Ballot drop box in Washington was set on fire with hundreds of ballots inside at the time

 

Ballot drop box in Washington, USA was set on fire with hundreds of ballots inside at the time.  

Police said explosive devices were placed inside the box early Monday morning.

Iran executes California man after abducting him during international flight layover, convicting him of terror charges

Sharmahd at a hearing in Tehran on Feb. 6, 2022.

 Iran has executed a California resident after Iranian agents abducted him during a flight layover in Dubai four years ago, officials said. 

Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, a German-Iranian dissident who lived in Glendora with his family, was accused by the Islamic Republic of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200 others. 

His family disputes the terror charges, claiming Sharmahd is among the many Iranian dissidents who have been kidnapped or tricked into returning to Iran in recent years.  

The German government and the US State Department did not immediately provide a statement on the execution.    

The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported Sharmahd’s execution, accusing him of being “under orders from masters in Western intelligence agencies, the United States and the child-killing Zionist regime.”

“Without a doubt, the divine promise regarding the supporters of terrorism will be fulfilled, and this is a definite promise,” the judiciary said in announcing his execution.

While the agency did not specify the details of Sharmahd’s execution, Iran typically hangs its condemned prisoners at sunrise.

Along with the terror charges, Tehran accused the longtime US resident of plotting several other assaults through the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran and its Tondar militant wing.

The Islamic Republic also accused him of “disclosing classified information” on Iran’s missile sites during a television program in 2017. 

Iran began cracking down on dissidents abroad following the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal, with Sharmahd abducted in 2020 while traveling for business involving his software company. 

Sharmahd had a layover in Dubai — a major international transit hub — during a trip to India due to the coronavirus disrupting global travel. 

His family last received a message from him on July 28, 2022, with tracking data showing that he had crossed the border into Oman the following day. 

The signal disappeared on July 30, with Iran revealing two days later that it had captured Sharmahd in a “complex operation.”   

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry then published a photograph of him blindfolded and in custody. 

Amnesty International, a global human rights group, slammed Sharmahd trial as “grossly unfair,” noting that he was denied the right to defend himself in court.  

In a 2021 phone call, Sharmahd told Western officials that he had lost more than 44 pounds in prison and only had two teeth left in his mouth. 

Sharmahd, a father of two, was born in Tehran and grew up in Germany, traveling between the countries in the 80s and 90s before settling in California with his family in 2003. 

The same year, Sharmahd allegedly helped found Tondar for Kingdom Assembly of Iran, an opposition group seeking to restore the monarchy that was overthrown by the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Sharmahd had previously been the victim of an assassination attempt in 2009, which was foiled by the US government and saw an Iranian agent arrested and convicted for the planned murder. 

Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, had spent years advocating for her father’s freedom, repeatedly calling on the Biden administration to help her family.   

“My dad chose the United States as his home, worked hard, followed all the rules, belongs to a family of four generations around him of U.S. citizenship, lived here for 20 years as a tax-paying, law-abiding resident,” Sharmahd told Fox News Digital last year.  

IDF Issues 800 Arrest Warrants To Bnei Yeshivos; Will Soon Issue Another 5,000 Draft Orders

 

The IDF has issued 800 arrest warrants to bnei yeshivos who did not show up to the summons issued to them in the summer.

Those who received warrants will not be arrested immediately but will be arrested if caught at Ben Gurion Airport trying to leave the country and will also be prevented from obtaining a driver’s license.

Senior Chareidi political officials admitted to Kikar H’Shabbat on Monday evening that they have not managed to find a solution to the issuance of arrest warrants and the criminalization of bnei yeshivos.

It should be noted that Charedim are being drafted on the orders of Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and and the Supreme Court and not the current government.

