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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Sunday, Sep. 22 '19, כ"ב באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. IDF OFFICER KILLED IN GAZA OP GRANTED CHIEF OF STAFF CITATION 2. BURGLAR, CAUGHT IN THE ACT, FALLS TO HIS DEATH 3. 'HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS WHILE DRIVING' 4. CHILD-ABUSING DAYCARE OPERATOR RELEASED FROM JAIL 5. 'HAMAS INHUMANITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS' 6. TERRORIST'S BODY RETURNED TO FAMILY FOR BURIAL 7. DAMASCUS SAYS SECOND DRONE DOWNED IN 48 HOURS OVER SOUTH SYRIA 8. WILL ARAB 'JOINT LIST' GIVE GANTZ FULL SUPPORT? 1. IDF OFFICER KILLED IN GAZA OP GRANTED CHIEF OF STAFF CITATION by Arutz Sheva Staff Earlier today, Sunday, a ceremony was held in which the Chief of the General Staff Citation was awarded to Lt. Col. M. for his actions in the special operation in Khan Yunis on November 11th 2018. The ceremony was held at the home of Lt. Col. M., out of respect for the family. The Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi was accompanied by the Head of the Intelligence Directorate, Maj. Gen. Tamir Heyman and other commanders. During the ceremony, Lt. Col. M. of the Special Operations Forces in the Military Intelligence Directorate, was posthumously awarded the Chief of the General Staff Citation for his actions in the operation in which he, and his team, operated in enemy territory with determination, composure and bravery, for taking the initiative to defend his friends, for his fighting spirit, for assuming a lead role in assaulting the enemy and for his resourcefulness in advancing the assault. His widow, children and parents received the award on his behalf. The Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi: "This is an extraordinary example of outstanding bravery." "I knew M. from the days when he was a young officer in the Paratrooper’s Brigade. Alongside his many talents, he was a humble man, a forthright man, an honest man, a man with whom what you saw was what you got. The operation in which he was killed was part of an event that could have ended much worse. He made a decision, thanks to which he managed to protect, defend and create the proper conditions to prevent us from descending into a crisis with strategic ramifications. "I salute M. for this action. Only those who have been in such situations know what power, pressure and weight of decisions is placed on the shoulders and runs through the mind in such a moment. "I am not the only one filled with appreciation for M.. I speak for the entire IDF when I say thank you for the manner in which he acted to untangle that situation. "M. was a special officer and will be remembered as an exemplar in the State of Israel. M. was lucky to have had such a wife, and I say to the children, you are lucky to have such a mother and such a family. After all, M. was raised in a place that brought about all this. One cannot miss the might of this family. I thank you on behalf of the IDF. This is not an easy day, but the main thing that should remain is pride. I greatly appreciate M's actions, and even in his absence, I salute him". Later today, ceremonies will be held in the Israeli Air Force and the Military Intelligence Directorate awarding further citations and certificates of appreciation. 2. BURGLAR, CAUGHT IN THE ACT, FALLS TO HIS DEATH by Arutz Sheva Staff A forty-year-old man broke into a Haifa apartment, only to fall to his death from its a third-floor balcony. Police investigations show that the apartment's residents surprised the burglar, and he attempted to escape via the balcony, but fell to his death instead. The police investigation is ongoing. Magen David Adom paramedic Assad Jo Hadad said: "An injured man was lying on the path leading to the building, near the entrance. He was unconscious and suffered damage to several bodily systems, after apparently falling from a few stories up." "We performed medical examinations, but he had no signs of life and we had no choice other than to declare his death." 3. 'HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS WHILE DRIVING' by Orli Harari 23-year-old Ran Arazi is the IDF officer who was moderately injured on Friday in a rock-throwing attack on Highway 55, near Ma’ale Shomron in Samaria. The officer, who was on vacation, was traveling by car with his father, Shlomi Arazi, on his way back from the base where his soldiers are serving. Ran, who suffered an injury to his face, underwent several treatments over the weekend and even underwent surgery at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, and his condition has improved. "Ran was driving the car, and as we approached Azzun, rocks were thrown, one of which shattered the windshield and hit him directly. As a result, Ran lost consciousness and fell on me. I had to take control of the vehicle which was travelling at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour," the father told Channel 13 News. "Large vehicles which appeared in front of me recognized that we were in trouble and immediately went off to the side of the road, as did I. Behind me were two vehicles, among them a Red Crescent ambulance. The doctor in the ambulance gave life-saving treatment to Ran. At the same time Yigal, the head of the Karnei Shomron local council, arrived at the scene and called the IDF and an ambulance that evacuated Ran to the Beilinson Hospital." 4. CHILD-ABUSING DAYCARE OPERATOR RELEASED FROM JAIL by David Rosenberg A daycare center operator from central Israel was released to house arrest Sunday, drawing protests from neighbors, as well as the families of the alleged victims. Carmel Mauda, 25, was released to house arrest Sunday, following a Supreme Court ruling last week enabling her to remain out of prison during her trial. Last Thursday, the court ruled that because of the very specific nature of the kind of abuse Mauda carried out, she may be permitted to stay in house arrest until the end of her trial. “Given that the dangers posed by Mauda are limited to the very specific circumstances of children under her care, it is decided that she may be released to house arrest, with limiting conditions,” wrote Justice Yitzhak Amit. Mauda was originally slated to be released Thursday to house arrest at a home in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Following protests led by parents of the alleged victims, however, the family which was to have hosted Mauda backed out at the last minute. Over the weekend, however, Mauda found another host, a man living in the Sharon region in central Israel. On Sunday, Mauda was released from custody to house arrest, drawing criticism both from parents of the children Mauda allegedly abused, as well as neighbors of Mauda’s host, who feared they could suffer if Mauda was targeted during her stay in the apartment building. “I don’t accept her being here,” Rachel Voll, the superintendent of the apartment building told Israel Hayom. “I couldn’t bear to see what she did to those children.” Another resident of the building said the neighbors “absolutely would not accept her staying here at all. The parents of the children from her preschool said they’d make problems here. There’s also a daycare here, and the parents called up the manager and said that they won’t bring their children in if [Mauda] is here.” Two months ago, Mauda’s apartment in Rosh Haayin was torched by 18-year-old Adir Ratzon, who was apparently hired by parents of one of Mauda’s alleged victims. Authorities have charged Mauda with 18 counts of abuse against 11 different children who had been enrolled at her ‘Baby Love’ daycare center in Rosh Haayin. According to the indictment, Mauda is accused of covering the children's heads with a blanket and sitting on them to prevent movement; tying a minor’s hands using string for minutes to hours; picking up minors by forcefully grasping the arm; swinging them in the air and throwing them onto the floor; shaking babies; placing toddlers facing the wall, sometimes for several hours; whipping the minors with a diaper, slapping them, pinching and pulling toddlers' heads back, blocking their noses and mouths until breathing difficulties arose. In one case she forced a minor to eat the contents of a plate into which he vomited. 5. 'HAMAS INHUMANITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS' by Arutz Sheva Staff Dr. Leah Goldin, the mother of IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin, will attend a conference of human rights organizations at the United Nations in Geneva tomorrow. Goldin will appear in a special hearing in which she will address the member states of the Council and call on the international community to act and assist in bringing back the IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians held by Hamas in Gaza. Goldin will be accompanied to a discussion at the Human Rights Council by Adv. Arsen Ostrovsky, who specializes in human rights and serves as the head of the Israeli-Jewish Congress. Ahead of her participation in the debate tomorrow, Goldin said, "Hamas is cruelly tormenting our family. Their inhumanity knows no bounds." "The international community bears moral and legal responsibility for the return of abducted citrus taken captive during a humanitarian ceasefire under the UN and US sponsorship and sponsorship," she added. The body of Hadar Goldin has been held by the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza since the 2014 Gaza war. 6. TERRORIST'S BODY RETURNED TO FAMILY FOR BURIAL by Shimon Cohen The body of Nazim Abu Rumi, one of the terrorists who carried out a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, was returned a few minutes before Shabbat last week. One person, a police officer, was wounded in the attack. Maor Zemach of the "Go Jerusalem" movement lamented the return of the terrorist's body in an interview with Arutz Sheva. Zemach said that the body of the terrorist Omar Younes, who carried out a stabbing attack at the Tapuach Junction last April, was also returned to his family for burial. How do the bodies of terrorists go back to their families without the Israeli public being aware of it and at the same time what seems to contradict the government's position. Zemach said that in most cases, these cases reach the High Court of Justice, and already there in the preliminary hearings, even before the High Court makes its final decision, the government announced that it has agreed to return the bodies of the terrorists. "This was the case with the terrorist from the Issawiya neighborhood two months ago and so was what happened yesterday." He said in a stabbing attack in the Old City, a police spokesman's