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Friday, May. 31 '19, כ"ו באייר תשע"ט
HEADLINES:
1. STABBING VICTIM WAS ATTACKED AFTER LEAVING OLD CITY SYNAGOGUE
2. WATCH: TERRORIST ATTACKS ISRAELIS IN OLD CITY, IS ELIMINATED
3. 'TERRORIST WAS SHOOTING AT ME AS KIDS PLAYED NEARBY'
4. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC GAINS SEATS, LABOR DISAPPEARS FROM KNESSET
5. STABBING ATTACK IN JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY
6. NETANYAHU'S LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE REJECTED
7. KNESSET DISSOLVED, ISRAEL GOING TO ELECTIONS
8. NAZI SALUTES ON THE PLANE
1. STABBING VICTIM WAS ATTACKED AFTER LEAVING OLD CITY SYNAGOGUE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263967
One of the victims in Friday morning's terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem has been identified as a 16-year-old boy, who was attacked as he made his way from morning prayers at a local synagogue back to his yeshiva.
"On his way back from the Hurva synagogue to the yeshiva, someone jumped him from one of the courtyards," the victim's father told Reshet Bet.
"The ridiculous thing is that at the beginning, the police told him to 'Get out of here', they didn't understand that he was wounded. He walked to the synagogue to call for help."
The victim had been learning overnight at his yeshiva, then went to the Hurva synagogue for morning prayers.
"At first he didn't realize that he had been stabbed by a knife," his father continued, "he thought he had been punched in the back. His brother was with him, and they started to run towards the Hurva synagogue, and there they called for help."
During the terror attack another victim, estimated to be about 50 years of age, was also stabbed, leaving him in critical condition. He was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center. He has been admitted to the hospital's intensive care ward, and is unconscious and on assisted breathing.
Authorities say the terrorist entered the Old City at around 6:20 a.m. via Damascus Gate, stabbed his first victim on a side street, then fled the scene. As he ran, the terrorist spotted his second victim, stabbing him before being shot to death by Israeli police officers.
"Police units that responded at the scene saw the attacker with a knife. The attacker was shot and killed by police units," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The terrorist has been identified as a 19-year-old Palestinian Authority resident.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263967
2. WATCH: TERRORIST ATTACKS ISRAELIS IN OLD CITY, IS ELIMINATED
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263975
Police released footage Friday afternoon taken during the terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem Friday morning which left two Jews wounded, one seriously, the other moderately.
The terrorist, a 19-year-old Palestinian Authority resident, stabbed and wounded 50-year-old Gavriel Lavi at around 6:30 Friday morning, leaving Lavi seriously wounded. The terrorist then fled on foot, before attacking 16-year-old Yisrael Meir Nachumberg.
As the terrorist chased another young man, police officers opened fire on the terrorist, killing him on the spot.
3. 'TERRORIST WAS SHOOTING AT ME AS KIDS PLAYED NEARBY'
by Sara Rubenstein
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263970
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi who was injured in a terrorist attack at the Chabad of Poway in San Diego last month, gave a moving speech at a gala event for the Ateret Cohanim organization (an Israeli NPO which encourages a Jewish presence in the Old City and East Jerusalem) in New York on Thursday.
"What happened 30 days ago allows me to have an incredible understanding of what happens on a day to basis by those who live every day at Ateret Cohanim (in the Muslim Quarter) and their incredible sacrifice they go through every day. For me it was a matter of seconds that I faced a terrorist eye to eye. As his bullets came flying towards me I thought about my brothers and sisters in Israel, in Jerusalem, who live under very similar conditions on a daily basis."
"There's a special Torah haftorah (Torah portion) that we read on the last day of Passover [the day the terrorist incident occurred] which has a verse, 'Thank you G-d for being angry with me,' but right afterward is the verse, 'Here is the G-d of my salvation. I'll trust and I won't be afraid, for the strength and praise of God is my salvation" (Isaiah 12:2). G-d may be angry at us but we immediately remember that He is with us. I was preparing to read that haftorah when I saw the terrorist in the lobby."
"I turned around and saw the horrific sight of a terrorist standing in the lobby of our synagogue barely ten feet away from me. He looks at me and lifts up his rifle. I hear children playing right behind me and as I turn around to gather the children he took aim and that's when he shot my fingers. I was able to able to usher the children to safety and I came back not knowing where the shooter went."
"I found the synagogue's sanctuary empty and someone performing CPR on Lori [Lori Gilbert Kaye, the woman killed in the attack]. I went out and found all the synagogue members on the sidewalk. I grabbed a chair and stood up and said, 'In every generation, they [the Jews' enemies] try to destroy us' [part of the Haggadah text said at the Passover seder]. This is nothing new. It's been happening in every generation but let's not forget [the second part of the verse], 'And G-d saves us from their hands.'"
"I saw the fear and shock on everyone's faces. My moment was to give them: 'G-d saves us from their hands.' That what happens to us in 2019 is a continuation but we cannot forget that G-d saves us from their hands. Later, I found out the amount of miracles that occurred one after the other. An army veteran who prayed with us got up to run toward the shooter but until today he cannot explain how a chair went flying towards the shooter. No one came forward to say that they threw the chair."
"The shooter came with enough bullets to G-d forbid kill every single one of us but he didn't know how to change the cartridges. He succeeded with only one. My own life was spared as I felt bullets fly past me. I can still feel the force of the rifle coming toward me. A millimeter in any direction would have been fatal but G-d did not want that to happen."
Rabbi Goldstein described how a day later he received a surprise call from the President of the United States Donald Trump. Trump asked him, "What can we do to change this, to stop it?"
"The only thing that came to mind was an initiative that the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubatchiver Rebbe], introduced when Ronald Reagan was shot," Rabbi Goldstein said. "He wanted to introduce the concept of a moment of silence in the public schools. He felt we needed to introduce the concept of a moment of Godliness into American homes. The president showed a great interest in that and the conversation continued for over 15 minutes."
Rabbi Goldstein said that he told Trump that he would love to meet him in person and a day later he got a call inviting him to the Rose Garden for a National Day of Prayer. Avi Berkowitz, chief of staff for Jared Kushner, invited him into the White House where he met Trump walking down the hall. Rabbi Goldstein accounts that after a brief conversation, Trump said, 'I like you. Why don't you come into the Oval Office."
"Trump brings me in, shows me around and asks me to sit down. I told him that I stand in the presence of great people. I looked at his eyes and I said: 'Mr. President, I want you to know that you're an agent of G-d, you are a messenger from G-d into this Oval Office for all that you have done for Israel and for all that you continue to do for the Jewish people.'"
"I shared this with you today because we're living in a paradox of time. We're living in the most prosperous time - such advances in technology and medicine like never before - but we're also living in very dark and difficult times. But the darkness is momentary - very quickly G-d pushed that away and showed us such light that until today I'm overwhelmed by the kindness that G-d showed us. G-d sent me into a mission that I never knew I signed up for. To not only survive a shooting but how to survive a shooting. How do you stand up in front of a world and inspire them and teach them that when there's a tragedy, we don't remain consumed by the tragedy."
"To those in Israel I want you to know that I now feel a connection with you. The empathy of your sacrifices is experienced by myself and my community."
4. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC GAINS SEATS, LABOR DISAPPEARS FROM KNESSET
by David Rosenberg
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party would win if new elections were held today, a new poll shows, with the right-wing bloc gaining seats in comparison to last month's election.
According to the poll, which was conducted by Panels Politics and published Friday morning by Maariv, the Likud would win 37 seats, a gain of two mandates, while the center-left Blue and White party would fall by two seats, from 35 to 33 mandates.
The poll was conducted after the Likud voted to merge with the smaller Kulanu faction, giving the party the fifth, 15th, 29th, and 35th slots on its Knesset slate.
Naftali Bennett's New Right party would win five seats if Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked runs with the party and does not leave it for the Likud. The party narrowly failed to enter the 21st Knesset, missing the threshold by some 1,400 votes.
The United Right – a joint list of the Jewish Home, National Union, and Otzma Yehudit factions – would win six seats, a gain of one mandate.
Former Defense Minister Avidgor Liberman's secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party received nine seats in the poll, a four-mandate increase over its present five seats.
The haredi factions dropped a total of one seat, from 16 to 15 mandates, with United Torah Judaism remaining steady at eight seats, and Shas falling from eight to seven.
The libertarian-leaning Zehut party, which received 2.7% in last month's election, again fails to cross the 3.25% electoral threshold, receiving just 1.4% of the vote.
On the left, the Meretz party would gain two mandates, rising to six seats, while the Labor party would for the first time in Israeli history be left out of the Knesset, receiving just 1.9% of the vote.
The two Arab lists would receive a total of nine mandates, down from ten, with Hadash-Ta'al dropping from six to five seats, and the United Arab List-Balad alliance holding steady at four seats.
The right-wing – religious bloc as a whole would win 72 seats, an increase of seven seats from the current 65, while the left-wing – Arab bloc would fall from 55 mandates to 48.
In this scenario, Netanyahu would be able to form a government without Yisrael Beytenu, with 63 seats going to right-wing and haredi parties if Yisrael Beytenu is not included.
The Panels Politics poll also asked respondents how they would vote if Ayelet Shaked left the New Right for the Likud, and New Right chief Naftali Bennett ran on the United Right ticket.
Here the poll found the Likud surging to 41 seats – the most the party has won since 1984.
If Shaked runs with the Likud, the Blue and White party would fall one seat, to 34 mandates, rather than lose two.
Labor would still fail to clear the electoral threshold, with Meretz still winning six seats, and the Arab factions a total of nine.
UTJ would win eight seats, and Shas seven, while Yisrael Beytenu would decline slightly in comparison to the other scenario, winning eight mandates as opposed to nine.
The United Right – New Right alliance would win seven seats, while Zehut would still fail to cross the threshold.
The right-wing – religious bloc would win 71 seats in this scenario, compared to 49 for the left-wing – Arab bloc.
5. STABBING ATTACK IN JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY
by Elad Benari
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263961
A man was very seriously wounded in a stabbing attack on Friday morning in an area in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem.
The man was stabbed in his upper body and Magen David Adom paramedics are making efforts to save his life.
A short time later, reports were received about an 18-year-old who was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack in the vicinity of the Hurva Synagogue.
An initial investigation into the attack revealed that a terrorist arrived at the Damascus Gate, stabbed a man, and then stabbed another man in the Old City.
The attacker was neutralized by police forces.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263961
Magen David Adom reported that at 6:31 a.m., a report was received of two men who were stabbed, one near Damscus Gate and the other near the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem."
"Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated a man in his 50s in a very serious condition (from the Damascus Gate) to the Shaare Zedek Hospital and treated a lightly wounded victim at the Hurva Synagogue."
"On the steps next to the entrance to the Hurva Synagogue in the center of the Old City," said MDA EMT and Old City resident Yossi Cassouto, "we found an 18 year old victim fully alert and responsive, suffering from a stab wound to his upper body. We provided medical treatment which included stopping the bleeding and evacuated him while continuing to provide treatment to the Mamila Mall outside the Old City with the MDA tractor ambulance where he was transferred to a MICU who evacuated him in mild to moderate condition to Hadassa Ein Karem Hospital."
MDA Senior EMT and Medi-Cycle First Responder Moshe Cordova said: "Near Damascus Gate I found a 40-year-old man, semi-conscious with stab wounds to his upper body. I provided initial life-saving treatment which including bleeding control and he was quickly evacuated by the MICU team to Shaare Zedek Hospital in critical condition."
6. NETANYAHU'S LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE REJECTED
by Hezki Baruch
The Likud party issued an official announcement Wednesday that it had signed coalition agreements to form a government of 60 MKs.
According to reports, agreements were signed with Shas, United Torah Judaism, the United Right and Kulanu.
However, Minister Kahlon's party was quick to deny. "We did not sign the coalition agreement," the party said in a statement.
The Likud answered: "The agreement with Kahlon is final but will be signed only after Avigdor Liberman joins."
At the same time, Netanyahu turned in what he called a "final proposal" to the haredi parties and Avigdor Liberman to "prevent unnecessary elections in a few hours."
According to the prime minister's proposal, immediately upon the formation of the government, Liberman's original draft law will be presented as written for renewed approval by the Knesset. After its approval, the law will be prepared for a second and third reading under mutual agreement.
The Likud said that "If agreement is not reached by the end of July and in accordance with the Supreme Court decision, the [draft deferral] arrangement will expire and the compulsory service law will apply to everyone. This means that the haredim will have to choose between Liberman's law and a return to the original law, which means full recruitment for haredim, as for all parts of the public."
"The proposal has been submitted to the sides, and we await their answers in the affirmative in order to establish a right-wing government tonight and prevent unnecessary elections."
However, Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi parties refuse to accept the proposal.
Earlier, Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman addressed the crisis in coalition talks .
"There is nothing hidden behind the draft law. There is no problem other than the law. As I have already said - all the inventors of other theories - try us," Liberman said.
"Regarding the trick of removing the heart of the law from primary legislation and changing it into a government decision - this is not cosmetics. It is emptying the law of its content. I think that every reasonable person would accept my proposal, and I think that the haredi MKs, and I know them well, are reasonable people," he said. So I hope they will accept my proposal."
"The haredim are still trying to transfer the recruitment targets and the expiration of the draft law from the original law [whereby these factors were determined in the legislation] to the government's decision," said the Yisrael Beyteinu chairman. "Under no circumstances will we let this happen."
7. KNESSET DISSOLVED, ISRAEL GOING TO ELECTIONS
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263889
The 21st Knesset has been dissolved, less than a month after it was sworn in. The Knesset approved the Knesset Dispersion Law on Wednesday evening by a majority of 74 to 45.
The elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on September 17, just six months after the last elections.
Earlier, the haredi parties Degel Hatorah and Shas announced that their spiritual leaders approved the compromise, which states that the Draft Law will be passed in its first reading and that amendments will be made before it is approved in second and third readings. However, the Yisrael Beytenu rejected this compromise proposal as well.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to the approval of the law to dissolve the 21st Knesset, a month after it was sworn in.
"The Israeli public made a clear and unequivocal decision: That I would be prime minister and that the Likud would lead a right-wing government. The public chose me to lead the State of Israel. The various parties that ran for Knesset, many of them said they would support me. 60 out of the 65 mandates granted to the right did what they undertook upon themselves to do. One party did the exact opposite. Avigdor Liberman misled his voters. From the get go, he had no intention of joining the government," said Netanyahu.
"In eight months Avigdor Liberman is dragging the country twice to elections because of personal whims and an attempt to get a few more seats. Simply unbelievable. Avigdor Liberman is now part of the left, he is the heart of the left," Netanyahu continued, blasting the Yisrael Beytenu chairman.
United Torah Judaism chairman, Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, said after the Knesset was dissolved, "The holding of new elections a month after the last elections is contrary to the will of the people and contrary to all common sense. This is political coercion for no real reason, with an awful waste of billions that can go to important things like adding resources to the health care system, education or any other purpose for the good of the public."
"The cynical use of the Draft Law is an outrageous excuse meant to confuse the public with the goal of inciting against the haredi public and making political capital on it. Torah study has always been and will always remain an important value for the people of Israel. Preserving the status of yeshiva students was the basis for our joining every government and every coalition. It is clear to everyone that we will not be able to agree to any law that restricts Torah scholars in Israel," added Litzman.
"All along, we announced that we would not be able to agree to set enlistment targets and quotas for yeshiva students in the Draft Law. We surprised no one and acted honestly and transparently. Those who try to impose on UTJ enlistment goals and quotas in the law, contrary to our belief, contrary to the instructions we received from the Council of Torah Sages - is acting against a right-wing government and is motivated by political motives to topple the prime minister for other reasons. Together with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Likud negotiating team, we left no stone unturned in an attempt to prevent new elections. Unfortunately, Avigdor Liberman rejected every compromise and any attempt at dialogue and agreement. Instead, he embarked on a campaign of vicious and defamatory incitement, against the haredi public and its leaders, while blaming us for things that never happened."
"History will judge the leadership of the State of Israel for an unnecessary and delusional election campaign, while attempting to incite between populations and sectors against the wishes of the majority of the people," Litzman concluded.
Earlier on Wednesday, Liberman addressed the crisis in the coalition talks.
"There is nothing hidden behind the draft law. There is no problem other than the law. As I have already said - all the inventors of other theories - try us," Liberman said.
"Regarding the trick of removing the heart of the law from primary legislation and changing it into a government decision - this is not cosmetics. It is emptying the law of its content. I think that every reasonable person would accept my proposal, and I think that the haredi MKs, and I know them well, are reasonable people," he said. "So I hope they will accept my proposal."
"The haredim are still trying to transfer the recruitment targets and the expiration of the draft law from the original law [whereby these factors were determined in the legislation] to the government's decision," said the Yisrael Beytenu chairman. "Under no circumstances will we let this happen."
8. NAZI SALUTES ON THE PLANE
by Nissan Tzur
A group of 30 drunken passengers began to get rowdy during a Ryanair flight from the Schoenfeld airport in Berlin to Palma de Mallorca in Spain, singing racist songs and making Nazi salutes.
