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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Friday, Sep. 13 '19, י"ג באלול תשע"ט HEADLINES: 1. 'YOU HAVE THE MODERN-DAY WINSTON CHURCHILL' 2. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC 58, LEFT-WING 53 3. SECURITY PRISONERS DEMAND: NO MORE INTERFERENCE DEVICES 4. NETTA BARZILAI ‘EXCITED ABOUT NEW ADVENTURES’ 5. WEEKLY REPORT: 15TH WEEK OF SECOND ISRAELI ELECTION CAMPAIGN 6. "IT'S IMPORTANT TO US WHO GETS ELECTED TO THE KNESSET" 7. ISRAELI SPY DEVICES NEAR WHITE HOUSE? "A BLATANT LIE" 8. AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE 'JEWISH EXTREMISTS' OF YITZHAR 1. 'YOU HAVE THE MODERN-DAY WINSTON CHURCHILL' by Arutz Sheva Staff [youtube: 2063121] 2. POLL: RIGHT-WING BLOC 58, LEFT-WING 53 by David Rosenberg The Likud holds a two-seat lead over the center-left Blue and White party in the final pre-election poll published by Israel Hayom. If new elections were held today, the Likud would receive 33 seats, the new Maagar Mohot poll predicted, compared to 31 for Blue and White. Despite this lead, however, the right-wing – religious bloc failed to reach a 61-seat majority in the poll, with just 58 seats. The left-wing – Arab bloc also fell short, with just 53 seats. The secular rightist Yisrael Beytenu, which has called for a national unity government, would receive the remaining nine seats. The predominantly Arab Joint List party would become the third largest faction in the Knesset with 12 seats, following by Shas, United Torah Judaism, and Yamina with seven apiece. The Labor-Gesher alliance would win six seats, while the left-wing Democratic Union and right-wing Otzma Yehudit would each receive four seats if new elections were held today. The poll surveyed a sample of 1,003 registered Israeli voters, and has a margin of error of 2.8%. According to the poll, a plurality (42%) of Israelis say incumbent Premier Binyamin Netanyahu is the best candidate for the premiership, while just 28% favor Blue and White chief Benny Gantz. In a distant third is Yamina chief Ayelet Shaked with four percent, followed by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak with 3%, Labor chief Amir Peretz with 3%, Avidgor Liberman with 3%, and Yair Lapid at 2%. 3. SECURITY PRISONERS DEMAND: NO MORE INTERFERENCE DEVICES by Dalit Halevi Palestinian Authority Arab criminals jailed in Israeli prisons are looking to escalate tensions, the "Center for Palestinian Prisoners" told the Ma'an News Agency. According to the report, the tensions are over the prison's use of interference devices designed to prevent "security prisoners" - terrorists and their accomplices - from using cellular phones, since the prisoners claim the radiation emitted by these devices causes cancer. The report also said that the number of hunger-striking prisoners rose to 29, including six leaders of the Prisoners' Movement in the Ramon, Nafkha, and Eshel prisons. Another 100 prisoners may join the hunger strike at the beginning of next week. The Center for Prisoners warned that the situation may deteriorate quickly and there may be conflcits between the security prisoners and the prison management. 4. NETTA BARZILAI ‘EXCITED ABOUT NEW ADVENTURES’ by Marcy Oster, JTA Israeli singer Netta Barzilai is rumored to have a role in the Will Ferrell-Rachel McAdams Netflix film “Eurovision.” Barzilai was the international song contest’s winner in 2018, allowing Israel to host the event this year. Ferrell and McAdams were seen on the sidelines of Eurovision in May in Tel Aviv and reportedly shot some scenes there. The Kan public broadcaster reported that “it appears” that Barzilai will participate in the film. When asked, Barzilai said that she is “prevented” from addressing the topic, but that she is “always excited about new adventures.” Ferrell reportedly is a fan of Eurovision after being introduced to the competition by his Swedish-born wife. In a July 2018 interview, just weeks after winning Eurovision and when rumors first began to swirl that Ferrell would do a satirical film about the contest, Barzilai said in an interview that she hoped Ferrell “would treat Eurovision with the respect it deserves.” 5. WEEKLY REPORT: 15TH WEEK OF SECOND ISRAELI ELECTION CAMPAIGN by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld The last full week prior to the upcoming election on September 17th did not change the overall lackluster campaign atmosphere. Rockets once again were fired from Gaza into Israel. On one occasion, a campaign event for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other politicians in Ashdod was interrupted by rocket sirens. Netanyahu left the podium. He returned to speak afterwards. An important issue under debate was the proposed law to place cameras at voting stations. Attorney General Mandelblit attended a cabinet meeting to lobby against this proposed bill. During the week this bill was voted down as it did not reach the required 61 votes. Netanyahu blamed Avigdor Liberman -- leader of Yisrael Beytenu -- for the failure of the bill to pass. During the Knesset session, the leader of the Joint Arab List, Ayman Odeh, was forcibly removed from the plenum after he placed a cellphone