statement said that two terrorists were killed. "It was inaccurate that one was critically wounded and doctors went out of their way to save his life, which they succeed in. He was indicted and the other terrorist was returned yesterday and buried in the morning following a campaign that was all incitement in Abu Dis." And what about the restrictions that used to be part of the agreements with the family members, agreements that included a limit on the number of funeral participants, the setting of a late night time for the funeral and the prohibition of animate signs during the course of the funeral? All of these, it turns out, are irrelevant when the terrorist is not a Jerusalem resident. "Arrangements apply to terrorists from Jerusalem. Recently, [attacks have been committed] by terrorists who are not from Jerusalem. If such an event occurs, the body was returned on condition that it would be buried in one of the suburbs of Jerusalem. Al Azaria is not a Jerusalem neighborhood but is adjacent to Jerusalem, but it is in Area B. According to the High Court, if the terrorist is identified with Hamas then he remains a bargaining chip. Abu Rumi is identified with Fatah, which issued a proclamation in his memory and also the flags of the Popular Front and Fatah were the ones at the funeral. "Beyond the burial campaign being an incitement to violence, it must be understood that the same minor terrorist, less than 15 years old, came to carry out an attack in the heart of Jerusalem after attending a PA summer camp in El Azaria, which is on the road to Ma'ale Adumim. A week after the camp ended, he and his friend arrived to carry out a terror attack in Jerusalem," noted Tzemach. 7. DAMASCUS SAYS SECOND DRONE DOWNED IN 48 HOURS OVER SOUTH SYRIA by AFP A drone was shot down on Saturday in Quneitra province in southern Syria, the second such incident in 48 hours,state media said. Authorities "dismantled a drone" after it was shot down on the edge of Jabal al-Sheikh in the Quneitra countryside, southwest of Damascus, state news agency SANA reported. The drone was loaded with bombs and C4 explosive, it said. The origin of the drone was not specified, though SANA reported it "came from the west." The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesman said the drone did not come from his country and was likely Iranian. "What is certain is that it is not an (Israeli army) drone," Avichay Adraee said on Twitter. "Today we see proof... that (Iran's elite Quds Force commander) Qassem Soleimani does whatever he wants in Syria, and of course does not tell" the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. On Thursday, another drone was downed by Syrian anti-aircraft defenses over the village of Aqraba, south of Damascus, SANA reported, also without specifying the origin of the drone. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the downing of the drone on Saturday but was unable to confirm if it was hit by forces of the Syrian regime, or its ally, the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. 8. WILL ARAB 'JOINT LIST' GIVE GANTZ FULL SUPPORT? by Arutz Sheva Staff The four factions which make up the Joint Arab List met Saturday in Kfar Qasim,to decide whether to support Blue and White leader Benny Gantz as candidate for the next Israeli prime minister. At the end of the meeting, MK Ahmad Tibi said: "There was a deep and serious discussion, but no decision was made." The party's factions are scheduled to meet again on Sunday, prior to their scheduled meetings with Israeli President Reuven RIvlin. On Sunday, Rivlin is scheduled to begin asking partly leaders who their recommendation for Prime Minister is. If the Joint Arab List does recommend Gantz, the Blue and White leader will have at least 57 MKs recommending him: 33 from his own party, 6 from the joint Gesher-Labor list, 5 from the Democratic Union, and 13 from the Joint Arab List. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu only has the backing of 55 MKs.

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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Friday, Sep. 20 '19, כ' באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. WILL DEADLOCKED KNESSET BRING UNITY GOV'T - OR A THIRD ELECTION? 2. LIBERMAN'S CONDITIONS FOR JOINING GOVERNMENT WITH HAREDI PARTIES 3. DOZENS OF CIVILIANS KILLED IN US DRONE STRIKE IN AFGHANISTAN 4. WATCH: IDF SOLDIERS IN SAMARIA PREPARE FOR WAR 5. NEW JERSEY MAN INDICTED FOR AIDING HEZBOLLAH 6. 'RIGHT-WING BLOC' LED BY NETANYAHU ESTABLISHED 7. 'WE WILL DO EVERYTHING TO PREVENT A DANGEROUS GOVERNMENT' 8. SHAKED CALLS ON GANTZ TO JOIN UNITY GOVT. UNDER NETANYAHU 1. WILL DEADLOCKED KNESSET BRING UNITY GOV'T - OR A THIRD ELECTION? by Mike Smith & Michael Blum, AFP Israeli vote results on Friday confirmed a deadlock in the country's general election and put Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party as the second-largest, leaving him with a tough battle to extend his long tenure in office. The near-complete official results from Tuesday's election gave ex-military chief Benny Gantz's center-left Blue and White alliance the most seats, with 33 out of parliament's 120. Netanyahu's Likud won 31 seats, but neither had an obvious path to a majority coalition. In a stark admission on Thursday, Netanyahu acknowledged he was unable to form a right-wing coalition as he hoped and called on Gantz to join him in a unity government instead. Gantz responded by saying he would have to be prime minister in a unity government since Blue and White was the largest party. The standoff has even raised the possibility of yet another election -- which would be the third to be held in a year following April polls that also ended inconclusively. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin plans to begin consultations with all parties voted into parliament on Sunday to decide who to choose to try to form a government. Final results will be published on Wednesday and there could be changes before then, Israel's election committee said. Some 99.8% of the vote has been counted thus far. The committee said the results did not include 14 polling stations where verifications were still ongoing. The third-largest total was the mainly Arab Joint List alliance, which won 13 seats, up from 10 seats its constituent factions won in the April election. The three-seat gain was fueled primarily by a 10-point increase in turnout among Israeli Arabs, from just under 50% in April to approximately 59% in Tuesday’s election. Its strong showing opened the possibility that its leader, MK Ayman Odeh, could become the country's first Arab opposition chief if Likud and Blue and White form a unity government. 'Won the election' Following the Joint List, the country's two haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, won nine and eight seats respectively. Ex-defense minister Avigdor Lieberman's secular rightist Yisrael Beytenu party also won eight seats, and he could potentially play a kingmaker role.  Liberman has called for a unity government between his party, Likud and Blue and White, excluding the haredi parties, which he accuses of seeking to force religious law onto the country's secular population. But the main focus in the coming days will be on Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister but who is facing potential corruption charges in the weeks ahead. He was widely seen as hoping to have the new parliament grant him immunity from prosecution, but that may now be impossible even if he does manage to remain premier. "During the elections, I called for the establishment of a right-wing government," Netanyahu said in a video message on Thursday. "But unfortunately the election results show that this is not possible." He went on to call on Gantz to form a "broad unity government today." The two men shook hands when they crossed paths at a memorial event later in the day, but Gantz made his position clear on Thursday afternoon. Gantz too called for a unity government, but he insisted that he be prime minister. "Blue and White, headed by me, has won the election," he said. "Blue and White is the largest party." One possibility which neither side raised publicly would be the formation of a unity government with a power-sharing agreement in which Netanyahu and Gantz rotate as premier. In the 1980s, two narrow elections led to the formation of unity governments including both the Likud and Labor. In 1984 and again in 1988, Likud's Yitzhak Shamir and Labor's Shimon Peres agreed to a power-sharing agreement in which the premiership rotated between them, with Peres becoming prime minister for two years, from 1984 to 1986, before handing the position to Shamir. Shamir retained the position in the unity government formed after the 1988 elections, and was set to return the premiership to Peres in 1990, until Labor bolted from the government in a bid to form an alternative coalition with haredi parties, what was later called the "Dirty Trick" of 1990. 2. LIBERMAN'S CONDITIONS FOR JOINING GOVERNMENT WITH HAREDI PARTIES by Hezki Baruch Yisrael Beytenu chairman and former Defense Minister Avidgor Liberman suggested Friday morning that he is prepared to join a coalition government which includes the haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism – if certain demands are met. Liberman, whose Yisrael Beytenu party refused to join a Netanyahu-led government five months ago over a dispute with haredi parties regarding a haredi draft law, is expected to receive eight seats in the 22nd Knesset, three more than in the outgoing Knesset. Neither the right-wing – religious bloc nor the left-wing – Arab bloc has a clear path to the 61-seat majority needed without Yisrael Beytenu. During the campaign, Liberman vowed to block the formation of a narrow right-wing government, calling instead for the formation of a secular national unity government led by the Likud and Blue and White parties which would exclude religious factions like Shas, United Torah Judaism, and even the national-religious Jewish Home party. On Friday, however, Liberman said he would be willing sit with haredi lawmakers – on condition that the government back a series proposals which religious MKs have long opposed, including civil marriages, changes to the conversion system in Israel, and the expansion of an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. “In recent days I’ve heard a surprising change in the discourse by the leaders of the haredi parties,” said Liberman. “They’re no longer using epithets against me like ‘Amalek’ and ‘Hitler’, and there are calls to end the hateful talk,” continued Liberman, who was outspoken in his criticism of haredi lawmakers and “Messianic” national-religious parties during the campaign. “As far as we are concerned, and I’ve already said this in the past, the haredi parties are not our enemies, but are political rivals. We embrace different paths. They are from Beit Shammai, we from Beit Hillel.” Liberman went on to list his demands for entering a government which includes haredi parties. Passage of the haredi “draft law, as it is currently written; civil marriage; [permitting] conversions by local rabbis; re-approving the Western Wall deal; requiring haredi schools teach the ‘Liba’ curriculum [of secular subjects]; public transportation and the opening of minimarkets on the Sabbath. The last two issues will be left up to local authorities in every municipality, based on who lives in any given town. We won’t accept anything less than this, even if it means sitting in the opposition.” 