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Tuesday, Jul. 23 '19, כ' בתמוז תשע"ט
HEADLINES:
1. THE NEW RIGHT'S PROPOSAL TO UNITE THE RIGHT
2. AYELET SHAKED MEETS WITH RAFI PERETZ
3. EUROPEAN UNION DEMANDS ISRAEL HALT DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL HOMES
4. UK'S NEXT PM? BORIS JOHNSON EXPECTED TO WIN TORY VOTE TUESDAY
5. MOSSAD EXPOSES HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST IN UGANDA
6. HAREDI MK: REQUIRE DRIVERS TO INSTALL WARNING SYSTEMS
7. PA: HOME DEMOLITIONS IN JERUSALEM ARE 'A MASSACRE'
8. 'COME TO NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS'
1. THE NEW RIGHT'S PROPOSAL TO UNITE THE RIGHT
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The leaders of the New Right party unveiled Monday an official proposal for the unification of the right-wing parties under the title, "Let's unite today!"
The Offer Details:
1. The union will be implemented as a "technical bloc". After the elections, the two parties will operate independently.
2. Full equality in the list,
3. The management of a shared election campaign.
4. At the top of the bloc will be the one who will bring the most seats: Ayelet Shaked.
The leaders of the New Right handed their proposal to the heads of the United Right and waited for an answer.
"We can close the union within 10 minutes, and we are waiting to hear from Rabbi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich in order to close this week, in order to advance in the general election campaign," the party said.
2. AYELET SHAKED MEETS WITH RAFI PERETZ
by Hezki Baruch
Jewish Home Chair Minister Rafi Peretz and New Right Chair, former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked met this morning, Tuesday, with the aim of advancing party unification.
"The meeting was good and helpful, and the two agreed that their negotiating teams would move forward in the coming days," it was stated.
Yesterday, Rabbi Peretz said he believes that all the right-wing parties will act responsibly. "We have a responsibility for the entire Right-leaning bloc. The Jewish Home Party has always been united, and this time we'll do the same. I'll meet with Ayelet Shaked as soon as possible, and there's no doubt that together we'll find a way to unify the forces together while preserving the image of religious Zionism," said Rabbi Peretz.
He called on all Right-leaning parties: "I call on all the partners on the Right, including members of Otzma Yehudit, to sit down for negotiations and close. We mustn't relate to the background noises all around, it's time to show responsibility for the Rightist government. We'll make a great effort to combine forces while preserving the image of the religious Zionist movement and the continuation of the centrality of Jewish Home in the emerging list of Right-leaning parties."
According to him, any discussion regarding recommending a Prime Minister or candidate other than Netanyahu is superfluous: "Any other support or any other idea could lead to a Left-wing government that would leave religious Zionism outside and we won't let that happen."
How would Jewish Home fit into a future union? "There's a party, there's a movement that represents values and ideals, and it must be represented properly. The movement has existed for 130 years, it's gone through difficult crises, it's been able to get on its feet and be rehabilitated. Parties rise and fall, but we're here - it will have to be reflected in the Knesset list. This isn't a personal matter, it's a matter of values, not giving up the ability to consolidate all the religious Zionist voters around us," concluded Rabbi Peretz.
3. EUROPEAN UNION DEMANDS ISRAEL HALT DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL HOMES
by David Rosenberg
The European Union formally condemned the demolition of illegal Arab apartment buildings near Israel's security barrier separating Jerusalem from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, and demanded Israel halt its enforcement of demolition orders.
In a statement issued Monday afternoon, the European Union's foreign affairs department said the demolitions undermine the "viability of the two-state solution".
"Israeli authorities have proceeded with the demolition of 10 Palestinian buildings, containing some 70 apartments, in Wadi al Hummus, part of Sur Baher neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem. The majority of the buildings are located in Area A and B of the West Bank where, according to the Oslo Accords, all civil issues are under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority," the EU said.
"Israel's settlement policy, including actions taken in that context, such as forced transfers, evictions, demolitions and confiscations of homes, is illegal under international law. In line with the EU's long-standing position, we expect the Israeli authorities to immediately halt the ongoing demolitions."
"The continuation of this policy undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for a lasting peace and seriously jeopardizes the possibility of Jerusalem serving as the future capital of both States."
Earlier on Monday, Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan (Likud) defended the demolition of illegal Arab apartment buildings on the southeastern fringe of Jerusalem Monday morning, saying the structures were built too close to the security barrier, and could be used as a haven for terrorists.
"The demolition of the illegal and mostly uninhabited buildings which takes place today at Wadi al-Hummus in the village of Sur Baher, Jerusalem, was approved by the Israeli High Court of Justice," said Erdan in a statement Monday morning, "which ruled that the illegal construction constitutes a severe security threat and can provide cover to suicide bombers and other terrorists hiding among civilian population and endanger the lives of civilians and security forces alike."
"The court also ruled unequivocally that those who built houses in the area of the security fence, knew that building in that area was prohibited, and took the law into their own hands."
Israeli forces sealed off and began demolishing ten of the over 100 illegally-built structures erected in defiance of a 2011 Israeli Civil Administration order barring construction near the security fence.
The apartment buildings were built in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of Sur Baher, an Arab enclave located almost entirely in Jerusalem.
The strip of land in Wadi al-Hummus area where the illegal structures are located, however, is just outside of the municipal borders of Jerusalem, but on the Jerusalem side of the security fence.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman Ofir Gendelman said in a social media post Monday that the demolitions were ordered in light of the "hundreds" of security incidents in the area last year.
"During the last year there were hundreds of security incidents and thousands of attempts by Palestinians to infiltrate our territory, some of them to carry out terrorist operations," he tweeted.
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4. UK'S NEXT PM? BORIS JOHNSON EXPECTED TO WIN TORY VOTE TUESDAY
by David Rosenberg
The UK's ruling Conservative party is slated to announce the winner of its seven-week internal leadership election on Tuesday, effectively naming outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May's successor, and Britain's next premier.
The announcement is slated for 11:45 a.m. local time (1:45 p.m. Jerusalem time), with MP Boris Johnson widely expected to defeat long-shot candidate MP Jeremy Hunt.
The American-born Johnson, a former Mayor of London and ex-foreign affairs minister, was an early and vocal supporter of the Brexit bid to pull the UK out of the European Union, and actively campaigned on behalf of "Leave" from 2015 to 2016 ahead of the referendum vote.
Johnson has called for the UK to complete its withdrawal from the European Union by the end of October 2019 – with or without a deal settling the details of Britain's future relationship with the EU, what has been called a "no-deal Brexit".
Opposing Johnson is his successor in the foreign office, the incumbent foreign affairs minister Jeremy Hunt.
Hunt has refused to commit to pulling out of the EU in 2019, saying he would favor completing a deal with the EU even if it would require a "few more parliamentary days" beyond the current October 31st deadline.
But Hunt has also tried to reassure Brexiteers within the Conservative party that if there does not appear to be a viable path to a deal which can be accepted by both the EU and the British Parliament, he is prepared to pursue a "no-deal Brexit".
Incumbent Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation as premier on May 24th, after Parliament repeatedly voted down Brexit deals with the EU.
One-hundred-and-sixty thousand Conservative party members were subsequently called upon to select a new party chief – and new premier – in a seven-week voting period which ended on Monday.
After the winner is announced Tuesday, May is expected to hold her final consultations with Parliament before submitting her formal resignation to the Queen on Wednesday.
5. MOSSAD EXPOSES HEZBOLLAH TERRORIST IN UGANDA
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Israel's Mossad intelligence agency aided in the uncovering and arrest of a Lebanese terrorist operating in Uganda recently, Ugandan media reported Monday night.
Hussein Mahmood Yassine, an undercover agent working for the Iranian-linked terrorist group Hezbollah, was arrested on July 7th by a Ugandan security team at Entebbe International Airport, the Kampala Post reported.
Yassine, who had worked in Uganda since 2010, was held incommunicado, the Post reported, drawing protest from the Lebanese government.
The report claimed that Israel's Mossad intelligence agency worked in conjunction with Uganda's security establishment to arrest Yassine and dismantle the terrorist network he had worked to establish.
Yassine was arrested at Entebbe Airport hours after he had returned from a visit to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and just before he was scheduled to fly to Beirut.
The Hezbollah agent, who has been linked to senior Hezbollah terrorist Ali Wahib Hussein (also known as Abu Jihad) had reportedly been scouting out Israeli and American targets for potential terror attacks in Africa. Yassine had also built a network of spies and terrorist recruits for future attacks.
Yassine is said to have identified over 100 Lebanese nationals in Uganda he believed could be used in future Hezbollah operations.
Months prior to his arrest, Israel's Mossad tipped off Uganda's security establishment, which monitored Yassine before the arrest operation at Entebbe Airport.
6. HAREDI MK: REQUIRE DRIVERS TO INSTALL WARNING SYSTEMS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
UTJ MK Uri Maklev on Monday requested that Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich (United Right) change Israel's policies and require the use of technological devices to prevent children from being forgotten in vehicles.
"I turn to you, after the tragic incident in which an infant was left in a vehicle," Maklev wrote. "As you now, we have held numerous discussions and activities on the topic of forgetting children. Unfortunately most of our conclusions have still not been implemented or led to a legal and practical result in the field."
"1. It has been agreed that the Ministry of Transportation will be the central platform and will provide financial incentives to bring about a change and the implementation of relevant technologies, so that developers and manufacturers involved in the field of warnings will be able to advance their marketing to the entire public. As far as I know, these actions were not actually implemented and there is no information about business companies which market these products.
"2. In previous years the Transportation Ministry actively publicized the issue on various media in order to raise public awareness of the issue and to prevent these types of situations from recurring in the future. This must be restarted urgently.
"3. I call on you to change the Transportation Ministry's policy and reevaluate a change in the transportation regulations, so that every driver who drives young children will be required to install a system to prevent children from being forgotten, similar to the existing law regarding school transportation.
"In light of the importance and urgency of the matter, I call on you to adopt and implement these points immediately. I call on you to change the Transportation Ministry's policies and reexamine changing transportation regulations, so that every driver transporting children will install a system to prevent forgetting children. In light of the urgency of the situation, I call on you to adopt these policies immediately."
7. PA: HOME DEMOLITIONS IN JERUSALEM ARE 'A MASSACRE'
by Dalit Halevi
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday condemned the demolition by IDF forces of the illegal structures in Wadi al Hummus in the Sur Baher neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.
"This is a crime of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities on Monday morning against 16 buildings containing nearly 10 housing units in Wadi al-Hummus in the village of Sur Baher, south of the occupied city of Al-Quds," the PA said.
The office of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community "to take responsibility and provide international protection to the Palestinian people and to bring to justice the leaders of the occupation for their crimes."
An official statement said that "this is a process that is being carried out as part of the implementation of the 'Deal of the Century' which aims to eliminate the Palestinian issue."
"This is an Israeli massacre, and the chairman of the Palestinian Authority has already contacted a number of international elements to intervene immediately and bring an end to Israeli aggression," the statement said.
Israeli forces on Monday morning sealed off and began demolishing ten of the over 100 illegally-built structures erected in defiance of a 2011 Israeli Civil Administration order barring construction near the security fence.
The apartment buildings were built in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of Sur Baher, an Arab enclave located almost entirely in Jerusalem.
The strip of land in Wadi al-Hummus area where the illegal structures are located, however, is just outside of the municipal borders of Jerusalem, but on the Jerusalem side of the security fence.
The European Union formally condemned Israel for the demolition of the illegal Arab buildings, saying said the demolitions undermine the "viability of the two-state solution".
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan defended the demolition of the illegal Arab apartment buildings, saying the structures were built too close to the security barrier, and could be used as a haven for terrorists.
8. 'COME TO NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS'
by Yoni Kempinski
Transportation Minister Betzalel Smotrich called on Monday for New Right Chairwoman Ayelet Shaked to enter into accelerated negotiations for a joint run with the Right-leaning parties.
"I congratulate Ayelet Shaked on her appointment as head of the New Right. This is a right move because Ayelet throughout the entire period has been broadcasting that she wants to go together. Naftali, it's no secret, spoke the entire time about thoughts or wishes to go separately and repeated those statements that were the basis for the establishment of the New Right, which began with 14 seats and ended below the threshold," Smotrich said.
He added that "my expectation of Ayelet is not to make do with talking, but to go ahead with actions. We're in the 90th minute, we have to gather in a room and put everything on the table.
"We have already conducted complex and complicated negotiations, and there is no issue that cannot be solved. Solutions can be found that will allow everyone to feel at home and be part. Each side will have to make concessions and not negotiate at press conferences or briefings. I shouldn't hear about the demands through the media. I'm sure that if we sit down and talk, within a few hours we'll come out with a smile, a handshake, and a decision to run together, and on a value statement. Everyone should come willingly, without preconditions, and with no ultimatums."
Smotrich notes that preconditions will only lead to failure: "I don't want to accept any starting positions and no preconditions: Anyone who wants to obstruct negotiations sets preconditions through the media, and whoever wants to make a real connection comes to the room and puts things on the table with openness and good faith."
He adds that the public is waiting for this unity. "What will bring us more seats is the good news that transcends the past and the political interests of everyone. We'll do what the public expects - we'll go together. Nothing could harm our future seats more than to fight now over pettiness."
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Monday, Jul. 22 '19, י"ט בתמוז תשע"ט
HEADLINES:
1. 'DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB APARTMENTS CRITICAL FOR SECURITY'
2. POLL: WHO CAN SUCCEED NETANYAHU AS PM?
3. LIFE SENTENCE FOR TERRORIST WHO MURDERED RONEN LUBARSKY
4. 'RAFI PERETZ NOT RULING OUT SHAKED AS LEADER OF UNITED RIGHT'
5. TEL AVIV BILLBOARDS DEMAND VICTORY AGAINST HAMAS
6. ISRAEL BEGINS DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB HOMES IN JERUSALEM
7. AYELET SHAKED TO LEAD THE NEW RIGHT
8. POLL: 13 SEATS FOR UNITED RIGHT LED BY AYELET SHAKED
1. 'DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB APARTMENTS CRITICAL FOR SECURITY'
by David Rosenberg
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Israel's Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan (Likud) defended the demolition of illegal Arab apartment buildings in southeastern Jerusalem Monday morning, saying the structures were built too close to the security barrier, and could be used as a haven for terrorists.
"The demolition of the illegal and mostly uninhabited buildings which takes place today at Wadi al-Hummus in the village of Sur Baher, Jerusalem, was approved by the Israeli High Court of Justice," said Erdan in a statement Monday morning, "which ruled that the illegal construction constitutes a severe security threat and can provide cover to suicide bombers and other terrorists hiding among civilian population and endanger the lives of civilians and security forces alike."
"The court also ruled unequivocally that those who built houses in the area of the security fence, knew that building in that area was prohibited, and took the law into their own hands."
Israeli forces seal off illegal Arab apartment buildings in Sur Baher, Jerusalem
REUTERS
Both the United Nations and the European Union had called on Israel to cancel the demolition orders issued for 10 illegal apartment buildings in Sur Baher, an Arab enclave in southeastern Jerusalem.
"The continuation of this policy undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for a lasting peace," the European Union said recently.
"We are following very closely developments in the Sur Baher area of the Jerusalem governorate," the United Nations Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.
"Seventeen Palestinians… face the risk of displacement, and over 350 others risk massive property loss, due to the Israeli authorities' intention to demolish 10 buildings, including around 70 apartments, due to their proximity to the West Bank barrier."
"We join others in the international community in calling on Israel to halt plans to demolish these and other structures."
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Ten apartment buildings with 70 apartments are slated for demolition, after the Supreme Court last month rejected the final appeal.
"The petitioners took the law into their own hands when they began and continued building structures without receiving a special permit from the military commander," the court said in its ruling green-lighting the demolitions.
Most of the apartment units have yet to be completed, with only three of the 70 planned apartments currently inhabited.
Fatah, a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization which rules the Palestinian Authority, condemned the demolitions Monday as "war crimes" and "ethnic cleansing", and blamed the US for its 'total support' of "Israeli settlement projects" and recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.
"This crime comes under total US support for the Israeli settlement projects, which is a natural result of the illegal US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," Fatah said.
2. POLL: WHO CAN SUCCEED NETANYAHU AS PM?
by Yoni Kempinski
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu became the longest-serving Israeli premier in history, a symbolic milestone that has highlighted the question of who will succeed Netanyahu as leader of the right-wing camp once he retires.
A new poll conducted by the Dialog polling agency under the supervision of Professor Camil Fuchs on behalf of Arutz Sheva found that among right-wing voters at least, the former New Right ministers Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett and the most popular candidates to lead the right-wing bloc after Netanyahu retires from politics.
According to the poll, Shaked is the most favored candidate to lead the right-wing bloc, with 29% of respondents choosing her, compared to 16% for Bennett.
In a close third is Likud MK and former minister Gideon Sa'ar at 15%, followed by Transportation Minister and National Union chairman Bezalel Smotrich at 9%, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) with 4%, United Right chief and Education Minister Rafi Peretz in a distant sixth with just 2%.
Tied with Peretz are Likud ministers Miri Regev and Gilad Erdan.
Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) was favored by just one percent of respondents.
Ten percent of those polled responded that they don't know who they would prefer, while seven percent said they favored someone not listed by the poll. A further two percent said they would not vote regardless of who leads the right-wing camp.
The poll surveyed 600 Israeli adults who voted for either the New Right, United Right, or Zehut parties in the April 9th election.
3. LIFE SENTENCE FOR TERRORIST WHO MURDERED RONEN LUBARSKY
by Chana Roberts
Islam Naji, the terrorist who last year murdered Duvdevan Staff Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky, was sentenced Monday to a life sentence plus eight months in prison.
The judges also ruled that the family receive 258,000 NIS ($72,929) in compensation, but emphasized that the family can also file a civil suit against the terrorist.
Lubarsky's father Vladimir told news outlets that the sentence is a "disgrace and shame for Israeli law."
His brother, Arik, said: "We want something very simple. The State of Israel for many years already has been dealing with the cycle of bloodshed and with families of murderers, who already have five or six siblings in jail. We are looking for what will truly deter them, not that they should enter a jail that's like a summer camp. All the 'summer camps' need to end."
"We've seen that life sentences do not deter them, but the issue of money does deter them. So the State of Israel needs to change its approach to terror, and understand how terror works.
"We are continuing to demand the death penalty, the demolition of homes, large monetary fines, and a worsening of conditions in the jails, because only that will solve the problem of terrorism."
Former Defense Minister MK Avigdor Liberman, who chairs the Knesset's Yisrael Beytenu party, slammed the decision, emphasizing that "only the death penalty is the right and just punishment for this murder, which the horrible terrorist planned down to the last detail. It's a shame that for four years already, [Israeli] Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu has torpedoed our demand to legislate the death penalty for terrorists."
"The disgusting terrorist, who murdered Duvdevan Staff Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky, of blessed memory, will enter a jail in Israel and enjoy luxurious accommodations, and his family will receive a monthly stipend from the Palestinian Authority. If that's not enough, that same horrible terrorist will enter jail knowing that he may well be released in the next prisoner swap.
"Only the death penalty will do justice with the families of the murdered and with the nation of Israel."
