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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Thursday, Aug. 15 '19, י"ד באב תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. WILL ISRAEL PREVENT ENTRY OF TLAIB AND OMAR AFTER ALL? 2. EVANGELICAL LEADER: ISRAEL DOESN'T NEED OMAR AND TLAIB 3. HOLOCAUST OF NORTH AFRICAN JEWS IN MATRICULATION EXAMINATION 4. WATCH: PLANE CARRIES OUT EMERGENCY LANDING IN RUSSIAN CORNFIELD 5. INSPIRING: 'WE DID IT! WE MOVED TO ISRAEL!' 6. TLAIB, OMAR EXPECTED TO VISIT TEMPLE MOUNT 7. EMIGRATION FROM ISRAEL DROPS TO LOWEST LEVEL IN DECADES 8. MINISTER ERDAN REJECTS APPOINTMENT AS AMBASSADOR TO THE UN 1. WILL ISRAEL PREVENT ENTRY OF TLAIB AND OMAR AFTER ALL? by Arutz Sheva Staff Israel is considering reversing it’s decision to allow US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into the country after all, News 12 reported Thursday. Two weeks ago, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer announced that Israel would allow the two to enter, in light of the strong messages he received on the subject from senior officials in the Democratic party, of which the two congresswomen are members. However, according to the report, the possibility of changing the decision is now being considered, given the clear picture of the provocations the two plan to carry out during the visit. The two are scheduled to visit the separation fence, ascend the Temple Mount accompanied by senior Palestinian Authority officials, and arrive in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah. The concern in Israel is that an attempt to curb their entry to the Temple Mount accompanied by PA officials could create an incident that would damage Israel’s image. According to the report in News 12, both the Interior Minister’s Office, in whose jurisdiction a decision on the matter lies, and the Prime Minister's Office, where the decision will be made in practice, refuse to comment on the matter. Later on Thursday, Channel 13's Barak Ravid reported that Netanyahu is considering a plan allowing Omar and Tlaib to enter Israel, but limiting their movement to area under control of the Palestinian Authority. Deliberations are being held on the plan, but a final decision has reportedly still not been made. It should be noted that Talib and Omar have not arranged any meeting with Israeli officials or even Arab members of the Knesset, and their visit is entirely aimed at the Palestinian Authority. According to their messages, they are on their way to "visit the occupied Palestinian territories". Last week it was reported that President Trump opposes the decision to allow the two to enter Israel. 2. EVANGELICAL LEADER: ISRAEL DOESN'T NEED OMAR AND TLAIB by Arutz Sheva Staff Evangelical leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore, the president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN) and Show Host of the popular Christian television program “Focus on Israel” which reaches a global weekly audience of over 2 billion viewers has called upon Israel to bar entry to Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib who are planning to enter the Jewish State this coming Sunday. Cardoza-Moore has already collected tens of thousands of signatures on a petition to oust them from Congress and does not believe they should be permitted to enter Israel. “Israel has enough Hamas operatives inflaming tensions, they don’t need Omar and Tlaib. These women do not belong in the American Congress and should not be allowed to fan the flames of terror from within the Jewish State. In America we have amassed tens of thousands of signatures on our petition to have them ousted from the House, it would be wrong for Israel to self-impose this danger upon themselves, by giving them a free pass.” Said Laurie Cardoza-Moore. She added: “They have actively and openly fundraised for American subsidiaries of Hamas and pose a real threat to freedom in America and Israel. Omar and Tlaib are bent on Israel’s destruction; allowing them to use the Holy Land as a propaganda tool for Hamas would be a huge mistake.” 3. HOLOCAUST OF NORTH AFRICAN JEWS IN MATRICULATION EXAMINATION by Mordechai Sones Four years after the subject of the Holocaust was removed from the matriculation exam curriculum as part of the reform decided by former Education Minister Shai Piron, the subject is being returned to exam material. The topic was not taken out of the high school curriculum, but became part of the material being taught under "alternative assessment." The move drew harsh public criticism from academics and history teachers who argued that removing the Holocaust from the matriculation examination curriculum sends a negative message about its importance. Following this protest, Minister Bennett announced last year that Holocaust studies will be returned to the exams beginning in the upcoming school year. At the same time, Education Ministry Central Supervisor Dr. Orna Katz-Atar announced that for the first time, students will also learn about the Holocaust of North African Jewry under Nazi occupation as part of compulsory high school education. Djerba Ghriba Synagogue, Tunisia iStock This program will include chapters on the circumstances of the occupation and its purpose, Nazi policy towards Tunisian and Libyan Jews, the local population's attitude towards the Jews, the Nazi occupation and the fate of North Africa's Jews during World War II under the Nazis. Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz said the decision to incorporate the Holocaust of Eastern Jews into compulsory history material is an ethical move to create a common denominator among all students. "For years, the story of Islamic countries' Jews during the Nazi occupation has been absent from our discourse," Peretz said. "It is our duty to make every student feel that they are a significant part of the story we are teaching in the education system, which belongs to and reflects all parts of Israeli society." Rafi Peretz Flash 90 4. WATCH: PLANE CARRIES OUT EMERGENCY LANDING IN RUSSIAN CORNFIELD by Arutz Sheva Staff 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/267431 A passenger plane carrying 233 people on Thursday carried out an emergency landing in a cornfield southeast of Moscow shortly after takeoff. Miraculously, no one was killed, Reuters reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Health, though 23 were injured. The Ural Airlines Airbus 321 was reportedly forced to land after striking a flock of birds which disrupted its engines. The incident is being dubbed the "miracle of Ramensk," in reference to the region where the plane came down less than a mile from Zhukovsky International Airport, State television said, according to Reuters. 