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Sunday, Apr. 03 '16, Adar Bet 24, 5776
HEADLINES:
1. WATCH: FRANTIC CHASE TO STOP ARAB STABBER CAUGHT ON FILM
2. STABBING ATTACK IN ROSH HA'AYIN, EAST OF TEL AVIV
3. WATCH: CAR ATTACK TARGETS MUSLIMS IN BRUSSELS DURING PROTESTS
4. NEW YORK GIVES PRO-TERROR PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST $500,000
5. RABBI MEIR SOLOVEITCHIK, BRISK YESHIVA DEAN, PASSES AWAY
6. JUDGE REFUSES TO LET MEIR ETTINGER ATTEND SON'S BRIT
7. UK HALTS FUNDING TO ANTI-ISRAEL 'CHARITY' PROMOTING BDS
8. RIGHT MEETS LEFT: FIRST NATIONALIST DELEGATION TO RABIN MUSEUM
1. WATCH: FRANTIC CHASE TO STOP ARAB STABBER CAUGHT ON FILM
by Ari Yashar
Security cameras in the industrial region of Rosh Ha'ayin, located to the east of Tel Aviv, caught civilians heroically rushing to apprehend a female Arab stabber on Sunday after she attacked and lightly wounded a woman aged around 30.
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The incident has yet to be officially classified as a terrorist attack by the police; it took place on Hamalakha Street, not far from the Israeli Arab city of Kfar Qassem. The stabber was later identified as a 23-year-old resident of Kfar Qassem.
A female Arab suspect stabbed a woman at the scene, who was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva in stable condition suffering a light stab wound to her arm.
Video from security cameras at the site show how civilians rushed to try and apprehend the Arab woman after she attacked, and one driver tried to knock her over with his car to stop her. Witnesses report she shouted: "I'll kill you!"
A security guard eventually overpowered her without using his gun, according to the police, and it was found that in addition to the knife in her hand she had a second knife in her bag.
The attack is the first since a stabbing in Hevron two weeks ago on Wednesday, which came amid preparations and celebrations for Purim. In that attack two Arab terrorists stabbed a soldier before being shot dead.
One was shot by a soldier as he lay wounded on the ground, and the soldier currently is being tried for manslaughter over the incident - he argues that he shot over concerns the terrorist had a bomb belt hidden on him and was about to detonate. That those concerns were not ruled out has been backed by the MDA and an IDF investigation.
2. STABBING ATTACK IN ROSH HA'AYIN, EAST OF TEL AVIV
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A female Arab terrorist on Sunday tried to stab civilians and succeeded in wounding one victim in the coastal city of Rosh Ha'ayin, located east of Tel Aviv, before being neutralized. The stabbing has yet to be officially classified as a terror attack.
The incident took place on Hamalakha Street in the city, where a female Arab suspect with two knives was arrested.
She had tried to stab passersby and lightly wounded one woman aged around 30. The victim was fully conscious and received treatment from Magen David Adom (MDA) medical teams.
Video from security cameras at the site show how civilians rushed to try and apprehend the Arab woman and prevent her from continuing to stab, and one driver tried to knock her over with his car to stop her. Witnesses report she shouted: "I'll kill you!"
According to the police, a security guard in the city's industrial region overpowered her, knocking the knife from her hand without opening fire. She had another knife in her bag.
Police noted that the stabber is being investigated to understand her motives.
The industrial zone is located between Rosh Ha'ayin and Kfar Qassem, an adjacent Israeli Arab city.
Senior MDA medic Eli Fakhter who treated the wounded victim said, "when I arrived on the scene security forces led the wounded to the ambulance while she was fully conscious and suffering from a stab wound to (her) limbs."
"Immediately I gave her initial medical treatment including bandaging and stopping the bleeding, and I evacuated her quickly to Beilinson Hospital while her status was defined as lightly wounded and stable."
The attack is the first since a stabbing in Hevron two weeks ago on Wednesday, which came amid preparations and celebrations for Purim. In that attack two Arab terrorists stabbed a soldier before being shot dead.
One was shot by a soldier as he lay wounded on the ground, and the soldier currently is being tried for manslaughter over the incident - he argues that there were concerns the terrorist had a bomb belt hidden on him, in a version of events that has been backed by the MDA and an IDF investigation.