3. DOZENS OF CIVILIANS KILLED IN US DRONE STRIKE IN AFGHANISTAN by Arutz Sheva Staff Dozens of Afghani civilians were killed and dozens more injured after an American drone strike accidentally struck a group of farmers in eastern Afghanistan. A US drone aircraft which had been targeting an ISIS position in the eastern Nangarhar province inadvertently struck a group of farm workers collecting pine nuts in Wazir Tangi, Reuters reported. The incident occurred late Wednesday night, three local officials told Reuters. At least 30 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in the strike. Locals say about 150 workers were at the scene of the attack for the harvest, and that a number of people remain unaccounted for. One tribal elder said the workers had been hit by the drone shortly after they lit a bonfire. “The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them,” Malik Rahat said. A US military spokesman in Afghanistan, Colonel Sonny Leggett, confirmed that the US had launched the drone strike against ISIS terrorists, but did not confirm the civilian deaths, acknowledging only that there were “allegations” of non-combatant deaths. “U.S. forces conducted a drone strike against Da’esh [ISIS] terrorists in Nangarhar,” said Colonel Leggett. “We are aware of allegations of the death of non-combatants and are working with local officials to determine the facts.” 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269190 4. WATCH: IDF SOLDIERS IN SAMARIA PREPARE FOR WAR by Arutz Sheva Staff 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269191 IDF soldiers stationed in Samaria took part in a wide-ranging series of military exercises this week, preparing them for a number of possible scenarios: from drive-by shootings and to bomb attacks, to terrorist infiltrations into Israeli towns, and even large-scale military operations. The exercises were carried out by the IDF’s Ephraim Brigade – which operates in much of Samaria – and included the Nahshon, Shahar, and Bardales battalions, as well as Border Police officers and MDA emergency first responder units. During the exercises, units were given ‘surprise’ assignments at various locations. The units conducted searches in the field, prepared makeshift war-rooms for large scale military operations, and trained for a variety of scenarios including terrorist attacks using makeshift explosive devices. “During the exercise, security forces trained together for a number of extreme scenarios which we have to deal with,” said Major Eran Keres, the chief operations officer for the Ephraim Brigade. “We, the officers and soldiers of the brigade, will continue to improve our readiness and our capabilities in order to ensure the security of residents in the best way possible.” 5. NEW JERSEY MAN INDICTED FOR AIDING HEZBOLLAH by Elad Benari A New Jersey man was indicted Thursday on charges he supported the Hezbollah terrorist organization by scouting possible targets for an attack, ABC 7 New York reported. Police said Alexei Saab, of Morristown, has been indicted in federal court for scouting locations in the city and sending information back to Lebanon. Saab was arrested on July 9 but the case was recently unsealed, according to ABC 7. Officials said while living in the United States, Saab surveilled dozens of iconic New York City locations, including the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and local airports, tunnels, and bridges --- and provided detailed information on these locations, including photographs, to the Islamic Jihad Organization, a component of Hezbollah. "In particular, Saab focused on the structural weaknesses of locations he surveilled in order to determine how a future attack could cause the most destruction. Saab's reporting to the IJO included the materials used to construct a particular target, how close in proximity one could get to a target, and site weaknesses or 'soft spots' that the IJO could exploit if it attacked a target in the future," court records said. Saab joined Hezbollah in 1996, according to the documents, and received extensive training in weapons and military tactics, including how to construct and detonate bombs. Saab entered the United States legally in 2000 and applied for citizenship in 2005. He became a naturalized citizen three years later. He also conducted similar scouting operations in Washington and Boston, among other cities, according to the report. Saab, 42, is charged with providing material support to a terror organization among other offenses. Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organization in the US and has been sanctioned several times by the administration in recent years. In July, the US Treasury placed two Hezbollah members of Lebanon's parliament on its sanctions blacklist, marking the first time Washington has taken aim at the Iran-allied group's elected politicians. Since 2013, American prosecutors have charged hundreds of radicalized individuals, mostly with crimes related to support for the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group. In July, two refugees from Somalia were arrested in Arizona and accused of providing material support to ISIS. In June, a man was arrested after he discussed purchasing explosives with the intention of detonating them in New York's Times Square. In April, a US Army veteran was arrested for allegedly plotting a large-scale terror attack near Los Angeles. Earlier that month, a Maryland man was charged with stealing a rental truck that he wanted to use to kill pedestrians at National Harbor in Maryland, in an attack similar to the 2016 truck terror attack in Nice, France. 6. 'RIGHT-WING BLOC' LED BY NETANYAHU ESTABLISHED by Ido Ben Porat Right-wing factions convened at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon, deciding to establish a "right-wing bloc" headed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, that will work for the establishment of the next government. It was decided to form a joint coalition negotiations team for all factions in the bloc. In addition to Netanyahu, the meeting saw the participation of Minister Yariv Levin and faction heads: Yaakov Litzman, Moshe Gafni, Naftali Bennett, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Ayelet Shaked, and Bezalel Smotrich. Minister Aryeh Deri met with Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier this morning, as he was unable to attend the meeting due to the memorial ceremony for the late Minister David Azulay. Later this evening, Netanyahu will join Likud members for a preliminary hearing on the results of the elections, which gave the right less than the 61 seats required to obtain the mandate for forming the next government. The Knesset seat distribution, after counting 90% of the votes, shows Blue and White with 32, Likud - 31, Joint List - 13, Shas - 9, Yisrael Beytenu - 9, United Torah Judaism - 8, Yamina - 7, Labor - 6, Democratic Union - 5 . 7. 'WE WILL DO EVERYTHING TO PREVENT A DANGEROUS GOVERNMENT' by Hezki Baruch Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened members of the Likud faction at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem, addressing the election results. "I come here after a meeting with the leaders of the National Camp parties," said Netanyahu. “We unanimously decided that we will go together into negotiations for the establishment of a government headed by me.” “We will conduct the negotiations with one delegation, Yariv Levin will be at the head.” Netanyahu added: "Now that we have established the bloc of right-wing parties, there will be either a government headed by me, or a dangerous government that relies on the Arab parties. We will make every effort to prevent this dangerous government." Netanyahu thanked Likud members for their "unequivocal support for me and for Likud." "You made a sharp and clear statement. It's important that the public heard it, and I really appreciate it. We are going together, and the National Camp is going together, and with G-d's help we will establish together a strong, Zionist government that is good for the State of Israel." Earlier Wednesday, right-wing factions convened at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, deciding to establish a "right-wing bloc" headed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, that will work for the establishment of the next government. It was decided to form a joint coalition negotiations team for all factions in the bloc. In addition to Netanyahu, the meeting saw the participation of Minister Yariv Levin and faction heads: Yaakov Litzman, Moshe Gafni, Naftali Bennett, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, Ayelet Shaked, and Bezalel Smotrich. Minister Aryeh Deri met with Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier this morning, as he was unable to attend the meeting due to the memorial ceremony for the late Minister David Azulay. The Knesset seat distribution, after counting 90% of the votes, shows Blue and White with 32, Likud - 31, Joint List - 13, Shas - 9, Yisrael Beytenu - 9, United Torah Judaism - 8, Yamina - 7, Labor - 6, Democratic Union - 5. 8. SHAKED CALLS ON GANTZ TO JOIN UNITY GOVT. UNDER NETANYAHU by Yoni Kempinski New Right leader Ayelet Shaked called on Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and the other leaders of the left-wing parties to join a national unity government led by Binyamin Netanyahu. "The people chose the right but not enough to form a government and so we will all compromise," Shaked said in a statement at her front door in northern Tel Aviv. According to her, the right-wing parties have formed a joint negotiating team that will work to establish a unity government "on the basis of the principles of a Jewish and democratic state". Shaked emphasized: "I urge Benny Gantz to put the boycotts aside and come to talk with Netanyahu."

