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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Monday, Sep. 09 '19, ט' באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. KEY NETANYAHU DONOR ENDORSES SHAKED OVER THE LIKUD 2. IMAGES SHOW IRANIAN EFFORTS TO COVER UP NUCLEAR FACILITY 3. POLL: BLUE AND WHITE LEADING LIKUD 4. DO YOU WANT TO JOIN ARUTZ SHEVA'S NEWS TEAM? 5. IRANIAN-LINKED GROUPS LAUNCH ROCKETS AT ISRAEL FROM SYRIA 6. TWO ISRAELIS WOUNDED IN TERROR ATTACK AFTER VISITING DENTIST 7. URANIUM DISCOVERED AT TEHRAN WAREHOUSE UNCOVERED BY ISRAEL 8. 'NETANYAHU MAY FORM GOV'T WITH AMIR PERETZ AND BENNY GANTZ' 1. KEY NETANYAHU DONOR ENDORSES SHAKED OVER THE LIKUD by Arutz Sheva Staff A prominent Australian-Jewish philanthropist and mining tycoon who helped fund Binyamin Netanyahu’s razor-thin 1996 election victory has endorsed Ayelet Shaked’s Yamina party over the Likud. Rabbi Joseph Gutnick, the 67-year-old Melbourne businessman who famously credited the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson with helping him to discover a series of gold mines in western Australia, donated heavily to the Likud and pro-Likud campaigns ahead of the 1996 elections. Netanyahu ended up defeating incumbent Premier Shimon Peres by just 29,457 votes, or just under 1% of the vote. Now, however, Gutnick has called on Israeli voters to back Yamina, the alliance of small right-wing parties led by former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Gutnick fretted that Netanyahu may form a unity government with the center-left Blue and White party, adding that the best way to prevent such a scenario is to ensure Yamina becomes the third largest party in the Knesset. “Yamina is a right-wing party, and if you want to ensure that there will be a right-wing government, Yamina needs 13 or 14 seats,” Gutnick told The Jerusalem Post. “If Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc doesn’t win 61 seats, Netanyahu would form a unity government. He won’t get 61 if Yamina doesn’t get enough votes.” Gutnick warned that if Netanyahu did form a government with Blue and White, it would destroy his “right-wing legacy”. The Australian mining tycoon criticized Netanyahu for preventing Shaked from joining the Likud after the previous election, and said the Likud’s attacks on Yamina and Shaked were “shooting himself in the foot”. Last year, Gutnick touted Shaked as a potential successor to Netanyahu, once the Prime Minister decides to retire. “I would really love to support her as the [political] heir of Netanyahu,” Gutnick told Maariv. “When Bibi [Netanyahu] retires, she will need to lead the Likud.” Gutnick explained the reasoning behind his support for Shaked – who at the time was a secular member of the largely National-Religious Jewish Home party. “It is for the sake of the integrity of the Land of Israel and the Jewish world,” Gutnick said. 2. IMAGES SHOW IRANIAN EFFORTS TO COVER UP NUCLEAR FACILITY by Arutz Sheva Staff 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268617 i24NEWS has obtained new images showing the extent of Iran's efforts to cover up its use of a storage facility for nuclear materials. The images show cement blocks used to hide radioactive material from being discovered at the site. The new evidence apparently verifies Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's warning last year at the United Nations General Assembly after referring to "clean but radioactive rugs". Netanyahu's admonition was made months after an Israeli clandestine operation obtained highly sensitive documentation from the Islamic Republic outlining its atomic program. Warehouse where the IAEA found traces of uranium, September 9, 2019. i24NEWS Iranian storage facility used for nuclear materials i24NEWS 3. POLL: BLUE AND WHITE LEADING LIKUD by Arutz Sheva Staff If elections were held today, the center-left Blue and White party would win 33 Knesset seats, two more than the previous poll gave it, a new poll by Walla! News and the Midgam Research Institute showed. The new survey gave the Likud party 32 Knesset seats. Yisrael Beytenu, meanwhile, would win just eight Knesset seats, representing a drop of one seat from the previous poll. Both the Joint Arab List and Yamina would receive nine Knesset seats each. Ashkenazi-haredi UTJ would win seven Knesset seats, while Sephardic-haredi Shas would win six. The Democratic Union would receive six Knesset seats, as would the joint Labor-Gesher list. Otzma Yehudit, which previously failed to pass the electoral threshold in the last Midgam poll, would receive four Knesset seats. The new poll would give the religious-right wing bloc a total of 58 Knesset seats, up from 56 in the previous poll, while the center-left bloc would win 54 Knesset seats. Yisrael Beytenu, previously associated with the right-wing bloc but which has promised to support Blue and White's bid for leadership, remains the deciding factor. 4. DO YOU WANT TO JOIN ARUTZ SHEVA'S NEWS TEAM? by Arutz Sheva Staff Arutz Sheva - is looking for talented newsdesk writers to join our growing team. Writing news involves staying on the pulse of world events. Arutz Sheva prides itself on being the global leader in Israel news, and we're looking for writers with style, speed, and experience to join us in taking world news to the next level, writers who love Israel and want the truth about our country to be a central part of the media scene. An Arutz Sheva journalist must be a native English speaker, who is fluent in written and spoken Hebrew. Our writers must have a strong grasp of current affairs, Judaism and religious Zionism, powerful writing skills, and a passion for the news. Previous journalistic experience, additional languages, and social media skills are a plus. If you have an eye for detail and a love of journalism - we want to hear from you! Send your CV and cover letter to en-cv@a7.org 5. IRANIAN-LINKED GROUPS LAUNCH ROCKETS AT ISRAEL FROM SYRIA by Arutz Sheva Staff Multiple rockets were fired at Israeli territory from inside of Syria, the IDF reported Monday morning. According to an army spokesperson, the rockets were fired early Monday morning from the Damascus area by pro-Iranian fighters working in conjunction with Iran’s Quds Force. The IDF said that the rockets did not land in Israel, without clarifying whether the projectiles were shot down by the Iron Dome missile defense system, or if the rockets fell short and landed in Syrian territory. “Earlier this morning, a number of rockets were launched from Syria towards Israel, all failed to hit Israeli territory,” the spokesperson said. “The rockets were launched from the outskirts of Damascus by Shiite militia operatives operating under the Iranian Quds Force. The IDF holds the Syrian regime responsible for all events taking place in Syria.” Earlier Monday morning, it was reported that explosions were heard near the Syrian-Iraqi border. Arab media outlets reported that the explosions were the result of an attack on an Iranian-backed militia group. