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Wednesday, Aug. 15 '18, ד' באלול תשע"ח



HEADLINES:
1. JERUSALEM POLICE FOIL STABBING ATTACK
2. NEAR-DROWNING VICTIMS AT HIGHER RISK OF KIDNEY INJURY
3. US: JEWISH CANDIDATE LAUNCHES ANTI-SEMITIC TWITTER TIRADE
4. 'WARRIORS: OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE'
5. 'LIBERMAN'S GESTURES TO HAMAS ARE A MISTAKE'
6. BEREAVED FATHER: HOW COULD GOLAN COMPARE US TO NAZIS?
7. REPORT: NETANYAHU FREEZING JEWISH CONSTRUCTION IN JERUSALEM
8. SOLDIER'S FATHER: MY SON WAS ABUSED IN MAGLAN


1. JERUSALEM POLICE FOIL STABBING ATTACK
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Israel Police on Wednesday said that a terror attack in Jerusalem was foiled last week.

In a statement, Israel Police said that officers operating in Jerusalem's Old CIty noticed a suspicious individual and detained him. Upon searching the suspect, the officers found a knife and tear gas.

The suspect is a 26-year-old Arab resident of Hevron. He was immediately arrested and taken to the police station, where he was interrogated.

During the initial interrogation, the suspect claimed that he entered pre-1967 Israel in order to "pray."

Police investigators suspected that he was hiding something, and expressed doubt as to his intentions. The interrogation was therefore transferred to the central unit.

Further investigations, which were conducted under a gag order, raised suspicion that the suspect entered pre-1967 Israel illegally carrying a knife and tear gas, in order to carry out a stabbing attack against civilians and security forces in Jerusalem.

The court extended the suspect's arrest until Monday in order to allow police to complete the investigations against him.
הסכין של המחבל שנתפס
Credit: Israel Police spokesperson
The terrorist's canister of tear gas
Credit: Israel Police spokesperson


2. NEAR-DROWNING VICTIMS AT HIGHER RISK OF KIDNEY INJURY
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Rambam Hospital physicians discovered that acute kidney injury is a common complication of near-drownings, due to lack of oxygen and the fight-or-flight response.

Their research points to men being at highest risk.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), drowning is the third leading cause of accidental death globally, with males especially susceptible. Drownings along Israel's Mediterranean beaches occur frequently, with approximately 60 people drowning annually - more than in other Mediterranean countries. This summer's recent surge of fatal drownings brings home this dire statistic.

Physicians from Rambam Health Care Campus observed that a relatively high number of nearly-drowned patients developed a sudden reduction in kidney function within days of hospital admission, with potentially fatal consequences.

The kidneys are critical for health, removing wastes from the body while maintaining a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals in the blood.

In 2016, a 31-year-old man who had been submerged in seawater for four minutes arrived at Rambam with water in his lungs, respiratory distress, an elevated heart rate, low blood oxygen concentration, and low phosphate levels. He subsequently developed acute kidney injury (AKI). This case study led researchers to investigate the frequency of AKI in near-drowning victims, its clinical characteristics, warning signs, and causes.

The research was led by Professor Mogher Khamaisi, a senior physician in the Department of Internal Medicine (D) and a member of Rambam's Clinical Research Institute. Rambam physicians Drs. Yuri Gorelik and Said Darawshi, also from the Department of Internal Medicine (D), and Hiba Yaseen from the Institute of Diabetes and Metabolism, worked with Prof. Khamaisi on the study, together with Samuel Heymanat, who serves as Head of the Department of Medicine at Hadassah Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

The study is the largest and most comprehensive ever done on the mechanism of kidney damage in near drowning-patients immersed in seawater. Previous studies only looked at a few patients.

The Rambam physician scientists reviewed the medical records of 95 Rambam patients who nearly drowned in the Mediterranean Sea and were treated at the hospital between 2000-2017.

Forty-three patients (45 percent) developed AKI, with 17 reaching an advanced stage of disease (stage 2/3) as indicated by reduced urine output and a high increase in creatinine levels in the blood. Creatinine levels normalized within 120 hours in the stage 2/3 group and within 72 hours in the stage 1 group. Patients with stage 2/3 AKI were more likely to require mechanical respiration and treatment in an intensive care unit (ICU) and had a higher mortality rate, often from multi-organ failure.

The researchers concluded that AKI is a common complication of near-drowning associated with increased hospital mortality, and that it may be more common in males.

The main causes of kidney damage appear to be a temporary lack of oxygen, combined with the victims' physiological fight-or-flight response of increased heart rate, very high blood sugar levels, constriction of kidney blood vessels, reduced potassium levels, and an increased demand for oxygen.

