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| The victims of a fatal stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Saturday October 3, 2015: Nehemia Lavi, 41 (left) from Jerusalem, and Aharon Banita (Bennett), 22 (right) from Beitar Illit. |
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday ordered that the family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered two Israelis be paid more than $40,000 and be given new housing, the Kan public broadcaster reported.
Ramallah Governor Laila Ghannam, an Abbas appointee, met with the family of Muhannad Halabi and gave them some 30,000 Jordanian Dinars ($42,000), reportedly to help them cover housing costs since their home was destroyed by the IDF following the killings, Kan said.
Ghannam also told the family that Abbas had instructed his security services to help them find permanent housing. Home demolitions are a controversial policy that the IDF says helps deter future terror attacks.
The payments are the first high-profile payments to terrorist families since the Biden administration took office, despite claims that the Palestinians were willing to rethink the controversial policy as part of an effort to improve relations with Washington.
Halabi killed two Israelis, Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Banita, and injured Banita’s wife, Adele, and their 2-year-old son in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3, 2015.
He was shot and killed by Israeli security forces.
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The New York Times and other media widely suggested or implied that Trump had not paid income taxes for 18 years. Later, tax return pages leaked to MSNBC ultimately showed that Trump actually paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie Sanders and President Obama.
The order mandating Israelis to wear face masks indoors will be rescinded next Tuesday, June 15, Israeli officials announced Sunday. Coronavirus morbidity levels have remained especially low despite the lifting of the green pass and purple badge programs aimed at limiting entrance to venues to vaccinated Israelis and restricting capacity in stores and restaurants, among other places on June 1st.
Officials noted the mask mandate would still apply to children, as they have yet to be vaccinated, and as such would remain in place in schools. Should morbidity levels continue to decline, officials will convene to discuss nixing that mandate as well.
On Saturday, Israel recorded no new COVID cases for the first time in over a year.
Along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein took part in an event honoring medical workers and senior health officials.
Speaking at the event, Edelstein said, "In light of the continued low morbidity, I want to inform you here that, following consultations with senior Health Ministry officials, chief among them [Director-General] Professor Hezi Levy, we have decided that if morbidity remains low until June 15, we will allow masks to be removed indoors as well. This is a reality we didn't believe we would get to at this stage, and we have!" he said.
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An Israeli zoo proudly announced the birth of a new baby rhino on Sunday.
The baby male, who has not yet been named, was spotted trotting alongside his mother, 11-year-old Rihanna, now a mother of three, the Ramat Gan Safari Park zoosaid.
The zoo will be monitoring mother and calf for health and safety, the zoo said, while they reside in a designated maternity zone for the next several weeks until the baby is strong enough to join his fellow animals in the safari's African Savanna section.
The rhino is of the square-lipped or southern white rhinoceros breed, the most common of all rhinos. Though not presently classified as an endangered species, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), it still faces a considerable threat of poaching.
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has admitted that it has likely revealed a tunnel beneath one of its schools that armed terrorist groups utilized during the recent 11-day conflagration with Israel, i24NEWSreported Sunday.
A statement by UNRWA claimed that "the Israeli Air Force conducted strikes that caused damage to UNRWA installations, most notably to the UNRWA Zaitoun Preparatory Boys’ School ‘A’ and Elementary Boys’ School ‘A.’"
While declaring the inviolability of UNRWA premises, opining that all United Nations buildings are clearly marked on their roof, it acknowledged that "no displaced persons were inside the school at the time of the strike and no physical injuries were caused."
The statement did not mention that it is highly likely that the IDF called ahead of the strike to warn that the school was a target.
The UNRWA statement added that during a detailed assessment on the premises on May 31, the air strike revealed what appeared to be a 7.5-meter cavity beneath the school and what appeared to be a tunnel.
UNRWA said the tunnel was not connected to the school and there is no "indication of the existence of any entry or exit points for the tunnel within the premises."
