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Wednesday, Jan. 30 '19, כ"ד בשבט תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. FEMALE TERRORIST KILLED DURING ATTACK EAST OF JERUSALEM
2. ISRAELI TEEN KILLED IN ACCIDENT SOUTH OF HEVRON
3. TWO INJURED IN AIR FORCE ACCIDENT
4. SIFREI TORAH DESTROYED WITH ACID
5. WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES TO PULL 'ACCOMPANIERS' FROM HEVRON
6. HAREDI GIRL BRUTALLY MURDERED IN MANCHESTER
7. NETANYAHU DECIDES: TIPH TO BE KICKED OUT OF HEVRON
8. PA DROPPING BID TO BECOME FULL UN MEMBER


1. FEMALE TERRORIST KILLED DURING ATTACK EAST OF JERUSALEM
by David Rosenberg

A terrorist attack was foiled Wednesday morning east of Jerusalem, near the Adumim Interchange just west of Maale Adumim.

At just after 10 a.m., the Jerusalem district police said that they had received reports of a stabbing attempt at the al-Zaim checkpoint on Route 1, between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim.

According to initial reports, a female terrorist attempted to stab security officers at the checkpoint Wednesday morning.

When soldiers spotted the female terrorist charging them with a knife in her hand, they opened fire, neutralizing her.

The terrorist was later declared dead.

No injuries have been reported among the Israeli security personnel in the area.

The main road between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem has been closed to traffic following the attack, Rescuers Without Borders said.

Jerusalem district police chief Yoram Halevy arrived at the scene of the attempted stabbing attack Wednesday morning for an incident assessment.


2. ISRAELI TEEN KILLED IN ACCIDENT SOUTH OF HEVRON
by Orly Harari

An Israeli teenager was killed in a car accident in Judea south of Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon, when a truck bearing Palestinian Authority license plates crashed into two private cars.

The accident occurred on Route 60, the primary north-south traffic artery in Judea and Samaria, near the Israeli town of Mitzpeh Eshtemoa in the Har Hevron district south of Hevron.

Two people were injured in the accident, when a truck driven by a Palestinian Arab in his 50s collided with two private cars.

One of the victims, a 19-year-old Israeli man, suffered severe multi-system injuries in the accident. He was airlifted to an area hospital, but was later declared dead.

A second victim, said to be in his early 50s, suffered moderate injuries and was evacuated by ambulance to Soroka for treatment in the hospital's intensive care unit.

MDA paramedics Eli Rosenberg and Oded Deskel called the accident "very serious" and said the teenager was found trapped in his vehicle, which had been crushed by the truck.

"A young man in his 20s who was driving one of the two private vehicles was trapped in the driver's seat while unconscious. With an army medical team which arrived via helicopter, we provided him with medical treatment in the field and performed resuscitation techniques, but his injuries were very severe, and an army doctor was forced to pronounce him dead."

"A man roughly 50 years of age, who was driving the second private car, was moderately injured, and was found lying on the road, suffering from contusions across his body. We quickly loaded him on to the ambulance, and he was evacuated in moderate, stable condition to Soroka hospital."

"The driver, a Palestinian man roughly 50 years of age, was examined at the scene and then evacuated to the hospital while fully conscious."


3. TWO INJURED IN AIR FORCE ACCIDENT
by David Rosenberg

Two Israeli ground crew workers were injured at an air force base Wednesday morning, when a plane they were working on suddenly began to accelerate on the tarmac.

According to a statement by an IDF spokesperson, the incident occurred Wednesday morning at an Israel Air Force (IAF) base in southern Israel.

The accident took place while workers from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) were performing routine maintenance work on an IAF C-130HI transport plane, an Israeli upgrade of the standard Hercules C-130.

While the IAI employees were working on the C-130HI, the plane suddenly began to move forward on the tarmac, driving over 100 yards and cutting into a nearby lane before the plane's advance was halted.

Two IAI workers were injured during the accident, and were evacuated to the hospital for treatment.

Both of the workers are said to be in light condition.

The IDF has opened an investigation into the incident.


4. SIFREI TORAH DESTROYED WITH ACID
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Just a day has passed since unnamed vandals desecrated the Siach Yisroel shul in the Kiryat Yovel of Jerusalem. Congregants arrived on Tuesday morning to find sifrei Torah strewn across the floor, splattered with acid. The rest of the synagogue was damaged by the acid as well, including the now-destroyed aron kodesh, seforim, and furniture.

The shul's community are mostly French immigrants, thousands of which have fled European anti-Semitism in recent years. For many the event was not only a reminder of the violence currently rampant in the rest of the world, but "recalls dark days in the history of the Jewish people," said Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein.

Jerusalem Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi HaRav Aryeh Stern stated, "We were shocked to hear about desecration of the shul in Kiryat HaYovel in Jerusalem … It is incumbent on all of us to protest against the perpetrators of the heinous crime we have seen in the difficult years of the Holocaust by the Nazis. Now we must explore our actions and strengthen our atmosphere of unity, of the people living in Tzion."

As of now the shul is unusable. An urgent fund has been started to replace the sifrei Torah, as well as the destroyed furniture. The fund's efforts are not only to rebuild the physical structure of the synagogue, but to strengthen the unity of the Jewish people in the face of anti-Semitism.

"We will not allow this tragedy to frighten us," says campaign text. "Just as they did their best to destroy us, with yours' and G-d's help we will rebuild it back up to a dignified place of prayer and Torah learning, a symbol for the eternal Jewish people. Terror comes to shake us but klal Yisroel will endure."

Until sufficient funds are raised, the damaged shul, once brimming with life and mitzvot, will stand empty.

