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Monday, Aug. 13 '18, ב' באלול תשע"ח
HEADLINES:
1. NEXT ROUND OF FIGHTING: NOT 'IF' BUT 'WHEN'
2. 100 BEREAVED FAMILIES PROTEST CHIEF OF STAFF CANDIDATE
3. 'CORBYN A DESPICABLE HATE-PEDDLING ANTI-SEMITE'
4. 'THANK GOD, 3 ZIONISTS KILLED'
5. IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN YEARS, BUT THE SAGA ISN'T OVER
6. POLICE DEMAND IDS OF WORSHIPERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT
7. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
8. HAMAS OFFICIAL: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ASSASSINATIONS
1. NEXT ROUND OF FIGHTING: NOT 'IF' BUT 'WHEN'
by Uzi Baruch
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visited the IDF Gaza Division this morning and held a situation assessment meeting with the Chief of Staff, GOC Southern Command, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Gaza Division Commander, and a Shin Bet representative.
After the assessment Liberman said, "First of all, I'd like to express my appreciation to the commanders and soldiers who are determined and imbued with the spirit of battle, who perform holy work for the safety of the citizens of Israel.
"Since the start of the 'March of Return' incidents, Hamas has absorbed 168 dead, 4,348 wounded, and dozens of terror infrastructures destroyed. The question of the next round of fighting is not 'if' but 'when'. I'm sure we'll do what needs to be done, the way it needs to be done.
"We're conducting a responsible and powerful security policy. Responsible security policy doesn't answer to talk-back artists, newspaper headlines, or public opinion. We're prepared and know what to do and how to do it."
The political-security cabinet convened yesterday to discuss the Gaza situation on the backdrop of regional contacts to bring about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the continued security tensions in the south. Liberman pushed to expand IDF activity in Gaza and a much more aggressive policy toward Hamas.
[video:2046094]
2. 100 BEREAVED FAMILIES PROTEST CHIEF OF STAFF CANDIDATE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
About 100 bereaved families sent a letter to Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday demanding the disqualification of the candidacy of Major General Yair Golan for IDF Chief of Staff.
In the letter, the families noted a number of some outrageous statements by Golan, including one from more than a decade ago, when Golan told the young people that he would prefer to endanger soldiers in order to avoid the unnecessary killing of a 60-year-old woman.
In another controversial statement Golan said that one does not have to take the life of an unarmed Arab running toward four soldiers. In his most famous statement he spoke about "horrifying processes" in Israel that reminded him of Nazi Germany.
"From these statements, a disturbing picture emerges of a commander who is prepared to take unnecessary risks against the lives of our soldiers," the families wrote in the letter, which was published by News 2. "As parents, siblings, and spouses, these quotes are of great concern to us. A man to whom the blood of our children is cheap cannot protect and command them.
The procedure for selecting the next chief of staff of the IDF was launched last week after Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman interviewed four generals in his office: Aviv Kochavi, Yair Golan, Nitzan Alon and Eyal Zamir.
Prime Minister Netanyahu will also interview the candidates, and after examining their suitability by the advisory committee for the appointment of senior civil servants, it will be decided who will be the next chief of staff.
3. 'CORBYN A DESPICABLE HATE-PEDDLING ANTI-SEMITE'
by Tzvi Lev
The widow of one of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics blasted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after the Daily Mail published pictures of the Labour leader holding a wreath near the graves of some of the terrorists who were responsible for the massacre.
Ilana Romano, whose husband Yosef was killed during the 1972 games, said that "we are talking about a despicable anti-Semite that peddles hate."
"We are living in a democratic world, but there is a limit to this. It is simply absurd - an act that is neither forgiven nor unforgivable," Romano added during an interview with Israel Hayom.
On the personal level, she added, "The poor voters and British citizens who need to contain such anti-Semitism, I hope that they will be denounced because if not, we will go into chaos."
On Monday, Corbin was exposed laying a wreath on the grave of PLO intelligence officer Atef Basiso, who planned the deadly massacre. Corbyn was also standing next to the graves of the PLO's security officer, Hail Abd al-Hamid, the founder of Black September, Salah Khalaf and his senior advisor, Fakhri al-Omari.