camera directly in front of the Prime Minister's face in response to the PM saying that cameras are everywhere. today. Earlier the Supreme Court rejected a petition of Blue and White to freeze the Likud's bill to legalize videotaping polling booths on election-day even before it becomes law. The Supreme Court stated that this could only be done if it becomes law through approval in the Knesset. During the campaign, some fatigue regarding Netanyahu and the Likud was found among part of the right-wing voters. One expression of this was when former Likud Minister Benny Begin announced that he would not vote for the party. In the last five polls, by September 10, Blue and White had on the average 32 seats, one more than Likud. This however did not represent an increase of the center-left block because the Democratic Union only polled 6 seats on the average and Labor-Gesher was between 5 and 6 seats. Other polls showed the Likud leading (see photo).a One poll found that if Blue and White cancelled the rotation between Gantz and Lapid it would increase support for the list by one seat. This seat however would be taken away from the Labor-Gesher list so that the center-left block would not gain anything. The main new element of the last five polls was that in four out of five of them, the extreme right Otzma Yehudit party passed the electoral threshold gaining four seats. This had only happened once previously, in the more than fifty polls since the Knesset was dissolved. It was reported that Likud research had found that many English speaking voters had switched to Otzma Yehudit from Zehut after it dropped out of the election due to an agreement with the Likud. Blue and White leader Benny Gantz appealed to Arab voters. He said: "There is no obstacle for me to take care of problems of violence in Arab society, in planning problems, in education problems." He added that he would not bring the Joint Arab list into his coalition for diplomatic reasons which referred to their position on the "Palestinian" issue. Arab parties have never been part of a coalition in Israel. Blue and White candidate Gabi Ashkenazi, a former IDF Chief of Staff said that it was still not too late to kill Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit asked the State Prosecution to determine whether there were any criminal aspects by the Fifth Dimension, a cyber security company which went bankrupt. It was owned by Gantz. Any suspicions however do not concern Gantz himself. The mudslinging also continued. United Torah Judaism leader Yakov Litzman, attacked Gantz after the latter said that he wants a secular unity government. He added that Gantz’ number two, Yair Lapid is a "contagious disease that Gantz has caught." Concerning Lapid, Litzman said "whoever hates our religion, I believe, has anti-Semitism. I won't take it back." It seems that the upcoming elections are unlikely to lead to the easy establishment of a new government. With that probably in mind, President Reuven Rivlin said that he was surprised when Netanyahu refused to return the mandate for forming a coalition to him after failing to do so in late May. Instead he led the Knesset in a vote to dissolve itself, forcing a new election. Rivlin also said that he would do everything possible to avoid a third election. There was a report that Likud MK Miki Zohar had a meeting with the leaders of the new extreme right wing one-issue religious Zionist party Noam to find a way to have them drop out of the race. It was reported that in that case, the Likud offered to change the plans for the Western Wall and to change conversion laws. Prime Minister Netanyahu said that this report was ridiculous. Netanyahu announced that after the election he would unilaterally apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea communities. He also said that all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (they are all in Area C under Israeli control) would be annexed but he would only do so after US President Donald Trump released his peace plan and it would be done in coordination with the U.S. as much as possible. Liberman promised that Israel will apply sovereignty to Ma'ale Adumim, a city near Jerusalem with close to 40,000 inhabitants. There were major developments in the United States which may affect Israel. US Special Envoy for the Middle East Jason Greenblatt resigned. Furthermore, President Trump fired National Security Advisor John Bolton --- a friend of Israel -- due to disagreements about speaking to Iran's Rouhani. Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and recipient of the LIfetime Achievement Award (2012) of the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism. This report appears abroad in other languages. 