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HEADLINES:
1. UN ENVOY URGES 'RESTRAINT' AHEAD OF GAZA BORDER DEMONSTRATION
2. VICTIMS IDENTIFIED IN DEADLY CRASH NEAR DEAD SEA
3. REPORT: EGYPT ORDERS HAMAS TO DEFUSE BORDER RIOTS
4. FAMILY OF DUTCH DIPLOMAT PUNISHED FOR SAVING JEWS GETS APOLOGY
5. 'IN THE FACE OF B'TSELEM'S LIES - WE BUILT'
6. 'A DISGRACE, SUPREME COURT DECISION WAS A HUGE VICTORY FOR BDS'
7. CABINET DECIDES: RESPONSE ACCORDING TO NEED
8. 'MISSING SAUDI JOURNALIST HAD 'BLOODLUST' AGAINST ISRAEL'


1. UN ENVOY URGES 'RESTRAINT' AHEAD OF GAZA BORDER DEMONSTRATION
by Tal Polon

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace process, Nickolay Mladenov called for "restraint" ahead of violent demonstrations expected today along the Gaza border.

"In light of today's planned Gaza march, I urge all to exercise restraint, to proceed in a peaceful manner, and to avoid escalation," he tweeted Friday.

"The UN is working with Egypt and its partners to avoid violence, address all humanitarian issues and support reconciliation," he added.

The "March of the Return" border demonstrations have been ongoing every Friday since March 30, but in recent weeks have become more frequent. The violent demonstrations often deteriorate into full-scale riots, with demonstrators throwing grenades at IDF soldiers and burning tires.

Tensions between Israel and Hamas have escalated recently after rockets were fired into Israeli territory on Tuesday. One of them, launched towards the sea, fell off the coast of Gush Dan. Another rocket hit a residential building in Be'er Sheva.

Israel's security cabinet decided on Thursday that Israel would not yet embark on a military operation in Gaza, but would wait and respond in accordance with future developments. However, the cabinet did authorize a broader range of action available to the army in response to violent demonstrations near the fence in Gaza and those who launch terror balloons.The new directives are due to be implemented today in the face of the thousands of violent rioters expected to convene along the Gaza border.

A new report in Lebanon's Al Akhbar claimed that Egypt has told Hamas to keep rioters at least 500 meters from the border fence and to prevent them from tangling with Israeli soldiers in order to avoid an escalation with Israel. Egypt also reportedly told the terror group that the UN humanitarian projects must be given a chance to succeed.


2. VICTIMS IDENTIFIED IN DEADLY CRASH NEAR DEAD SEA
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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The victims of a tragic accident on Route 90 near the Dead Sea in southern Israel Thursday have been identified as 28-year-old Kfir Avitan, his wife, 28-year-old Shira Avitan, and the couple's one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Gaya.

The three were killed Thursday morning in a traffic accident involving a private car and a bus near the Neot Hakikar junction on Route 90, near the southern end of the Dead Sea.

The Avitan family resided in the town of Katzrin in the Golan Heights, and was driving down to the southern city of Eilat for a vacation.

"The community of Katzrin mourns the untimely death of Kfir, Shira, and Gaya in a terrible traffic accident," the Katzrin town council said in a statement Thursday, "and we share in the deep mourning of their families."

No details regarding the three victim's funerals have yet been released.

During the accident Thursday morning, a bus operated by the Egged company struck the Avitan family vehicle, a Renault Kangoo, roughly 1.8 miles (three kilometers) from Neot Hakikar.

The driver of the bus involved in the accident told authorities that he heard one the bus' tires blow out, and a subsequent loss of control in the steering system.

Fourteen of the passengers on the bus involved in the accident were also injured. The injured passengers were evacuated in light condition to Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva for treatment.

MDA medic Maor Leav described the scene. "When we arrived at the scene, it was shocking. We saw a bus standing by the side of the road with the passengers standing beside it. Nearby, in a ditch by the side of the road, we saw a private car upside down, smashed and crushed. Outside the car there was a baby of about a year in critical condition. Two MDA medics who had been passing by and were called to the scene through the MDA app began performing CPR."


3. REPORT: EGYPT ORDERS HAMAS TO DEFUSE BORDER RIOTS
by Tzvi Lev

A new report says that Egypt had ordered Hamas to defuse the weekly riots on the Gaza border in order to avoid an escalation with Israel.