4. 'RAFI PERETZ NOT RULING OUT SHAKED AS LEADER OF UNITED RIGHT'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Is Education Minister and United Right chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz dropping his opposition to ex-Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked taking the top spot on a joint right-wing ticket?
National Union chairman and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the United Right alliance of rightist parties, revealed Monday morning that Peretz may be prepared to accept Shaked at the top of a joint ticket bringing together the United Right and New Right.
In an interview with Reshet Bet, Smotrich said that neither he nor Peretz had ruled out allowing Shaked to lead a joint ticket of the two parties – an apparent about-face by Peretz, who had long insisted on sitting at the helm of any unified right-wing Knesset slate.
"Anyone could [potentially] be at the top of the list," said Smotrich. "I've always urged everyone not to put pre-conditions" on negotiations between the two parties.
"There are also, of course, considerations regarding values; parties don't exist just for their own sake."
Smotrich added that during his meeting with Peretz Sunday afternoon, the United Right chairman said he too would not rule out the possibility of Shaked leading the party.
"If I need to step aside, there can be a two-person leadership," Smotrich said, referring to Peretz and Shaked. "If you want a four-person leadership, we'll have a four-person leadership. I can tell you that Rabbi Rafi also doesn't rule out the possibility of placing Shaked in the top position."
On Sunday, Ayelet Shaked announced that she would be leading the New Right party, following an agreement with her predecessor, Naftali Bennett.
During a brief address to party activists, Shaked laid out her plans to lead a joint right-wing list, combining the New Right and United Right parties.
"Under my leadership, the New Right party will not be running in the shadow of other parties, but as a party aspiring for the reins of national leadership, and to ensure a right-wing victory."
"I call… the leaders of the parties to the ideological right of the Likud, some of whom are my good friends: yes there are disagreements between us, but they are nothing compared to the challenges ahead of us. Unity is the moral and ideological Right's insurance policy, and we have to follow through on it."
"Together, under my leadership, we will become a powerful force, a force that will lead the Jewish people with strength and faith. A single, large union – an alliance of good people, with healthy values and courageous actions."
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5. TEL AVIV BILLBOARDS DEMAND VICTORY AGAINST HAMAS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The Middle East Forum's (MEF) Israel Victory Project has launched a dramatic billboard campaign.
The goal is to raise the issue of achieving victory, and to pressure Israel's security establishment – former and current military, intelligence, and law enforcement officers – to end its policy of appeasement.
Each billboard carries the slogan: "Enough being scared. Demand victory for Israel."
Days after the visit by to Iran by leaders of Hamas's military wing, and in the run-up to more funds being transferred by Qatar to Hamas in Gaza - the billboards depict Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh standing on the beach in a bathing suit, with suitcases of cash behind him, thanking Israel for its weak stand against Hamas in Gaza. They are displayed at major intersections in Tel Aviv, including across from the Defense Ministry.
The billboards mark the beginning of a wider campaign to take place over the next two months that includes commissioned research, polls, events and rallies, raising awareness of the need for Israel to achieve victory in order for there to be an end to the conflict.
The Israel Victory Project, founded in 2017, includes both caucuses in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, and in the US Congress.
Daniel Pipes, MEF president and the originator of the Israel Victory concept, explains: "Victory means imposing one's will on the enemy; history teaches that conflicts end when one side gives up. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will end only when Palestinians realize they cannot achieve their goal of eliminating the Jewish state of Israel."
Gregg Roman, the Forum's director who is overseeing the campaign, adds: "Israel has forgotten how to win since Oslo. In return for handing out bags of cash to jihadis, Israeli children must run to bomb shelters. Our campaign speaks to the Israeli public that is fed up with 'conflict management' and 'mowing the lawn.'"
Billboard featuring Ismail Haniyeh thanking Israel for weakness Hillel Meir
6. ISRAEL BEGINS DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB HOMES IN JERUSALEM
by David Rosenberg
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266298
Israeli security forces began demolishing illegal Arab buildings in southeastern Jerusalem Monday morning, after police and Border Police units surrounded nearly a dozen unauthorized buildings, AFP reported.
Hundreds of Israeli police officers and soldiers began sealing off at least four multi-story buildings in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of the Sur Baher section of southeastern Jerusalem early Monday, in preparation for their immediate demolition, AFP reported.
Reporters and activists were prevented from reaching the area and residents and activists were being dragged out.
One man yelled "I want to die here" after being dragged out.
The Israeli government warned residents that the illegal buildings were too close to the security wall on the city's edge, thus raising security issues.
Ismail Abadiyeh, who lives in one of the buildings under threat with his family, said they would be left homeless.
"We will be on the street," he told AFP.
"Since 2 a.m. they have been evacuating people from their homes by force and they have started planting explosives in the homes they want to destroy," resident Hamada Hamada told Reuters. "There are hundreds of soldiers here,"
Residents claimed that they had received permission to build the illegal structures from the Palestinian Authority – despite the area being under Israeli sovereign control.
A total of 10 buildings are slated for demolition, with as many as 100 more illegal structures in the area liable for demolition.
Following a series of court rulings, residents were given a 30-day notice of the impending demolition on June 18th. Most of the 10 buildings, housing roughly 70 apartment units, slated for demolition are still under construction.
A total of 17 people from three families currently live in the completed apartment buildings. Three-hundred-and-fifty people had planned to move in to the unfinished buildings once completed.
The demolitions would see 17 people displaced and another 350 affected, according to the United Nations.
European Union has called on Israel not to carry out the demolitions, saying they would 'undermine' the two-state solution.
"The continuation of this policy undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for a lasting peace."
But the Israeli Supreme Court ruled against the Arab petitioners in the final appeal, noting that residents continued work on the buildings knowing they had not received the necessary permits.
"The petitioners took the law into their own hands when they began and continued building structures without receiving a special permit from the military commander," the court said in its ruling green-lighting the demolitions.
The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel for the demolitions, and threatened to petition the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
"If the planned demolitions take place, Israel's actions will constitute a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention as well as war crimes pursuant to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court," the PA's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat said Sunday night.
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7. AYELET SHAKED TO LEAD THE NEW RIGHT
by David Rosenberg
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked will lead the New Right party, former Education Minister and incumbent New Right chairman Naftali Bennett announced at a party meeting Sunday evening, with plans for Shaked to lead a joint ticket with the United Right party.
Speaking at an event hall in Kfar Maccabiah Sunday night, Shaked announced that she had taken control of the New Right.
"There was no right-wing party running in the next election led by a woman – but now there is," Shaked told party activists.
Emphasizing unity on the Right, Shaked called for an alliance of parties to the right of the Likud.
"Just now we're ending the fast of the 17th of Tammuz, a day which forever reminds us that we were exiled from land and lost our independence because of baseless hatred. That won't happen again. Even when we disagree, we will know how to maintain mutual respect and remember that we're family."
"We've learned from our mistakes, and we've learned our lesson. We will put before you clear leadership, with political courage – with my partner, Naftali Bennett."
"Under my leadership, the New Right party will not be running in the shadow of other parties, but as a party aspiring for the reins of national leadership, and to ensure a right-wing victory."
"I call… the leaders of the parties to the ideological right of the Likud, some of whom are my good friends: yes there are disagreements between us, but they are nothing compared to the challenges ahead of us. Unity is the moral and ideological Right's insurance policy, and we have to follow through on it."
"Together, under my leadership, we will become a powerful force, a force that will lead the Jewish people with strength and faith. A single, large union – an alliance of good people, with healthy values and courageous actions."
Former Education Minister Bennett, who had reached an agreement with Shaked, said that he would be stepping aside as leader of the New Right to allow Shaked to lead the party – and potentially an expanded United Right.
"My place in the party isn't so important, I could be first, second or even third," said Bennett.
"I believe that she will lead us to a great victory."
"Ayelet Shaked will lead the New Right – and the entire United Right."
8. POLL: 13 SEATS FOR UNITED RIGHT LED BY AYELET SHAKED
by David Rosenberg
The United Right could win as many as 13 seats if it runs on a joint list with the New Right party, and is headed by newly-named New Right chief Ayelet Shaked, a new poll shows.
According to the poll, which was conducted by the Midgam agency on behalf of Channel 12 and broadcast Sunday night, if new elections were held today the Likud would narrowly defeat the center-left Blue and White party 30 seats to 29 seats. Both parties won 35 in the April 9th election.
Yisrael Beytenu, which has called for the formation of a unity government, would win nine seats if new elections were held today, compared to the five it won in April.
Shas would lose a single seat, falling from eight to seven seats, while United Torah Judaism would hold steady at eight.
The United Right Party, led by Education Minister Rafi Peretz, would win five seats – the same number it currently holds – while the New Right under Ayelet Shaked would win six seats. The New Right failed to enter the 21st Knesset.
On the left, the Labor Party would win seven seats, up a single mandate over its performance in the April election, while the far-left Meretz party would remain stable at four seats.
The newly-launched Israeli Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak would also win four seats.
If the predominantly Arab Joint List Party runs again, bringing together the Balad-United Arab List ticket with the Hadash-Ta'al ticket, it would win 11 seats, one more than its constituent factions currently hold.
The poll also found that if the United Right and New Right parties run together with Shaked at the helm, the joint ticket would win 13 seats. In such a scenario, the Likud would win 28 seats, instead of 30. The results for the other parties would remain unchanged.
In both scenarios, the right-wing – religious bloc would win 65 seats, while the left-wing – Arab bloc would win 55. Avidgor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu, however, has signaled it will not help Prime Minister Netanyahu form a narrow right-wing government, but will insist instead on a unity government with Blue and White, and without the haredi parties or Religious Zionist factions.
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1. 'DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB APARTMENTS CRITICAL FOR SECURITY'
2. POLL: WHO CAN SUCCEED NETANYAHU AS PM?
3. LIFE SENTENCE FOR TERRORIST WHO MURDERED RONEN LUBARSKY
4. 'RAFI PERETZ NOT RULING OUT SHAKED AS LEADER OF UNITED RIGHT'
5. TEL AVIV BILLBOARDS DEMAND VICTORY AGAINST HAMAS
6. ISRAEL BEGINS DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB HOMES IN JERUSALEM
7. AYELET SHAKED TO LEAD THE NEW RIGHT
8. POLL: 13 SEATS FOR UNITED RIGHT LED BY AYELET SHAKED
1. 'DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB APARTMENTS CRITICAL FOR SECURITY'
by David Rosenberg
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Israel's Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan (Likud) defended the demolition of illegal Arab apartment buildings in southeastern Jerusalem Monday morning, saying the structures were built too close to the security barrier, and could be used as a haven for terrorists.
"The demolition of the illegal and mostly uninhabited buildings which takes place today at Wadi al-Hummus in the village of Sur Baher, Jerusalem, was approved by the Israeli High Court of Justice," said Erdan in a statement Monday morning, "which ruled that the illegal construction constitutes a severe security threat and can provide cover to suicide bombers and other terrorists hiding among civilian population and endanger the lives of civilians and security forces alike."
"The court also ruled unequivocally that those who built houses in the area of the security fence, knew that building in that area was prohibited, and took the law into their own hands."
Israeli forces seal off illegal Arab apartment buildings in Sur Baher, Jerusalem
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Both the United Nations and the European Union had called on Israel to cancel the demolition orders issued for 10 illegal apartment buildings in Sur Baher, an Arab enclave in southeastern Jerusalem.
"The continuation of this policy undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for a lasting peace," the European Union said recently.
"We are following very closely developments in the Sur Baher area of the Jerusalem governorate," the United Nations Officer for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.
"Seventeen Palestinians… face the risk of displacement, and over 350 others risk massive property loss, due to the Israeli authorities' intention to demolish 10 buildings, including around 70 apartments, due to their proximity to the West Bank barrier."
"We join others in the international community in calling on Israel to halt plans to demolish these and other structures."
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Ten apartment buildings with 70 apartments are slated for demolition, after the Supreme Court last month rejected the final appeal.
"The petitioners took the law into their own hands when they began and continued building structures without receiving a special permit from the military commander," the court said in its ruling green-lighting the demolitions.
Most of the apartment units have yet to be completed, with only three of the 70 planned apartments currently inhabited.
Fatah, a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization which rules the Palestinian Authority, condemned the demolitions Monday as "war crimes" and "ethnic cleansing", and blamed the US for its 'total support' of "Israeli settlement projects" and recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.
"This crime comes under total US support for the Israeli settlement projects, which is a natural result of the illegal US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," Fatah said.
2. POLL: WHO CAN SUCCEED NETANYAHU AS PM?
by Yoni Kempinski
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu became the longest-serving Israeli premier in history, a symbolic milestone that has highlighted the question of who will succeed Netanyahu as leader of the right-wing camp once he retires.
A new poll conducted by the Dialog polling agency under the supervision of Professor Camil Fuchs on behalf of Arutz Sheva found that among right-wing voters at least, the former New Right ministers Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett and the most popular candidates to lead the right-wing bloc after Netanyahu retires from politics.
According to the poll, Shaked is the most favored candidate to lead the right-wing bloc, with 29% of respondents choosing her, compared to 16% for Bennett.
In a close third is Likud MK and former minister Gideon Sa'ar at 15%, followed by Transportation Minister and National Union chairman Bezalel Smotrich at 9%, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) with 4%, United Right chief and Education Minister Rafi Peretz in a distant sixth with just 2%.
Tied with Peretz are Likud ministers Miri Regev and Gilad Erdan.
Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) was favored by just one percent of respondents.
Ten percent of those polled responded that they don't know who they would prefer, while seven percent said they favored someone not listed by the poll. A further two percent said they would not vote regardless of who leads the right-wing camp.
The poll surveyed 600 Israeli adults who voted for either the New Right, United Right, or Zehut parties in the April 9th election.
3. LIFE SENTENCE FOR TERRORIST WHO MURDERED RONEN LUBARSKY
by Chana Roberts
Islam Naji, the terrorist who last year murdered Duvdevan Staff Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky, was sentenced Monday to a life sentence plus eight months in prison.
The judges also ruled that the family receive 258,000 NIS ($72,929) in compensation, but emphasized that the family can also file a civil suit against the terrorist.
Lubarsky's father Vladimir told news outlets that the sentence is a "disgrace and shame for Israeli law."
His brother, Arik, said: "We want something very simple. The State of Israel for many years already has been dealing with the cycle of bloodshed and with families of murderers, who already have five or six siblings in jail. We are looking for what will truly deter them, not that they should enter a jail that's like a summer camp. All the 'summer camps' need to end."
"We've seen that life sentences do not deter them, but the issue of money does deter them. So the State of Israel needs to change its approach to terror, and understand how terror works.
"We are continuing to demand the death penalty, the demolition of homes, large monetary fines, and a worsening of conditions in the jails, because only that will solve the problem of terrorism."
Former Defense Minister MK Avigdor Liberman, who chairs the Knesset's Yisrael Beytenu party, slammed the decision, emphasizing that "only the death penalty is the right and just punishment for this murder, which the horrible terrorist planned down to the last detail. It's a shame that for four years already, [Israeli] Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu has torpedoed our demand to legislate the death penalty for terrorists."
"The disgusting terrorist, who murdered Duvdevan Staff Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky, of blessed memory, will enter a jail in Israel and enjoy luxurious accommodations, and his family will receive a monthly stipend from the Palestinian Authority. If that's not enough, that same horrible terrorist will enter jail knowing that he may well be released in the next prisoner swap.
"Only the death penalty will do justice with the families of the murdered and with the nation of Israel."
4. 'RAFI PERETZ NOT RULING OUT SHAKED AS LEADER OF UNITED RIGHT'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Is Education Minister and United Right chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz dropping his opposition to ex-Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked taking the top spot on a joint right-wing ticket?
National Union chairman and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the United Right alliance of rightist parties, revealed Monday morning that Peretz may be prepared to accept Shaked at the top of a joint ticket bringing together the United Right and New Right.
In an interview with Reshet Bet, Smotrich said that neither he nor Peretz had ruled out allowing Shaked to lead a joint ticket of the two parties – an apparent about-face by Peretz, who had long insisted on sitting at the helm of any unified right-wing Knesset slate.
"Anyone could [potentially] be at the top of the list," said Smotrich. "I've always urged everyone not to put pre-conditions" on negotiations between the two parties.
"There are also, of course, considerations regarding values; parties don't exist just for their own sake."
Smotrich added that during his meeting with Peretz Sunday afternoon, the United Right chairman said he too would not rule out the possibility of Shaked leading the party.
"If I need to step aside, there can be a two-person leadership," Smotrich said, referring to Peretz and Shaked. "If you want a four-person leadership, we'll have a four-person leadership. I can tell you that Rabbi Rafi also doesn't rule out the possibility of placing Shaked in the top position."
On Sunday, Ayelet Shaked announced that she would be leading the New Right party, following an agreement with her predecessor, Naftali Bennett.
During a brief address to party activists, Shaked laid out her plans to lead a joint right-wing list, combining the New Right and United Right parties.
"Under my leadership, the New Right party will not be running in the shadow of other parties, but as a party aspiring for the reins of national leadership, and to ensure a right-wing victory."
"I call… the leaders of the parties to the ideological right of the Likud, some of whom are my good friends: yes there are disagreements between us, but they are nothing compared to the challenges ahead of us. Unity is the moral and ideological Right's insurance policy, and we have to follow through on it."
"Together, under my leadership, we will become a powerful force, a force that will lead the Jewish people with strength and faith. A single, large union – an alliance of good people, with healthy values and courageous actions."
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5. TEL AVIV BILLBOARDS DEMAND VICTORY AGAINST HAMAS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The Middle East Forum's (MEF) Israel Victory Project has launched a dramatic billboard campaign.
The goal is to raise the issue of achieving victory, and to pressure Israel's security establishment – former and current military, intelligence, and law enforcement officers – to end its policy of appeasement.
Each billboard carries the slogan: "Enough being scared. Demand victory for Israel."
Days after the visit by to Iran by leaders of Hamas's military wing, and in the run-up to more funds being transferred by Qatar to Hamas in Gaza - the billboards depict Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh standing on the beach in a bathing suit, with suitcases of cash behind him, thanking Israel for its weak stand against Hamas in Gaza. They are displayed at major intersections in Tel Aviv, including across from the Defense Ministry.
The billboards mark the beginning of a wider campaign to take place over the next two months that includes commissioned research, polls, events and rallies, raising awareness of the need for Israel to achieve victory in order for there to be an end to the conflict.
The Israel Victory Project, founded in 2017, includes both caucuses in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, and in the US Congress.
Daniel Pipes, MEF president and the originator of the Israel Victory concept, explains: "Victory means imposing one's will on the enemy; history teaches that conflicts end when one side gives up. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will end only when Palestinians realize they cannot achieve their goal of eliminating the Jewish state of Israel."
Gregg Roman, the Forum's director who is overseeing the campaign, adds: "Israel has forgotten how to win since Oslo. In return for handing out bags of cash to jihadis, Israeli children must run to bomb shelters. Our campaign speaks to the Israeli public that is fed up with 'conflict management' and 'mowing the lawn.'"
