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HEADLINES:
1. 'I WANT NEW IMMIGRANTS TO FEEL THAT THEY'VE COME HOME'
2. 'ADL ACTING CONTRARY TO JEWISH VALUES'
3. SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE FOUND AT ROBERT DE NIRO'S RESTAURANT
4. MULTIPLE INCENDIARY BALLOONS LAND IN GAZA ENVELOPE
5. FORMER MINISTER: NETANYAHU CONCOCTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST ME
6. 'WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE JORDANIAN DECLARATION'
7. NETANYAHU: FORMER LIKUD MINISTER TRYING TO BRING ME DOWN
8. RABBANIT TRAVELED TO ARGENTINA, WAS SHOCKED BY WHAT SHE FOUND


1. 'I WANT NEW IMMIGRANTS TO FEEL THAT THEY'VE COME HOME'
by Mordechai Sones

The elections for the Jerusalem City Council will be held on October 30, 2018.

Arutz Sheva presents the answers to three questions posed to the four main candidates for Jerusalem Mayor. All candidates were asked identical questions: What sets you apart from your competitors as a compelling reason to vote for you? Assuming you win and succeed in advancing and implementing everything on your platform, how do you envision Jerusalem in five years from now, both physically and culturally? And what would you say to the English-speaking voter or new immigrant to show them you understand their challenges and situations, and would be their right choice?

The first candidate to respond was Deputy Mayor Yossi Deitch, who currently holds the city's haredi housing portfolio, and serves as deputy to the holder of the planning and construction portfolio.

A recent poll conducted by Camille Fuchs found 41% of respondents would vote for Deitch in a race between seven candidates, giving him a clear victory in the first round of the election.

"I don't think only within the 'small haredi box'. I begin every day by consulting with my professional advisors in Jerusalem's City Hall building. I don't ask them to come up to me, I go straight down to them as a routine procedure. That's one difference, that I'm not looking to summon people to my ivory tower but I personally go to wherever things need to be done whether it's the Sanitation Department, the Building and Construction Department, or any other department it may be. I'll go there once, twice, three times, four times, until people understand that we need to give answers to the citizens of Jerusalem, and quickly. Today I do it, but I do it as a Deputy Mayor, and I still have instructions from above. As Mayor, I'll continue to go down there and they'll understand that the citizen needs to get AAA treatment and to feel like he's the most important person in the world in that moment.

"When we finish five years we want to see a different situation here in the service to the citizens of Jerusalem. Whether it's city sanitation - we want to have it clean - the responses to people's problems in City Hall, licencing businesses in Jerusalem, developing also culture in Jerusalem and the tourism aspects, to bring the uniqueness of Jerusalem.

"People don't come to Jerusalem from the United States, England, Canada, France, all over, in order to come to another Paris or Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is a great city, but it's very similar to other places in the world. When people come to Jerusalem, they come to feel the uniqueness of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is full on the weekends, and it's full of tourists who are religious and non-religious, and also non-Jewish ones. They want to come to feel Jerusalem, to see Jerusalem the Holy City, and we want to give that to the tourists who come.

"We also want to dedicate a good amount of our time to the newcomers, the Olim Chadashim; they come to City Hall and they don't know what to do. They don't know where to go. I want to have someone to take care of that so they'll feel they have an English speaker, or a French speaker, or a Spanish speaker who they can speak to, and could help them and instruct them and guide them. Once you know what you need to do, it's much easier to do it.

"I'm a Jerusalemite in my soul, and I want everybody to feel as comfortable as I do. My family is here for seven generations. I have children and grandchildren who are already nine generations in Jerusalem. I want the new immigrant to feel this way as soon as possible, to feel that he's not a new immigrant, but that he came home."

