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The Regavim Movement on Tuesday filed a petition in the Jerusalem District Court against the Jerusalem Municipality, which has been concealing the existence of an underground tunnel dug by the Church of the Dormition, one of the largest and most recognizable Catholic churches in Jerusalem.
The Dormition, located just outside the Zion Gate, on the highest point in ancient Jerusalem, is included in the historic preservation compound known as “The Sovev Homot [Jerusalem Ramparts] National Park.”
As a result of Regavim’s legal pressure over the past two years, the Jerusalem Municipality was forced to measure and document the tunnel, which encroaches on public property in an area dense with archaeological remains. Since the completion of the mapping project, the municipality has ignored Regavim’s continued requests for documentation of the tunnel and law enforcement at the site.
Mount Zion, one of the gateways to the Old City of Jerusalem, is well known for its unparalleled historic and archaeological importance to the three monotheistic faiths. The section of the mountain that is protected by the “Sovev Homot (Ancient Jerusalem Ramparts) National Park” contains numerous archaeological sites, including the site identified as King David’s tomb, the Hasmonean-era city walls, and the First Temple-era city wall.
Despite the national, religious, scientific and historical importance of the area as a whole, the Dormition Church dug an underground tunnel, more than 100 meters long, to connect the Church with “Beit Josef,” a dormitory/guest house it built nearby decades ago.
For years, the existence of the tunnel was nothing more than a rumor shared among local residents and Jewish institutions active on Mount Zion, until Regavim sent an official request to the Jerusalem Municipality in 2019 for confirmation of its existence and precise details of the tunnel’s location, in order to determine the extent to which it encroaches on public land as well as the extent to which priceless antiquities may have been harmed by the unsupervised digging.
Last year, as a result of Regavim’s demand and after the Jerusalem Municipality was forced to admit that the there is, in fact, an “old tunnel” at Beit Josef, official documentation was carried out on behalf of the Jerusalem Municipality; the illegal underground passage, measuring some 150 meters, was documented at last.
The investigation revealed that along the path of the tunnel there are underground rooms containing ancient artifacts, and the tunnel itself encroaches to a significant extent on public property. This illegal passageway was dug without a permit, violating existing planning codes and Israel’s Archeological Protection Law, without any oversight by engineers or archaeologists, as required by law, and may have damaged antiquities and other artifacts.
Despite its findings, the Municipality has not charged the Church municipal land taxes for the illegal tunnel, while all other residents of the city are expected to pay these and other taxes and tariffs or face heavy penalties.
“When the details began to come into focus, we demanded over and over that the Jerusalem Municipality publicize the documentation of its findings, as required by the Freedom of Information Law. We further demanded that oversight, inspection and law enforcement procedures be taken immediately, to restore the site to its previous condition either by sealing off or demolishing the tunnel,” said Attorneys Avi Segal and Yael Cinnamon of the Regavim Movement. “We filed this petition only when our repeated requests to the Jerusalem Municipality were not answered.”
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When is a Palestinian terrorist not a Palestinian terrorist? When The New York Times covers up her past and hopes nobody will notice.
I’m referring to a deeply troubling allegation contained in a major article in the Times on March 6, authored by its new Jerusalem bureau chief, Patrick Kingsley.
The article focused on a Palestinian disc jockey, Sama Abdulhadi, who was recently arrested by the Palestinian Authority for performing a concert near a mosque. Incredibly, Kingsley quoted Abdulhadi and others blaming “the Israeli occupation” for the mistreatment of Palestinian Arab dissidents by their own Palestinian Authority. I’m going to leave that absurdity aside because of an even more disturbing part of the article.
In an apparent attempt to show the continuity of alleged Israeli misbehavior from generation to generation, Kingsley wrote that in 1969, “the Israeli authorities expelled her grandmother, Issam Abdulhadi, a leading women’s rights activist.”