Billboard featuring Ismail Haniyeh thanking Israel for weakness Hillel Meir
6. ISRAEL BEGINS DEMOLITION OF ILLEGAL ARAB HOMES IN JERUSALEM
by David Rosenberg
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Israeli security forces began demolishing illegal Arab buildings in southeastern Jerusalem Monday morning, after police and Border Police units surrounded nearly a dozen unauthorized buildings, AFP reported.
Hundreds of Israeli police officers and soldiers began sealing off at least four multi-story buildings in the Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood of the Sur Baher section of southeastern Jerusalem early Monday, in preparation for their immediate demolition, AFP reported.
Reporters and activists were prevented from reaching the area and residents and activists were being dragged out.
One man yelled "I want to die here" after being dragged out.
The Israeli government warned residents that the illegal buildings were too close to the security wall on the city's edge, thus raising security issues.
Ismail Abadiyeh, who lives in one of the buildings under threat with his family, said they would be left homeless.
"We will be on the street," he told AFP.
"Since 2 a.m. they have been evacuating people from their homes by force and they have started planting explosives in the homes they want to destroy," resident Hamada Hamada told Reuters. "There are hundreds of soldiers here,"
Residents claimed that they had received permission to build the illegal structures from the Palestinian Authority – despite the area being under Israeli sovereign control.
A total of 10 buildings are slated for demolition, with as many as 100 more illegal structures in the area liable for demolition.
Following a series of court rulings, residents were given a 30-day notice of the impending demolition on June 18th. Most of the 10 buildings, housing roughly 70 apartment units, slated for demolition are still under construction.
A total of 17 people from three families currently live in the completed apartment buildings. Three-hundred-and-fifty people had planned to move in to the unfinished buildings once completed.
The demolitions would see 17 people displaced and another 350 affected, according to the United Nations.
European Union has called on Israel not to carry out the demolitions, saying they would 'undermine' the two-state solution.
"The continuation of this policy undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for a lasting peace."
But the Israeli Supreme Court ruled against the Arab petitioners in the final appeal, noting that residents continued work on the buildings knowing they had not received the necessary permits.
"The petitioners took the law into their own hands when they began and continued building structures without receiving a special permit from the military commander," the court said in its ruling green-lighting the demolitions.
The Palestinian Authority condemned Israel for the demolitions, and threatened to petition the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
"If the planned demolitions take place, Israel's actions will constitute a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention as well as war crimes pursuant to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court," the PA's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat said Sunday night.
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7. AYELET SHAKED TO LEAD THE NEW RIGHT
by David Rosenberg
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked will lead the New Right party, former Education Minister and incumbent New Right chairman Naftali Bennett announced at a party meeting Sunday evening, with plans for Shaked to lead a joint ticket with the United Right party.
Speaking at an event hall in Kfar Maccabiah Sunday night, Shaked announced that she had taken control of the New Right.
"There was no right-wing party running in the next election led by a woman – but now there is," Shaked told party activists.
Emphasizing unity on the Right, Shaked called for an alliance of parties to the right of the Likud.
"Just now we're ending the fast of the 17th of Tammuz, a day which forever reminds us that we were exiled from land and lost our independence because of baseless hatred. That won't happen again. Even when we disagree, we will know how to maintain mutual respect and remember that we're family."
"We've learned from our mistakes, and we've learned our lesson. We will put before you clear leadership, with political courage – with my partner, Naftali Bennett."
"Under my leadership, the New Right party will not be running in the shadow of other parties, but as a party aspiring for the reins of national leadership, and to ensure a right-wing victory."
"I call… the leaders of the parties to the ideological right of the Likud, some of whom are my good friends: yes there are disagreements between us, but they are nothing compared to the challenges ahead of us. Unity is the moral and ideological Right's insurance policy, and we have to follow through on it."
"Together, under my leadership, we will become a powerful force, a force that will lead the Jewish people with strength and faith. A single, large union – an alliance of good people, with healthy values and courageous actions."
Former Education Minister Bennett, who had reached an agreement with Shaked, said that he would be stepping aside as leader of the New Right to allow Shaked to lead the party – and potentially an expanded United Right.
"My place in the party isn't so important, I could be first, second or even third," said Bennett.
"I believe that she will lead us to a great victory."
"Ayelet Shaked will lead the New Right – and the entire United Right."
8. POLL: 13 SEATS FOR UNITED RIGHT LED BY AYELET SHAKED
by David Rosenberg
The United Right could win as many as 13 seats if it runs on a joint list with the New Right party, and is headed by newly-named New Right chief Ayelet Shaked, a new poll shows.
According to the poll, which was conducted by the Midgam agency on behalf of Channel 12 and broadcast Sunday night, if new elections were held today the Likud would narrowly defeat the center-left Blue and White party 30 seats to 29 seats. Both parties won 35 in the April 9th election.
Yisrael Beytenu, which has called for the formation of a unity government, would win nine seats if new elections were held today, compared to the five it won in April.
Shas would lose a single seat, falling from eight to seven seats, while United Torah Judaism would hold steady at eight.
The United Right Party, led by Education Minister Rafi Peretz, would win five seats – the same number it currently holds – while the New Right under Ayelet Shaked would win six seats. The New Right failed to enter the 21st Knesset.
On the left, the Labor Party would win seven seats, up a single mandate over its performance in the April election, while the far-left Meretz party would remain stable at four seats.
The newly-launched Israeli Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak would also win four seats.
If the predominantly Arab Joint List Party runs again, bringing together the Balad-United Arab List ticket with the Hadash-Ta'al ticket, it would win 11 seats, one more than its constituent factions currently hold.
The poll also found that if the United Right and New Right parties run together with Shaked at the helm, the joint ticket would win 13 seats. In such a scenario, the Likud would win 28 seats, instead of 30. The results for the other parties would remain unchanged.
In both scenarios, the right-wing – religious bloc would win 65 seats, while the left-wing – Arab bloc would win 55. Avidgor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu, however, has signaled it will not help Prime Minister Netanyahu form a narrow right-wing government, but will insist instead on a unity government with Blue and White, and without the haredi parties or Religious Zionist factions.
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1. BENNETT: WE NEED A UNIFIED RIGHT
2. FATHER SEVERELY INJURED IN ROUTE 7 CAR CRASH PASSES AWAY
3. 'SLAUGHTER THE JEWS' PAINTED ON SECTION OF WESTERN WALL
4. PM PRESSURING RAFI PERETZ TO STEP ASIDE FOR AYELET SHAKED
5. RESIDENT OF RAHAT PLANNED ATTACK ON ISRAELI HOTEL
6. BRITAIN: IRAN'S SEIZURE OF TANKER A 'HOSTILE ACT'
7. US BRIEFS ISRAEL ON NAVAL RESPONSE TO IRAN
8. WATCH: PRAYERS FOR FAST OF TAMMUZ AT WESTERN WALL
1. BENNETT: WE NEED A UNIFIED RIGHT
by Arutz Sheva Staff
New Right chairman and former Education Minister Naftali Bennett hinted Sunday afternoon that he will be turning over leadership of the New Right party to his long-time ally and former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
In a tweet published shortly after Shaked's spokesperson announced she would be making a statement Sunday night regarding her future in politics, Bennett wrote that "The country is more important that self-advancement, and the country needs a united Right."
Ayelet Shaked is expected to announce at the 8:10 p.m. press briefing Sunday that she will be assuming leadership of the New Right.
In addition, it is expected that Shaked will declare her intentions to form an alliance with the United Right party – under her leadership.
The New Right and Zehut parties failed to cross the electoral threshold in the April election, while the United Right enter the Knesset with five seats.
United Right chairman and Education Minister Rafi Peretz has rebuffed demands that Shaked lead a unified right-wing ticket, offering her to take the second spot on the list instead – despite polls showing Shaked the favored candidate among right-wing and national-religious voters to lead the United Right.
Peretz is expected to meet with Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the National Union faction within the United Right, at 4:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon. The two are expected to plan their response to Shaked's announcement Sunday evening, and agree to a list of principles for negotiations with the New Right.
2. FATHER SEVERELY INJURED IN ROUTE 7 CAR CRASH PASSES AWAY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Petah Tikva's Rabin Medical Center on Saturday announced the death of Rodrigo Rostasky, who was critically injured last week when a truck rammed into the family's car in southern Israel.
The crash, which occurred near Gedera on Israel's Route 7, killed Rostasky's wife Sophia, 28, and their two-month-old son Itai. The family's 3-year-old daughter, who was lightly injured in the crash, was released from the hospital last Friday and is now at her grandparents' home.
Rostasky, who was in his 40s, was an officer in Israel's Air Force. His organs have been donated.
Rabin's Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev said: "The injured man was brought from Kaplan Medical Center to Beilinson with a critical head injury. During the week, he underwent a number of operations. Over the last few days his situation deteriorated significantly and unfortunately, despite the efforts of the staff in the neurosurgical department, he passed away this morning."
The driver of the truck, Ashkelon resident Yossi Cohen, 32, was placed under house arrest on Sunday. It has not been found that he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
However, during his interrogation Cohen said that just before the collision occurred his cigarette fell to the floor of his vehicle and he bent down to retrieve it. As he bent over, he lost control of the vehicle, swerving from his lane and directly and forcefully rear-ending the Rostasky family's vehicle.
3. 'SLAUGHTER THE JEWS' PAINTED ON SECTION OF WESTERN WALL
by Marcy Oster, JTA
"Slaughter the Jews" was spray painted on the Kotel HaKatan, or "little Western Wall," a section of the Western Wall located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
The vandalism took place on Saturday. At least one Arab girl was arrested on Saturday night in connection with the incident. The graffiti, written in Arabic, was covered with more red paint to hide its message.
The Kotel HaKatan is located about 200 yards south of the Western Wall Plaza next to the Iron Gate in a narrow alleyway, and only a few rows of its stones are exposed. It is considered the second closest place to the Holy of Holies outside of the Temple Mount, with the closest being inside the Western Wall tunnels.
4. PM PRESSURING RAFI PERETZ TO STEP ASIDE FOR AYELET SHAKED
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has invited Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz (United Right) to a meeting Sunday to discuss the future of the United Right party and a possible alliance with the New Right.
With Ayelet Shaked expected to announce that she is taking control of the New Right party, following an agreement with incumbent chief Naftali Bennett, right-wing party officials say the Prime Minister will pressure Peretz bring together other small right-wing parties into the United Right.
To this end, Netanyahu is expected to ask Peretz to step aside as chief of the United Right ticket, and allow Shaked to lead the unified Knesset slate of the United Right, New Right, and possibly other factions.
Recent polls show Shaked is the favored candidate of both right-wing voters and the national-religious sector to lead the United Right, leading Peretz by double digits.
In addition, several polls released last week showed the United Right and the right-wing bloc as a whole receiving more seats under Shaked's leadership, as compared to under Peretz's.
Ayelet Shaked is expected to announce at the 8:10 p.m. press briefing Sunday that she will be assuming leadership of the New Right, along with her plans to form an alliance with the United Right, with her at the top of the ticket.
Current New Right chief Naftali Bennett hinted Sunday afternoon at his acquiescence, enabling Shaked to lead the New Right.
"The country is more important that self-advancement, and the country needs a united Right," Bennett tweeted.
5. RESIDENT OF RAHAT PLANNED ATTACK ON ISRAELI HOTEL
by Uzi Baruch
An indictment was filed today, Sunday, in Beer Sheva District Court against Adel Abu Hadayeb, a resident of Rahat who was arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.
Upon the filing of the indictment, it was cleared for publication that Abu Hadayeb was arrested for interrogation in June as part of a joint effort by the Shin Bet and Israel Police.
The Shin Bet interrogation revealed that Abu Hadayeb began supporting the Hamas terror organization after being exposed to the organization's propaganda on the Internet.
The investigation also revealed that Abu Hadayeb had tried to prepare a bomb to be used to carry out an attack in a hotel in Israel he had known from his work nearby as a gardener.
He also tried to prepare a rocket, and even purchased various materials for this purpose. In the course of the interrogation, Abu Hadayeb handed over five grenades (2 tear gas grenades, 2 stun grenades and a smoke grenade), as well as a Carlo rifle in his possession.
"The Shin Bet views with severity the involvement of Israeli civilians in terrorist activity, some of whom are influenced by Hamas propaganda disseminated on social networks and through Palestinian media," the Shin Bet said in a statement.
6. BRITAIN: IRAN'S SEIZURE OF TANKER A 'HOSTILE ACT'
by Ben Ariel
Britain on Saturday denounced Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, rejecting Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident, Reuters reported.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards posted a video online showing speedboats pulling alongside the Stena Impero tanker, its name clearly visible. Troops wearing ski masks and carrying machine guns rappelled to its deck from a helicopter, the same tactics used by British Royal Marines to seize an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar two weeks ago.
British Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt called the incident a "hostile act", while Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he had expressed "extreme disappointment" by phone to his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Britain also summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires in London.
A spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier-General Ramezan Sharif, said Tehran had seized the ship in the Strait of Hormuz despite the "resistance and interference" of a British warship which had been escorting it. No British warship was visible in the video posted by the Guards.
Iran's Fars news agency said the Guards had taken control of the Stena Impero on Friday after it collided with an Iranian fishing boat whose distress call it ignored.
In a letter to the UN Security Council on Saturday night, Britain said the tanker was approached by Iranian forces when it was in Omani territorial waters exercising its lawful right of passage, and the action "constitutes illegal interference."
"Current tensions are extremely concerning, and our priority is to de-escalate. We do not seek confrontation with Iran," the letter said. "But it is unacceptable and highly escalatory to threaten shipping going about its legitimate business through internationally recognized transit corridors."
Another oil tanker, the Mesdar, was also boarded by Iranian personnel on Friday and temporarily forced to divert toward Iran, but later was allowed to continue on its route through the strait.
On Saturday, Algeria's APS news agency said the Mesdar was owned by Algeria's state oil company Sonatrach.
Friday's incident came two weeks after the British naval force seized an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on suspicion that it was carrying crude oil to Syria, in violation of EU sanctions.
The detention of the tanker angered Iran, which condemned the move as an "illegal interception" and summoned the British ambassador in protest.
7. US BRIEFS ISRAEL ON NAVAL RESPONSE TO IRAN
by Gary Willig
This morning, an Israeli representative was reported to have participated in a briefing and discussion by US Special Envoy to Iran, Brian Hook, on the naval defense operation in the Persian Gulf that the US administration is undertaking in response to recent acts of Iranian aggression.
The briefing was attended by representatives from various countries who were briefed on "Operation Sentinel." The American goal is to establish a multinational force of countries to protect ships in the region, It is still not clear which countries will join the force.
"American representatives are working with elements from the Middle East, Europe and Asia to formulate the details," the Centcom Central Command said in a statement.
The invitation of the Israeli representative could a signal that Israel will be invited to the second Bahrain conference in the fall which will deal with securing the sea lanes in the Gulf region. This is a continuation of the Warsaw Conference in February, to which Prime Minister Netanyahu was invited.
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) addressed the possibility of a confrontation between Israel and Iran over the reaction of the United States and Britain to Tehran's recent actions in the Persian Gulf, including the seizure of two British oil tankers.
Hanegbi said that over the last two years, Israel has "beaten the Iranians hundreds of times in Syria. Sometimes we admit it, and sometimes foreign publications expose it."
Minister Hanegbi added, "The Iranians are very limited in their responses, it's not because they do not have capabilities, it's because we are very firm about our national security."
"The Iranians have not retreated from the plans to establish themselves in Syria, and this campaign has not ended yet, but they know exactly who to not mess with and who can be upset," Hanegbi said.
8. WATCH: PRAYERS FOR FAST OF TAMMUZ AT WESTERN WALL
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1. BENNETT: WE NEED A UNIFIED RIGHT
2. FATHER SEVERELY INJURED IN ROUTE 7 CAR CRASH PASSES AWAY
3. 'SLAUGHTER THE JEWS' PAINTED ON SECTION OF WESTERN WALL
4. PM PRESSURING RAFI PERETZ TO STEP ASIDE FOR AYELET SHAKED
5. RESIDENT OF RAHAT PLANNED ATTACK ON ISRAELI HOTEL
6. BRITAIN: IRAN'S SEIZURE OF TANKER A 'HOSTILE ACT'
7. US BRIEFS ISRAEL ON NAVAL RESPONSE TO IRAN
8. WATCH: PRAYERS FOR FAST OF TAMMUZ AT WESTERN WALL
1. BENNETT: WE NEED A UNIFIED RIGHT
by Arutz Sheva Staff
New Right chairman and former Education Minister Naftali Bennett hinted Sunday afternoon that he will be turning over leadership of the New Right party to his long-time ally and former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
In a tweet published shortly after Shaked's spokesperson announced she would be making a statement Sunday night regarding her future in politics, Bennett wrote that "The country is more important that self-advancement, and the country needs a united Right."
Ayelet Shaked is expected to announce at the 8:10 p.m. press briefing Sunday that she will be assuming leadership of the New Right.
In addition, it is expected that Shaked will declare her intentions to form an alliance with the United Right party – under her leadership.
The New Right and Zehut parties failed to cross the electoral threshold in the April election, while the United Right enter the Knesset with five seats.
United Right chairman and Education Minister Rafi Peretz has rebuffed demands that Shaked lead a unified right-wing ticket, offering her to take the second spot on the list instead – despite polls showing Shaked the favored candidate among right-wing and national-religious voters to lead the United Right.
Peretz is expected to meet with Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the National Union faction within the United Right, at 4:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon. The two are expected to plan their response to Shaked's announcement Sunday evening, and agree to a list of principles for negotiations with the New Right.
2. FATHER SEVERELY INJURED IN ROUTE 7 CAR CRASH PASSES AWAY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Petah Tikva's Rabin Medical Center on Saturday announced the death of Rodrigo Rostasky, who was critically injured last week when a truck rammed into the family's car in southern Israel.
The crash, which occurred near Gedera on Israel's Route 7, killed Rostasky's wife Sophia, 28, and their two-month-old son Itai. The family's 3-year-old daughter, who was lightly injured in the crash, was released from the hospital last Friday and is now at her grandparents' home.
Rostasky, who was in his 40s, was an officer in Israel's Air Force. His organs have been donated.
Rabin's Dr. Efrat Bron-Harlev said: "The injured man was brought from Kaplan Medical Center to Beilinson with a critical head injury. During the week, he underwent a number of operations. Over the last few days his situation deteriorated significantly and unfortunately, despite the efforts of the staff in the neurosurgical department, he passed away this morning."
The driver of the truck, Ashkelon resident Yossi Cohen, 32, was placed under house arrest on Sunday. It has not been found that he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
However, during his interrogation Cohen said that just before the collision occurred his cigarette fell to the floor of his vehicle and he bent down to retrieve it. As he bent over, he lost control of the vehicle, swerving from his lane and directly and forcefully rear-ending the Rostasky family's vehicle.
3. 'SLAUGHTER THE JEWS' PAINTED ON SECTION OF WESTERN WALL
by Marcy Oster, JTA
"Slaughter the Jews" was spray painted on the Kotel HaKatan, or "little Western Wall," a section of the Western Wall located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
The vandalism took place on Saturday. At least one Arab girl was arrested on Saturday night in connection with the incident. The graffiti, written in Arabic, was covered with more red paint to hide its message.
