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HEADLINES:
1. 'KEEP PRAYING FOR MOTHER WOUNDED IN TERROR ATTACK'
2. 'HARD TO ACHIEVE PEACE WHEN WORLD WON'T CONDEMN TERROR'
3. 'SHIRA CONSTANTLY ASKS ABOUT THE BABY'
4. JEWISH CEMETERY IN FRANCE DEFACED WITH ANTI-SEMITIC GRAFFITI
5. WOUNDED MOTHER: MY HUSBAND SHIELDED ME WITH HIS BODY
6. 'IT'S OUR WORST NIGHTMARE COME TRUE'
7. WOUNDED HUSBAND, WIFE, MEET FOR FIRST TIME SINCE ATTACK
8. 'ISRAEL IS SILENT IN THE FACE OF THE TORTURE - THIS IS RACISM'


1. 'KEEP PRAYING FOR MOTHER WOUNDED IN TERROR ATTACK'
by Hezki Baruch

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) on Wednesday visited Shira Ish-Ran, the 21-year-old Israeli woman seriously wounded in a drive-by terrorist shooting attack north of Jerusalem Sunday night.

Ish-Ran, who was 30 weeks pregnant at the time of the attack, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the terror attack, and was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in critical condition.

Once there, doctors performed an emergency caesarian section to deliver her child.

While the child remains in critical condition, Shira has shown improvement over the past few days, meeting with relatives after she regained consciousness.

Shira's husband, Amichai, was also wounded in the attack, along with five other civilians.

On Wednesday, Deputy Minister Hotovely visited the couple at Shaare Zedek.

"Today, I visited Shira and Amichai, who were wounded in the shooting attack in Ofra," said Hotovely.

"I met both of their wonderful families, the Silberstein family and the Ish-Ran family, who continuously expressed their thanks for the great miracle when Shira regained consciousness, and for all of the prayers from Jews across the world."

Hotovely said the families had requested that people continue to pray on behalf of Shira, and her newborn child, whose life remains in jeopardy.

"In their name I request to please keep praying. Unfortunately, Shira and Amichai's baby is still in life-threatening danger."

On Sunday night, Arab terrorists opened fire from a passing vehicle outside of the Israeli town of Ofra in Samaria.

After regaining consciousness, Amichai and Shira met Tuesday for the first time since the shooting attack.

On Wednesday morning, relatives reported that Shira's condition had continued to improve, and that she had been meeting with family members.


2. 'HARD TO ACHIEVE PEACE WHEN WORLD WON'T CONDEMN TERROR'
by David Rosenberg

White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt slammed the United Nations late Tuesday night, and warned that the international community's failure to condemn terrorism is an impediment to peace in the Middle East.

In an opinion piece published on the Fox News website late Tuesday night, President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, welcomed statements from across the Arab and Muslim world condemning the October 27th mass-shooting at a Pennsylvania synagogue, while noting that similar condemnations of similar acts of terror by Islamic groups were rare.

"I am grateful for the numerous foreign officials who publicly decried the attack and expressed condolences to the families of the victims, Pittsburghers, the Jewish community and all Americans," wrote Greenblatt, listing condemnations issued by a number of Islamic states and the Palestinian Authority.

Greenblatt compared the condemnations of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack to the silence from Arab governments and Turkey in the face of ongoing attacks by the Hamas terror group on Israel.

The White House envoy also criticized the failure of the United Nations General Assembly to condemn Hamas, after Arab states led an effort to vote down a measure proposed by the US mission to the UN.

"It was absolutely shameful when these and other governments failed to condemn Hamas last week at the U.N. General Assembly – even after years of Hamas attacks via suicide bombings, kidnappings, rockets, missiles and other types of violence against Israelis."

Greenblatt went on to warn that the tacit acceptance of Hamas by the international community was an impediment to peace in the Middle East.

"It is difficult to advance peace when the international community cannot even come together to condemn a terrorist organization."


3. 'SHIRA CONSTANTLY ASKS ABOUT THE BABY'
by Mordechai Sones

Ariel Silberstein, the twin brother of Shira Ish Ran, who was seriously injured in the attack at the Ofra junction, spoke this morning about his sister's condition and that of the baby, born in an emergency induced labor after the attack.

"My sister's condition is improving, I spoke to her yesterday and she's feeling better. She'is currently in intensive care and is expected to undergo a long rehabilitation. The baby's still in critical condition and we ask everyone to pray."

Ariel said his sister "constantly asks about the baby. We always tell her the truth but not always the whole truth. Yesterday she saw her husband for the first time since regaining consciousness and was very emotional. We gave them their time, but when we were there, we told ourselves that they were just a sweet couple with an amazing relationship. The first thing that her husband Amichai (who was also lightly injured) told her is - 'you're amazing'."

The brother described what Shira remembers of the horrors of that evening: "She remembers talking to a friend at a hitchhiking station and suddenly saw yellow flashes from a car and she fell.

