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Thursday, Aug. 30 '18, י"ט באלול תשע"ח



HEADLINES:
1. ISRAELI KILLED IN THAILAND: YEDIDYA KELLERMAN
2. 'ROSH HASHANAH ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT - LET NO ONE BE ABSENT'
3. MONSEY RESIDENTS SUSPECTED OF DEFRAUDING $14 MILLION ARRESTED
4. TERROR ATTACK THWARTED AT SAMARIA MILITARY COURT
5. 'MY CHILDREN WEREN'T ACCEPTED TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'RE BLACK'
6. 'TRUMP WAS FURIOUS WHEN HE LEARNED WHAT UNRWA, PA WERE DOING'
7. INFILTRATORS TO BE HOUSED NEXT TO SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE
8. PM: ONLY THE STRONG CAN MAKE PEACE


1. ISRAELI KILLED IN THAILAND: YEDIDYA KELLERMAN
by Tal Polon

The Israeli man killed in northern Thailand in a traffic accident has been identified as Yedidya Kellerman, 25, a resident of Nof Ayalon.

Kellerman, who married around a year ago, was traveling with his wife, Kesem, for their honeymoon at the time of his death. Kesem was also moderately injured in the accident.

The Israeli consulate in Bangkok, ZAKA, and Chabad emissaries in Thailand are working to have the body transferred to Israel.

The tragedy follows a string of incidents in recent months in which Israelis have been killed while traveling abroad.

In July, a man was killed and his wife was seriously injured in a zip-lining accident in Honduras. The Israeli couple was also on their honeymoon at the time.

A week before that, an Israeli citizen was killed in a traffic accident when his motorcycle collided with a bus in the Kullu district of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India.

A week prior, a 19-year-old Israeli youth was killed in a motorcycle accident in Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa.


2. 'ROSH HASHANAH ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT - LET NO ONE BE ABSENT'
by Mordechai Sones

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Students for the Temple Mount movement activists entered haredi neighborhoods in a night operation to encourage ascent to the Temple Mount. Movement activists posted thousands of notices in haredi neighborhoods in Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh, and Jerusalem imitating "pashkvilim" encouraging Rosh Hashanah travel to Uman in Ukraine, while the movement's posters suggested visiting the holiest site of the Jewish people - the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

"Temple Mount on Rosh Hashana - Come, Feel, Understand" and "Let no-one be absent from the Temple Mount" are examples of slogans plastered in the neighborhoods of Mea Shearim, Itzkovich in Bnei Brak, Kikar Hashabbat and others, as well as on main roads.

Students for the Temple Mount movement head Tal Koppel said, "We decided to prepare for the coming Rosh Hashanah by reminding the general public of the importance of the Temple Mount, the holiest place that is worthy of visiting and greeting on Rosh Hashanah."

Koppel added, "As we wrote: 'Let no-one be absent', for while there may be those who look for holiness in the Ukraine, in practice our absence from the Temple Mount in favor of alternative holy places is a disaster for the Jewish people."

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3. MONSEY RESIDENTS SUSPECTED OF DEFRAUDING $14 MILLION ARRESTED
by Mordechai Sones

Seven Monsey residents were arrested yesterday on suspicion of defrauding the government for an estimated $14 million in a case that exploded about a year ago, but whose reverberations continue to affect the local haredi community.

It is suspected that Brooklyn County board administrators used a state-sponsored program to increase access to computers and the Internet to purchase computers and other equipment.

The FBI called the fraud "outrageous" because the administrators made use of money intended to increase exposure to the Internet during a haredi public campaign against Internet exposure.

"This indictment is important not only because fraudsters should be responsible for their crimes, but also because the next generation of students should have access to communications services, access to the Internet, and related equipment," the State Attorney was quoted as saying.

"Schools have to fight for every dollar these days to supply their students with the high-tech, expensive equipment and technology they need in this day and age to succeed in life," said FBI Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney about the indictments. "The suspects in this investigation allegedly used funding from a program designed to give underprivileged schools internet access to pad their own bank accounts. To add insult to injury, school officials, who see the day-to-day struggle to even find money for pencils and paper, were allegedly involved in the scheme."