6. "IT'S IMPORTANT TO US WHO GETS ELECTED TO THE KNESSET" by Ido Ben Porat, Sochi 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268816 Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening at Putin's residence in Sochi. At the beginning of the meeting, Putin addressed Netanyahu: "Thank you for coming here. The purpose of this meeting is to maintain a consistent and good relationship. Last year we saw the trade and economy growing. Thanks to your actions, there's development in security relations and you obviously know that there is still a risk of international terrorism." "I have just returned from a republic in northern Russia which suffered a mass attack from terrorist groups from all over the world 20 years ago," Putin said. "We in Russia know the term terrorism and in Israel as well of course." "I know that you had a very successful conversation with the Defense Minister. We'll discuss this later." "President Rivlin invited me to Israel to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Tell him that I would be very happy to visit Israel. And if it's possible maybe the memorial to the Russian citizens who fell in the Siege of Leningrad can be inaugurated." "I know that Israel is facing a historic challenge. You're about to have elections - I remember that they're on September 17. It's known that there are one and a half million residents from Russia living in Israel. We have always related to them like our people. It is very important to us who will be elected to the Knesset and I hope that whoever enters the Knesset will preserve the friendship between our countries and further strengthen our relationship." 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268816 Netanyahu thanked Putin and said, "I'm happy to meet you again. Our relationship has never been stronger. On the one hand, there are more than one million Russian speakers in Israel. They are a living bridge between our countries. Tightening our relationship is also the result of our rational mutual policy and our personal connection. This connection prevented unnecessary and dangerous friction between our armies. And I unhesitatingly say that it is a fundamental component of the stability of the region." "I appreciate your statement that Israel's security is important to you. And this is reflected in our meetings. Security coordination is always important. But it is especially important at this time because there has been a very severe increase in the number and scope of Iran's attempts to harm Israel from Syria over the past month and to acquire precision missiles to use against us. This is an insurmountable threat to us and we must make sure there is no friction between us." "This is the 13th meeting between us in recent years," Netanyahu mentioned, "We have advanced many issues in security, economy, tourism, technology and more. But there is also a historical basis for our relationship. I hope very much you come to Israel in January to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and for the inauguration of the memorial to the heroes of the Seige of Leningrad. We'll never forget the tremendous contribution of the Russian army to the defeat of Nazi Germany." 7. ISRAELI SPY DEVICES NEAR WHITE HOUSE? "A BLATANT LIE" by Arutz Sheva Staff An investigation by security forces in the United States has led to the suspicion that Israel is behind the placing of equipment for eavesdropping on cellphones in the White House area, Politico reported, citing “three former senior US officials with knowledge of the matter.” The miniature surveillance devices in question, colloquially known as “StingRays,” mimic regular cell towers to fool cell phones into giving them their locations and identity information. According to Politico, they also can capture the contents of calls and data use. Based on forensic analysis, the FBI and other agencies working on the case felt confident that Israeli agents had placed the devices, according to the former officials, several of whom the report said served in top intelligence and national security posts. However, according to one of the officials, the Trump administration took no action against Israel following the conclusions of the US security agencies. “The reaction ... was very different than it would have been in the last administration,” the official said. “With the current administration, there are a different set of calculations in regard to addressing this.” The Israeli Prime Minister's Office later released a statement blasting the report, calling the claims of Israeli spying "a blatant lie." "There is a longstanding commitment, and a directive from the Israeli government not to engage in any intelligence operations in the US. This directive is strictly enforced without exception," the PMO said. 8. AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE 'JEWISH EXTREMISTS' OF YITZHAR by Arutz Sheva Staff 📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/268808 Yitzhar, a small Jewish community in the hills of Samaria, is home to just 1,600 people. And yet the town often finds itself in the news – including international news – usually with unflattering coverage portraying it as a bastion of “radical Israeli settlers” promoting a “fringe right-wing” ideology. Dubbed the “mountain of crazies” by its Arab neighbors, Yitzhar has gotten a reputation as a dangerous fundamentalist enclave even outside of Israel. But is that reputation deserved? Boomerang visited Yitzhar recently, and while meeting with the locals, discovered that the community has the highest proportion of kidney donors of any town or city in Israel.

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