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HEADLINES:
1. ISRAEL THANKS NIKKI HALEY
2. WATCH: NIKKI HALEY RESIGNS
3. RIVLIN HONORS DANISH UNDERGROUND
4. FOR THE FIRST TIME: SPECIAL NEEDS YOUNG ADULTS VISIT AUSCHWITZ
5. BERNIE SANDERS SLAMS ISRAEL'S NATIONALITY LAW AS TRUMP-INSPIRED
6. TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN FIRE
7. 'RIOTS WERE UNDER CONTROL, DOZENS WERE HIT'
8. 'HALEY IS IN A POSITION TO TAKE ON FUTURE SENIOR ROLES'


1. ISRAEL THANKS NIKKI HALEY
by Gary Willig

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum, thanked outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for her support following her surprise resignation Tuesday.

"I thank Ambassador Nikki Haley, who led an uncompromising struggle against the hypocrisy of the United Nations and the truth and justice of our country. Best of luck!" Netanyahu said.

President Reuven Rivlin said: "I would like to thank Nikki Haley, a true ambassador, from the bottom of our hearts and on behalf of all the citizens of Israel. Haley presented an uncompromising stance on US positions on the Middle East and Israel, and defended our clear right to protect the security of our citizens. Haley, in her direct statements, often led to the removal of the cynical mask from processes led by the United Nations and international organizations."

"I thank Mrs. Haley for her courage and for her tenure as a turning point in the US attitude toward the international organizations and for the discriminatory treatment that these organizations often take against the State of Israel," the president added.

"We will continue to see Nikki as a true friend and we will be happy to receive her at the President's Residence on her next visit to Israel," Rivlin concluded.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett wrote on Twitter: "Dear Amb@NikkiHaley, on behalf of the Israeli people. Thank you for what you've done for Israel. We will not forget."

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren wrote: "It is with great regret that I heard about the resignation of Ambassador Nikki Haley, who worked for the United States, Israel and the enlightened world against the dark forces of the United Nations. The people of Israel will always appreciate her and wish her success in the future."

Yesh Atid faction leader Yair Lapid, who serves in the Knesset opposition, wrote: "Nikki Haley is a great friend of Israel and an important voice at the United Nations. She took on the hypocrisy and bias at the UN with conviction and clarity. Thank you."

Haley's Israeli counterpart, Ambassador Danny Danon, earlier thanked her for "for standing with the truth without fear. Thank you for representing the values common to Israel and the United States."

"Thank you for your support for the State of Israel, which helped lead to a change in Israel's status in the UN. Thank you for your close friendship and common paths. Wherever you are, you will continue to be a true friend of the State of Israel," Danon said.

Ambassador Haley announced her resignation during a press conference with US President Donald Trump earlier Tuesday. The ambassador said that it was time for her to step down and looked back with pride at her accomplishments over the last two years.

She drew attention to the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "I think when you look at the anti-Israel bias and the strength and courage that the president showed in moving the embassy and showing the rest of the world: 'we will put our embassy where we want to put our embassy."


2. WATCH: NIKKI HALEY RESIGNS
by Gary Willig

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US President Donald Trump has accepted US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley's resignation.

Ambassador Haley discussed her resignation with President Trump when they met at the White House last week, according to Axios.

The resignation has reportedly shocked the Washington Foreign Policy establishment.

Ambassador Haley has been an outspoken critic of the UN's corruption, bias, and inability to deal with human rights crisis around the world. She was also Israel's biggest supporter at the UN.

The ambassador said that her service at the UN "has been the honor of a lifetime."

Haley criticized Trump's rhetoric during the 2016 Presidential Election and endorsed his rival Marco Rubio for the Republican nomination. Her relationship with Trump improved after the election and she was offered the post of Ambassador to the United Nations.

The ambassador has stated that she is unafraid to criticize the president in private meetings with him.

Sources in the White House stated that Trump said Haley would leave at the end of the year and that she would be "taking a break."

Haley stated that she will not run in the next presidential election and that she will be campaigning for Trump's reelection in 2020.

During a live announcement of the resignation, Trump said Ambassador Haley "has been very special to me" and "a fantastic person."

"She is somebody who gets it. She has been at the United Nations from the beginning with us and worked with us," Trump said.

"She told me six months ago, she said: 'You know, maybe at the end of the year I want to take a little time off."

Turning to Haley, Trump said "hopefully you'll be coming back at some point, maybe in a different capacity."

