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HEADLINES:
1. HIGH COURT OKS DEMOLITION OF PART OF BARKAN SHOOTER'S HOME
2. FATAH: IF HAMAS IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, SO ARE WE
3. CHIEF RABBI SAYS SOME RELIGIOUS ZIONIST GROUPS HURTING RABBINATE
4. HUNDREDS OF WOMEN CALL ON ARYEH DERI TO STOP WOMEN OF THE WALL
5. A-G NORMALIZES BINYAMIN REGION COMMUNITY OF HARESHA
6. PM: HEZBOLLAH SOUGHT TO OCCUPY PARTS OF GALILEE
7. ELITE COMMANDO UNIT WAS INTERROGATED BY HAMAS FOR 40 MINUTES
8. DOZENS OF CHILDREN RESCUED FROM REHOVOT KINDERGARTEN


1. HIGH COURT OKS DEMOLITION OF PART OF BARKAN SHOOTER'S HOME
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected the petition filed by relatives of the terrorist who carried out the deadly terror attack in the Barkan Industrial Zone and approved the demolition order against the house of the terrorist.

The demolition applies only to the basement of the home.

In October, Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na'alowa murdered two people in a shooting attack at the Barkan Industrial Zone, where he worked.

Na'alowa remains at large. His parents and brother have been arrested.


2. FATAH: IF HAMAS IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, SO ARE WE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Today the UN General Assembly will be voting on a US-proposed resolution to condemn Hamas for firing rockets into Israel and inciting violence. The resolution demands that Hamas and other terrorist groups such as Islamic Jihad cease their "militant" activities, including the use of airborne incendiaries.

Despite the rift between Hamas and Abbas' Fatah, Fatah has come to the defense of Hamas at the UN.

The resolution prompted one Fatah official to declare that if Hamas is considered a terrorist organization, then the entire Palestinian Arab people is "involved in terrorism," Palestinian Media Watch reported. Rather, he claimed, all the Palestinian factions are "national liberation movements":

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki told Palestine Today: "If Hamas, which is involved in resistance, is considered a terrorist movement, this means that all groups of the Palestinian people are involved in terrorism. This contradicts reality, as Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian factions are national liberation movements that are involved in resisting an Israeli occupation that is implementing terrorism against the members of our people... Hamas is part of us and we are part of it if a resolution is passed against it that defines its resistance as a crime. This is because Hamas - regardless of the internal and political differences of opinion - constitutes a state of resistance, whether we want it or not. It has a broad Palestinian presence, and we cannot abandon it to fight alone on the battlefield."

Similarly reacting to the proposed UN resolution, Fatah Central Committee member Muhammad Shtayyeh denied all Palestinian Arab terrorism. He stated that Abbas' Fatah Movement will not accept that "any Palestinian organization" be declared a terrorist organization.

"Under no circumstances will we agree to any Palestinian organization being defined as a terrorist organization. We will not agree! Because today it is Hamas, tomorrow [Islamic] Jihad, two days from now Fatah... under no circumstances will we agree to Hamas being condemned," Shtayyeh wrote on the official Fatah Facebook page.

Likewise, Osama Al-Qawasmi, official Fatah Movement Spokesperson and Fatah Revolutionary Council member announced that Fatah "opposes the denunciation of any Palestinian as a terrorist":

"Despite all of the differences of opinion with Hamas, and despite everything that it has done to harm the legal Palestinian government we know the order of priorities of the national activity well. We firmly oppose the American-Israeli attempts to denounce Hamas as terrorist at the UN, and we will fight to thwart the proposal," Al-Qawasmi told the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.


3. CHIEF RABBI SAYS SOME RELIGIOUS ZIONIST GROUPS HURTING RABBINATE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Israel's Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi blamed liberal Religious Zionist organizations for the Israeli public's eroding faith in the Rabbinate.

Writing in the Rabbinate's in-house magazine, Rabbi David Lau said that the organization he heads is under relentless attack from entities that are determined to "turn Israel into a state of all its citizens, focusing on a number of issues, one against the Zionist identity of the state and the other against its Jewish identity".

Lau added that "the first step is to change the status quo on religion that has been accepted until now, and especially to weaken the position of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, with the goal of separating religion from the state, turning the State of Israel into a state without any Jewish character".

Lau went on to blame assorted Religious Zionist groups for joining in the campaign "to convince the Israeli public that they have no need for the Rabbinate".

"Unfortunately, even bodies belonging to the liberal Religious Zionist stream are cooperating with the idea to weaken the Chief Rabbinate, to establish a communal rabbinate in which each community can choose a suitable rabbi, to establish a separate conversion system and independent courts," wrote the chief rabbi.