Some of the drunken men wore shirts with captions associated with the Nazi regime.
In a video taken by one of the passengers on the plane, Elisa Zenck, the group of passengers are singing songs against gypsies and making racist slogans that were used by the Nazis. Afterwards, some of them began saluting.
One of the passengers wore a shirt with the slogan "Power through Joy" - a large governmental body for leisure culture in Nazi Germany and a slogan frequently used by the Nazis.
Others wore a shirt with the words "European Brothers" - a national organization established in 2014 which sells clothing with the slogan "To every European who wants to protect his land, tradition and history."
"It was the worst flight ever," said Zenck. "The flight was very tense, and the men also said inappropriate things to the women who were on the plane. When the plane landed in Palma de Mallorca, the other passengers tried to get off the plane as quickly as possible. The crew told us that every summer the planes from Berlin to Palma de Mallorca are full of passengers like this."
"We deeply regret the improper behavior of a small group of passengers on this plane," a Ryanair spokesperson said. "The group stopped singing when asked to do so by our crew."
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
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Thursday, May. 30 '19, כ"ה באייר תשע"ט
HEADLINES:
1. WATCH: ISLAMIC JIHAD DRONES ATTACK IDF TANK
2. SIXTH HEZBOLLAH TERROR TUNNEL DISCOVERED
3. 'WE LIVE IN CHAOS; NO ONE'S INTERESTED IN US'
4. FLORIDA GOVERNOR: MUELLER INVERTED BURDEN OF PROOF
5. WHITE HOUSE WANTED 'USS JOHN MCCAIN' HIDDEN DURING TRUMP'S VISIT
6. KNESSET DISSOLVED, ISRAEL GOING TO ELECTIONS
7. NETANYAHU'S LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE REJECTED
8. 'WE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND, I DON'T UNDERSTAND LIBERMAN'
1. WATCH: ISLAMIC JIHAD DRONES ATTACK IDF TANK
by Gary Willig
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263928
The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization released a video showing a drone attack on an IDF tank during recent clashes on the Gaza border Thursday.
The video was provided to the Lebanese Al-Miyadin network, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad terror groups.
The footage was recorded by the Al Quds Brigade, the military wing of Islamic Jihad.
The clashes occurred earlier this month, when Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which rules Gaza, fired 700 rockets at Israeli territory, killing four Israelis.
2. SIXTH HEZBOLLAH TERROR TUNNEL DISCOVERED
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263879
The IDF concludes tonight Operation Northern Shield to locate and neutralize terrorist tunnels and says that all the six tunnels that the Hezbollah dug and prepared for the day of battle have been neutralized.
In addition, the IDF released footage of IDF operations to locate the last found cross-border attack tunnel, dug by Hezbollah from the Shiite village of Ramiyeh in southern Lebanon into Israel. The tunnel was exposed on the 13th of January 2019 as part of Operation 'Northern Shield'. The UN force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, investigated the tunnel and confirmed it was dug from Lebanon into Israel, in violation of UNSCR 1701.
The IDF estimates that there are no more tunnels penetrating Israeli territory, and that there are only a few more tunnels inside Lebanese territory at a depth of several hundred meters.
The last tunnel, which was also the largest tunnel dug to a depth of eighty meters near the village of Ramiyeh in the center of the northern sector near Zarit, was the last of the tunnels through which Hezbollah intended to break into Israel and carry out a series of attacks along the fence.
The IDF says that the probability of war being initiated by Hezbollah is low, and that Operation Northern Shield has strengthened deterrence.
While the army is completing the neutralization of the Ramiyeh tunnel, the same tunnel continues to be used to locate tunnels and other means used by the organization against the IDF, such as drones, photographs and information gathering.
3. 'WE LIVE IN CHAOS; NO ONE'S INTERESTED IN US'
by Shimon Cohen
Residents of Moshav Mevo Modi'im, that was burned almost entirely last week, set up a committee to fight for their right to proper housing.
Arutz Sheva spoke to Chaya Gal-Or, a resident of the Moshav, who tells us about the sense of chaos that families have experienced since the tragic event.
Gal-Or tells about her family; her mother, her father, and brother with his wife and three children who found themselves with the other families in a small area allocated to them in Yad Binyamin, a half-hour drive from the Moshav. "My brother, his wife and the three children are in one room in bunk beds. There's no room to move. Everyone's traumatized. There's a bomb shelter clubhouse here and it's the only place you can play. Everything's insane. We share a place with a yeshiva here. The students come here to learn and therefore there's a line we don't pass."
As one who herself lives in Tel Aviv, we wanted to hear from her if, when she returned to Tel Aviv, she felt a sense of detachment from the distress at Mevo Modi'im. Gal-Or says that since the day of the fire, she has spent entire days with her family in attempt to help them. By the time she gets to Tel Aviv she is no longer fully aware of what is going on around her.
"We're barely sleeping, we barely eat, we're very worried. It's not one family, it's a whole town that's burned down, and there's never been anything like that," she says. Except for the Interior Ministry Director who came to them with no promises or news, no one is really interested in their safety or worries about their future.
"We're told that they hope to help us, but I haven't heard anything from the Prime Minister," she says, describing her mother's distress after forty years in Israel, with a home burnt-out along with the source of her livelihood.
"We're trying to understand what needs to be done, and if we don't do it, no one else'll do it for us, because if we go to elections we'll be forgotten," she said.
In the absence of a precise and orderly definition of the disaster, the families have no idea of the bureaucratic processes they must undergo to receive assistance of one kind or another. Gal-Or estimates that "the Finance Ministry should fund the Interior Ministry to pass on to the local council, but in the meantime they aren't saying anything." For now, the regional council is trying to help with what little it can, but its capabilities are sorely limited.
As for defining the event as a natural disaster, a definition that would entitle families to the beginning of a process of setting up new homes, Gal-Or says: "Every day they say tomorrow they'll know, but it doesn't happen, and we don't know what all the bureaucratic definitions mean. We're trying to understand what the right steps are to take so they'll take care of us, that they won't forget us and abandon us, but right now people are living in impossible conditions."
The total number of residents who found themselves homeless was estimated at 300. On the situation of children and their educational frameworks, Gal-Or relates: "They try to maintain a certain order and send them into frameworks, but they return to chaos. If you come here at four, when all the children come back, you see that you can't live here. Everything's crowded, everything's crazy, the children and the parents are all driven mad."
Gal-Or says in the event that the situation remains and decision-makers continue "expressing interest" in their situation without presenting any solutions, it may also lead to demonstrations and protests demanding the return of basic living conditions.
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4. FLORIDA GOVERNOR: MUELLER INVERTED BURDEN OF PROOF
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263927
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited the City of David archaeological dig in Jerusalem Thursday.
During his tour, DeSantis responded to the statement yesterday by Special Council Robert Mueller on his report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"Here's what I can tell you as a prosecutor: Prosecutors are not in the business of exonerating," DeSantis said in response to Mueller's assertion that he did not exonerate President Trump on the charge of obstruction of Justice. "If there's enough evidence to charge and prosecute you do it. If there's not, then that's the end of the story."
"I don't understand this inverting the standard to say 'well, we couldn't quite exonerate.' That's not the way it works. And so I think Attorney General Barr was correct in his analysis.
"There was definitely no collusion," he added. "Even the Democrats aren't pursuing collusion. What they are saying is that there was obstruction of the collusion investigation by firing Comey. I don't buy that, but no one at this point is even saying that there was any collusion."
5. WHITE HOUSE WANTED 'USS JOHN MCCAIN' HIDDEN DURING TRUMP'S VISIT
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The White House asked Navy and Air Force officials stationed in Japan to keep the Navy ship "USS John S. McCain" hidden from view during Trump's recent visit there, the Wall Street Journal reported.
According to the report, the White House ordered the ship, named after the grandfather and father of the late Arizona senator of same name who was known to have a tempestuous relationship with Trump, "out of sight."
"USS John McCain needs to be out of sight," an email to military officials said and asked officials to "please confirm" that directive "will be satisfied."
The US Navy reportedly made preparations to shield Trump from seeing the ship. Officials told WSJ they first covered it with a tarp, then used a barge to block the name and gave the sailors on the ship the day off during Trump's visit to the nearby USS Wasp, WSJ reported.
Other reports confirmed the plan to obscure the ship, but added that they were scrapped by officials ahead of Trump's visit.
Trump himself tweeted Wednesday that he was unaware of "anything having to do with the ship."
"I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan. Nevertheless, @FLOTUS and I loved being with our great Military Men and Women - what a spectacular job they do!" he wrote.
6. KNESSET DISSOLVED, ISRAEL GOING TO ELECTIONS
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263889
The 21st Knesset has been dissolved, less than a month after it was sworn in. The Knesset approved the Knesset Dispersion Law on Wednesday evening by a majority of 74 to 45.
The elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on September 17, just six months after the last elections.
Earlier, the haredi parties Degel Hatorah and Shas announced that their spiritual leaders approved the compromise, which states that the Draft Law will be passed in its first reading and that amendments will be made before it is approved in second and third readings. However, the Yisrael Beytenu rejected this compromise proposal as well.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to the approval of the law to dissolve the 21st Knesset, a month after it was sworn in.
"The Israeli public made a clear and unequivocal decision: That I would be prime minister and that the Likud would lead a right-wing government. The public chose me to lead the State of Israel. The various parties that ran for Knesset, many of them said they would support me. 60 out of the 65 mandates granted to the right did what they undertook upon themselves to do. One party did the exact opposite. Avigdor Liberman misled his voters. From the get go, he had no intention of joining the government," said Netanyahu.
"In eight months Avigdor Liberman is dragging the country twice to elections because of personal whims and an attempt to get a few more seats. Simply unbelievable. Avigdor Liberman is now part of the left, he is the heart of the left," Netanyahu continued, blasting the Yisrael Beytenu chairman.
United Torah Judaism chairman, Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, said after the Knesset was dissolved, "The holding of new elections a month after the last elections is contrary to the will of the people and contrary to all common sense. This is political coercion for no real reason, with an awful waste of billions that can go to important things like adding resources to the health care system, education or any other purpose for the good of the public."
"The cynical use of the Draft Law is an outrageous excuse meant to confuse the public with the goal of inciting against the haredi public and making political capital on it. Torah study has always been and will always remain an important value for the people of Israel. Preserving the status of yeshiva students was the basis for our joining every government and every coalition. It is clear to everyone that we will not be able to agree to any law that restricts Torah scholars in Israel," added Litzman.
"All along, we announced that we would not be able to agree to set enlistment targets and quotas for yeshiva students in the Draft Law. We surprised no one and acted honestly and transparently. Those who try to impose on UTJ enlistment goals and quotas in the law, contrary to our belief, contrary to the instructions we received from the Council of Torah Sages - is acting against a right-wing government and is motivated by political motives to topple the prime minister for other reasons. Together with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Likud negotiating team, we left no stone unturned in an attempt to prevent new elections. Unfortunately, Avigdor Liberman rejected every compromise and any attempt at dialogue and agreement. Instead, he embarked on a campaign of vicious and defamatory incitement, against the haredi public and its leaders, while blaming us for things that never happened."
"History will judge the leadership of the State of Israel for an unnecessary and delusional election campaign, while attempting to incite between populations and sectors against the wishes of the majority of the people," Litzman concluded.
Earlier on Wednesday, Liberman addressed the crisis in the coalition talks.
"There is nothing hidden behind the draft law. There is no problem other than the law. As I have already said - all the inventors of other theories - try us," Liberman said.
"Regarding the trick of removing the heart of the law from primary legislation and changing it into a government decision - this is not cosmetics. It is emptying the law of its content. I think that every reasonable person would accept my proposal, and I think that the haredi MKs, and I know them well, are reasonable people," he said. "So I hope they will accept my proposal."
"The haredim are still trying to transfer the recruitment targets and the expiration of the draft law from the original law [whereby these factors were determined in the legislation] to the government's decision," said the Yisrael Beytenu chairman. "Under no circumstances will we let this happen."
7. NETANYAHU'S LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE REJECTED
by Hezki Baruch
The Likud party issued an official announcement Wednesday that it had signed coalition agreements to form a government of 60 MKs.
According to reports, agreements were signed with Shas, United Torah Judaism, the United Right and Kulanu.
However, Minister Kahlon's party was quick to deny. "We did not sign the coalition agreement," the party said in a statement.
The Likud answered: "The agreement with Kahlon is final but will be signed only after Avigdor Liberman joins."
At the same time, Netanyahu turned in what he called a "final proposal" to the haredi parties and Avigdor Liberman to "prevent unnecessary elections in a few hours."
According to the prime minister's proposal, immediately upon the formation of the government, Liberman's original draft law will be presented as written for renewed approval by the Knesset. After its approval, the law will be prepared for a second and third reading under mutual agreement.
The Likud said that "If agreement is not reached by the end of July and in accordance with the Supreme Court decision, the [draft deferral] arrangement will expire and the compulsory service law will apply to everyone. This means that the haredim will have to choose between Liberman's law and a return to the original law, which means full recruitment for haredim, as for all parts of the public."
"The proposal has been submitted to the sides, and we await their answers in the affirmative in order to establish a right-wing government tonight and prevent unnecessary elections."
However, Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi parties refuse to accept the proposal.
Earlier, Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman addressed the crisis in coalition talks .
"There is nothing hidden behind the draft law. There is no problem other than the law. As I have already said - all the inventors of other theories - try us," Liberman said.
"Regarding the trick of removing the heart of the law from primary legislation and changing it into a government decision - this is not cosmetics. It is emptying the law of its content. I think that every reasonable person would accept my proposal, and I think that the haredi MKs, and I know them well, are reasonable people," he said. So I hope they will accept my proposal."
"The haredim are still trying to transfer the recruitment targets and the expiration of the draft law from the original law [whereby these factors were determined in the legislation] to the government's decision," said the Yisrael Beyteinu chairman. "Under no circumstances will we let this happen."
8. 'WE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND, I DON'T UNDERSTAND LIBERMAN'
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263902
The chairman of the United Right party, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, explained on Wednesday night why his faction supported early elections and the dissolving of the 21st Knesset.
"With a very heavy heart, after many attempts at mediation and compromise between all the parties, both the haredim and Liberman, we decided that we are going ahead with the elections out of national responsibility, to preserve the bloc," he said.
"Now that this decision was made, we want it to happen as quickly as possible, both for the benefit of Israeli society as well as due to the fact that it is time for a government to be formed after many months. Our national responsibility says that this is what we have to do."
Asked why Liberman refused to join a right-wing government, Peretz replied, "I cannot understand what motivates Liberman. This really hurts me. I was very much involved in the talks and I made suggestions, we went above and beyond, we tried very hard to find an agreement, unfortunately we did not succeed."
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HEADLINES:
1. WATCH: ISLAMIC JIHAD DRONES ATTACK IDF TANK
2. SIXTH HEZBOLLAH TERROR TUNNEL DISCOVERED
3. 'WE LIVE IN CHAOS; NO ONE'S INTERESTED IN US'
4. FLORIDA GOVERNOR: MUELLER INVERTED BURDEN OF PROOF
5. WHITE HOUSE WANTED 'USS JOHN MCCAIN' HIDDEN DURING TRUMP'S VISIT
6. KNESSET DISSOLVED, ISRAEL GOING TO ELECTIONS
7. NETANYAHU'S LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE REJECTED
8. 'WE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND, I DON'T UNDERSTAND LIBERMAN'
1. WATCH: ISLAMIC JIHAD DRONES ATTACK IDF TANK
by Gary Willig
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263928
The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization released a video showing a drone attack on an IDF tank during recent clashes on the Gaza border Thursday.
The video was provided to the Lebanese Al-Miyadin network, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad terror groups.
The footage was recorded by the Al Quds Brigade, the military wing of Islamic Jihad.
The clashes occurred earlier this month, when Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which rules Gaza, fired 700 rockets at Israeli territory, killing four Israelis.
2. SIXTH HEZBOLLAH TERROR TUNNEL DISCOVERED
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263879
The IDF concludes tonight Operation Northern Shield to locate and neutralize terrorist tunnels and says that all the six tunnels that the Hezbollah dug and prepared for the day of battle have been neutralized.
In addition, the IDF released footage of IDF operations to locate the last found cross-border attack tunnel, dug by Hezbollah from the Shiite village of Ramiyeh in southern Lebanon into Israel. The tunnel was exposed on the 13th of January 2019 as part of Operation 'Northern Shield'. The UN force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, investigated the tunnel and confirmed it was dug from Lebanon into Israel, in violation of UNSCR 1701.
The IDF estimates that there are no more tunnels penetrating Israeli territory, and that there are only a few more tunnels inside Lebanese territory at a depth of several hundred meters.
The last tunnel, which was also the largest tunnel dug to a depth of eighty meters near the village of Ramiyeh in the center of the northern sector near Zarit, was the last of the tunnels through which Hezbollah intended to break into Israel and carry out a series of attacks along the fence.