Prosecutors allege that in some cases the school listed on the application would not have allowed its students to use the classroom technology while in others the school did receive technology, but the program was over-billed and the defendants pocketed the difference, reported Patch.

In one example the school in question was a day care center serving 2-4-year-olds that applied for funding for technology including video-conferencing, distance learning, and high-speed internet, and received almost $500,000.

In return for participating in the scheme, prosecutors allege school officials took cellphones and security and alarm systems not covered under the program for staffers' personal use.


4. TERROR ATTACK THWARTED AT SAMARIA MILITARY COURT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

On Thursday morning, Border Police officers thwarted an attempted attack at the Samaria Military Court in Salem, in the Menashe district.

The security forces arrested two PA youths to the court, and three explosive devices were found in their possession, apparently intended to be used.

A police sapper was called to the scene and the entrance to the military court was closed until the incident was fully dealt with.

It should be noted that the military court in Salem, Samaria, is a permanent target for attacks of this nature. In February this year, three PA Arabs were arrested by Border Police near the entrance to the courthouse with three pipe bombs. The day before, an Arab who had hidden a pipe bomb in his clothes at the entrance to the courthouse was arrested.

A week before that attempted attack, a PA terrorist from Jenin was arrested at the entrance to the military court after the metal detector in the area warned that something was wrong. In the search, a pipe bomb was found in his clothes and the terrorist was arrested.

In December 2017, a 16-year-old terrorist from Jenin was arrested in the same manner. Forces managed to locate a bomb that was neutralized later on. A few days earlier, a 17-year-old terrorist from Jenin was arrested after he hid two explosive devices in his clothes.


5. 'MY CHILDREN WEREN'T ACCEPTED TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY'RE BLACK'
by Ben Shaul

American Jewish rapper Nissim Black, who immigrated to Israel two years ago, said that the haredi school he applied to send his children to rejected them due to the color of their skin.

Black, who converted to Judaism and now lives in Jerusalem, said that the school principal refused to accept his children for irrelevant reasons. As a result, the Black children are still at home even though the school year has already begun.

"She said explicitly that the school cannot accept my children because they're black," Black told Kol Hai Radio. "She said it makes 'too many problems.'"

"It's inconceivable that someone would be rejected because of their skin color. It's only because of their skin color. If there are other reasons, that's legitimate, but not because of skin color."

Black also noted that he met with the Lithuanian-haredi Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who expressed shock at the principal's behavior.

"He was shocked by what I told him, and said that being black is a virtue, not an issue."

Black also emphasized that his children are not aware of the reason they have not yet started school.

"They don't know anything," he said. "They're waiting and they think that we're looking for the best place for them. They have no idea. G-d forbid they should know."


6. 'TRUMP WAS FURIOUS WHEN HE LEARNED WHAT UNRWA, PA WERE DOING'
by Hezki Baruch

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David Bedein, the head of the Center for Near East Policy Research, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the late Arizona Senator John McCain, who passed away on Saturday after a year-long battle with brain cancer, and of the US administration's rejection of the so-called 'Palestinian right of return.'

"Ten years ago, exactly, I had the opportunity to meet Senator McCain when Noam Bedein (Bedein's son and the head of the Sderot Media Center) organized a briefing for Senator McCain in Sderot when he was running for president. And he brought him to a house which had been destroyed by missiles," Bedein said.

"I came down there as the correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin and covered the event. A few months before Senator McCain had given over an interview to Amir Oren from Haaretz where he talked about his commitment to push Israel for unilateral withdrawals from Judea and Samaria," he added.

"We're sitting in the living room which had been destroyed by missiles. I asked Senator McCain, 'well, how do you react? Will you change your position now that you've seen what happens when Israel hands over territory to the other side?'

"He got very angry at me and said: 'No. You have to understand: Israel has a peace partner. Israel had better withdraw as soon as possible from the West Bank and give it to Abbas. Abbas is a man of peace.' He was very angry and he said 'I don't like your question,'" Bedein recalled.

"My conclusion is that while McCain was, as he saw it, very favorable to Israel, it would have been very difficult to deal with a McCain Administration where we had someone who loved Israel so much, but was at the same time demanding withdrawals.