Magen David Adom
3. WATCH: CAR ATTACK TARGETS MUSLIMS IN BRUSSELS DURING PROTESTS
by David Rosenberg
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Hundreds of protesters descended upon Brussels' Molenbeek neighborhood, despite a police lockdown, to demonstrate against the city's Muslim population.
Molenbeek, known for its large Islamic population, was rocked by angry protests on Saturday as anti-Muslim demonstrators squared off against riot police. Water cannons and mounted police were called in to break up the demonstration.
During the protests a car broke through the police line protecting the neighborhood and rammed full speed into a pedestrian crossing the street.
The hit-and-run appeared by all accounts to be intentional, though no formal motivation for the crime has been suggested by police.
The victim was a Muslim woman in traditional Islamic garb.
First responders reported that the victim was wounded but conscious after the incident.
Police quickly surrounded the car involved in the hit-and-run, battering it with batons until the driver was removed and arrested.
4. NEW YORK GIVES PRO-TERROR PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST $500,000
by Ari Yashar
Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist who recently raised an uproar for her open support of rock-throwing terrorism against Israel, has been awarded over $500,000 by the City of New York.
The activist, who is a longtime ally of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and has helped him get votes, has led the Arab-American Association of New York based in Brooklyn since 2005.
Her organization was selected as one of 14 groups by the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York to receive $10 million over the course of the next five years so as to integrate mental-health services into community programs, reports the New York Post on Saturday.
Sarsour is the daughter of Palestinian Arab immigrants. Last October she exposed her blatant anti-Israel bias during a Twitter debate with Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, who is Jewish.
Following the decision to award Sarsour, Lancman told the New York Post that the move "bears scrutiny," but he is "reluctant" to take action against it because doing so may harm people who need services.
In the Twitter war last October, Sarsour posted a picture of an Arab boy holding rocks in front of IDF soldiers, ready to throw them.
She added the text: "The definition of courage."
Rock-throwing terror attacks have proven lethal in several cases, such as the murder of infant Adele Biton and of 64-year-old grandfather Alexander Levlovitz.
In response to Sarsour's tweet, Lancman wrote back: "No, the definition of barbarism."
"City elected official attacking a constituent on foreign policy issue when they weren't asked. Welcome to NYC Council," shot back the Arab activist, to which Lancman wrote, "you must be especially proud of the 13-yr-old Palestinian who stabbed the 13-yr-old Israeli."
Sarsour responded, "don't put words in my mouth. Shame on you. Using my tax payer $$ to attack people online. Go do your job."
Then Sarsour branded the Councilman as a "Zionist troll," writing: "The Zionist trolls are out to play. Bring it. You will never silence me."
5. RABBI MEIR SOLOVEITCHIK, BRISK YESHIVA DEAN, PASSES AWAY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The Rosh Yeshiva of the Brisk Yeshiva in Zichron Moshe, Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, passed away on Saturday.
Rabbi Soloveitchik had suffered a serious stroke in March, and had been hospitalized since the incident. He was 87 years old.
The funeral procession is scheduled to leave Rabbi Soloveitchik's house on Hazanowitz Street in Jerusalem at 11 a.m.
Police are expecting heavy attendance and are closing down a number of major streets, including Malkhei Yisrael.
Rabbi Soloveitchik will be laid to rest at the Har HaMenuchot cemetery.
6. JUDGE REFUSES TO LET MEIR ETTINGER ATTEND SON'S BRIT
by Shlomo Pyotrkovsky
Be'er Sheva district court judge Yisrael Pablo Axelrod on Sunday rejected the petition to release Meir Ettinger from his administrative detention for several hours on Monday so as to attend the brit milah (circumcision) of his firstborn son.
Ettinger has been held for the past eight months without trial or charges against him on administrative orders, a relic from the British Mandate which has almost exclusively been used against Arab terror suspects.
The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and the Israel Prison Services (IPS) opposed Ettinger's release for the brit, even if he was accompanied by prison guards which is a measure common even among prisoners who are accused or convicted of serious crimes, such as those serving life sentences for murder.
By contrast, Ettinger is being imprisoned in extreme conditions of solitary confinement and is not being allowed any phone calls except to several close family members, even though there has been no evidence or indictment presented against him for any crime.