The IDF says that the probability of war being initiated by Hezbollah is low, and that Operation Northern Shield has strengthened deterrence.
While the army is completing the neutralization of the Ramiyeh tunnel, the same tunnel continues to be used to locate tunnels and other means used by the organization against the IDF, such as drones, photographs and information gathering.
3. 'WE LIVE IN CHAOS; NO ONE'S INTERESTED IN US'
by Shimon Cohen
Residents of Moshav Mevo Modi'im, that was burned almost entirely last week, set up a committee to fight for their right to proper housing.
Arutz Sheva spoke to Chaya Gal-Or, a resident of the Moshav, who tells us about the sense of chaos that families have experienced since the tragic event.
Gal-Or tells about her family; her mother, her father, and brother with his wife and three children who found themselves with the other families in a small area allocated to them in Yad Binyamin, a half-hour drive from the Moshav. "My brother, his wife and the three children are in one room in bunk beds. There's no room to move. Everyone's traumatized. There's a bomb shelter clubhouse here and it's the only place you can play. Everything's insane. We share a place with a yeshiva here. The students come here to learn and therefore there's a line we don't pass."
As one who herself lives in Tel Aviv, we wanted to hear from her if, when she returned to Tel Aviv, she felt a sense of detachment from the distress at Mevo Modi'im. Gal-Or says that since the day of the fire, she has spent entire days with her family in attempt to help them. By the time she gets to Tel Aviv she is no longer fully aware of what is going on around her.
"We're barely sleeping, we barely eat, we're very worried. It's not one family, it's a whole town that's burned down, and there's never been anything like that," she says. Except for the Interior Ministry Director who came to them with no promises or news, no one is really interested in their safety or worries about their future.
"We're told that they hope to help us, but I haven't heard anything from the Prime Minister," she says, describing her mother's distress after forty years in Israel, with a home burnt-out along with the source of her livelihood.
"We're trying to understand what needs to be done, and if we don't do it, no one else'll do it for us, because if we go to elections we'll be forgotten," she said.
In the absence of a precise and orderly definition of the disaster, the families have no idea of the bureaucratic processes they must undergo to receive assistance of one kind or another. Gal-Or estimates that "the Finance Ministry should fund the Interior Ministry to pass on to the local council, but in the meantime they aren't saying anything." For now, the regional council is trying to help with what little it can, but its capabilities are sorely limited.
As for defining the event as a natural disaster, a definition that would entitle families to the beginning of a process of setting up new homes, Gal-Or says: "Every day they say tomorrow they'll know, but it doesn't happen, and we don't know what all the bureaucratic definitions mean. We're trying to understand what the right steps are to take so they'll take care of us, that they won't forget us and abandon us, but right now people are living in impossible conditions."
The total number of residents who found themselves homeless was estimated at 300. On the situation of children and their educational frameworks, Gal-Or relates: "They try to maintain a certain order and send them into frameworks, but they return to chaos. If you come here at four, when all the children come back, you see that you can't live here. Everything's crowded, everything's crazy, the children and the parents are all driven mad."
Gal-Or says in the event that the situation remains and decision-makers continue "expressing interest" in their situation without presenting any solutions, it may also lead to demonstrations and protests demanding the return of basic living conditions.
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4. FLORIDA GOVERNOR: MUELLER INVERTED BURDEN OF PROOF
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263927
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited the City of David archaeological dig in Jerusalem Thursday.
During his tour, DeSantis responded to the statement yesterday by Special Council Robert Mueller on his report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
"Here's what I can tell you as a prosecutor: Prosecutors are not in the business of exonerating," DeSantis said in response to Mueller's assertion that he did not exonerate President Trump on the charge of obstruction of Justice. "If there's enough evidence to charge and prosecute you do it. If there's not, then that's the end of the story."
"I don't understand this inverting the standard to say 'well, we couldn't quite exonerate.' That's not the way it works. And so I think Attorney General Barr was correct in his analysis.
"There was definitely no collusion," he added. "Even the Democrats aren't pursuing collusion. What they are saying is that there was obstruction of the collusion investigation by firing Comey. I don't buy that, but no one at this point is even saying that there was any collusion."
5. WHITE HOUSE WANTED 'USS JOHN MCCAIN' HIDDEN DURING TRUMP'S VISIT
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The White House asked Navy and Air Force officials stationed in Japan to keep the Navy ship "USS John S. McCain" hidden from view during Trump's recent visit there, the Wall Street Journal reported.
According to the report, the White House ordered the ship, named after the grandfather and father of the late Arizona senator of same name who was known to have a tempestuous relationship with Trump, "out of sight."
"USS John McCain needs to be out of sight," an email to military officials said and asked officials to "please confirm" that directive "will be satisfied."
The US Navy reportedly made preparations to shield Trump from seeing the ship. Officials told WSJ they first covered it with a tarp, then used a barge to block the name and gave the sailors on the ship the day off during Trump's visit to the nearby USS Wasp, WSJ reported.
Other reports confirmed the plan to obscure the ship, but added that they were scrapped by officials ahead of Trump's visit.
Trump himself tweeted Wednesday that he was unaware of "anything having to do with the ship."
"I was not informed about anything having to do with the Navy Ship USS John S. McCain during my recent visit to Japan. Nevertheless, @FLOTUS and I loved being with our great Military Men and Women - what a spectacular job they do!" he wrote.
6. KNESSET DISSOLVED, ISRAEL GOING TO ELECTIONS
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263889
The 21st Knesset has been dissolved, less than a month after it was sworn in. The Knesset approved the Knesset Dispersion Law on Wednesday evening by a majority of 74 to 45.
The elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on September 17, just six months after the last elections.
Earlier, the haredi parties Degel Hatorah and Shas announced that their spiritual leaders approved the compromise, which states that the Draft Law will be passed in its first reading and that amendments will be made before it is approved in second and third readings. However, the Yisrael Beytenu rejected this compromise proposal as well.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to the approval of the law to dissolve the 21st Knesset, a month after it was sworn in.
"The Israeli public made a clear and unequivocal decision: That I would be prime minister and that the Likud would lead a right-wing government. The public chose me to lead the State of Israel. The various parties that ran for Knesset, many of them said they would support me. 60 out of the 65 mandates granted to the right did what they undertook upon themselves to do. One party did the exact opposite. Avigdor Liberman misled his voters. From the get go, he had no intention of joining the government," said Netanyahu.
"In eight months Avigdor Liberman is dragging the country twice to elections because of personal whims and an attempt to get a few more seats. Simply unbelievable. Avigdor Liberman is now part of the left, he is the heart of the left," Netanyahu continued, blasting the Yisrael Beytenu chairman.
United Torah Judaism chairman, Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, said after the Knesset was dissolved, "The holding of new elections a month after the last elections is contrary to the will of the people and contrary to all common sense. This is political coercion for no real reason, with an awful waste of billions that can go to important things like adding resources to the health care system, education or any other purpose for the good of the public."
"The cynical use of the Draft Law is an outrageous excuse meant to confuse the public with the goal of inciting against the haredi public and making political capital on it. Torah study has always been and will always remain an important value for the people of Israel. Preserving the status of yeshiva students was the basis for our joining every government and every coalition. It is clear to everyone that we will not be able to agree to any law that restricts Torah scholars in Israel," added Litzman.
"All along, we announced that we would not be able to agree to set enlistment targets and quotas for yeshiva students in the Draft Law. We surprised no one and acted honestly and transparently. Those who try to impose on UTJ enlistment goals and quotas in the law, contrary to our belief, contrary to the instructions we received from the Council of Torah Sages - is acting against a right-wing government and is motivated by political motives to topple the prime minister for other reasons. Together with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Likud negotiating team, we left no stone unturned in an attempt to prevent new elections. Unfortunately, Avigdor Liberman rejected every compromise and any attempt at dialogue and agreement. Instead, he embarked on a campaign of vicious and defamatory incitement, against the haredi public and its leaders, while blaming us for things that never happened."
"History will judge the leadership of the State of Israel for an unnecessary and delusional election campaign, while attempting to incite between populations and sectors against the wishes of the majority of the people," Litzman concluded.
Earlier on Wednesday, Liberman addressed the crisis in the coalition talks.
"There is nothing hidden behind the draft law. There is no problem other than the law. As I have already said - all the inventors of other theories - try us," Liberman said.
"Regarding the trick of removing the heart of the law from primary legislation and changing it into a government decision - this is not cosmetics. It is emptying the law of its content. I think that every reasonable person would accept my proposal, and I think that the haredi MKs, and I know them well, are reasonable people," he said. "So I hope they will accept my proposal."
"The haredim are still trying to transfer the recruitment targets and the expiration of the draft law from the original law [whereby these factors were determined in the legislation] to the government's decision," said the Yisrael Beytenu chairman. "Under no circumstances will we let this happen."
7. NETANYAHU'S LAST-MINUTE COMPROMISE REJECTED
by Hezki Baruch
The Likud party issued an official announcement Wednesday that it had signed coalition agreements to form a government of 60 MKs.
According to reports, agreements were signed with Shas, United Torah Judaism, the United Right and Kulanu.
However, Minister Kahlon's party was quick to deny. "We did not sign the coalition agreement," the party said in a statement.
The Likud answered: "The agreement with Kahlon is final but will be signed only after Avigdor Liberman joins."
At the same time, Netanyahu turned in what he called a "final proposal" to the haredi parties and Avigdor Liberman to "prevent unnecessary elections in a few hours."
According to the prime minister's proposal, immediately upon the formation of the government, Liberman's original draft law will be presented as written for renewed approval by the Knesset. After its approval, the law will be prepared for a second and third reading under mutual agreement.
The Likud said that "If agreement is not reached by the end of July and in accordance with the Supreme Court decision, the [draft deferral] arrangement will expire and the compulsory service law will apply to everyone. This means that the haredim will have to choose between Liberman's law and a return to the original law, which means full recruitment for haredim, as for all parts of the public."
"The proposal has been submitted to the sides, and we await their answers in the affirmative in order to establish a right-wing government tonight and prevent unnecessary elections."
However, Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi parties refuse to accept the proposal.
Earlier, Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman addressed the crisis in coalition talks .
"There is nothing hidden behind the draft law. There is no problem other than the law. As I have already said - all the inventors of other theories - try us," Liberman said.
"Regarding the trick of removing the heart of the law from primary legislation and changing it into a government decision - this is not cosmetics. It is emptying the law of its content. I think that every reasonable person would accept my proposal, and I think that the haredi MKs, and I know them well, are reasonable people," he said. So I hope they will accept my proposal."
"The haredim are still trying to transfer the recruitment targets and the expiration of the draft law from the original law [whereby these factors were determined in the legislation] to the government's decision," said the Yisrael Beyteinu chairman. "Under no circumstances will we let this happen."
8. 'WE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND, I DON'T UNDERSTAND LIBERMAN'
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263902
The chairman of the United Right party, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, explained on Wednesday night why his faction supported early elections and the dissolving of the 21st Knesset.
"With a very heavy heart, after many attempts at mediation and compromise between all the parties, both the haredim and Liberman, we decided that we are going ahead with the elections out of national responsibility, to preserve the bloc," he said.
"Now that this decision was made, we want it to happen as quickly as possible, both for the benefit of Israeli society as well as due to the fact that it is time for a government to be formed after many months. Our national responsibility says that this is what we have to do."
Asked why Liberman refused to join a right-wing government, Peretz replied, "I cannot understand what motivates Liberman. This really hurts me. I was very much involved in the talks and I made suggestions, we went above and beyond, we tried very hard to find an agreement, unfortunately we did not succeed."
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
A7News: 'Haredi lawmakers are to blame for political crisis'
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1. 'HAREDI LAWMAKERS ARE TO BLAME FOR POLITICAL CRISIS'
2. 'LIBERMAN WON'T FOLD OR COMPROMISE'
3. COMEDIAN DROPPED BY NETFLIX OVER HOLOCAUST JOKE? 'FAKE NEWS'
4. EL AL LAUNCHES DIRECT FLIGHTS TO TOKYO
5. NETANYAHU CONSIDERING GIVING AYELET SHAKED A TOP SPOT IN LIKUD
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
7. ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 17
8. RABBI CARLEBACH'S DAUGHTER VISITS FATHER'S DESTROYED VILLAGE
1. 'HAREDI LAWMAKERS ARE TO BLAME FOR POLITICAL CRISIS'
by Hezki Baruch
Avidgor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party on Wednesday rejected claims that it is responsible for the ongoing political crisis and accused haredi lawmakers of blocking the establishment of a Likud-led government.
With just hours to go before the Wednesday night deadline for forming a new government, Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer blasted the Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, blaming them for the stalled coalition talks which could force Israel to new elections just months after the 21st Knesset was voted in.
"Let it be clear, the ones who are blocking the formation of a government are the haredi parties who insist on sticking their finger in the eyes of the public that serves in the army and does reserve duty," said Forer on Wednesday.
According to the Yisrael Beytenu MK, the haredi draft law which was drawn up in the previous Knesset has been accepted by haredi lawmakers, who now are simply refusing an arrangement whereby they would leave the Knesset plenum while the bill is voted on, enabling it to pass.
"The compromise arrangement under which they won't vote on [the bill] is reasonable, and the problems they are creating by sending Israel back to elections is their fault. I suggest the Likud focus its pressure in the right direction, instead of aiming it at us."
The secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu has pushed for the passage of a draft law which would pressure haredi yeshivas to meet draft quotas imposed by the law.
Haredi lawmakers have pushed back against the proposal, calling instead for an amendment to Israel's Basic Laws which would override Supreme Court opposition to the present draft deferment system.
Unless the Likud can broker a compromise between the two sides by Wednesday night, Netanyahu's mandate for forming the next government will expire.
The Likud has vowed to dissolve the Knesset before that mandate expires, thus preventing President Reuven Rivlin from tasking the Blue and White party with forming a government.
2. 'LIBERMAN WON'T FOLD OR COMPROMISE'
by 103FM
MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu) on Wednesday morning told 103FM Radio why his party won't compromise on the Draft Law.
"The Draft Law is a symbol, it's a symbol of another process of submission to a caprice," he explained. "Because what's the Draft Law? The Draft Law is a compromise we've already made with the haredi parties. It's a law that they themselves will tell you - and I'm sure you've spoken to them in interviews as well as in closed rooms - they tell you that the law is fine with them."
"They have no problem with the law. Right now they're trying to make improvements,.they always prefer a different law... They're talking at the end of the day, about making it subject to the government's decisions, and that way we can change the entire law."
Regarding the question of whether Yisrael Beytenu is avoiding the issue by using the Draft Law as an excuse, Forer told 103FM, "Everyone likes conspiracy theories. I have two answers: One, try him. He offered a compromise. If he's trying to annoy Netanyahu, then the moment they offer a compromise, he'll find another excuse. So give him his compromise. Let the haredim not vote for the law."
"Second, for the past month and a half we've reiterated that we won't budge from our stance. We have a few basic principles we won't budge from," Forer said. "But what's happening? I still hear in the morning how everyone keeps banging their heads against the wall, saying he's going to give in, he has to get out of this mess. He's not going to give in, he's not going to be the one to compromise."
"It's a lot easier, that instead of Netanyahu spending all his energies, for already a month and a half, he's putting enormous energies into pressuring Avigdor Liberman, I'm telling you my opinion...spend the same amount of energy, believe me, into pressuring the haredi parties."
3. COMEDIAN DROPPED BY NETFLIX OVER HOLOCAUST JOKE? 'FAKE NEWS'
by David Rosenberg
An Australian comedian whose special was reportedly dropped by online streaming giant Netflix over a Holocaust joke is taking aim at media coverage of the controversy, accusing news outlets of pushing "fake news" and misrepresenting him as anti-Semitic.
The story began last month following a stand-up performance by Isaac Butterfield, an Australian comic and social media start with about 900,000 followers on YouTube, at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
During the show, Butterfield, who is known for his off-color "shock humor" and politically incorrect jokes, launched into a segment mocking vegans – a frequent target of his videos on YouTube.
In the segment, Butterfield joked about gassing a vegan, while commenting on intolerance.
"I've had vegans come to my show before. I had one sit right in the front row," Butterfield said at the April 11th show. "And he said 'I'm a vegan mate, and proud of it!'"
"And I was like, 'Do you really believe in all that kind of stuff?'"
"And he said 'I do! And I thought if you got to know me, maybe you'd change your mind on vegans forever.'"
"That is so ridiculous that I would change my mind just because I got to know him. I mean, that's like a Jew in 1942 turning up at Auschwitz."
"Anyway, we gassed the…[vegan]."
The show drew criticism after one audience member complained to the Australian Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), claiming that Butterfield had said "imagine the joy of people when they heart the Jews were sent to the gas chambers."
When the ADC criticized Butterfield in an email for his alleged comments, the comedian responded with a one-sentence reply "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven."
