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Thursday, Apr. 25 '19, כ' בניסן תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. SHARON MISSILE-STRICKEN FAMILY: 'WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE'
2. FESTIVE MEMORIAL SERVICE AT MITZPEH YOSEF OPPOSITE SHECHEM
3. POLICE ASK HELP IN LOCATING HIT-AND-RUN SUSPECT
4. BEN-GVIR ON THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMITTEE?
5. UNRWA TEXTBOOKS DON'T MENTION ISRAEL ONCE
6. KUSHNER: TWO STATE SOLUTION AN 'OLD TALKING POINT'
7. WATCH: NETANYAHU PLEDGES TO NAME GOLAN TOWN AFTER TRUMP
8. HOW TERRORISTS SMUGGLE PHONES INTO PRISON


1. SHARON MISSILE-STRICKEN FAMILY: 'WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

A month after the direct attack on his home, Israel Hayom went back with Robert Wolf, the grandfather of the family, to the destroyed home in Moshav Mishmeret.

A day after Passover began another granddaughter, a daughter of Talia, was born to the family. This is the fifth grandchild in the family. "It's so wonderful for us, something amazing in all this confusion, it gives us all the power in the world," says Robert. He is moved not only by his new granddaughter; in the yard, Robert sees that the vine and the mulberry tree have begun to bloom. "For me it's life, I see it and get excited."

The family, who lived first with their daughter Talia in Tel Mond, rented an apartment there and now live there. They celebrated the Seder night with the neighbors on duty, in the house next to their demolished house. "Mentally it's very hard, you keep thinking about what happened," says Robert. "My wife Susan still has shrapnel in her head and the doctors haven't yet decided whether or not to take it out, whether it's dangerous or not; almost every day she's in the hospital for tests. She was hurt all over, because her back was in the direction of the explosion. She, like a good mother, made sure that everyone would enter the protected room and didn't have time to get in herself. She was the hardest hit. We'll be with it for a long time, but she has strength. She's a very strong woman. The first sentence she said at the hospital was: 'How lucky it hit us who have a safe room - and not the neighbors, who don't have one.' It's amazing."

The son Daniel is the hero of the family. "If not for Daniel, we wouldn't be here. He saved us; he fell asleep in the living room, heard the siren and woke us. We didn't hear, and if he hadn't slept in the living room he wouldn't have heard either. Daniel grabbed his daughter and ran to wake us all up. I ran to look for my little daughter, Lihi. Outside the trees I heard the explosion. I saw the whole house had been destroyed. I was sure everyone was killed.

"Daniel, who was in the reinforced room, also underwent a similar trauma. He thought his father, mother, and little sister were gone. "We were outside, he thought there was no chance we were alive. The protected room saved my family. Without the protected room I'd have no granddaughters, both of them would have gone. We mustn't underestimate it; you have to enter the security room, it saves lives."

Robert still finds it difficult to digest how the entire family survived, despite the severe injury. "Slowly, like a puzzle, we try to put life back together... What gives us the strength is the miracle we had, seven people inside a house, the entire house destroyed, and we're all here. The whole house went, I was 15 meters behind the explosion, and if I were 15 meters on the other side, I wouldn't be here."

"This is my country, my place, we received a lot of love, a lot of people came to help. I love the country, the house doesn't interest me, it's the land, it's my land. When I came to Israel 35 years ago, we were 3 million, now we're 9 million, our enemies haven't yet realized that we're not going anywhere, they do not understand that the State of Israel is growing stronger."

After Passover, what remains of the house will be destroyed. Wolf: "I very much hope that next Independence Day the new home will be done. I have to come back here as soon as possible."


2. FESTIVE MEMORIAL SERVICE AT MITZPEH YOSEF OPPOSITE SHECHEM
by Ido Ben Porat

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262303

The students of the Pri Ha'aretz yeshiva from Rechalim held a festive Chol HaMoed service at Mitzpe Yosef on Mount Gerizim.

The prayer was held in memory of Ben Yosef Livnat, who was murdered at Joseph's Tomb on the Seventh Night of Passover eight years ago.

Mitzpe Yosef overlooks the entire city of Shechem, from which one may see the Joseph's Tomb in the heart of the city.

Rabbi Yehudah Liebman mentioned the Midrash on the splitting of the Red Sea, "'The sea saw and fled - it saw the coffin of Joseph and split,' all those who fell sanctifying G-d. With all the great pain and sacrilege involved in their deaths, we believe that each of them is a miracle, a banner that negates evil and brings redemption closer."

Ben Yosef Livnat
Uriah Heller



3. POLICE ASK HELP IN LOCATING HIT-AND-RUN SUSPECT
by Mordechai Sones

The Israel Police today asked for public assistance in locating a suspect in a hit-and-run incident that took place on Sunday in Jerusalem.

Natanel Sandrosi, 23, is suspected of involvement in a hit-and-run in the Ramot neighborhood in Jerusalem, resulting in the injury of an 11-year-old boy who was evacuated to hospital in critical condition.

"In parallel to the extensive efforts of the Israel Police to locate the suspect, we're asking for public assistance in locating him," the police said.

Anyone with knowledge of the whereabouts of the suspect or has identified a person meeting his description is requested to report it as soon as possible to the police 100 hotline.


4. BEN-GVIR ON THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMITTEE?
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The Likud Party is in contact with Adv. Itamar Ben-Gvir (United Right) regarding the possibility of his appointment as opposition representative to the Judicial Selection Committee.

Ben-Gvir, who is in seventh place on the United Right list, is expected to enter the Knesset after the establishment of the government and legislation of the "Norwegian Law" whereby the two United Right ministers will resign from the Knesset and allow Ben-Gvir and Orit Struck to enter.

