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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Friday, Aug. 30 '19, כ"ט באב תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. ANTI-ISRAEL JEW CLEARED TO APPEAR ON MARYLAND'S 2020 BALLOT 2. 'FEIGLIN WILL BE A MINISTER IN THE NEXT GOVERNMENT' 3. KNESSET SPEAKER: 'YOU GO TO THE STORE AND KNOW YOU'RE ON CAMERA' 4. FINANCE MINISTRY TO REQUEST COURT ORDER TEACHERS NOT TO STRIKE 5. PARALYMPIC TEAMS RECEIVE A FASHION MAKEOVER 6. NETANYAHU 'FRANTICALLY' TRIED TO AVERT TRUMP-ZARIF MEETING 7. IDF REVEALS SECRET HEZBOLLAH MISSILE PROJECT 8. COSTCO EMPLOYEE: 'HOW HOW JEWISH IS YOUR SON?' 1. ANTI-ISRAEL JEW CLEARED TO APPEAR ON MARYLAND'S 2020 BALLOT by Josefin Dolsten, JTA A Jewish socialist philosopher who met with the leader of Hamas is running for US president. On Wednesday, Jerome Segal announced that he would run as the nominee of the Bread and Roses Party he founded last year. The party supports policies on wealth redistribution, as well as guaranteed employment and income. Segal, 75, is cleared to appear on the 2020 ballot in Maryland, where he lives, and is hoping to qualify in other states. He told the Washington Post that he does not “have any fantasies about actually being president” but wants to add “something to the current political discourse that is lacking.” Segal is an outspoken critic of Israel’s right-wing government and has met with leaders of various violent anti-Israel groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Hamas terror organization. The PLO even took a significant portion of its 1988 declaration of independence from an op-ed he penned in the eastern Jerusalem daily Al-Quds. In 1989, Segal founded the Jewish Peace Lobby as a dovish alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In 2006, he met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and said he transmitted a letter from Haniyeh to then-president George W. Bush. The United States, the European Union and Israel all agree that Hamas as a terror organization. In a statement Wednesday, Segal said he had been talking with Iran’s government, including its foreign minister, and that he “believes it is possible to achieve a re-set in US/Iran relations and US/Israeli relations.” Last year, he challenged Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland in the Democratic primary but lost. Speaking with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, he criticized Cardin, who also is Jewish, for his support of the pro-Israel lobby and for sponsoring a bill to penalize boycotts of Israel. 2. 'FEIGLIN WILL BE A MINISTER IN THE NEXT GOVERNMENT' by David Rosenberg 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268109 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at a joint press conference with Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin Thursday at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan, after the two brokered a deal for Zehut to bow out of the Knesset race in exchange for a ministry in the next government. During his address, Netanyahu said that “for the first time” in 25 years he and former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin found common ground and “really spoke to one another”, citing their shared support of free-market economics. “We realized something that we knew, but hadn’t fully appreciated - that we are both committed to promoting free-market economics, lowering taxes, encouraging competition. We both support personal liberty and reducing government regulation.- you all know how hard I’ve worked in that regard – ending government interference that harms citizens and business owners, especially small-business owners. We both agree on a series of actions to reduce the cost of living.” Netanyahu also voiced support for reforms to expand the availability of medicinal marijuana, a long-time demand of Zehut, which also promotes full decriminalization of the drug. The Prime Minister also vowed to appoint Feiglin as a minister in the next government, calling him a “loyal ally”. “I see you as a minister in the government and I see you as a partner with a common vision." “I really mean it. I think that we will be able to work together in an extraordinary way to accomplish these goals.” “I call on Zehut and its voters to help us accomplish our shared goals.” The two agreed that the Likud would promote expanded access to medicinal marijuana in exchange for Zehut’s dropping out of the race, after polls showed the party well below the 3.25% electoral threshold – but still likely to draw tens of thousands of votes, mostly from the right-wing. Following Netanyahu’s comments, Feiglin lauded the new alliance with the Likud, saying the deal reached with Netanyahu would help promote not only easier access to medical marijuana, but also help small businesses, reduce bureaucratic barriers on imported goods, and remove impediments which make it difficult for immigrants in regulated fields to work in Israel. Feiglin added, however, that despite his support for the deal with Netanyahu that he felt obliged to bring the matter up for a referendum among Zehut party members. “Because I promised that we would run in this year’s second election, though I could not have foreseen this great opportunity arising, I feel morally obligated to bring the matter to you to decide.” 