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that 18 pro-Iranian combatants were killed in airstrikes targeting militia groups in eastern Syria. 6. TWO ISRAELIS WOUNDED IN TERROR ATTACK AFTER VISITING DENTIST by Chana Roberts A 17-year-old Israeli and his 60-year-old father were lightly injured when a Palestinian Authority (PA) Muslim teen approached them near the PA town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, asking if they were Jewish. When the victims, who had just visited an Arab dentist in the area, responded in the affirmative, the terrorist stabbed them. The troops provided the civilians with initial medical treatment and Magen David Adom (MDA) transferred them for further treatment. Israeli security forces are searching for the terrorist. "At 11:20, a report was received at MDA's 101 emergency line in the Yarkon region about 2 injured people who were apparently attacked near Kfar Azzun and were brought by IDF medical forces to join forces with MDA teams near Eliyahu Crossing," an MDA spokesperson said. "MDA medics and paramedics provide medical treatment to 2 injured people, including a 17-year-old boy in serious condition and a 60-year-old man in mild condition. The injured were evacuated by MDA teams to Meir hospital in Kfar Saba." MDA paramedic Ayub Rabia said: "We joined IDF medical force near the Eliyahu crossing that brought us 2 injured, a 17-year-old boy with a number of stab wounds to his upper body and a 60-year-old man in mild condition with a stab wound to his hand. We provided them Medical life saving treatment that included dressing, bleeding, and medication and evacuated them in a stable co diction to the hospital." 7. URANIUM DISCOVERED AT TEHRAN WAREHOUSE UNCOVERED BY ISRAEL by David Rosenberg A facility in Tehran which Israel claimed was used by the Islamic republic as a “secret atomic warehouse” has been found to contain traces of uranium, Reuters reported Sunday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) discovered the uranium traces while investigating a facility which Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cited during an address to the United Nations General Assembly last year as proof that Iran had been storing radioactive material in violation of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Two diplomats with knowledge of the IAEA’s inspection work told Reuters Sunday that uranium traces had been found at the Iranian warehouse – strengthening Netanyahu’s claims Iran had secretly stored atomic material at the site. While the IAEA had asked Iran to explain the findings, Tehran has thus far refused to respond, the two diplomats claimed. During his address last fall, Netanyahu claimed Iran was storing 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of uranium at the storage facility, pointing to a satellite photo of the warehouse in question. “Just last month, they removed 15 kilograms of radioactive material. You know what they did with it? They had 15 kilograms of radioactive material, they had to get it out of the site, so they took it out and they spread it around Tehran in an effort to hide the evidence.” “Now, the Iranian officials cleaning out that site still have a lot of work to do because they’ve had at least, at least 15 ship containers, they’re gigantic, 15 ship containers full of nuclear related equipment and material stored there. Now, since each of those containers can hold 20 tons of material, this means that this site contains as much as 300 tons, 300 tons of nuclear related equipment and material.” In April, it was reported that the IAEA was inspecting the warehouse in question, following Netanyahu’s UN address. While previous reports have confirmed that radioactive material was found at the Tehran warehouse, the new Reuters report claims that uranium, the key element needed for producing atomic weaponry, was the radioactive material discovered. “There are lots of possible explanations,” one of the two diplomats told Reuters, though Iran’s refusal to comment on the discovery makes it difficult for the IAEA to determine whether the traces were left from uranium stockpiles stored at the facility before or after the 2015 nuclear deal. 8. 'NETANYAHU MAY FORM GOV'T WITH AMIR PERETZ AND BENNY GANTZ' by Arutz Sheva Staff Yamina chairman Ayelet Shaked expressed support for the principle of placing cameras in the voting booths on Sunday, along with implicit reservations about the current legislative process that Likud is advancing. "It's an important thing and the Central Elections Committee would do a good thing if it itself places the cameras," Shaked said in an interview with Walla. "I understand that the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Meltzer, wants to station 3,000 supervisors with cameras and that would be good but the whole story of the legislation is Likud's campaign." Shaked explained the need for cameras, stating, "There were forgeries in the elections. We reviewed the protocols of the voting stations. There were many forgeries, both at polling stations in the Arab sector and in the haredi sector. The way to end this is through the cameras and if the law doesn't pass now, then it will be good to advance it after the elections." Shaked also referred to Likud's attempt to reduce Yamina, saying: "If Yamina won't be large, we won't be part of the government. There are leaks that he already began discussions with Labor and Amir Peretz, and Gantz will also want to crawl into the government. Whoever is right-wing and votes for the right - the only option is Yamina because only we will pull the government to the right. " Shaked even referred to the possibility that Netanyahu would try to divide and conquer, leaving her and Bennett out of the government while allowing in MKs Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich. "There is no such thing," she said. "We are together and will negotiate together and nothing like that will happen. If [Yamina] isn't large, the prime minister will form a coalition with Peretz and Gantz." | |
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