The incident is the latest in a series of controversies that have plagued Labour and Corbyn over the anti-Semitism in the party.
Over the last several years, dozens of Labour members have been suspended over their anti-Semitic statements.
Corbyn himself has been accused of holding anti-Semitic views by senior UK Jewish leaders. Corbyn has also been criticized for calling Hamas and Hezbollah his "friends" and for outright refusing to condemn those two terrorist organizations despite being urged to do so by local Jewish groups.
Most recently, the party was criticized over its refusal to adopt in full the definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Corbyn recently published an op-ed in The Guardian, in which he acknowledged that the party has "a real problem" when it comes to anti-Semitism, but strongly rejected the idea that it poses any threat to the British Jewish community.
He subsequently published a video in which he acknowledged that anti-Semitism has surfaced in the party and apologized for "the hurt that has been caused to many Jewish people."
4. 'THANK GOD, 3 ZIONISTS KILLED'
by Eliran Aharon
The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, through Attorney Benny Libeskind, filed an indictment against a 39-year-old resident of Abu Tor for the offenses of identifying with a terrorist organization and incitement to terrorism.
The indictment says at various times on numerous occasions she published statements in support and praise for terrorist organization Hamas, including its military wing the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as well as calls of incitement to acts of violence and terrorism.
In May, the defendant's Facebook account was blocked due to the nature of the publications by the defendant on the social network. When the defendant noticed her account had been blocked, she opened a new account on Facebook and continued to maintain and publish posts until the day of her arrest.
5. IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN YEARS, BUT THE SAGA ISN'T OVER
by Sponsored content
15 years ago, the Bar Or family went through a tragedy that no one should have to go through – they lost their 12-year-old son Avraham in a terrorist attack.
Traveling home after praying at the Western Wall, the family was riding Jerusalem's #2 bus when suddenly an Arab terrorist (who had boarded the bus dressed as a Jew) blew himself up.
[youtube:2045736]
Dozens of passengers were killed and many more were injured. Unfortunately, Avraham Bar Or was one of the victims who lost his life.
The entire family was scarred from the horrific attack, and they have been suffering ever since from mental problems, traumas, fears, and financial hardships. Recently, they were evicted from their apartment, and they have nowhere to go. Their daughter is ready to get engaged, but the family doesn't have money to pay for her wedding.
They set up a Cause Match page to raise some money for a home and for their daughter's wedding, and we are trying to spread the word to as many people as possible so that Klal Yisrael (the People of Israel) can help this family get back on their feet. Please consider donating to this family in need!
Thank you!
[רכיב:2045804]
6. POLICE DEMAND IDS OF WORSHIPERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT
by Shimon Cohen
The struggle of the worshipers of the Yeshuat Yisrael synagogue in southern Tel Aviv to broadcast music to mark the start of Shabbat continued as a policeman was summoned to the synagogue on Friday afternoon.
The policeman came in and demanded that the worshipers show him their identity cards. Ma'ariv editor Doron Cohen who was shocked and published a short post and resented the intolerance of the "enlightened" residents of the neighborhood, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the incident.
"My father was one of the builders of this synagogue," said Cohen. The memorial service for Cohen's father was on Shabbat and therefore he also came to pray in the synagogue in question. "The synagogue devotes two minutes of a song at the beginning of the Shabbat, and then the new residents of the neighborhood flood the centers with cries to silence the synagogue."
He said that he understands that "every time they come to court and fail and then come with other reasons. Once it was noise. They once said that the speakers on the roof are rubbish that needs to be evacuated/"
"If this synagogue would play these songs and sounds at six in the morning, I would join them, but there is the principle of proportionality here. We are talking about a a two-minute song that announces the beginning of Shabbat and they cannot contain it. These are very enlightened people, very liberal, very pluralistic, but they are not willing to accept it," he said.
"When a police car arrived, a policeman came into the synagogue with a sheet of paper and a pen, tried to write down the names of people, I was shocked, he wanted ID cards from the people," Cohen continued, describing the events on the eve of the Shabbat. Cohen says that he himself grew up in the neighborhood and recently published a book about the Shapira neighborhood, where he called the local community a "Absentees." "I wrote this way deliberately, to imply that they are not expressed in the media and society."
