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Thursday, May. 12 '16, Iyar 4, 5776
HEADLINES:
1. 360 DEGREES: WATCH ISRAELI AIR SHOW - FROM INSIDE THE COCKPIT
2. 'ALL OF ISRAEL FROM JERUSALEM' - INDEPENDENCE DAY IN PICTURES
3. ELKANA FRIEDMAN WINS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE CONTEST
4. NEW COMEDY FILM MOCKS FRENCH ANTI-SEMITISM
5. WATCH: THOUSANDS CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY AT KOTEL
6. KOSHER RESTAURANT IN ENGLAND SET ALIGHT IN SUSPECTED ARSON
7. POLICE BAR HUNDREDS OF JEWS FROM VISITING SAMARIAN TOWN
8. WATCH: AMBASSADORS CONGRATULATE ISRAEL ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
1. 360 DEGREES: WATCH ISRAELI AIR SHOW - FROM INSIDE THE COCKPIT
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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The Israeli Air Force's stunt team gives a 360 degree view straight from the cockpit. Watch the Independence Day flyover as you've never seen it before!
2. 'ALL OF ISRAEL FROM JERUSALEM' - INDEPENDENCE DAY IN PICTURES
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Photographs by Mark Neiman and Kobi Gideon
3. ELKANA FRIEDMAN WINS INTERNATIONAL BIBLE CONTEST
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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The annual International Youth Bible Contest was held on Thursday at the Jerusalem Theater.
Elkana Friedman, a 14-year old student at the Bnei Tzvi Yeshiva in Beit El took first place, while Tehilla Mattes, a resident of Rehovot and student at Ulpanat HaRav Baharan, took second.
Elkana's father, Rabbi Aharon Friedman, teachers at the Kerem BeYavne Yeshiva. Elkana's mother teaches at Ulpanat HaRav Baharan, the alma mater of the runner-up.
A total of 16 participants from 8 countries took part.
This year's theme is "Israeli Unity".
Friedman spoke with Arutz Sheva after his victory.
"With God's help I made it here. I get such a great satisfaction from learning the Bible, and from this moving event in Jerusalem. Even after winning this prize, I'm going to continue study the Bible, and I want to thank all of my family for supporting me, and thank the staff of the yeshiva for helping me reach this point."
Family of Bible Contest Winner Elkana Friedman Arutz Sheva
Tehillah Mattes Shlomi Amsalem
4. NEW COMEDY FILM MOCKS FRENCH ANTI-SEMITISM
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is to star in a provocative new comedy which parodies deep-rooted anti-Semitism in France, its director said Thursday.
"The Jews" -- titled "They are everywhere" in French -- is being shot by Gainsbourg's partner, the actor and director Yann Attal, who starred in Steven Spielberg's film "Munich" about the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympics in 1972.
The satire follows a Jewish man, played by Attal, forced to go into therapy by growing anti-Jewish feeling around him in France, a spokeswoman for Wild Bunch Films told AFP.
His time on the couch is cut with tragi-comic episodes showing what the producers called "anti-Semitic stereotypes" which endure in France.
"The film is not about Jews -- it is about anti-Semitism," said Attal, who is Franco-Israeli.
He said he himself had frequently encountered anti-Semitism in France. "I was called a 'dirty Jew' at school and later I have come up against different kinds of anti-Semitism which marked me out as Jewish," he added.
"Most of all it is because of the Israel-Arab conflict. People say, 'You give us such trouble.' And I say to them, 'Who is the 'you'?'
"But it is the use of the 'we' that worries me most," he said, because it sets Jews apart.
The film -- which will premiere in the autumn -- also features a roll-call of major French stars including Dany Boon, Denis Podalydes and Gilles Lellouche, as well as Belgium's Benoit Poelvoorde.
French Jewish groups and the Israeli government have repeatedly sounded the alarm in recent years about growing anti-Semitism in France, home to Europe's biggest Jewish community.
A French-born jihadist who had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group killed four Jewish hostages during a siege of a kosher supermarket in Paris two days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in the city last year.
More than 850 complaints of attacks of an anti-Semitic nature were logged by French police in 2014, with that number dropping back only slightly to 806 last year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has frequently denounced what he called "poisonous" anti-Israeli propaganda in France and elsewhere in the West, singling out the country again earlier this month for criticism in a speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem.