After a firestorm of criticism, Butterfield apologized for the email. "That wasn't the right move to say this," Butterfield admitted regarding his "if you can't stand the heat" email. "I did apologize to that lady…I don't want to insult people."
But Butterfield denied the audience member's claim that he had said the line "imagine the joy of people when they heart the Jews were sent to the gas chambers," posting footage of the segment in question to back up his claim.
"I have never and would never and do not judge people based on their skin color, their religious beliefs, their ideologies, any genders, and sexual preference."
Earlier this month, the UK's Daily Mail reported that the controversy and allegations of anti-Semitism had cost Butterfield "a lucrative comedy special deal" with Netflix.
This claim had Butterfield crying foul Tuesday, accusing the Daily Mail of pushing "fake news".
"Here's the funny part…I never had a Netflix deal. You printed a lie," said Butterfield, calling reporting on the cancelled comedy special "nothing short than a fabrication."
"I made a video about this [comedy special] talking about a streaming site, but I never mentioned the name, I never mentioned the deal, and I never mentioned Netflix."
4. EL AL LAUNCHES DIRECT FLIGHTS TO TOKYO
by Ido Ben Porat
El Al will launch a direct route from Israel to Tokyo, Japan, marking the first-ever direct flights between the two countries.
Flights will begin in March 2020, using three of El Al's new Boeing Dreamliner 787 jets. The company will begin selling tickets soon.
The direct flights to Japan are part of El Al's plan to expand its flight routes in accordance with the needs of both Israeli travelers and international travelers arriving in Israel, the numbers of which have grown considerably in recent years. As well, the company is working to renew its fleet, so that by 2020 it will include 45 planes, including 16 Dreamliners.
The Tel Aviv-Tokyo flight will take 11 hours and 15 minutes, while the return flight will take approximately 12 and a half hours. Currently, Israelis wishing to fly to Japan need to take two flights, resulting in nearly 24 hours of travel.
Michael Strassburger, El Al's V.P of Commerce & Industry Affairs, said, "Japan is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, and now Israelis can visit it via a comfortable direct flight in the new Dreamliner planes. Over the past two years, we have received many requests from our customers to operate direct flights to Japan."
"According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 40,000 Israelis visited Japan in 2018, while 20,000 Japanese visited Israel. The movement in recent years has grown at a fast pace and we are sure that opening a direct route between the countries will increase travel and significantly strengthen the economic and diplomatic ties between Israel and Japan.
"The direct flights to Japan join a list of other new direct routes launched recently by El Al, including to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and they significantly expand the options for tourism, entertainment, and the direct access both businesspeople and tourists have to these destinations."
5. NETANYAHU CONSIDERING GIVING AYELET SHAKED A TOP SPOT IN LIKUD
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is considering bringing Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked into the Likud and reserving a spot high on the Likud's Knesset list if the country heads to new elections this year, Kan reported Wednesday morning.
Citing senior Likud officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, the report claims that Netanyahu hopes to bring more right-wing voters to the Likud by bringing in Shaked and giving her a senior position within the party if the current Knesset is dissolved and new elections scheduled.
A spokesperson for the prime minister said that no decision had been made with regards to bringing Shaked into the Likud, while Shaked herself did not respond to the report.
Earlier this week, Shaked denied claims that she was considering running with former Defense Minister Avidgor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party.
A source in Yisrael Beytenu told News 13 that the meeting between Shaked and Liberman was one of the reasons Liberman does not fear new elections. Rumors claimed the the source was implying that Liberman and Shaked would run in a joint list.
Sources close to Shaked said she and Liberman have been very friendly for a long time, and that they met privately several times in the past. However, they also said Shaked is interested in joining the leading Likud party.
"I thought this would be my parting speech, and that I would leave the Justice Ministry next week. But politics has its own rules and we can't know what will happen by Wednesday. What I can say is that yesterday's rumors about me are incorrect," the Justice Minister said in response to the rumors of a run with Yisrael Beytenu.
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
by AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff
The IDF confirmed that it had launched an airstrike on Syrian territory Monday evening following reports of an attack on the province of Quneitra
One Syrian soldier was killed and two others wounded in the Israeli missile strike, the official SANA news agency reported.
"An Israeli missile targeted Tel al-Shaar in Quneitra," the Syrian news agency said, adding a "military vehicle was targeted and there are wounded."
The IDF stated that the strike had targeted a missile launcher following an attack on an Israeli aircraft. The missile did not strike the plane and landed in Syria.
"Earlier today, Syrian anti-aircraft systems fired at an IDF fighter jet during a routine flight in northern Israel.
The anti-air projectile landed in Syrian territory and the mission was completed as planned," the IDF stated.
"In response, a short while ago, the IDF targeted the launcher that had fired. The IDF sees any threat against its aircraft with great severity and takes measures to defend them."
7. ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 17
by Hezki Baruch
The special committee discussing the dissolution of the Knesset determined on Monday evening that the elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
The date, however, is not final and is expected to change ahead of the final vote in the Knesset plenum. Committee chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) said at the start of the discussion, "Anyone who votes against the bill helps Benny Gantz form a government."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is continuing his efforts to prevent elections and establish a right-wing government. The businessman who is conducting the coalition negotiations on behalf of MK Avigdor Liberman, Shmuel Hayek, is expected to return to Israel overnight Monday and continue with the talks.
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu instructed Likud ministers and Knesset members to launch an attack against Liberman over his decision to oppose the establishment of a right-wing government.
"I've now informed the Likud ministers and Knesset members: After evaluating a new situation - open season on Liberman," Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister earlier said that there was still time to form a coalition and avert new elections.
"There's no reason to drag the country to unnecessary elections that will cost a fortune and paralyze us all for another half a year," Netanyahu said.
8. RABBI CARLEBACH'S DAUGHTER VISITS FATHER'S DESTROYED VILLAGE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263811
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (Keren L'Yedidut) has quickly mobilized to raise more than NIS 1 million in emergency assistance for residents of Mevo Modi'im, a small moshav (agricultural community) located west of Jerusalem and near the Israeli city of Modiin. The moshav sustained a massive fire last Thursday that destroyed at least 40 out of the community's 50 homes.
From the NIS 1 million, the Fellowship will be providing up to $5,000 in assistance for each family of Mevo Modi'im. The amount distributed in each case will be determined and prioritized according to a number of factors and criteria provided to The Fellowship by relevant authorities. At the same time, The Fellowship is in constant communication with the National Emergency Authority, Israel Fire and Rescue Services as well as the Hatzalah emergency response organization to ensure that assistance gets provided as quickly as possible.
The fire, one of many around Israel, which was stricken on Thursday with sweltering temperatures rising above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was large enough to have damaged some 7,940 dunams of land belonging to Israel's Nature and Parks Authority and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund. Originally assumed to have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, the fire is now being investigated as a possible incident of arson.
Mevo Modi'im was founded by the late, famed Jewish singer and composer, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Known as "The Singing Rabbi" during his lifetime for his many unique, original tunes and styles of prayer, Rabbi Carlebach inspired many, some of whom followed him to Mevo Modi'im.
"Every Sabbath eve, the men of the moshav would come to our house," Rabbi Carlebach's daugher, Dari said standing in her father's old home with The Fellowship's president, Yael Eckstein by her side. "My father had a special perfume, which everyone said was special, that he would spray each one of them with for the Sabbath. On Sabbath morning, the guys would be in the kitchen eating and drinking coffee, sharing words of Torah. Even at three in the morning, people would stop by the home to consult and speak with my father."
Unsurprisingly, the moshav's residents followed in Rabbi Carlebach's footsteps. "There's no one like the people of Mevo Modi'im," Dari continued. "They do not have a lot of money but their houses are open for guests all the time. Now they need a lot of help. Many are left with nothing but the clothes on their bodies. Their money has been burnt along with all their property."
Nevertheless, Dari remains determined that Mevo Modi'im will overcome the destruction: "My father said that fire can destroy and kill but one's internal fire cannot be extinguished. I know that the internal fire has not been 'burned' and that this moshav will once again thrive because the nation of Israel is very strong. It is impossible to burn the heart that dwells inside the collective soul of the moshav."
The Fellowship's President Yael Eckstein conveyed The Fellowship's determination to help Mevo Modi'im rebuild. "For the past 13 years, The Fellowship has been a central hub for assisting citizens in times of emergency. We are continuing to assume that role in this regard by providing the residents of Mevo Modi'im with over NIS 1 million that we have raised already. In fact, the Jewish community immediately turned to The Fellowship to provide the emergency aid in light of our track record in responding to every other emergency in Israel including our prior donation of 8 firetrucks and basic needs to victims in previous fires."
Eckstein added: "We would of course also be remiss not to thank our Christian friends and lovers of Israel from around the world who provided matching funds. During times like this one can see who is there to respond immediately, not only from the Jewish community but from millions of Christians around the world."
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) was founded in 1983 to promote better understanding and cooperation between Christians and Jews, and build broad support for Israel. Today it is one of the leading forces helping Israel and Jews in need worldwide – and is the largest channel of Christian support for Israel. The Fellowship now raises more than $140 million per year, mostly from Christians, to assist Israel and the Jewish people. Since its founding, The Fellowship has raised more than $1.5 billion for this work. The organization has offices in Jerusalem, Chicago, Toronto, and Seoul.
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HEADLINES:
1. 'HAREDI LAWMAKERS ARE TO BLAME FOR POLITICAL CRISIS'
2. 'LIBERMAN WON'T FOLD OR COMPROMISE'
3. COMEDIAN DROPPED BY NETFLIX OVER HOLOCAUST JOKE? 'FAKE NEWS'
4. EL AL LAUNCHES DIRECT FLIGHTS TO TOKYO
5. NETANYAHU CONSIDERING GIVING AYELET SHAKED A TOP SPOT IN LIKUD
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
7. ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 17
8. RABBI CARLEBACH'S DAUGHTER VISITS FATHER'S DESTROYED VILLAGE
1. 'HAREDI LAWMAKERS ARE TO BLAME FOR POLITICAL CRISIS'
by Hezki Baruch
Avidgor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party on Wednesday rejected claims that it is responsible for the ongoing political crisis and accused haredi lawmakers of blocking the establishment of a Likud-led government.
With just hours to go before the Wednesday night deadline for forming a new government, Yisrael Beytenu MK Oded Forer blasted the Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, blaming them for the stalled coalition talks which could force Israel to new elections just months after the 21st Knesset was voted in.
"Let it be clear, the ones who are blocking the formation of a government are the haredi parties who insist on sticking their finger in the eyes of the public that serves in the army and does reserve duty," said Forer on Wednesday.
According to the Yisrael Beytenu MK, the haredi draft law which was drawn up in the previous Knesset has been accepted by haredi lawmakers, who now are simply refusing an arrangement whereby they would leave the Knesset plenum while the bill is voted on, enabling it to pass.
"The compromise arrangement under which they won't vote on [the bill] is reasonable, and the problems they are creating by sending Israel back to elections is their fault. I suggest the Likud focus its pressure in the right direction, instead of aiming it at us."
The secular right-wing Yisrael Beytenu has pushed for the passage of a draft law which would pressure haredi yeshivas to meet draft quotas imposed by the law.
Haredi lawmakers have pushed back against the proposal, calling instead for an amendment to Israel's Basic Laws which would override Supreme Court opposition to the present draft deferment system.
Unless the Likud can broker a compromise between the two sides by Wednesday night, Netanyahu's mandate for forming the next government will expire.
The Likud has vowed to dissolve the Knesset before that mandate expires, thus preventing President Reuven Rivlin from tasking the Blue and White party with forming a government.
2. 'LIBERMAN WON'T FOLD OR COMPROMISE'
by 103FM
MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu) on Wednesday morning told 103FM Radio why his party won't compromise on the Draft Law.
"The Draft Law is a symbol, it's a symbol of another process of submission to a caprice," he explained. "Because what's the Draft Law? The Draft Law is a compromise we've already made with the haredi parties. It's a law that they themselves will tell you - and I'm sure you've spoken to them in interviews as well as in closed rooms - they tell you that the law is fine with them."
"They have no problem with the law. Right now they're trying to make improvements,.they always prefer a different law... They're talking at the end of the day, about making it subject to the government's decisions, and that way we can change the entire law."
Regarding the question of whether Yisrael Beytenu is avoiding the issue by using the Draft Law as an excuse, Forer told 103FM, "Everyone likes conspiracy theories. I have two answers: One, try him. He offered a compromise. If he's trying to annoy Netanyahu, then the moment they offer a compromise, he'll find another excuse. So give him his compromise. Let the haredim not vote for the law."
"Second, for the past month and a half we've reiterated that we won't budge from our stance. We have a few basic principles we won't budge from," Forer said. "But what's happening? I still hear in the morning how everyone keeps banging their heads against the wall, saying he's going to give in, he has to get out of this mess. He's not going to give in, he's not going to be the one to compromise."
"It's a lot easier, that instead of Netanyahu spending all his energies, for already a month and a half, he's putting enormous energies into pressuring Avigdor Liberman, I'm telling you my opinion...spend the same amount of energy, believe me, into pressuring the haredi parties."
3. COMEDIAN DROPPED BY NETFLIX OVER HOLOCAUST JOKE? 'FAKE NEWS'
by David Rosenberg
An Australian comedian whose special was reportedly dropped by online streaming giant Netflix over a Holocaust joke is taking aim at media coverage of the controversy, accusing news outlets of pushing "fake news" and misrepresenting him as anti-Semitic.
The story began last month following a stand-up performance by Isaac Butterfield, an Australian comic and social media start with about 900,000 followers on YouTube, at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
During the show, Butterfield, who is known for his off-color "shock humor" and politically incorrect jokes, launched into a segment mocking vegans – a frequent target of his videos on YouTube.
In the segment, Butterfield joked about gassing a vegan, while commenting on intolerance.
"I've had vegans come to my show before. I had one sit right in the front row," Butterfield said at the April 11th show. "And he said 'I'm a vegan mate, and proud of it!'"
"And I was like, 'Do you really believe in all that kind of stuff?'"
"And he said 'I do! And I thought if you got to know me, maybe you'd change your mind on vegans forever.'"
"That is so ridiculous that I would change my mind just because I got to know him. I mean, that's like a Jew in 1942 turning up at Auschwitz."
"Anyway, we gassed the…[vegan]."
The show drew criticism after one audience member complained to the Australian Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), claiming that Butterfield had said "imagine the joy of people when they heart the Jews were sent to the gas chambers."
When the ADC criticized Butterfield in an email for his alleged comments, the comedian responded with a one-sentence reply "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the oven."
After a firestorm of criticism, Butterfield apologized for the email. "That wasn't the right move to say this," Butterfield admitted regarding his "if you can't stand the heat" email. "I did apologize to that lady…I don't want to insult people."
But Butterfield denied the audience member's claim that he had said the line "imagine the joy of people when they heart the Jews were sent to the gas chambers," posting footage of the segment in question to back up his claim.
"I have never and would never and do not judge people based on their skin color, their religious beliefs, their ideologies, any genders, and sexual preference."
Earlier this month, the UK's Daily Mail reported that the controversy and allegations of anti-Semitism had cost Butterfield "a lucrative comedy special deal" with Netflix.
This claim had Butterfield crying foul Tuesday, accusing the Daily Mail of pushing "fake news".
"Here's the funny part…I never had a Netflix deal. You printed a lie," said Butterfield, calling reporting on the cancelled comedy special "nothing short than a fabrication."
"I made a video about this [comedy special] talking about a streaming site, but I never mentioned the name, I never mentioned the deal, and I never mentioned Netflix."
4. EL AL LAUNCHES DIRECT FLIGHTS TO TOKYO
by Ido Ben Porat
El Al will launch a direct route from Israel to Tokyo, Japan, marking the first-ever direct flights between the two countries.
Flights will begin in March 2020, using three of El Al's new Boeing Dreamliner 787 jets. The company will begin selling tickets soon.
The direct flights to Japan are part of El Al's plan to expand its flight routes in accordance with the needs of both Israeli travelers and international travelers arriving in Israel, the numbers of which have grown considerably in recent years. As well, the company is working to renew its fleet, so that by 2020 it will include 45 planes, including 16 Dreamliners.
The Tel Aviv-Tokyo flight will take 11 hours and 15 minutes, while the return flight will take approximately 12 and a half hours. Currently, Israelis wishing to fly to Japan need to take two flights, resulting in nearly 24 hours of travel.
Michael Strassburger, El Al's V.P of Commerce & Industry Affairs, said, "Japan is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, and now Israelis can visit it via a comfortable direct flight in the new Dreamliner planes. Over the past two years, we have received many requests from our customers to operate direct flights to Japan."
"According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 40,000 Israelis visited Japan in 2018, while 20,000 Japanese visited Israel. The movement in recent years has grown at a fast pace and we are sure that opening a direct route between the countries will increase travel and significantly strengthen the economic and diplomatic ties between Israel and Japan.
"The direct flights to Japan join a list of other new direct routes launched recently by El Al, including to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and they significantly expand the options for tourism, entertainment, and the direct access both businesspeople and tourists have to these destinations."