The Kotel HaKatan is located about 200 yards south of the Western Wall Plaza next to the Iron Gate in a narrow alleyway, and only a few rows of its stones are exposed. It is considered the second closest place to the Holy of Holies outside of the Temple Mount, with the closest being inside the Western Wall tunnels.
4. PM PRESSURING RAFI PERETZ TO STEP ASIDE FOR AYELET SHAKED
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has invited Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz (United Right) to a meeting Sunday to discuss the future of the United Right party and a possible alliance with the New Right.
With Ayelet Shaked expected to announce that she is taking control of the New Right party, following an agreement with incumbent chief Naftali Bennett, right-wing party officials say the Prime Minister will pressure Peretz bring together other small right-wing parties into the United Right.
To this end, Netanyahu is expected to ask Peretz to step aside as chief of the United Right ticket, and allow Shaked to lead the unified Knesset slate of the United Right, New Right, and possibly other factions.
Recent polls show Shaked is the favored candidate of both right-wing voters and the national-religious sector to lead the United Right, leading Peretz by double digits.
In addition, several polls released last week showed the United Right and the right-wing bloc as a whole receiving more seats under Shaked's leadership, as compared to under Peretz's.
Ayelet Shaked is expected to announce at the 8:10 p.m. press briefing Sunday that she will be assuming leadership of the New Right, along with her plans to form an alliance with the United Right, with her at the top of the ticket.
Current New Right chief Naftali Bennett hinted Sunday afternoon at his acquiescence, enabling Shaked to lead the New Right.
"The country is more important that self-advancement, and the country needs a united Right," Bennett tweeted.
5. RESIDENT OF RAHAT PLANNED ATTACK ON ISRAELI HOTEL
by Uzi Baruch
An indictment was filed today, Sunday, in Beer Sheva District Court against Adel Abu Hadayeb, a resident of Rahat who was arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack.
Upon the filing of the indictment, it was cleared for publication that Abu Hadayeb was arrested for interrogation in June as part of a joint effort by the Shin Bet and Israel Police.
The Shin Bet interrogation revealed that Abu Hadayeb began supporting the Hamas terror organization after being exposed to the organization's propaganda on the Internet.
The investigation also revealed that Abu Hadayeb had tried to prepare a bomb to be used to carry out an attack in a hotel in Israel he had known from his work nearby as a gardener.
He also tried to prepare a rocket, and even purchased various materials for this purpose. In the course of the interrogation, Abu Hadayeb handed over five grenades (2 tear gas grenades, 2 stun grenades and a smoke grenade), as well as a Carlo rifle in his possession.
"The Shin Bet views with severity the involvement of Israeli civilians in terrorist activity, some of whom are influenced by Hamas propaganda disseminated on social networks and through Palestinian media," the Shin Bet said in a statement.
6. BRITAIN: IRAN'S SEIZURE OF TANKER A 'HOSTILE ACT'
by Ben Ariel
Britain on Saturday denounced Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, rejecting Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident, Reuters reported.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards posted a video online showing speedboats pulling alongside the Stena Impero tanker, its name clearly visible. Troops wearing ski masks and carrying machine guns rappelled to its deck from a helicopter, the same tactics used by British Royal Marines to seize an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar two weeks ago.
British Defense Secretary Penny Mordaunt called the incident a "hostile act", while Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he had expressed "extreme disappointment" by phone to his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Britain also summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires in London.
A spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier-General Ramezan Sharif, said Tehran had seized the ship in the Strait of Hormuz despite the "resistance and interference" of a British warship which had been escorting it. No British warship was visible in the video posted by the Guards.
Iran's Fars news agency said the Guards had taken control of the Stena Impero on Friday after it collided with an Iranian fishing boat whose distress call it ignored.
In a letter to the UN Security Council on Saturday night, Britain said the tanker was approached by Iranian forces when it was in Omani territorial waters exercising its lawful right of passage, and the action "constitutes illegal interference."
"Current tensions are extremely concerning, and our priority is to de-escalate. We do not seek confrontation with Iran," the letter said. "But it is unacceptable and highly escalatory to threaten shipping going about its legitimate business through internationally recognized transit corridors."
Another oil tanker, the Mesdar, was also boarded by Iranian personnel on Friday and temporarily forced to divert toward Iran, but later was allowed to continue on its route through the strait.
On Saturday, Algeria's APS news agency said the Mesdar was owned by Algeria's state oil company Sonatrach.
Friday's incident came two weeks after the British naval force seized an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on suspicion that it was carrying crude oil to Syria, in violation of EU sanctions.
The detention of the tanker angered Iran, which condemned the move as an "illegal interception" and summoned the British ambassador in protest.
7. US BRIEFS ISRAEL ON NAVAL RESPONSE TO IRAN
by Gary Willig
This morning, an Israeli representative was reported to have participated in a briefing and discussion by US Special Envoy to Iran, Brian Hook, on the naval defense operation in the Persian Gulf that the US administration is undertaking in response to recent acts of Iranian aggression.
The briefing was attended by representatives from various countries who were briefed on "Operation Sentinel." The American goal is to establish a multinational force of countries to protect ships in the region, It is still not clear which countries will join the force.
"American representatives are working with elements from the Middle East, Europe and Asia to formulate the details," the Centcom Central Command said in a statement.
The invitation of the Israeli representative could a signal that Israel will be invited to the second Bahrain conference in the fall which will deal with securing the sea lanes in the Gulf region. This is a continuation of the Warsaw Conference in February, to which Prime Minister Netanyahu was invited.
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) addressed the possibility of a confrontation between Israel and Iran over the reaction of the United States and Britain to Tehran's recent actions in the Persian Gulf, including the seizure of two British oil tankers.
Hanegbi said that over the last two years, Israel has "beaten the Iranians hundreds of times in Syria. Sometimes we admit it, and sometimes foreign publications expose it."
Minister Hanegbi added, "The Iranians are very limited in their responses, it's not because they do not have capabilities, it's because we are very firm about our national security."
"The Iranians have not retreated from the plans to establish themselves in Syria, and this campaign has not ended yet, but they know exactly who to not mess with and who can be upset," Hanegbi said.
8. WATCH: PRAYERS FOR FAST OF TAMMUZ AT WESTERN WALL
by Yoni Kempinski
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1. 'IN AMERICA PEOPLE THINK THAT MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND'
2. POLL: NEW RIGHT WINS SIX KNESSET SEATS
3. IRAN SEIZES FOREIGN OIL TANKER IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
4. BARAK: 'THE UNION WITH GESHER IS THE END OF THE LABOR PARTY'
5. 'HOW A HEAD TRAUMA SET ME STRAIGHT'
6. PM TO DECIDE IF ILHAN OMAR, RASHIDA TLAIB CAN VISIT ISRAEL
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
8. POLICE IDENTIFY MEN WHO SPRAYED FLUID ON JEWS NEAR NJ SYNAGOGUE
1. 'IN AMERICA PEOPLE THINK THAT MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND'
by Eliran Aharon
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266202
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and an expert on the Middle East, explains why the Americans simply can't understand the Arab rejection of the "Deal of the Century."
"When [Hezbollah Secretary-General] Hassan Nasrallah talks about his missiles and his ability to attack Eilat and everything else on the way to Eilat, these are actually the words of his bosses in Iran," Dr. Kedar said. "[Iran] tries to project a threat against America - not against Israel - against America or against [US President Donald] Trump in particular."
"[Iran] is saying to Trump, 'If you try to attack us - meaning Iran - I will make sure that Israel, your beloved country, will pay the price. That's actually what the message is - it's not against Israel - it's actually a message that's directed toward Donald J. Trump.
"The 'Deal of the Century' could be good if it was made by Middle Easterners. The problem was that it was made by the Americans. And Americans, first of all, are suspected of working for their own interests in the Middle East. In the Middle East people are afraid of the conspiracy of Americans and maybe the Israelis as well who concocted this 'Deal of the Century' in order to take advantage of the Arab world. So initially, they relate to such a deal in a very negative way because it came from Washington and maybe from [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu as well.
"Secondly this deal started with dealing with economic issues because in America people think that money makes the world go around. I have some news for many Americans - in the Middle East money doesn't make the place go around. Here money is maybe in the fourth or fifth priority. Here there are some things which are way above money, above a good life, above health, and above prosperity - the honor of Jerusalem.
"They want to topple Israel by extracting the Jewish heart from Israel. They want to bring the refugees here in order to topple the society of Israel. These things are much more important than a good economy. They'll sacrifice their economy in order to destroy Israel. This is their scale of priorities. Unfortunately, in America, people don't get it and they don't understand that the mere existence of the state of Israel is the problem."
2. POLL: NEW RIGHT WINS SIX KNESSET SEATS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The Knesset's right-religious bloc would win 66 Knesset seats under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while the center-left-Arab bloc would win 54, a new survey showed.
However, if Yisrael Beytenu will not sit together in a coalition with the haredi parties, the right-wing bloc would drop to 57 seats.
The survey, conducted by the Smith Institute for 103 FM Radio, showed the Likud as winning 32 seats, followed by the Blue and White party with 29 seats.
The Joint Arab List would win 10 seats, with Yisrael Beytenu following close behind at nine. Sephardic-haredi Shas would win eight seats, while Ashkenazic-haredi UTJ would win seven. The Labor party would retain its current six seats, and the New Right party would receive six seats as well.
Left-wing Meretz would receive five Knesset seats, while the United Right led by incumbent Rabbi Rafi Peretz and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's new "Democratic Israel" party would earn four Knesset seats each.
The survey included 597 respondents aged 18 or older who are representative of Israel's population.
3. IRAN SEIZES FOREIGN OIL TANKER IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
by David Rosenberg
Iran's military seized a foreign tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, Iranian media outlets reported.
While the ship was not identified, nor its country of origin revealed, the Iranian Fars outlet reported that the ship had a crew of 12, who were taken captive by Iranian military forces.
The ship was carrying one million liters of oil at the time of its capture, Fars said, half of its 2 million liter capacity.
Tehran accused the oil tanker of "smuggling" fuel through the Strait of Hormuz – a crucial international waterway used for transporting roughly one-fifth of the world's oil fuel.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are said to have intercepted the ship just south of the Iranian island of Larak, in the Strait of Hormuz.
"A foreign vessel smuggling 1m liters of fuel in the Larak Island of the Persian Gulf has been seized," the Fars report claimed. "The vessel that Iran towed to its waters after receiving a distress call was later seized with the order from the court as we found out that it was smuggling fuel."
It is unclear if the vessel is the same ship which Iran earlier this week claimed to have assisted following "technical failure".
The ship, the MT Riah, a United Arab Emirates ship flying under a Panamanian flag, was reported missing last weekend while traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.
4. BARAK: 'THE UNION WITH GESHER IS THE END OF THE LABOR PARTY'
by Hezki Baruch
Democratic Israel Party chairman Ehud Barak responded Friday morning to the union of the Labor Party and the Gesher party of Orly Levy-Abekasis.
"This step may, God forbid, put an end to Labor, the vision and the legacy of the party that established the state in favor of establishing a social niche party," Barak said in a meeting with members of Kibbutz Ein Shemer.
"Orly Levy-Abekasis effectively is giving up on a change of government in Israel and is opening the door to an alliance with [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu."
On Thursday, Labor Party Chairman MK Amir Peretz convened a joint press conference with chairman of the Gesher party, Orly Levy-Abekasis, who is merging with the Labor Party ahead of the upcoming elections.
"I feel that at this moment, an alliance of renewal is forming, and we have found the way to unite and build a political home for all Israelis," Peretz said at the press conference.
"I stand with excitement and great pride, with Orly Levi Abekasis standing next to me, a pioneering woman with a broad view of social justice rather than charity, of the state's responsibility for the fate of the elderly, the handicapped and young couples."
Levy-Abekasis said, "When I received a proposal from Amir, I felt it was natural to bring down the walls and look for the unifying factor. The merger is the Gesher party with the number one advocate in the social arena."
5. 'HOW A HEAD TRAUMA SET ME STRAIGHT'
by Judy Simon
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Racheli grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Just weeks before her planned post-high-school trip to Israel, she was involved in a major car accident, leaving her with a broken arm and a severe head injury.
After a week in hospital and three months in rehab, Racheli discovered within her soul an inexplicably strong connection to Israel, and she insisted on celebrating her 18th birthday in the Jewish homeland.
Despite severe memory loss and instability in the emotional and social realms due to a frontal lobe injury, Racheli succeeded in reclaiming the second half of her year in Israel, going on to study for her degree in occupational therapy at a university in Melbourne, and making aliyah (immigrating to Israel).
One of the most fascinating elements of Racheli's story is her developing relationship with G-d as a result of the injury. She relates in detail the process she went through to discover that everything G-d does really is for the best.
Tune in to meet a warm, positive and inspiring young woman who doesn't let anything stop her from succeeding at her goals.
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6. PM TO DECIDE IF ILHAN OMAR, RASHIDA TLAIB CAN VISIT ISRAEL
by Sara Rubenstein
A day after introducing a pro-BDS resolution in the House, Dem. US Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) told reporters on Wednesday that she will be visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories in a few weeks. Omar will be accompanied on the trip by Rashida Tlaib, a fellow Dem. congresswoman (MI) of Palestinian origin, who co-sponsored the bill with Omar.
However, the question that hangs in the airs is whether Omar and Tlaib will be allowed into Israel in light of a 2017 law which allows Israeli officials to ban BDS supporters from entering the country. Omar told the Jewish Insider on Wednesday that the Israeli "occupation of Palestinian territories" will be the main point of the trip. "Everything that I hear points to both sides feeling like there is still an occupation," she said.
Israeli officials have used the controversial law to ban BDS supporters from entering Israel over the past two years. However, since the individuals in questions are American politicians, banning them from Israel is bound to cause an international sensation. Due to the special sensitivity of the issue, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be the one to make the decision in this case whether the congresswomen can enter Israel, according to a Haaretz report on Thursday.
Omar told reporters on Tuesday, that "We are introducing a resolution… to really speak about the American values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first amendment rights in regard to boycotting. And it is an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement."
The resolution that Omar introduced "opposes unconstitutional legislative efforts to limit the use of boycotts to further civil rights at home and abroad. " Although the resolution didn't mention Israel or BDS by name, it was introduced in response to resolutions passed in several states that ban business with companies and individuals who back the BDS movement.
Omar and Tlaib were elected as the first Muslim U.S. congresswomen in November and have spoken out repeatedly against Israel and Jews and in support of the BDS movement since they were elected.
Tlaib was quoted by the Jewish Insider as saying, "My city [of Beit Ur al-Fauqa] is so excited that I am possibly going to come to see her next month. She is so happy. And I am going to take my two wonderful boys… and they are going to meet their great grandmother. So I am really, really excited about that."
Tlaib was widely criticized in May for claiming that her ancestors provided a "safe haven" for Jews after the Holocaust.
"There's always kind of a calming feeling when I think of the tragedy of the Holocaust," Tlaib said, "that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence, in many ways, has been wiped out … in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-Holocaust, post-tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that in many ways."
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
by Ido Ben Porat
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266106
Yesterday (Tuesday), an IDF operation in collaboration with Shin Bet forces, took place in order to expose a money transfer network in the area of the "Benyamin" and "Ephraim" regional brigades in Judea and Samaria.
The operation exposed a money transfer network from the Gaza Strip to Ramallah, which operated in coordination between senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip and their Hamas operatives in Judea and Samaria. The network was operated by a civilian traveling and passport issuing agency named "Al-Haramain", owned by the Hani brothers and Firas Blbiesi, along with a money exchanger named Mohammad Swesi, who all operate from the Gaza Strip.
The exposed network operated under the guise of a civilian organization in an attempt to conceal the money's origin and destination. The money was transferred using the "Hawwalah" method, a money transfer system implemented by offsetting debts between a number of independent money changers, while using a minimal amount of cash, and hence not requiring registration in the world banking systems. The large amounts of money transferred through this method were used for organizational terror activity and for funding the salaries of Hamas operatives.
As part of the operation, IDF troops along with Shin Bet forces apprehended three suspects who are operatives of this Hamas-run infrastructure.
Ibrahim Mzfr-A Mazari' - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Khaled Mzfr A Mazari' (Ibrahim's brother) - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative.
Mohammad Abu Salim- A Rantis resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Following the money transfer from the Gaza Strip into Judea and Samaria, IDF and Shin Bet forces have strengthened enforcement measures against civilian companies cooperating with terror organizations in the area and in the Gaza Strip.
An officer in the Intelligence Directorate, Lt. Col. A, said.: "The methods used by Hamas for money transfer are familiar to us and we are operating to thwart and disrupt them in cooperation with the Shin Bet."
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to ensure the safety of Israeli civilians using all the measures available to us."
8. POLICE IDENTIFY MEN WHO SPRAYED FLUID ON JEWS NEAR NJ SYNAGOGUE
by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Police in Teaneck, New Jersey identified three of four people suspected of a hate crime, in which they allegedly sprayed dark liquid on Jews near a synagogue.
The three suspects, who are said to have used water guns to squirt the liquid on July 12 outside the Young Israel synagogue after Friday evening prayers, are all adults, Deputy Mayor Elie Katz is quoted as saying in a report Wednesday by ABC 7 NY.
Katz wrote on Facebook that the suspects were in a silver Honda Accord, taking videos and shooting water guns at people walking out of the prayer service. They made two rounds and at least one of them shouted anti-Semitic obscenities when passersby shouted for the driver to stop.
One person got a good look at the license plate and told police, who proceeded to trace the owners and ascertain who was in the car on Friday at around 9 p.m.
Separately, an unidentified individual carved a swastika onto the chassis of a car that owned by a Jewish person in Matthews, North Carolina.
"I was sort of mad, sad, broken-hearted, and really angry that someone would damage my property like that especially with that kind of a symbol because, as a Jew, it symbolizes the murder of six million of my brothers and sisters," the owner, who did not want to be identified, told WSOCTV Wednesday.
Multiple graffiti of swastika and Holocaust denial appeared earlier this week on the pedestrian bridge of the Santa Monica neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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HEADLINES:
1. 'IN AMERICA PEOPLE THINK THAT MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND'
2. POLL: NEW RIGHT WINS SIX KNESSET SEATS
3. IRAN SEIZES FOREIGN OIL TANKER IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
4. BARAK: 'THE UNION WITH GESHER IS THE END OF THE LABOR PARTY'
5. 'HOW A HEAD TRAUMA SET ME STRAIGHT'
6. PM TO DECIDE IF ILHAN OMAR, RASHIDA TLAIB CAN VISIT ISRAEL
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
8. POLICE IDENTIFY MEN WHO SPRAYED FLUID ON JEWS NEAR NJ SYNAGOGUE
1. 'IN AMERICA PEOPLE THINK THAT MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND'
by Eliran Aharon
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266202
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and an expert on the Middle East, explains why the Americans simply can't understand the Arab rejection of the "Deal of the Century."
"When [Hezbollah Secretary-General] Hassan Nasrallah talks about his missiles and his ability to attack Eilat and everything else on the way to Eilat, these are actually the words of his bosses in Iran," Dr. Kedar said. "[Iran] tries to project a threat against America - not against Israel - against America or against [US President Donald] Trump in particular."