The researchers recommend further studies of near-drowning patients at risk for developing AKI, as well as treating and monitoring patients by restoring oxygen levels throughout the body, maintaining proper dilation of kidney blood vessels, and other medical practices to prevent kidney complications.


3. US: JEWISH CANDIDATE LAUNCHES ANTI-SEMITIC TWITTER TIRADE
by JTA

An independent congressional candidate from Oregon who recently called first lady Melania Trump a "hoebag" and tweeted that she "works by the hour" aimed anti-Semitic remarks at a prominent Jewish Twitter personality.

Mark Roberts launched an attack on Shoshana Weissmann, the digital media director at the conservative R Street Institute think tank, after she tweeted that he didn't "understand how the "First Amendment works."

In response, Roberts tweeted "Shalom mein #Yenta," a Yiddish term for a gossipy woman, and later a YouTube video of the "Dreidel" song.

Weissmann is well known for her support of licensing reform, her rainbow-colored hair and her love of sloths.

In a tweet earlier this month, Roberts wrote, "Might want to leave that standard to judicial review before you claim you're correct. I think $TWTR has considered it as they seem to be letting me express myself in the same way they do you. Shalom mein #Yenta."

"I admire how smart Mark is. He figured out I'm Jewish!!! GENIUS! And I try so hard to hide it!!! Great pick for Congress," Weissmann retorted, prompting Roberts to declare that he was Jewish as well.

"Yeah it was tough, the face gave it away, if only you were smart enough to figure out I'm Jewish #nitwit," he wrote.

"If you're Jewish and also attacking other people for being Jewish, then you're just even more pathetic than I thought," Weissmann countered.

Asked by one twitter user why "anti-Semitism like yours [is] all the rage these days," Roberts replied, "Off with your #Yarmulke and I'll take a ginsu to your pe'ah too! #oyveyismere you people are so stupid."

Yarmulke is the Yiddish word for kippah, or skullcap. "Oy vey smere" is a Yiddish expression which can be loosely translated to mean "oh my gosh this is terrible."

Pe'ah in Hebrew means "wig" and is used to refer to the hair coverings married women wear. However, the plural form of the word (peyot) refers to the sidelocks worn by religious men and boys.


4. 'WARRIORS: OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE'
by Mordechai Sones

47 officers successfully completed the 18th graduating class of the Tactical Command College in Glilot.

The graduation ceremony was held in the presence of Ground Forces Commander Major General Kobi Barak and Military Colleges Commander General Amir Baram. During the moving ceremony the students received a bachelor's degree from Bar-Ilan University.

The 47 officers from Ground Forces will command combat battalions starting this October. For two years the officers learned the military profession in all its aspects. Tactics, military history, and command are just some of the subjects learned by the officers during the course.

Graduation
IDF Spokesman
Military Colleges Commander Major General Baram said at the closing ceremony that "among the many resources entrusted to us by the State, the fighters under your command are the most important resource of all.

"The Tactical Command College is developing victorious commanders who are exemplary figures for all who surround them," said Tactical Command College Commander Col. Pini Yosef, "Eighteenth cycle graduates: you are model figures. As such continue developing commanders like you."


5. 'LIBERMAN'S GESTURES TO HAMAS ARE A MISTAKE'
by Mordechai Sones

In light of the agreement being forged between Israel and Hamas, Education Minister and Security Cabinet member Naftali Bennett announced tonight the Jewish Home Party would oppose an agreement based on temporary calm, allowing Hamas to rearm and regroup for the next round of terror.

Minister Bennett explained, "This 'quiet' will award Hamas total immunity to replenish tens of thousands of rockets threatening all parts of the country, and allow them to launch a war against Israel at a time and under conditions most convenient to them. This will ultimately lead to the opening of two highly dangerous fronts, to the north and to the south - at a time determined by the enemy and under their conditions."

He stressed, "After 130 days under attack and rocket fire, we must not reward terrorists without the return of our captives and our fallen. The terrorists will learn that terror pays, and Israel's power of deterrent will be harmed."

Minister Bennett made clear that opposition to the plan for a "mock quiet" did not then mean an operation to conquer Gaza:

"There's an alternative that doesn't involve a ground operation into Gaza, which we oppose," he said, and added, "We've initiated a plan to eliminate the terror from Gaza without maneuvering ground forces into Gaza, yet exacting a decisive price from Hamas. We put forward the plan in the relevant security forums – at this stage it hasn't yet been adopted, but we'll continue to promote this."


6. BEREAVED FATHER: HOW COULD GOLAN COMPARE US TO NAZIS?
by Ido Ben Porat

Eliezer Rosenfeld, a bereaved father who added his signature to the letter of the bereaved families against the appointment of Major General Yair Golan to the position of IDF Chief of Staff, explained his opposition to the appointment of the general to the senior position of the IDF.