3. KNESSET SPEAKER: 'YOU GO TO THE STORE AND KNOW YOU'RE ON CAMERA' by Arutz Sheva Staff Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Friday slammed the Blue and White party's opposition to placing security cameras in voting booths to prevent voter fraud. Speaking at a Shishitarbut (political and cultural forums that take place on Friday) event in Beit Shemesh, Edelstein pointed out that security cameras are everywhere. "If Blue and White, or any other party, does not support the initiative to place security cameras in voting booths, there is only one explanation for that: Either they are planning to commit fraud, or they are happy that others commit fraud," he said. "What other explanation could there be? You go to the corner store, you buy things, and you know that it's all on camera. Someone says: 'Privacy! How can you do such a thing?' So when every citizen has the right and obligation to vote, will this deter him from coming? Is there even such a thing as an Israeli citizen not showing up to vote because it's on camera? I simply don't understand what other explanation there could be." A new Likud party initiative would enact a law allowing cameras to be placed at voting stations. On Monday night, Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, who chairs the Central Elections Committee, prohibited the placement of security cameras in voting booths, despite the fact that he acknowledged last week discrepancies between the number of voters and the number of votes at certain polling stations. In July, police began investigating a suspicion that at certain polling stations, votes were actively distributed among the parties, by station employees. 4. FINANCE MINISTRY TO REQUEST COURT ORDER TEACHERS NOT TO STRIKE by Orly Harari Negotiations between the Finance Ministry and the Israel Teachers' Union (ITU) ended Friday without a solution and with the teachers threatening to delay the beginning of the school year, scheduled for Sunday. The Ministry is expected to request that the labor court order the teachers to start the year on time. On Thursday, 2,000 teachers demonstrated at the Tel Aviv Museum, attempting to pressure the Education and Finance ministries to accede to their demands, most of which focus on pensions, the proposed reforms for special education, and teachers who work at several different schools. ITU Secretary-General Yaffa Ben David said at the demonstration: "We are not asking for donations from anyone. We are asking for compensation for our work. This is the most exhausting profession in Israel." "Until now, educators worked even when they were completely spent. They continued giving with infinite dedication. There's a limit to everything - the State of Israel does not respect educators, who are the spearhead of the State of Israel," she said. 5. PARALYMPIC TEAMS RECEIVE A FASHION MAKEOVER by ILTV [iltv:2062482] 6. NETANYAHU 'FRANTICALLY' TRIED TO AVERT TRUMP-ZARIF MEETING by David Rosenberg Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu frantically tried to reach President Donald Trump earlier this week as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance at the G-7 conference in France, Channel 13 reported Thursday night. Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, pressed US officials, including US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, to arrange a phone call between President Trump and the Israeli premier Sunday, after it was revealed that Zarif would be joining the G-7 conferencei n Biarritz, France. Netanyahu and other senior Israeli leaders feared Trump could meet with Zarif, and possibly agree to a meeting with Iranian president Rouhani in a bid to thaw relations between the US and Iran. The Israeli premier reportedly tried to call Trump to urge him not to meet with Zarif at the sidelines of the G-7. According the Channel 13 report which cited unnamed senior Israeli and American officials, the Prime Minister’s Office feared a Trump-Zarif meeting could lead to the unraveling of the US sanctions regime against Tehran, emboldening the Islamic republic at a time when Israel has been working to thwart Iranian attacks from Syrian