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Monday, Sep. 17 '18, ח' בתשרי תשע"ט



HEADLINES:
1. 'IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO GET UP AND CHARGE'
2. ARI FULD LAID TO REST
3. JEW MURDERED IN GUSH ETZION STABBING ATTACK
4. ANALYSIS: US, TURKISH SHOW OF FORCE DELAYS RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE
5. INDIA: RABBI RESCUED BY LOCALS AFTER FALLING DOWN STEEP SLOPE
6. REBUILDING A TORAH COMMUNITY IN FRANCE
7. SHARIA COURT IN ISRAEL PLACES JEWISH GIRL IN ARAB CUSTODY
8. NEW YORK TOWN REPORTEDLY BUYING UP PROPERTY TO KEEP HASIDIM OUT


1. 'IT IS OUR OBLIGATION TO GET UP AND CHARGE'
by Hezki Baruch

The head of the Efrat municipality, Oded Revivi, announced this morning, Monday, on his Facebook page an ascent to nearby Givat Eitam following the murder of Ari Fuld, a resident of Efrat, yesterday at the Gush Etzion Junction, in order to settle it.

"Yesterday was a difficult and challenging day. For Ari Fuld, may Hashem avenge his blood. For the dear Fuld family, for the Zayit Ra'anan community, for the Efrat local council, for the entire nation of Israel! Ari was seriously wounded, got up and charged. Unfortunately Ari was critically wounded and the stabbing by the terrorist overpowered him," Revivi wrote on his Facebook page.

"We too were wounded, his dear family, the supportive community, the greater town and the people of Israel! It is our duty to take Ari's example to stand up and charge!" Revivi added.

He said, "This morning we get up and charge forward, ascend to Eitam! not as thieves in the night. Just as the Ari was, as proud Jews in the light of day, because this land is ours!"

Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel welcomed the decision, "We will be comforted in the the building of the land. It was decided to ascend to Givat Eitam in Efrat today. The hill will significantly enlarge the community of Efrat. I have accompanied the enlargement of Efrat since my days as construction minister. This is the fitting Zionist response to the heinous murder of dear Ari yesterday. I congratulate the council head, Oded Revivi, on the move."


2. ARI FULD LAID TO REST
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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Thousands of people on Sunday night attended the funeral of Ari Fuld, who was murdered by a terrorist at the Gush Etzion junction, at the cemetery in Kfar Etzion.

Yona Fuld, Ari's father, eulogized him and said: "Zion is crying and the Land of Israel is crying. Ari affected thousands all over the world." The father said that his son would receive thousands of letters from all over the world, including from Saudi Arabia, noting that "he was the hero of everyone."

"If we asked him, he would say that this how he wanted to leave the world," the father added. "I can only be satisfied that the entire nation of Israel is grieving today for a true hero, a hero who is like a lion."

Ari's brother, Moshe Fuld, eulogized him and said, "So many people came here to pay their last respects to him. If there is one word to describe my brother, it is 'hero', simply a hero."

The brother added, "Who else can deal with a terrorist, take out a gun, jump over a fence and shoot the terrorist so that he does not harm others? Ari, I'm so sorry that I did not tell you about your greatness. You are a true giant.

Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old immigrant from the US and resident of the Gush Etzion town of Efrat, was stabbed in the back by a 17-year-old Arab terrorist from the Hevron area. Before collapsing, Fuld managed to shoot the terrorist together with another civilian and a security guard. The terrorist was moderately wounded.

Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud), and MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) paid a condolence visit to the home of the Fuld family.

During the visit, Minister Bennett spoke with Fuld's family, who shared some of the family history going back to the Holocaust and through to their decision to move to Israel.

"He is an Israeli hero who in death saved others," Bennett said.

Netanyahu also eulogized Fuld as a "hero of Israel", telling reporters shortly after his condolence call that Israelis would "always remember him".

"I met tonight the wonderful parents and brothers of the wonderful hero of Israel, Ari Fuld. I embraced them in the name of all the people of Israel during their terrible grief. We're alive, thanks to heroes like Ari. We will always remember him."