"In five years I want to see the city cleaner. There are places in Jerusalem where the garbage trucks come only three times a week. That's insane. Besides that, I'd like the city to look differently culturally, which means I want to give more power to the Community Centers. If you're talking about building and infrastructure, I want to hear the citizens much more, and for them to be much more involved in running the city, not having the Sherriff on top and deciding what's good for the city. I won't always do what the citizens like, but I want to hear them. I want them to be involved. I want them to have a place, and that will be happening directly in City Hall and also through the Community Centers and I want them to be stronger. I want to give them more money for cultural events that are appropriate for the neighborhood and not, as it's done today, mainly for tourists from outside the city and from the world.

"Besides that I want much more open conversation between everyone. Once there is a haredi mayor, people have to communicate with him, and the tension between the communities will greatly be eased and maybe even disappear.

"It's funny, this conflict I'm in: I want to build new neighborhoods, and they won't necessarily be haredi neighborhoods. Most neighborhoods are going to be non-haredi neighborhoods, which means I'm going to change the demographic of Jerusalem, which will make the haredi community a bit smaller. If I want to take away the conflict, I need to build haredi neighborhoods and also non-haredi neighborhoods, with people coming from the outside. The majority should be non-haredi."

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2. 'ADL ACTING CONTRARY TO JEWISH VALUES'
by Tzvi Lev, JTA

A US-based rabbinic group alleges that the Anti Defamation League (ADL) is acting "contrary to Jewish values" after it urged the US government to reject a Christian foster agency's right to choose parents based on their religion.

The agency in question, South Carolina-based Miracle Hill Ministries, had turned away non-Christian applicants for fostering children. The Department of Health and Human Service is currently debating a waiver request from South Carolina that would exempt it from regulations preventing federally funded foster agencies from discriminating based on religion.

The ADL's opposition to the waiver angered the Center for Jewish Values(CJV), a large US-based public policy organization, which said that rejecting the waiver would infringe on the religious freedoms long enjoyed by Jews.

"Contrary to what has been said, no one is denied the ability to provide foster services because Miracle Hill Ministries is among the agencies licensed to operate," said CJV President Rabbi Pesach Lerner.

"Any individual or family can turn to numerous other providers, including the state itself. So the loss of Miracle Hill's license would only result in fewer children served, and a lack of religious support for families who share Miracle Hill's beliefs. No one would gain, and many would lose -- most of all the hundreds of children currently served through Miracle Hill."

"The current regulations, dating to early 2017, deem religiously-motivated work with coreligionists to be equivalent to discrimination against others," Rabbi Lerner added. "This is incorrect, and we hope that the Trump Administration will reverse these ill-advised regulatory changes."

The CJV also contended that although there are no Jewish foster care agencies in South Carolina, the current regulations threaten the ability of Jewish agencies elsewhere to work with coreligionists.

"Our Torah is replete with references to the need to educate the next generation," said CJV's East Coast Regional Vice President Rabbi Steven Pruzansky "and thus teaches that a Jewish child must be provided a Jewish education and a Jewish home. That a religious organization is able to work uniquely with co-religionists is a key freedom that Americans of all faiths, and especially American Jews, should seek to preserve."

The ADL had urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to deny the waiver request in a letter Tuesday to Roger Severino, the director of the department's Office for Civil Rights.

In March, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster asked for his state to be exempted from regulations that prevent federally funded foster agencies to discriminate based on religion. The waiver concerns Miracle Hill Ministries, an agency in the state that rejects foster parents who are not Christian, as well as same-sex couples.

The Republican governor also issued an executive order in support of Miracle Hill.


3. SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE FOUND AT ROBERT DE NIRO'S RESTAURANT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

A suspicious package and device was reportedly found at a New York City restaurant owned by actor Robert De Niro.

According to NBC, the device was sent to a building housing the Tribeca Grill owned by De Niro.

The NYPD said there was no need to evacuate the building as it was unoccupied at the time.

A law enforcement official told NBC affiliate News 4 that a worker who had seen recent news about the bomb threats had called police after noticing similarities in the package.

An NYPD bomb squad removed the device.

A source said that the package was addressed to De Niro and had the same return address as the other packages, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to NBC.