territory. While Trump did not meet with Zarif at the G-7 – with some senior American officials reportedly irritated by Zarif’s presence – French President Emmanuel Macron later explained he had invited Zarif to Biarritz in the hopes of advancing a meeting between Trump and President Rouhani. The report said Netanyahu was unable to reach Trump directly, and cited US officials who said President Trump had decided against meeting Zarif regardless of Netanyahu’s request. Both the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment on the report. Despite the decision not to meet with Zarif, Israeli officials remain concerned that Trump could meet with Rouhani at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in late September. 7. IDF REVEALS SECRET HEZBOLLAH MISSILE PROJECT by Arutz Sheva Staff 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268104 The IDF on Thursday revealed details on Hezbollah’s Iranian-backed precision guided missile project, days after drone attacks attributed to Israel targeted a site allegedly used by Hezbollah to manufacture missiles. According to the IDF report released Thursday afternoon, the precision missile project was first launched six years ago, following Iranian transfers of missiles to Lebanon via Syria. “Between 2013- 2015, under the auspices of the Syrian civil war, Iran began its efforts to transport ready-to-use precision guided missiles from Iran, via Syria, to the terror organization Hezbollah in Lebanon,” the IDF claims. Israel claimed that the efforts by Iran and Hezbollah to build up a precision-guided missile force was largely thwarted by “attacks attributed to Israel”, with the IDF avoiding taking responsibility for the strikes, while emphasizing that “Hezbollah failed to acquire precision-guided missiles”. After 2016, Iran and Hezbollah shifted their strategy from transporting whole precision guided missiles to converting existing rockets into precision guided missiles on Lebanese soil. The plan was, according to the IDF report, to smuggle precision missile components from Iran to Lebanon, for the sake of converting ordinary rockets from the “SARS” Center for Scientific Research in Syria into precision guided missiles. In order to sustain the conversion of “statistic” rockets into precision guided missiles, Hezbollah established facilities across Lebanon, including in Beirut. The commander of the Lebanon Corps in the Quds Force, Muhammad Hussein-Zada Hejazi, oversaw the project, under the guidance of Qassem Suleimani, chief of Iran’s Quds Force. Iran is said to have established ground, air, and sea routes for transferring materials to Hezbollah units in Lebanon to produce the precision guided missiles. The land “axes” ran through official border crossing points along the Syrian-Lebanese frontier, while the air “axes” used civilian flights into Beirut’s Rafiq Hariri Airport, while thesea “axes” relied on the Beirut port. The failure of Iran and Hezbollah to build a precision guided missile arsenal from 2016 to 2018 led to the construction of specialized conversion facilities across Lebanon to enhance Hezbollah’s missile production capabilities. 8. COSTCO EMPLOYEE: 'HOW HOW JEWISH IS YOUR SON?' by Marcy Oster, JTA A New Jersey man has accused a Costco cashier of directing anti-Semitic remarks and questions at him while he was checking out. Irwin Levy filed a civil lawsuit on Monday in Monmouth County Superior Court about the April incident at the Costco in Hazlet. The lawsuit claims religious discrimination and negligent hiring and retention practices, and seeks an unspecified amount of damages, the Asbury Park Press reported. The lawsuit also calls for Costco to institute training against discrimination, retaliation and harassment. Levy’s son Justin works at the Costco. While he was checking out, a cashier asked the elder Levy “how much” of his son is Jewish. He responded that his son was half Catholic from his mother and half Jewish from him. The cashier responded that Levy’s son “has to be more Jewish than that” and that she meant it “in a bad way of course,” according to the complaint. She said that “Jews only see things in black and white with no gray area; just like Justin,” according to the complaint, which added that the cashier tried to follow him out of the store and continued to insult Levy, his son and Judaism, NJ.com reported. The lawsuit names Costco Wholesale Corp., a manager and the clerk who allegedly made the comments. It says that in the wake of the incident, Levy has had to shop at other Costco outlets that are inconvenient and suffered “mental anguish, humiliation and sleeplessness.” Costco would not comment to the local media, citing the ongoing legal case. | |
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