IPS authorities proposed having the brit milah held in the prison, instead of approving the common step of letting Ettinger out under guard.
Attorney Sima Kochav of the Honenu legal aid organization, who submitted the petition to have Ettinger let out for the brit last Thursday and is representing him, said the group intends to petition the Be'er Sheva court's decision to the Supreme Court.
"We regret the decision and are disappointed by it," said Kochav. "There are really hard feelings here that the sources tasked with approving the release did not act with clean hands, and they are pursuing Meir Ettinger."
"It is important to emphasize that this is an administrative detainee and not a criminal prisoner," she added.
"Dangerous criminal prisoners go out on vacations and Meir Ettinger is behind lock and key without an indictment submitted against him, only for his ideological positions and not for a specific danger he poses, and therefore there is no reason to prevent his release to the brit milah."
On Saturday night around 30 of Ettinger's family members protested at the iconic Chords Bridge in Jerusalem, demanding that he be let out for the brit.
7. UK HALTS FUNDING TO ANTI-ISRAEL 'CHARITY' PROMOTING BDS
by David Rosenberg
The British government will no longer fund the War on Want organization, following reports that the group had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a front for anti-Israel activists.
Founded in 1951, the War on Want organization was initially geared towards fighting poverty around the world. Because of its humanitarian work overseas, the group received hundreds of thousands of dollars per year from the British Department for International Development (Dfid).
Over the years, however, the group gradually abandoned its emphasis on poverty, and increasingly became a front for anti-Israel radicals, including the notorious George Galloway, who once declared the city of Bradford off-limits to Israelis.
But despite the War on Want's change in orientation, it continued to receive funds from the Dfid. According to the Telegraph, the group was given some $370,000 over the past two years alone.
That all changed, however, after this February's "Israel Apartheid Week", which was funded in part by the War on Want.
An expose by the UK-based Israel Advocacy Movement highlighting the War on Want's support for the BDS movement led to a major inquiry into the ex-charity's operations.
A report by the Telegraph revealed the War on Want's ties to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic speakers who participated in Israel Apartheid Week events funded by the former charity.
Max Blumenthal, son of influential Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal, advocated armed attacks on Israel, calling a terrorist massacre by Hamas an "incredible message". Blumenthal also compared Israel to the ISIS terror group, calling it "the Jewish State of Israel and the Levany, JSIL".
Other speakers accused the British government of being a Zionist puppet regime. Some recycled conspiracy theories claiming that Israel was secretly harvesting organs from Arabs.
Almost a month after the initial expose on War on Want, the British government decided to cut funding for the group, according to a report in the Telegraph on Saturday.
War on Want Israel Advocacy Movement
8. RIGHT MEETS LEFT: FIRST NATIONALIST DELEGATION TO RABIN MUSEUM
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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More than 20 years after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, leaders of Israel's nationalist camp offered an open dialogue on the political chasm which has divided Israel ever since.
A delegation headed by Agricultural Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) visited the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv on Friday, the first ever visit to the museum by such a delegation. When Rabin was assassinated, Ariel was the head of the Yesha Council in Judea and Samaria.
The group toured the museum and even met with the slain Prime Minister's daughter, Dalia Rabin, who heads the Rabin Center.
Ariel spoke with Rabin and discussed her father's legacy and the polarization of the country since his murder.
Rabin lamented that the religious community had largely avoided the museum. In light of the delegation's visit, she expressed hope that after 20 years without meaningful dialogue with the national religious camp change could be in the offing.
Ariel remarked that the visit had been very moving and pledged to work to enhance the public discourse between right and left. He also noted that Rabin's legacy was a complicated one for the national religious camp, but said it was important for all Israelis to visit and remember Rabin's role in Israeli history.
"I came to know Rabin as the Defense Minister and [later] as the Prime Minister, and there were times when we agreed and times of deep disagreement. But it's important to come here to the Rabin center to recognize what was. Young people especially [need to come], since they barely remember him."
"It's okay to disagree, but it must be with mutual respect, bearing in mind that we're working together to build up the State of Israel and the Jewish people."
At the end of the visit, Ariel signed the museum's guest book, calling upon Israelis to visit the Center.
"It's important for every citizen in Israel to come here, to learn and to teach, and to protect and build up [Israeli] democracy peacefully."
Ariel with Dalia Rabin Press release
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