The incident follows a series of bomb threats in recent days against prominent Democrats including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros, as well as CNN offices.


4. MULTIPLE INCENDIARY BALLOONS LAND IN GAZA ENVELOPE
by Tal Polon

More incendiary balloons landed this morning, Thursday, in the Gaza envelope.

Security forces rushed to the area of Kibbutz Nir Am near the city of Sderot after an incendiary balloon landed there and subsequently exploded.

In addition, balloons landed in the area of Moshav Hodaya and in Be'er Tuvia.

According to 0404, nobody was wounded in the incidents.

On Wednesday night, IDF aircraft attacked eight terrorist targets in three military compounds belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.

The strikes came after a rocket was fired from Gaza at the Eshkol Regional Council in the Gaza envelope.

The IDF's Iron Dome aerial defense system launched one interceptor towards the projectile, but the rocket was not intercepted and exploded in an open area.

No physical injuries or damages were reported.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Israel Air Force attacked a Hamas post in Gaza. The IDF said it had identified a terror squad launching incendiary balloons at Israel from the site.



5. FORMER MINISTER: NETANYAHU CONCOCTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST ME
by Uzi Baruch

Former Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar responded Thursday to the harsh accusations made last night by Prime Minister Netanyahu that he had concocted a "conspiracy" to oust him undemocratically.

"What Netanyahu did was a serious thing and the crossing of a red line. He is surrounded by people with bad intentions, and I regret that he chose this," Sa'ar told Army Radio.

"I understood that I have been approaching the status of a regime opponent in recent days, and I told my wife: I am not approaching any consulate in the coming days," Sa'ar said.

Sa'ar stressed that he never acted against the prime minister, "Netanyahu has a lot of enemies - I am not one of them. I helped him very much in coming to power, and he knows it. He's surrounded by scheming people with bad intentions. It pains me that he consciously chose this path. I said a year-and-a-half ago that I have returned to public activity, and nothing will deter me. "

"A field trial is being conducted against me without evidence. I say to Netanyahu - what is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow," Sa'ar added.

A close associate of the prime minister said in response, "Gideon Sa'ar's hysterical reaction and his vitriolic remarks against Prime Minister Netanyahu only prove what all the facts show: Gideon Sa'ar is a subversive who tried to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu against the will of the Likud voters. His will for power caused him not to be cautious in recent weeks, when he spoke with ministers and MKs and revealed his plan to oust Netanyahu after the prime minister leads the Likud to victory in elections."

On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accused a former senior minister from the Likud party, meaning Sa'ar, of plotting to bring him down during a party in his office.

"For a few weeks now, I have known that a former Likud minister is talking to coalition elements and has devised some subversive maneuver, that I will bring the Likud to a landslide victory in the elections and then ensure that I will not be prime minister against the will of the Likud voters," Netanyahu said.

"I walk around the country with you and I see the tremendous support we have: in me, in my wife, such support I cannot remember since I entered politics. From the start [this plot against me] was doomed to failure because the public will not allow such a thing to happen. But it did reveal a loophole in the law and we will think about what to do with it," he added.


6. 'WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE JORDANIAN DECLARATION'
by Shimon Cohen

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded to Jordanian King Abdullah's refusal to continue leasing the agricultural regions of the Arava and Naharayim to Israel as set out in the appendix to the peace agreement.

In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Hotovely explained the motive behind the move: "We know the background to the decision, Ninety Jordanian MPs demanded this and wanted to insist on their rights under the peace agreement with us."

"This is evidence of Abdullah's weakness vis-a-vis the internal Jordanian pressure. He is in deep domestic distress, but we will have to preserve the Israeli interest. There is a peace agreement that includes a lot of cooperation in a space that meets the Arab world's struggle against the Iranian enemy, We must also remember the considerable economic problems that Jordan needs to have addressed, including the water issue, and in general the Jordanian interest is greater than the Israeli one without spoiling the relationship."