5. WATCH: THOUSANDS CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY AT KOTEL
by Arutz Sheva staff
Thousands of people have flooded the Western Wall (Kotel) Wednesday night, to usher in Israel's 68th Independence Day.
Arutz Sheva is at the scene to record the celebration.
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To all of our readers: Chag Atzmaut Sameach.
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6. KOSHER RESTAURANT IN ENGLAND SET ALIGHT IN SUSPECTED ARSON
by JTA
(JTA) -- Police in Manchester, England, are investigating a suspected arson at a kosher restaurant.
Security camera footage shows the Ta'am Restaurant in Bury, 11 miles north of Manchester, being doused with a liquid by two unidentified men before bursting into flames last Friday night, the Manchester Evening News reported Wednesday. No one was hurt in the incident.
The owners said they believe the attack could be motivated by their Jewish heritage, although police said they have found no evidence that is the case. The restaurant recently moved to Bury.
The blaze tore through the building, causing an explosion, with the deli quickly filling with smoke. Yet the attack only caused minimal damage, according to the report.
Police say two men smashed a window to get into the deli between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. last Friday.
"We are keeping an open mind on the possible motivation for this incident, but there is no evidence to suggest that it was racially motivated," Detective Inspector Jonathan Kelly of the local police force told the Standard.
Martine Vaizman, who has co-owned the business with her husband, Amos, for four years, told The Jewish Chronicle of London that seeing the footage "was the most horrendous feeling -- knowing that someone didn't just wish us ill, but also followed through. I can't understand who would be capable of doing such a thing."
Vaizman said she and her husband were not at the restaurant at the time of the fire because it was Shabbat, so they had only found out what happened on Saturday night, when Amos Vaizman turned on his phone.
Vaizman, who was born in Israel, told the Chronicle she and her husband have not received hate mail prior to the incident.
7. POLICE BAR HUNDREDS OF JEWS FROM VISITING SAMARIAN TOWN
by Eliran Aharon
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Hundreds of Jews made their way overnight to the ruins of Sa-Nur, one of the four Jewish towns in Samaria destroyed as part of the 2005 Disengagement.
But the group, which included dozens of families of former residents of Sa-Nur and the neighboring community of Homesh, was intercepted by Israeli police and IDF forces, who aborted the planned visit.
The former residents, joined by friends and supporters, had intended to celebrate Independence Day in Sa-Nur, a bittersweet memorial for the now destroyed community.
Former residents blocked en route to Sa-Nur Eliran Aharon
Those making their way to the ruined town, however, found their path barred, with police roadblocks shutting down access to the site of Sa-Nur.
Police patrols along alternative routes prevented members of the group from making their way to the town by foot.
On Thursday morning the former residents released a joint statement which read: "Thank God, we have not forgotten our homes, and there is no day more fitting than Independence Day to renew our call to return Jewish control over Sa-Nur, [for it is] a day that symbolizes the beginning of Jewish sovereignty over our land."
"Even those who supported the [2005 Gaza] Disengagement now recognize what a mistake it was to uproot and expel [residents of Gush Katif and northern Samaria], and there is no reason, either in terms of security or moral reasons not to permit dozens of former residents of Sa-Nur and Homesh to go back home. Nothing would better express Jewish independence than to make the clear choice to reestablish the communities in northern Samaria. Today, sadly, we were blocked, but we will not be silent until we achieve this goal."
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) who had joined the delegation on its way to Sa-Nur, praised the former residents and echoed their calls for renewed settlement of the area.
"There is no better time than Independence Day to return to the town of Sa-Nur and celebrate our state's independence. Nothing is more just that the claims of these families, and God-willing we will merit to return together to these towns renew our independence over all of the Land of Israel. Happy Independence Day."
Former residents of Sa-Nur, Homesh Eliran Aharon
8. WATCH: AMBASSADORS CONGRATULATE ISRAEL ON INDEPENDENCE DAY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, on Wednesday released a new video clip in honor of the Jewish state's 68th birthday, featuring dozens of UN ambassadors from around the world congratulating Israel on its Independence Day with the traditional greeting of "Yom Haatzmaut Sameach."
"It is gratifying to see Israel's friends standing by our side and wishing us a happy Independence Day," Ambassador Danon said. "Despite the hostility that we face from some in the parliament of nations, it's clear that we have many friends in countries around the world," the Ambassador continued.
Ambassadors from six different continents participated in the video including representatives from the United States, Britain, Germany, Argentina, Australia, South Korea and Eritrea.
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