"It is time for people to be liberal and pluralistic in everyday life and not just on Twitter," added Cohen, who said that a few years ago he wanted to buy an apartment in Nachlat Yitzhak and after seeing that the apartment suited him, he asked the landlord to visit her one more time. He arrived in the evening and found that there was a synagogue in the lower part of the building, followed by noise. So he decided to cancel the deal, but he adds that if he had bought the house, he would not have thought of turning to the municipality or the police to silence the synagogue.
"In the past few years, housing projects have been built around where Shasniks and haredi Jews live. Has anyone ever complained to the municipality that the bells are bothering him? A new community has arrived in Shapira because the place has become a real estate hit and they are not prepared to respect the traditional population that lives in the neighborhood, and I think that anyone who is a bit enlightened must rise up against this.
"There are people there who very much identify with the worshipers, but there are the regular instigators, some of whom use fake namese, who are very connected and they manage to run all the police and municipal authorities," Cohen said.
In the articlle he published, Cohen refers harshly to the words and compares them to dark eras in history: "If I did not see it with my own eyes, I would not believe it. Friday evening, the shfira synagogue (I was there for my father's memorial),and he takes out a notebook and a pen and demands IDs from the worshipers. Why? Because of that two-minute song that announces the entry of the Shabbat and drives the "enlightened" out of their minds? Is this anti-Semitism? Things that happened in Germany?" he wrote. "See how much it annoys you and you'll understand how annoying it is to others."
"The quarrel surrounding the songs for Shabbat in the synagogue has never been a purely religious dispute, but rather part of the struggle over the disappearing Jewish character of the neighborhoods of southern Tel Aviv," said Pei Paz, who views the policeman's entrance to the synagogue as a significant event. "The siege and the strangeness brought about the installation of the system, but then the organization of new residents who began to bombard the city center with complaints about noise, and as soon as the municipality surrendered to the complainants, they sent supervision, reports and even issued an order forbidding the music to play. We brought in speakers and people and we did Kabbalat Shabbat on the street . So this is what happens: the new residents are complaining, the veteran residents are singing and dancing, and we will see who will break first. "
"On Friday we received information that the city had folded and the municipal police had been instructed not to come in. It turned out that the joy was premature, and the police arrived at the synagogue and entered the synagogue," she said.
The police said in response that "it is the duty of the police to investigate and deal with every report of a noise nuisance that comes to its doorstep, and in this case too. Following complaints received by the police and the Tel Aviv municipality's municipal headquarters about loud loud noise from loudspeakers and disturbing the neighbors, City Hall. After several attempts to find out who was responsible in the synagogue, the noise nuisance was stopped and therefore no report or any other enforcement action was issued. It should be noted that the noise nuisances are among the most disturbing offenses to the normative citizen and we will continue to prevent and enforce them, all in accordance with the law."
7. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A hiker was killed in front of his family when he fell 30 meters (98 feet) from a cliff near Mitzpe Ramon on Friday night.
Rescue volunteers from the Har Negev unit and the Israeli Air Force's Unit 669 arrived at Nahal Hava (the Hava Stream) and evacuated both the victim and a group of hikers from the area.
The hiker was a resident of central Israel. He, his wife, and his 14-year-old son were hiking together with eight other family members.
Har Negev volunteer Rami Museli said, "We received a call at 6:30p.m., and we contacted Unit 669. A doctor who on the team was forced to declare the victim's death at the scene."
"Afterwards, we began evacuating the body, as well as the family, from the area.
"This is an area with a lot of tourist activity, as well as high cliffs."
8. HAMAS OFFICIAL: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ASSASSINATIONS
by Dalit Halevi
Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, on Sunday dismissed the threats made in Israel to eliminate senior members of the group.
"The statements made by the occupation and its threats to murder senior Hamas members are positions that arouse irony and indicate the confusion in which the occupier lives," Badran wrote in a post on his Facebook account.
"These threats do not frighten a Palestinian child, let alone the leaders of the resistance organization...The blood of all our people is precious," Badran added.
"The period in which the occupation harmed the Palestinians without a response to its crimes has come to an end," he declared.
Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza have adopted a policy of tit-for-tat against Israel, which includes a response to any Israeli action in Gaza, particularly if it resulted in deaths.