3. JEW MURDERED IN GUSH ETZION STABBING ATTACK
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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An Israeli man of about 40 was murdered in a stabbing attack near the shopping center at the Gush Etzion Junction.

MDA medics administered first aid and evacuated the man to Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem. According to the hospital, the victim was connected to a respirator, was sedated and in critical condition.

Later, however, his death was confirmed.

The terrorist, a 17-year-old from the village of Yatta near Hevron, was shot and neutralized, and was moderately wounded.

Before his death, the murdered man managed to shoot the terrorist, who was also shot by another civilian and a security guard.

Another two persons were treated for shock at the scene.

According to the IDF, "Following reports of an attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, a terrorist arrived at a mall adjacent to the junction armed with a knife and stabbed a civilian, severely injuring him. An additional civilian who was at the scene neutralized the terrorist. IDF troops are operating at the scene."

MDA medics Hagla Erez related: "I was making purchases at the shopping center when I heard shouts and shots near the entrance. I immediately ran to the scene and found a 40-year-old man lying unconscious, suffering from stab wounds to his upper body."

"I administered life-saving first aid which included stopping the bleeding, and reported to MDA about the incident. Together with MDA staff and an IDF medical team that quickly arrived, we continued medical treatment, and the victim was evacuated in serious and unstable condition to the hospital."

Gush Etzion regional council head Shlomo Ne'eman said following the attack: "I view with severity the serious attack. The purpose of these attackers is one; to disrupt our way of life. Our Arab neighbors have to deal with one single question: Either you live with us here and behave like people, or you choose an aggressive way and pay the full price. I call on the government of Israel and the IDF to use a hard Israeli hand and destroy the hands of the terrorists!"

"I want to say clearly that even if we are hurt, victory will be with us. The method of hurting us in the end will not pay off. We are here forever."


4. ANALYSIS: US, TURKISH SHOW OF FORCE DELAYS RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE
by Yochanan Visser

As the Israeli air force once again struck an Iranian target in Syria on Monday, media reported that the long anticipated offensive by the Iranian-Russian-backed pro-Assad coalition against Sunni Islamist rebels in the northern province Idlib was off the table, at least for now.

Last week, reports came in that the pro-Assad coalition had started to bomb positions of the Tahrir al-Sham coalition of Sunni Islamist rebel groups and medical centers in Idlib.

The state-controlled pro-Assad media in Syria reported that 'the Syrian army' had destroyed a Tahrir al-Sham command center near the town of al-Tamane'ah in southern Idlib killing all "terrorists inside."

Assad's military also launched attacks on Tahrir al-Sham positions in the neighboring Hama province while preparing for "massive military operations in Idlib," and the Russian air force bombed rebel targets in both Idlib and Hama.

The delay of the Idlib operation came after Turkey, which operates as the patron of some of the Sunni Islamist rebel groups in Idlib, began to reinforce its positions in the province which is home to approximately 3 million people, many of them displaced Syrians.

Turkey's controversial leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried to prevent the offensive by the pro-Assad coalition via diplomacy and direct talks with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and Russian president Vladimir Putin, but failed.

His calls to prevent a new humanitarian disaster in Syria fell on deaf ears, after which Erdogan threatened Turkey would not remain passive when Assad's forces crack down on the Islamist rebel groups in Idlib.

"If the world turns a blind eye to the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people to further the regime's interests, we will neither watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game," Erdogan said after a meeting with Rouhani and Putin in Tehran.

The Turkish leader even took the unusual step to influence American public opinion via an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he warned the "century's worst humanitarian catastrophe would take place in Idlib if the world didn't intervene to stop the pro-Assad coalition."

"Not only innocent Syrians, but the entire world stands to pay the price," the Turkish dictator wrote in the article.

The UN earlier warned that as much as 800,000 Syrians could be displaced by the offensive by the pro-Assad coalition.

The United States, meanwhile, appear to have played a major role in the decision to delay the assault on Idlib reportedly taken by Russian leader Vladimir Putin after a power play by the US military in the Middle East.