"[Iran] is saying to Trump, 'If you try to attack us - meaning Iran - I will make sure that Israel, your beloved country, will pay the price. That's actually what the message is - it's not against Israel - it's actually a message that's directed toward Donald J. Trump.
"The 'Deal of the Century' could be good if it was made by Middle Easterners. The problem was that it was made by the Americans. And Americans, first of all, are suspected of working for their own interests in the Middle East. In the Middle East people are afraid of the conspiracy of Americans and maybe the Israelis as well who concocted this 'Deal of the Century' in order to take advantage of the Arab world. So initially, they relate to such a deal in a very negative way because it came from Washington and maybe from [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu as well.
"Secondly this deal started with dealing with economic issues because in America people think that money makes the world go around. I have some news for many Americans - in the Middle East money doesn't make the place go around. Here money is maybe in the fourth or fifth priority. Here there are some things which are way above money, above a good life, above health, and above prosperity - the honor of Jerusalem.
"They want to topple Israel by extracting the Jewish heart from Israel. They want to bring the refugees here in order to topple the society of Israel. These things are much more important than a good economy. They'll sacrifice their economy in order to destroy Israel. This is their scale of priorities. Unfortunately, in America, people don't get it and they don't understand that the mere existence of the state of Israel is the problem."
2. POLL: NEW RIGHT WINS SIX KNESSET SEATS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The Knesset's right-religious bloc would win 66 Knesset seats under the leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while the center-left-Arab bloc would win 54, a new survey showed.
However, if Yisrael Beytenu will not sit together in a coalition with the haredi parties, the right-wing bloc would drop to 57 seats.
The survey, conducted by the Smith Institute for 103 FM Radio, showed the Likud as winning 32 seats, followed by the Blue and White party with 29 seats.
The Joint Arab List would win 10 seats, with Yisrael Beytenu following close behind at nine. Sephardic-haredi Shas would win eight seats, while Ashkenazic-haredi UTJ would win seven. The Labor party would retain its current six seats, and the New Right party would receive six seats as well.
Left-wing Meretz would receive five Knesset seats, while the United Right led by incumbent Rabbi Rafi Peretz and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's new "Democratic Israel" party would earn four Knesset seats each.
The survey included 597 respondents aged 18 or older who are representative of Israel's population.
3. IRAN SEIZES FOREIGN OIL TANKER IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ
by David Rosenberg
Iran's military seized a foreign tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, Iranian media outlets reported.
While the ship was not identified, nor its country of origin revealed, the Iranian Fars outlet reported that the ship had a crew of 12, who were taken captive by Iranian military forces.
The ship was carrying one million liters of oil at the time of its capture, Fars said, half of its 2 million liter capacity.
Tehran accused the oil tanker of "smuggling" fuel through the Strait of Hormuz – a crucial international waterway used for transporting roughly one-fifth of the world's oil fuel.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are said to have intercepted the ship just south of the Iranian island of Larak, in the Strait of Hormuz.
"A foreign vessel smuggling 1m liters of fuel in the Larak Island of the Persian Gulf has been seized," the Fars report claimed. "The vessel that Iran towed to its waters after receiving a distress call was later seized with the order from the court as we found out that it was smuggling fuel."
It is unclear if the vessel is the same ship which Iran earlier this week claimed to have assisted following "technical failure".
The ship, the MT Riah, a United Arab Emirates ship flying under a Panamanian flag, was reported missing last weekend while traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.
4. BARAK: 'THE UNION WITH GESHER IS THE END OF THE LABOR PARTY'
by Hezki Baruch
Democratic Israel Party chairman Ehud Barak responded Friday morning to the union of the Labor Party and the Gesher party of Orly Levy-Abekasis.
"This step may, God forbid, put an end to Labor, the vision and the legacy of the party that established the state in favor of establishing a social niche party," Barak said in a meeting with members of Kibbutz Ein Shemer.
"Orly Levy-Abekasis effectively is giving up on a change of government in Israel and is opening the door to an alliance with [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu."
On Thursday, Labor Party Chairman MK Amir Peretz convened a joint press conference with chairman of the Gesher party, Orly Levy-Abekasis, who is merging with the Labor Party ahead of the upcoming elections.
"I feel that at this moment, an alliance of renewal is forming, and we have found the way to unite and build a political home for all Israelis," Peretz said at the press conference.
"I stand with excitement and great pride, with Orly Levi Abekasis standing next to me, a pioneering woman with a broad view of social justice rather than charity, of the state's responsibility for the fate of the elderly, the handicapped and young couples."
Levy-Abekasis said, "When I received a proposal from Amir, I felt it was natural to bring down the walls and look for the unifying factor. The merger is the Gesher party with the number one advocate in the social arena."
5. 'HOW A HEAD TRAUMA SET ME STRAIGHT'
by Judy Simon
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Racheli grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Just weeks before her planned post-high-school trip to Israel, she was involved in a major car accident, leaving her with a broken arm and a severe head injury.
After a week in hospital and three months in rehab, Racheli discovered within her soul an inexplicably strong connection to Israel, and she insisted on celebrating her 18th birthday in the Jewish homeland.
Despite severe memory loss and instability in the emotional and social realms due to a frontal lobe injury, Racheli succeeded in reclaiming the second half of her year in Israel, going on to study for her degree in occupational therapy at a university in Melbourne, and making aliyah (immigrating to Israel).
One of the most fascinating elements of Racheli's story is her developing relationship with G-d as a result of the injury. She relates in detail the process she went through to discover that everything G-d does really is for the best.
Tune in to meet a warm, positive and inspiring young woman who doesn't let anything stop her from succeeding at her goals.
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6. PM TO DECIDE IF ILHAN OMAR, RASHIDA TLAIB CAN VISIT ISRAEL
by Sara Rubenstein
A day after introducing a pro-BDS resolution in the House, Dem. US Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) told reporters on Wednesday that she will be visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories in a few weeks. Omar will be accompanied on the trip by Rashida Tlaib, a fellow Dem. congresswoman (MI) of Palestinian origin, who co-sponsored the bill with Omar.
However, the question that hangs in the airs is whether Omar and Tlaib will be allowed into Israel in light of a 2017 law which allows Israeli officials to ban BDS supporters from entering the country. Omar told the Jewish Insider on Wednesday that the Israeli "occupation of Palestinian territories" will be the main point of the trip. "Everything that I hear points to both sides feeling like there is still an occupation," she said.
Israeli officials have used the controversial law to ban BDS supporters from entering Israel over the past two years. However, since the individuals in questions are American politicians, banning them from Israel is bound to cause an international sensation. Due to the special sensitivity of the issue, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be the one to make the decision in this case whether the congresswomen can enter Israel, according to a Haaretz report on Thursday.
Omar told reporters on Tuesday, that "We are introducing a resolution… to really speak about the American values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first amendment rights in regard to boycotting. And it is an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement."
The resolution that Omar introduced "opposes unconstitutional legislative efforts to limit the use of boycotts to further civil rights at home and abroad. " Although the resolution didn't mention Israel or BDS by name, it was introduced in response to resolutions passed in several states that ban business with companies and individuals who back the BDS movement.
Omar and Tlaib were elected as the first Muslim U.S. congresswomen in November and have spoken out repeatedly against Israel and Jews and in support of the BDS movement since they were elected.
Tlaib was quoted by the Jewish Insider as saying, "My city [of Beit Ur al-Fauqa] is so excited that I am possibly going to come to see her next month. She is so happy. And I am going to take my two wonderful boys… and they are going to meet their great grandmother. So I am really, really excited about that."
Tlaib was widely criticized in May for claiming that her ancestors provided a "safe haven" for Jews after the Holocaust.
"There's always kind of a calming feeling when I think of the tragedy of the Holocaust," Tlaib said, "that it was my ancestors, Palestinians, who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence, in many ways, has been wiped out … in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-Holocaust, post-tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that in many ways."
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
by Ido Ben Porat
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266106
Yesterday (Tuesday), an IDF operation in collaboration with Shin Bet forces, took place in order to expose a money transfer network in the area of the "Benyamin" and "Ephraim" regional brigades in Judea and Samaria.
The operation exposed a money transfer network from the Gaza Strip to Ramallah, which operated in coordination between senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip and their Hamas operatives in Judea and Samaria. The network was operated by a civilian traveling and passport issuing agency named "Al-Haramain", owned by the Hani brothers and Firas Blbiesi, along with a money exchanger named Mohammad Swesi, who all operate from the Gaza Strip.
The exposed network operated under the guise of a civilian organization in an attempt to conceal the money's origin and destination. The money was transferred using the "Hawwalah" method, a money transfer system implemented by offsetting debts between a number of independent money changers, while using a minimal amount of cash, and hence not requiring registration in the world banking systems. The large amounts of money transferred through this method were used for organizational terror activity and for funding the salaries of Hamas operatives.
As part of the operation, IDF troops along with Shin Bet forces apprehended three suspects who are operatives of this Hamas-run infrastructure.
Ibrahim Mzfr-A Mazari' - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Khaled Mzfr A Mazari' (Ibrahim's brother) - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative.
Mohammad Abu Salim- A Rantis resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Following the money transfer from the Gaza Strip into Judea and Samaria, IDF and Shin Bet forces have strengthened enforcement measures against civilian companies cooperating with terror organizations in the area and in the Gaza Strip.
An officer in the Intelligence Directorate, Lt. Col. A, said.: "The methods used by Hamas for money transfer are familiar to us and we are operating to thwart and disrupt them in cooperation with the Shin Bet."
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to ensure the safety of Israeli civilians using all the measures available to us."
8. POLICE IDENTIFY MEN WHO SPRAYED FLUID ON JEWS NEAR NJ SYNAGOGUE
by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
Police in Teaneck, New Jersey identified three of four people suspected of a hate crime, in which they allegedly sprayed dark liquid on Jews near a synagogue.
The three suspects, who are said to have used water guns to squirt the liquid on July 12 outside the Young Israel synagogue after Friday evening prayers, are all adults, Deputy Mayor Elie Katz is quoted as saying in a report Wednesday by ABC 7 NY.
Katz wrote on Facebook that the suspects were in a silver Honda Accord, taking videos and shooting water guns at people walking out of the prayer service. They made two rounds and at least one of them shouted anti-Semitic obscenities when passersby shouted for the driver to stop.
One person got a good look at the license plate and told police, who proceeded to trace the owners and ascertain who was in the car on Friday at around 9 p.m.
Separately, an unidentified individual carved a swastika onto the chassis of a car that owned by a Jewish person in Matthews, North Carolina.
"I was sort of mad, sad, broken-hearted, and really angry that someone would damage my property like that especially with that kind of a symbol because, as a Jew, it symbolizes the murder of six million of my brothers and sisters," the owner, who did not want to be identified, told WSOCTV Wednesday.
Multiple graffiti of swastika and Holocaust denial appeared earlier this week on the pedestrian bridge of the Santa Monica neighborhood in Los Angeles.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
A7News: US politicians connect to Jerusalem's essence
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HEADLINES:
1. US POLITICIANS CONNECT TO JERUSALEM'S ESSENCE
2. REMAINS OF ANCIENT MOSQUE DISCOVERED IN NEGEV
3. TZOMET INSTITUTE APPROVES HOT WATER ON SHABBAT IN 2 RESORTS
4. 'BRAINS' BEHIND ATTACK ON MUMBAI CHABAD HOUSE ARRESTED AGAIN
5. ARUTZ SHEVA POLL: WHO SHOULD LEAD RIGHT-WING BLOC?
6. EVACUATIONS BEGIN AS MASSIVE FIRES BREAK OUT ACROSS ISRAEL
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
8. ANALYSIS: ERDOGAN CREATES A NEW CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
1. US POLITICIANS CONNECT TO JERUSALEM'S ESSENCE
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266143
The National Council of Young Israel - Chovevei Zion, in collaboration with Arutz Sheva, organized a fact-finding tour of Israel for American politicians, lawmakers, and influencers.
The fact-finding mission was attended by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who noted, "In all of the discoveries and excavations throughout Israel, not one time has an archaeological discovery controverted the Biblical record."
Describing the experience of walking the same pathways and stones tread on thousands of years ago by our ancestors, trip organizer Dr. Joe Frager of Chovevei Zion said: "It's eye-opening and incredibly energizing to be here and see what's developed."
City of David Foundation International Affairs Director Ze'ev Orenstein told Arutz Sheva: "Jerusalem is significant not just to Israel and to the Jewish People, Jerusalem is significant to the foundations of America... It has its roots here in Jerusalem and of course Biblical Jerusalem is the City of David. And therefore if somebody wants to understand the significance of Jerusalem, religiously, historically, and also politically, one has to come the the City of David; this is where it all began."
Orenstein continued: "In the face of Palestinian denial of Jerusalem's heritage; in the face of the UN denial of the Jewish heritage and Christian heritage in Jerusalem, that when you come to the City of David and you see the discoveries that are being made every single day here, you see that it's not simply a matter of faith, it's a matter of fact."
US politicians conclude Israel trip
Itzik Nissim
New York State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy summed up his conclusions from the trip, saying: "These are experiences I'm going to take with me forever... To see things that tie into our history and our culture and our faith, whether we're Jews or Christians - this has been a very meaningful experience for me and a transformational experience."
US politicians conclude Israel trip
Itzik Nissim
US politicians conclude Israel trip
Itzik Nissim
2. REMAINS OF ANCIENT MOSQUE DISCOVERED IN NEGEV
by Arutz Sheva Staff
An ancient rural mosque, one of the earliest known in the world, has been discovered in the town of Rahat in the Negev.
The remains of this rare building were discovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority during the preparations for building a new neighborhood in the town of Rahat, in collaboration with Bedouin residents and youth groups, and financed by the Authority for Development and Settlement of the Bedouins in the Negev, and the Emek Ayalon Infrastructure & Projects Management Ltd (2000).
According to Dr. Jon Seligman and Shahar Zur, directors of the excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority, "A small rural mosque, dated to the 7th to 8th centuries C.E., is a rare finding anywhere in the world, especially in the area north of Be'er Sheva, where no similar building has previously been discovered. From this period there are large known mosques in Jerusalem and in Mecca, but here we have evidence of an ancient house of prayer, which seems to have served the farmers who lived in the area. We found remains of an open-air mosque – a rectangular building with a "Mihrab" – a prayer niche – facing south, towards Mecca. These features are evidence for the purpose for which this building was used, many hundred years ago".
During the excavations, other remains were uncovered as well: a farm from the end of the Byzantine period (6th – 7th Century C.E.), and a small settlement from the beginning of the Islamic period (7th – 8th Century B.C.), which contains remains of buildings that were divided into living rooms, open courtyards, storage space and places which were used for preparing food and include "tabbuns" (open-air fire-places used for baking). According to the directors of the excavations, "these sites were part of the agricultural structure in the Northern Negev in ancient times. The soil was suitable for growing grains, and the ground water in the perennial streams attracted settlers who wanted to cultivate the land".
According to Prof. Gideon Avni, an Israel Antiquities Authority expert on this period, "this is one of the earliest mosques known from the beginning of the arrival of Islam in Israel, after the Arab conquest of 636 C.E.. The discovery of a mosque near an agricultural settlement between Be'er Sheva and Ashkelon also indicates the processes of cultural and religious change which the country underwent during the transition from the Byzantine to the early Islamic period. The discovery of the village and the mosque in its vicinity are a significant contribution to the study of the history of the country during this turbulent period. According to historical Islamic sources, the new Islamic regime distributed plots of land to its senior officials, including Amr ibn al-'As, an Arab military commander who conquered Israel and Syria. The continuation of excavations on the site will perhaps provide answers to the questions regarding the foundation of the settlement and the nearby mosque, and its connection to the Arab conquerors of Israel."
Bedouin residents of the area, as well as youth from the local villages and towns, participated in the excavation, including youth from Meitar, Gvaot Bar and Beit Kama. This was part of the Legacy Project led by the Antiquities Authority in recent years, which opens the doors for organized youth groups to help with the excavations during the summer vacation. Thus, they earn a fair wage, get into touch with the past, and gain experiences that will last a lifetime.
Currently, the Authority for Development and Settlement of the Bedouins in the Negev and the Israel Antiquities Authority are examining possible ways in which this special finding can be integrated into the new neighborhood which is about to be built in the city.
3. TZOMET INSTITUTE APPROVES HOT WATER ON SHABBAT IN 2 RESORTS
by Mordechai Sones
At the Ramot Shapira Guest House and in the Keshet Guest House in the Golan Heights, hot water can now be used on Shabbat according to Jewish law.
Tzomet Institute engineers examined the heating system and found that the electric boilers are shut down during Shabbat and holidays by an astronomical timer programmed for decades ahead. The system works with heat exchangers that separate the heated water from the incoming water.
The incoming water is heated only by the walls and pipes of the boiler, and not directly from the fire. Therefore the water entering the system has only the status of a "second vessel" that many halakhic authorities allow to be reheated on Shabbat.
Tzomet Institute head Rabbi Menachem Perl says at hotels many people accidentally open the hot water tap on Shabbat, possibly igniting a new spark and thereby desecrating the Sabbath.
"We're pleased that after checking two guest houses that approached us, we found that according to Jewish law there is no problem opening the hot water faucets. This is good news for vacationers. As a general rule, it's appropriate that the vacationing public be aware of the meaning of spending Shabbat at a holiday resort before going so as not to get into unpleasant situations," the rabbi said.
Rabbi Menachem Perel
Spokesman
4. 'BRAINS' BEHIND ATTACK ON MUMBAI CHABAD HOUSE ARRESTED AGAIN
by Michal Levi
The Pakistani authorities announced yesterday the re-arrest of Hafiz Saeed, head of the terrorist organization that carried out the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks a decade ago and the one considered the "brains" behind the attacks.
Saeed was arrested in the Punjab district, according to a source in his organization, on his way to the Pakistani city of Gujranwala, and the arrest warrant was linked to the funding of illegal activities.
Saeed was defined as a terrorist by the US and a $ 10 million prize was awarded for his capture.
Over the past few years Saeed has been arrested several times, but after legal proceedings was always released.
The last time he was released, about a year and a half ago, he expressed anger at the Indian government. On the other hand, Saeed's spokesman, Yahya Mujahed, called his release "the victory of truth."
During the Mumbai Chabad House attack nine years ago, terrorists murdered Chabad emissaries in the city Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rivka Holtzberg, Rabbi Ben Tzion Kroman, Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum, Yocheved Orpaz, and Norma Rabinowitz.
According to the Indian authorities, Saeed ran the Jama'at-al-Da'wah organization and was behind the deadly chain of attacks in Mumbai.
5. ARUTZ SHEVA POLL: WHO SHOULD LEAD RIGHT-WING BLOC?
by Ido Ben Porat
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is the best suited to lead a technical bloc of the right-wing parties in the upcoming Knesset elections, according to a poll conducted by the Dialog Institute under the supervision of Prof. Camil Fuchs for Arutz Sheva.
The poll reveals that Shaked receives 45% support among supporters of the nationalist camp who voted in the last elections for United Right, New Right or Zehut.
Former Education Minister Naftali Bennett garners 19% support, Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich 12%, while current United Right Chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz receives only 5% support.