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Monday, Aug. 13 '18, ב' באלול תשע"ח
HEADLINES:
1. NEXT ROUND OF FIGHTING: NOT 'IF' BUT 'WHEN'
2. 100 BEREAVED FAMILIES PROTEST CHIEF OF STAFF CANDIDATE
3. 'CORBYN A DESPICABLE HATE-PEDDLING ANTI-SEMITE'
4. 'THANK GOD, 3 ZIONISTS KILLED'
5. IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN YEARS, BUT THE SAGA ISN'T OVER
6. POLICE DEMAND IDS OF WORSHIPERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT
7. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
8. HAMAS OFFICIAL: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ASSASSINATIONS
1. NEXT ROUND OF FIGHTING: NOT 'IF' BUT 'WHEN'
by Uzi Baruch
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visited the IDF Gaza Division this morning and held a situation assessment meeting with the Chief of Staff, GOC Southern Command, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Gaza Division Commander, and a Shin Bet representative.
After the assessment Liberman said, "First of all, I'd like to express my appreciation to the commanders and soldiers who are determined and imbued with the spirit of battle, who perform holy work for the safety of the citizens of Israel.
"Since the start of the 'March of Return' incidents, Hamas has absorbed 168 dead, 4,348 wounded, and dozens of terror infrastructures destroyed. The question of the next round of fighting is not 'if' but 'when'. I'm sure we'll do what needs to be done, the way it needs to be done.
"We're conducting a responsible and powerful security policy. Responsible security policy doesn't answer to talk-back artists, newspaper headlines, or public opinion. We're prepared and know what to do and how to do it."
The political-security cabinet convened yesterday to discuss the Gaza situation on the backdrop of regional contacts to bring about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the continued security tensions in the south. Liberman pushed to expand IDF activity in Gaza and a much more aggressive policy toward Hamas.
[video:2046094]
2. 100 BEREAVED FAMILIES PROTEST CHIEF OF STAFF CANDIDATE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
About 100 bereaved families sent a letter to Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday demanding the disqualification of the candidacy of Major General Yair Golan for IDF Chief of Staff.
In the letter, the families noted a number of some outrageous statements by Golan, including one from more than a decade ago, when Golan told the young people that he would prefer to endanger soldiers in order to avoid the unnecessary killing of a 60-year-old woman.
In another controversial statement Golan said that one does not have to take the life of an unarmed Arab running toward four soldiers. In his most famous statement he spoke about "horrifying processes" in Israel that reminded him of Nazi Germany.
"From these statements, a disturbing picture emerges of a commander who is prepared to take unnecessary risks against the lives of our soldiers," the families wrote in the letter, which was published by News 2. "As parents, siblings, and spouses, these quotes are of great concern to us. A man to whom the blood of our children is cheap cannot protect and command them.
The procedure for selecting the next chief of staff of the IDF was launched last week after Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman interviewed four generals in his office: Aviv Kochavi, Yair Golan, Nitzan Alon and Eyal Zamir.
Prime Minister Netanyahu will also interview the candidates, and after examining their suitability by the advisory committee for the appointment of senior civil servants, it will be decided who will be the next chief of staff.
3. 'CORBYN A DESPICABLE HATE-PEDDLING ANTI-SEMITE'
by Tzvi Lev
The widow of one of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics blasted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after the Daily Mail published pictures of the Labour leader holding a wreath near the graves of some of the terrorists who were responsible for the massacre.
Ilana Romano, whose husband Yosef was killed during the 1972 games, said that "we are talking about a despicable anti-Semite that peddles hate."
"We are living in a democratic world, but there is a limit to this. It is simply absurd - an act that is neither forgiven nor unforgivable," Romano added during an interview with Israel Hayom.
On the personal level, she added, "The poor voters and British citizens who need to contain such anti-Semitism, I hope that they will be denounced because if not, we will go into chaos."
On Monday, Corbin was exposed laying a wreath on the grave of PLO intelligence officer Atef Basiso, who planned the deadly massacre. Corbyn was also standing next to the graves of the PLO's security officer, Hail Abd al-Hamid, the founder of Black September, Salah Khalaf and his senior advisor, Fakhri al-Omari.
The incident is the latest in a series of controversies that have plagued Labour and Corbyn over the anti-Semitism in the party.