"Some of them even present their teachings openly, and claim to be the followers of Rabbi Kook. This also permeates the religious public," Lau continued. "Those who fight except for the position of the Chief Rabbinate use all means. And there is no lack of financial resources in their hands to fight and harm public opinion and to distance them from the Chief Rabbinate."

"The Chief Rabbinate is forced to fight against this trend, and at the Council's table, considerable issues were discussed in order to repel the aforementioned trend."

The Religious Zionist public has long been split regarding its view of the Chief Rabbinate. While some members of the community say that the entity needs to be strengthened, the more liberal Religious Zionist streams have long sought to create alternatives.

The Tzohar Rabbinical Organization, which provides religious services as an alternative to the state-run Rabbinate, launched of a new, independent kashrut supervision authority. The initiative came following Tzohar's popular marriage registration service, which sought to force the Rabbinate to become more user-friendly.


4. HUNDREDS OF WOMEN CALL ON ARYEH DERI TO STOP WOMEN OF THE WALL
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Hundreds of haredi and religious women signed a petition calling on Interior Minister Aryeh Deri to put an end to the Women of the Wall's Rosh Chodesh prayers.

For years, the Women of the Wall have demanded they be allowed to hold alternative, non-traditional services. Five years ago, Israel built an area allotted for mixed-gender prayer and for the Reform and Conservative movements to pray as they wish, but the Women of the Wall insist they should be allowed to pray their way in the main plaza.

The monthly Women of the Wall prayers have led to clashes between the feminist group and other worshippers, who object to the non-Orthodox nature of the prayers.

Now, a new petition calls on Deri to stop the Women of the Wall ahead of their scheduled prayers this Sunday. According to the petition, "this extremist group blatantly violates the custom of the place, which all the people of the Wall respect, and provokes quarrels in the holy space."

"While they are in the square, the prayer of the hundreds and thousands of women who come to pray with the help of women is critically disturbed."

"When the women of the provocation dance, sing loudly, clap their hands and protest and riot in the holy place," the petition continued, "It is very difficult to hear the cantor or to concentrate on prayer in the face of the contempt of the holy place."

Noting that Deri's Shas party controls the Rabbinate, which opposes Women of the Wall, the petition asked him to "exercise your authority and act to remove the provocateurs from the Western Wall and allow the masses who pray to pray there with concentration and holiness."

Worshippers have accused Women of the Wall in the past of harassing them and decry the media circus their monthly prayers bring with them.

In June Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit ordered the Women of the Wall to pray only in the special area designated by the police and the Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

The order was given following a petition by the Foundation and the police in response to disturbances which took place on Rosh Chodesh in recent months. If the Women of the Wall disobey the directive, the police have the authority to remove them from the Western Wall, ruled Mandelblit.



5. A-G NORMALIZES BINYAMIN REGION COMMUNITY OF HARESHA
by Ido Ben Porat

The Justice Ministry's Counseling and Legislation Department has provided a legal opinion, with the agreement of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, which paves the way for the access road to the community of Haresha in Binyamin to be constructed.

The move means that the community will be legally legitimized immediately and it will be possible to submit a zoning plan for the community using the "cut & cover" solution - paving a road over which concrete will be placed. Earth will be then placed on the concrete, allowing the Palestinian Arabs to continue growing their trees.

The legal opinion enables the permanent expropriation of the land in the future. "Until now, the state has not been able to regulate the construction in the area, in light of the fact that the road leading to Haresha is not regulated, and it passes through privately owned land. The section of the road that passes through private land, and which is at the center of this legal opinion, stands at 121 meters," says the legal opinion which was obtained by Arutz Sheva.

The Attorney General for the Judea and Samaria Area submitted an opinion according to which it is possible to arrange access to the community by digging a tunnel or by constructing an overpass, as long as they do not cause harm, even temporarily, to the reasonable use of the land.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said, "From the beginning of my current term I have set a goal of normalizing the lives of the residents of Judea and Samaria and normalizing as many communities as possible. We have gone from a discourse of eviction to a discourse of normalization. These actions are in addition to the strengthening of the communities by other means, such as the transfer of authority in matters of Judea and Samaria from the Supreme Court to the Administrative Affairs Court in Jerusalem, as well as the equalization of legislation for Judea and Samaria."

Shaked promised, "I will continue to work for the normalization of additional communities in Judea and Samaria. I thank Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, Deputy Attorney General (Erez) Kaminitz and the Legal Advisor for the Judea and Samaria Area for their important activity on the issue."