10% of respondents said "I don't know," 7% said that someone else should head the list, and 2% said "I won't vote."
A comprehensive poll conducted by the Dialogue Institute for Arutz Sheva showed that if elections were held today, the Likud party would win 31 Knesset seats while the Blue and White party would win 28 seats.
According to the poll, which was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Camil Fuchs, the right-wing parties would be able to form a coalition of 62 seats only if Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu would join the coalition.
The Joint Arab List would receive 11 seats. Yisrael Beytenu would win eight seats, as would the Labor party under Amir Peretz and the Shas party.
The United Torah Judaism party and the Meretz party receive seven seats each. Ehud Barak's Israel Democratic Party barely crosses the electoral threshold with four seats.
The United Right and New Right parties, running separately, would also receive four seats each, while Moshe Feiglin's Zehut party would fall far below the electoral threshold and receive only one percent of the vote.
The right-wing bloc in that case would finish with 54 seats without Yisrael Beytenu, while the left-wing bloc and the Arab parties would receive a combined 58 seats, leaving neither side able to form a coalition.
The poll was conducted by Prof. Camil Fuchs and the Dialog Institute among 600 respondents who constitute a representative sample of the adult population in Israel, and has a margin of error of 4.1%.
6. EVACUATIONS BEGIN AS MASSIVE FIRES BREAK OUT ACROSS ISRAEL
by David Rosenberg
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266099
A number of major fires broke out across Israel Wednesday afternoon, forcing some evacuations and destroying a number of homes.
Five homes in the central Israeli town of Or Yehuda went up in flames after a fire broke out in the Ramat Pinhas neighborhood, forcing residents to evacuate. Firefighters have been deployed at multiple fronts around the Ramat Pinhas fire in a bid to prevent additional houses from being destroyed. Meanwhile, police have ordered residents out of the neighborhood.
In addition, residents from the town of Shavei Shomron in Samaria were also ordered to evacuate as a blaze raged out of control on the edge of town. Firefighters working to contain the blaze have been joined by police units who are overseeing the evacuation of residents.
Another fire was reported outside of the town of Aderet, near Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. Ten firefighter teams have been deployed to bring the fire under control, with air units aiding the efforts.
Firefighters have also been deployed to the Check Post Interchange near Haifa to combat a major blaze, which forced road closures in the area.
A total of 15 firefighter teams have been dispatched to the Haifa area, and are operating on three fronts.
One apartment in the Haifa area was reportedly burned in a separate fire.
Authorities say no one was home at the time, and that the fire which damaged the apartment has been contained.
Other fires were reported outside of Modi'in, in central Israel; adjacent to Route 40, near the town of Nehalim, just south of Petah Tikva; near Kfar Aviv in the Ashdod area; near Kfar Yona, east of Netanya, and near Route 444 near Sdeh Hemed and Jaljulya.
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266099
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
by Ido Ben Porat
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266106
Yesterday (Tuesday), an IDF operation in collaboration with Shin Bet forces, took place in order to expose a money transfer network in the area of the "Benyamin" and "Ephraim" regional brigades in Judea and Samaria.
The operation exposed a money transfer network from the Gaza Strip to Ramallah, which operated in coordination between senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip and their Hamas operatives in Judea and Samaria. The network was operated by a civilian traveling and passport issuing agency named "Al-Haramain", owned by the Hani brothers and Firas Blbiesi, along with a money exchanger named Mohammad Swesi, who all operate from the Gaza Strip.
The exposed network operated under the guise of a civilian organization in an attempt to conceal the money's origin and destination. The money was transferred using the "Hawwalah" method, a money transfer system implemented by offsetting debts between a number of independent money changers, while using a minimal amount of cash, and hence not requiring registration in the world banking systems. The large amounts of money transferred through this method were used for organizational terror activity and for funding the salaries of Hamas operatives.
As part of the operation, IDF troops along with Shin Bet forces apprehended three suspects who are operatives of this Hamas-run infrastructure.
Ibrahim Mzfr-A Mazari' - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Khaled Mzfr A Mazari' (Ibrahim's brother) - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative.
Mohammad Abu Salim- A Rantis resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Following the money transfer from the Gaza Strip into Judea and Samaria, IDF and Shin Bet forces have strengthened enforcement measures against civilian companies cooperating with terror organizations in the area and in the Gaza Strip.
An officer in the Intelligence Directorate, Lt. Col. A, said.: "The methods used by Hamas for money transfer are familiar to us and we are operating to thwart and disrupt them in cooperation with the Shin Bet."
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to ensure the safety of Israeli civilians using all the measures available to us."
8. ANALYSIS: ERDOGAN CREATES A NEW CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
by Yochanan Visser
Three years after the botched coup against him, Turkey's hotheaded leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan risks a major confrontation with the West over his policies in the Middle East.
The crisis in the relationship between Turkey and the West began after Erdogan accused the CIA of being behind the botched coup which some observers think was a false flag operation to give the autocratic leader more executive powers.
In the aftermath of the botched coup Erdogan decided to seal-off the Incirlik airbase which was used by NATO warplanes in the battle against ISIS and where the US army has stored tactical nuclear weapons.
Erdogan later demanded the US extradite the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and who Erdogan claimed had been orchestrating the failed coup.
At about the same time, Erdogan demanded the US army in Syria end its cooperation with the Kurdish dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which controls roughly one-third of Syrian territory along the Turkish border.
The US didn't give in, however, and Erdogan then decided to improve relations with Russia after solving a crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the downing of a Russian warplane by the Turkish army.
The Turkish leader later decided to purchase the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile defense shield, a move which set him on a crash course with NATO of which Turkey is a prominent member.
As a result of the purchase of the S-400 system by its ally Turkey, the Trump Administration decided to scuttle the delivery of the Lockheed F-35 stealth fighter plane but hasn't decided yet to apply the so-called Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) on Turkey.
During the recent G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Erdogan met with US President Donald J. Trump to discuss the looming crisis over the delivery of the S-400 missile shield.
The Turkish delegation reportedly pointed out to Trump that the deal with Russia was closed before Aug. 2, 2017, the day Trump signed the CAATSA legislation.
Trump seemed to show some understanding of Erdogan's position on the S-400 when he blamed the Obama administration for not selling the Patriot missile system to Turkey, but nevertheless announced he would cancel the delivery of the F-35's.
The stealth jet is considered the most advanced warplane in the world, while the S-400 system is designed to counter the threat posed by the F-35.
On July 12, Turkey received the first batch of S-400 components when three Antonov An-124 cargo planes of the Russian air force landed at the Murted Air Base in Ankara.
The first S-400 batteries will become operable in November this year and Russian military officials will train their Turkish counterparts in operating the system.
The training will allow the Russians to collect crucial intelligence on NATO's operational systems and could cost Turkey its membership in the treaty organization.
Erdogan, meanwhile, has apparently come to the conclusion that he must stave off a confrontation with Trump over the deal and is using his special relationship with the President to prevent sanctions which could exacerbate Turkey's economic crisis.
At the same time, the Turkish tyrant seems to threaten destabilizing the Middle East even further by belligerent moves in Syria, Iraq, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea where Turkey started drilling for gas near occupied Northern Cyprus.
According to media reports Turkey is amassing troops and heavy weaponry along the border with Syria in the eastern part of the war-torn country.
Turkish state-controlled media reported this week that the "huge deployment" is a preparation for an offensive in the area east of the Euphrates River, now controlled by the SDF and US Special Forces.
In Iraq, meanwhile, Turkey used for the first time a ballistic missile to attack a position of the outlawed Kurdish PKK militia while a report by the Anti-War blog revealed that Turkish soldiers are in northern Iraq to carry out missions against the PKK.
Then there is Libya, where a new offensive by the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar is causing a major escalation of the civil war.
Turkey has recently decided to intervene in the war on behalf of Islamist militias controlling Tripoli and which are part of the Muslim Brotherhood bloc led by Erdogan.
The Turks have delivered armored vehicles to the Libyan Islamist militias and have military advisers on the ground.
The showdown between Turkey and the LNA has recently becoming more direct after Haftar's forces arrested six Turks and shot down a Turkish drone which was on its way to attack the LNA near Mitiga International Airport in the vicinity of Tripoli.
The US initially backed the army of the officially UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), but after a phone call between Haftar and Trump seemed to have changed course.
A White House statement after the phone call on April 15 said that Trump "recognized Field Marshal Haftar's significant role in fighting terrorism and securing Libya's oil resources."
The statement contradicted criticism issued by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who a few days prior to Trump's conversation with Haftar, demanded an immediate end to the LNA offensive against the GNA and the militias in Tripoli.
"We're going to stand tall, not to be stubborn," Erdogan said about the looming confrontation with his NATO partners on July 15 when Turkey commemorated the botched coup in 2016.
Turkish political commentators think the controversial leader is willfully creating a new crisis with the West in order to consolidate his rule after the opposition won a re-run of the municipal election in Istanbul.
"The only way for Erdogan to survive is to convince Turkey's citizens, including Kurds and other minorities that the only options in front of them are 'Tayyip or we burn the country'," the Washington-based Turkish journalist Ilhan Tanir wrote in his commentary on the new crisis.
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HEADLINES:
1. US POLITICIANS CONNECT TO JERUSALEM'S ESSENCE
2. REMAINS OF ANCIENT MOSQUE DISCOVERED IN NEGEV
3. TZOMET INSTITUTE APPROVES HOT WATER ON SHABBAT IN 2 RESORTS
4. 'BRAINS' BEHIND ATTACK ON MUMBAI CHABAD HOUSE ARRESTED AGAIN
5. ARUTZ SHEVA POLL: WHO SHOULD LEAD RIGHT-WING BLOC?
6. EVACUATIONS BEGIN AS MASSIVE FIRES BREAK OUT ACROSS ISRAEL
7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
8. ANALYSIS: ERDOGAN CREATES A NEW CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
1. US POLITICIANS CONNECT TO JERUSALEM'S ESSENCE
by Yoni Kempinski
📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266143
The National Council of Young Israel - Chovevei Zion, in collaboration with Arutz Sheva, organized a fact-finding tour of Israel for American politicians, lawmakers, and influencers.
The fact-finding mission was attended by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who noted, "In all of the discoveries and excavations throughout Israel, not one time has an archaeological discovery controverted the Biblical record."
Describing the experience of walking the same pathways and stones tread on thousands of years ago by our ancestors, trip organizer Dr. Joe Frager of Chovevei Zion said: "It's eye-opening and incredibly energizing to be here and see what's developed."
City of David Foundation International Affairs Director Ze'ev Orenstein told Arutz Sheva: "Jerusalem is significant not just to Israel and to the Jewish People, Jerusalem is significant to the foundations of America... It has its roots here in Jerusalem and of course Biblical Jerusalem is the City of David. And therefore if somebody wants to understand the significance of Jerusalem, religiously, historically, and also politically, one has to come the the City of David; this is where it all began."
Orenstein continued: "In the face of Palestinian denial of Jerusalem's heritage; in the face of the UN denial of the Jewish heritage and Christian heritage in Jerusalem, that when you come to the City of David and you see the discoveries that are being made every single day here, you see that it's not simply a matter of faith, it's a matter of fact."
US politicians conclude Israel trip
Itzik Nissim
New York State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy summed up his conclusions from the trip, saying: "These are experiences I'm going to take with me forever... To see things that tie into our history and our culture and our faith, whether we're Jews or Christians - this has been a very meaningful experience for me and a transformational experience."
US politicians conclude Israel trip
Itzik Nissim
US politicians conclude Israel trip
Itzik Nissim
2. REMAINS OF ANCIENT MOSQUE DISCOVERED IN NEGEV
by Arutz Sheva Staff
An ancient rural mosque, one of the earliest known in the world, has been discovered in the town of Rahat in the Negev.
The remains of this rare building were discovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority during the preparations for building a new neighborhood in the town of Rahat, in collaboration with Bedouin residents and youth groups, and financed by the Authority for Development and Settlement of the Bedouins in the Negev, and the Emek Ayalon Infrastructure & Projects Management Ltd (2000).
According to Dr. Jon Seligman and Shahar Zur, directors of the excavations for the Israel Antiquities Authority, "A small rural mosque, dated to the 7th to 8th centuries C.E., is a rare finding anywhere in the world, especially in the area north of Be'er Sheva, where no similar building has previously been discovered. From this period there are large known mosques in Jerusalem and in Mecca, but here we have evidence of an ancient house of prayer, which seems to have served the farmers who lived in the area. We found remains of an open-air mosque – a rectangular building with a "Mihrab" – a prayer niche – facing south, towards Mecca. These features are evidence for the purpose for which this building was used, many hundred years ago".
During the excavations, other remains were uncovered as well: a farm from the end of the Byzantine period (6th – 7th Century C.E.), and a small settlement from the beginning of the Islamic period (7th – 8th Century B.C.), which contains remains of buildings that were divided into living rooms, open courtyards, storage space and places which were used for preparing food and include "tabbuns" (open-air fire-places used for baking). According to the directors of the excavations, "these sites were part of the agricultural structure in the Northern Negev in ancient times. The soil was suitable for growing grains, and the ground water in the perennial streams attracted settlers who wanted to cultivate the land".
According to Prof. Gideon Avni, an Israel Antiquities Authority expert on this period, "this is one of the earliest mosques known from the beginning of the arrival of Islam in Israel, after the Arab conquest of 636 C.E.. The discovery of a mosque near an agricultural settlement between Be'er Sheva and Ashkelon also indicates the processes of cultural and religious change which the country underwent during the transition from the Byzantine to the early Islamic period. The discovery of the village and the mosque in its vicinity are a significant contribution to the study of the history of the country during this turbulent period. According to historical Islamic sources, the new Islamic regime distributed plots of land to its senior officials, including Amr ibn al-'As, an Arab military commander who conquered Israel and Syria. The continuation of excavations on the site will perhaps provide answers to the questions regarding the foundation of the settlement and the nearby mosque, and its connection to the Arab conquerors of Israel."
Bedouin residents of the area, as well as youth from the local villages and towns, participated in the excavation, including youth from Meitar, Gvaot Bar and Beit Kama. This was part of the Legacy Project led by the Antiquities Authority in recent years, which opens the doors for organized youth groups to help with the excavations during the summer vacation. Thus, they earn a fair wage, get into touch with the past, and gain experiences that will last a lifetime.
Currently, the Authority for Development and Settlement of the Bedouins in the Negev and the Israel Antiquities Authority are examining possible ways in which this special finding can be integrated into the new neighborhood which is about to be built in the city.
3. TZOMET INSTITUTE APPROVES HOT WATER ON SHABBAT IN 2 RESORTS
by Mordechai Sones
At the Ramot Shapira Guest House and in the Keshet Guest House in the Golan Heights, hot water can now be used on Shabbat according to Jewish law.
Tzomet Institute engineers examined the heating system and found that the electric boilers are shut down during Shabbat and holidays by an astronomical timer programmed for decades ahead. The system works with heat exchangers that separate the heated water from the incoming water.
The incoming water is heated only by the walls and pipes of the boiler, and not directly from the fire. Therefore the water entering the system has only the status of a "second vessel" that many halakhic authorities allow to be reheated on Shabbat.
Tzomet Institute head Rabbi Menachem Perl says at hotels many people accidentally open the hot water tap on Shabbat, possibly igniting a new spark and thereby desecrating the Sabbath.
"We're pleased that after checking two guest houses that approached us, we found that according to Jewish law there is no problem opening the hot water faucets. This is good news for vacationers. As a general rule, it's appropriate that the vacationing public be aware of the meaning of spending Shabbat at a holiday resort before going so as not to get into unpleasant situations," the rabbi said.
Rabbi Menachem Perel
Spokesman
4. 'BRAINS' BEHIND ATTACK ON MUMBAI CHABAD HOUSE ARRESTED AGAIN
by Michal Levi
The Pakistani authorities announced yesterday the re-arrest of Hafiz Saeed, head of the terrorist organization that carried out the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks a decade ago and the one considered the "brains" behind the attacks.
Saeed was arrested in the Punjab district, according to a source in his organization, on his way to the Pakistani city of Gujranwala, and the arrest warrant was linked to the funding of illegal activities.
Saeed was defined as a terrorist by the US and a $ 10 million prize was awarded for his capture.
Over the past few years Saeed has been arrested several times, but after legal proceedings was always released.
The last time he was released, about a year and a half ago, he expressed anger at the Indian government. On the other hand, Saeed's spokesman, Yahya Mujahed, called his release "the victory of truth."
During the Mumbai Chabad House attack nine years ago, terrorists murdered Chabad emissaries in the city Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rivka Holtzberg, Rabbi Ben Tzion Kroman, Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum, Yocheved Orpaz, and Norma Rabinowitz.
According to the Indian authorities, Saeed ran the Jama'at-al-Da'wah organization and was behind the deadly chain of attacks in Mumbai.
5. ARUTZ SHEVA POLL: WHO SHOULD LEAD RIGHT-WING BLOC?
by Ido Ben Porat
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is the best suited to lead a technical bloc of the right-wing parties in the upcoming Knesset elections, according to a poll conducted by the Dialog Institute under the supervision of Prof. Camil Fuchs for Arutz Sheva.
The poll reveals that Shaked receives 45% support among supporters of the nationalist camp who voted in the last elections for United Right, New Right or Zehut.
Former Education Minister Naftali Bennett garners 19% support, Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich 12%, while current United Right Chairman Rabbi Rafi Peretz receives only 5% support.
10% of respondents said "I don't know," 7% said that someone else should head the list, and 2% said "I won't vote."
A comprehensive poll conducted by the Dialogue Institute for Arutz Sheva showed that if elections were held today, the Likud party would win 31 Knesset seats while the Blue and White party would win 28 seats.
According to the poll, which was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Camil Fuchs, the right-wing parties would be able to form a coalition of 62 seats only if Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu would join the coalition.
The Joint Arab List would receive 11 seats. Yisrael Beytenu would win eight seats, as would the Labor party under Amir Peretz and the Shas party.
The United Torah Judaism party and the Meretz party receive seven seats each. Ehud Barak's Israel Democratic Party barely crosses the electoral threshold with four seats.
The United Right and New Right parties, running separately, would also receive four seats each, while Moshe Feiglin's Zehut party would fall far below the electoral threshold and receive only one percent of the vote.
The right-wing bloc in that case would finish with 54 seats without Yisrael Beytenu, while the left-wing bloc and the Arab parties would receive a combined 58 seats, leaving neither side able to form a coalition.
The poll was conducted by Prof. Camil Fuchs and the Dialog Institute among 600 respondents who constitute a representative sample of the adult population in Israel, and has a margin of error of 4.1%.
6. EVACUATIONS BEGIN AS MASSIVE FIRES BREAK OUT ACROSS ISRAEL
by David Rosenberg
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A number of major fires broke out across Israel Wednesday afternoon, forcing some evacuations and destroying a number of homes.
Five homes in the central Israeli town of Or Yehuda went up in flames after a fire broke out in the Ramat Pinhas neighborhood, forcing residents to evacuate. Firefighters have been deployed at multiple fronts around the Ramat Pinhas fire in a bid to prevent additional houses from being destroyed. Meanwhile, police have ordered residents out of the neighborhood.