Earlier on Monday, it was reported that the UTJ party retracted its threats to withhold its support for the state budget until a draft law is passed [due to the low likelihood that it will be approved] and instead is insisting on continuing to provide daycare subsidies for the children of bnei yeshivos who are eligible for the draft, a move that Baharav-Miara has deemed illegal [based on her personal opinion.]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a special meeting at his office in the Knesset on Monday evening in an attempt to find a solution for advancing the law that would allow continued subsidization of daycare for avreichim of draft age or a way to bypass Baharav-Miara’s decision.

Channel 12 News reported on Monday that the IDF will soon issue draft orders to another 5,000 Chareidim.

Out of the 3,000 draft orders previously sent to Chareidim in the summer, only 230 Chareidim obeyed the summons and showed up at draft centers.

Bereaved Father outraged While Saying Kaddish In Shul With Anti-Draft Notices

 Hagai Luber, a religious actor and the father of Yehonatan Luber HYD who fell in battle in Gaza, expressed his shock and pain after seeing an anti-draft notice in a charedi shul in Netivot.

In a Facebook post, Luber wrote that :”You must not mistreat any widow or orphan (or bereaved father).”

“Yesterday I finished a show in the south and went to the Sephardic Shtiblach in Netivot to say the Maariv prayers. Near the entrance I saw a notice, which took away my breath and left me paralyzed to the ground.

“A war of religious zeal,” the notice thundered. “Whoever receives a draft notice should tear it up. Even a loafer who isn’t learning shouldn’t go there, there are terrible things there etc. etc.

“I debated whether this was the proper place to say kaddish for my son Yehonatan HYD who was a Talmid Chacham, a fearer of G-d and an IDF soldier, as in this shul they believe that they should have fought my righteous son with a holy war. In this shul they believe that my son who was meticulous in performing mitzvos was a “compromiser” and rotten. In this shul they believe that my courageous son should have gone to jail and not saved his comrades in his last heroic battle. My son Yehonatan who studied Torah daily should have called 02-579-5252 and asked for help in dealing with the awful and terrible army.

Yehonatan Luber HYD

“As I debated, the prayers began and I prayed with them and when Kaddish came and there was nobody besides me saying Kaddish, I started: Yisgadal Veyiskadash Shemei Rabo.

“My tongue was dry, my eyes became cloudy and the words came out broken and stuttering, and youths in white shirts, the age of my son Yehonatan, looked at me perplexed and impatient. They didn’t know that my heart was tinged with humiliation, that the notice had stabbed me like a knife, that my prayer was that Hashem wouldn’t exact my humiliation from them, as I was so humilated and bereaved and Hashem loves those oppressed and stands up for them.

“They didn’t know that I prayed that Hashem light up their eyes and they would expound their views in a soft way as is the wont of the Talmidei Chachamim in the land of Israel who are pleasant to one another, and not in a harsh and insulting manner which humiliates and pains a bereaved father like me who lost his son fighting to save them and to save Am Yisrael.

“And I finished Kaddish with the words “He who Makes peace in his spheres, may he make peace for us and for all of his nation of Israel and they answered Amen, and I returned to my car and sat there for a long time in pain, and went back to my hilltop home.”

Hagai Luber

A bereaved father whose pain just increased.

Luber requested that any responses should not include criticism towards any rabbi or community in Israel as he would have to erase them.

North Korea Sent 10,000 Troops to Russia to Fight in Ukraine

 

North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Monday.

Singh said some of those soldiers have already moved closer to Ukraine.

“We are increasingly concerned that Russia intends to use these soldiers in combat or to support combat operations against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk” region, she told reporters.

Singh said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has already publicly cautioned that should North Korea’s soldiers be used on the battlefield, they would be considered belligerents and legitimate targets but that their use would have serious implications for security in the Indo-Pacific as well.

NATO said some of the North Korean troops have already been deployed in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Russia has been struggling to push back a Ukrainian incursion.

6000 Shells Per Minute: IDF Offers Effective Solution for Hezbollah’s Drones

 

Since the start of Operation Iron Swords, Hezbollah has launched more than 2,500 drones at Israel. Most have been taken down but at an excruciating cost of an estimated $30,000 per downing. Now the IDF is exploring a new way to deal with the drones, which may prove useful to Iran and Russia’s other enemy, Ukraine.

