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Friday, Jul. 05 '19, ב' בתמוז תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. DERSHOWITZ: GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO STOP LEFT-WING VIOLENCE
2. BENNETT: RABBI AVINER'S COMMENTS ARE DISGRACEFUL
3. FEIGLIN: WE WANT TO JOIN WITH THE NEW RIGHT
4. AN EMBARRASSING MISTAKE IN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS
5. JEWS AND THE NON-JEWS WHO LOVE THEM
6. NETANYAHU EASES RESTRICTIONS ON GAZA STRIP
7. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROCKED BY BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE IN 25 YEARS
8. POLL: A 'MEGA ALLIANCE' ON THE RIGHT WOULD BRING 19 SEATS


1. DERSHOWITZ: GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO STOP LEFT-WING VIOLENCE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265505


2. BENNETT: RABBI AVINER'S COMMENTS ARE DISGRACEFUL
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Former Education Minister Naftali Bennett criticized the statement by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner that women should not participate in politics.

If anyone had any doubt about why the New Right is needed, here is the answer," Bennett said in an interview with Reshet Bet.

"These statements represent a tiny percentage of religious Zionism and cause a desecration of G-d's name," he added. "The place of women in politics and in all areas of society is undeniable."

MK Shuli Moalem-Rafaeli also criticized Rabbi Aviner. "I heard Rabbi Aviner's words and was surprised," she wrote on her Facebook account Thursday,

"The world was created in its entirety," wrote Moalem-Rafaeli. "It is complete when women and men are given a place, female and male voices are both listened to, and we work to express the forces of women and men."

"The greatest feminist revolution in the last two decades is the transformation of Torah study for women, and today the leadership of women in general, and religious women in particular, in the public sphere is self-evident.

"I am happy that religious girls see me and my colleagues as a model for leadership and action for women and men," she said.


3. FEIGLIN: WE WANT TO JOIN WITH THE NEW RIGHT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin on Friday emphasized that his party intends to join a technical bloc with former Education Minister Naftali Bennett's New Right party.

"Regarding the New Right party - as I explained in a lengthy post three weeks ago, this is the proper and natural connection for us," Feiglin said. "We have no intention of joining sectoral parties, because that contradicts the new vision which has opened for the nation of Israel. Therefore, we will not join the United Right."

"We want to join together with the New Right. We've put things on the table, and that's it, we're completely open to it. When it happens it happens, and logic says it will happen."

In a live chat on Facebook, Feiglin emphasized that if the union does not happen, he will run anyways: "I am saying very clearly - Zehut will run with all its might. If for some reason the joint list does not go through, we will with G-d's help win and in a big way, with G-d's help, even without the union. Just like we until the end last time, we will run until the end this time, and we will learn lessons and do the nation of Israel a great service, from the Knesset and from the Finance Ministry."

"But we are interested in a union, we understand the great pain caused to those people who voted for parties which did not pass the electoral threshold. In actuality, people do not want to see this happen, and we will do everything we can to ensure that there is a union which will prevent this concern. If we can prevent this concern, we will do it."


4. AN EMBARRASSING MISTAKE IN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS
by Nitzan Keidar

A German far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD) was accused of incitement to racism after publishing a video on its Twitter account on Thursday documenting the violence of Muslim immigrants in a water park in the city of Stuttgart.

However, a review of the video showed that the fight actually took place at the Yamit 2000 Park in Holon, Israel.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265561

In the video, youths were seen attacking security guards and throwing chairs at them. However, instead of the original soundtrack, the voice of party's deputy chairman, Beatrice von Struch is heard, as she presents the incident as it took place on German soil and was carried out by Muslim immigrants to Germany. "Stuttgart, 50 hooligans. Police operation against rioting youths, attacks on lifeguards," von Struch narrates.

There actually was a fight in the pool in Stuttgart last weekend, but the video didn't share it.

Sharp-eyed viewers noticed that the words on the security guards' shirts were not in German or English and following inquiries it was discovered that the words were Hebrew. "It was dumb of the party, we're not stupid," wrote one of the party's supporters in response to the video.

In the wake of the many comments mocking the party, the video was removed and replaced with a different one.

The background of the scuffle in Holon is unknown but many Israeli news reports said it was a conflict between security guards and "residents of East Jerusalem" or "Arabs."


5. JEWS AND THE NON-JEWS WHO LOVE THEM
by Judy Simon

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Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler chanced upon quite a few non-Jews who had rejected the religions in which they had been raised, commemorated Saturday as the Day of Rest, and refrained from eating pork and shellfish. Some of these folks had been quietly changing their perspective on life for a decade or more. They were not interested in converting to Judaism. "What's going on here?" she asked.

"We read the Bible. We understand that G-d goes with the Jewish People, and we want to go with you too," she was told.