Created in 1949, UNRWA supplies aid to more than three million of the five million registered “Palestinian refugees” in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and territories assigned to the Palestinian Authority.
However, it has also come under fire for its anti-Israel activities. During the 2014 counterterrorism Operation Protective Edge, Hamas rockets were discovered inside a school building run by UNRWA.
Likewise, a booby-trapped UNRWA clinic was detonated, killing three IDF soldiers. Aside from the massive amounts of explosives hidden in the walls of the clinic, it was revealed that it stood on top of dozens of terror tunnels, showing how UNRWA is closely embedded with Hamas.
Sunday’s statement followed criticism of UNRWA after its Gaza director, Matthias Schmale, said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News that he did not dispute Israel's assertion that its air strikes on Hamas terrorist targets in the Strip were "precise".
The comments resulted in protests in Gaza, with Hamas ridiculing Schmale as "a spokesman for the Israeli military".
While Schmale has apologized, he was called in for consultations with his bosses in Jerusalem last week.
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El Al on Monday will launch an unprecedented campaign in Israeli aviation: According to information received by Israel Hayom, families flying abroad will be able to purchase tickets for the parents at full price, and pay only airport fees for the children.
The reduced fare will apply only for children up to age 12, and will apply to nearly all destinations in Europe, other than Greece and Cyprus. It will also include Dubai, Phuket, and Seychelles.
The reduced fares apply for those traveling prior to October 23, 2021.
For European destinations, the sale is valid until June 17, while for Dubai, Phuket, and Seychelles, tickets can be purchased at the sale price until June 10.
El Al's announcement follows similar moves by other airlines, and one of the reasons the fares are so low is that children are required to quarantine upon their return to Israel, since they cannot yet be vaccinated.
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The land of Israel has always posed a problem for the Jewish people. On one hand, it is and always has been our national homeland, the land promised to us by the Lord from the days of our forefathers. It is the Holy Land, the most special place on earth. On the other hand, the record of the Jewish people in the land of Israel, and their behavior and attitudes, has often been a spotty one.
The Law makes demands upon those who live here. It has, to speak, a very delicate digestive system, and the land rejects, after a period, behavior that is detrimental to creating a viable and moral society. Yet, the attachment of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is so strong that it has been able to survive centuries of separation, conquest, and exile.
Whatever period of history you choose, Jews always lived in the land of Israel, and some Jews lived there even vicariously. The Jews never forgot that they were strangers in alien countries, and if some of them did forget, the societies that they lived in eventually reminded them that they were, after all, only strangers and outsiders. All this serves as a backdrop to the spies who appear in this week's Torah reading.
Over the centuries, there are many reasons given by the commentators as to why the spies returned with such a negative report, with twisted positive facts into potential calamities and disasters. But one of the main and cogent reasons for this behavior was the ambivalent fear that has always existed within Jewish society, i.e., to commit to national existence in the land of Israel, independent of the blandishments and seeming advantages of physical life under different circumstances.
The fear and trepidation exhibited by the spies, when Moshe confidently said to bring back a report about the land of Israel, did not die with that generation of doubters in the desert. I am not speaking here of immigration to the land of Israel today, or entering the process of Aliyah. Rather, I am addressing an attitude that exists in almost all sections of the Jewish world outside of the land of Israel. That attitude is the commitment involved in living in the land of Israel, a justified concern regarding the spiritual and social commitment necessary to successfully live as a Jew in the land of Israel.
It is this challenge, more than anything else, that shook the spies and turned them into slanderers There are many of these same personalities, unfortunately, that still exists today in the Jewish world. There are Jewish organizations as well as individuals who are in the forefront of anti-Israel movements and programs, not politically driven, but rather an expression of the ambivalence that prevails within the souls besetting Jews in our time. The results of the behavior of the spies should be a sobering reminder regarding the dangers of slandering the land of Israel and the Jewish population.
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