According to Lebanon's Al Akhbar, Egypt told Hamas to keep rioters at least 500 meters from the border fence and to prevent them from tangling with Israeli soldiers. Egypt also told the terror group that the UN humanitarian projects be given a chance to succeed.

The "March of the Return" border riots have been ongoing every Friday since March 30, but in recent weeks have become more frequent. The violent demonstrations often deteriorate into full-scale riots, with demonstrators throwing grenades at IDF soldiers and burning tires.

Tensions between Israel and Hamas have escalated recently after rockets were fired into Israeli territory on Tuesday. One of them, launched towards the sea, fell off the coast of Gush Dan. Another rocket hit a residential building in Beer Sheva. The family members, who suffered from anxiety, were saved a few moments after the mother rushed her children with her into a bomb shelter.

Israel's security cabinet stressed on Thursday that it would decide whether to embark on a military operation in Gaza after viewing the Friday border riots. The cabinet also increased the army's scope of action in response to violent demonstrations near the fence in Gaza and also authorized more severe action against those who launch terror balloons.

Housing Minister Yoav Galant (Kulanu) warned on Thursday that Israel would begin to respond more forcefully to Hamas' provocations.

"I will not refer to the content of the cabinet discussions, but I can say one thing very explicitly - the rules of the game are about to change," Galant said.

"We will no longer accept the arson terror and the fence terror,"


4. FAMILY OF DUTCH DIPLOMAT PUNISHED FOR SAVING JEWS GETS APOLOGY
by JTA

A Dutch diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust and was punished for his actions received a long overdue apology.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry on Tuesday apologized to the family of Jan Zwartendijk, who was honorary consul of the Netherlands in what today is Lithuania during World War II, Dutch media reported.

Zwartendijk served in Kaunas as consul at the same time that Chiune Sugihara was there to represent Imperial Japan.

Largely eclipsed by Sugihara, Zwartendijk was the initiator and chief facilitator of the rescue of more than 2,000 Jews by the two diplomats. Sugihara gave the refugees, who were fleeing German occupation, transit visas that enabled them to enter the Soviet Union. But they would have been unusable had Zwartendijk not given them destination visas to Curacao, then a Caribbean island colony of the Netherlands. Some of those rescued by Zwartendijk nicknamed him "the angel of Curacao."

Both men acted without approval from their superiors. Unlike Sugihara, Zwartendijk risked his own life, as well as those of his wife and their three small children, who were all living under Nazi occupation.

Yet Zwartendijk, who died in 1976, was "given a dressing down" after his actions became known by a top Foreign Ministry official, Joseph Luns, who later became the head of NATO. The incident was revealed in a new book published about Zwartendijk, based on interviews with people who were told about it by Zwartendijk and other materials. Zwartendijk's children said their father was deeply offended by how he had been treated.

"If that happened," Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said in a written response to Parliament on Tuesday, "that was completely inappropriate. Jan Zwartendijk earned recognition and tribute for his brave behavior, unfortunately posthumously, from the 1990s onwards."

He said he and King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands spoke with Zwartendijk's son and daughter and expressed "great admiration for the actions of their father in 1940."


5. 'IN THE FACE OF B'TSELEM'S LIES - WE BUILT'
by Hezki Baruch

Minister of Education and Chairman of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett toured the community of Amichai in the Binyamin Regional Council.

At the start of the tour, the minister met with the rabbi of the community, Rabbi Yair Frank, and the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, Avi Roeh, and made the "matziv gvul almana" blessing, said upon witnessing a new Jewish community built in the land of Israel, in this case for the new community established for the families evicted from Amona.

Bennett then toured among the homes of the community and the educational institutions in Amichai, and spoke with students and residents. "The people of Amichai have proved to us all that the spirit cannot be broken. They managed to grow out of the brokenness and establish a magnificent community here. From the bitterness came sweetness, and I believe that it is not far off before we return to Amona. "

"In the face of the lies of B'Tselem, we built. In the face of people who have lost hope - we believe. We believe in the future of this place, and in the future of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. We will continue to build, develop and grow in all parts of the land of Israel."
Bennett in Amichai (Credit: Spokesperson)



6. 'A DISGRACE, SUPREME COURT DECISION WAS A HUGE VICTORY FOR BDS'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri slammed the Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday permitting BDS activist Lara Alqasem to study in Hebrew University.

