Last Moments In The Year 2014 World News

Last Moments

 World News Of 2014 

December 31st. 2014 

May the New Year make your dreams true

And brings success in your work

And Happiness in your Home

Happy New Year 

2014 comes to close

 with 8.3 million Israelis

Some 176,000 babies were born and some 23,000 new

 olim arrived in Israel over the past year; 6.2 million 

residents are Jews, 1.7 million Arabs.

New olim celebrate first Independence Day in Israel 

Top Israel pictures of 2014

Ariel Sharon passes away

Pope Visits Israel

Snow in Jerusalem

Western Wall 

  

Temple Mount 

Exclusive tapes reveal details 

of IDF's Black Friday

Secret recordings from Gaza war: Inside IDF's Black Friday Ynet obtains recordings of internal IDF communication after kidnapping of Givati Brigade officer Lt. Hadar Goldin as military police decides on whether to pursue criminal case against officers. Full Story . . .

UN Security Council 

rejects Palestinian 

statehood resolution

Egypt bans festival for rabbi

Festival at Rabbi Abuhatzeira's tomb

Bodies found close to 

where plane disappeared

Searchers look for debris of AirAsia missing plane. 

Airport worker in Singapore locates family members of those on board missing AirAsia plane. 

Photo: Reuters

Netanyahu dubbed 'tyrant' 

in IS magazine

Netanyahu featured in Islamic State magazine

14-year-old Israeli wins revered

junior tennis tournament

Oliel wins Junior Orange Bowl competition 

Yshai Oliel and his coach Jan Pochte

Israeli Tech Puts 3D 

Holographic Heart In 

The Doctor's Hand To ...

Israel helps Senegal farmers

Growing lettuce in Senegal using drip-irrigation 

Senegal Minister for Women, Family and Children, Anta Sarr, and Israel's Ambassador to Senegal, Eli Ben Tura, at the farm inauguration ceremony in Fatick 

Nazi-hunters condemn Mass

 for WWII Croatia leader

Jewish organization tracking down Nazi

 war criminals labels service marking 55th

 anniversary of pro-Nazi leader a 

'badge of shame' 

for Catholic Church.

Shoah survivors' offspring 

help keep memory alive 

In new book, 88 descendants of Holocaust survivors 

tell how they inherited memory and how they hope 

to pass it on to future generations.

Book starts with a prologue by Nobel Peace Prize

 winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel 

'Time' Reveals 2014 

Person of the Year

"Have mercy, he is a Muslim"  

'He flew with a Koran by his side,

' says brother of Jordanian pilot

 captured by the Islamic State.

The Jordanian pilot being taken in by members of the Islamic State terrorist group.

Muath al-Kasaesbeh at a military ceremony in Jordan.

Parts of the cockpit of the Jordanian plane displayed on the streets of Syrian city taken over by Islamic State.

Islamic State takes the Jordanian pilot captive.

Hamas blocks orphans from visiting Israel

 

Erez Crossing 

Marshak waits at border crossing 

Arab woman aims to 

conquer Israeli high-tech

Israeli saves 1,300 monkeys

Ady Gil bought 1,300 monkeys.

Doctor Moshe Bushmitz the former manager of the Mazor Farm.

South Dakota - smallest 

Jewish population in US

Torah scrolls 

ADL highlights top issues 

affecting Jews in 2014

Operation Protective Edge 

Brussels Museum attack 

Kansas Jewish center shootings 

Donald Sterling 

Warsaw's Jewish world

 recreated in miniature

Tourists look at a replica of the Saski Palace 

A worker finishes one of the miniature replicas of a lost building 

World’s first artificial 

cell churns out proteins

Weizmann Institute team reports on its

 groundbreaking cell-on-a-chip that fulfills

 a longstanding dream of mimicking the

 dynamics of a living cell

Graduate students Eyal Karzbrun and Alexandra Tayar with Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv. Photo courtesy of Weizmann Institute

Al-Qaeda magazine praises 

'lone-wolf' terrorists

Cover of al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine

Syria heritage sites destroyed

Temple of Bel-Shamin in Palmyra 

Temple of Bel-Shamin in Palmyra 

A Necropolis in Palmyra: On the left, Oct 2009, on the right, Oct 2014 

 

Ancient Aleppo: On the left, Nov 2010, on the right, Oct 2014

The ancient city Dura Europos near the village of Salhiye: On the left, Sept 2011, on the right, April 2014 

Crac des Chevaliers castle in Homs 

Crac des Chevaliers castle in Homs 

A temple in Raqqa: On the left, Oct 2011, on the right, Oct 2014 

Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo

Tsunami survivor: Allah 

protected the mosques

The Baitulrahman Mosque on December 26 2004, and a view of the same area on December 16 2014. 

