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Thursday, Jul. 25 '19, כ"ב בתמוז תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. 'UNITY IS ORDER OF THE DAY; WE MADE COMPROMISE'
2. MEET THE NEW CLASS OF THE IDF'S ELITE SUBMARINE UNIT
3. NO SECULARS OR WOMEN
4. NETANYAHU STRATEGY TO OBSTRUCT NEW RIGHT
5. US BLOCKS ATTEMPT TO CONDEMN ISRAEL AT UN
6. SYRIA CLAIMS ISRAEL ATTACKED WEAPONS WAREHOUSE
7. AMB. DANON REVEALS NEW INTELLIGENCE ON HEZBOLLAH SMUGGLING AT UN
8. OTZMA YEHUDIT REVEALS CONDITIONS FOR JOINING UNITED RIGHT


1. 'UNITY IS ORDER OF THE DAY; WE MADE COMPROMISE'
by Yoni Kempinski

Former Justice Minister and New Right Party Chairwoman Ayelet Shaked today issued a statement outside her Tel Aviv home, referring to the stalled negotiations over a union on the Right.

"Unity on the Right is the order of the day; the public won't forgive those who won't allow it. We understand that, we compromised on the demand for equal division of seats on the list ('the zipper method')," Shaked declared at the outset.

"The ball is now in the hands of the United Right. I call on them to accept the proposal and come together as soon as possible," she added.

"It's urgent because I intend, if this union is possible, to continue carrying out additional unions of all the right-wing parties and to establish a kind of right-wing bloc - a large Republican party - with a wide range of views to the right of the Likud."

In response to a question about a possible union with the Otzma Yehudit Party, Shaked said, "I see Otzma as part of the great union and also the Zehut Party. My goal is to establish a large bloc of the entire ideological Right."

Regarding the Left, Shaked answered, "As I said, I don't intervene in how the Left divides up its votes; the connections on the Left are their business only, they'll do what they think is right for them. Our goal on the Right is for no vote to be lost and to succeed in forming a government with at least 61 seats."

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2. MEET THE NEW CLASS OF THE IDF'S ELITE SUBMARINE UNIT
by i24News

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3. NO SECULARS OR WOMEN
by Ofra Locks

Within a day and a half, the Noam Party managed to raise NIS 1.5 million in an aggressive mass-funding campaign. During the campaign, Hebrew Weekly Besheva sat down with the founders of the party for a first interview.

"People put their hands deeply into their pockets, parents and grandparents; people who understand that this is essential," says Rabbi Dror Aryeh, a Rosh Yeshiva at the Sderot yeshiva, one of the founders of Hazon and one of the Noam Party founders. Next to him are IDF reserves combat navigator and Kfar Adumim resident Yigal Canaan, who works in tourism, and Jerusalem high-tech businessman Ariel Shahar. The three of them, and Migron Rabbi Itai Halevi are registered as party founders.

The party that they established is catching on. They found it difficult to find actors for the Party's video that seeks to illustrate the gender disorientation revolution taking place. Rabbi Aryeh was cut from a broadcast when he presented the results of a study that reflected the increase in the suicide and drug abuse of children raised by same-gender couples. "They called me primitive [chashuch - lit. 'dark']."

Rabbi Aryeh explains that the party will in any case run in the elections, "unequivocally, we are running until the end; we're not a gimmick, and we don't want to get everyone into some kind of spin. We bought a party, we have an accountant, we raised donations; this isn't a game." However, he does not rule out political connections with "anyone who is loyal to our basic triangle of integrity - the People of Israel, the Land of Israel, according to the Torah of Israel." In particular, "Jewish Home, National Union, Otzma Yehudit, and Agudat Yisrael."

What about the New Right?

"Of course not; can I cooperate with someone who is in favor of Reform conversion and the Western Wall plan?"

Canaan: "The New Right is the reason we formed; we are the counter to the New Right."

