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Thursday, Feb. 07 '19, ב' באדר תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. TERROR CELL THAT WOUNDED JEWISH BABY CAUGHT
2. WATCH: RIVERS AND STREAMS FLOW COPIOUSLY AFTER RAIN
3. VACUUM CLEANER SKIT: IVANKA UNPERTURBED
4. IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA DELIVERING S-300 MISSILES TO SYRIA
5. RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN PASSES AWAY
6. US HAREDIM RECEIVE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR NEUTRALIZING TERRORIST
7. EDELSTEIN TAKES FIRST PLACE, SA'AR FOURTH
8. DISCUSSION: BENNY GANTZ PRAISES GAZA WITHDRAWAL MODEL


1. TERROR CELL THAT WOUNDED JEWISH BABY CAUGHT
by Uzi Baruch

The Shin Bet captured three Palestinian Arab youths, about 17 years of age, from the village of Sa'ir in the Hevron area suspected of involvement in throwing stones about a month and a half ago at Israeli vehicles traveling on Route 60 south of Jerusalem between Kiryat Arba and Karmei Tzur.

As a result of the stone-throwing, a nine-month-old baby was lightly wounded and several vehicles were damaged.

During their interrogation by the Shin Bet, it was revealed that the suspects had taken part in the stone-throwing from which the infant was wounded.

An indictment against them will be filed soon.

"The General Security Service will continue to act to prevent terror and bring to justice those involved in terrorist activity in any form," the Shin Bet said.


2. WATCH: RIVERS AND STREAMS FLOW COPIOUSLY AFTER RAIN
by Mordechai Sones

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258731

The rains of the past 24 hours throughout the country have renewed the water flow in the Negev, Judean, and Arava rivers.

Due to the rains, Highway 90 was closed between the Dead Sea hotels and Ein Gedi, and Highway 40 was closed from Mitzpeh Ramon Junction to Tzihur Junction.

Today during the morning hours local showers will continue accompanied by occasional thunderstorms. In the southern and eastern rivers there is still fear of floods. Throughout the day rains will diminish. Temperatures will decline considerably. At night it will be partly cloudy and there may be light local rains.

Tomorrow the weather will be partly cloudy and temperatures will be normal for the season. In northern Israel, local rain is expected and it may be hazy.

On Saturday it will rain occasionally in the north and center of the country. There may be thunderstorms. Local rain is expected in the northern Negev. On the Hermon it will snow. Temperatures will be lower than normal for the season.

On Sunday, rain is expected from time to time from the north to the northern Negev accompanied by occasional thunderstorms. On the Hermon it will continue to snow. Temperatures will be lower than normal for the season.

Flooded Negev road, this morning
Police Spokesman



3. VACUUM CLEANER SKIT: IVANKA UNPERTURBED
by Mordechai Sones

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the President of the United States, responded with poise to a "performance art piece" designed to humiliate her, in which she is portrayed vacuuming a mountain of breadcrumbs from the floor as "a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing".

In the performance, held at a gallery in Washington, DC, guests are invited to throw bread crumbs onto a large pile on the floor for the Ivanka character to clean.

The gallery claimed that the work, "Ivanka Vacuuming" by Jennifer Rubell, examines a "comically wide range of feminine identities – daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde – Ivanka Vacuuming is simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing." The performance is held every night for two hours and is also live streamed online.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258730

In response, Ivanka tweeted: "Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. I choose the latter."

Ivanka's brother, Donald Trump Jr., called the show a "sexist attack."



4. IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA DELIVERING S-300 MISSILES TO SYRIA
by i24News

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258734


5. RABBI YECHIEL ECKSTEIN PASSES AWAY
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Rabbi Yechiel Zvi Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, passed away at the age of 67.

The fellowship under its chairmanship raises about half a billion shekels each year for the State of Israel and for various Jewish causes.

Eckstein was on the Board of Governors of the Joint Distribution Committee, Keren Hayesod and the Jewish Agency. He wrote seven books, mainly on Christian-Jewish relations.

Rabbi Eckstein was active in efforts promoting Jewish immigration from Ukraine and other countries.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258697

He was born in Canada, and as a teenager studied at the MTA, the yeshiva High School of Yeshiva University. He then studied at the Kerem B'Yavneh yeshiva and then returned to Yeshiva University, where he was ordained by Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik and completed his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. He served as a lecturer at Columbia University.

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews established by Rabbi Eckstein raises funds mainly from Evangelical Christians who support Zionism in the United States and around the world, and some from donations from Jews around the world and Israelis. Since its establishment, the fellowship has raised more than 1.3 billion shekels for a variety of social projects in Israel.

