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Tuesday, Jul. 02 '19, כ"ט בסיון תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. LIBERMAN TO NETANYAHU: DON'T PREACH TO ME
2. PLANE SAFELY MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING AT BEN GURION AIRPORT
3. WATCH LIVE: US CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY - IN JERUSALEM
4. YOUNG CHILD PLUNGES INTO PLATFORM GAP AT SYDNEY TRAIN STATION
5. WATCH: CHABAD HASIDIM MARK 25 YEARS SINCE REBBE'S PASSING
6. SYRIA ACCUSES ISRAEL OF 'STATE TERRORISM'
7. 'AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL UNDERPINNINGS COME FROM JERUSALEM'
8. NEW WAVE OF PROTESTS EXPECTED AS ETHIOPIAN TEEN LAID TO REST


1. LIBERMAN TO NETANYAHU: DON'T PREACH TO ME
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman responded Tuesday to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who criticized Liberman for "slandering" the religious Zionist community and the religious pre-military academies during the Herzliya Conference.

"Mr. Prime Minister, you are the last one who should teach me and preach to me about religious Zionism," Liberman said.

"It is you, Mr. Prime Minister, who made the decision to transfer Hevron to the Palestinians. It is you, Mr. Prime Minister, who conducted negotiations with Arafat at the Wye Plantation. It is you, Mr. Prime Minister, who voted in favor of the disengagement in the Knesset. You are paying compensation fees to a terrorist organization Hamas," he added.

"A little modesty will not hurt you," Liberman concluded.

Netanyahu said earlier that "Religious Zionism is the salt of the earth and has a tremendous contribution to the IDF and the State of Israel. Among the graduates of religious preparatory programs and religious Zionism are the late Roi Klein, Uriel and Eliraz Peretz, the late Dror Weinberg and many fighters and commanders who gave their lives for the sake of Israel's security ... Anyone who attacks Israel's heroes just to get a few votes should be ashamed."

The prime minister issued his statement in response to Liberman's address to the 2019 Herzliya Conference Tuesday morning, where Liberman blasted the Religious Zionist establishment – targeting its political leaders, rabbis, and army prep schools.

"What is happening to Religious Zionism is a Greek tragedy. I was friendly with Zevulun Hammer and Yitzhak Levy," said Liberman, referring to lawmakers for the Jewish Home's forerunner, the National Religious Party.

"But now the historic National Religious Party has nothing in common with the Jewish Home or National Union – no connection between Zevulun Hammer and Bezalel Smotrich."

Liberman blamed the change on the "take-over by a small group of fanatical haredi-Religious Zionists [Hardal]."

"I hope it will end," continued Liberman, expressing hope for a return to the pre-Jewish Home days of the National Religious Party. "I want to see the historic National Religious Party, not the National Haredi-Religious Party."

Turning to Religious Zionist pre-army preparatory schools, Liberman accused Religious Zionist rabbis of using the schools to form "private militias".

"The preparatory academies are developing in the direction of private militias, a kind of Falange," referencing the right-wing Spanish Falangist movement, and the Lebanese Phalange paramilitary group.

"I asked students at an army prep academy what they would do if they received an order from their commander, but their rabbi told them to do the opposite. I was shocked to see that most of them took 30 to 40 seconds to think about it. Most of them said they would obey their orders. But some said explicitly: 'I won't go against the rabbi's instructions'."


2. PLANE SAFELY MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING AT BEN GURION AIRPORT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

An emergency was declared at Ben Gurion Airport after a plane tire blew out upon its launch. The plane landed safely.

The plane, an Electra Airways Boeing 737-400 experienced the malfunction upon takeoff from the airport in Cologne, Germany. 152 passengers and crew were aboard. The plane landed shortly after 4 PM.