In a conversation with Israel Hayom, Ben-Gvir said he had not yet decided that he would go to the opposition. "It's true that I have different red lines than the members of the list," he explained. "For example, the issue of the evacuation of Amona, during which Smotrich remained in the coalition and I would not have let it pass quietly, but first you have to see the government's basic guidelines, and only then decide."

"From the point of view of the leftists, the place in the Judicial Selection Committee is reserved for them, but the people of Israel want a fundamental change in the judicial system.

These elections were about required change, and the people had its say. We won't get into the positions I will receive and the existing agreements, which I assume will be honored, but I imagine that it is clear to everyone that when a lawyer with great experience is appointed to the Knesset, it is only natural that he will deal with the legal field and help the legal system to make the necessary change," added Ben-Gvir.

The Judicial Selection Committee consists of three Supreme Court justices, two ministers, two representatives of the Israel Bar Association and two MKs from both the opposition and the coalition.


5. UNRWA TEXTBOOKS DON'T MENTION ISRAEL ONCE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

JNS reported that according to a report by the Center for Near East Policy Research in Jerusalem, textbooks used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the grades 1 through 10 do not contain any references to Israel. In the textbooks, the Jewish State is only referenced to as the "Zionist Occupation".

The researcher hired to study the books Dr. Arnon Groiss, an expert on Arabic-language education said that the latest textbooks which are produced by the Palestinian Authority and used by UNRWA are based on three principles :

"Delegitimization of the existence of the State of Israel, which is a full member state of the United Nations; demonization of both Israel and the Jews; and advocacy of a violent struggle for the liberation of all of 'Palestine,' including pre-1948 borders, thus wiping Israel off the map."

Among the examples given of the attempts to delegitimize and demonize Jews in the books , fifth-graders, as part of their Islamic-education class, are taught that holy sites like the Western Wall have no connection to Jews: "the Al-Buraq Wall is part of the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque and it is an absolute right of the Muslims alone."

In another example, third-graders are taught in a national/social-upbringing class that Jerusalem has no connection to Jews: "Jerusalem is an Arab city built by our Arab ancestor's thousands of years ago. Jerusalem is a holy city among Muslims and Christians."

The books are financed by 67 donor nations, as part of the money given to UNRWA to provide education in Arab 'refugee camps' throughout Israel.


6. KUSHNER: TWO STATE SOLUTION AN 'OLD TALKING POINT'
by Gary Willig

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262236

Jared Kushner, the advisor and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, said that the administration's long-awaited peace plan would not focus on the Two State solution in contrast to past peace plans.

Speaking at the Time100 Summit Tuesday, Kushner said that "our focus is really on the bottom up, which is how do you make the lives of the Palestinian people better, what can you resolve to allow these areas to become more investable?"

"We deal with all the core status issues because you have to do it, but we've also built a robust business plan for the whole region," he said.

"I think that what we do is something that allows for Israel to maintain security, but there will be tough compromises for both," he added.

When asked if the plan would focus on the Two State solution, Kushner said that "if people focus on the old traditional talking points we will never make progress."

"What we will put out is different," he said, noting the failure of past attempts based on the Two State Solution.

Kushner said that he had hoped to release the plan, which President Trump has called the "deal of the century," last year. However, the administration held off on releasing the plan after the Israeli government announced new elections. He said that the plan will be released after the new coalition is formed.

"Once that's done we'll probably be in the middle of Ramadan, so we'll wait until after Ramadan and then we'll put our plan out," Kushner said.

Earlier, it was reported that the White House is discouraging the use of the term "two-state solution" when describing possible outcomes to the Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) conflict.

A senior White House official on Monday confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency a report that appeared over the weekend on Sky News Arabic, a satellite TV station, and picked up by the Times of Israel.

"The two-state solution term means different things to different people," the official told JTA. "There is no point in using a phrase that never achieved peace. Our plan provides a clear, realistic and detailed vision of what peace could actually look like."


7. WATCH: NETANYAHU PLEDGES TO NAME GOLAN TOWN AFTER TRUMP
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262235

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledge to build a new community named after US President Donald Trump on the Golan Heights in gratitude for the president's recognition of Israel's sovereignty on the strategically important territory.

During a family visit to the Golan Heights, Netanyahu said that "all Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty on the Golan Heights."

"Therefore, after the Passover holiday, I intend to bring to the government a resolution calling for a new community on the Golan Heights named after President Donald J. Trump."


8. HOW TERRORISTS SMUGGLE PHONES INTO PRISON
by Yoni Kempinski

The Israel Prisons Service revealed a method used by security detainees to smuggle mobile phones to terrorists imprisoned in Israel.

Security staff at the Ofer Prison began to suspect Tuesday night, during the reception of an Arab man identified with Fatah suspected of stealing, that the man was concealing items forbidden in the prison on his person.

The detainee was taken for questioning, during which he admitted he tried to smuggle cell phones inside the prison wall inside his body. During the interrogation, he produced capsules containing 4 cell phones, 2 cell phone keypads and 8 SIM cards.

The interrogation did not end because the prison staff suspected that the detainee was hiding additional prohibited items in his body and decided to evacuate him to a hospital. An X-ray machine found a number of foreign bodies inside his body, including three additional cell phones as well as two keypads for cell phones.

The investigation thus far showed that prisoners are systematically trying to smuggle cell phones into the prisons in order to trade them or transfer them to terrorists. This incident follows 11 attempts to smuggle dozens of mobile phones cumulatively into security prisons since the beginning of 2018.