In addition, residents from the town of Shavei Shomron in Samaria were also ordered to evacuate as a blaze raged out of control on the edge of town. Firefighters working to contain the blaze have been joined by police units who are overseeing the evacuation of residents.
Another fire was reported outside of the town of Aderet, near Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. Ten firefighter teams have been deployed to bring the fire under control, with air units aiding the efforts.
Firefighters have also been deployed to the Check Post Interchange near Haifa to combat a major blaze, which forced road closures in the area.
A total of 15 firefighter teams have been dispatched to the Haifa area, and are operating on three fronts.
One apartment in the Haifa area was reportedly burned in a separate fire.
Authorities say no one was home at the time, and that the fire which damaged the apartment has been contained.
Other fires were reported outside of Modi'in, in central Israel; adjacent to Route 40, near the town of Nehalim, just south of Petah Tikva; near Kfar Aviv in the Ashdod area; near Kfar Yona, east of Netanya, and near Route 444 near Sdeh Hemed and Jaljulya.
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7. METHOD FOR TRANSFER OF TERROR FUNDS REVEALED
by Ido Ben Porat
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Yesterday (Tuesday), an IDF operation in collaboration with Shin Bet forces, took place in order to expose a money transfer network in the area of the "Benyamin" and "Ephraim" regional brigades in Judea and Samaria.
The operation exposed a money transfer network from the Gaza Strip to Ramallah, which operated in coordination between senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip and their Hamas operatives in Judea and Samaria. The network was operated by a civilian traveling and passport issuing agency named "Al-Haramain", owned by the Hani brothers and Firas Blbiesi, along with a money exchanger named Mohammad Swesi, who all operate from the Gaza Strip.
The exposed network operated under the guise of a civilian organization in an attempt to conceal the money's origin and destination. The money was transferred using the "Hawwalah" method, a money transfer system implemented by offsetting debts between a number of independent money changers, while using a minimal amount of cash, and hence not requiring registration in the world banking systems. The large amounts of money transferred through this method were used for organizational terror activity and for funding the salaries of Hamas operatives.
As part of the operation, IDF troops along with Shin Bet forces apprehended three suspects who are operatives of this Hamas-run infrastructure.
Ibrahim Mzfr-A Mazari' - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Khaled Mzfr A Mazari' (Ibrahim's brother) - Al-Nubani resident, a Hamas operative.
Mohammad Abu Salim- A Rantis resident, a Hamas operative and a former prisoner.
Following the money transfer from the Gaza Strip into Judea and Samaria, IDF and Shin Bet forces have strengthened enforcement measures against civilian companies cooperating with terror organizations in the area and in the Gaza Strip.
An officer in the Intelligence Directorate, Lt. Col. A, said.: "The methods used by Hamas for money transfer are familiar to us and we are operating to thwart and disrupt them in cooperation with the Shin Bet."
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to ensure the safety of Israeli civilians using all the measures available to us."
8. ANALYSIS: ERDOGAN CREATES A NEW CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
by Yochanan Visser
Three years after the botched coup against him, Turkey's hotheaded leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan risks a major confrontation with the West over his policies in the Middle East.
The crisis in the relationship between Turkey and the West began after Erdogan accused the CIA of being behind the botched coup which some observers think was a false flag operation to give the autocratic leader more executive powers.
In the aftermath of the botched coup Erdogan decided to seal-off the Incirlik airbase which was used by NATO warplanes in the battle against ISIS and where the US army has stored tactical nuclear weapons.
Erdogan later demanded the US extradite the Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and who Erdogan claimed had been orchestrating the failed coup.
At about the same time, Erdogan demanded the US army in Syria end its cooperation with the Kurdish dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which controls roughly one-third of Syrian territory along the Turkish border.
The US didn't give in, however, and Erdogan then decided to improve relations with Russia after solving a crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the downing of a Russian warplane by the Turkish army.
The Turkish leader later decided to purchase the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile defense shield, a move which set him on a crash course with NATO of which Turkey is a prominent member.
As a result of the purchase of the S-400 system by its ally Turkey, the Trump Administration decided to scuttle the delivery of the Lockheed F-35 stealth fighter plane but hasn't decided yet to apply the so-called Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) on Turkey.
During the recent G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Erdogan met with US President Donald J. Trump to discuss the looming crisis over the delivery of the S-400 missile shield.
The Turkish delegation reportedly pointed out to Trump that the deal with Russia was closed before Aug. 2, 2017, the day Trump signed the CAATSA legislation.
Trump seemed to show some understanding of Erdogan's position on the S-400 when he blamed the Obama administration for not selling the Patriot missile system to Turkey, but nevertheless announced he would cancel the delivery of the F-35's.
The stealth jet is considered the most advanced warplane in the world, while the S-400 system is designed to counter the threat posed by the F-35.
On July 12, Turkey received the first batch of S-400 components when three Antonov An-124 cargo planes of the Russian air force landed at the Murted Air Base in Ankara.
The first S-400 batteries will become operable in November this year and Russian military officials will train their Turkish counterparts in operating the system.
The training will allow the Russians to collect crucial intelligence on NATO's operational systems and could cost Turkey its membership in the treaty organization.
Erdogan, meanwhile, has apparently come to the conclusion that he must stave off a confrontation with Trump over the deal and is using his special relationship with the President to prevent sanctions which could exacerbate Turkey's economic crisis.
At the same time, the Turkish tyrant seems to threaten destabilizing the Middle East even further by belligerent moves in Syria, Iraq, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea where Turkey started drilling for gas near occupied Northern Cyprus.
According to media reports Turkey is amassing troops and heavy weaponry along the border with Syria in the eastern part of the war-torn country.
Turkish state-controlled media reported this week that the "huge deployment" is a preparation for an offensive in the area east of the Euphrates River, now controlled by the SDF and US Special Forces.
In Iraq, meanwhile, Turkey used for the first time a ballistic missile to attack a position of the outlawed Kurdish PKK militia while a report by the Anti-War blog revealed that Turkish soldiers are in northern Iraq to carry out missions against the PKK.
Then there is Libya, where a new offensive by the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar is causing a major escalation of the civil war.
Turkey has recently decided to intervene in the war on behalf of Islamist militias controlling Tripoli and which are part of the Muslim Brotherhood bloc led by Erdogan.
The Turks have delivered armored vehicles to the Libyan Islamist militias and have military advisers on the ground.
The showdown between Turkey and the LNA has recently becoming more direct after Haftar's forces arrested six Turks and shot down a Turkish drone which was on its way to attack the LNA near Mitiga International Airport in the vicinity of Tripoli.
The US initially backed the army of the officially UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), but after a phone call between Haftar and Trump seemed to have changed course.
A White House statement after the phone call on April 15 said that Trump "recognized Field Marshal Haftar's significant role in fighting terrorism and securing Libya's oil resources."
The statement contradicted criticism issued by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who a few days prior to Trump's conversation with Haftar, demanded an immediate end to the LNA offensive against the GNA and the militias in Tripoli.
"We're going to stand tall, not to be stubborn," Erdogan said about the looming confrontation with his NATO partners on July 15 when Turkey commemorated the botched coup in 2016.
Turkish political commentators think the controversial leader is willfully creating a new crisis with the West in order to consolidate his rule after the opposition won a re-run of the municipal election in Istanbul.
"The only way for Erdogan to survive is to convince Turkey's citizens, including Kurds and other minorities that the only options in front of them are 'Tayyip or we burn the country'," the Washington-based Turkish journalist Ilhan Tanir wrote in his commentary on the new crisis.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
A7News: 'They're trying to silence the rabbis'
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HEADLINES:
1. 'THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE THE RABBIS'
2. SUMMER CAMP OUTING TURNS DEADLY AT PARK IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL
3. JEREMY CORBYN CALLS EMERGENCY MEETING OVER LABOUR ANTI-SEMITISM
4. CAN TREES PROTECT ISRAELI TOWNS FROM TERRORISM?
5. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING TRUMP TWEETS AS 'RACIST'
6. ARCHEOLOGICAL "MEGASITE" FOUND NEAR JERUSALEM
7. TRUMP: RADICAL DEMOCRATS ARE ISRAELI-HATING ANTI-SEMITES
8. ISRAEL IDENTIFIES HEZBOLLAH PRECISION MISSILE PROJECT COMMANDER
1. 'THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE THE RABBIS'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar on Tuesday expressed support for Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz.
At a Torah scroll dedication ceremony, Rabbi Amar said: "Today we're facing difficult challenges. There are things which are inconceivable, various behaviors which people would have been embarrassed even to think about, and today they're trying to make it into pride. If the Education Minister made a statement, now, everyone is criticizing him - seriously, he said what's written in the Torah."
"People want to shut the rabbis' mouths. They want to make people keep quiet. Anyone who says what the Torah says is a criminal, a betrayer, he needs to be thrown out. It's not just that they're not embarrassed. I'm sure that the day will come when they will regret and be embarrassed of everything they said and did.
"Gentlemen, there are things that are forbidden, that we don't do, but they say that some people have a desire for it and they want it. It's all nonsense. Rabbi Rafi Peretz is Education Minister but he was the IDF Chief Rabbi. They're trying now to close the rabbis' mouths. We will not give in. They want to fire us for it - we're willing to be fired, whatever you want."
On Saturday evening, Rabbi Peretz told a Channel 12 interviewer that he believes homosexuals can change. On Sunday, he clarified his remarks, emphasizing that he does not believe it is necessary to send homosexuals for conversion therapy.
2. SUMMER CAMP OUTING TURNS DEADLY AT PARK IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A 10-year-old boy from southern Israel was killed Wednesday morning while attending a summer camp.
The incident occurred at a park near the city of Kiryat Gat, when a large tree branch collapsed, onto a park bench crushing a 10-year-old Bedouin boy.
MDA emergency first responders were called to the scene and attempted to treat the child, but were ultimately forced to declare him dead at the scene.
The circumstances surrounding the incident and the tree's sudden collapse remain unclear, and local police have opened an investigation into the child's death.
"When we got there, we saw a huge tree branch which had fallen on a park bench where a 10-year-old boy was sitting," said MDA senior paramedic Ronen Shunam and paramedic Yisrael Ben Yehuda.
"The boy was unconscious, had no heartbeat, and was not breathing. He had a serious head injury. We performed a number of medical checks. His condition was critical, and within a short time we declared his death."
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3. JEREMY CORBYN CALLS EMERGENCY MEETING OVER LABOUR ANTI-SEMITISM
by David Rosenberg
The chairman of the UK's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has called an emergency meeting of his shadow cabinet, amid an ongoing crisis over anti-Semitism within the party.
According to a report by The Jewish Chronicle, Corbyn has scheduled the meeting for this coming Monday, as public criticism over the party's handling of anti-Semitism among Labour members grows.
The meeting Monday marks the first time Corbyn has agreed to hold a meeting with senior party members aimed at confronting the problem of anti-Semitism within the party.
Corbyn has faced pressure not only from outside of the party, but also from within Labour's own ranks, to take action against anti-Jewish members.
"We have got racists in the party," said Parliamentary Labour Party chairman John Cryer said, "and they are not being dealt with."
The decision to hold the meeting came after the BBC aired an expose on anti-Semitism in the Labour party which alleged that Corbyn had routinely blocked internal party probes into anti-Semitic incidents or claims against party members.
While Corbyn rejected the documentary, saying it had "many, many inaccuracies," a number of Labour MPs felt compelled to confront questions raised by the documentary.
"I don't want to just blame Corbyn - I want to blame all of the leadership team," one MP told The Jewish Chronicle on condition of anonymity. "They are a shambles taking us from one crisis to the next."
4. CAN TREES PROTECT ISRAELI TOWNS FROM TERRORISM?
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Israel will plant trees near homes located in towns on the Israel-Gaza border, in order to protect the homes from incoming anti-tank missiles fired from Gaza, Channel 13 reported Tuesday night.
According to the report, senior Gaza Division officials, including a commander in the Southern Brigade, toured the Gaza border area and mapped out the towns which are under threat from Gazan anti-tank missiles and how to protect them.
The move is part of the Gaza Division's decision to reorganize the area's defense system following the death of Moshe Feder, who was killed by a missile earlier this year.
Last week, another terror tunnel = the eighteenth in the area - was discovered in southern Israel as the IDF built an underground fence to protect Israel. IDF soldiers are investigating the tunnel, its depth, where it led from and where it led to.
They are also investigating whether the tunnel is new, or whether it is an undiscovered tunnel from Operation Protective Edge.
5. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING TRUMP TWEETS AS 'RACIST'
by Ben Ariel
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to formally admonish President Donald Trump, approving a resolution condemning as "racist" his tweets targeting four minority congresswomen, The Hill reports.
The resolution was approved by a majority of 240-187, with four Republicans breaking with party ranks to join every voting Democrat.
Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI), who recently left the GOP over differences with Trump, also backed the resolution.
The measure "strongly condemns President Donald Trump's racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color by saying that our fellow Americans who are immigrants, and those who may look to the President like immigrants, should 'go back' to other countries," and vows for the United States to remain open to those " lawfully seeking refuge and asylum from violence and oppression, and those who are willing to work hard to live the American Dream, no matter their race, ethnicity, faith, or country of origin."
It also states that "immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger and that those who take the oath of citizenship are every bit as American as those whose families have lived in the United States for many generations."
The president has faced criticism for a series of tweets directed at four congresswomen on Sunday in which he called for them to "go back" to the countries that they came from and criticizing the Democratic party for condoning their "disgraceful behavior".
While Trump's tweets did not mention the four by name, it is widely believed that he was targeting Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ayanna Pressley (MA).
Three of the four congresswomen were born in the United States. Omar was born in Somalia.
On Monday, Trump reiterated his criticism, calling on the congresswomen to apologize to the US, to Israel, and to the "office of the presidency."
He once again criticized the four on Tuesday, writing, "The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public shouting of the F...word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn't the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!"
Tuesday's resolution was led by freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who is white but was born in Poland. He argued it was a necessary step to push back against racist rhetoric from the White House.
"Even if we may disagree on the details of immigration or border policy, racism is wrong, it is un-American," Malinowski told The Hill.
"It's not who we are. It is playing with fire because the words that the president used are heard by people with disturbed minds who do terrible things, violent things, and a line needs to be drawn. So that's what we hope to do."
On Monday, the four congresswomen held a press conference in which they blasted Trump for his rhetoric. Omar went so far as to call for the impeachment of the President.
"I have not made impeachment central to my election or my tenure. But since the day that I've gotten elected, I've said to people, it is not — if he will be impeached, but when. So it is time for us to stop allowing this President to make a mockery out of our Constitution. It is time for us to impeach this President," she said.
Of the four congresswomen in question, three have a history of making anti-Israel statements.
Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire after saying the United States operated "concentration camps" on its southern border, she previously said that cutting military and economic aid to Israel as a way to signal opposition to Israeli policies should be "on the table."
Omar was criticized after she suggested on Twitter that Republicans were attacking her at the behest of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She subsequently issued a half-hearted apology before ultimately deleting the controversial tweets.
Tlaib claimed in an interview in May that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel "provided" a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.
She has also backed BDS and, when asked in a past television interview whether she would vote against military aid to Israel when she goes to Congress, replied "absolutely."
6. ARCHEOLOGICAL "MEGASITE" FOUND NEAR JERUSALEM
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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A huge ancient settlement, one of the largest of its kind in the region, has been discovered during archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Motza Junction.
The project which uncovered the site was initiated and financed by the Netivei Israel Company (the National Transport Infrastructure company). The excavations are being conducted as part of the Highway 16 Project which includes building a new entrance road to Jerusalem from the west, connecting the National Highway 1 from the Motza area to the southern part of Jerusalem ("Bayit VeGan" area), including two double tunnels.
Amongst others, thousands of arrowheads, pieces of jewelry and figurines produced by the people of the site have been unearthed during the excavations.
The Motza excavation site is situated 5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, on the banks of the Sorek Stream, near water fountains and close to a fertile valley and to the ancient way that led from the Shefela (foothills) region to Jerusalem.
According to Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily and Dr. Jacob Vardi, excavation directors at Motza on behalf of the Antiquities Authority, "this is the first time that such a large-scale settlement is discovered in Israel. At least 2,000 – 3,000 residents lived here – an order of magnitude that parallels a present-day city!"
The excavations exposed large buildings, including rooms that were used for living, as well as public facilities and places of ritual. Between the buildings, alleys were exposed, bearing evidence of the settlement's advanced level of planning. In the buildings, plaster was sometimes used for creating floors and for sealing various facilities.
According to the researchers, "In a place where people live, there are dead people as well: Burial places have been exposed in and amongst the houses, into which various burial offerings have been placed – either useful or precious objects, believed to serve the deceased in the next world.
These gifts testify to the fact that already during this ancient period, the residents of this site conducted exchange relationships with faraway places. Amongst others, unique stone-made objects were found in the tombs, made of an unknown type of stone, as well as items made of obsidian (volcanic glass) from Anatolia, and sea-shells, some of which were brought from the Mediterranean Sea and some from the Red Sea. During the excavations, artistic hand-made stone bracelets in several styles were found.
"Due to the size of the bracelets, we estimate that they were mainly worn by children", the researchers say. "We also found carefully crafted alabaster beads, as well as medallions and bracelets made of mother of pearl".
In all excavation areas, many flint tools manufactured on the site were unearthed, including thousands of arrowheads that were used for hunting, and possibly for fighting as well, axes used for tree-felling, and sickle blades and knives.
In the settlement, built storage sheds were exposed, which contained a huge quantity of legumes, especially lentils. The fact that the seeds were preserved is astonishing in the light of the site's age. This finding is evidence of an intensive practice of agriculture. Moreover, one can conclude form it that the Neolithic Revolution reached its summit at that point: animal bones found on the site show that the settlement's residents became increasingly specialized in sheep-keeping, while the use of hunting for survival gradually decreased.
According to researchers, "the exposure of the enormous site in Motza awakens extensive interest in the scientific world, changing what has been known about the Neolithic period in that area.
So far, it was believed that the Judea area was empty, and that sites of that size existed only on the other bank of the Jordan River, or at the Northern Levant. Instead of an uninhabited area from that period, we have found a complex site, where varied economic means of subsistence existed, and all this only several dozens of centimeters below the surface. All findings were recorded using an innovative three-dimensional technology, so that we can continue to research the site at the end of the excavation as well."
According to engineer Gilad Naor, Head of Projects Department at the Netivei Israel Company, "It is a huge privilege for us, as the Israel National Transport Infrastructure Company – Netivei Israel – that tomorrow's transportation infrastructure projects facilitate such special discoveries in the splendid history of our country".
According to Amit Re'em, Jerusalem District Archeologist of the Israel Antiquities Authority, along with the excitement and importance of the finds, the IAA is aware of the vital need to create an additional access road to Jerusalem.
In preparation for the release of the excavated area, the entire site was documented using advanced 3D technology that will enable research of every detail digitally. It is important to know that significant percentages of the prehistoric site around the excavation are preserved. In addition, the IAA plans to tell the story of the site at the site by means of a display and illustration. At Tel Moza, adjacent to this excavation, archaeological remains are being preserved for the public at large, and conservation and accessibility activities are being carried out in Tel Bet Shemesh and Tel Yarmut.