Over the last several years, dozens of Labour members have been suspended over their anti-Semitic statements.
Corbyn himself has been accused of holding anti-Semitic views by senior UK Jewish leaders. Corbyn has also been criticized for calling Hamas and Hezbollah his "friends" and for outright refusing to condemn those two terrorist organizations despite being urged to do so by local Jewish groups.
Most recently, the party was criticized over its refusal to adopt in full the definition of anti-Semitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Corbyn recently published an op-ed in The Guardian, in which he acknowledged that the party has "a real problem" when it comes to anti-Semitism, but strongly rejected the idea that it poses any threat to the British Jewish community.
He subsequently published a video in which he acknowledged that anti-Semitism has surfaced in the party and apologized for "the hurt that has been caused to many Jewish people."
4. 'THANK GOD, 3 ZIONISTS KILLED'
by Eliran Aharon
The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, through Attorney Benny Libeskind, filed an indictment against a 39-year-old resident of Abu Tor for the offenses of identifying with a terrorist organization and incitement to terrorism.
The indictment says at various times on numerous occasions she published statements in support and praise for terrorist organization Hamas, including its military wing the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as well as calls of incitement to acts of violence and terrorism.
In May, the defendant's Facebook account was blocked due to the nature of the publications by the defendant on the social network. When the defendant noticed her account had been blocked, she opened a new account on Facebook and continued to maintain and publish posts until the day of her arrest.
5. IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN YEARS, BUT THE SAGA ISN'T OVER
by Sponsored content
15 years ago, the Bar Or family went through a tragedy that no one should have to go through – they lost their 12-year-old son Avraham in a terrorist attack.
Traveling home after praying at the Western Wall, the family was riding Jerusalem's #2 bus when suddenly an Arab terrorist (who had boarded the bus dressed as a Jew) blew himself up.
[youtube:2045736]
Dozens of passengers were killed and many more were injured. Unfortunately, Avraham Bar Or was one of the victims who lost his life.
The entire family was scarred from the horrific attack, and they have been suffering ever since from mental problems, traumas, fears, and financial hardships. Recently, they were evicted from their apartment, and they have nowhere to go. Their daughter is ready to get engaged, but the family doesn't have money to pay for her wedding.
They set up a Cause Match page to raise some money for a home and for their daughter's wedding, and we are trying to spread the word to as many people as possible so that Klal Yisrael (the People of Israel) can help this family get back on their feet. Please consider donating to this family in need!
Thank you!
[רכיב:2045804]
6. POLICE DEMAND IDS OF WORSHIPERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT
by Shimon Cohen
The struggle of the worshipers of the Yeshuat Yisrael synagogue in southern Tel Aviv to broadcast music to mark the start of Shabbat continued as a policeman was summoned to the synagogue on Friday afternoon.
The policeman came in and demanded that the worshipers show him their identity cards. Ma'ariv editor Doron Cohen who was shocked and published a short post and resented the intolerance of the "enlightened" residents of the neighborhood, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the incident.
"My father was one of the builders of this synagogue," said Cohen. The memorial service for Cohen's father was on Shabbat and therefore he also came to pray in the synagogue in question. "The synagogue devotes two minutes of a song at the beginning of the Shabbat, and then the new residents of the neighborhood flood the centers with cries to silence the synagogue."
He said that he understands that "every time they come to court and fail and then come with other reasons. Once it was noise. They once said that the speakers on the roof are rubbish that needs to be evacuated/"
"If this synagogue would play these songs and sounds at six in the morning, I would join them, but there is the principle of proportionality here. We are talking about a a two-minute song that announces the beginning of Shabbat and they cannot contain it. These are very enlightened people, very liberal, very pluralistic, but they are not willing to accept it," he said.
"When a police car arrived, a policeman came into the synagogue with a sheet of paper and a pen, tried to write down the names of people, I was shocked, he wanted ID cards from the people," Cohen continued, describing the events on the eve of the Shabbat. Cohen says that he himself grew up in the neighborhood and recently published a book about the Shapira neighborhood, where he called the local community a "Absentees." "I wrote this way deliberately, to imply that they are not expressed in the media and society."