5. NETANYAHU CONSIDERING GIVING AYELET SHAKED A TOP SPOT IN LIKUD
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is considering bringing Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked into the Likud and reserving a spot high on the Likud's Knesset list if the country heads to new elections this year, Kan reported Wednesday morning.
Citing senior Likud officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, the report claims that Netanyahu hopes to bring more right-wing voters to the Likud by bringing in Shaked and giving her a senior position within the party if the current Knesset is dissolved and new elections scheduled.
A spokesperson for the prime minister said that no decision had been made with regards to bringing Shaked into the Likud, while Shaked herself did not respond to the report.
Earlier this week, Shaked denied claims that she was considering running with former Defense Minister Avidgor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu party.
A source in Yisrael Beytenu told News 13 that the meeting between Shaked and Liberman was one of the reasons Liberman does not fear new elections. Rumors claimed the the source was implying that Liberman and Shaked would run in a joint list.
Sources close to Shaked said she and Liberman have been very friendly for a long time, and that they met privately several times in the past. However, they also said Shaked is interested in joining the leading Likud party.
"I thought this would be my parting speech, and that I would leave the Justice Ministry next week. But politics has its own rules and we can't know what will happen by Wednesday. What I can say is that yesterday's rumors about me are incorrect," the Justice Minister said in response to the rumors of a run with Yisrael Beytenu.
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
by AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff
The IDF confirmed that it had launched an airstrike on Syrian territory Monday evening following reports of an attack on the province of Quneitra
One Syrian soldier was killed and two others wounded in the Israeli missile strike, the official SANA news agency reported.
"An Israeli missile targeted Tel al-Shaar in Quneitra," the Syrian news agency said, adding a "military vehicle was targeted and there are wounded."
The IDF stated that the strike had targeted a missile launcher following an attack on an Israeli aircraft. The missile did not strike the plane and landed in Syria.
"Earlier today, Syrian anti-aircraft systems fired at an IDF fighter jet during a routine flight in northern Israel.
The anti-air projectile landed in Syrian territory and the mission was completed as planned," the IDF stated.
"In response, a short while ago, the IDF targeted the launcher that had fired. The IDF sees any threat against its aircraft with great severity and takes measures to defend them."
7. ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 17
by Hezki Baruch
The special committee discussing the dissolution of the Knesset determined on Monday evening that the elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
The date, however, is not final and is expected to change ahead of the final vote in the Knesset plenum. Committee chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) said at the start of the discussion, "Anyone who votes against the bill helps Benny Gantz form a government."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is continuing his efforts to prevent elections and establish a right-wing government. The businessman who is conducting the coalition negotiations on behalf of MK Avigdor Liberman, Shmuel Hayek, is expected to return to Israel overnight Monday and continue with the talks.
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu instructed Likud ministers and Knesset members to launch an attack against Liberman over his decision to oppose the establishment of a right-wing government.
"I've now informed the Likud ministers and Knesset members: After evaluating a new situation - open season on Liberman," Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister earlier said that there was still time to form a coalition and avert new elections.
"There's no reason to drag the country to unnecessary elections that will cost a fortune and paralyze us all for another half a year," Netanyahu said.
8. RABBI CARLEBACH'S DAUGHTER VISITS FATHER'S DESTROYED VILLAGE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263811
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (Keren L'Yedidut) has quickly mobilized to raise more than NIS 1 million in emergency assistance for residents of Mevo Modi'im, a small moshav (agricultural community) located west of Jerusalem and near the Israeli city of Modiin. The moshav sustained a massive fire last Thursday that destroyed at least 40 out of the community's 50 homes.
From the NIS 1 million, the Fellowship will be providing up to $5,000 in assistance for each family of Mevo Modi'im. The amount distributed in each case will be determined and prioritized according to a number of factors and criteria provided to The Fellowship by relevant authorities. At the same time, The Fellowship is in constant communication with the National Emergency Authority, Israel Fire and Rescue Services as well as the Hatzalah emergency response organization to ensure that assistance gets provided as quickly as possible.
The fire, one of many around Israel, which was stricken on Thursday with sweltering temperatures rising above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was large enough to have damaged some 7,940 dunams of land belonging to Israel's Nature and Parks Authority and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund. Originally assumed to have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, the fire is now being investigated as a possible incident of arson.
Mevo Modi'im was founded by the late, famed Jewish singer and composer, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Known as "The Singing Rabbi" during his lifetime for his many unique, original tunes and styles of prayer, Rabbi Carlebach inspired many, some of whom followed him to Mevo Modi'im.
"Every Sabbath eve, the men of the moshav would come to our house," Rabbi Carlebach's daugher, Dari said standing in her father's old home with The Fellowship's president, Yael Eckstein by her side. "My father had a special perfume, which everyone said was special, that he would spray each one of them with for the Sabbath. On Sabbath morning, the guys would be in the kitchen eating and drinking coffee, sharing words of Torah. Even at three in the morning, people would stop by the home to consult and speak with my father."
Unsurprisingly, the moshav's residents followed in Rabbi Carlebach's footsteps. "There's no one like the people of Mevo Modi'im," Dari continued. "They do not have a lot of money but their houses are open for guests all the time. Now they need a lot of help. Many are left with nothing but the clothes on their bodies. Their money has been burnt along with all their property."
Nevertheless, Dari remains determined that Mevo Modi'im will overcome the destruction: "My father said that fire can destroy and kill but one's internal fire cannot be extinguished. I know that the internal fire has not been 'burned' and that this moshav will once again thrive because the nation of Israel is very strong. It is impossible to burn the heart that dwells inside the collective soul of the moshav."
The Fellowship's President Yael Eckstein conveyed The Fellowship's determination to help Mevo Modi'im rebuild. "For the past 13 years, The Fellowship has been a central hub for assisting citizens in times of emergency. We are continuing to assume that role in this regard by providing the residents of Mevo Modi'im with over NIS 1 million that we have raised already. In fact, the Jewish community immediately turned to The Fellowship to provide the emergency aid in light of our track record in responding to every other emergency in Israel including our prior donation of 8 firetrucks and basic needs to victims in previous fires."
Eckstein added: "We would of course also be remiss not to thank our Christian friends and lovers of Israel from around the world who provided matching funds. During times like this one can see who is there to respond immediately, not only from the Jewish community but from millions of Christians around the world."
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) was founded in 1983 to promote better understanding and cooperation between Christians and Jews, and build broad support for Israel. Today it is one of the leading forces helping Israel and Jews in need worldwide – and is the largest channel of Christian support for Israel. The Fellowship now raises more than $140 million per year, mostly from Christians, to assist Israel and the Jewish people. Since its founding, The Fellowship has raised more than $1.5 billion for this work. The organization has offices in Jerusalem, Chicago, Toronto, and Seoul.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
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Tuesday, May. 28 '19, כ"ג באייר תשע"ט
HEADLINES:
1. REPORT: LIKUD OFFICIALS TURNED TO US TO RESOLVE COALITION CRISIS
2. MOTHER TO TERRORIST: I HOPE YOUR CHILDREN BURN
3. THE LEMMER BROTHERS: FROM SYNAGOGUES TO BASEBALL STADIUMS
4. SAMARIAN WINE TAKES GOLD AT PRESTIGIOUS INTN'L COMPETITION
5. BILL TO DISSOLVE KNESSET PASSES FIRST READING
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
7. 'THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE' - AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ISRAEL
8. LIBERMAN: WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO BRING DOWN NETANYAHU
1. REPORT: LIKUD OFFICIALS TURNED TO US TO RESOLVE COALITION CRISIS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Senior Likud officials turned to the Trump administration for help in pressuring Avidgor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, to soften his position and accept a compromise arrangement enabling Binyamin Netanyahu to form a new government before the Wednesday deadline, Maariv reported Tuesday.
The report cited unnamed Israeli political officials, who say they reached out to the Trump administration in a bid to convince the White House to actively intervene on Netanyahu's behalf.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been unable to form a majority coalition government, which requires 61 MKs, amid an ongoing feud between the secular rightist Yisrael Beytenu party and haredi lawmakers over a bill proposed by Yisrael Beytenu which would pressure the haredi community to reach draft quotas.
Haredi lawmakers have accepted a compromise deal put forward by Netanyahu which would back the Yisrael Beytenu law – while giving the government discretion to set the draft quotas – but Liberman has thus far refused to accept the arrangement.
Without Yisrael Beytenu, Netanyahu would be one seat short of a 60-MK majority.
Netanyahu must present a government by Wednesday, or face the possibility of losing his mandate to form the next government.
The Likud has pushed for new elections in the event that no deal can be reached by Wednesday.
Some senior Israeli political officials, however, lobbied the Trump administration Monday, urging the administration to intervene on Netanyahu's behalf. The officials hoped, Maariv reported, to convince the White House to have a senior administration official call Liberman and emphasize the importance of Israel forming a new government now and avoiding repeat elections.
The White House is expected to release half of its upcoming Middle East peace plan next month at a workshop in Bahrain. If Israel returns to the ballot box in September, however, the peace plan's rollout would likely be delayed to the end of 2019, and possibly into 2020.
2. MOTHER TO TERRORIST: I HOPE YOUR CHILDREN BURN
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263800
The terrorist responsible for a firebomb attack on an Israeli family in October 2015 was brought before an IDF court near Jerusalem Tuesday for a hearing on a plea bargain agreement.
The attack, which took place near the Israeli town of Beit El, north of Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2015, targeted the Sofer family's car, as the family made its way from their home in Nitzan in southern Israel to Beit El for the Sabbath.
En route, a group of terrorists waiting on a hill next to the road hurled firebombs at the Sofer family's car.
One firebomb smashed through a window, landing in the backseat, where the children Tair, 11, Matan, 10, and Tahel, 3, were sitting.
While Tair and Matan were spared injury, the firebomb exploded on three-year-old Tahel, causing serious injuries.
On Tuesday, the Mahane Ofer military court presented a plea bargain deal signed by the terrorist.
Tahel's mother, Sigal Sofer, took part in the hearing, lashing out at the terrorist.
"How evil you are, you disgusting, violent scum," Sigal told the terrorist during the hearing. "I wish that all of your children would be burned, one child after another, slowly, from head to toe. All of your offspring and any other descendants. If you dared to burn a three-year-old girl, you are scum."
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3. THE LEMMER BROTHERS: FROM SYNAGOGUES TO BASEBALL STADIUMS
by Yoni Kempinski
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4. SAMARIAN WINE TAKES GOLD AT PRESTIGIOUS INTN'L COMPETITION
by Tal Polon
The Gvaot winery, located in Givat Harel in the Samaria hills, has taken a gold medal at the prestigious Decanter World Wine Awards in London.
The winery received a score of 95, considered high for the competition, for its "Gofna Cabernet Sauvignon," which the tasting notes called a "brilliant warm-climate Cabernet."
Eliav Miller, CEO of the winery, said in response, "I am excited by the impressive win, and promise my customers in Israel and around the world to continue the good, historic, up-to-date and renewed way of the wine world in Israel in general, and Samaria in particular."
Founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Amnon Weiss and Chief Winemaker Dr. Shivi Drori, an agronomist and researcher in viticulture and oenology at Ariel University, the winery says it "continues an ancient tradition of wine production in this mountainous [Samarian] area" to which "hundreds of antique wine presses scattered around the renewed vineyards bear witness."
5. BILL TO DISSOLVE KNESSET PASSES FIRST READING
by Hezki Baruch
The Knesset plenum on Monday night approved the first reading of the bill to dissolve the Knesset.
66 MKs voted in favor, 44 voted against and five abstained.
The special committee discussing the dissolution of the Knesset is expected to convene on Tuesday morning to prepare the bill for its second and third readings.
Earlier on Monday evening, the committee determined that the elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
The date, however, is not final and is expected to change ahead of the final vote in the Knesset plenum. Committee chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) said at the start of the discussion, "Anyone who votes against the bill helps Benny Gantz form a government."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is continuing his efforts to prevent elections and establish a right-wing government. The businessman who is conducting the coalition negotiations on behalf of MK Avigdor Liberman, Shmuel Hayek, is expected to return to Israel overnight Monday and continue with the talks.
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu instructed Likud ministers and Knesset members to launch an attack against Liberman over his decision to oppose the establishment of a right-wing government.
"I've now informed the Likud ministers and Knesset members: After evaluating a new situation - open season on Liberman," Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister earlier said that there was still time to form a coalition and avert new elections.
"There's no reason to drag the country to unnecessary elections that will cost a fortune and paralyze us all for another half a year," Netanyahu said.
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
by AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff
The IDF confirmed that it had launched an airstrike on Syrian territory Monday evening following reports of an attack on the province of Quneitra
One Syrian soldier was killed and two others wounded in the Israeli missile strike, the official SANA news agency reported.
"An Israeli missile targeted Tel al-Shaar in Quneitra," the Syrian news agency said, adding a "military vehicle was targeted and there are wounded."
The IDF stated that the strike had targeted a missile launcher following an attack on an Israeli aircraft. The missile did not strike the plane and landed in Syria.
"Earlier today, Syrian anti-aircraft systems fired at an IDF fighter jet during a routine flight in northern Israel.
The anti-air projectile landed in Syrian territory and the mission was completed as planned," the IDF stated.
"In response, a short while ago, the IDF targeted the launcher that had fired. The IDF sees any threat against its aircraft with great severity and takes measures to defend them."
7. 'THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE' - AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ISRAEL
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263741
Mass migration – particularly illegal immigration – has become, perhaps, the defining political crisis for the West.
Concerns over such migrations helped catapult a reality television star into the White House, and have divided the European Union even more than the global financial crisis of the late 2000s and the subsequent austerity programs.
While some have argued that the various crises stemming from the recent waves of mass migration are a temporary aberration, British journalist and commentator Douglas Murray believes the issue is here to stay – and indeed will only grow in importance in the coming years.
"This is going to be the single biggest issue in an age where anyone can move anywhere," Murray said in an interview with Arutz Sheva. Murray came to Israel to participate in the "Israeli Conservatism Conference".
Murray's 2017 book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was recently translated to Hebrew and released in Israel, highlighting growing concerns in Israel over mass migration and its political and security ramifications.
"It is vital that an Israeli readership learns the depth of what is currently Europe's problem, because I think that in the years ahead this is going to get infinitely more complicated. This country [Israel]... has very good reason to worry about Europe," Murray said.
Europe's political establishment, by virtue of its lingering guilt over the Holocaust and a refusal to consider the potential dangers of mass migration, has engaged in a social experiment on the grandest scale, Murray argues.
"Our entire political class in Europe has decided that because it's so complex, we have to all agree that it is going to go fine. And I'm saying, 'What if it's not okay? What if this all goes horribly wrong?' The answer that I tend to get from the political establishment in Europe and even most of the media is 'It can't go wrong. It has to go right. Otherwise we've screwed the whole thing up.'"
"An analogy I like to give on this is: to move this number of people from this far away this fast into a place that didn't actually have populations that wanted this to happen is analogous to trying to find the vaccine for something and not doing any tests before using on your only child. It's a crazy thing to do. We don't have loads of continents to try this on, and I think it's very unwise to try a controlled experiment on the only thing you have."
At its peak, the flow of migrants into Europe saw thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East, landing every day on Greek and Italian coasts. Most, Murray notes, were not legal refugees or qualified for asylum – even under the EU's own rules.
"When I was writing the book in 2015-2016 the flow [of immigrants] was at its height. That was seeing thousands of people arriving every day on the Greek and Italian coastlines."
"By 2015-2016, most people had no asylum right. This is the European Union's own figures."
"The figures showed that most of the people coming had 'No more right to be in Europe that anyone else in the rest of the world.'"
While the stream of migrants has slowed since the 2015-2016 peak, this has come at a significant cost to the EU, Murray continued, with Europe funneling large sums of cash to Turkey, in effect a bribe, to encourage the Turkish government to block migrants from setting out for Europe from its territory.
"The reason why the boat landings [in Europe] have slowed is because the European Union is paying a massive bribe - hundreds and hundreds of millions of Euros as a bribe - to President Erdogan in Turkey to stop the flow. We bribe him to stop the boats leaving. He's actually doing what he could have done at any high point of the crisis, which is literally stopping the movement through Turkey that allows them to then leave by boat to the Greek islands."
Despite the obvious difficulties presented by mass immigration – which Murray notes is largely done illegally – the political establishment in much of Europe, particularly Germany, ignores the problems it creates, while some critics of mass immigration polarize the issue by accusing all migrants of violence.
"People who claim that everyone who arrives is going to be violent, are of course, are obviously crazy and it is a deeply dishonest way to portray it."
"You have to look at the big picture, and the big picture is a big mess. Most things happen because of a screw up and this is one the monumental screw ups of all time."
Nevertheless, there is a growing awareness of the unsustainability of the open-door migration policy, though Murray notes that popular opinion on the issue has been slower to shift in some countries.
"The trajectory in every country in Europe is exactly the same. Everyone is at different stages along the same path, and the path doesn't change. For instance in France, this book did very well, and it wasn't controversial because even the French left agrees with a lot of what I am saying."