"We feel the embrace from the people of Israel, we rely on the defense establishment, and hope the political system will give them the opportunity to bring the perpetrators to justice," concluded Silberstein.

Shaare Zedek Medical Center reported improvement in Shira's condition over the past night. She is alert, neither respirated nor sedated. There is no change in the infant's condition that continues to be critical.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/256047


4. JEWISH CEMETERY IN FRANCE DEFACED WITH ANTI-SEMITIC GRAFFITI
by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA

Several tombstones were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti at a Jewish cemetery near the city of Strasbourg in eastern France.

The incident was discovered Tuesday in Herrlisheim, a northern suburb, the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities said in a statement. The unidentified perpetrators wrote "CRIF = ZOG" and the digits 88 on the tombstones. ZOG stands for "Zionist occupation government." The number is code for Adolf Hitler.

The incident in Herrlisheim is the fourth time in two months that graffiti featuring far-right anti-Semitic rhetoric is discovered in sites linked to Jews in the eastern Alsace region. In two incidents, Jewish mayors were the target of the graffiti.

Also on Tuesday, Strasbourg saw one of its main avenues renamed for Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor and former minister who died last year.

Later on Tuesday, two people were killed and 14 injured at a Christmas market in Strasbourg in a shooting attack by a Muslim radical, police said. The suspect, they said, may have fled into Germany.

Separately, the Paris 13 university initiated disciplinary action against eight students in connection with a classmate's complaints in October about anti-Semitic bullying against her.

The complainant, a medical student identified in the French media only as Rose, said her classmates made Holocaust jokes about her and ranked her and other Jews according to their level of affiliation to Judaism. The alleged abuse happened online and face to face, she said.

The students being investigated may be expelled, according to a report Monday in Le Parisien.


5. WOUNDED MOTHER: MY HUSBAND SHIELDED ME WITH HIS BODY
by Shimon Cohen

The condition of Shira Ish-Ran, the young mother wounded Sunday night in a drive-by terrorist shooting attack north of Jerusalem, continues to show signs of improvement, family members say, after she regained consciousness and was able to meet with relatives.

On Sunday night, Arab terrorists opened fire from a passing vehicle outside of the Israeli town of Ofra in Samaria.

Seven Israelis were wounded at a bus stop just outside of Ofra, including Shira Ish-Ran, 21, who was 30 weeks pregnant at the time. Shira's husband, Amichai, was also wounded in the attack.

Shira was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem in critical condition. Doctors performed an emergency caesarian section to deliver her baby, who remains in critical condition.

After regaining consciousness, Amichai and Shira met Tuesday for the first time since the shooting attack.

On Wednesday, family members reported that Shira's condition is continuing to improve, and that she is no longer relying on a respirator to breathe.

Shira's father, Chaim Silberstein, said that during the last meeting with her, Shira even joked with family.

The prematurely-born child's condition, however, remains critical, relatives and hospital officials said.

While relatives had initially not mentioned the child's premature birth or his ongoing medical condition, following Shira's repeated queries regarding the child, family members informed her that the infant had been delivered and was in critical condition.

During the meeting with the wounded mother, Shira told family members how her husband, Amichai, had shielded her with his body after the first shots were fired.

In an interview with Reshet, Shira's father-in-law said he had been unaware of this detail in the story, as his son had declined to mention it.

According to Shira, as related by her father-in-law, after the first shots were fired during the attack, Amichai noticed that Shira was not by his side, and when he spotted her lying on the ground, he ran over to her and shielded her with his body as the terrorists continued to fire.

When Amichai noticed that his wife had been wounded and was bleeding, he used his hands to apply pressure to the wounds to try to stem the bleeding – an action which was later revealed to be critical in slowing the loss of blood and saving her life.


6. 'IT'S OUR WORST NIGHTMARE COME TRUE'
by Yoni Kempinski

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/255968

The parents of the young mother who was critically wounded in the shooting attack in Ofra last night, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the attack which left their son-in-law wounded and their daughter and newborn grandson fighting for their lives.

"This is like your worst nightmare coming true," Shira Ish-Ran's mother said. "You're always on the other side, hearing about terror attacks that happen, and it's always happening to somebody else."

"I was just having a regular evening. I was working at home. My husband came in and he said that there'd been a terror attack and that we had to go straight away to the hospital. I just took my telephone and my Siddur (prayer book) and we just ran out of the house.

"We were driving on the road, and my husband told me that Amichai, our son-in-law, had called and that he was in an ambulance and that there'd been a shooting - we didn't even know about the shooting," she added.

"We got to the hospital and we were told that our daughter was in a very difficult situation. She was shot in her lower abdomen and that they were going to have to do a C-Section and take the baby out. She was only 30 weeks [pregnant]. They said to us that obviously the most important thing was to save her, and we said obviously.