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A7News: 'Benny, we must establish a broad unity government'

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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Thursday, Sep. 19 '19, י"ט באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. 'BENNY, WE MUST ESTABLISH A BROAD UNITY GOVERNMENT' 2. PERES' GRANDDAUGHTER SLAMS PM IN SPEECH SPONSORED BY EMBASSY 3. PUTIN: RUSSIANS CONSIDER ISRAEL A 'RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY' 4. GANTZ: YOU DON'T COME TO A UNITY GOVERNMENT WITH BLOCS AND SPINS 5. NETANYAHU, GANTZ DEADLOCKED AFTER REPEAT ELECTION 6. LIVE UPDATES: OFFICIAL RESULTS IN ELECTION TO THE 22ND KNESSET 7. FIRST EXIT POLLS: STALEMATE, BLUE AND WHITE LARGEST PARTY 8. LABOR TO NETANYAHU: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME, WE WON'T SIT WITH YOU 1. 'BENNY, WE MUST ESTABLISH A BROAD UNITY GOVERNMENT' by Hezki Baruch Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday called on Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz to establish a broad unity government with him. “During the elections, I called for the establishment of the right-wing government. But unfortunately the election results show that this is not possible. The people did not decide between the two blocs. Therefore, there is no choice but to form a broad unity government, as broad as possible, made up of all the factions to whom the State of Israel is dear,” Netanyahu said. “Yesterday, I met with my friends in the right-wing parties and we agreed that we were going as one bloc with one joint delegation into negotiations. “Now I call on you, MK Benny Gantz: Benny, we must establish a broad unity government today. The people expect us, both of us, to show responsibility and work for cooperation. “That's why I call on you - Benny, let's meet today, any hour, any time, to kick-start this move which is the order of the day. We are not allowed to reach, and there is no reason for, a third election - I am against it. The order of the day - a broad unity government, today.” 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269134 2. PERES' GRANDDAUGHTER SLAMS PM IN SPEECH SPONSORED BY EMBASSY by Mordechai Sones The Israeli Embassy in Germany sponsored an award event in honor of President Shimon Peres, during which Peres' granddaughter, Mika Almog, delivered a speech critical of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, reports Israel Hayom. The event was held yesterday in the Berlin municipality, on behalf of the Future Fund, set up by the German and Israeli governments to develop relations between the two countries. Speaking at the event, Peres' granddaughter said: "The current government in Israel is a nightmare circus headed by someone nicknamed 'The Wizard' - and rightly so, because deception is by far his greatest talent. And what an impressive show: Here he walks a tightrope over the abyss as he might have to pay for his actions - for corruption, for racism, for incitement - but the magician not only marches forward on safe footing, he adds juggling tricks! "Everything he collects to himself he throws into the air: the premiership, the foreign portfolio, the defense portfolio, the health portfolio, immigration and absorption, the Diaspora, the media, and the circle gets more and more crowded as more things start flying - here's Case 1,000, Case 2,000, Case 3,000, and 4,000. And if for a moment there's fear the audience will lose interest, or remember that what's flying there in the air is all of our lives, the future of our children, a whole generation that's grown up without ever experiencing a change of government; who has throughout its life absorbed the perverted notion that there can be only one man to head the government; that tyrannical government centralization is a reasonable and normal thing - right away the wizard spices up the show with flaming torches, and suddenly the borders are heating up, Iran's in the doorway, we're all going to die!" Almog, who circulated similar incitement against Netanyahu in the previous Knesset election, spoke to the distinguished audience attended by Israel's Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff, and also posted her speech on Facebook. 3. PUTIN: RUSSIANS CONSIDER ISRAEL A 'RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRY' by Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA Russia considers Israel a Russian-speaking nation, President Vladimir Putin said. Putin made the statement, his strongest public expression of kinship with the Jewish state to date, during a speech Tuesday in Moscow at an event organized by the United Israel Appeal, a Zionist organization responsible for collecting funds. “Citizens of Russia and Israel are connected by ties of family, kinship and friendship. This is a real network, a common family, I say without exaggeration. Israel has almost 2 million Russian-speaking citizens. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking state,” he said. Putin also said he would travel to Israel in January at the invitation of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to attend events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Of course, I will definitely take advantage of this invitation,” Putin said. Trade between Israel and Russia rose by 9 percent in 2018 over the previous year, he added. Russia maintains strong ties with some Russian-speaking countries, offering them beneficial trading terms and political support. It also has demonstrated a high level of intervention, sometimes hostile, in Russian-speaking countries. Under Putin, Russia has deepened its alliance with Iran, despite calls by that country to destroy Israel and alleged attempts to develop nuclear and other arms in the context of Iran’s conflict with Israel. Russia also supports Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hezbollah, and is one of the few major powers in the world with official relations with Hamas officials. 4. GANTZ: YOU DON'T COME TO A UNITY GOVERNMENT WITH BLOCS AND SPINS by Mordechai Sones The Blue and White faction convened at noon today for the first session since the Knesset elections last Tuesday, in an ambiance of uncertainty over the political situation. Party Chairman Benny Gantz said at the opening of the meeting, "It is appropriate that we all put the good of the people above all other considerations. The people chose unity, the people asked that Israel be above all. "Blue and White won the election, Blue and White is the biggest party. Netanyahu failed to get the blocking political bloc he was aiming for," said Gantz. "I want to establish a broad and liberal unity government headed by me to bring about the will of the people. The work of the government has begun. We will listen to everyone attentively but will not give in to any dictates," added Gantz. Gantz noted, "Negotiations will require perseverance and determination and adherence to the political principles known to everyone. Political paralysis will not benefit Israeli citizens. "You don't approach establishing a unity government with blocs and spins. I intend to act in the spirit of the note that I put in between the stones of the Western Wall on the eve of the elections. 'Bring peace to us and make peace among us'," Gantz concluded. Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to Gantz' claims: "I was surprised and disappointed that at this time Benny Gantz still refuses to respond to my call to meet. The President called for unity, and without a meeting between the two major party leaders, it is impossible to form a unity government. The State of Israel needs as broad a unity government as possible - not another election and certainly not a government that relies on anti-Zionist parties. Gantz, my suggestion for a meeting between us still stands. This is what the public expects from us." 5. NETANYAHU, GANTZ DEADLOCKED AFTER REPEAT ELECTION by David Rosenberg Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his main challenger, Blue and White chief Benny Gantz, remain deadlocked Wednesday after Tuesday’s Knesset election, raising the possibility of a unity government or even the possibility of a third general election. With more than 90 percent of the vote counted, Blue and White holds a narrow lead over the Likud, with 25.66% of the vote to 25.03% for the Likud. Preliminary results now show Blue and White with 32 seats to 31 for the Likud. Blue and White currently leads the Likud by roughly 25,000 votes, with less than half a million votes left to count. 