The Tzohar Rabbinical Organization expressed its sadness over the untimely passing of Rabbi Eckstein.

"Rabbi Eckstein was a visionary whose leadership enabled tremendous support for the state and people of Israel and his actions bettered the lives of countless people all over the country. Throughout his life, he worked to bring pride to Jewish practice and Zionism while acting as an ambassador for Judaism throughout the world. May his memory always serve as a source of blessing to his family and the entire Jewish people."

Dr. Jürgen Bühler, president of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, said, "The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem mourns the sudden passing of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and pays tribute to this unique pioneer and visionary of closer Jewish-Christian relations."

"Rabbi Eckstein foresaw, like few other Jewish leaders did, the strategic importance to Israel and the Jewish people of forging ties with the global Evangelical community. The generous aid that he gathered from Christians around the world brought vital assistance and great blessings to countless Israelis.

"The ICEJ extend its most sincere condolences to the Eckstein family. His daughter, Yael, and the Fellowship he founded can be proud of the legacy he has now left in their hands."

Isaac Herzog, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, said, "The Jewish People have lost Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, a leader who worked tirelessly on their behalf. I worked with Rabbi Eckstein on social welfare, diaspora and Aliyah."

"My deep condolences to his family and the entire International Fellowship of Christians and Jews."

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said, "So sad to learn of the passing of my friend Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. A prodigious philanthropist and an inspirational leader who did so much to unite Christians and Jews around common values. May his memory be blessed."

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258697


6. US HAREDIM RECEIVE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR NEUTRALIZING TERRORIST
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Simcha Zin and Mordechai Lichtenstetter received the Police Medal of Honor for helping neutralize a terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Zin and Lichtenstetter, who are haredi US citizens who were visiting Israel when the attack occurred. They received the Police Medal of Honor for their actions at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC this week.

Major-General Na'aman Fares was stabbed nine times during the attack.

Zin and Lichtenstetter rushed to help the officer, even though they were unarmed and the attacker had a knife. They grabbed the terrorist, separated him from Fares, and held him until the officer drew his weapon and neutralized him.

The terrorist, Muhammad Abdullah Salim al-Qassaji, a 57-year-old resident of Jordan who entered Israel a few days earlier, later died of wounds. Faras was moderately wounded and another man lightly hurt in the attack.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258646


7. EDELSTEIN TAKES FIRST PLACE, SA'AR FOURTH
by Arutz Sheva Staff

After counting all the votes in the Likud primaries, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein was found to have come in first place, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz came in second place, third was Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan and fourth was Gidon Sa'ar.

The top five is closed by Culture Minister Miri Regev, followed by Ministers Yoav Galant, Yariv Levin, and Gila Gamliel, together with former Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and MK Avi Dichter.

Likud List:

1. Benjamin Netanyahu (Chairman)
2. Yuli Edelstein
3. Yisrael Katz
4. Gilad Erdan
5. Gideon Sa'ar
6. Miri Regev
7. Yoav Galant
8. Nir Barkat
9. Yariv Levin
10. Gila Gamliel
11. Avi Dichter
12. Zeev Elkin
13. Tzachi Hanegbi
14. Ofir Akunis
15. Tzipi Hotovely
16. Chaim Katz
17. Yuval Steinitz
18. David Amsalem
19. Idan Pinchas (Shfela District)
20. Amir Ohana
21. Choice of chairman - TBA
22. Ofir Katz (Galilee District)
23. Etty Atia (Dan district)
24. Yoav Kish
25. David Bitan
26. Keren Barak (New woman)
27. Shlomo Karai (Negev District)
28. Choice of chairman - TBA
29. Miki Zohar
30. Avraham Negosa (New immigrant)
31. Michal Shir (Tel Aviv District)
32. Mulla Patin (Seat reserved for minority)
33. Keti Sheetrit (New woman)
34. May Golan (Young member)
35. Uzi Dayan (Coastal Plain District)

Sharren Haskel, Yehuda Glick, Ayoob Kara, Oren Hazan, Anat Berko, Nurit Koren, Nava Boker, and Yaron Mazuz did not receive realistic slots on the list.

Prime Minister Netanyahu can secure the 21st place for whomever he wants. If his proposal is approved - as it appears - he will be given the option securing two more slots, in places 28 and 36, for people of his choice.


8. DISCUSSION: BENNY GANTZ PRAISES GAZA WITHDRAWAL MODEL
by i24News

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258691