He praised Haley for "knowing all the players" at the UN. "She got to know China, Russia, India. She knows everybody on a first name basis and they like her ... And maybe more importantly, they respect her."

Haley pointed to her accomplishments over the last to years. "Now, the United States is respected. Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we say we're going to do something, we follow it through."

"We've cut $1.3 billion in the UN's budget. We've made it stronger, we've made it more efficient. South Sudan, we got an arms embargo, which was a long time coming. Three North Korean sanctions packages, which were the largest in a generation, done in a way that we could really work towards denuclearizing North Korea. The Iran deal, bringing attention to the world that every country needs to understand, you can't overlook the all of the bad things that they're doing. You have to see them for the threat that they are.

She drew attention to the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "I think when you look at the anti-Israel bias and the strength and courage that the president showed in moving the embassy and showing the rest of the world: 'we will put our embassy where we want to put our embassy."

"The US is strong again, and the US is strong in a way that should make all Americans very proud."

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3. RIVLIN HONORS DANISH UNDERGROUND
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday began his visit to Denmark by laying a wreath at the monument to the Danish underground.

The Danish underground led the effort to save the Jews of Denmark during the Second World War.

Rivlin was escorted by the Denmark's Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen and Holocaust survivor Salli Besiakov.

Besiakov, who also laid a wreath at the monument, was rescued as a fifteen-year-old by the efforts of the underground. In October 1943, Besiakov and his family left their home for a safe house in Copenhagen. His life was saved when he was taken on a fishing boat to Sweden.

President and Mrs Rivlin shook his hand warmly and discussed his life.

"The determination with which the Jews of Denmark were saved moves us even today," Rivlin said in his meeting with Besiakov.

After the ceremony, the Rivlins will meet Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for a private meeting.

Rivlin is in Denmark at the invitation of the Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the Gribskov local council, and the Gilleleje church. His visit honors a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the rescue of over 7000 Danish Jews from Nazi persecution and their safe transfer to Sweden in October 1943.

The story of the rescue of Denmark's Jews is one of the most remarkable in the history of the Holocaust: Ninety percent of the Danish Jewish community was rescued and when they returned home, they found that their property had been protected by their fellow Danes.

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4. FOR THE FIRST TIME: SPECIAL NEEDS YOUNG ADULTS VISIT AUSCHWITZ
by Arutz Sheva Staff

For the first time, young adults with special needs traveled to Poland as part of a Holocaust education trip.

The trip was initiated by World Jewish Congress Chairman Gad Ariely, in coordination with the Modi'in Maccabim-Reut municipality, the Akadem House for autistic children and adults, Nitzan Modi'in, and the Center for Autism Treatment and Research.

Participants took part in a series of preparatory meetings and an educational seminar at Yad Vashem.

Upon arrival in Poland, participants visited Krakow's ancient Jewish Quarter and Ghetto Heroes Square, where they learned about the square's history and heard the story of Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Polish pharmacist who is considered to be a Righteous Gentile. The evening ended with a special dinner together with local Jewish leaders.

The most significant part of the trip, however, was the group's visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where participants spoke about their murdered relatives, shared the horrific stories their families had been through during the Holocaust, and held a special ceremony to commemorate the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. They lit memorial candles at the camp's memorial, and ended their visit by singing Israel's national anthem, "Hatikva."


5. BERNIE SANDERS SLAMS ISRAEL'S NATIONALITY LAW AS TRUMP-INSPIRED
by Mordechai Sones, JTA

In a major foreign policy speech positing an emerging authoritarian strain around the world, Bernie Sanders blamed the passage of Israel's Nationality Law on US President Donald Trump, citing it as proof of his corrupting influence eroding democracy.

"It should be clear by now that Donald Trump and the right-wing movement that supports him is not a phenomenon unique to the United States," Sanders said Tuesday in a speech to the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. "All around the world, in Europe, in Russia, in the Middle East, in Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere we are seeing movements led by demagogues who exploit people's fears, prejudices, and grievances to gain and hold on to power."

Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont who caucuses with Democrats, presided over a presidential campaign that focused on exploiting people's fears, prejudices, and grievances. He conceded that Trump by himself was not responsible for the rise of authoritarianism.

"While this authoritarian trend certainly did not begin with Donald Trump, there's no question that other authoritarian leaders around the world have drawn inspiration from the fact that the president of the world's oldest and most powerful democracy is shattering democratic norms," said socialist Sanders.