Departing from its earlier threat to retaliate against a new chemical attack on the Syrian population in Idlib by the pro-Assad coalition, the Trump Administration announced it would deal with "any attack" on Idlib.

Nicky Haley, the American ambassador at the United Nations, told Fox News last week that the pro-Assad coalition should not "test" the U.S. again.

"Any offensive on the civilian people in Idlib was going to be dealt with," Haley said during an interview with the American broadcaster.

As she spoke, the US Special Forces in Syria were holding a massive drill with their ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces on the east bank of the Euphrates River, while the USS Essex, an aircraft carrier carrying F-35B stealth fighters, arrived in the Mediterranean Sea opposite the Suez Canal.

At the same time, US Special Forces in east Syria held a week-long drill with local rebel groups near the At Tanf base on the Syrian-Iraqi border.

The American moves were most likely an answer to the deployment of 15 Russian warships to the Mediterranean Sea opposite the Syrian and Lebanese coast.

The Russian navy vessels last week held a large drill involving live fire in the eastern part of the sea, forcing the Israeli authorities to change flight routes to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.

"'Our primary mission is crisis response… being current and absolutely ready for anything the geographic combatant commander needs us to do while we are here," Col. Chandler Nelms, commander of the military expeditionary unit aboard the Essex told USNI, according to Business Insider.

The media outlet cited experts who predicted that if the Russians dare to attack US forces in Syria, the American military in the Middle East would immediately scramble warplanes across the region and sink the Russian fleet as well as shoot down any Russian warplane that dared to launch a counter-attack.

Putin is now expected to meet with Turkey's Erdogan in the Russian resort city of Sochi on Monday.

The two leaders will again discuss the fate of Idlib after diplomats from their countries met with German and French officials and agreed that a humanitarian disaster in the last rebel stronghold in Syria should be prevented via a political solution.


5. INDIA: RABBI RESCUED BY LOCALS AFTER FALLING DOWN STEEP SLOPE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

During the Rosh Hashanah service at a Chabad House in northern India, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, head of the "Orot Shaul" yeshiva in Raanana, made a "Hagomel" blessing after being saved from a fall down a steep incline during an excursion in the region, Yediot Aharonot reported.

The rabbi's wife, Dr. Smadar Cherlow, described the story of Cherlow's rescue in a Whatsapp message to their seven children: "We went out to a kind of trek to the Darmacot Falls and then suddenly, father lost his balance on a wet rock, and in one second began to descend on a very deep slope," Smadar wrote. "In front of my eyes he rolls, and he has nothing to hold on to. And he continues to roll to the bottom of the slope, down to the bottom, down down, to the end! "

When he was at the bottom of the slope, Rabbi Cherlow shouted to his wife that he was all right and tried to find a way to climb back up between smooth, wet rocks. "He climbs without strength and looks for how to navigate himself up to me, but then, a long way before the end, he has nothing more to hold on to," Smadar recounted.

"At that moment, I see a group of locals appear on the route and I shout that we need help. They were very eager to help. Immediately everyone took off the scarf on his neck. The colorful scarves were tied tightly together, and the makeshift rope was thrown down to father. He started to climb, and that's how he was rescued."


6. REBUILDING A TORAH COMMUNITY IN FRANCE
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7. SHARIA COURT IN ISRAEL PLACES JEWISH GIRL IN ARAB CUSTODY
by David Rosenberg

An anti-assimilation group in Israel says it has challenged a decision issued by a state Islamic court in Israel which awarded full custody of a Jewish girl to her Arab grandmother, despite the objections of the girl's mother.

According to the Yad L'Achim organization – which works to counter efforts to missionize Jews in Israel and to combat assimilation – a state Sharia court which serves Israel's Muslim minority population awarded custody of a two-year-old Israeli girl, named Yasmin, to her Arab grandmother.

Eight years ago, Yad L'Achim officials say, the girl's grandmother moved to Israel, along with her three children, after the head of the household had passed away.