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A Louisiana man trying to sell a dirt bike on social media was fatally shot after meeting up with a potential buyer over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
Joseph Vindel, 29, left his New Orleans home around 10 a.m. Sunday to meet up with Jalen Harvey in the town of Harvey, where he planned to sell the bike, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said at a press conference.
“Mr. Vindel never returned from that transaction,” the sheriff said.
Vindel listed his bike on Facebook Marketplace for $2,700.
Vindel’s family contacted police after not hearing from him for hours. Detectives found messages between Vindel and Harvey talking about the bike sale, Lopinto said.
The text messages led police to an apartment complex in Harvey, where they found Vindel’s dirt bike in one of the patios, he said.
During their search, cops came in contact with Harvey, 20, who admitted to shooting Vindel multiple times in his car, according to the sheriff.
Police say Harvey then drove the vehicle and abandoned it with Vindel’s body in the backseat. Afterward, Harvey drove the dirt bike back to the apartment complex, cops said.
Harvey was arrested Monday and he faces a first-degree murder charge.
Lindsey Vindel couldn’t believe his son — who recently got his real estate license and was starting his career as a realtor — was killed over a dirt bike.
“He was loved by everyone and didn’t deserve this,” the distraught father told WWL-TV.
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R’ Moshe Dovid Kish Z”L, a longtime Boro Park Hatzolah Paramedic, died this morning.
The Niftar, known in Hatzolah as “B-219”, suffered from an illness the past 10 years. Despite his Yesurim, he continued responding to emergencies and saving lives until he was physically unable to do so any longer.
Sadly, he was Niftar on Tuesday morning.
He leaves behind a wife and eight children, four of whom are unmarried, his parents, and his hundreds of grieving friends in Hatzolah.
The Levaya will be held on Tuesday at Yeshiva Chasan Sofer, 1876 50th Street in Boro Park. The Kevura will be held in the Monsey Bais Hachayim, next to his brother.
THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY A BORO PARK HATZOLAH PARAMEDIC:
I don’t post often and I don’t put out “BDE’s”when there is that terrible post of tragedy because I don’t think it does justice to a lost life, but today I think it’s imperative that on this forum a man such as Moshe Duvid A”H get more than just an emojy.
Moshe Duvid Kish was not only a Hatzalah Member he was an amazing husband, father, grandfather, amazing friend and the symbol of Tzidkus. He was a man that even after his terrible diagnosis and prognosis spent countless hours, days, weeks and years counseling others on how to overcome THEIR pain and misery. I would hear him on the phone with these people and think to myself how can a person be so strong. Then I realized that his strength came from a place that is way deeper than one can explain. It came from a level of Emuna that we often hear stories about, but seldom see in real life. I saw it by Moshe Duvid! He did things for people without wanting anything in return and without fanfare or publicity. He loved helping people with anything that he could.
When he got very sick and he needed help in return none of the people that helped him were able to even come close to his level of help. We failed to even reach a fraction of his devotion to others because reaching his level was a life’s work. For that we daven that he forgives us and in his honor I think he is worthy, as I’m sure many others that have been posted on this chat were, that we spend the day thinking on how we can grow in our mesiras nefesh to help other people in the way the Moshe Duvid did every day of his short life.
May he be a Mailitz Yosher for all of us and all of klal Yisrael and may this chat post only simchas until the coming of Meshiach some time very soon.
Boruch Dayan HaEmmes…
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On Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," host Maria Bartiromo and Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz made some keen observations about the Biden administration that has some people questioning who's really in charge over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bartiromo asked the Florida Republican whether a transition may be already underway, given President Biden's avoidance of the press while Vice President Kamala Harris meets with international leaders such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron.
"What is going on?" Bartiromo asked. "Are we getting ready for some kind of a transition?"
"You have to wonder whether or not the transition to Harris has already begun," said Gaetz. "Joe Biden’s had more nap time than he's had questions from reporters. And you're right. While the Middle Kingdom grows more ambitious in their goals, we are still toiling away in the Middle East. Joe Biden has had more attacks on Syria than he’s had press conferences."