"The decision to leave the student who openly acts against the State of Israel in Israel is shameful," said Deri. "Where is our national honor, even in the US, would it dare to act against the state and demand that we stay and study there? I will examine how to prevent such a recurrence. "

Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan (Likud) said in response that "the Supreme Court granted a great victory to BDS this evening and emptied the law to prevent the entry of BDS activists. I am deeply saddened by the Supreme Court's decision, which attests to a complete lack of understanding of the methods of action of the BDS organizations, and has undermined the ability of the State of Israel to fight the boycott activists who harm us all."

"According to the judgment and logic of the justices, Omar Barghouti, the founder of the world BDS movement who studied at Tel Aviv University and is currently spreading hatred worldwide against Israel, was supposed to become an enthusiastic supporter of Israel due to his studies in an Israeli academic institution," continued Erdan.

"The principle must be preserved: anyone who acts to harm Israel and its citizens should not enter its gates."

MK Betzalel Smotrich also attacked the High Court following the ruling. "The Supreme Court insists on proving that the justice minister was right when she claimed that Zionism is it's dead zone, and again trampled on the authority of the government and intervened in its discretion," said Smotrich.

The court ruled Thursday evening against the state's position that Alqasem is prohibited from entering the country under Israel's anti-BDS law, which bars non-citizen supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement from visiting Israel.

Alqasem, 22, had served as the chapter president of the anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) during her undergraduate studies at the University of Florida. SJP is known for its staunch support of the BDS movement.

Following her graduation from the University of Florida, Alqasem applied for and received a student visa from Israel, enabling her to take part in a master's degree program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Upon her arrival in Israel on October 2nd, however, Alqasem was detained by border control authorities, who barred her entry under Israel's anti-BDS law.



7. CABINET DECIDES: RESPONSE ACCORDING TO NEED
by Nitsan Keidar

The political-security cabinet decided during the long meeting last night to adopt the line led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and to support a military response only on the basis of developments on the ground and not on a proactive basis.

During the meeting, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman presented a plan to initiate a harsh response against Hamas. At the same time, the IDF, with the encouragement of Netanyahu, presented another plan whereby response would be according to what was happening on the ground and only if the terrorist organizations tried to attack Israel.

The cabinet ministers were instructed not to be interviewed by the media about the discussion in question, which also dealt with the indirect talks sponsored by the United Nations and Egypt vis-a-vis Hamas in Gaza to restore relative calm to the area, as was seen until March 29 this year.

Liberman, even before the discussion, said that the process of indirect contacts for calm had failed, despite repeated attempts.

However, the cabinet did increase the army's scope of action in response to violent demonstrations near the fence in Gaza, and also authorized more severe action against those who launch terror balloons. The implementation of these directives is due to take place tomorrow, when thousands of violent rioters are expected to convene along the Gaza border.

Member of the political-security cabinet Minister of Construction and Housing Yoav Galant (Kulanu), spoke Thursday about Israel's intended response to the security escalation in the south.

"I will not refer to the content of the cabinet discussions, but I can say one thing very explicitly - the rules of the game are about to change," Galant said.

"We will no longer accept the arson terror and the fence terror," added Galant, who is currently taking part in a conference of the Association of Contractors and Builders in Eilat.


8. 'MISSING SAUDI JOURNALIST HAD 'BLOODLUST' AGAINST ISRAEL'
by Guy Cohen

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi-born writer who was allegedly murdered on the orders of the Saudi government in Istanbul earlier this month, has been the subject of much concern in the mainstream media since his disappearance.

However, Khashoggi was far from a liberal journalist, writes Jordan Schachtel of Conservative Review.

Schachtel stated that Khashoggi, who wrote for the Washington Post's serious bloodlust when it came to violence against the state of Israel Global Opinions" section, was an Islamist extremist who displayed a "serious bloodlust when it came to violence against the state of Israel" and was connected to terrorist organizations.

In 2014, Khashoggi wrote an op ed for the Middle East Monitor, a publication which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, in which he expressed his hope that Muslim nations would one day work together with the Hamas terrorist organization to destroy the Jewish State. He has written other pieces castigating Muslim nations for failing to support Hamas' genocidal ambitions.

Khashoggi was also a supporter of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization.

According to Schachtel, Khashoggi had an "extremely regressive, anti-Western worldview and a consistent pattern of supporting fringe Islamist movements in the region."

Schachtel said that while "no one deserves to be harmed for his views," the media have played fast and loose with the truth by portraying Khashoggi as a moderate journalist and reformer.




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