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269088 The predominantly Arab Joint List party has 13 seats, according to the current results, while Shas is on track to receive nine seats, and United Torah Judaism to receive eight. The right-wing Yamina party is currently projected to win seven seats, compared to six for the Labor-Gesher alliance, and five for the Democratic Union, an alliance of the far-left Meretz party with Ehud Barak’s new Israel Democratic Party. Otzma Yehudit, which some polls showed entering the Knesset, is far from the 3.25% needed to win representation in the legislature, with less than 2% of the vote according to the latest count, which showed Otzma with less than 75,000 votes. The right-wing – religious bloc – including the Likud, Yamina, UTJ, and Shas – is currently projected to win 55 seats, down from 60 in the April election. By contrast, the left-wing bloc, including the Joint Arab List, is currently projected to win 56 seats. Neither the right-wing nor the left-wing bloc is expected to secure the 61 seats necessary for an outright majority. Yisrael Beytenu, which is expected to win nine seats, is not included in either bloc, and has called for a national unity government. 6. LIVE UPDATES: OFFICIAL RESULTS IN ELECTION TO THE 22ND KNESSET by Arutz Sheva Staff According to an informal count of 90% of the votes in Tuesday’s elections for the 22nd Knesset, Blue and White has a slight advantage over the Likud. Blue and White has 33 seats, Likud - 32, Joint List - 11, Shas 9, Yisrael Beytenu - 9, United Torah Judaism - 8, Yamina - 7, Labor-Gesher - 6 and the Democratic Union has 5 seats. The right-wing bloc has 56 seats and the center-left has 55. Both these numbers do not include Yisrael Beytenu’s 9. The voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was 69.4 percent, 1.5 percent higher than the voter turnout at the end of the previous election in April of 2019. Exit polls published on Tuesday night showed that Blue and White was the largest party in the Knesset and is followed by the Likud, but it does not appear that either party has enough seats to form a coalition. Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party will probably be the deciding factor in determining who will head Israel’s next government – Binyamin Netanyahu or Benny Gantz. 7. FIRST EXIT POLLS: STALEMATE, BLUE AND WHITE LARGEST PARTY by Gary Willig The first exit polls were published shortly after polls closed at 10 PM Tuesday night. According to an exit poll published by Channel 12 News, the Blue and White party emerged as the largest party with 34 Knesset seats. The Likud party finished a close second with 33 seats. The Joint Arab List finished third with 11 seats. Yamina and Yisrael Beyteinu both received eight seats, as did haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism. Labor and the Democratic Union received five seats each. The Otzma Yehudit party failed to clear the electoral threshold. According to these initial results, the right-wing bloc received 57 seats without the Yisrael Beyteinu party, and the left-wing-Arab bloc received 55 seats. A Channel 13 exit poll showed the left overtaking the right with 58 seats compared to 54, while a Kan poll showed Blue and White tied with Likud at 32 seats apiece and the right ahead by two seats. All three polls show neither side able to form a coalition without Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beyteinu party. 8. LABOR TO NETANYAHU: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME, WE WON'T SIT WITH YOU by Arutz Sheva Staff Labor-Gesher Party Chairman Amir Peretz said he intends to stand by his election promise not to sit in a coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. "We said it, we committed to it, we will fulfill it," Peretz emphasized in a joint statement he made with the Chairwoman of Gesher, Orly Levi-Abekasis, at Beit Ha’itonaim in Tel Aviv. MK Peretz addressed Netanyahu: "Mr. Prime Minister, save the time on the phone and the attempts to contact us. I served as mayor, I am not looking for a job. You have nothing with which to entice us." "Netanyahu's incitement is eating away at Israeli democracy," Peretz added. "Netanyahu's incitement against Arab citizens is unbearable. Whoever wants to be prime minister in Israel should denounce it and condemn it, and dispel racist language from the political discourse in Israel. We’re not intending to downshift to second and third gear. Our drive will be forward. I intend to open the gates of the party to tens of thousands of new supporters.” Levi-Abakasis said of the election results: "Everybody wanted to drink up [our votes]. The alliance between Amir and me is a brave one, it is a long-term strategic one, and we are building a new home here that has room for everyone."

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A7News: Netanyahu, Gantz deadlocked after repeat election

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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Wednesday, Sep. 18 '19, י"ח באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. NETANYAHU, GANTZ DEADLOCKED AFTER REPEAT ELECTION 2. HOW DID ISRAEL'S BIG CITIES VOTE? 3. NETANYAHU: JOINT ARAB LIST WILL WIN 15 SEATS 4. LIVE UPDATES: OFFICIAL RESULTS IN ELECTION TO THE 22ND KNESSET 5. IRAN: ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL FACILITIES WAS 'A WARNING' 6. 'ISRAEL NEEDS A BROAD, STRONG, ZIONIST GOVERNMENT' 7. FIRST EXIT POLLS: STALEMATE, BLUE AND WHITE LARGEST PARTY 8. 'THE ERA OF NETANYAHU IS OVER' 1. NETANYAHU, GANTZ DEADLOCKED AFTER REPEAT ELECTION by David Rosenberg Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his main challenger, Blue and White chief Benny Gantz, remain deadlocked Wednesday after Tuesday’s Knesset election, raising the possibility of a unity government or even the possibility of a third general election. With more than 90 percent of the vote counted, Blue and White holds a narrow lead over the Likud, with 25.66% of the vote to 25.03% for the Likud. Preliminary results now show Blue and White with 32 seats to 31 for the Likud. Blue and White currently leads the Likud by roughly 25,000 votes, with less than half a million votes left to count. 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269088 The predominantly Arab Joint List party has 13 seats, according to the current results, while Shas is on track to receive nine seats, and United Torah Judaism to receive eight. The right-wing Yamina party is currently projected to win seven seats, compared to six for the Labor-Gesher alliance, and five for the Democratic Union, an alliance of the far-left Meretz party with Ehud Barak’s new Israel Democratic Party. Otzma Yehudit, which some polls showed entering the Knesset, is far from the 3.25% needed to win representation in the legislature, with less than 2% of the vote according to the latest count, which showed Otzma with less than 75,000 votes. The right-wing – religious bloc – including the Likud, Yamina, UTJ, and Shas – is currently projected to win 55 seats, down from 60 in the April election. By contrast, the left-wing bloc, including the Joint Arab List, is currently projected to win 56 seats. Neither the right-wing nor the left-wing bloc is expected to secure the 61 seats necessary for an outright majority. Yisrael Beytenu, which is expected to win nine seats, is not included in either bloc, and has called for a national unity government. 2. HOW DID ISRAEL'S BIG CITIES VOTE? by Arutz Sheva Staff The Central Elections Committee on Wednesday morning published the results of the elections, after 61.15% of possible votes were counted. According to the Knesset's official election results site, residents of Tel Aviv, 42.89% of voted mainly for the Blue and White party, with just 19.16% going to Likud, while in neighboring Petah Tikva, 30.37% went to the Likud, and 27.79% went to Blue and White. In Holon, 36.9% of voters supported Likud, and 30.41% supported Blue and White. In Jerusalem on the other hand, 24.9% of votes went to the Ashkenazic-haredi UTJ party, and 22.99% went to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud. There, Blue and White scored just 11.78% of votes. Similarly, in haredi Bnei Brak, 61.7% of votes went to UTJ, 27.97% went to Sephardic-haredi Shas, and just 4.67% went to Likud. Blue and White trailed several places behind, with 1.29% of votes. Haifa, meanwhile saw 32.95% support for Blue and White, and 23.72% support for Likud. In the central city of Rishon Lezion, 36.63% voted for Blue and White, while 34.01% voted Likud. In Netanya, 35.96% of votes went to the Likud, with just 24.16% supporting Blue and White. Southern Be'er Sheva, often called the "capital of the Negev," saw 43.39% support for the Likud, and 18.81% support for Blue and White. In the southern coastal city of Ashdod, 31.22% of votes went to Likud, with Yisrael Beytenu the runner-up at 17.66% and Blue and White following close behind with 16.29%. 