Gaetz also questioned whether progressive voters are having buyer's remorse when it comes to the new president.
"Is this what you wanted, a warmonger president like Joe Biden, when Donald Trump did so much to bring peace to the world and to actually confront the real threat, China, not to be trying to build democracies out of blood and sand and Arab militias in some desert far away?" asked Gaetz.
Biden is the first president in 40 years not to hold a press conference at this point in his administration. Biden is set to deliver his first address before a joint session of Congress near the end of March, and it's been reported that Biden is expected to hold a full press conference in coming weeks. But we'll believe it when we see it.
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Kenny Rozenberg, the American billionaire father of Eli Rozenberg, who became controlling shareholder in El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL) six months ago, has immigrated to Israel. He touched down at Ben Gurion airport this afternoon on an El Al flight from New York and was greeted by the airline's management and received his ID papers and citizenship.
Kenny Rozenberg financed the El Al deal for his son and has so far Rosenberg's parent company Kanfei Nesharim has invested $160 million in the airline in two rounds of public offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). That amount is expected to grow to $200 million after El Al receives an upfront payment of NIS 1 billion from the Ministry of Finance for fees for aircraft security over the next year. According to the package, the payment will be contingent on the controlling shareholder injecting more money into the company.
Kenny Rozenberg was not able to himself become the controlling shareholder in El Al because he did not hold Israeli citizenship. Today he received his Israeli ID papers and can now in theory become the controlling shareholder in the airline together with his son.
Kenny Rozenberg, a US citizen, submitted a request to immigrate to Israel several weeks ago and he plans living in Jerusalem. He arrived in Israel today accompanied by an entourage, which included senior executives from his US company, as well as other new immigrants.
Sources inform "Globes" that Kenny Rozenberg received special permission from the exemptions committee to fly to Israel and has asked to relinquish his rights to financial support as an immigrant.
Kenny Rozenberg is the founder, owner and CEO of Centers Health Care, which owns and operates dozens of nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and care facilities in North America. His son Eli Rozenberg immigrated to Israel several years ago and lives in Jerusalem.
The Ministry of Aliyah and Integration said, "We cannot provide information about immigrants that do not allow information about them to be provided. But if the report is true then we welcome all immigration and certainly by a person of his status who has contributed to Israel in this difficult time."
Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on March 8, 2021
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The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech SE was able to neutralize a new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Brazil, according to a laboratory study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday and cited by Reuters.
Blood taken from people who had been given the vaccine neutralized an engineered version of the virus that contained the same mutations carried on the spike portion of the highly contagious P.1 variant first identified in Brazil, found the study which was conducted by scientists from the companies and the University of Texas Medical Branch found.
The scientists said the neutralizing ability was roughly equivalent the vaccine’s effect on a previous less contagious version of the virus from last year.
In January, it was announced that the Pfizer vaccine is effective against the British coronavirus mutation.
A subsequent study on the new South African coronavirus mutation showed that the Pfizer vaccine is effective against that variant, although the South African variant may reduce protective antibodies elicited by the vaccine.
Pfizer plans to begin testing whether a modified version of the vaccine would neutralize the South African coronavirus mutation.
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The yeshiva will be the neighborhood's first, and will serve the English speakers.
Attending the Sunday night meeting initiated by the community were Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson, Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Gluckowsky, yeshiva founder Rabbi Chaim Ma'as, yeshiva dean Rabbi Shimon Garboz, and Rabbi Elchanan Cohen.
The yeshiva, which is expected to open soon, will be unique in that it is intended for English speakers and its base will be the children of Chabad emissaries who live abroad.
"This is refreshing news, since the boys who come to study in our developing neighborhood will meet with the community on a daily basis and become part of the outreach community in the neighborhood," Rabbi Mendelson said.
"We are excited and await the opening of the yeshiva and the arrival of the precious students who will come live near us."
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