6. PM: HEZBOLLAH SOUGHT TO OCCUPY PARTS OF GALILEE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/255700

Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a special statement in the next few minutes together with Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot on the progress of Operation Northern Shield to expose Hezbollah's terrorist tunnels.

Netanyahu stated that the IDF activity on the northern border will continue until all the objectives are achieved.

"This is not a specific action, but an ongoing operation," the prime minister said, noting that Hezbollah had planned to occupy parts of the Galilee through the use of the terror tunnels. "Hezbollah's intention was to infiltrate terrorists into our territory and this is part of a broad campaign they planned to occupy parts of the Galilee. This is a real threat of force and daring that we did not know about. "

In the afternoon, Netanyahu held an assessment of the situation in the Defense Ministry, in which Eizenkot, the head of the NSC, Meir Ben Shabat, and senior IDF and defense establishment officials took part.

Following the assessment of the situation, a discussion was held by the Political-Security Cabinet, in which the ministers were updated on the IDF's activities so far as part of the operation on the northern border.

Earlier, IDF Spokesperson Ronen Manelis said that the army was operating inside Israeli territory to destroy Hezbollah tunnels in Operation Defensive Shield, adding that "they may be destroyed from other places as well." Manelis added that the army was preparing for the operation to take several weeks: "We have to prepare for all the scenarios of neutralizing the tunnels, some of them will not be only in our territory."


7. ELITE COMMANDO UNIT WAS INTERROGATED BY HAMAS FOR 40 MINUTES
by Tzvi Lev

The commandos that were involved in last month's botched special forces mission in Gaza were interrogated for 40 minutes by Hamas before the gunfight erupted, Channel 2 reported.

The soldiers were stopped while driving in Gaza by Hamas terrorists, who decided to detain them after finding inconsistencies in their story. The undercover operatives them opened fire in order not to be taken into custody and fled while being pursued by several patrol vehicles manned by Hamas terrorists.

The IDF dispatched several unmanned aircraft which opened fire on the Hamas terrorists pursuing the Israeli agents.

During the pursuit, one of the Israeli vehicles struck a wall, forcing the team members to continue on foot. An IDF helicopter later managed to land inside the Gaza Strip and evacuate the team.

The report also said that the troops had entered Gaza two months earlier and were installing highly advanced surveillance gear inside Gaza, including attempts to tap Hamas' communications network.

A 41-year-old Israeli lieutenant colonel, identified solely by the initial "M", was killed in a pitched battle with Hamas terrorists deep inside the Gaza Strip, near the city of Khan Yunis.

Hamas has been intensively investigating last week's events and has called on the public to supply any information that might help them expose more details about the highly classified unit. Hamas says that it managed to salvage classified equipment the commandos had been carrying in their car despite the vehicle having been bombed by the IDF.

Earlier this week, Hamas claimed that the classified unit was living in Gaza in a safe house under the guise of humanitarian volunteers. The team's equipment was smuggled into the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave through the Kerem Shalom crossing, where it was picked up by an agent working for Israel inside the Strip. The agent is also said to have secured two cars for the Israeli special forces team

Transcripts of Hamas' radio chatter during the operation that were released by Hadashot last month showed that the terror group originally thought it was battling drug smugglers during the shootout with the commandos. Only after IDF drones started strafing Hamas terrorists did the organization realize it was a commando op gone awry.

"Four fighter jets are above me. There was a strike near us. The jets are coming from the north. They attacked one of the (Hamas) cars. Hide. Close in on the Jews. Don't let them leave Gaza," one Hamas commander yelled into the radio during the firefight



8. DOZENS OF CHILDREN RESCUED FROM REHOVOT KINDERGARTEN
by Mordechai Sones

The stormy weather in Israel today is causing flooding across the country. In the city of Rehovot, on The 5th of Iyar Street, a compound with three kindergartens was flooded.

Firefighters from the local station rescued about 50 children and a number of kindergarten teachers with two rubber dinghys.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/255792

Yavne Street, Hayarkon Street, and Nahal Snir Street were blocked in the industrial area of the city because of flooding on the road. Police are there to direct traffic.

In Tel Aviv large puddles formed on Allenby Street and the streets nearby. The Azrieli junction also became congested due to a traffic light malfunction caused by the rain.

In Rishon Letzion and Bat Yam residents reported flooding in several neighborhoods. Municipal teams in both cases assisted the residents.

Tzfat, today
Flash 90
Heavy rains in Tzfat, today
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