The founders talk of contacts in all directions. But they do not elaborate. Currently, the list, with its representatives, is not closed. It will be closed by next Wednesday-Thursday, in time for submitting lists.

You talk about appealing to the secular public. Will there be seculars on the list?

Rabbi Aryeh: "There will be no seculars, because holiness is a prerequisite to public policy. That's what's become clear today. That in order to hold onto the simple things, one must learn Torah."

And will there be women?

The three were slightly surprised by the question. Shahar: "Women have tremendous leadership capability; our wives are the true leaders. I'm here because my wife agreed. In short, 'one's wife is like one's own person', and if a woman is somewhere, it's as if her husband is there, and if a man is somewhere, it's as if his wife is there."

The interview will be published in Hebrew in full in the weekend newspaper Besheva


4. NETANYAHU STRATEGY TO OBSTRUCT NEW RIGHT
by Mordechai Sones

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Wednesday with Jewish Home Party head Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz, and discussed with him efforts to build a Right-leaning coalition.

According to Reshet Bet, Netanyahu exerted pressure on Peretz to sign an agreement with the Otzma Yehudit Party, and in effect to re-establish the United Right list.

The aim of the move is to block the unification of Jewish Home/National Union with the New Right list led by Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett.

The report said that during the meeting between Netanyahu and Rabbi Peretz, the two also spoke on the phone with National Union Chairman and Transportation Minister Betzalel Smotrich.

The Likud Spokesman issued a statement claiming that "Prime Minister Netanyahu does not distribute ministers' roles to anyone and doesn't interfere with unification on the Right. Anyone who wants a Right-leaning government headed by Netanyahu must vote only for one big Likud."

Sources on the Right estimate this morning that Netanyahu's pressure on Peretz and Smotrich over the past few days is part of a desperate containment strategy to which he is committed to prevent Shaked and Bennett from returning to the Knesset.

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5. US BLOCKS ATTEMPT TO CONDEMN ISRAEL AT UN
by Elad Benari

The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel's demolition of illegal Palestinian Arab homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats told Reuters.

Israeli forces on Monday morning sealed off and began demolishing ten of the over 100 illegally-built structures erected in defiance of a 2011 Israeli Civil Administration order barring construction near the security fence.

The apartment buildings were built in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of Sur Baher, an Arab enclave located almost entirely in Jerusalem.

The strip of land in Wadi al-Hummus area where the illegal structures are located, however, is just outside of the municipal borders of Jerusalem, but on the Jerusalem side of the security fence.

Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa had circulated a five-paragraph draft statement, seen by Reuters, to the 15-member Security Council on Tuesday that expressed grave concern and warned that the demolition "undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for just and lasting peace."

Such statements have to be agreed by consensus and on Wednesday the United States told its council counterparts it could not support the text, diplomats said.

A revised three paragraph draft statement was circulated, but the United States again said it did not agree with the text, added the diplomats.

The move was condemned on Monday by the European Union, which said the demolitions undermine the "viability of the two-state solution".

On Tuesday, Britain and Germany added their voices to the condemnation of Israel, saying the destruction was "particularly egregious".

The Palestinian Authority, meanwhile, accused Israel of carrying out a massacre and called on the international community "to intervene immediately and bring an end to Israeli aggression."



6. SYRIA CLAIMS ISRAEL ATTACKED WEAPONS WAREHOUSE
by Elad Benari

The Syrian news agency reported on Tuesday night that Israel attacked several targets in the Deraa and Kuneitra regions of Syria.

According to the report, the attacks were directed against a weapons depot used by Iranian militias.

Western intelligence sources quoted by Reuters said the strike was directed on Tel Haraa, a strategically located area in southern Deraa province overlooking the Golan Heights. It was for many years a major Russian military radar outpost until rebels took it over in 2014 before it was again recaptured by the Syrian army last year.

It was also reported that several people were killed and injured when a missile exploded in a base in the rural area of Kuneitra.