He cited as examples the rise in popularity of a rightist politician in Brazil, Saudi repression, and policies of the government of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

"It's also hard to imagine that Israel's Netanyahu government would have taken a number of steps— including passing the recent 'Nation State law,' which essentially codifies the second-class status of Israel's non-Jewish citizens, aggressively undermining the longstanding goal of a two-state solution, and ignoring the economic catastrophe in Gaza — if Netanyahu wasn't confident that Trump would support him," Sanders conjectured.

The Nationality Law passed this summer ratifies Israel's status as a Jewish State. It discusses national rights, and does not harm any citizen's individual rights or freedoms.

Sanders ran a divisive campaign in 2016 for the Democratic presidential nomination, although he was ultimately defeated by Hillary Clinton. His resonance with young, inexperienced voters has driven the party to embrace some of his redistributive policies that have failed wherever they have been tried. He has been outspoken in criticizing Israeli policies, while quoting false numbers that exaggerated the Muslim death toll in recent Gaza riots.


6. TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN FIRE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Two-year-old Zvi Ginzburg and his five-year-old sister Efrat were killed in a fire that broke out Tuesday evening on the fifth floor of a residential building on in Beitar Illit.

Seven other people were injured.

Four firefighting teams were called into the scene and a crane was brought from Jerusalem to help to bring the fire under control and rescue people trapped inside the building.

The building was evacuated and during the search, nine people with injuries were removed from the scene. Two were in critical condition and Magen David Adom paramedics declared them dead.

The paramedics evacuated three people who suffered smoke inhalation to the Shaare Zedek Hopsital in Jerusalem, including a man about 22 years of age in moderate condition and two children aged seven and nine with light injuries.

"The firefighters continue their search of the other apartments," a fire department spokeswoman said. "The building is still full of smoke, and at the same time another team is carrying out fire extinguishing operations at the site."

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7. 'RIOTS WERE UNDER CONTROL, DOZENS WERE HIT'
by Kobi Finkler

On Tuesday afternoon, IDF Spokesperson Ronen Manlis addressed the riots that took place last night in the Gaza Strip, during which thousands of Palestinian Arabs damaged and set fire to the security fence along the Gaza Strip.

The rioters threw explosives and spray grenades, burned tires and threw stones at IDF soldiers.

In addition, one of the rioters crossed into Israel for a short period of time, setting fire to an abandoned military position near the fence. There were no casualties and only a camouflage net was damaged.

In the course of the violent riots, soldiers acted to prevent widespread infiltration into the country.

The IDF spokesman addressed claims that the riots were hidden from the public and from the media. "The incident was controlled by observation and fire from start to finish and at no point did it get out of hand," the IDF spokesman said. "The fighters hit dozens of rioters using riot control means and shooting at rioters in accordance with open-fire regulations."

"IDF forces will continue to act to ensure the security of the residents of the area in the face of various terrorist attempts, as they do all the time," added Brigadier General Manelis said.

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8. 'HALEY IS IN A POSITION TO TAKE ON FUTURE SENIOR ROLES'
by Benny Tocker

Former Deputy Foreign Minister and Israeli Ambassador to Washington, Danny Ayalon, told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday that the resignation announcement of Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, with President Donald Trump by her side, gives her momentum to be appointed to other senior positions.

"There were all sorts of rumors that she was overshadowing Trump, but we saw that this was not true. Trump said he would continue to consult with her and she could choose any role in the next administration if he is elected again in 2020," Ayalon said.

He added that he believes Haley's resignation is a long-term strategic step. "Beyond the fact that she has small children and this is a very intense job, she is definitely leaving at her peak. After two years at the United Nations, she brought about a situation in which the United States is respected and its voice is heard. The US is returning to a leadership position. All of this gives her a springboard for a senior position in the next administration or even for the presidency, if not in 2020 then in 2024. She is young enough to think about the elections in 2024."

Ayalon pointed out that Haley was one of Israel's greatest friends, saying, "She withdrew the United States from the Human Rights Council, from UNESCO and from other bodies, and there is no doubt that it will be difficult to find a replacement for her. With great determination, she vetoed anti-Israeli resolutions in the Security Council, something which never happened during the Obama administration, and she also led to the disqualification of anti-Israel resolutions."

"Even in the UN General Assembly, despite the automatic Arab majority, she sounded her voice proudly. She convinced several other countries to join her and stood up alongside Israel in fighting against the boycott movements. There is no doubt that Nikki Haley will be remembered as having set a new legacy in which the US stands alongside Israel in an unprecedented manner," Ayalon concluded.

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