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HEADLINES:
1. MANHATTAN: SALUTE TO THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE BEIT EL YESHIVA
2. SYNAGOGUE IN BASEL, SWITZERLAND VANDALIZED
3. COALITION BOYCOTTS KNESSET 'NO CONFIDENCE' VOTE
4. SOROS UNIVERSITY EXPELLED FROM HUNGARY
5. 4 HISTORIC MEMORIAL SITES TO VISIT IN JERUSALEM
6. ZILBER SHOWS UP, BENNETT LEAVES
7. GAZA SENTENCES 6 PEOPLE TO HANG FOR 'COLLABORATING' WITH ISRAEL
8. REPORT: US-LED COALITION ATTACKS IN SYRIA


1. MANHATTAN: SALUTE TO THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE BEIT EL YESHIVA
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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2. SYNAGOGUE IN BASEL, SWITZERLAND VANDALIZED
by JTA

A Chabad Lubavitch synagogue in Basel, Switzerland was vandalized.

A window of the synagogue was smashed in with a hammer, the BZ Basel news website reported.

The damage was discovered on Saturday morning as worshipers gathered for the Shabbat morning service.

"I've been living in Basel for 16 years. It's the first time that I have been worried about myself and my family," Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski of Chabad Lubavitch told BZ Basel.

There currently are no suspects in the incident, the Basel public prosecutor's office told the news website.

The incident comes after a kosher butcher shop in Basel was vandalized four times in one month in what local Jews have condemned as an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation.

The rabbi said that Chabad will not cancel its public Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony scheduled for Tuesday.

"We will still be holding the Hanukkah celebration in the market square. The attackers want to intimidate us, but they will not succeed," he told BZ Basel.



3. COALITION BOYCOTTS KNESSET 'NO CONFIDENCE' VOTE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The Knesset plenum held a discussion on the no-confidence motions presented by the Zionist Union, the Joint Arab List, Yesh Atid, and Meretz parties on the subject of "the government's failure to deal with the murder of women."

The coalition chose to boycott the discussion of the no-confidence motions for the third time in a row. In light of this, all the proposals were not accepted because they require the support of 61 MKs.

MK Michal Rozin of Meretz said, "I call on employers and employers to allow the strike without taking a day off at the expense of the strikers. Give a hand to this protest, for a just and secure society. It is not a women's struggle alone and there should be no struggle of an opposition coalition, but absurdly the chairs of the coalition members, those who are willing to sacrifice the entire population of women in Israel only to keep them, are now empty."

MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) argued that "the government is running away from responsibility, and the murder of women has also led to political camps. The blood of the 24 murdered women cries out for the government's helplessness. The next murder will be on all coalition members absent from the plenum today. The government chooses to close its eyes and in this regard any attempt to prevent the murder of the next woman."

Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Haim Katz began to reply on behalf of the government, but noticed that the Knesset members were gathering for a selfie photo with the words "state of emergency" written on their hands.

"Some of those who spoke here did not believe what they were saying, but since the government's answer did not interest them and they only came to protest and not to listen, thank you very much," Katz said.


4. SOROS UNIVERSITY EXPELLED FROM HUNGARY
by Mordechai Sones

The Central European University, founded 25 years ago in Budapest by left-wing billionaire George Soros, announced today that it is forced to move to Vienna after the government would not allow it to continue operating on Hungarian soil.

This is the first time a university has been forced to leave the territory of an European Union member state.

The Washington Post claimed this was the best university in Hungary, and one of the best in the world.

The university explained that Viktor Orban's government refused to accept a proposed agreement that would have allowed the university to continue accepting new students on its central campus in Budapest.

"The arbitrary expulsion of a well-known university is a gross violation of academic freedom, a dark day for Europe, and a dark day for Hungary," the university said.

US Ambassador to Hungary David Kornstein was in contact with the Hungarian government to prevent the University from closing but failed in his efforts.

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5. 4 HISTORIC MEMORIAL SITES TO VISIT IN JERUSALEM
by In cooperation with El Al

Some travelers might be attracted to the bright lights and beautiful beaches of the modern city of Tel-Aviv. But it is in Jerusalem that one can see a collection of historical sites with significance to the three major religions present in the city: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. There are also many sites that serve as reminders of Israel's modern history and the Jewish fight for the State of Israel.

Among Jerusalem's holy Jewish and Muslim historic sites are the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and the City of David, for example. Christian tourists visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Via Dolorosa as well.

If you really want to understand the country's modern history and experience, you should take a flight to Israel and visit these four memorials:

Ammunition Hill

Ammunition Hill is the site of some of the 1967 Six Day War's bloodiest fighting. Known as "Givat Hatachmoshet" in Hebrew, it is located between the modern neighborhoods of Ramat Eshkol and French Hill.

Thirty-seven Israeli paratroopers were killed on Ammunition hill as they worked to oust entrenched Jordanian legionnaires in order to link central Jerusalem with the Israeli enclave on Mount Scopus. Despite the casualties, the paratroopers were successful, and they played a key role in Israel's victory to reunite Jerusalem.

