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Monday, Jun. 24 '19, כ"א בסיון תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. JEWISH MUSIC STARS TEAM UP TO HELP MOSHAV DESTROYED IN FIRE
2. LAWYER: SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH SUSPECTED RAPIST'S ALIBI
3. NEW JUSTICE MINISTER CALLS TO REIGN IN JUDICIAL OVERREACH
4. WOMAN INJURED AFTER CAR FALLS 2 STORIES FROM PARKING LOT
5. ADVERTISE ON ARUTZ SHEVA – REACH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WORLDWIDE
6. BRITISH YOUTH THREATENS TO BLOW UP PLANE AT BEN GURION AIRPORT
7. NEO-NAZI MURDERER CITES JEWISH GRANDFATHER IN APPEAL FOR 'MERCY'
8. BOLTON: WITHOUT SECURITY THERE CAN BE NO PEACE


1. JEWISH MUSIC STARS TEAM UP TO HELP MOSHAV DESTROYED IN FIRE
by Yoni Kempinski

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Yesterday (Sunday), the Cultural Center in Petah Tikva held a fundraising event on behalf of the residents of Mevo Modi'im, who lost their homes and all their property.

Also known as the 'Carlebach Moshav', the small town in central Israel which was founded by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and his followers. The moshav was almost entirely destroyed by a fire on May 23rd.

Top Jewish recording artists volunteered to perform, including some who grew up in Mevo Modiim and some even lost their own homes.

Among the artists who appeared on the stage were Yishai Ribo, Yitzhak Meir, Bini Landau, Aaron Razel, Haim David Serchik and others. As part of the show, NIS 100,000 ($27,740) was raised for the residents.

Most of the residents of Mevo Modi'im are on the lower end of the socio-economic scale, and many also lost their sole source of income in the fire. They were left with nothing but the clothes on their backs: no home, no clothes, no games for the children – and none of the necessities of life.

The show was held for the residents, produced by Yehuda Kalman, initiated by Sefi Meir and Yossi Harel, while everything was done voluntarily. The show was called "For My Brothers and Friends" and was hosted by Yedidya Meir.

A week after the fire disaster, the residents of Mevo Modi'im established a local committee to fight for their basic rights to proper housing, in light of the absence of a solution and in light of the difficult situation of residents who are being moved from place to place and their future to a permanent solution remains very uncertain.

Netanel Richman, a member of the Mevo Modi'im residents' Action Committee, spoke yesterday on behalf of the residents: "We all felt a powerful experience of tremendous caring from the people of Israel, we grew up on Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and on this music. For us, this was not only a fundraiser, there was great reinforcement and elevation of our spirits as well."

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2. LAWYER: SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH SUSPECTED RAPIST'S ALIBI
by 103FM

Attorney Yehuda Fried, who is representing the 7-year-old girl raped by a Palestinian Authority Arab, spoke on Sunday to 103FM Radio about the various difficulties some see in the case.

Mahmoud Nazmi Abed Alhamid Katusa, 46, was indicted last Sunday on charges of kidnapping and raping the victim, who studied in the school where he is employed as a janitor.

"The nationalistic discussion does not interest me and it does not interest the family," Fried told 103FM. "The only thing that interests me is catching the guilty party and bringing him to justice for the horrible crime he committed."

"The girl provided testimony in four different interrogations, and she provided absolute identification of the guilty party. This is a person who is familiar to her from school. What's there to be confused about? She also gave exact details about the apartment, about the vase of flowers, and everything matches the scene."

When asked how the terror-rapist could have dragged the girl through the street with no one noticing, Fried said, "The school is in a mountainous area and we're not talking about packed streets. The girl walked in unmarked paths and there it seems she was ambushed and kidnapped."

He did, however, admit that there were "absolutely" unresolved issues. "There's no interrogation without question marks," he said. "Somehow when it comes to this case there are things happening which I fail to understand. Suddenly they care about the exact date and time. Most indictments I've seen regarding sex crimes note an unknown date and an unknown time."

"The girl was sexually abused, and there are examinations which prove that. She also suffers psychological symptoms such as bedwetting, which are very common among victims of sexual assault." He added that despite the fact that the pediatrician who examined the girl did not report the crime to the authorities or send the girl to the emergency room, she still "wrote a report noting that there was a rape, which leaves no room for doubt."

The woman who alibied Katusa, Fried noted, "had a relationship of employment with him. That doesn't sit well in my stomach."

Regarding the claim that Katusa's polygraph test showed he was speaking the truth, Fried explained: "That's another bluff. Before every polygraph test, they ask standard questions: How old are you? Where do you live? What are your hobbies? And so on. He was found to be speaking the truth when answering all of these. When he was asked questions regarding the case, he was found to be lying."

"The girl told her version, and in my entire life I've never seen children lying in an interrogation. She has no motive for lying. She described things exactly as she saw them."

"Last Thursday we....met the chief military prosecutor, the prosecutor for Judea and Samaria, and the lawyer from the military prosecution who is handling the case. They stand firmly behind the case and say that all of the complications which are only now being publicized are things they do before. They submitted the indictment, and they believe in it.

"I met the parents. The parents are in a very difficult situation. They're crushed. The father almost fainted in my office. They've lost their daughter spiritually. Let's hope the truth comes to light."


3. NEW JUSTICE MINISTER CALLS TO REIGN IN JUDICIAL OVERREACH
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Justice Minister Amir Ohana (Likud) on Sunday night for the first time criticized Israel's judicial system and the Prosecutor's Office.