Earlier this month, Syria accused Israel of carrying out an air strike on its territory. According to the Syrian media, the attack was a combined attack by Israeli fighter jets and navy ships in which missiles were fired at military targets in the capital Damascus and in the city of Homs.

A satellite image released after the attack showed the site that was attacked in Damascus. According to the Image Satellite International (ISI) company, the site in question was a large hangar inside the SSRC complex in Jarmaya.



7. AMB. DANON REVEALS NEW INTELLIGENCE ON HEZBOLLAH SMUGGLING AT UN
by Arutz Sheva Staff

On Monday, the United Nations Security Council held a discussion on the "Situation in the Middle East," with Israel participating. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, revealed intelligence information about Iran's involvement in Hezbollah's buildup in Lebanon, with help from Syria, a direct violation of UN Resolution 1701.

"In the years 2018-2019, Israel found that dual-use items are smuggled into Lebanon to advance Hezbollah's rocket and missile capabilities," Ambassador Danon revealed to the Council. "Iran and the Quds Force have begun to advance the exploitation of the civilian maritime channels, and specifically the Port of Beirut. The Port of Beirut has become the Port of Hezbollah."

According to Danon, Iran and Hezbollah were aided by Syrian agents who purchased the equipment from foreign civilian companies and transferred the equipment to Lebanon. These agents misled the companies when they officially unloaded the equipment at the Port of Beirut, but eventually succeeded in reaching Hezbollah's missile production facilities. Danon then asked the members: "Are you absolutely sure your companies are not the ones selling dual-use equipment to the hands of Hezbollah? Are you sure your citizens know the end-users of these dual-use items?"

The Israeli ambassador said that Hezbollah regularly uses civilian centers in Lebanon to illegally transport arms, in flagrant violation of Security Council Resolution 1701. Danon presented the Security Council with a map of various weapons transfer routes to Hezbollah for it to arm itself against Israel: from Damascus airport to Beirut's Hariri airport; the official border crossings between Syria and Lebanon, such as the Masnaa crossings; and, as mentioned above, the Port of Beirut.


8. OTZMA YEHUDIT REVEALS CONDITIONS FOR JOINING UNITED RIGHT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Otzma Yehudit candidate Itamar Ben-Gvir said his party was willing to rejoin the United Right for another Knesset run – but not under the same conditions the party agreed to for the previous election in April.

Speaking 103FM Wednesday, Ben-Gvir said Otzma had been treated unfairly during its alliance with the United Right.

Otzma was allotted the fifth and eight spots on the joint list in the April election. Prior to the vote, however, the Supreme Court barred the candidacy of former MK Michael Ben-Ari, Otzma's candidate in the fifth slot.

When the joint ticket ended up winning five seats in April, the fifth seat went to Jewish Home candidate Idit Silman, rather than the remaining Otzma candidate, Ben-Gvir, who was pushed up from eight to seventh on the list after Ben-Ari's removal.

Ben-Gvir said Wednesday that his party had brought the United Right roughly half of its voters, citing internal polls reportedly mentioned by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his talks with United Right officials.

"This time, the rules are totally, totally different. They know all too well that in every poll, every statistical analysis, that we brought then two and a half seats. The Prime Minister…even said that's what the internal Likud polls found…that we're worth more than two and a half seats."

"With all of my disagreements with Netanyahu about policies, there's one thing that can't be denied – he's a genius when it comes to numbers."

"I think that Ayelet Shaked also understands the importance of [unity]… and she knows how much we're worth."

If the United Right runs without the New Right, said Ben-Gvir, Otzma will demand every third seat on the list – the third slot, sixth, ninth, twelfth, and so on, calling the demand "very modest".

Should the United Right run with the New Right, however, Ben-Gvir says Otzma would be willing to accept two spots in the top ten, including one in the top five. "The fourth spot and the eighth or ninth spot," Ben-Gvir said.