The alert level at Ben-Gurion Airport was raised to level 3 after the remains of one of the wheels of the plane were found on the runway in Germany, and all flights were diverted to land at Ramon Airport.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265356

Magen David Adom teams, officers, firefighters and paramedics were rushed to the airport from Gush Dan to secure the landing of the plane, and ambulances and intensive care ambulances were making their way to Ben-Gurion Airport before the plane landed.

It is still unclear how much damage the plane has sustained.

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3. WATCH LIVE: US CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY - IN JERUSALEM
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265395


4. YOUNG CHILD PLUNGES INTO PLATFORM GAP AT SYDNEY TRAIN STATION
by Mordechai Sones

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265409

Australian footage released today shows how important it is to keep an eye on children at the train station, especially when boarding and alighting.

A video from the security camera on one of Sydney's train platforms documents the critical minutes when a mother with a baby in a carriage and a 4-year-old boy wait for the train to reach the platform.

The boy, excited to board the train, left his mother's hand and walked forward carelessly, without noticing the gap between the cab and the platform - and fell in.

The mother, who noticed immediately, waved her hands to other passengers to signal the train driver not to go. A number of other people at the station rushed to extract the child, without his being injured.

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5. WATCH: CHABAD HASIDIM MARK 25 YEARS SINCE REBBE'S PASSING
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265408

Approximately 15,000 Chabad Lubavitch hasidim gathered Monday evening in Jerusalem, to mark the 25th anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

Throughout the event, hasidim and other affiliated individuals close to the Rebbe spoke about how he impacted their lives and how they were influenced by his great light, which continues to shine even today, 25 years after his passing.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Aharonov, who chairs the center for activities of Chabad emissaries in Israel, said the speech given by Poway's Rabbi Yisrael Goldstein at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly last week was one that the Rebbe had proofread 32 years ago, in preparation for planned speech at a UN event at that time.

In the center of the Jerusalem gathering, a screen showed a livestream of events happening at the Rebbe's gravesite.
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6. SYRIA ACCUSES ISRAEL OF 'STATE TERRORISM'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The Syrian government and state-run media accused Israel on Tuesday of "state terrorism", following a series of military strikes on targets inside Syrian territory that left 15 dead.

"Israeli authorities are increasingly practicing state terrorism," the Assad regime's foreign ministry said Tuesday morning in a statement carried by the SANA outlet, a government mouthpiece.

"The latest heinous Israeli aggression falls within the framework of ongoing Israeli attempts to prolong the crisis in Syria."

The Syrian government filed a complaint against Israel at the United Nations Security Council, calling the strikes "dangerous and hostile", and accusing the US of backing the Israeli strikes.

Sites outside of Damascus and Homs were hit in a series of strikes between Sunday night and early Monday morning.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that airstrikes and fire from Israeli naval vessels killed at least nine soldiers, most of them Iranians.

In addition, the SOHR reported that six civilians, including three children, were killed in the bombings.

The air strikes have been attributed to Israel – both by the SOHR and the Syrian government-run media outlet SANA.

Israel has refused to comment on the strikes, in keeping with its policy of not claiming responsibility for attacks on Iranian and Assad regime targets in Syria.

The attacks targeted Assad regime and Iranian military positions outside of Damascus, SOHR reported, along with facilities used by the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

At least 10 sites in the Damascus area were struck, SOHR reported.

Among the targets hit by the strikes were the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' 91st Brigade, stationed south of Damascus; a military research center, and ammunition storage facilities near Qara, just east of the Lebanese border.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265396


7. 'AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL UNDERPINNINGS COME FROM JERUSALEM'
by Hezki Baruch

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265306

Representatives from around the world gathered in the City of David, just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem, on Sunday, for the unveiling of the Pilgrim's Road, a key archeological site in the Israeli capital city.

US Ambassador David Friedman, White House special envoy Jason Greenblatt, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Israeli ministers Rafi Peretz and Uri Ariel, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's wife Sara Netanyahu, American Jewish philanthropists Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, and the US ambassadors to Portugal, Denmark, and France were among those in attendance at the ceremony.