5. INSPIRING: 'WE DID IT! WE MOVED TO ISRAEL!' by Yoni Kempinski 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/267426 The Nefesh B'Nefesh El Al flight was organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, the Jewish Agency, and the Jewish National Fund. [album:open:11273] 6. TLAIB, OMAR EXPECTED TO VISIT TEMPLE MOUNT by Gary Willig Israeli officials believe that freshmen Democratic Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar will seek to visit the Temple Mount during their upcoming visit to Israel, Channel 13 News correspondent Barak Ravid reported. According to the report, the congresswomen are expected to visit the holy with together with a delegation of officials from the Palestinian Authority. However, the Israeli police have been instructed to prevent any PA officials from visiting the site with them. Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer announced several weeks ago that Tlaib and Omar would be allowed to enter Israel despite their repeated anti-Israel statements and support for the BDS movement. An Israeli law bans supporters of boycotts against the Jewish State from entering the country. However, the government has decided to set the law aside in the case of the American Congresswomen. Omar has come under fire for suggesting on Twitter that Republicans were attacking her at the behest of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She subsequently issued a half-hearted apology before ultimately deleting the controversial tweets. Tlaib claimed in an interview in May that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel “provided” a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust. The Temple Mount is often a source of friction between Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan. On Sunday, riots took place on the Temple Mount as Muslim agitators attempted to prevent Jews from visiting the mount, the holiest site in Judaism, on the fast of Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the holy temples. This year, Tisha B'Av coincided with the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. 7. EMIGRATION FROM ISRAEL DROPS TO LOWEST LEVEL IN DECADES by David Rosenberg The number of Israelis moving abroad fell to the lowest level in more than three decades, according to a new report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. About 14,300 Israeli citizens and permanent residents left the country for more than a year in 2017, the report says, the lowest number of emigrants departing Israel since the 1980s. That’s a 6% decrease in the number of emigrants compared to 2016, when 15,200 Israeli citizens and residents left the country for a year or more. The number of Israelis leaving the country has been in decline since 2003, following two years of heavy outward migration during the peak of the Second Intifada from 2001 to 2002. Since 2002, emigration has fallen 48%, from a high point of 27,300 emigrants in 2002 to 14,300 in 2017. Emigration from Israel 1990-2017 Central Bureau of Statistics Emigration from Israel had been on the rise during the 1980s, increasingly steadily during the First Intifada and reaching nearly 25,000 emigrants per year in 1990. A total of roughly 120,000 Israelis left the country from 1980 to 1989. The number of emigrants trended downward from 1990 to 1999, notwithstanding spikes in the rate of emigration in 1993 and 1995. The trend reversed itself beginning in 2000 with the outbreak of the Second Intifada, with the decline resuming in 2003, and accelerating dramatically in 2008. The decrease in the number of emigrants, coupled with Israel’s growing population, has cut the rate of emigration significantly, falling from roughly 5 out of every 1,000 Israeli residents in 1990 and over 4 out of every 1,000 in 2001-2002, to just over 1.5 out of every 1,000 in 2017. Nevertheless, the overall migration of Israelis moving abroad and Israelis returning home remains negative with 8,400 Israeli citizens and residents returning to Israel in 2017, leaving a net negative migration of Israelis of 5,800 in 2017. In 2016, the net negative migration of Israelis stood at 6,300. These figures do not include the total number of immigrants moving to Israel, however, which topped 28,000 in 2017. A narrow majority of Israelis who moved abroad in 2017 were foreign-born immigrants who had moved to Israel in the past. According to the report, 48% of emigrants in 2017 were Israeli-born, compared to 52% who were born abroad. Two-thirds of foreign-born Israelis who emigrated in 2017 were born in Europe, compared to 22.7% who were born in the Americas or Australia. Of those foreign-born emigrants who left Israel in 2017, 44% had moved to Israel in the previous four years, while 38% had moved to Israel during the massive wave of immigration to Israel (mostly from Eastern Europe) from 1990 to 2007. Just nine percent were immigrants who had moved to Israel prior to 1989, and nine percent had moved to Israel between 2008 to 2012. Of the 14,300 emigrants who left Israel in 2017, 71% were Jews, 5% were Arabs, with the remaining 24% either non-Arab Christians (typically immigrants who moved to Israel from the former Soviet Union) or residents with no listed religion. Of the 8,400 Israelis who returned to Israel in 2017, 76% were Jews, 5% were Arabs, and the remaining 19% either non-Arab Christians or residents with no listed religious affiliation. 8. MINISTER ERDAN REJECTS APPOINTMENT AS AMBASSADOR TO THE UN by Arutz Sheva Staff Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced Wednesday evening that he had rejected Prime Minister Netanyahu's offer of the post of Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations. "After considering the proposal to be appointed Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, I decided that I must continue in my position as Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs, and must remain in Israel during this important period to do all I can for a Likud victory," Erdan wrote on his Twitter account. Prime Minister Netanyahu had asked Erdan to replace Danny Danon, whose term as ambassador is ending this summer. Now that Erdan has refused the position, Netanyahu is expected to offer it next to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis.

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