that was en-route to Gaza in an attempt to break the Israel blockade of the Hamas-led terror state. Unlike the Mavi Marmara, the passengers on the "Estelle" did not used violence, and the boat was redirected to the Ashdod port. While the […]
By JTA
Guma Aguiar, a Florida businessman and philanthropist who went missing in June, left his tefillin on his abandoned boat.
A drought in Israel in 1985 caused the water level in the Sea of Galilee to fall lower than usual. On January 24, 1986, the remains of an ancient boat were discovered. Archaeologists carefully extracted the remains and preserved them in a museum at Nof Ginosar, near Tiberias. A cooking pot and a lamp were […]
Rabi Moshe ben Nachman, widely known as the Ramban was born in the year 1194 in the town of Gurunda, Catalina. He became famous as a great scholar and sage and wrote interpretations on the Torah and on many Gemaras, and authored many seforim, which are revered to this day. The Ramban was also a philosopher and a physician and his services were in great demand.
The day after the disappearance, a police spokesman told reporters that Aguiar got into the boat alone, “but that’s not to say he didn’t meet up with anyone.” Now the attorney for Guma Aguiar's wife is saying that the Brazilian born billionaire could have staged his own disappearance to flee his marital and financial problems.
The Israeli Navy captured a Palestinian fishing vessel engaged in illegal smuggling travelling towards the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. No weapons were discovered on board the ship, only spare vehicle parts, and it was taken to shore by an Israeli Navy Dvora class fast patrol boat. After the investigation was complete, the smugglers were released […]
The Guardian reported that Israel has forced the low-cost airline Jet2.com to revoke the tickets of three women from Manchester who were on their way to Bethlehem via Ben Gurion airport this weekend to participate in an assembly of anti-Iaraeli activists. The three women received emails from Jet2.com informing them that the airline will not […]