Addressing the gathering, Ambassador Friedman hailed the discovery of the Second Temple-period walkway as one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th century.

"The discovery in the City of David... is one of the greatest archeological discoveries, perhaps in the century," said Friedman.

"The centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish people and the two Jewish temples - we all knew that, but now we have the irrefutable evidence."

"The Pilgrimage Road and Pool of Silwan allow us to go back in time, back in history. It brings the Bible to life. We can walk that path and imagine the great rabbinical figures walking that path."

Friedman called the walkway, which linked the ancient City of David to the Temple Mount and was used for bringing sacrifices to the Temple, a "living, breathing piece of history", "not a relic".

Noting the protests outside of the event by far-left activists who decried the participation of senior US officials, Friedman explained his decision to participate in the unveiling ceremony.

"Whether there was ever any doubt of the propriety and accuracy...of President Trump recognizing Jerusalem, I think this lays it to rest."

"Why did an American ambassador come to this event to speak here?"

"What the Declaration of the Independence did was to rethink the relationship between government and the citizens… but how did the founding fathers know what rights to enshrine?"

"They came from the Bible," continued Friedman. "And what place did the Bible come from?"

"The spiritual underpinnings of our society in which we honor the dignity of every human life comes from Jerusalem."

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8. NEW WAVE OF PROTESTS EXPECTED AS ETHIOPIAN TEEN LAID TO REST
by David Rosenberg

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265403

[Above: Relatives of Solomon Tekah gather for his funeral in Kiryat Haim]

The funeral procession for an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager who was killed by an off-duty Israeli police officer over the weekend made its way to the Tel Regev cemetery in Haifa, Tuesday afternoon.

Solomon Tekah, a member of the Ethiopian community in Israel, was fatally wounded Sunday night when an off-duty police officer spotted a group of young men fighting in the Kiryat Haim neighborhood of Haifa.

According to the officer who opened fire, when he tried to break up the fight, he was attacked by three of the young men, who allegedly hurled stones at him. Fearing for his life, the officer said, he opened fire at the ground to scare off his attackers.

One of the bullets ricocheted, he claimed, hitting and mortally wounding Tekah.

Hundreds joined the funeral procession for Tekah Tuesday afternoon, including some relatives who accused the police of murder.

"It's not 'killing', it's murder," said Tekah's cousin, Amir.

"What was he killed by? A work accident? Being hit by a car? When you take the kids out to the playground, do you go out with a gun? [The officer] saw a black man walking. And after the cop in Bat Yam was cleared of charges, what does an officer care about killing him?" Amir continued, referencing the death of Yehuda Biadga.

Biadga, a mentally-ill 24-year-old resident of Bat Yam and member of the Ethiopian community, was shot and killed this January when he was spotted brandishing a knife.

Tekah's death, like that of Biadga, sparked protests in the Ethiopian community.

While the officer responsible for Tekah's death has been taken off of duty and arrested as the investigation continues, protests across Israel broke out, including several violent demonstrations.

Three police officers were injured Monday night in Haifa, outside of a police station in the Kiryat Haim neighborhood where the shooting took place.

Hundreds of rioters clashed with police, throwing rocks and shooting fireworks at officers, prompting police to respond with stun grenades to break up the crowd.

Police expect the riots to continue after the funeral, while hoping to defuse the situation by reaching out to the Ethiopian community.

One thousand demonstrators remained gathered Tuesday outside of the Kiryat Haim police station where three officers were injured, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP Tuesday afternoon.

"Yesterday evening there were disturbances in Kiryat Haim. Three police officers were injured," he said.

"There were about 1,000 people in the area of the police station."

"Police are speaking to leaders of the Ethiopian community to calm the situation down," added Rosenfeld."

Aside from the riots in Kiryat Haim, most of the protests Monday night were peaceful, but included lengthy traffic disruptions as demonstrators blocked roads including Highway 4 in central Israel.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265403