3. NETANYAHU: JOINT ARAB LIST WILL WIN 15 SEATS by Arutz Sheva Staff A Likud spokesperson published details from a meeting hosted by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at his residence. "Prime Minister Netanyahu expects the Joint Arab List to win 15 Knesset seats," the spokesperson said. The Joint Arab List has been polling between 10 and 12 Knesset seats. However, Channel 13 reported "surprisingly high levels of turnout in the Arab sector, as well as "long lines at the voting stations since the early morning, and a high level of interest." Likud, meanwhile, is expected to be neck-and-neck with the center-left Blue and White party, with neither having the necessary 61-MK majority to form a coalition without the right-turned-left Yisrael Beytenu party. 4. LIVE UPDATES: OFFICIAL RESULTS IN ELECTION TO THE 22ND KNESSET by Arutz Sheva Staff According to an informal count of 90% of the votes in Tuesday’s elections for the 22nd Knesset, Blue and White has a slight advantage over the Likud. Blue and White has 33 seats, Likud - 32, Joint List - 11, Shas 9, Yisrael Beytenu - 9, United Torah Judaism - 8, Yamina - 7, Labor-Gesher - 6 and the Democratic Union has 5 seats. The right-wing bloc has 56 seats and the center-left has 55. Both these numbers do not include Yisrael Beytenu’s 9. The voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was 69.4 percent, 1.5 percent higher than the voter turnout at the end of the previous election in April of 2019. Exit polls published on Tuesday night showed that Blue and White was the largest party in the Knesset and is followed by the Likud, but it does not appear that either party has enough seats to form a coalition. Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party will probably be the deciding factor in determining who will head Israel’s next government – Binyamin Netanyahu or Benny Gantz. 5. IRAN: ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL FACILITIES WAS 'A WARNING' by David Rosenberg A recent attack by Iranian-backed forces in Yemen on a Saudi oil facility should be viewed as a “warning” to Saudi Arabia to halt its campaign against pro-Tehran Houthi rebels in Yemen, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday. President Rouhani denied that Iran was behind the attack, adding that Iran was not interested in a regional conflict. “We don’t want conflict in the region,” said Rouhani. “Who started the conflict?” The Iranian leader blamed the US, Israel, United Arab Emirates, and the Saudi government for rising tensions in the Middle East. Despite Rouhani’s denial, the Saudi ambassador to the UK said Wednesday that Iran was ‘almost certainly’ behind the weekend attacks on Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. “Almost certainly it’s Iranian-backed,” Prince Khalid bin Bander bin Sultan Al Saud told the BBC. “We’re trying not to react too quickly because the last thing we need is more conflict in the region.” “We’re investigating the issue. We’re working with our partners in the United States, the UN, the UK, and anyone else who wants to get involved, to help us resolve what happened, figure out what happened, where they came from, the attack.” Saudi Arabia promised Wednesday to release evidence linking Iran to the attack. The US has also accused Iran for the attack, and now believes that the assault was launched from southwestern Iran. Houthi rebels in Yemen had previously claimed responsibility for the attack. Iran is widely believed to be backing the Houthi forces, though Tehran has denied this. Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition in support of the Yemeni government against the Houthis. 6. 'ISRAEL NEEDS A BROAD, STRONG, ZIONIST GOVERNMENT' by Yoni Kempinski 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269071 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Tuesday night at the Likud election headquarters at Tel Aviv Expo and called on those present to wait for the true results of the elections to the 22nd Knesset. Netanyahu, whose voice was hoarse, said, “I’d rather lose my voice than lose the country.” "At this time, the State of Israel needs a Zionist government," Netanyahu declared. "There will not be and cannot be a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties that deny the very existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Parties that glorify and praise the bloodthirsty terrorists who murder our soldiers, our citizens.” "I spoke this evening with all the Likud’s partners in the right-wing camp. All of them expressed an unequivocal commitment to going together,” he added. "In the coming days, we will enter into negotiations to establish a strong Zionist government and to prevent a dangerous anti-Zionist government," the Prime Minister noted. Netanyahu thanked his family, the Likud members and party activists. "I came here tonight with my wife Sara to say thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! We love you, we believe in you! We have all gone through an unbelievably difficult election campaign, and I would like to first thank the Likud ministers, the Likud Knesset members, we acted shoulder to shoulder, stood together in unity in the election campaign and will stand together in the face of the tasks ahead. For the Likud and for the State of Israel.” "We withstood the campaign that was so biased against us by the media, so unfair! But it did not deter us, it did not stop us, we acted together and brought about achievements that are unbelievable in the face of such unilateralism. And I want to thank you, you did it." Netanyahu noted that “one thing is clear - the State of Israel is at a historical point in time. We face tremendous opportunities and face great challenges. Security and political challenges, most notably the existential threat posed to Israel from Iran and its metastases and we are fighting them tirelessly and fearlessly! In recent years, we have brought defensive strength, economic prosperity and political prosperity that are unparalleled in Israeli history.” “We must ensure that these achievements, that we all worked hard to achieve, are maintained in the years to come. In the near future, my friend President Trump's ‘Deal of the Century’ will be presented and the way that negotiations with the President are handled will shape the future of the State of Israel for generations. At this time, for all these purposes, Israel needs a strong government, a stable government, a Zionist government! A government committed to Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people!” 7. FIRST EXIT POLLS: STALEMATE, BLUE AND WHITE LARGEST PARTY by Gary Willig The first exit polls were published shortly after polls closed at 10 PM Tuesday night. According to an exit poll published by Channel 12 News, the Blue and White party emerged as the largest party with 34 Knesset seats. The Likud party finished a close second with 33 seats. The Joint Arab List finished third with 11 seats. Yamina and Yisrael Beyteinu both received eight seats, as did haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism. Labor and the Democratic Union received five seats each. The Otzma Yehudit party failed to clear the electoral threshold. According to these initial results, the right-wing bloc received 57 seats without the Yisrael Beyteinu party, and the left-wing-Arab bloc received 55 seats. A Channel 13 exit poll showed the left overtaking the right with 58 seats compared to 54, while a Kan poll showed Blue and White tied with Likud at 32 seats apiece and the right ahead by two seats. All three polls show neither side able to form a coalition without Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beyteinu party. 8. 'THE ERA OF NETANYAHU IS OVER' by Hezki Baruch Tuesday’s Knesset election marked the ‘end of the era of Netanyahu’, Joint List party chairman MK Ayman Odeh declared shortly after the polls closed. With exit polls predicting the predominantly Arab party gaining one to three seats from the 10 seats its constituent factions won in the April election, Odeh celebrated both the higher turnout in the Arab sector, and the failure of the right-wing Otzma Yehudit party to clear the threshold, according to all three major exit polls Tuesday night. “Once again, we are the third largest party in the Knesset, with 13 mandates,” said Odeh. “This dramatic change [comes from] a rise in voter turnout in the Arab sector. We are happy that Otzma Yehudit failed to cross the threshold.” Polls show a close race between incumbent Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the center-left Blue and White party, with the Likud trailing by a single seat in two of the three exit polls. “The era of Netanyahu is over,” said Odeh. “We’ve returned to being the third largest party in the Knesset. With our votes, we’ve prevented Netanyahu from establishing a government. That is something historic.” According to the Channel 13 exit poll, the Joint List is projected to win 13 seats. The Channel 12 poll, however, shows the Joint List with just 11 seats, while the Channel 11 poll projects the party will win 12 seats.

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A7News: What prompted Iran's massive attack on Saudi oil industry?