"Why don't you convert to Judaism?" Rivkah asked. "Because G-d created us as we are. We intend to serve the L-rd as non-Jews."

One of the people that Rivkah met had highlighted all of the passages in Tanach (the Bible) that were a message to the nations. Many of them visit Israel frequently. They say that they see G-d's promises to the Jewish People being fulfilled, just as the prophets of old predicted.

Rivkah wanted to write an article about the phenomenon. She ended up publishing a book called "Ten From the Nations." It was after the publication of the book that Rivkah started to realize the sheer number of people who were trying to connect in one way or another to the Jewish People. That's when she started the Torah School for the Nations, a place where non-Jews can learn about the laws of the Torah that apply to them, and to read the Tanach in the original Hebrew, using age-old Jewish commentaries.

It is a process that is not without criticism. And Rivkah understands this. She says that it's natural for Jews to want to put on protective armor. "For two thousand years the actions of the Church against our people were despicable. But the creation of Israel has changed the minds of many Christians, who are waking up to recognize that the Jewish People are indeed G-d's people," Rivkah explains. "If you can picture a bridge, we are a handful of Jews and a few dozen non-Jews who are coming from the opposite sides of the bridge and meeting in the middle. We are misunderstood by the people who are not on the bridge."

Tune in to meet a fine Jewish woman, who leads a good life by example, and who is on a path toward becoming "a light unto the Nations."


6. NETANYAHU EASES RESTRICTIONS ON GAZA STRIP
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu approved a series of steps to ease restrictions on the Gaza Strip Thursday as part of his efforts to reach an agreement with the Hamas terrorist organization and to prevent the financial collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Kan 11 reported.

According to the report, Netanyahu had agreed to remove items from the "blacklist" of goods banned from entering Gaza, expand the export basket, and increase the number of merchants allowed to enter Israel from the Hamas-controlled enclave.

Among the 18 items removed from the "blacklist" were steel cables for large fishing boats banned for fear that they would be used for transportation within underground tunnels, and fertilizer for agriculture that had previously been banned. In addition, the export of iron doors, aluminum housewares, wipes and toys was permitted.

The age over which Gazan merchants would be permitted to enter Israel was lowered from 35 to 25. In practice, of the 5,000 merchants authorized to enter Israel, only 3,300 enter; Out of an export quota of 100 trucks per day only 30 actually enter Israel. Of the 25,000 meters of steel cables allowed to the Gaza Strip, only half were requested, and despite the approval they received to export plastic, the exportation of the cables has not yet begun.


7. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROCKED BY BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE IN 25 YEARS
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Southern California was rocked by the strongest earthquake in a quarter century Thursday, shaking Los Angeles for some thirty seconds.

The US Geological Survey initially recorded a 6.6 magnitude earthquake southwest of Searles Valley, in a remote area of San Bernardino County, near the Mojave Desert. The estimate of the earthquake's magnitude was later downgraded slightly to 6.4.

The quake struck at 10:33 a.m. local time, some 8.7 kilometers below the surface.

While the earthquake hit in a sparsely populated desert area, the quake shook Los Angeles, North Las Vegas, and was even felt as far south as San Diego.

There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries, though the San Bernardino County Fire Department reported Thursday that it is "conducting assessment of the region".

The last time Southern California was struck by an earthquake of this magnitude was the January 17th, 1994 quake in Northridge, when a 6.6 magnitude earthquake and two 6.0 magnitude aftershocks killed close to 60 people and caused some $50 billion worth of damage.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265530


8. POLL: A 'MEGA ALLIANCE' ON THE RIGHT WOULD BRING 19 SEATS
by Elad Benari

A poll conducted by the Maagar Mochot Institute for the Israel Hayom newspaper finds that without Avigdor Liberman, the right-wing bloc will be unable to secure the required threshold of 61 Knesset seats to form a government, and would win just 56 seats.

Likud wins 31 seats in this poll, Blue and White wins 30, Labor led by Amir Peretz wins 8 seats, and Ehud Barak's new party has only 4 seats.

United Right wins 8 seats in this poll, Shas has 6 and United Torah Judaism has 7. Meretz headed by Nitzan Horowitz wins 6 seats, Naftali Bennett's New Right wins 4 seats, Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu has 7 and the Arab Joint List wins 9.

The poll examined how the map of seats would look if the Jewish Home, National Union, Otzma Yehudit, New Right and Zehut were united. The result is surprising: a united list made up of all these parties would win 19 Knesset seats. In such a scenario, however, the Likud would be affected and win just 25 seats, and the right-wing bloc would still not pass the 61-seat threshold without Liberman.

The poll was conducted among 507 respondents, a representative sample of the adult population in Israel. The sampling error is 4.3%.