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The couple which got engaged before the attack |
Arab terrorists attacked a young couple in Jerusalem, stabbed the young man and tried to lynch him - shortly after he proposed to his partner at a popular couple's spot in the eastern part of the city..
The knife penetrated the victim's lung and he is still hospitalized. During the attack, his fiancée escaped and hid from the attackers, and only when the wounded young man managed to reach the police on his own did police arrive to rescue the woman.
The stabbing attack took place on Sunday evening, after Aviha, a 21-year-old resident of Samaria, proposed to his girlfriend Shahar at a location overlooking the Temple Mount. The couple informed their families and friends of the news and left. On the way, their vehicle was blocked by other vehicles, and the rioters began throwing stones and rocks at them.
"The back window broke, I went outside to make them go away, and my fiancée called the police. At first they were afraid of me, but when they realized I was alone they knocked me to the floor and beat me all over, threw stones at me while I was on the floor," Avihah described. During the attack, Avihah was stabbed in the back, but he was not yet aware of it.
As she attempted to call the police, Shahar escaped from the vehicle. However, Avihah was unaware of this: "After five minutes of them beating me, I managed to get back in the car, and I saw that Shahar was not there. I was sure that the Arabs had taken her. I drove quickly to the Beit Orot junction, where there were police, and said there was a lynching."
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Two Israelis were killed Tuesday afternoon in in rocket attacks on the the southern cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon.
At the same time, Red Alert sirens also sounded in Bat Hadar, Mavki'im, Masu'ot Yitzhak, Be'er Tuviya, Be'er Ganim, Nitsanim, Nitzan, Nir Galim, Talmei Yaffa, Sde Uziyahu, Gan Yavneh, Beit Shikma, Zikim, Yad Mordechai, Erez, and other locations around the Gaza periphery.
One of the rockets hit a building in a residential area of Ashdod, and at least 11 people, including two children, were reported to be lightly injured. Three other people were treated for shock.
Another rocket struck a school in Ashkelon. No injuries were reported.
In a subsequent wave of rocket attacks, one person was fatally injured in Ashkelon. A second person, identified as an 80-year-old woman, suffered serious injuries.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avi Amar, who was one of the first responders at the scene in Ashdod, said: "A rocket hit a house directly and three people suffered minor injuries from being struck by pieces of shrapnel. Together with other volunteers from United Hatzalah I treated them for their injuries. Miraculously, their injuries were not more serious."
Magen David Adom (MDA) chief Eli Bin said that one of the rockets caused "very significant damage to an educational institution. Luckily, there were no classes in it. The building is burning."
On Tuesday, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi ordered the military to broaden its counter-terror operation in Gaza, telling the units to "attack every Hamas terrorist."
Meanwhile, Hamas warned that the rocket fire "will get more intense later."
Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip fired a massive barrage of rockets at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon at dawn on Tuesday, wounding six people and threatening to turn the city “into hell.”
The assault came after a night of almost constant rocket fire on Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip and as the Israel Defense Forces conducted strikes on more than 100 targets in the coastal enclave, as part of what it has called “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” the military said. The previous day saw a major outbreak of violence from Gaza, including rare rocket fire on Jerusalem, where Palestinians have been clashing with police for days.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, at least 23 people in the Strip were killed on Monday night and Tuesday morning, including nine minors. Another 107 Palestinians were injured to varying degrees, the ministry said. The IDF said at least 15 of those killed were members of the Hamas terror group who were launching rockets or anti-tank guided missiles at Israel. IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman said a number of those killed in Gaza, including at least three children, were hit by errant rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists, not by Israeli airstrikes.
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President Joe Biden is determined to reverse everything President Donald Trump did — not least, what many Democrats consider his misguided tilt toward Israel. Yet this week the world got a good look at what overturning Trump’s policies there means, with the eruption of fresh clashes of violence in Jerusalem, new missile attacks and fires raging in south Israel.
Democrats are hard-pressed to dispute Trump’s historic achievement in brokering the normalization agreements between Israel and Arab countries, known as the Abraham Accords. But liberals despised his decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, his demand for accountability from the Palestinian Authority for supporting terrorism and his cut of funding to UN agencies hopelessly biased against the Jewish state.
They wanted a return to an Obama-era “even-handed” approach that would signal to the Palestinians that, once again, they have a friend in the White House. And Team Biden has been moving in that direction. The result: emboldened Palestinians, from their leaders on down.
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The Department of Justice has hired former NSA attorney and top Russia hoaxer Susan Hennessey to work in the National Security Division. She announced the news on her Twitter feed Monday morning after deleting a number of tweets.
In her previous writing and media appearances, Hennessey pushed the Steele dossier, which was used by the FBI to illegally spy on the Trump campaign in 2016. Steele is a foreign spy who was paid by the Clinton campaign to put the dossier together, during which he used Russian and other elicit sources.
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The State Department walked back comments from controversy-prone deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter, who last week singled out Israel for criticism and blamed the Jewish State for inflaming tensions with the Palestinians.
The State Department distanced itself Friday from Porter's remarks, noting that "we have consistently called on both Israel and the Palestinians to avoid unilateral steps that exacerbate tensions and make it more difficult to preserve the viability of a two-state solution."