"One of the most obvious things we should have learned by now is that if you import the world's people, you also import the world's problems. That means you're going to have start contending with things you just hadn't thought about."
As for the roots of support for – or at least a hesitancy to challenge – open-door immigration policies for mass migration from the Middle East, Murray cited not only residual collective guilt for the Holocaust, but an "existential tiredness", as well as the transformation of traditional religion in the increasingly secular West into a progressive faith advocating "social welfare activism".
"The guilt, the tiredness - the existential tiredness - and the sense that the story has run out. There's a reason for it. Only by understanding these deeper conundrums can you understand the depth of the problem. Europe's post-Holocaust history is everywhere. It is why you see people at train stations in 2015 in Munich and elsewhere welcoming the migrants coming off the trains as if they were heroes returning from war or the football team that's just won the World Cup."
"Why? existential guilt. They think that they're alleviating by doing this. This simply doesn't fall out in the ways that people have predicted."
"The lesson we in Britain have learned from the Holocaust of European Jewry is, 'Don't be mean to Islam'."
Murray also pointed out the dangers he saw in certain strains of "secular Judaism" which have been transmogrified into "social welfare activism".
"Judaism can, like Christianity, can devolve into a form of non-believing social welfare activism. That is, people who are not very devout anymore say that basically, Jewish means being a social care activist."
"These are the sort of people who push mass migration most readily. They say 'Why not? Share with the world. And the Swedish churches, the Scandinavian churches, the Protestant churches, and to a great extent the Catholic church as well, including the Pope, they also push this."
8. LIBERMAN: WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO BRING DOWN NETANYAHU
by Hezki Baruch
MK Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, referred to the failure of coalition negotiations and attacked the Likud, which represents the haredi MKs as having been "flexible" for the draft law.
"I heard Likud spokesmen speaking this morning about the 'amazing flexibility' of the haredi parties that are willing to pass the draft law, but with one little reservation, that the issue of recruitment targets and the expiry of the law will be decided by the government and not in primary legislation. That's not flexibility, it's deceit," Liberman said.
"The draft law is only a symptom of haredi extremism, which includes, among other things, the closure of supermarkets on Shabbat, the Yehudit bridge, a consumer boycott of the Phenicia plant in Yeruham and an attempt to stop the sale of tickets on Shabbat at the Biblical Zoo."
"The sole motive of Yisrael Beytenu is to uphold the principles and commitments given to the public before the elections, during the elections and after the elections. We are not looking to bring down Netanyahu and we are not looking for an alternative candidate, but we will not give up our principles and promises to the citizens of the State of Israel," Liberman said.
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HEADLINES:
1. REPORT: LIKUD OFFICIALS TURNED TO US TO RESOLVE COALITION CRISIS
2. MOTHER TO TERRORIST: I HOPE YOUR CHILDREN BURN
3. THE LEMMER BROTHERS: FROM SYNAGOGUES TO BASEBALL STADIUMS
4. SAMARIAN WINE TAKES GOLD AT PRESTIGIOUS INTN'L COMPETITION
5. BILL TO DISSOLVE KNESSET PASSES FIRST READING
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
7. 'THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE' - AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ISRAEL
8. LIBERMAN: WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO BRING DOWN NETANYAHU
1. REPORT: LIKUD OFFICIALS TURNED TO US TO RESOLVE COALITION CRISIS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Senior Likud officials turned to the Trump administration for help in pressuring Avidgor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, to soften his position and accept a compromise arrangement enabling Binyamin Netanyahu to form a new government before the Wednesday deadline, Maariv reported Tuesday.
The report cited unnamed Israeli political officials, who say they reached out to the Trump administration in a bid to convince the White House to actively intervene on Netanyahu's behalf.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been unable to form a majority coalition government, which requires 61 MKs, amid an ongoing feud between the secular rightist Yisrael Beytenu party and haredi lawmakers over a bill proposed by Yisrael Beytenu which would pressure the haredi community to reach draft quotas.
Haredi lawmakers have accepted a compromise deal put forward by Netanyahu which would back the Yisrael Beytenu law – while giving the government discretion to set the draft quotas – but Liberman has thus far refused to accept the arrangement.
Without Yisrael Beytenu, Netanyahu would be one seat short of a 60-MK majority.
Netanyahu must present a government by Wednesday, or face the possibility of losing his mandate to form the next government.
The Likud has pushed for new elections in the event that no deal can be reached by Wednesday.
Some senior Israeli political officials, however, lobbied the Trump administration Monday, urging the administration to intervene on Netanyahu's behalf. The officials hoped, Maariv reported, to convince the White House to have a senior administration official call Liberman and emphasize the importance of Israel forming a new government now and avoiding repeat elections.
The White House is expected to release half of its upcoming Middle East peace plan next month at a workshop in Bahrain. If Israel returns to the ballot box in September, however, the peace plan's rollout would likely be delayed to the end of 2019, and possibly into 2020.
2. MOTHER TO TERRORIST: I HOPE YOUR CHILDREN BURN
by Hezki Baruch
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263800
The terrorist responsible for a firebomb attack on an Israeli family in October 2015 was brought before an IDF court near Jerusalem Tuesday for a hearing on a plea bargain agreement.
The attack, which took place near the Israeli town of Beit El, north of Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2015, targeted the Sofer family's car, as the family made its way from their home in Nitzan in southern Israel to Beit El for the Sabbath.
En route, a group of terrorists waiting on a hill next to the road hurled firebombs at the Sofer family's car.
One firebomb smashed through a window, landing in the backseat, where the children Tair, 11, Matan, 10, and Tahel, 3, were sitting.
While Tair and Matan were spared injury, the firebomb exploded on three-year-old Tahel, causing serious injuries.
On Tuesday, the Mahane Ofer military court presented a plea bargain deal signed by the terrorist.
Tahel's mother, Sigal Sofer, took part in the hearing, lashing out at the terrorist.
"How evil you are, you disgusting, violent scum," Sigal told the terrorist during the hearing. "I wish that all of your children would be burned, one child after another, slowly, from head to toe. All of your offspring and any other descendants. If you dared to burn a three-year-old girl, you are scum."
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263800
3. THE LEMMER BROTHERS: FROM SYNAGOGUES TO BASEBALL STADIUMS
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263799
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4. SAMARIAN WINE TAKES GOLD AT PRESTIGIOUS INTN'L COMPETITION
by Tal Polon
The Gvaot winery, located in Givat Harel in the Samaria hills, has taken a gold medal at the prestigious Decanter World Wine Awards in London.
The winery received a score of 95, considered high for the competition, for its "Gofna Cabernet Sauvignon," which the tasting notes called a "brilliant warm-climate Cabernet."
Eliav Miller, CEO of the winery, said in response, "I am excited by the impressive win, and promise my customers in Israel and around the world to continue the good, historic, up-to-date and renewed way of the wine world in Israel in general, and Samaria in particular."
Founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Amnon Weiss and Chief Winemaker Dr. Shivi Drori, an agronomist and researcher in viticulture and oenology at Ariel University, the winery says it "continues an ancient tradition of wine production in this mountainous [Samarian] area" to which "hundreds of antique wine presses scattered around the renewed vineyards bear witness."
5. BILL TO DISSOLVE KNESSET PASSES FIRST READING
by Hezki Baruch
The Knesset plenum on Monday night approved the first reading of the bill to dissolve the Knesset.
66 MKs voted in favor, 44 voted against and five abstained.
The special committee discussing the dissolution of the Knesset is expected to convene on Tuesday morning to prepare the bill for its second and third readings.
Earlier on Monday evening, the committee determined that the elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
The date, however, is not final and is expected to change ahead of the final vote in the Knesset plenum. Committee chairman MK Miki Zohar (Likud) said at the start of the discussion, "Anyone who votes against the bill helps Benny Gantz form a government."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is continuing his efforts to prevent elections and establish a right-wing government. The businessman who is conducting the coalition negotiations on behalf of MK Avigdor Liberman, Shmuel Hayek, is expected to return to Israel overnight Monday and continue with the talks.
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu instructed Likud ministers and Knesset members to launch an attack against Liberman over his decision to oppose the establishment of a right-wing government.
"I've now informed the Likud ministers and Knesset members: After evaluating a new situation - open season on Liberman," Netanyahu said.
The Prime Minister earlier said that there was still time to form a coalition and avert new elections.
"There's no reason to drag the country to unnecessary elections that will cost a fortune and paralyze us all for another half a year," Netanyahu said.
6. IDF LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA
by AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff
The IDF confirmed that it had launched an airstrike on Syrian territory Monday evening following reports of an attack on the province of Quneitra
One Syrian soldier was killed and two others wounded in the Israeli missile strike, the official SANA news agency reported.
"An Israeli missile targeted Tel al-Shaar in Quneitra," the Syrian news agency said, adding a "military vehicle was targeted and there are wounded."
The IDF stated that the strike had targeted a missile launcher following an attack on an Israeli aircraft. The missile did not strike the plane and landed in Syria.
"Earlier today, Syrian anti-aircraft systems fired at an IDF fighter jet during a routine flight in northern Israel.
The anti-air projectile landed in Syrian territory and the mission was completed as planned," the IDF stated.
"In response, a short while ago, the IDF targeted the launcher that had fired. The IDF sees any threat against its aircraft with great severity and takes measures to defend them."
7. 'THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE' - AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ISRAEL
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263741
Mass migration – particularly illegal immigration – has become, perhaps, the defining political crisis for the West.
Concerns over such migrations helped catapult a reality television star into the White House, and have divided the European Union even more than the global financial crisis of the late 2000s and the subsequent austerity programs.
While some have argued that the various crises stemming from the recent waves of mass migration are a temporary aberration, British journalist and commentator Douglas Murray believes the issue is here to stay – and indeed will only grow in importance in the coming years.
"This is going to be the single biggest issue in an age where anyone can move anywhere," Murray said in an interview with Arutz Sheva. Murray came to Israel to participate in the "Israeli Conservatism Conference".
Murray's 2017 book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, was recently translated to Hebrew and released in Israel, highlighting growing concerns in Israel over mass migration and its political and security ramifications.
"It is vital that an Israeli readership learns the depth of what is currently Europe's problem, because I think that in the years ahead this is going to get infinitely more complicated. This country [Israel]... has very good reason to worry about Europe," Murray said.
Europe's political establishment, by virtue of its lingering guilt over the Holocaust and a refusal to consider the potential dangers of mass migration, has engaged in a social experiment on the grandest scale, Murray argues.
"Our entire political class in Europe has decided that because it's so complex, we have to all agree that it is going to go fine. And I'm saying, 'What if it's not okay? What if this all goes horribly wrong?' The answer that I tend to get from the political establishment in Europe and even most of the media is 'It can't go wrong. It has to go right. Otherwise we've screwed the whole thing up.'"
"An analogy I like to give on this is: to move this number of people from this far away this fast into a place that didn't actually have populations that wanted this to happen is analogous to trying to find the vaccine for something and not doing any tests before using on your only child. It's a crazy thing to do. We don't have loads of continents to try this on, and I think it's very unwise to try a controlled experiment on the only thing you have."
At its peak, the flow of migrants into Europe saw thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East, landing every day on Greek and Italian coasts. Most, Murray notes, were not legal refugees or qualified for asylum – even under the EU's own rules.
"When I was writing the book in 2015-2016 the flow [of immigrants] was at its height. That was seeing thousands of people arriving every day on the Greek and Italian coastlines."
"By 2015-2016, most people had no asylum right. This is the European Union's own figures."
"The figures showed that most of the people coming had 'No more right to be in Europe that anyone else in the rest of the world.'"
While the stream of migrants has slowed since the 2015-2016 peak, this has come at a significant cost to the EU, Murray continued, with Europe funneling large sums of cash to Turkey, in effect a bribe, to encourage the Turkish government to block migrants from setting out for Europe from its territory.
"The reason why the boat landings [in Europe] have slowed is because the European Union is paying a massive bribe - hundreds and hundreds of millions of Euros as a bribe - to President Erdogan in Turkey to stop the flow. We bribe him to stop the boats leaving. He's actually doing what he could have done at any high point of the crisis, which is literally stopping the movement through Turkey that allows them to then leave by boat to the Greek islands."
Despite the obvious difficulties presented by mass immigration – which Murray notes is largely done illegally – the political establishment in much of Europe, particularly Germany, ignores the problems it creates, while some critics of mass immigration polarize the issue by accusing all migrants of violence.
"People who claim that everyone who arrives is going to be violent, are of course, are obviously crazy and it is a deeply dishonest way to portray it."
"You have to look at the big picture, and the big picture is a big mess. Most things happen because of a screw up and this is one the monumental screw ups of all time."
Nevertheless, there is a growing awareness of the unsustainability of the open-door migration policy, though Murray notes that popular opinion on the issue has been slower to shift in some countries.
"The trajectory in every country in Europe is exactly the same. Everyone is at different stages along the same path, and the path doesn't change. For instance in France, this book did very well, and it wasn't controversial because even the French left agrees with a lot of what I am saying."
"One of the most obvious things we should have learned by now is that if you import the world's people, you also import the world's problems. That means you're going to have start contending with things you just hadn't thought about."
As for the roots of support for – or at least a hesitancy to challenge – open-door immigration policies for mass migration from the Middle East, Murray cited not only residual collective guilt for the Holocaust, but an "existential tiredness", as well as the transformation of traditional religion in the increasingly secular West into a progressive faith advocating "social welfare activism".
"The guilt, the tiredness - the existential tiredness - and the sense that the story has run out. There's a reason for it. Only by understanding these deeper conundrums can you understand the depth of the problem. Europe's post-Holocaust history is everywhere. It is why you see people at train stations in 2015 in Munich and elsewhere welcoming the migrants coming off the trains as if they were heroes returning from war or the football team that's just won the World Cup."
"Why? existential guilt. They think that they're alleviating by doing this. This simply doesn't fall out in the ways that people have predicted."
"The lesson we in Britain have learned from the Holocaust of European Jewry is, 'Don't be mean to Islam'."
Murray also pointed out the dangers he saw in certain strains of "secular Judaism" which have been transmogrified into "social welfare activism".
"Judaism can, like Christianity, can devolve into a form of non-believing social welfare activism. That is, people who are not very devout anymore say that basically, Jewish means being a social care activist."
"These are the sort of people who push mass migration most readily. They say 'Why not? Share with the world. And the Swedish churches, the Scandinavian churches, the Protestant churches, and to a great extent the Catholic church as well, including the Pope, they also push this."
8. LIBERMAN: WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO BRING DOWN NETANYAHU
by Hezki Baruch
MK Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Yisrael Beytenu party, referred to the failure of coalition negotiations and attacked the Likud, which represents the haredi MKs as having been "flexible" for the draft law.
"I heard Likud spokesmen speaking this morning about the 'amazing flexibility' of the haredi parties that are willing to pass the draft law, but with one little reservation, that the issue of recruitment targets and the expiry of the law will be decided by the government and not in primary legislation. That's not flexibility, it's deceit," Liberman said.
"The draft law is only a symptom of haredi extremism, which includes, among other things, the closure of supermarkets on Shabbat, the Yehudit bridge, a consumer boycott of the Phenicia plant in Yeruham and an attempt to stop the sale of tickets on Shabbat at the Biblical Zoo."
"The sole motive of Yisrael Beytenu is to uphold the principles and commitments given to the public before the elections, during the elections and after the elections. We are not looking to bring down Netanyahu and we are not looking for an alternative candidate, but we will not give up our principles and promises to the citizens of the State of Israel," Liberman said.
Monday, May 27, 2019
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HEADLINES:
1. DATE SET FOR NEW ELECTIONS - IF COALITION TALKS FAIL
2. HAREDI PARTIES WON'T SUPPORT SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
3. NEW RIGHT OFFICIALS: WE'LL RUN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
4. MASSIVE BLAZE IN JERUSALEM SCHOOL
5. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC WOULD WIN AGAIN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
6. TOMORROW: VOTE TO DISMISS THE KNESSET
7. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
8. YESHIVAH STUDENTS SAVE THE LIFE OF MAN WITH A SWASTIKA
1. DATE SET FOR NEW ELECTIONS - IF COALITION TALKS FAIL
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The elections for the 22nd Knesset will be held on September 3rd of this year – if coalition talks fail and the Knesset votes to dissolve itself, paving the way for snap elections.
Likud MK Miki Zohar submitted a bill Monday morning which would dissolve the 21st Knesset and call for new elections to be held less than five months after the last vote, held on April 9th.
The bill was submitted in keeping with a decision made by Likud leaders Sunday to prepare for the dissolution of the Knesset by Wednesday.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must form a new governing coalition by Wednesday – or risk losing the mandate to form the next government.
Unless the Likud can broker a deal between the secular rightist Yisrael Beytenu and haredi lawmakers over the future of the IDF draft deferment program for yeshiva students, Netanyahu will be unable to win the backing of a majority in the 120-member Knesset.