The family moved to a mixed city with a significant Arab population. The family had a difficult time adjusting, and found itself in dire financial straits. One of the three children soon dropped out of school, and eventually married a local Arab man.

Two years ago, the young woman, gave birth to a daughter, Yasmin, who was raised at first by her Jewish grandmother.

After her Jewish grandmother died, however, the young woman's Arab husband urged her to let his mother care for Yasmin. The young woman agreed, and her mother-in-law cared for Yasmin while she could recover from the loss of her mother.

Yasmin's father was arrested and placed in prison shortly thereafter for property crimes, at which point his mother – Yasmin's Arab grandmother – turned to a Sharia court to demand she be awarded full custody of Yasmin.

The court accepted the Arab grandmother's request, and passed the case on to the social welfare ministry – all without first gaining the permission of Yasmin's mother – a violation of family law, Yad L'Achim claims.

The ministry accepted the Sharia court's recommendation to grant custody, and awarded full custody to Yasmin's Arab grandmother for half a year.

At the end of the six-month period, the Sharia court reached out to the social welfare ministry again, which extended the grandmother's custody of Yasmin for another six months, and issued a formal recommendation to award her with permanent custody.

The Sharia court adopted the recommendation, and Yasmin was placed in her grandmother's custody permanently.

At the end of the additional half a year, during which time Yasmin's mother left her Arab husband and sought to recover custody of her daughter, whom she wished to raise in a Jewish household.

She asked her mother-in-law to return Yasmin to her, but was presented with an official document signed by the Sharia court stating that the child was to remain with her Arab grandmother until she was fully grown.

Yasmin's mother then turned to Yad L'Achim for assistance in recovering custody of her daughter. Lawyers for the group filed a petition in family court requesting that the Sharia court's decision be overturned, claiming that the ruling had been made without properly consulting Yasmin's mother.

"We won't rest until the baby is returned to the hands of her Jewish mother," Yad L'Achim said in a statement. "It is heartbreaking to see a child cry bitterly every time her mother has to return her to her grandmother after one of their infrequent visits together."

"If necessary, we will go to the Supreme Court, and even bring the masses out into the street to protest against the stealing of a Jewish child from her mother."


8. NEW YORK TOWN REPORTEDLY BUYING UP PROPERTY TO KEEP HASIDIM OUT
by JTA

The supervisor of the Town of Chester in southeastern New York said the town is buying up available property in order to prevent future development by the Hasidic community.

Chester Supervisor Alex Jamieson told the local newspaper the Times Herald-Record on Thursday that town residents fear that the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel will expand into the town.

His comments came a day after the Town Board approved the purchase of the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, an 8.8-acre property, for $1 million. He told the newspaper that the purchase was one of several to be finalized in the coming weeks and months for the purpose of slowing a Hasidic expansion.

"People realize what the possibilities are. The fear of KJ [Kiryas Joel] expanding into Chester is scaring people half to death," Jamieson told the Herald-Record. "It's not just the Greens at Chester. They are buying property all around it."

Greens at Chester, a 431-home development being built on a 110-acre site in the town, is slated be a predominantly Hasidic community and could eventually be home to 3,000 people, according to the Herald-Record. Chester is located near the border with New Jersey.

The town also is finalizing a contract to buy two parcels of land outside Sugar Loaf totaling 160 acres, according to the report.

Earlier this year Jamieson also said at a Town Board meeting that it will look into switching to a ward system for electing Town Board members in an effort to lessen the impact of an influx of Hasidic residents. The ward system idea will be on the town's November ballot.

"The idea is to keep the Hasidic out so that they can't control the Town Board," Jamieson said, according to the newspaper.

On Friday, News 12 Westchester cited Jamieson as saying that he told the Herald-Record reporter that the land purchase was to preserve the rural character of Chester. He said the reporter asked him if it was to keep the Hasidics out. Jamieson says he then told the reporter "well if we purchase the property, that's going to keep them out."

"I didn't say we were buying it to keep them out," Jamieson told News 12. "We have visions for what we want to do with these properties. We're not just buying properties to shoot from the hip."




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