"It is time for people to be liberal and pluralistic in everyday life and not just on Twitter," added Cohen, who said that a few years ago he wanted to buy an apartment in Nachlat Yitzhak and after seeing that the apartment suited him, he asked the landlord to visit her one more time. He arrived in the evening and found that there was a synagogue in the lower part of the building, followed by noise. So he decided to cancel the deal, but he adds that if he had bought the house, he would not have thought of turning to the municipality or the police to silence the synagogue.
"In the past few years, housing projects have been built around where Shasniks and haredi Jews live. Has anyone ever complained to the municipality that the bells are bothering him? A new community has arrived in Shapira because the place has become a real estate hit and they are not prepared to respect the traditional population that lives in the neighborhood, and I think that anyone who is a bit enlightened must rise up against this.
"There are people there who very much identify with the worshipers, but there are the regular instigators, some of whom use fake namese, who are very connected and they manage to run all the police and municipal authorities," Cohen said.
In the articlle he published, Cohen refers harshly to the words and compares them to dark eras in history: "If I did not see it with my own eyes, I would not believe it. Friday evening, the shfira synagogue (I was there for my father's memorial),and he takes out a notebook and a pen and demands IDs from the worshipers. Why? Because of that two-minute song that announces the entry of the Shabbat and drives the "enlightened" out of their minds? Is this anti-Semitism? Things that happened in Germany?" he wrote. "See how much it annoys you and you'll understand how annoying it is to others."
"The quarrel surrounding the songs for Shabbat in the synagogue has never been a purely religious dispute, but rather part of the struggle over the disappearing Jewish character of the neighborhoods of southern Tel Aviv," said Pei Paz, who views the policeman's entrance to the synagogue as a significant event. "The siege and the strangeness brought about the installation of the system, but then the organization of new residents who began to bombard the city center with complaints about noise, and as soon as the municipality surrendered to the complainants, they sent supervision, reports and even issued an order forbidding the music to play. We brought in speakers and people and we did Kabbalat Shabbat on the street . So this is what happens: the new residents are complaining, the veteran residents are singing and dancing, and we will see who will break first. "
"On Friday we received information that the city had folded and the municipal police had been instructed not to come in. It turned out that the joy was premature, and the police arrived at the synagogue and entered the synagogue," she said.
The police said in response that "it is the duty of the police to investigate and deal with every report of a noise nuisance that comes to its doorstep, and in this case too. Following complaints received by the police and the Tel Aviv municipality's municipal headquarters about loud loud noise from loudspeakers and disturbing the neighbors, City Hall. After several attempts to find out who was responsible in the synagogue, the noise nuisance was stopped and therefore no report or any other enforcement action was issued. It should be noted that the noise nuisances are among the most disturbing offenses to the normative citizen and we will continue to prevent and enforce them, all in accordance with the law."
7. HIKER KILLED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A hiker was killed in front of his family when he fell 30 meters (98 feet) from a cliff near Mitzpe Ramon on Friday night.
Rescue volunteers from the Har Negev unit and the Israeli Air Force's Unit 669 arrived at Nahal Hava (the Hava Stream) and evacuated both the victim and a group of hikers from the area.
The hiker was a resident of central Israel. He, his wife, and his 14-year-old son were hiking together with eight other family members.
Har Negev volunteer Rami Museli said, "We received a call at 6:30p.m., and we contacted Unit 669. A doctor who on the team was forced to declare the victim's death at the scene."
"Afterwards, we began evacuating the body, as well as the family, from the area.
"This is an area with a lot of tourist activity, as well as high cliffs."
8. HAMAS OFFICIAL: WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ASSASSINATIONS
by Dalit Halevi
Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, on Sunday dismissed the threats made in Israel to eliminate senior members of the group.
"The statements made by the occupation and its threats to murder senior Hamas members are positions that arouse irony and indicate the confusion in which the occupier lives," Badran wrote in a post on his Facebook account.
"These threats do not frighten a Palestinian child, let alone the leaders of the resistance organization...The blood of all our people is precious," Badran added.
"The period in which the occupation harmed the Palestinians without a response to its crimes has come to an end," he declared.
Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza have adopted a policy of tit-for-tat against Israel, which includes a response to any Israeli action in Gaza, particularly if it resulted in deaths.
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