"We were up the whole night. I was saying Tehilim (Psalms) after Tehilim after Tehilim. It was just very tense. In the middle of it, they came out and told us that there had been a very big progress. Then, suddenly, they came out and said that there's some problem we had to wait about an hour and a half to find out that she was going to make it.

"We keep davening (praying) for her recovery and for the recovery of the baby, who needs a lot of prayers," she said. "The baby's in danger."


7. WOUNDED HUSBAND, WIFE, MEET FOR FIRST TIME SINCE ATTACK
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran, who were both wounded in a terrorist shooting attack on Sunday, met for the first time since the attack Thursday afternoon.

Shira's father, Chaim Silverstein, said that the family had not yet told her about the critical condition of her baby, who was delivered nearly two months early following the attack. She has asked about the child.

"Shira woke up a few minutes ago and this is the first time they met when she was conscious, they held hands and smiled but could not talk," the father said. "We have no words to describe this joy, even though her condition is still difficult, but her life was saved and we welcome this miracle."

Silverstein added, "The baby's condition has not changed since yesterday. His life is still in danger and he is fighting for it, a small baby who was born prematurely along with a great trauma, and he started his life in a very difficult situation and we pray that he will survive."

"We do not want to let her get too excited," he said. "We consult with psychologists and social workers, and hope that we will know how to deal with this difficult situation."

Liora, Shira's mother, said, "She opened her eyes and tried to talk. It's hard for her to have the tubes, but she calls and asks us to come and hold our hands and cry and smile."

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/256018


8. 'ISRAEL IS SILENT IN THE FACE OF THE TORTURE - THIS IS RACISM'
by Hezki Baruch

The Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee on Tuesday discussed the torture of Arab residents of the Palestinian Authority who sold real estate to Jews.

"The silence of the State of Israel against the torture of Arab residents during their detention in the Palestinian Authority is most immoral," said the deputy chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee, MK Betzalel Smotrich of the Jewish Home.

"When you recognize a phenomenon that is a blow to the state, you have to allocate resources and provide tools, as they know to do with 'price tag' incidents. If it interested the Justice Ministry and the prime minister, no one would have passed private bills, rather the government would already have come with amendments.

"We do not want to 'occupy,' but we let them be tortured and raped and murdered? We are held accountable by virtue of our moral imperative as a Jewish people. It takes place half an hour from here. Where is the political echelon? The Civil Administration? Business as usual. All the hypocrites will shout at the visit of one foreign minister or another when the most painful human rights violations in the world today are taking place right here. It does not interest the left and the so-called human rights organizations. This is racism," MK Smotrich said.

The police representative at the hearing, Deputy Superintendent Gilad Bahat, referred to the Palestinian Authority's torture of an Arab who sold land to Jews in eastern Jerusalem: "I want to be precise: this is not a kidnapped person. The man arrived on his own to the interrogation to which he was summoned in Ramallah and where he was arrested. Activity was, and is, carried out in cooperation with a number of security branches," Bahat said.

MK Smotrich asked, "Do you know what his condition is? In what conditions he is being held? Avi Aviram of the National Security Council said: "Last week, the prime minister instructed to coordinate the government's activity and policy regarding the detention of Aqel and Nasser Adin, two detainees in the PA. Since then, it is being dealt with constantly. A meeting was held with all the security bodies. There is a whole range of activities that I can describe in a confidential meeting."

Walid, who was arrested and tortured by the Palestinian Authority, said, "I received a death sentence because I prevented a terrorist attack, I did a holy job. Why did I stop a terrorist attack? From a young age I grew up in mosques and was brainwashed to think that the Jews stole the land. I was put in Israeli jail for stealing a car. There, they gave me an operation for my foot. I received treatment and rehabilitation. I saw that this People who they said was bad was helping me. I returned to the territories with a different mindset - that this People really helps people."

"When I heard that there was a terrorist attack on children, I got up and stopped the attack. What did I do wrong? I stopped bloodshed?

"Why should they burn me? I went through an interrogation like ISIS in Syria. For two weeks, [I was] upside down until my head got swollen. Hot and cold showers. They put me in a closet with a net and threw all the filth at me. Beatings where my surgery was, [being forced to] sit on a glass bottle.

"I also sat with an investigator in Israel. He let me eat, I was given respect during Ramadan. A dog lives better here than a human being does there. I connected with a people that lives with justice," said Walid.

Attorney Kedem Barak, who represents 63 Palestinian Arabs who were tortured in the Palestinian Authority, described "electric shocks, removing fingernails, castration. Three women, two of whom were murdered without trial. A third was tortured and her eye taken out. Leila lost her husband on suspicion that he collaborated with Israel. Following the assassination of Ra'ad al-Karmi, Leila's son was arrested on suspicion of collaborating. His sister was brought to the jail with the aim of getting him to confess. He confesses. Several hours later they call his mother to come and take the girl's body. They arrested Leila and her sister. Her sister was found shot in the street. Leila's eye was removed."