Netanyahu is reportedly attempting to form a temporary 60-MK government, which would require the tacit support of Yisrael Beytenu from the opposition. Such an arrangement would give Netanyahu an extra six days to negotiate an agreement allowing him to bring Yisrael Beytenu into the government.
2. HAREDI PARTIES WON'T SUPPORT SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The haredi parties will oppose the move to hold elections on September 3, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
According to Kikar Hashabbat, the parties claim that holding elections in September, at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul, will disrupt the yeshivas' Elul learning period.
As a result, if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fails to form a coalition by Wednesday, efforts will be made to ensure elections will be held either on August 27, or only after the Tishrei (fall) holidays.
If new elections are held, it is estimated that the right-religious bloc would retain its majority and gain an additional three seats.
The vote on whether to dissolve the current Knesset is scheduled for Monday at 4:00p.m.
3. NEW RIGHT OFFICIALS: WE'LL RUN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
by Arutz Sheva Staff
With the Knesset slated to hold the preliminary vote on dissolving the Knesset and heading to early elections, sources in the New Right party say Monday they're planning on running if new elections are indeed held – despite failing to cross the electoral threshold in last month's Knesset vote.
On April 9th, the New Right party, headed by former Jewish Home ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, failed to cross the electoral threshold, coming some 1,000 votes short of the 3.25% minimum needed to enter the Knesset.
Now, with the 21st Knesset on the verge of dissolution as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains unable to form a new government, New Right officials say they plan to run if the country goes back to the ballot box this year.
Party officials close to Bennett hinted, however, that Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who ran on the party's number two slot in the April election, may not necessary remain with the New Right.
"The party will run in the elections and make connections, with Shaked or without her."
Shaked is also expected to weigh in Monday on a possible Knesset run if the country goes to new elections.
The former Justice Minister is slated to speak at an Israel Bar Association event in Eilat at 10:30 Monday morning.
4. MASSIVE BLAZE IN JERUSALEM SCHOOL
by Eliran Baruch
A fire broke out in a Jerusalem girls' school early Monday morning, resulting in damage to the school's interior, but no injuries.
The blaze was first reported at approximately 4:20 a.m. Monday in a school located on Malchei Yisrael Street in the capital.
Fire and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, and within an hour had contained the fire, which was later extinguished.
"Firefighters quickly arrived at the scene, spotted the flames and large amount of smoke coming out of the school," a spokesperson for the Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue said.
"The firefighting teams entered the building as it was burning, carried out searches at the scene, while also working to extinguish the flames and carry out a controlled release of the large amount of smoke which was building up inside the school."
Fire officials opened an investigation into the causes of the fire. A preliminary investigation suggests that a faulty air conditioner unit which had been left on overnight was to blame.
Damage inside of school Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue
5. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC WOULD WIN AGAIN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
by David Rosenberg
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would be reelected – again – if Knesset elections were held this year for a second time, a new poll shows.
With coalition talks stalled due to a dispute between haredi lawmakers and Yisrael Beytenu over the future of the draft deferment program for yeshiva students, the Likud is pushing to dissolve the 21st Knesset less than two months after it was elected.
The Knesset is expected to hold the initial vote on a measure to dissolve the Knesset Monday, with a final vote slated for Wednesday – the deadline for Netanyahu to form a new government.
According to a new poll conducted by Panels Politics on behalf of Maariv, Netanyahu would benefit from new elections, which would increase the right-wing - haredi bloc's margin in the Knesset from 65 seats to 68, while the left-wing – Arab bloc would fall from 55 to 52 mandates.
The Likud itself would retain the 35 seats it won in April, while the center-left Blue and White party would fall from 35 to 34 seats.
The haredi factions Shas and United Torah Judaism would retain their eight seats each, while the Union of Right-Wing Parties would rise from five seats to six. Yisrael Beytenu would also rise from five seats to six.
The New Right party of Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked would pass the electoral threshold this time around, winning five seats, while the Kulanu faction of Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon would not.
With 68 mandates for the right-wing – haredi bloc, Netanyahu would no longer be dependent on Yisrael Beytenu to form a majority coalition of 61 MKs.
On the left, the Labor party would retain its current six mandates, while Meretz would gain one seat, rising to five. The joint ticket of the Arab parties Hadash and Ta'al would gain one seat, rising to seven mandates, while the second Arab joint ticket of Balad and the United Arab List would fail to cross the threshold.
6. TOMORROW: VOTE TO DISMISS THE KNESSET
by Arutz Sheva Staff
MK and ministers from the Likud faction were asked to arrive at the Knesset tomorrow (Monday) at 4 PM to vote to dismiss the current Knesset.
"Hello everyone, Please be at tomorrow at 16:00 in the plenum to vote on the Knesset Dispersion Law. Attendance is mandatory. There are no excuses and no absences. Please confirm!" the message sent to the faction said.
The message appears to signal the end of negotiations to form a new coalition following last month's Knesset elections. At the same time, efforts to form a coalition are continuing.
7. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced plans Sunday to advance a bill to dissolve the 21st Knesset – less than two months after it was elected.
Netanyahu made the announcement during a meeting of Likud ministers Sunday afternoon, as talks to form a new coalition government remain at an impasse.
During the meeting Sunday, Netanyahu blamed Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avidgor Liberman for the failure to reach a compromise agreement with haredi lawmakers which would pave the way for a new governing coalition.
"The haredim moved in Liberman's direction," said Netanyahu. "We can solve this crisis, but I guess someone doesn't want to."
"Liberman is looking for any excuse to topple me. The public will never forgive him if he takes us to elections twice in one year," Netanyahu continued.
The Prime Minister added that if no compromise can be worked out before the deadline Wednesday, Israel will head to snap elections.
"If there will be no choice, then we'll pass a law dissolving the Knesset on Wednesday."
At the same time, the Likud's negotiating team is continuing its efforts to bring Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi factions to a compromise that would allow both sides to join the new government.
With five seats of the 65 total mandates won by the right-wing – religious bloc in last month's election, Yisrael Beytenu is essential for Netanyahu to build a working majority government.
Netanyahu has until Wednesday to form a new government – or risk President Reuven Rivlin nominating a rival candidate to attempt to form a coalition.
Yisrael Beytenu and the two haredi factions – Shas and United Torah Judaism – have been at odds over Yisrael Beytenu's proposed modifications to the haredi draft law.
The bill, drawn up by a committee of defense officials at Liberman's behest, would largely retain the present draft deferment program for yeshiva students, while adding measures to pressure the haredi community to meet draft quotas set by the defense ministry.
The hared parties, by contrast, have pushed for maintaining the present system.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263692
8. YESHIVAH STUDENTS SAVE THE LIFE OF MAN WITH A SWASTIKA
by Sara Rubenstein
A group of teenaged yeshivah students in Boston saved a man with a swastika tattoo from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston last week, according to a report by NBC10 Boston.
The students were taking a walk around the reservoir and spotted a man partially submerged in the water and not moving. They immediately ran to a nearby police car to summon help. Boston College police officer Carl Mascioli was on patrol that day and responded to their calls.
"While I was pulling him out of the water, I also observed that he had a swastika on his hand," said Mascioli. According to Mascioli, the boys had summoned him just in time to save the man's life because he would not have survived much longer.
When the man regained consciousness, Mascioli made sure to tell the man who had saved his life. "I kind of let the gentlemen know sometimes some deeds have a funny way of turning around," said the officer. "Their good deed had a little bit of a twist to it."
Mascioli said that the students told him that they didn't regret saving the man's life.
It's unknown how the man almost drowned.
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HEADLINES:
1. DATE SET FOR NEW ELECTIONS - IF COALITION TALKS FAIL
2. HAREDI PARTIES WON'T SUPPORT SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
3. NEW RIGHT OFFICIALS: WE'LL RUN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
4. MASSIVE BLAZE IN JERUSALEM SCHOOL
5. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC WOULD WIN AGAIN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
6. TOMORROW: VOTE TO DISMISS THE KNESSET
7. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
8. YESHIVAH STUDENTS SAVE THE LIFE OF MAN WITH A SWASTIKA
1. DATE SET FOR NEW ELECTIONS - IF COALITION TALKS FAIL
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The elections for the 22nd Knesset will be held on September 3rd of this year – if coalition talks fail and the Knesset votes to dissolve itself, paving the way for snap elections.
Likud MK Miki Zohar submitted a bill Monday morning which would dissolve the 21st Knesset and call for new elections to be held less than five months after the last vote, held on April 9th.
The bill was submitted in keeping with a decision made by Likud leaders Sunday to prepare for the dissolution of the Knesset by Wednesday.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must form a new governing coalition by Wednesday – or risk losing the mandate to form the next government.
Unless the Likud can broker a deal between the secular rightist Yisrael Beytenu and haredi lawmakers over the future of the IDF draft deferment program for yeshiva students, Netanyahu will be unable to win the backing of a majority in the 120-member Knesset.
Netanyahu is reportedly attempting to form a temporary 60-MK government, which would require the tacit support of Yisrael Beytenu from the opposition. Such an arrangement would give Netanyahu an extra six days to negotiate an agreement allowing him to bring Yisrael Beytenu into the government.
2. HAREDI PARTIES WON'T SUPPORT SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The haredi parties will oppose the move to hold elections on September 3, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
According to Kikar Hashabbat, the parties claim that holding elections in September, at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul, will disrupt the yeshivas' Elul learning period.
As a result, if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fails to form a coalition by Wednesday, efforts will be made to ensure elections will be held either on August 27, or only after the Tishrei (fall) holidays.
If new elections are held, it is estimated that the right-religious bloc would retain its majority and gain an additional three seats.
The vote on whether to dissolve the current Knesset is scheduled for Monday at 4:00p.m.
3. NEW RIGHT OFFICIALS: WE'LL RUN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
by Arutz Sheva Staff
With the Knesset slated to hold the preliminary vote on dissolving the Knesset and heading to early elections, sources in the New Right party say Monday they're planning on running if new elections are indeed held – despite failing to cross the electoral threshold in last month's Knesset vote.
On April 9th, the New Right party, headed by former Jewish Home ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, failed to cross the electoral threshold, coming some 1,000 votes short of the 3.25% minimum needed to enter the Knesset.
Now, with the 21st Knesset on the verge of dissolution as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains unable to form a new government, New Right officials say they plan to run if the country goes back to the ballot box this year.
Party officials close to Bennett hinted, however, that Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who ran on the party's number two slot in the April election, may not necessary remain with the New Right.
"The party will run in the elections and make connections, with Shaked or without her."
Shaked is also expected to weigh in Monday on a possible Knesset run if the country goes to new elections.
The former Justice Minister is slated to speak at an Israel Bar Association event in Eilat at 10:30 Monday morning.
4. MASSIVE BLAZE IN JERUSALEM SCHOOL
by Eliran Baruch
A fire broke out in a Jerusalem girls' school early Monday morning, resulting in damage to the school's interior, but no injuries.
The blaze was first reported at approximately 4:20 a.m. Monday in a school located on Malchei Yisrael Street in the capital.
Fire and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, and within an hour had contained the fire, which was later extinguished.
"Firefighters quickly arrived at the scene, spotted the flames and large amount of smoke coming out of the school," a spokesperson for the Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue said.
"The firefighting teams entered the building as it was burning, carried out searches at the scene, while also working to extinguish the flames and carry out a controlled release of the large amount of smoke which was building up inside the school."
Fire officials opened an investigation into the causes of the fire. A preliminary investigation suggests that a faulty air conditioner unit which had been left on overnight was to blame.
Damage inside of school Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue
5. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC WOULD WIN AGAIN IF NEW ELECTIONS HELD
by David Rosenberg
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would be reelected – again – if Knesset elections were held this year for a second time, a new poll shows.
With coalition talks stalled due to a dispute between haredi lawmakers and Yisrael Beytenu over the future of the draft deferment program for yeshiva students, the Likud is pushing to dissolve the 21st Knesset less than two months after it was elected.
The Knesset is expected to hold the initial vote on a measure to dissolve the Knesset Monday, with a final vote slated for Wednesday – the deadline for Netanyahu to form a new government.
According to a new poll conducted by Panels Politics on behalf of Maariv, Netanyahu would benefit from new elections, which would increase the right-wing - haredi bloc's margin in the Knesset from 65 seats to 68, while the left-wing – Arab bloc would fall from 55 to 52 mandates.
The Likud itself would retain the 35 seats it won in April, while the center-left Blue and White party would fall from 35 to 34 seats.
The haredi factions Shas and United Torah Judaism would retain their eight seats each, while the Union of Right-Wing Parties would rise from five seats to six. Yisrael Beytenu would also rise from five seats to six.
The New Right party of Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked would pass the electoral threshold this time around, winning five seats, while the Kulanu faction of Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon would not.
With 68 mandates for the right-wing – haredi bloc, Netanyahu would no longer be dependent on Yisrael Beytenu to form a majority coalition of 61 MKs.
On the left, the Labor party would retain its current six mandates, while Meretz would gain one seat, rising to five. The joint ticket of the Arab parties Hadash and Ta'al would gain one seat, rising to seven mandates, while the second Arab joint ticket of Balad and the United Arab List would fail to cross the threshold.
6. TOMORROW: VOTE TO DISMISS THE KNESSET
by Arutz Sheva Staff
MK and ministers from the Likud faction were asked to arrive at the Knesset tomorrow (Monday) at 4 PM to vote to dismiss the current Knesset.
"Hello everyone, Please be at tomorrow at 16:00 in the plenum to vote on the Knesset Dispersion Law. Attendance is mandatory. There are no excuses and no absences. Please confirm!" the message sent to the faction said.
The message appears to signal the end of negotiations to form a new coalition following last month's Knesset elections. At the same time, efforts to form a coalition are continuing.
7. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced plans Sunday to advance a bill to dissolve the 21st Knesset – less than two months after it was elected.
Netanyahu made the announcement during a meeting of Likud ministers Sunday afternoon, as talks to form a new coalition government remain at an impasse.
During the meeting Sunday, Netanyahu blamed Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avidgor Liberman for the failure to reach a compromise agreement with haredi lawmakers which would pave the way for a new governing coalition.
"The haredim moved in Liberman's direction," said Netanyahu. "We can solve this crisis, but I guess someone doesn't want to."
"Liberman is looking for any excuse to topple me. The public will never forgive him if he takes us to elections twice in one year," Netanyahu continued.
The Prime Minister added that if no compromise can be worked out before the deadline Wednesday, Israel will head to snap elections.
"If there will be no choice, then we'll pass a law dissolving the Knesset on Wednesday."
At the same time, the Likud's negotiating team is continuing its efforts to bring Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi factions to a compromise that would allow both sides to join the new government.
With five seats of the 65 total mandates won by the right-wing – religious bloc in last month's election, Yisrael Beytenu is essential for Netanyahu to build a working majority government.
Netanyahu has until Wednesday to form a new government – or risk President Reuven Rivlin nominating a rival candidate to attempt to form a coalition.
Yisrael Beytenu and the two haredi factions – Shas and United Torah Judaism – have been at odds over Yisrael Beytenu's proposed modifications to the haredi draft law.
The bill, drawn up by a committee of defense officials at Liberman's behest, would largely retain the present draft deferment program for yeshiva students, while adding measures to pressure the haredi community to meet draft quotas set by the defense ministry.
The hared parties, by contrast, have pushed for maintaining the present system.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263692
8. YESHIVAH STUDENTS SAVE THE LIFE OF MAN WITH A SWASTIKA
by Sara Rubenstein
A group of teenaged yeshivah students in Boston saved a man with a swastika tattoo from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston last week, according to a report by NBC10 Boston.
The students were taking a walk around the reservoir and spotted a man partially submerged in the water and not moving. They immediately ran to a nearby police car to summon help. Boston College police officer Carl Mascioli was on patrol that day and responded to their calls.
"While I was pulling him out of the water, I also observed that he had a swastika on his hand," said Mascioli. According to Mascioli, the boys had summoned him just in time to save the man's life because he would not have survived much longer.
When the man regained consciousness, Mascioli made sure to tell the man who had saved his life. "I kind of let the gentlemen know sometimes some deeds have a funny way of turning around," said the officer. "Their good deed had a little bit of a twist to it."
Mascioli said that the students told him that they didn't regret saving the man's life.
It's unknown how the man almost drowned.
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HEADLINES:
1. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
2. RABBI OF BERLIN: KIPA SHOULD BE WORN WITH PRIDE
3. 'AGREEMENT REACHED ON MAINTAINING STATUS QUO'
4. WATCH: RABBI CARLEBACH'S HOME DESTROYED - BUT THE BOOKS SURVIVED
5. SUSPICION: FIRE AT MEVO MODI'IM CAUSED BY ARSON
6. FRANCE: 13 WOUNDED IN EXPLOSION IN LYON
7. POLICE ARREST ARAB ARSONIST IN JERUSALEM
8. 'YANKI IS DEJECTED, HURT AND HUMILIATED'
1. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced plans Sunday to advance a bill to dissolve the 21st Knesset – less than two months after it was elected.