At the start of his conversation with Arutz Sheva, Rosenfeld noted that Golan is an esteemed officer who has contributed greatly to the country's security, but his past statements reflect inappropriate positions.

Rosenfeld recalled Golan's speech during the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in 2016, when Golan said, ""If there is something that scares me about the memory of the Holocaust, it is the identification of horrifying processes that occurred in Europe in general and Germany in particular - 70, 80 and 90 years ago - and finding evidence of them here among us today."

According to the bereaved father: "In a time when we are fighting the Palestinians who come to destroy us, how can a senior commander in the army compare the reality of today or even say that there are sparks of signs indicating our comparison to the Nazis?"

"What Jew wanted to destroy Germany?" he asked. "Did the Jews in Europe do anything but do good and live in peace? How can we reach such a comparison?

Another statement attributed to Yair Golan was made toward the end of 2006. Golan spoke with students of the pre-military preparatory program and expressed his opposition to the killing of Arabs who are not involved in terror even at the price of harm to IDF soldiers.

Rosenfeld responded to this statement and wondered:, "Why do I have to spare a mother who rejoices when her son commits suicide? Why do our soldiers need to spare their lives?"

"Has anyone in Syria spared someone's life? I do not want statements. We're moral enough, more than enough. Whoever expresses that we have to take a risk until the terrorist explodes on us and then shoot him - it's distorted. No country will agree to such a situation. We have lost what is dear to us at times because of situations in which our soldiers reacted too late and did not open fire.

Rosenfeld stated that in the shooting attack in which his son Malachi was killed, an armed officer was present, but did not know whether he was allowed to open fire.

"We, as bereaved parents, are trying to open the eyes of our brothers in the House of Israel, open our eyes to see the reality and the real trends of the enemies who sit within us," Rosenfeld said.


7. REPORT: NETANYAHU FREEZING JEWISH CONSTRUCTION IN JERUSALEM
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered a freeze on the construction of hundreds of housing units for Jews in Jerusalem, according to a report by Kan 11.

Oficials asked the Prime Minister's Office to approve the plans urgently, but at this stage Netanyahu refuses to approve the construction.

According to the report, Netanyahu ordered a freeze on the construction of 500 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, 220 housing units in the south of Gilo, 200 housing units in Gilo, 200 housing units in Ramot Alon ,and 150 housing units in the Ramot neighborhood.

The Prime Minister's Office said that "the Prime Minister's Office is not delaying construction in Jerusalem."


8. SOLDIER'S FATHER: MY SON WAS ABUSED IN MAGLAN
by Mordechai Sones

The father of a former soldier in the elite Maglan unit described the abuse his son experienced during his military service.

In an interview with News 2's First Edition, the father said, "He found himself crawling hundreds of meters when he was seriously wounded."

"My son still suffers trauma," he revealed. "He fell into an environment with the violent and aggressive mentality of talk where they come down on each other in the most brutal way; he didn't cooperate and was immediately marked as a scapegoat."

The father said after his son was injured his commanders abused him instead of transferring him for medical treatment. "He was injured in one of the exercises; he knew that in this unit you don't ask for sick leave. His injury was dressed and he continued on wounded. The commander decided that my son didn't ask his authorization for the bandage and ordered him in the middle of the night to remove the dressing. My son, who was already wounded, found himself crawling hundreds of meters, critically injured, getting banged up on the boulders, and everything he went through caused him very serious injuries."

During the crawl, the son lost his kippah and asked the commander permission to go back and find it. "He found it in the middle of the night. The commander asked him, 'How did you find it?' He said, 'Through the trail of blood I left.' The commander answered him with a smutty reference.

The son continued his training for another week and ended up in the clinic, seriously injured. "They had to remove his clothes by special means, because everything was a mixture of cloth, flesh, and pus."

"Apart from the doctrine of fighting in the field, Maglan has a public relations doctrine," the father said. "They've turned themselves into a symbol of the Israel Defense Forces and Israel's security. I highly appreciate their work at the combat level, but this is a unit whose norms are very problematic."

The IDF Spokesman's Office said in response: "The incident that took place more than a year ago was examined by the soldier's commanders and the soldiers' community commissioner. The investigation shows that in a number of isolated incidents the norm was exceeded, especially in the training process. In light of this, the team commander and the staff sergeant were severely reprimanded. As for medical care it emerges that the sergeant received good medical care.

"The Maglan unit is an elite operational unit that performs high quality activity and yearly trains professional fighters of the highers caliber after a difficult and challenging employment. It should be noted that the commander of the team recently led fighters in incidents under fire with great success."

Grueling training
Flash 90





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