In recent days, the IDF has placed the first Vulcan cannon on the northern border, to intercept drones launched from Lebanon. The latest version of this cannon was created by the Israeli company Tamar, and the IDF will examine its operational effectiveness.

The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary machinegun that fires 20 mm × 102 mm rounds at an extremely high rate (6,000 rounds per minute). The M61 and its family of derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United States military fixed-wing aircraft for at least sixty years.

Each of the cannon’s six barrels fires once in turn during each revolution of the barrel cluster. The multiple barrels provide both a very high rate of fire—around 100 rounds per second—and contribute to prolonged weapon life by minimizing barrel erosion and heat generation. The average time between jams or failures is more than 10,000 rounds, making it an extremely reliable weapon.

According to the IDF, the M61’s economics speak for themselves: according to the Alma Research Institute, since the outbreak of the Iron Swords War, while the cost of intercepting 2,500 drones by Iron Dome missiles is frightening: $75,000,000, the use of the Vulcan may reduce costs to $10 per round, depending on factors such as season, supply and demand, country of production, the manufacturer, and the nature of the procurement contract.

The IDF says it will require about 400 rounds to take down one drone – that’s $4,000 tops. Or, to down 2,500 drones – $10,000,000, less than a seventh of the Iron Dome cost.

Israel reveals its £413m LASER interceptor the 'Iron Beam' that will blast Hamas and Hezbollah rockets and drones

Israel has revealed the launch date of a £413million laser weapon, dubbed the Iron Beam, that uses extremely concentrated bursts of light to shoot down missiles, rockets and drones at next to no cost per shot. 

The Iron Beam, made by Israeli defense companies Rafael and Elbit, will be able to fire beams of light with between 100kW and 150kW of energy at targets several kilometers away with pinpoint accuracy. 

It also has a smaller, secondary beam, that it can use against drones and IEDs from a distance of between 100m and 2,000m. 

The IDF, having signed the multi-million dollar deal with the two companies, is set to introduce the Iron Beam to Israel on October 28 next year. 

And it couldn't come sooner, given that the Iron Dome has been working overtime to parry missiles, rockets and drones from Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthis for over a year now.  

While Israel is planning on integrating the Iron Beam into its existing defense infrastructure, already believed to be among the most advanced in the world, the Iron Beam is expected to drive the cost of defending the nation. 

 Israeli media reports that a single Iron Dome interception can cost around $50,000 (£39,000) per interception, making it an incredible expensive system to operate. 

But the Iron Beam will cost just 'a few dollars' to fire, making it far cheaper to run. 

‘Shameful’ MSNBC splices Nazi rally clips into coverage of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally: ‘Incitement’

See photo below not shown by MSNBC that shows how the rally really looked like! 

MSNBC is facing fierce backlash for using Nazi rally clips during its coverage of former President Donald Trump’s historic campaign event at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

The left-leaning network included footage from the 1939 Nazi rally at the New York City arena and compared it to Trump’s own rally, which packed out the famed venue.

“But that jamboree happening right now, you see it there on your screen in that place is particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally,” the anchor said while rolling the footage.

Yigal Calik Never before seen clip `mizmor ledovid` - פירחי לונדון בשנת 1977

 

Mark Tager o’h. Was killed in Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103 

*MOVING FLASHBACK:*

Legendary Jewish music pioneer Yigal Calek z"l, who was niftar last week, emotionally singing 'Rachel Mevaka' at a reunion with his world-famous choir several years ago.

20 Iranian Revolutionary Guards Were Eliminated in Iran Strike

 The Independent: 

At least 20 Iranian military and Revolutionary Guard personnel were killed during Israel's attack. All radar screens in Iran were hacked and frozen five minutes before the Israeli strike.

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