The dust-up comes after Porter was asked at a press briefing about unverified and later discredited reports claiming Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmlands. Porter said Wednesday that it is "critical for Israel to refrain from any unilateral steps that certainly would exacerbate tensions or take us further away from peace"—a statement that seemed to break with longstanding U.S. policy calling on all sides in the conflict to move toward peace.
Asked whether the State Department believes the Palestinians should refrain from actions that hinder peace, Porter dug in. "My response [to the question] is correct as it stands," she said.
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Hamas fires imprecise rockets at the very city they claim to consider as holy and as their capital.
— Daniel Schwammenthal (@DSchwammenthal) May 10, 2021
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Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman responded to the rocket fire at central and southern Israel Monday.
"Hamas now firing rockets at civilians in Jerusalem, Mevaseret, Beit Shemesh and the Gaza periphery. Watching children running for cover. Anyone defending this despicable behavior is contributing to the barbarism," Friedman wrote.
The Hamas terrorist organization launched seven rockets at Israel's capital after 6 pm Monday evening. Shortly afterwards, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization launched dozens of rockets at southern Israel.
One Israeli citizen has been reported wounded so far.
Earlier, Ambassador Friedman criticized US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for accusing Israel of attacking the Al Aqsa Mosque during riots on the Temple Mount.
"Unlike you, I have never prayed on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, because Israel limits prayer there to Muslims - no Jewish or Christian prayer is allowed. Israel bends over backwards to secure Muslim worship at Muslim holy sites. You are way off on the facts," Friedman wrote.
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1. Have you ever met anyone embracing seventy names? Have you ever tried searching for an item that has seventy names? Have you ever heard of a city with seventy names? If you haven't journeyed to that elusive city connected to seventy identities, then a plane, train, bus, or the light rail can transport you to that spiritual center, an ancient modern city, evoking weird and wonderful reactions from devotees and detesters. There is no other location with seventy exquisite names reflecting seventy characteristics, among them Ohaliba, Gila, Yedidut, Shalem — names that express sentiments of love and joy, of friendship and peace — seventy choice callings found in Tanach and Talmudic texts, known foremost as Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is not my birth city. Jerusalem is my home. Sacred and ancestral, it is the city of kings and prophets, a city that has known wars, and total destruction. Yet our generation, citizens, residents, and visitors alike, have merited a renewed Jerusalem, a thriving city atop layers of antiquity, known as Israel's captivating capital.
Modern-day Jerusalem is nothing short of a miracle, and the day for celebration is on the 28th of Iyar. Not everyone revels in that joyous day. The defeated abhor Jewish expansion, scorn Jewish presence, and envy Israeli success. Some fools prefer life as it was behind barbed wire, our tiny country mapped in green and sporting a belted waistline, as it was pre-1967. Yet for those of us who lived in a divided Jerusalem, ruptured by ugly concrete walls and twisted piercing wire, where Jordanian Legionnaires on rooftops at the “border” by Mamilla Street, shelled and fired at Jews below, and nearly all of us who have lived here continuously since those difficult years, as I have for sixty years, cannot ignore the miraculous fulfillment of prophecies worthy of celebration.
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Now Lipman is being sued for sexual harassment, according to a report in Haaretz.
Two women from his Modern Orthodox community in Beit Shemesh made specific accusations about Lipman, a rabbi originally from Washington, D.C. Commenting on a post in a #MeToo-themed Facebook group written by a moderator that warned communities not to hire Lipman as a scholar-in-residence, one of the women said that Lipman had inappropriately propositioned her. The second woman wrote that Lipman had engaged in abusive and bullying behavior.
Lipman sued the two women in a libel lawsuit last July, Haaretz reported.
He claimed the women’s accusations were false and made with “evil intent” and “the goal of humiliating, deriding and destroying the chances of the complainant to be chosen for public roles, to damage his ability to support his family, with the goal of destroying his life.”
In response, the women filed a counter-lawsuit that accuses Lipman of trying to silence them and “damage their right to express their truth and their positions.”
Both women had worked with Lipman on the activism that helped kickstart his political run, which involved pushing back against harassment of women and girls over modesty and other perceived religious infractions in Beit Shemesh, a city that includes a community of extremist haredi Jews.
Lipman, who was elected to Israel’s parliament in 2013, lost his Knesset seat in 2015 when his party did not win enough seats to reelect him. Lipman continued to work on behalf of the party as an English-language spokesperson but broke with the party in 2018, citing “personal reasons” at the time. In text messages cited in the woman’s lawsuit against Lipman, he said the allegations of sexual harassment were the reason for his split from Yesh Atid.
Lipman currently serves as secretary-general of the World Confederation of United Zionists, part of the World Zionist Organization.
Lipman has denied the allegations and on Sunday blasted Haaretz, accusing it of writing a one-sided "smear story".
"A newspaper wrote a smear story about me without even asking for my side of the story," Lipman wrote in a Facebook post.
"I sued a woman who wrote false and defamatory words about me about something which in her words allegedly took place in 2014."
"There was, of course, no criminal complaint against me as I was never even alone with this woman at any time. Now it is in the hands of the civil court and I am confident that the decision in my law suit against her will bring the truth to light. In the meantime I will continue to work day and night to help olim and to tell Israel’s story to the world."
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