British War Cemetery

More than 2,500 British soldiers are buried in the British War Cemetery, located on Mount Scopus, between the Regency hotel and Hadassah Medical Center.

The cemetery is a memorial to the British men who were killed in a fierce fight with the Ottoman Empire over the city of Jerusalem between 1916 and 1917. It also serves as a memorial to the 3,300 soldiers who died during this campaign but never received a proper burial.

Mount Herzl

Mount Herzl is the burial site for some of Israel and the Jewish people's most important influencers - Zionists, politicians and other people who helped develop and fight for the State of Israel. It is named for Binyamin Ze'ev (Theodor) Herzl, the visionary of the Jewish state.

Mount Herzl also serves as the Israel Defense Forces' official military cemetery; soldiers who died in the line of duty are buried on Mount Herzl. In the cemetery there is the "Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial," the main memorial for all victims of terrorism in Israel from 1851 until today. This memorial was established in 1997.

Yad Vashem

Just up the road from Mount Herzl is Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. This national Holocaust museum and memorial captures the raw and painful history of the Jews during World War II. The museum experience includes testimonies, diaries, artifacts and other documentation. The story of the Holocaust is told from a Jewish lens but in a universal language.

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6. ZILBER SHOWS UP, BENNETT LEAVES
by Ido Ben Porat

Minister of Education and Chairman of the Jewish Home Naftali Bennett left the cabinet meeting this morning, Sunday, to protest the presence of Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber.

The ministers of the Jewish Home promised that they would not take part in the meetings in which Zilber participated in the wake of her political statements against the Law of Legal Advisers promoted by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Culture Minister Miri Regev's Law of Loyalty in Culture.

"I declare that if Zilber isn't fired, as long as she arrives at government meetings we will leave and not participate in the meeting while she is there," Bennett said in an interview last month with Reshet Bet.

"Her role is to provide legal advice, not to educate us. She suffers from megalomania and it's clear that her words are political. Let her resign and run for politics if she wants to. She's done advising us," the Jewish Home Chairman said.

Bennett's decision to boycott meetings in which Zilber is present was made after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit chose to protect Zilber and not prevent her from participating in the discussions as requested by the justice minister.

The outcry over Zilber was triggered when she chose to deviate from the legal and constitutional issues during a discussion by the Education Committee on the Law of Loyalty in Culture, and made a political speech that aroused the wrath of Justice Minister Shaked and other political officials.

Among other things, Zilber said, "The face of the country has changed. These days are not simple, and they bring with them not only new laws, but also new words: governance, loyalty, overriding. A confrontational discourse that wounds the common social fabric, labels and tags - who is for us and who is against us."

"And if there is someone who is loyal, then is there someone else who is a traitor? A fifth column? Bring us obedient legal advisers, castrated artists, a restrained media, a disciplined, educated nation whose thought is uniform," she added.


7. GAZA SENTENCES 6 PEOPLE TO HANG FOR 'COLLABORATING' WITH ISRAEL
by AFP

A military court in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Monday sentenced six people, including a woman, to
death by hanging for "collaborating" with Israel, authorities said.

In total 14 people were sentenced for "collaborating with the occupation," with six sentenced to be hanged, the interior ministry in Gaza said.

The rulings come three weeks after eight people were killed when an alleged Israeli army cell in Gaza was uncovered, leading to a vicious fire fight.

Hamas fired hundreds of rockets at Israel during and after the battle, with the Jewish state striking dozens of targets in Gaza before a ceasefire agreement.

The six sentenced to death Monday were not related to the November 11 flareup.

The woman, named only as Amal, was sentenced in absentia and is alleged to have encouraged her nephew in Gaza to collaborate with Israeli intelligence.

Iyad al-Bozum, the spokesman of the interior ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza, hailed the rulings.

"Collaborators must realize the (Israeli) occupation will not be able to protect them," he told a news conference.

Hamas and its allies have fought three wars with Israel since 2008.



8. REPORT: US-LED COALITION ATTACKS IN SYRIA
by Elad Benari

Syrian media reported on Sunday evening that the US-led international coalition launched air strikes against positions of the Syrian army.

According to the official Syrian news agency SANA, the coalition forces fired several rockets at army positions in al-Ghurab mountain south of al-Sekhneh.

There were no reports of injuries or deaths, with the report saying the attack caused only material damage.

On Thursday, Syria accused Israel of carrying out air strikes on Kisweh, south of Damascus. The air strikes reportedly targeted warehouses and headquarters of the Iranian militias in the area.

Two weeks ago, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that coalition air strikes killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in the Abu Husn village of the Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border.

The coalition said in response it struck only "legitimate" militant targets, and that another 10 airstrikes in the area were not carried out by US-led forces.

The US-led coalition has been backing a Kurdish-Arab alliance called the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting to expel the jihadists from the pocket around Abu Husn.

ISIS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a "caliphate" in land it controlled.

Since then, several military offensives, including those backed by the US-led coalition, have since seen ISIS lose most areas it once controlled, including the loss of their de facto capital Raqqa in Syria..




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