Those interested in joining the effort to rebuild the desecrated Siach Yisroel synagogue can do so here.


5. WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES TO PULL 'ACCOMPANIERS' FROM HEVRON
by Mordechai Sones

The World Council of Churches (WCC) announced this morning it is pulling its "ecumenical accompaniers" from Hevron due to "security concerns."

The announcement came two days after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Israel would not extend the mandate of TIPH, the Temporary International Presence in Hevron.

The WCC's flagship project, Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), sends operatives to Israel to "monitor" and "report human rights abuses".

WCC has recently come under fire from Im Tirtzu, NGO Monitor, DMU and other pro-Israel organizations for promoting anti-Israel rhetoric and BDS economic warfare.

Over the past few months, Im Tirtzu members have been continuously filming the activities of EAPPI in Hevron. Videos uploaded to social media by Im Tirtzu have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258341

According to WCC general secretary Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, this "intensified harassment of WCC's program" caused it to pull the accompaniers.

"The WCC accompaniers are currently prevented from fulfilling their role as peaceful protective presence for residents in Hevron," said Tveit.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258341

Im Tirtzu CEO Matan Peleg welcomed the announcement and vowed to continue protecting IDF soldiers.

"We're pleased to see foreign government-funded delegitimization organizations are beginning to leave Hevron," said Peleg.

"These organizations do nothing apart from fuel the fires of conflict and provoke IDF soldiers, and they are the true obstacle to peace.

"We're pleased that our efforts to 'film the filmers' succeeded, and we promise to continue working on behalf of IDF soldiers and the State of Israel."

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258341

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6. HAREDI GIRL BRUTALLY MURDERED IN MANCHESTER
by Arutz Sheva Staff

A sixteen-year-old haredi girl named Sarah was brutally murdered while on her way to school in Manchester. A few hours after she did not arrive to school, a relative found her lifeless in an abandoned building near her home.

The victim was a pupil at Yavneh Girls in King David High School in Crumpsall, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News.

Her family said that Sarah went to school yesterday at 5:30 AM because she wanted to use the gym before school hours, but did not arrive at school. Around 9:30 AM she was reported missing, and 20 minutes later she was found dead.

Superintendent Caroline Hemmingway said Greater Manchester Police was "keeping an open mind and will be exploring all avenues".

She added: "We are currently investigating the tragic death of a 16-year-old girl in Kersal, and it is our top priority to find out exactly how she died.

"The investigation is still in its early stages and a scene remains in place in the building near to Brookside Drive.

"We are trying to piece together this puzzle and help give the girl's family the answers they deserve."

The King David High School was shocked to hear of the murder. "Sarah was a lovely, bright, intelligent and well-mannered pupil and she will be hugely missed by everyone at school."

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7. NETANYAHU DECIDES: TIPH TO BE KICKED OUT OF HEVRON
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided Monday night not to renew the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH).

"We will not allow the continued presence of an international force acting against us," Netanyahu said.

The organization will be forced to leave Hevron as a result of Netanyahu's decision.

TIPH is a group of European civilian observers who have operated in Hevron since 1994. Comprised of representatives from Norway, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey, TIPH says that it "monitors the situation in Hebron and records breaches of international humanitarian law".

The organization has courted controversy with its confrontational dealings with security forces and Jewish residents of Hevron.

In July in a TIPH member who took part in a tour of the Breaking the Silence organization in Tel Rumeida in Hevron slapped a 10-year-old Jewish boy. The member was arrested and forced to leave Israel by the Foreign Ministry.

A few weeks later, Netanyahu ordered the TIPH commander to be summoned for clarification by the Foreign Ministry following publication of footage on Arutz Sheva in which foreign observers are seen puncturing the tires of a car belonging to Jewish Hevron resident of Elad Fass.


8. PA DROPPING BID TO BECOME FULL UN MEMBER
by Elad Benari

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is dropping its bid to become a full member of the UN, its UN envoy said Monday, according to The Associated Press.

The envoy, Riyad Mansour, told reporters that the day will come when "obstacles" in the Security Council to full UN membership for "Palestine" will be removed "but that day is not today."

The main hurdle is the United States which would more than likely veto any Security Council resolution granting the PA full membership of the global body. The US says the only way PA can gain full membership at the UN is by negotiating a peace deal with Israel.

"We disagree with them on that. We believe that our statehood, and our admission, is an innate right for the Palestinian people ... to exercise it alone. It is not open for negotiation with anyone - nor will we ask for permission from anyone," said Mansour, according to AP.

Mansour said the legal right for "Palestine" to be a full member of the United Nations was formalized in the 1947 General Assembly resolution that partitioned British-ruled Palestine into "independent Arab and Jewish states."

Israel was accepted as a UN member, he said, and "Palestine will continue fighting for that right."

Mansour's comments come two weeks after the PA announced it would launch a bid to become a full member of the United Nations.

In 2012, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of the "state of Palestine" when it upgraded the PA's UN observer status to non-member state.

Full membership would amount to international recognition of Palestinian statehood.

The PA's latest bid to become a full UN member came as it assumed chairmanship of the Group of 77 bloc of developing countries at the UN. In October, the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of allowing the PA to chair the group in 2019, thus allowing the PA to act more like a full UN member state during meetings in 2019.

Mansour stressed that "negotiation is different than expressions of self-determination."

He noted that America's 13 colonies didn't negotiate with England in 1776 when they declared independence, and Israel didn't negotiate its independence declaration in 1948.

Since then, Mansour said, "we have negotiated, and we could possibly, if the conditions are right."

Relating to the possibility of renewed talks with Israel, Mansour said if Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees are off the table, and settlements are "more or less off the table, what is there left to negotiate?"