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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."