Despite all this, the deputy minister was cautious when asked if it means that Israel will not be satisfied with discussions and talks with the Jordanians, but will even threaten or place Jordanian interests at the table. Hotovely noted that "at this moment, there is a total blackout on our ability to talk about it publicly. Prime Minister Netanyahu consulted the Jordanian ambassador and relevant officials at the Foreign Ministry. I am up to date but can not share with the public the direction where things will go, but we can say that we will not accept the Jordanian declaration as it is. We will strive to change when our favorite is to restore the situation as it has been throughout the years. There will be consultations within Israel as well as with the Jordanians."

As for the possibility of Israeli compensation that may allow the king to soften his position, Hotovely said: "I do not think that the discourse is now a discourse of compensation. It is in both sides' interest to preserve the peace agreement and there is a price for the Jordanian side's decision not to act in the spirit of the agreement and to do something that is unacceptable. It is worth waiting for the next two weeks in which the discussions will take place. "

Has the Israeli government failed failed? It was known that this day would come and there was a need to prepare for it. Hotovely does not accept the very question: "We have not waited for the last minute, the subject is known to the prime minister, and the discussions are taking place within the Foreign Ministry. I am saying that the issue is sensitive now, and we do not want to lose our options. We are leaving the matter to the Foreign Ministry, the National Security Council, and the Prime Minister's office."


7. NETANYAHU: FORMER LIKUD MINISTER TRYING TO BRING ME DOWN
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accused a former senior minister from the Likud party of plotting to bring him down during a party in his office Wednesday night.

"For a few weeks now, I have known that a former Likud minister is talking to coalition elements and has devised some subversive maneuver, that I will bring the Likud to a landslide victory in the elections and then ensure that I will not be prime minister against the will of the Likud voters," Netanyahu said.

"I walk around the country with you and I see the tremendous support we have: in me, in my wife, such support I cannot remember since I entered politics. From the start [this plot against me] was doomed to failure because the public will not allow such a thing to happen. But it did reveal a loophole in the law and we will think about what to do with it," he added.

The prime minister also addressed his meeting with Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan.

"I come here now, just amazing, I'm still excited, from a meeting with the vice president of China - only the second most powerful man in China. He's been here a few days and I've seen that the media is not interested at all. It doesn't interest them. The only thing that interests them is the 'conspiracy of the century.'"

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8. RABBANIT TRAVELED TO ARGENTINA, WAS SHOCKED BY WHAT SHE FOUND
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Rabbanit Kolodetsky, daughter of Rav Chaim Kanievsky and guide to the Jewish People in her own right, often travels the world to inspire women with words of Torah. On a recent trip to Argentina, however, she heard a story which shocked her.

Nurit Laniado was abandoned by her parents at just 12-years-old. Kicked out of her home and passed from foster family to foster family, she suffered unspeakably. Now she is engaged to be married to an Israeli young man, but has no family to help her prepare for her family. The girl cried out of desperation on the Rabbanit's shoulder, and Rabbanit Kolodetsky took it upon herself to do what she could to save this special young lady.

Kolodetsky penned an emotional letter to the public, and released a video where she speaks of how impressed she was by young Nurit: "A tzadeket with a true fear of Heaven … She was passed from family to family and still managed to maintain her yirat shamayim."

"They are getting married without a shekel to their name," she says in her address to the Jewish People. "Whatever you give, you will get back 1000 times."

They are strong, striking words from a truly respected member of klal yisrael. Rav Chaim himself has also gotten involved, calling the kallah a "true orphan," and saying that it is a "great mitzvah" to help her. Nurit's kallah fund paints a heartbreaking story:

"I am not asking for I am not asking for anything that a girl with parents wouldn't get … the things you might think are basic but that I dream of affording: like a fridge, an oven, food for shabbat and the chagim."

It is an understandable request, from a girl who truly has nothing. Nurit may have been abandoned by her parents, but she has been adopted by the gedolim. Though she cries herself to sleep each night, strangers around the world have the opportunity to join the Kanievsky family in making her dreams come true.
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