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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Monday, Sep. 16 '19, ט"ז באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. WHAT PROMPTED IRAN'S MASSIVE ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL INDUSTRY? 2. REPORT: AG SLAMMED THE BRAKES ON GAZA OPERATION 3. WATCH: BORIS JOHNSON TRIES - BUT FAILS - TO BLOW SHOFAR 4. 'ONE YEAR AGO, EVERYTHING CHANGED FOREVER' 5. IRAN SAYS NO TO TRUMP-ROUHANI MEETING AT UN 6. 'NETANYAHU AND HIS INNER-CIRCLE HATE ME PERSONALLY' 7. NOAM PARTY WITHDRAWS FROM THE ELECTIONS 8. NETANYAHU: WE WILL APPLY SOVEREIGNTY EARLY IN THE NEXT GOVT. 1. WHAT PROMPTED IRAN'S MASSIVE ATTACK ON SAUDI OIL INDUSTRY? by Yochanan Visser Iran just launched a massive attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, which disrupted five percent of the world’s oil supply. Although Iran denies any involvement in the attack with explosives-loaded drones and cruise missiles which was claimed by the Iranian proxy Ansar Allah (Houthi) militia in Yemen, American officials say the attack was carried out from Iraqi soil by the al-Hashd al-Sha’abi umbrella organization of predominantly Shiite militias. Al-Hashd al-Sha’abi was founded by Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq to fight Islamic State but recently the organization has expanded its operations and is now carrying out missions in Syria and Saudi Arabia. For this reason, the Israeli military earlier this year decided to target al-Hashd al-Sha’abi and uses drones to disrupt the supply of sophisticated Iranian weapons to Iraq. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote on Twitter that he had evidence the attacks on Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco oil facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais near the Iraqi border should be attributed to Iran and its Iraqi proxy. “Tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on Saudi Arabia while Rouhani and Zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy. Amid all the calls for de-escalation, Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen," Pompeo wrote on his Twitter account referring to the Iranian President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Javad Zarif. Pompeo added that Iran would be held “accountable for its aggression” and that the US would work with other oil suppliers to make up for the shortfall in Saudi Arabia’s oil output. “There's no doubt that Iran is responsible for this. No matter how you slice it, there's no escaping it. There's no other candidate," another senior US official told reporters in Washington DC. Iran responded by claiming the allegations against the Islamic Republic were “pointless” and by boasting it was ready for “full-fledged” war. The commander of the aerospace force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Amir Ali Hajizadeh furthermore threatened the US military in the Middle East and claimed all US bases and aircraft carriers were within range of Iranian ballistic missiles. The Iranian threats were answered by President Donald J. Trump who said on Twitter that the US military was “locked and loaded” for a potential response to the attack on the oil facilities of its most important Arab ally. “There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom (Saudi Arabia) as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed," Trump wrote on his Twitter account. The American leader also authorized the use of the US emergency oil stockpile to ensure there would be no disruptions in the world’s oil supply while Saudi Arabia did the same. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham now calls for US attacks on Iranian oil facilities and said that Iran was “not interested in peace”. The reason why Iran continues to attack Saudi Arabia via its proxies in Yemen and Iraq lies in the so-called ‘Mahdi doctrine’. One of the pillars of this messianic doctrine, which envisions the return of the Shiite messiah Mahdi, also called the hidden twelfth imam, is the beginning of an Islamic uprising that will spread all over the world. This uprising will be accompanied by mayhem and chaos as well as an increase in natural and man-made disasters. Another important event which will hasten the coming of the Shi’ite messiah is “a holy revolution” which is to take place in Yemen,” according to a documentary produced by the Iranian regime in 2011. The (Shiite) soldiers of Mahdi will enter Saudi Arabia and the Muslim holy places via Yemen after a bloody battle which involves the Houthis, an Arab legion, the U.S. and Israel, according to the documentary “the Coming is upon us”. The documentary also predicts the annihilation of Israel which according to the Iranian regime will occur after additional forces will arrive from Iraq. “The annihilation of the Zionist regime and the conquering of ‘Beitol Moghadas’ (Jerusalem) is one of the most important events in the age of the Coming,” the voiceover in the movie says. From here it is easy to understand why Iran is using Yemen and Iraq as springboards for attacks on Saudi Arabia and why Iran is building up Shiite forces in Syria and Iraq as a preparation for a war with Israel. It also explains why Iran is waging a war of attrition against Israel via its proxies in Gaza and Lebanon. According to the Mahdi doctrine, Iraq should become the center of the Shiite revolution which will spread across the globe because the Shiite messiah will turn Baghdad into the capital of his kingdom. Iran is constantly meddling in Iraq’s domestic policies and has succeeded to integrate the al-Hashd al-Shaabi militias into the Iraqi military which receives its weapons from the US mainly. 2. REPORT: AG SLAMMED THE BRAKES ON GAZA OPERATION by Arutz Sheva Staff Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu planned to conduct a widescale military operation in Gaza last week, but was stopped by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, Haaretz reported Monday morning. According to the report, Mandelblit said such an operation requires the approval of the cabinet. The report also said that Netanyahu wanted to launch a widescale attack on Gaza due to the rocket fire perpetrated last week by the Islamic Jihad terror group. As a result of Mandelblit's refusal to allow the operation, the IDF responded by attacking 15 terror targets in Gaza. Last week, Gaza terror groups fired rockets at Israel on Tuesday night, as well as from Wednesday afternoon until just after midnight Thursday morning. 3. WATCH: BORIS JOHNSON TRIES - BUT FAILS - TO BLOW SHOFAR by Marcy Oster, JTA 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268957 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson attempted, and failed, to blow a shofar while on a visit to northern England. During a visit on Friday to meet voters in the Labour stronghold of Doncaster, Yorkshire, the newly minted prime minister was approached by a woman who invited him to “blow the holy shofar.” She explained that the instrument, which she said is “like a trumpet,” is from Israel. Johnson expressed concern about whether he is allowed to blow the holy instrument, used by Jews on Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur and during the month leading up to the high holy days, and the woman responded that “God has authorized you.” The exchange was posted in a video online by Britain’s Channel 5 News. Johnson was not able to get a sound out of the instrument, but managed to utter the age-old pun “Shofar so good,” before handing it back to the woman. Johnson previously tried to blow the shofar in 2011, when the mayor of London, during a ground-breaking ceremony for London’s new Jewish Community Center building in Finchley, North London, which took place the day before Yom Kippur. He managed to get a sound out of it that time, after a short tutorial by then-chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks. 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268957 4. 'ONE YEAR AGO, EVERYTHING CHANGED FOREVER' by Hillel Fuld One year ago, everything changed forever. I’ve never told this story, at least not in a public manner. Honestly, not sure I’ll make it through this post, but if you are reading this, I decided to hit “Publish”. It was a Sunday morning like any Sunday morning. I was at Hometalk doing my thing. I had a few tabs open on my browser, like I always do. One of them was Israeli news. I opened that tab just to check what’s happening in the country and there it was. “Another day, another freaking terrorist attack.” Those were my thoughts. Only this attack was different. No, not because my brother was the victim. I had no idea about that and was only going to find out later. This one was different because it was recorded. On video. By surveillance cameras. That means that on that website there was a big Play button. The video. What does one do? They click Play. And so I did. What the heck was I was watching? A Palestinian kid stab a grown man, a fairly large man, and then the man turns around and chases the terrorist down after he was already stabbed? Wait, what? He just jumped over a wall? He shot him. Who was this guy and what was running through his veins because it sure wasn’t the same stuff I had in my veins. “What a hero”, I thought to myself! So I did what I always do and I asked in the Fuld WhatsApp group, and I quote, “Is everyone ok?” Yes. Smiley and all. Now here is where things get blurry. Doni, my older brother, the one who is one older than Ari in the lineup, Doni called me. As I remember it, he said two words to me. “It’s Ari.” I had no idea what he was saying. What was he talking about? What was Ari? I quickly grabbed my stuff and raced to the hospital. Like I don’t know how I made it there in one piece. On the way, I called Doni for an update. He said “Don’t rush.” It was over. That moment was the end and the beginning of the hell that was the year that followed. The hospital. That room. Miriam. Natan. My parents. Everyone. A scene burned on my brain forever. Whether I like it or not. The moment Natan walked in from school. Frozen. Tears. Shock. Hugs. No one rehearsed such a scenario. What do you even say? What do you do? How do you minimize the trauma? You can’t. You can try. But you can’t. His Bar Mitzvah was around the corner. “It can’t be.” My mom kept repeating those words. She was right. It couldn’t be. Ari? The bull! The lion, as he’d later be named? Taken down by a teenager with a knife? Later it all became clear. That sprint? That jump over the wall? The terrorist was after his next victim. Ari saw that. No blood in his veins? That’s not an excuse. So he sprinted. And saved her. She became part of the family as a result. The thoughts rushing in my head from that moment till now. Never stopped for a second. The questions, do we want to see the body and say goodbye? What were they all talking about? This seriously cannot be reality. Just no. When people say “it feels like yesterday” about an event in