Mosque in Meulaboh seen in January 2004 and November 2014. 

Banda Aceh's Baiturrahaman mosque in 2004 and 2014. 

Debris scattered around a mosque at Banda Aceh on January 11, 2005.

The Rahmatullah Lampuuk mosque in the village of Lhoknga in January 2005.

How do strangers GetYou?

‘This is the new Internet reality in a nutshell,’

 says Israeli founder of first-ever crowdsourced 

profile app.

CEO Orit Mossinson is making international media appearances.

Ex-Catholic French star 

feels at home in Israel

Dany Boon: Movie Star, Jewish convert,

 and hypochondriac. 

Video synopsis company 

BriefCam wins innovation award

Israeli video synopsis solutions company BriefCam was

 awarded first prize for physical security and named

 Technology Company of the year

Your secret is safe with IBM Haifa

Israel is the go-to address

 for cyber-security

‘Everybody understands that you

 buy Swiss watches from Switzerland

 and information security from Israel,

’ says CyberArk CEO.

At the launch of JVP Cyber Labs, from left, partners Nimrod Kozlovsky and Yoav Tzruya; JVP General Partner Gadi Tirosh; Dr. Rivka Carmi, president of Ben-Gurion University; and Orna Berry, VP and general manager of the EMC Center of Excellence in Israel.

20 top tech inventions

 born of conflict

Many of Israel’s most amazing contributions

 to the world – from the DiskOnKey to the PillCam

 –result from its existential need for innovation in

 the military.

Bynet Expo: Israel’s best 

high-tech secret

TelePresence creates a virtual conference room.

Israel’s top 12 video 

surveillance advances

According to Israeli defense publication, IsraelDefense, BriefCam was instrumental in helping law enforcement officials capture the two brothers behind the deadly Boston marathon attack.

Germans name street

 after Shoah victim

The mayor unveiling the street sign with the Rauners' relatives 

Hebrew Bibles reunited 

after 350 years

The Bibles are nearly identical, but only one includes margins.

Dead Sea wins National 

Geographic contest

Photo: Nick Riley / National Geographic 2014 Photo Contest

Photo: Brian Yen / National Geographic 2014 Photo Contest

Photo: Triston Yeo / National Geographic 2014 Photo Contest

Sergey Ponomarev, 'Destroyed Homs' / Places category

Photo: Sergey Ponomarev / National Geographic 2014 Photo Contest

Tayler G., 'My Brothers and I' / Places category

Photo: Tyler G / National 

Peter Franc, 'Tokyo – Shinagawa Station' / Places category

Photo: Peter Franc / National Geographic 2014 Photo Contest

Ancient clay seals reinforce

 biblical account

The clay fragments are small in size, but could have large significance.

Personalized videos cure 

phone-bill shock

SundaySky’s customers include US corporate

 giants AT&T, Sears, Home Dep

SundaySky’s Shmulik Weller and Yaniv Axen

Top 12 disruptive technologies 

to watch in 2015

A Kuwaiti Muslim’s 

journey to Judaism

Mark Halawa on the first night of Hanukkah in Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue 

Evidence of 8,000-year-old

 olive oil found

The jug found in Ein Zippori provides further evidence of ancient use of olive oil. 

 

The archeological dig went on for three years.

Fragments were chemically analyzed for organic materials. 

The archeological remains were found to date back to the Copper Age.

1/3 of Israeli couples

 met online in 2014

Most Israelis look up symptoms on internet before going to the doctor 

National Bible project launched

Jewish cemetery desecrated 

in Greece

Tokyo to get its first 

kosher restaurant

Happy New Year