Netanyahu made the announcement during a meeting of Likud ministers Sunday afternoon, as talks to form a new coalition government remain at an impasse.
During the meeting Sunday, Netanyahu blamed Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avidgor Liberman for the failure to reach a compromise agreement with haredi lawmakers which would pave the way for a new governing coalition.
"The haredim moved in Liberman's direction," said Netanyahu. "We can solve this crisis, but I guess someone doesn't want to."
"Liberman is looking for any excuse to topple me. The public will never forgive him if he takes us to elections twice in one year," Netanyahu continued.
The Prime Minister added that if no compromise can be worked out before the deadline Wednesday, Israel will head to snap elections.
"If there will be no choice, then we'll pass a law dissolving the Knesset on Wednesday."
At the same time, the Likud's negotiating team is continuing its efforts to bring Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi factions to a compromise that would allow both sides to join the new government.
With five seats of the 65 total mandates won by the right-wing – religious bloc in last month's election, Yisrael Beytenu is essential for Netanyahu to build a working majority government.
Netanyahu has until Wednesday to form a new government – or risk President Reuven Rivlin nominating a rival candidate to attempt to form a coalition.
Yisrael Beytenu and the two haredi factions – Shas and United Torah Judaism – have been at odds over Yisrael Beytenu's proposed modifications to the haredi draft law.
The bill, drawn up by a committee of defense officials at Liberman's behest, would largely retain the present draft deferment program for yeshiva students, while adding measures to pressure the haredi community to meet draft quotas set by the defense ministry.
The hared parties, by contrast, have pushed for maintaining the present system.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263692
2. RABBI OF BERLIN: KIPA SHOULD BE WORN WITH PRIDE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The rabbi of Berlin, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on Sunday morning urged Jews to continue to wear kippot with pride, after a German government official advised that Jews not wear kippot "everywhere, all the time."
"The combating of anti-Semitism is a top priority so it is appreciated that this is being addressed by top representatives of the government," Rabbi Teichtal wrote on Facebook.
"At the same time, the KIPA is a clear symbol of Jewish identity and should be worn with PRIDE."
Rabbi Teichtal - who also is the great grandson of Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, whose work Eim Habanim Smeicha argued that the Holocaust was a sign that Jews must make aliyah and rebuild the land of Israel - added, "Of course all the necessary security precautions need to be taken. At the same time, hiding our identity was never the solution, we should be always be PROUD of who we are. AM ISRAEL CHAI."
The rabbi's comments come after Germany's government commissioner on anti-Semitism warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah skullcap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks.
"I cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany," Felix Klein said in an interview published Saturday by the Funke regional press group.
In issuing the warning, he said he had "alas, changed my mind (on the subject) compared to previously."
3. 'AGREEMENT REACHED ON MAINTAINING STATUS QUO'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Likud ministers on Sunday to discuss the progress of coalition negotiations.
"We reached an agreement with all the factions on maintaining the status quo in all the issues of legislation in matters of religion and state," said Minister Yariv Levin, chairman of the negotiating team, during the meeting.
In his remarks, Levin referred to the talks held with the Shas, United Torah Judaism and United Right parties, following a meeting held with them last week.
However, it appears that the Draft Law crisis is still far from being solved at this time, and the parties continue to stick fast to their positions.
Earlier, Likud published a statement saying, "Prime Minister Netanyahu is formulating a solution that will enable the establishment of a right-wing government together with the Draft Law. In parallel, in case Liberman remains insistent on the collapse of the government, Likud has begun preparations for elections. At this stage, a decision on the dissolution of the Knesset has not been made."
4. WATCH: RABBI CARLEBACH'S HOME DESTROYED - BUT THE BOOKS SURVIVED
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263685
On Sunday, residents of the central Israeli town of Mevo Modim visited the ruins of the devastated community for the first time since a massive firestorm in the neighboring Ben Shemen Forest tore through the town, destroying most of the roughly 50 homes.
Arutz Sheva joined the residents as they inspected the remains of the homes hit by the fire, including the ruins of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's private residence. To their surprise, the residents visiting the remains of Rabbi Carlebach's home found that much of his personal library remained intact, a fact many found miraculous.
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5. SUSPICION: FIRE AT MEVO MODI'IM CAUSED BY ARSON
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263686
Israel Fire and Rescue Services is investigating the suspicion that the fire that devastated Moshav Mevo Modi'im last week was caused by arson.
On Friday, teams of investigators, assisted by dogs and technological equipment, arrived at the scene and began an examination of the incident.
The investigation at Mevo Modi'im is being conducted concurrently with investigations opened at several other locations throughout the country where fires broke out.
The findings of the Mevo Modi'im investigation so far revealed that there were several fire foci in the area, raising the suspicion that the giant fire, which destroyed dozens of homes in the village, was the result of arson.
However, firefighters emphasize that the investigation is ongoing, and that the findings of the final investigation will be published later.
6. FRANCE: 13 WOUNDED IN EXPLOSION IN LYON
by Elad Benari, Canada
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263649
An explosion on a pedestrian street in the French city of Lyon wounded at least 13 people on Friday, France's interior ministry said.
French police were hunting for a suspected suitcase bomber after the explosion. The suspect was captured on security video leaving a case in front of a bakery shortly before the explosion occurred at around 5:30 p.m. local time.
Officials initially said eight people were wounded, but police sources later put the number hurt at 13. None of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening.
The Paris anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation, with police treating the blast as an attempted homicide, law enforcement officials said.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the explosion an "attack," confirmed there had been no fatalities and sent "a thought for the injured and their families."
France has been hit by a wave of terrorist attacks in recent years, beginning with the 2015 attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine which was followed by the attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in which four people were murdered.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed some of the attacks on France in recent years. The biggest of these attacks was the November 2015 Paris attack in which 129 people were murdered.
The country has been under a heightened alert in recent years in the wake of the attacks.
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(Arutz Sheva's North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
7. POLICE ARREST ARAB ARSONIST IN JERUSALEM
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Israel Police officers on Friday morning arrested an Arab who was documented setting fire to a number of locations in Jerusalem's Mount Scopus area, 0404 News reported.
The suspect was identified by lookouts and his actions were documented. Forces called to the area searched for and located the suspect, arresting him.
A security source told 0404 News that the arson was nationalistically motivated.
Separately, Walla! reported that Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael believes the Ben Shemen Forest fire, which devoured at least 30% of the forest, may have been arson. However, the investigation is still ongoing and official conclusions have not been released.
In addition to the Ben Shemen fire, thousands of dunams of forest in both the Eshtaol and Tsor'a areas have been destroyed.
Some of the fires in the Jerusalem area were caused by falling electric wires, Walla! added.
8. 'YANKI IS DEJECTED, HURT AND HUMILIATED'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Baruch Rosenberg, the father of Yanki Rosenberg, the mentally disabled haredi youth who was arrested through use of excessive force on Wednesday in the Makor Baruch neighborhood of Jerusalem, described the situation in which his son now finds himself.
"Yanki is another person. He is dejected, hurt and humiliated. It's unbelievable, we know him as a happy person who deals with things. He told me, 'Dad, I got the blow of my life'," the father told Ha'olam Haboker on Channel 13.
"We already know that there are a few videos. In the first few days we couldn't bring ourselves to see them," Rosenberg continued. "Yesterday I made a decision that I have to see. Since we do not have this media, I do not have access to it, so I didn't see it yet. I am informed by people who saw it - and we are shocked."
"My second son told me, 'Dad, I know Yanki, he's a good soul and he really did not do anything - not just because I know him, but because you can see.' The video also shows that Yanki is a special child from his conduct. People around yelled, 'Leave him alone, he's a special boy,' Yanki also shouted, 'I'm special' - he uses that when he's in distress, even though he does not like it," the father added.
In response to the question of whether the policemen acted in good faith and did not realize that they were dealing with a mentally disabled youth, Rosenberg replied: "Today it is clear that there is no room for this question, because things speak for themselves. Everyone who watched the video understands that there was no unclear situation there. What we are crying is what happened there? What brought Yanki into a situation where he was cuffed and beaten - he did not do anything."
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1. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
2. RABBI OF BERLIN: KIPA SHOULD BE WORN WITH PRIDE
3. 'AGREEMENT REACHED ON MAINTAINING STATUS QUO'
4. WATCH: RABBI CARLEBACH'S HOME DESTROYED - BUT THE BOOKS SURVIVED
5. SUSPICION: FIRE AT MEVO MODI'IM CAUSED BY ARSON
6. FRANCE: 13 WOUNDED IN EXPLOSION IN LYON
7. POLICE ARREST ARAB ARSONIST IN JERUSALEM
8. 'YANKI IS DEJECTED, HURT AND HUMILIATED'
1. WILL NEW KNESSET BE DISSOLVED THIS WEEK?
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced plans Sunday to advance a bill to dissolve the 21st Knesset – less than two months after it was elected.
Netanyahu made the announcement during a meeting of Likud ministers Sunday afternoon, as talks to form a new coalition government remain at an impasse.
During the meeting Sunday, Netanyahu blamed Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avidgor Liberman for the failure to reach a compromise agreement with haredi lawmakers which would pave the way for a new governing coalition.
"The haredim moved in Liberman's direction," said Netanyahu. "We can solve this crisis, but I guess someone doesn't want to."
"Liberman is looking for any excuse to topple me. The public will never forgive him if he takes us to elections twice in one year," Netanyahu continued.
The Prime Minister added that if no compromise can be worked out before the deadline Wednesday, Israel will head to snap elections.
"If there will be no choice, then we'll pass a law dissolving the Knesset on Wednesday."
At the same time, the Likud's negotiating team is continuing its efforts to bring Yisrael Beytenu and the haredi factions to a compromise that would allow both sides to join the new government.
With five seats of the 65 total mandates won by the right-wing – religious bloc in last month's election, Yisrael Beytenu is essential for Netanyahu to build a working majority government.
Netanyahu has until Wednesday to form a new government – or risk President Reuven Rivlin nominating a rival candidate to attempt to form a coalition.
Yisrael Beytenu and the two haredi factions – Shas and United Torah Judaism – have been at odds over Yisrael Beytenu's proposed modifications to the haredi draft law.
The bill, drawn up by a committee of defense officials at Liberman's behest, would largely retain the present draft deferment program for yeshiva students, while adding measures to pressure the haredi community to meet draft quotas set by the defense ministry.
The hared parties, by contrast, have pushed for maintaining the present system.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263692
2. RABBI OF BERLIN: KIPA SHOULD BE WORN WITH PRIDE
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The rabbi of Berlin, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on Sunday morning urged Jews to continue to wear kippot with pride, after a German government official advised that Jews not wear kippot "everywhere, all the time."
"The combating of anti-Semitism is a top priority so it is appreciated that this is being addressed by top representatives of the government," Rabbi Teichtal wrote on Facebook.
"At the same time, the KIPA is a clear symbol of Jewish identity and should be worn with PRIDE."
Rabbi Teichtal - who also is the great grandson of Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, whose work Eim Habanim Smeicha argued that the Holocaust was a sign that Jews must make aliyah and rebuild the land of Israel - added, "Of course all the necessary security precautions need to be taken. At the same time, hiding our identity was never the solution, we should be always be PROUD of who we are. AM ISRAEL CHAI."
The rabbi's comments come after Germany's government commissioner on anti-Semitism warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah skullcap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks.
"I cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany," Felix Klein said in an interview published Saturday by the Funke regional press group.
In issuing the warning, he said he had "alas, changed my mind (on the subject) compared to previously."
3. 'AGREEMENT REACHED ON MAINTAINING STATUS QUO'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened Likud ministers on Sunday to discuss the progress of coalition negotiations.
"We reached an agreement with all the factions on maintaining the status quo in all the issues of legislation in matters of religion and state," said Minister Yariv Levin, chairman of the negotiating team, during the meeting.
In his remarks, Levin referred to the talks held with the Shas, United Torah Judaism and United Right parties, following a meeting held with them last week.
However, it appears that the Draft Law crisis is still far from being solved at this time, and the parties continue to stick fast to their positions.
Earlier, Likud published a statement saying, "Prime Minister Netanyahu is formulating a solution that will enable the establishment of a right-wing government together with the Draft Law. In parallel, in case Liberman remains insistent on the collapse of the government, Likud has begun preparations for elections. At this stage, a decision on the dissolution of the Knesset has not been made."
4. WATCH: RABBI CARLEBACH'S HOME DESTROYED - BUT THE BOOKS SURVIVED
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263685
On Sunday, residents of the central Israeli town of Mevo Modim visited the ruins of the devastated community for the first time since a massive firestorm in the neighboring Ben Shemen Forest tore through the town, destroying most of the roughly 50 homes.
Arutz Sheva joined the residents as they inspected the remains of the homes hit by the fire, including the ruins of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's private residence. To their surprise, the residents visiting the remains of Rabbi Carlebach's home found that much of his personal library remained intact, a fact many found miraculous.
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5. SUSPICION: FIRE AT MEVO MODI'IM CAUSED BY ARSON
by Arutz Sheva Staff
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263686
Israel Fire and Rescue Services is investigating the suspicion that the fire that devastated Moshav Mevo Modi'im last week was caused by arson.
On Friday, teams of investigators, assisted by dogs and technological equipment, arrived at the scene and began an examination of the incident.
The investigation at Mevo Modi'im is being conducted concurrently with investigations opened at several other locations throughout the country where fires broke out.
The findings of the Mevo Modi'im investigation so far revealed that there were several fire foci in the area, raising the suspicion that the giant fire, which destroyed dozens of homes in the village, was the result of arson.
However, firefighters emphasize that the investigation is ongoing, and that the findings of the final investigation will be published later.
6. FRANCE: 13 WOUNDED IN EXPLOSION IN LYON
by Elad Benari, Canada
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263649
An explosion on a pedestrian street in the French city of Lyon wounded at least 13 people on Friday, France's interior ministry said.
French police were hunting for a suspected suitcase bomber after the explosion. The suspect was captured on security video leaving a case in front of a bakery shortly before the explosion occurred at around 5:30 p.m. local time.
Officials initially said eight people were wounded, but police sources later put the number hurt at 13. None of the injuries are thought to be life-threatening.
The Paris anti-terrorism prosecutor has opened an investigation, with police treating the blast as an attempted homicide, law enforcement officials said.
French President Emmanuel Macron called the explosion an "attack," confirmed there had been no fatalities and sent "a thought for the injured and their families."
France has been hit by a wave of terrorist attacks in recent years, beginning with the 2015 attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine which was followed by the attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in which four people were murdered.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed some of the attacks on France in recent years. The biggest of these attacks was the November 2015 Paris attack in which 129 people were murdered.
The country has been under a heightened alert in recent years in the wake of the attacks.
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(Arutz Sheva's North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
7. POLICE ARREST ARAB ARSONIST IN JERUSALEM
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Israel Police officers on Friday morning arrested an Arab who was documented setting fire to a number of locations in Jerusalem's Mount Scopus area, 0404 News reported.
The suspect was identified by lookouts and his actions were documented. Forces called to the area searched for and located the suspect, arresting him.
A security source told 0404 News that the arson was nationalistically motivated.
Separately, Walla! reported that Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael believes the Ben Shemen Forest fire, which devoured at least 30% of the forest, may have been arson. However, the investigation is still ongoing and official conclusions have not been released.
In addition to the Ben Shemen fire, thousands of dunams of forest in both the Eshtaol and Tsor'a areas have been destroyed.
Some of the fires in the Jerusalem area were caused by falling electric wires, Walla! added.
8. 'YANKI IS DEJECTED, HURT AND HUMILIATED'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Baruch Rosenberg, the father of Yanki Rosenberg, the mentally disabled haredi youth who was arrested through use of excessive force on Wednesday in the Makor Baruch neighborhood of Jerusalem, described the situation in which his son now finds himself.
"Yanki is another person. He is dejected, hurt and humiliated. It's unbelievable, we know him as a happy person who deals with things. He told me, 'Dad, I got the blow of my life'," the father told Ha'olam Haboker on Channel 13.
"We already know that there are a few videos. In the first few days we couldn't bring ourselves to see them," Rosenberg continued. "Yesterday I made a decision that I have to see. Since we do not have this media, I do not have access to it, so I didn't see it yet. I am informed by people who saw it - and we are shocked."
"My second son told me, 'Dad, I know Yanki, he's a good soul and he really did not do anything - not just because I know him, but because you can see.' The video also shows that Yanki is a special child from his conduct. People around yelled, 'Leave him alone, he's a special boy,' Yanki also shouted, 'I'm special' - he uses that when he's in distress, even though he does not like it," the father added.
In response to the question of whether the policemen acted in good faith and did not realize that they were dealing with a mentally disabled youth, Rosenberg replied: "Today it is clear that there is no room for this question, because things speak for themselves. Everyone who watched the video understands that there was no unclear situation there. What we are crying is what happened there? What brought Yanki into a situation where he was cuffed and beaten - he did not do anything."
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263681
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