the distant past, I didn’t think they meant it literally. This feels like I just watched that video. This second. I better rush to the hospital. A year? No way. But I had to get organized at that point. What about my kids? This was all over national news. How would they find out? From their friends in school? My God. Left the hospital to rush to them. We split up and I went to tell Aviel. Big mistake. He’s a very sensitive one. Very. The moment I told him? I’ll never ever forget that second. Ever. I got to his school. They had isolated him. So he didn’t find out. He had no idea why. They said they wanted to give him some feedback. When he saw me, his confusion increased. I asked his rabbi to leave us alone. I told him “Uncle Ari. Something bad happened. An attack. He saved someone’s life. But he’s gone.” He didn’t cry. He didn’t have tears flowing down his face. He had a tear. One. Sat there. Still. One tear. They were close. They clowned around a lot. He was his big mighty black belt uncle. One tear. For the next few weeks and months, I tried to get back to myself. Failed miserably. My family is insanely resilient. That’s a word I didn’t comprehend before. I didn’t understand what that meant. Nor did I understand the word trauma. But they lived. They mourned. They cried. They suffered. They still are. Endlessly. But from where I was sitting, I was the only one who couldn’t put on my socks in the morning. I’m probably wrong. I know I am actually. We all react differently but all I know is, I was very concerned for my future. My well being wasn’t guaranteed anymore. My stability wasn’t obvious anymore, not emotional, physical, or financial. Nothing was for sure any more. I was the only brother who didn’t speak at the funeral. Me, the brother who makes a living from talking. But I couldn’t. Talk. I couldn’t. I try not to think about that. Maybe I should have. How could I not? I tell myself I had nothing to add to what everyone else said. It’s true. It was the middle of the night. Should I have spoken just to speak? What would I have said? How would I have controlled the uncontrollable crying) the words wouldn’t have come out anyway. I tell myself that. Repeatedly. Luckily, my father, the rock of this family, the one who told us countless times over the past year that this is the card we were dealt and we need to live, luckily he spoke on my behalf and brought the world to tears. Over the next 12 months, I learned about heroism. I thought I knew Miriam. I didn’t. She taught me who she was. Like who she really was. A hero. A superhero. Just like her husband. I thought I knew Tamar. I didn’t. I got to know her. A rock. Like her Abba. She got engaged and married to Michaya, a man Ari loved. Naomi. “How was she strong?” A question I asked myself thousands of times. Thousands. Yakir. A 6” 6’ giant whose insides make his physical body seem microscopic. And Natan, such maturity. Strength. The little guy is anything but little. My brothers? Broken but strong. Every one of them. As for me, there were books. There were words. There were stories. There were messages. Everything contributed a little bit to helping me get out of bed. Ari created a tsunami in this world the ripples of which I believe we’ll feel for decades. He left this world the way only he would want to leave this world. He wrote the script of his death and that script was his life. The life of a hero. He left behind a legacy of a hero, an extended family of heroes, a group of close friends who are all heroes, and me, his very sad little brother. One whole year. 5. IRAN SAYS NO TO TRUMP-ROUHANI MEETING AT UN by David Rosenberg Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will not meet with President Donald Trump in New York later this month, a Iranian Foreign Ministry official announced Monday. Speaking with reporters Monday morning, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said that his government had ruled out a meeting between President Rouhani and President Donald Trump at the sidelines of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly this month. “Such a meeting is not on our agenda,” said Mousavi, “and we don’t think it will happen in New York. Mousavi also said that Iranian Foreign Ministry Mohammad Javad Zarif will likely accompany Rouhani to the United Nations. “If [necessary] grounds are provided, the foreign minister will depart for New York along with the president to attend the United Nations General Assembly.” The announcement came after President Trump said Sunday that reports he was willing to meet with Rouhani with no preconditions were “fake news”. “The Fake News is saying that I am willing to meet with Iran, ‘No Conditions.’ That is an incorrect statement (as usual!),” Trump tweeted. Trump recently expressed an openness to meeting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, though the Iranian President made clear that he will not meet Trump unless all sanctions against Tehran are unilaterally lifted by the US. The President further stated that he had "no problem" with holding a meeting with Rouhani hours after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed the existence of another secret nuclear facility in Iran. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that Trump could meet Rouhani with “no preconditions”, but he also stressed the US would be “maintaining the maximum pressure campaign” on the Islamic Republic. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made clear last week that there are currently "no plans" for Trump to meet Rouhani. “Secretary Pompeo, I and the rest of the national security team are executing on a maximum pressure strategy with Iran. There’s no question that it’s working. We have cut off their money. And that’s the reason why if they do come back to the negotiating table, they are coming back,” he added. 6. 'NETANYAHU AND HIS INNER-CIRCLE HATE ME PERSONALLY' by Hezki Baruch 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268913 Knesset candidates from the Yamina party gathered for an emergency party meeting in Airport City Sunday afternoon. The emergency meeting was called Sunday, amid concerns the Likud party may draw large numbers of voters from Yamina in Tuesday’s election. At the conclusion of the meeting, party chairwoman Ayelet Shaked addressed reporters, claiming that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu planned to turn the center-left Blue and White party after the elections to form a national unity government. "Netanyahu never wanted us in his government," said Shaked, "each time we had to make special efforts to enter the government. The voters tend to forget Netanyahu's political history and believe his fake news that [Yamina] can be small and weak." The Yamina chairwoman accused the prime minister and the Likud of deliberately focusing its campaign efforts on the religious-Zionist camp, calling it a concerted effort to undermine Yamina. “Netanyahu always turns to our voters, but never to Shas voters, or United Torah Judaism voters, and, of course, he never fights intensively with Liberman, who has moved over to the left-wing bloc.” Shaked also alluded to reports that Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, had a personal grudge against Shaked and Naftali Bennett. "You’ve never heard this from me, but it's the truth. The people around Netanyahu have something against us, and I don't know why and where this is coming from. This hurts me." The former Justice Minister also responded to criticism of Yamina’s publication of a map presenting what it said could be the future borders of Israel if Netanyahu implements the US-backed ‘Deal of the Century’ Middle East peace plan. Earlier on Sunday, a senior US official chided Yamina for releasing a “highly inaccurate” map of the peace plan’s division of Judea and Samaria. In her address, Shaked called on Netanyahu and the White House to release details regarding the future of Judea and Samaria prior to Tuesday’s Knesset election. “Mr. Prime Minister: Where is the real map?” “If this isn’t the real map, we want to see what the real one is, before the elections. The people of Israel deserves to know what they’re voting for.” "Netanyahu is trying to eliminate Yamina and Religious Zionism," Yamina said Saturday. "We haven't heard a word aimed at Shas voters." "The big party's bluff was exposed after the previous elections. The only thing that counts is the number of people recommending you." "If Yamina is small, the Likud will form a government with the left. Only a large Yamina will pull the government to the right." 7. NOAM PARTY WITHDRAWS FROM THE ELECTIONS by Arutz Sheva Staff The leaders of the Noam party will announce Sunday afternoon at a gathering of party activists at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem that the faction has dropped out of the race for the 22nd Knesset. The party claims to have succeeded in recruiting some 70,000 supporters, or roughly half of the number needed to enter the Knesset, and sees the campaign as a significant success despite indicating slim chances for the party to pass the electoral threshold. The Noam leaders will not endorse any party when they withdraw. "There is no doubt that this is a tremendous success," said Rabbi Dror Aryeh - the party's chairman. "We have succeeded through thousands of volunteers, to reveal to the people of Israel the attempt by foreigners to take over the state and dismantle our core values ​​as a people and as a state." The Noam party's withdrawal comes just two days before the elections on Tuesday. 8. NETANYAHU: WE WILL APPLY SOVEREIGNTY EARLY IN THE NEXT GOVT. by Arutz Sheva Staff Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a tweet by President Trump about the possibility of a defense agreement between Israel and the US at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday. "I agreed with Trump to promote a historic defense alliance between the US and Israel. This adds a huge layer of deterrence to our enemy, along with preserving the freedom of action of our forces," the prime minister said. Following his remarks, Netanyahu reiterated last week's pledge to apply Israeli sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and the Northern Dead Sea. "We will apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and the Northern Dead Sea as soon as the next government is established in the next Knesset. I have appointed a work team headed by the director of the Prime Minister's Office, which will formulate an outline for applying sovereignty," said Netanyahu. The prime minister noted, "Applying Israeli sovereignty to all our communities in Judea and Samaria, including the blocs and the territory outside the blocs, and other areas that are essential for our security and our heritage - these things will come up in the "Deal of the Century" plan, which will come very soon after the elections." 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268904

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