"It would be correct to re-examine the balance between the authorities, and that the court would rule that it should show more restraint in the issues it deals with," Ohana told participants at Jerusalem legal event.

According to Ohana, right now "the warnings of the great legalists of the past are coming true: The more the court takes controversial issues which belong in parliament into its hands and deals with political issues, the less trust there is in the judicial system."

"I still want decisions to be made in the Knesset and not by a body which was not voted in, which I believe harms itself when it enters the political realm. Because by doing that it loses the trust we want it to have."

According to Kan News, Ohana also discussed the Prosecutor's Office, saying it "works professionally and with honesty, but if we do not assume that in the Prosecutor's Office and the courts there is nothing which needs fixing, we would be amiss. The only way to correct and improve is through criticism."


4. WOMAN INJURED AFTER CAR FALLS 2 STORIES FROM PARKING LOT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

An 85-year-old woman was injured Monday morning when her car fell two stories from a parking area in Jerusalem.

The incident occurred on Tchernichovsky Street in the capital, when a car being driven by the 85-year-old woman fell off the edge of a parking lot, for reasons which still remain unclear.

The car fell down next to the entrance an adjacent apartment building two stories below.

The driver was moderately injured by the fall, and was left trapped inside her car.

Three rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, and managed to extract the elderly woman from her car. After being treated at the scene by MDA first responders, the driver was evacuated in moderate condition to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Rescue workers also worked at the scene to ensure that the car did not catch on fire, after it was found that the gas tank had been damaged in the fall and was leaking fuel.

"When we arrived on the scene, we saw a car which had been flipped over on its side after falling some 10 meters (33 feet) down to the bottom floor of the parking lot of a residential building," said MDA paramedic Fadi Dakidek.

"There was a female driver in her 80s trapped inside the car. She was fully conscious. After rescue teams pulled her out, she said that the accident happened when she was driving in reverse in the parking lot. She suffered contusions to her face and limbs. We provided her with medical treatment and evacuated her to the hospital while her condition was moderate and stable."


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6. BRITISH YOUTH THREATENS TO BLOW UP PLANE AT BEN GURION AIRPORT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

18 British youths were taken off a British Airways flight from Israel to London after the captain refused to fly them when one of them threatened to blow up the aircraft.

The participants participated in a private event in Israel. After boarding the plane, one of them announced that he would blow up the plane.

The captain updated the management of the British airline and was instructed to take the youths off the plane.

A security team was dispatched to the area, which carried out inspections of passengers and aircraft.

The baggage of the passengers was removed from the plane, which took off for London a few minutes later. The young men remained in the terminal.


7. NEO-NAZI MURDERER CITES JEWISH GRANDFATHER IN APPEAL FOR 'MERCY'
by David Rosenberg

A white supremacist who was convicted of first-degree murder after he ran down a protester in Charlottesville, Virginia two years ago has asked a federal judge for "mercy" when deciding upon sentencing.

On August 12th, 2017, Ohio resident James Alex Fields Jr. drove through a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the "Unite the Right" event in Charlottesville.

Fields rammed dozens of protesters with a 2010 Dodge Challenger, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and leaving 28 more injured.

The demonstrators had been protesting the gathering of neo-Nazis and other far-right activists in Charlottesville, who had turned out in the college town to challenge the city's decision to remove Confederate monuments from local parks.

Fields, now 20, pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes, and was convicted of first-degree murder last December.

A jury recommended Fields be sentenced to 419 years for the ramming attack.

But Fields' attorneys have filed a request with a federal judge asking for "mercy" in finalizing the sentence.

"No amount of punishment imposed on James can repair the damage he caused to dozens of innocent people. But this Court should find that retribution has limits," Fields' legal team wrote in a court document Friday, calling for an "expression of mercy".

In the court documents filed Friday, Fields' attorneys cited his history of mental illness, the difficulties they say he faced being raised by a single, paraplegic mother.

Prosecutors have noted that Fields had explicitly voiced neo-Nazi and white supremacist views, keeping a picture of Adolf Hitler by his bed, and had a history of racist and anti-Semitic behavior.

In his defense, Fields' legal team cited the "trauma" he suffered in growing up aware that his grandfather – who was Jewish – had murdered his grandmother, before committing suicide.

The prosecution rejected this argument, saying that Fields had shown no sign of remorse for his actions or bigotry.

"Any mental health concerns raised by the defendant do not overcome the defendant's demonstrated lack of remorse and his prior history of substantial racial animus."


8. BOLTON: WITHOUT SECURITY THERE CAN BE NO PEACE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/264983

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took US National Security Adviser John Bolton and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on a tour of the Jordan Valley Sunday.

"The Jordan Valley offers Israel the minimal strategic depth and strategic height for the defense of our country," the prime minister told Bolton.

"Our presence here also guarantees stability and security for the entire region," Netanyahu added.

"To those who say that for peace to be established, Israel has to leave the Jordan Valley, I say: that's not gonna bring peace. That's going to bring war and terror - and we've been there. W don't want to be there again."

US National Security Adviser Bolton said that President Trump would take Israel's concerns into consideration.

""I'll just say that without security there is no peace, there is no long-lasting peace. And I just think it's too bad, Prime Minister, that more Americans can't come to locations like this, see the geography, understand its significance, understand how it affects Israel's critical security position, and explain why Israel has taken the view that it has," Bolton said.

"I can assure you that President Trump will take the concerns that you have voiced so clearly over the years very much into account as we go forward on this."