"It was easier to deal with Obama, who simply didn't like Israel so much and demanded withdrawals," Bedein said.

Bedein praised the reports that the Trump Administration would reject the 'right of return.'

"This is the conclusion of a process over the last two year: In December of 2016 I had the opportunity to meet with president-elect Trump's adviser, who was about to come to Washington. She was here in Jerusalem, and I showed her the [UNRWA] schoolbooks," he said.

"She told me who she was working for, and she asked if she could have all of the books. I gave the books to her, and for the last two years, our office, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has been in touch with the administration at the highest levels, giving them everything we could about the schoolbooks.

He said that the center's most recent report showed that "the right of return through the armed struggle become the most important and dominant theme of Palestinian Authority and UNRWA education."

"This got directly to the president of the United States, and he blew his stack, because he was told by the Peres Center for Peace ... that the Palestinian Authority has a peace curriculum. They just didn;t tell them that the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA had vetoed that peace curriculum.

He showed how a fifth grade textbook instructed students to model their lives after Dalal Mughrabi, one of the terrorists who carried out the Coastal Road Massacre in 1978, when 38 Israelis were murdered by terrorists.

According to Bedein, COGAT, the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories, is what is preventing reform of UNRWA. "They need feedback that an education system which teaches children to murder Jews is not appropriate for a peace process."


7. INFILTRATORS TO BE HOUSED NEXT TO SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Two Jewish businessmen purchased apartments for illegal African infiltrators near the home of Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, Channel 20 reported.

The New York businessmen bought two apartments, the Bereishit Movement's Yehoshua Hame'iri told Channel 20.

"The idea is to house Eritreans, who will work in gardening," Hame'iri said, noting that the idea came from an interview with Tel Aviv's right-wing activist May Golan. "Currently, the number of people stands at 15."

He also added that the pair were planning to purchase a third apartment.

Earlier this month, the Jerusalem Appeals Court dealing with issues of status and residency in Israel, recommended the State deport Eritrean asylum seekers back to their country "regardless of their political position as supporters or opponents of the regime."

Activists backing deportation say Sudanese and Eritrean infiltrators, most of whom live in southern Tel Aviv, have caused the local crime rate to skyrocket, endangering Israeli citizens.

A January poll showed that most Israelis support deporting the infiltrators.


8. PM: ONLY THE STRONG CAN MAKE PEACE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Wednesday at a ceremony to rename Israel's nuclear research facility for former President Shimon Peres.

"Shimon aspired toward peace," Netanyahu said, "but he knew that true peace can be achieved only if our hands strongly grasp defensive weaponry. In the Middle East, and in many parts of the world, there is a simple truth: There is no place for the weak. The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong."

"This process, of normalization by leading countries in the Arab world with the strong State of Israel, is happening before our eyes on a scale that would have been impossible to imagine a few years ago. This process bears hope within it that, in the end, the cycle of peace will be completed. But it is impossible to deny the fact that there are yet many enemies in this region and beyond," he added.

"But our enemies know very well what Israel is capable of doing. They are familiar with our policy. Whoever tries to hurt us – we hurt them.

"I am not spouting slogans. I am describing a persistent, clear and determined policy. This is our policy. It is backed by appropriate deployment, equipment, preparedness and – in the hour of need – appropriate orders.

He said that his government was focused on preventing the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons and to prevent Iran from establishing a permanent military presence in Syria. "We are working to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria. We will not relent in pursuit of this goal just as we did not relent in bringing about the cancellation of the bad nuclear agreement with Iran, a goal which was seen as impossible when I put it on the international agenda for the first time several years ago."

"In the diplomatic sphere, we will continue to apply pressure on the dangerous, extremist regime in Iran. Just yesterday we saw the fruit of this pressure in remarks by the Iranian President who said that many among the Iranian people have lost hope in the future and strength of Iran due to the resumption of economic sanctions. In the military sphere, the IDF will continue to take strong and determined action against Iran's attempts to station forces and advanced weapons systems in Syria. No agreement between Syria and Iran will deter us; neither will any threat deter us.

"Whoever threatens us with destruction puts himself in similar danger, and in any case will not achieve his goal."




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