7. TRUMP: RADICAL DEMOCRATS ARE ISRAELI-HATING ANTI-SEMITES
by David Rosenberg
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President Donald Trump excoriated several unnamed Democratic lawmakers on Monday, calling on them to apologize to the US, to Israel, and to the "office of the presidency".
"When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said," Trump tweeted. "So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!"
"If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S."
Later on Monday, Trump tweeted a quote from South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, blasting the unnamed "radical Left Congresswomen" as "anti-Semitic," and "anti-America".
"We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country, they're calling the guards along our Border (the Border Patrol Agents) Concentration Camp Guards, they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamin's. they are Anti-Semitic, they are Anti-America, we don't need to know anything about them personally, talk about their policies. I think they are American citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting, that the American people will reject."
"What does it mean for America to have free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants, no criminalization of coming into our Country - See how that works for controlling Immigration! They talk about Israel like they're a bunch of thugs, not victims of the entire region. They wanted to impeach President Trump on DAY ONE. Make them the face of the future of the Democrat Party, you will destroy the Democrat Party. Their policies will destroy our Country!" @LindseyGrahamSC Need I say more?"
The tweets were the latest in a series of social media comments targeting a group of unnamed Democratic congresswoman, likely referring to Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts).
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's son, Yair, praised Trump for the comment, calling him the "best friend" the Jewish people have had in a president.
"Thank you so much! You are the best friend the Jewish people ever had in the White House!"
On Monday, the president ripped the group of unnamed Democratic congresswomen and blasted the Democratic party establishment for 'condoning' the "disgraceful behavior".
"So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion. Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, 'RACIST.' Their disgusting language and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!"
Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire after saying the United States operated "concentration camps" on its southern border, she previously said that cutting military and economic aid to Israel as a way to signal opposition to Israeli policies should be "on the table."
Omar was criticized after she suggested on Twitter that Republicans were attacking her at the behest of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She subsequently issued a half-hearted apology before ultimately deleting the controversial tweets.
Tlaib claimed in an interview in May that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel "provided" a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.
She has also backed BDS and, when asked in a past television interview whether she would vote against military aid to Israel when she goes to Congress, replied "absolutely."
The tensions within the party escalated after Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post that she felt Pelosi was targeting women of color, though the New York Democrat said she doesn't believe the Speaker is racist.
8. ISRAEL IDENTIFIES HEZBOLLAH PRECISION MISSILE PROJECT COMMANDER
by Mordechai Sones
I24 News has identified the Iranian Revolutionary Guards engineer commanding Hezbollah's precision missile project in Lebanon as Majed Naveed.
Naveed is in charge of three Beirut sites and two others in southern Lebanon and the Beka'a Valley where engineers are working to convert Hezbollah surface-to-surface missiles into precision-guided missiles, i24NEWS revealed today.
According to the report, the IRGC Air Force engineer is also in frequent contact with a Yemen counterpart. Yemen has become a proving ground for Hezbollah and Iranian missiles fired by Huthi rebels at Saudi Arabia.
Israel estimates that Iran-backed Hezbollah possesses some 100,000 to 150,000 rockets, and has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of airstrikes targeting weapons stores and convoys destined for the Lebanese terror group in Syria, where it fights alongside Israel's arch-foe and Shiite powerhouse Iran in support of the Damascus regime.
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1. 'THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE THE RABBIS'
2. SUMMER CAMP OUTING TURNS DEADLY AT PARK IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL
3. JEREMY CORBYN CALLS EMERGENCY MEETING OVER LABOUR ANTI-SEMITISM
4. CAN TREES PROTECT ISRAELI TOWNS FROM TERRORISM?
5. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING TRUMP TWEETS AS 'RACIST'
6. ARCHEOLOGICAL "MEGASITE" FOUND NEAR JERUSALEM
7. TRUMP: RADICAL DEMOCRATS ARE ISRAELI-HATING ANTI-SEMITES
8. ISRAEL IDENTIFIES HEZBOLLAH PRECISION MISSILE PROJECT COMMANDER
1. 'THEY'RE TRYING TO SILENCE THE RABBIS'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Jerusalem's Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar on Tuesday expressed support for Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz.
At a Torah scroll dedication ceremony, Rabbi Amar said: "Today we're facing difficult challenges. There are things which are inconceivable, various behaviors which people would have been embarrassed even to think about, and today they're trying to make it into pride. If the Education Minister made a statement, now, everyone is criticizing him - seriously, he said what's written in the Torah."
"People want to shut the rabbis' mouths. They want to make people keep quiet. Anyone who says what the Torah says is a criminal, a betrayer, he needs to be thrown out. It's not just that they're not embarrassed. I'm sure that the day will come when they will regret and be embarrassed of everything they said and did.
"Gentlemen, there are things that are forbidden, that we don't do, but they say that some people have a desire for it and they want it. It's all nonsense. Rabbi Rafi Peretz is Education Minister but he was the IDF Chief Rabbi. They're trying now to close the rabbis' mouths. We will not give in. They want to fire us for it - we're willing to be fired, whatever you want."
On Saturday evening, Rabbi Peretz told a Channel 12 interviewer that he believes homosexuals can change. On Sunday, he clarified his remarks, emphasizing that he does not believe it is necessary to send homosexuals for conversion therapy.
2. SUMMER CAMP OUTING TURNS DEADLY AT PARK IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A 10-year-old boy from southern Israel was killed Wednesday morning while attending a summer camp.
The incident occurred at a park near the city of Kiryat Gat, when a large tree branch collapsed, onto a park bench crushing a 10-year-old Bedouin boy.
MDA emergency first responders were called to the scene and attempted to treat the child, but were ultimately forced to declare him dead at the scene.
The circumstances surrounding the incident and the tree's sudden collapse remain unclear, and local police have opened an investigation into the child's death.
"When we got there, we saw a huge tree branch which had fallen on a park bench where a 10-year-old boy was sitting," said MDA senior paramedic Ronen Shunam and paramedic Yisrael Ben Yehuda.
"The boy was unconscious, had no heartbeat, and was not breathing. He had a serious head injury. We performed a number of medical checks. His condition was critical, and within a short time we declared his death."
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3. JEREMY CORBYN CALLS EMERGENCY MEETING OVER LABOUR ANTI-SEMITISM
by David Rosenberg
The chairman of the UK's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has called an emergency meeting of his shadow cabinet, amid an ongoing crisis over anti-Semitism within the party.
According to a report by The Jewish Chronicle, Corbyn has scheduled the meeting for this coming Monday, as public criticism over the party's handling of anti-Semitism among Labour members grows.
The meeting Monday marks the first time Corbyn has agreed to hold a meeting with senior party members aimed at confronting the problem of anti-Semitism within the party.
Corbyn has faced pressure not only from outside of the party, but also from within Labour's own ranks, to take action against anti-Jewish members.
"We have got racists in the party," said Parliamentary Labour Party chairman John Cryer said, "and they are not being dealt with."
The decision to hold the meeting came after the BBC aired an expose on anti-Semitism in the Labour party which alleged that Corbyn had routinely blocked internal party probes into anti-Semitic incidents or claims against party members.
While Corbyn rejected the documentary, saying it had "many, many inaccuracies," a number of Labour MPs felt compelled to confront questions raised by the documentary.
"I don't want to just blame Corbyn - I want to blame all of the leadership team," one MP told The Jewish Chronicle on condition of anonymity. "They are a shambles taking us from one crisis to the next."
4. CAN TREES PROTECT ISRAELI TOWNS FROM TERRORISM?
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Israel will plant trees near homes located in towns on the Israel-Gaza border, in order to protect the homes from incoming anti-tank missiles fired from Gaza, Channel 13 reported Tuesday night.
According to the report, senior Gaza Division officials, including a commander in the Southern Brigade, toured the Gaza border area and mapped out the towns which are under threat from Gazan anti-tank missiles and how to protect them.
The move is part of the Gaza Division's decision to reorganize the area's defense system following the death of Moshe Feder, who was killed by a missile earlier this year.
Last week, another terror tunnel = the eighteenth in the area - was discovered in southern Israel as the IDF built an underground fence to protect Israel. IDF soldiers are investigating the tunnel, its depth, where it led from and where it led to.
They are also investigating whether the tunnel is new, or whether it is an undiscovered tunnel from Operation Protective Edge.
5. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING TRUMP TWEETS AS 'RACIST'
by Ben Ariel
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to formally admonish President Donald Trump, approving a resolution condemning as "racist" his tweets targeting four minority congresswomen, The Hill reports.
The resolution was approved by a majority of 240-187, with four Republicans breaking with party ranks to join every voting Democrat.
Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI), who recently left the GOP over differences with Trump, also backed the resolution.
The measure "strongly condemns President Donald Trump's racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color by saying that our fellow Americans who are immigrants, and those who may look to the President like immigrants, should 'go back' to other countries," and vows for the United States to remain open to those " lawfully seeking refuge and asylum from violence and oppression, and those who are willing to work hard to live the American Dream, no matter their race, ethnicity, faith, or country of origin."
It also states that "immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger and that those who take the oath of citizenship are every bit as American as those whose families have lived in the United States for many generations."
The president has faced criticism for a series of tweets directed at four congresswomen on Sunday in which he called for them to "go back" to the countries that they came from and criticizing the Democratic party for condoning their "disgraceful behavior".
While Trump's tweets did not mention the four by name, it is widely believed that he was targeting Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ayanna Pressley (MA).
Three of the four congresswomen were born in the United States. Omar was born in Somalia.
On Monday, Trump reiterated his criticism, calling on the congresswomen to apologize to the US, to Israel, and to the "office of the presidency."
He once again criticized the four on Tuesday, writing, "The Democrat Congresswomen have been spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate, & yet they get a free pass and a big embrace from the Democrat Party. Horrible anti-Israel, anti-USA, pro-terrorist & public shouting of the F...word, among many other terrible things, and the petrified Dems run for the hills. Why isn't the House voting to rebuke the filthy and hate laced things they have said? Because they are the Radical Left, and the Democrats are afraid to take them on. Sad!"
Tuesday's resolution was led by freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who is white but was born in Poland. He argued it was a necessary step to push back against racist rhetoric from the White House.
"Even if we may disagree on the details of immigration or border policy, racism is wrong, it is un-American," Malinowski told The Hill.
"It's not who we are. It is playing with fire because the words that the president used are heard by people with disturbed minds who do terrible things, violent things, and a line needs to be drawn. So that's what we hope to do."
On Monday, the four congresswomen held a press conference in which they blasted Trump for his rhetoric. Omar went so far as to call for the impeachment of the President.
"I have not made impeachment central to my election or my tenure. But since the day that I've gotten elected, I've said to people, it is not — if he will be impeached, but when. So it is time for us to stop allowing this President to make a mockery out of our Constitution. It is time for us to impeach this President," she said.
Of the four congresswomen in question, three have a history of making anti-Israel statements.
Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire after saying the United States operated "concentration camps" on its southern border, she previously said that cutting military and economic aid to Israel as a way to signal opposition to Israeli policies should be "on the table."
Omar was criticized after she suggested on Twitter that Republicans were attacking her at the behest of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She subsequently issued a half-hearted apology before ultimately deleting the controversial tweets.
Tlaib claimed in an interview in May that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel "provided" a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.
She has also backed BDS and, when asked in a past television interview whether she would vote against military aid to Israel when she goes to Congress, replied "absolutely."
6. ARCHEOLOGICAL "MEGASITE" FOUND NEAR JERUSALEM
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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A huge ancient settlement, one of the largest of its kind in the region, has been discovered during archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Motza Junction.
The project which uncovered the site was initiated and financed by the Netivei Israel Company (the National Transport Infrastructure company). The excavations are being conducted as part of the Highway 16 Project which includes building a new entrance road to Jerusalem from the west, connecting the National Highway 1 from the Motza area to the southern part of Jerusalem ("Bayit VeGan" area), including two double tunnels.
Amongst others, thousands of arrowheads, pieces of jewelry and figurines produced by the people of the site have been unearthed during the excavations.
The Motza excavation site is situated 5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, on the banks of the Sorek Stream, near water fountains and close to a fertile valley and to the ancient way that led from the Shefela (foothills) region to Jerusalem.
According to Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily and Dr. Jacob Vardi, excavation directors at Motza on behalf of the Antiquities Authority, "this is the first time that such a large-scale settlement is discovered in Israel. At least 2,000 – 3,000 residents lived here – an order of magnitude that parallels a present-day city!"
The excavations exposed large buildings, including rooms that were used for living, as well as public facilities and places of ritual. Between the buildings, alleys were exposed, bearing evidence of the settlement's advanced level of planning. In the buildings, plaster was sometimes used for creating floors and for sealing various facilities.
According to the researchers, "In a place where people live, there are dead people as well: Burial places have been exposed in and amongst the houses, into which various burial offerings have been placed – either useful or precious objects, believed to serve the deceased in the next world.
These gifts testify to the fact that already during this ancient period, the residents of this site conducted exchange relationships with faraway places. Amongst others, unique stone-made objects were found in the tombs, made of an unknown type of stone, as well as items made of obsidian (volcanic glass) from Anatolia, and sea-shells, some of which were brought from the Mediterranean Sea and some from the Red Sea. During the excavations, artistic hand-made stone bracelets in several styles were found.
"Due to the size of the bracelets, we estimate that they were mainly worn by children", the researchers say. "We also found carefully crafted alabaster beads, as well as medallions and bracelets made of mother of pearl".
In all excavation areas, many flint tools manufactured on the site were unearthed, including thousands of arrowheads that were used for hunting, and possibly for fighting as well, axes used for tree-felling, and sickle blades and knives.
In the settlement, built storage sheds were exposed, which contained a huge quantity of legumes, especially lentils. The fact that the seeds were preserved is astonishing in the light of the site's age. This finding is evidence of an intensive practice of agriculture. Moreover, one can conclude form it that the Neolithic Revolution reached its summit at that point: animal bones found on the site show that the settlement's residents became increasingly specialized in sheep-keeping, while the use of hunting for survival gradually decreased.
According to researchers, "the exposure of the enormous site in Motza awakens extensive interest in the scientific world, changing what has been known about the Neolithic period in that area.
So far, it was believed that the Judea area was empty, and that sites of that size existed only on the other bank of the Jordan River, or at the Northern Levant. Instead of an uninhabited area from that period, we have found a complex site, where varied economic means of subsistence existed, and all this only several dozens of centimeters below the surface. All findings were recorded using an innovative three-dimensional technology, so that we can continue to research the site at the end of the excavation as well."
According to engineer Gilad Naor, Head of Projects Department at the Netivei Israel Company, "It is a huge privilege for us, as the Israel National Transport Infrastructure Company – Netivei Israel – that tomorrow's transportation infrastructure projects facilitate such special discoveries in the splendid history of our country".
According to Amit Re'em, Jerusalem District Archeologist of the Israel Antiquities Authority, along with the excitement and importance of the finds, the IAA is aware of the vital need to create an additional access road to Jerusalem.
In preparation for the release of the excavated area, the entire site was documented using advanced 3D technology that will enable research of every detail digitally. It is important to know that significant percentages of the prehistoric site around the excavation are preserved. In addition, the IAA plans to tell the story of the site at the site by means of a display and illustration. At Tel Moza, adjacent to this excavation, archaeological remains are being preserved for the public at large, and conservation and accessibility activities are being carried out in Tel Bet Shemesh and Tel Yarmut.
7. TRUMP: RADICAL DEMOCRATS ARE ISRAELI-HATING ANTI-SEMITES
by David Rosenberg
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President Donald Trump excoriated several unnamed Democratic lawmakers on Monday, calling on them to apologize to the US, to Israel, and to the "office of the presidency".
"When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologize to our Country, the people of Israel and even to the Office of the President, for the foul language they have used, and the terrible things they have said," Trump tweeted. "So many people are angry at them & their horrible & disgusting actions!"
"If Democrats want to unite around the foul language & racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular & unrepresentative Congresswomen, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I can tell you that they have made Israel feel abandoned by the U.S."
Later on Monday, Trump tweeted a quote from South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, blasting the unnamed "radical Left Congresswomen" as "anti-Semitic," and "anti-America".
"We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country, they're calling the guards along our Border (the Border Patrol Agents) Concentration Camp Guards, they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamin's. they are Anti-Semitic, they are Anti-America, we don't need to know anything about them personally, talk about their policies. I think they are American citizens who are duly elected that are running on an agenda that is disgusting, that the American people will reject."
"What does it mean for America to have free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants, no criminalization of coming into our Country - See how that works for controlling Immigration! They talk about Israel like they're a bunch of thugs, not victims of the entire region. They wanted to impeach President Trump on DAY ONE. Make them the face of the future of the Democrat Party, you will destroy the Democrat Party. Their policies will destroy our Country!" @LindseyGrahamSC Need I say more?"
The tweets were the latest in a series of social media comments targeting a group of unnamed Democratic congresswoman, likely referring to Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts).
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's son, Yair, praised Trump for the comment, calling him the "best friend" the Jewish people have had in a president.
"Thank you so much! You are the best friend the Jewish people ever had in the White House!"
On Monday, the president ripped the group of unnamed Democratic congresswomen and blasted the Democratic party establishment for 'condoning' the "disgraceful behavior".
"So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our Country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a true and unbridled passion. Whenever confronted, they call their adversaries, including Nancy Pelosi, 'RACIST.' Their disgusting language and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!"
Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire after saying the United States operated "concentration camps" on its southern border, she previously said that cutting military and economic aid to Israel as a way to signal opposition to Israeli policies should be "on the table."
Omar was criticized after she suggested on Twitter that Republicans were attacking her at the behest of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She subsequently issued a half-hearted apology before ultimately deleting the controversial tweets.
Tlaib claimed in an interview in May that Palestinian Arabs living in the British Mandate prior to the establishment of the State of Israel "provided" a safe haven to Jews after the Holocaust.
She has also backed BDS and, when asked in a past television interview whether she would vote against military aid to Israel when she goes to Congress, replied "absolutely."
The tensions within the party escalated after Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post that she felt Pelosi was targeting women of color, though the New York Democrat said she doesn't believe the Speaker is racist.
8. ISRAEL IDENTIFIES HEZBOLLAH PRECISION MISSILE PROJECT COMMANDER
by Mordechai Sones
I24 News has identified the Iranian Revolutionary Guards engineer commanding Hezbollah's precision missile project in Lebanon as Majed Naveed.
Naveed is in charge of three Beirut sites and two others in southern Lebanon and the Beka'a Valley where engineers are working to convert Hezbollah surface-to-surface missiles into precision-guided missiles, i24NEWS revealed today.
According to the report, the IRGC Air Force engineer is also in frequent contact with a Yemen counterpart. Yemen has become a proving ground for Hezbollah and Iranian missiles fired by Huthi rebels at Saudi Arabia.
Israel estimates that Iran-backed Hezbollah possesses some 100,000 to 150,000 rockets, and has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of airstrikes targeting weapons stores and convoys destined for the Lebanese terror group in Syria, where it fights alongside Israel's arch-foe and Shiite powerhouse Iran in support of the Damascus regime.
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