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Friday, Aug. 12 '16, ח' באב תשע"ו
HEADLINES:
1. WATCH: SHE WON $18,000, BUT PREFERS BIBLE STUDY
2. WATCH: A SURVIVOR'S FORGIVENESS
3. US SUED OVER AID TO ISRAEL
4. HATZALAH MEDICS SAVE A BOY - BY MAKING HIM LAUGH
5. BUS DRIVER RUSHES PASSENGER TO HOSPITAL - IN HIS BUS
6. ARE POLICE AFRAID OF ITAMAR BEN-GVIR?
7. MK GLICK: GUSH KATIF 'DREAMERS' WILL RETURN HOME
8. WATCH: MINISTER BENNETT MARKS 11 YEARS SINCE GUSH KATIF
1. WATCH: SHE WON $18,000, BUT PREFERS BIBLE STUDY
by Hezki Baruch
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2. WATCH: A SURVIVOR'S FORGIVENESS
by Rachel Kaplan
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3. US SUED OVER AID TO ISRAEL
by JTA
A lawsuit filed in a US district court claims that US aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don't sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.
Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington D.C. court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News.
Discussing his August 8 lawsuit in an interview to Court House News, Smith said the litigation has been 10 years in the making.
Though Israel is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Smith noted that it is a known nuclear power and recipient of US aid. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied possession of nuclear weapons but is widely believed top possess dozens if not hundreds of nuclear warheads.
The US has had a long-standing policy of keeping mum on the existence of Israel's nuclear weapons program, a poorly kept secret that successive U.S. administrations since Gerald Ford have refused to publicly acknowledge.
Smith's lawsuit comes on the eve of a deal that would boost U.S. aid to the country by between $1 billion and $2 billion per year over a decade. Israel already gets $3 billion a year in U.S. aid.
In addition to the United States and President Barack Obama, the complaint names as defendants Secretary of State John Kerry, CIA Director John Brennan, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and the secretaries of the Treasury, Energy and Commerce Departments.
"Defendants have collectively engaged in a violation of administrative procedure and the Take Care Clause by unlawful failure to act upon facts long in their possession while prohibiting the release of official government information about Israel's nuclear weapons program, particularly ongoing illicit transfers of nuclear weapons material and technology from the U.S. to Israel," the 33-page lawsuit states.
To sustain a policy of "nuclear ambiguity" on Israel's weapons program, Smith says the government uses improper classification and threatens federal employees and researchers with prosecution, fines and imprisonment.
The gag is driven, according to the complaint, by a Department of Energy directive known as WNP-136, Foreign Nuclear Capabilities.
Smith says his digging under the Freedom of Information Act brought a version of the document to light that was "nearly 90 percent redacted."
"This is an Energy Department directive that demands imprisonment for any federal official or contractor who even mentions that Israel might have a nuclear weapons program," Smith said in an interview.
In the lawsuit, Smith says foreign aid to Israel violates two amendments of the 1961 Foreign Aid Act, known as the Symington and Glenn amendments, which ban aid to clandestine nuclear powers.
The CIA, White House, State Department and Treasury Department each declined Courthouse News' request for comment on the lawsuit, the news service reported.
4. HATZALAH MEDICS SAVE A BOY - BY MAKING HIM LAUGH
by Arutz Sheva Staff
In the middle of a busy Thursday afternoon on Kushnir Street. in Bnei Brak,a young boy, age five, was hit by a passing car. The child was injured and in need of medical attention, but was also hysterical and he refused to be treated by the United Hatzalah emergency medical technicians that arrived on the scene.
In spite of repeated attempts, the EMTs were unable to calm the child and approach him to begin providing the first aid treatment necessary to dress the child's wounds, until Daniel Klughaupt arrived on the scene. Klughaupt has been an EMT with the organization since earlier this year and also volunteers as a professional medical clown.
Seeing that the child was under a large amount of stress, Klughaupt quickly went back to his ambucycle and retrieved his medical clown outfit, which included a clown hat, red nose and balloons. Dressed as a clown, he approached the child. Klughaupt sat down next to the child in full clown regalia and began attempting to make the child laugh.
"It was a challenge to draw the child's attention away from his wounds while he was under that much stress," said Klughaupt, who hailed from Springfield, Massachusetts before he immigrated to Israel. Nevertheless, Klughaupt prevailed. He got the child to laugh and drew his attention away from the wounds while another United Hatzalah medic began treating the child. Klughaupt was so successful that the child barely noticed the treatment.
"At some point the child finally noticed that he had been bandaged. Once he saw the bandage he began to cry. So, myself and the other medic began to decorate the bandage for him, which proceeded to calm him down. Once his father arrived at the scene, the child was taken by ambulance to the hospital for further treatment and observation," added Klughaupt.
Working as a medical clown has been one of Klughaupt's dreams for a while. "I like helping people," he said, "and I like making them laugh, so why not mix the two together?" Klughaupt certainly did that today, and was able to calm down an injured child who would have otherwise delayed treatment, thereby unwittingly causing more harm to himself.
5. BUS DRIVER RUSHES PASSENGER TO HOSPITAL - IN HIS BUS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A Haifa bus driver named Roi Levi exhibited outstanding resourcefulness yesterday, when he turned his bus into an ambulance.
At a certain point in one of his daily lines, Levi discovered that one of his passengers had lost consciousness and had collapsed.
Levi didn't hesitate, and decided to quickly rush the passenger - along with all the other passengers on board - to the Rambam Hospital. As the bus arrived at the reception room of the hospital, medical staff immediately started treating the passenger, a woman in her forties.
Levi, who became an overnight hero, told Yisrael Hayom that, after he had noticed that the woman had fainted, he decided to "close the doors and fly to the hospital. When the son of the woman who had fainted came up to me later - I saw my own son in him."
6. ARE POLICE AFRAID OF ITAMAR BEN-GVIR?
by Reut Hadar
This Wednesday, the attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, known for representing Jews accused of nationalistic-related offenses by the state, arrived at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with his family. Before he ascended the Mount, though, police blocked his entry. The policeman on duty would only agree to Ben-Gvir's entry if he signed a statement to not "cause provocations on the Temple Mount."
Concurrently, Ben-Gvir's eldest son Shoval Tzadok arrived to the entrance of the Temple Mount, along with friends from a youth group called "Returning to the Mount." He wore a t-shirt, which had been prepared for his father's birthday, which bore the words "My father is an awesome lawyer." Police refused to let Shoval into the Temple premises while wearing the shirt, only allowing him to do so once he changed clothes.
Several hours later, Ben-Gvir wrote a letter demanding monetary compensation from the Jerusalem District Police, emphasizing in his letter that the police were working to counter an incident several months back - in which the courts ruled in Ben-Gvir's favor.
In that incident, Ben-Gvir had entered the Temple Mount and, in response to shouts from the Waqf (Jordanian representatives who possess de facto control of the Temple Mount premises) of "Allah is great," had shouted back "The nation of Israel lives!"
The court had refused to distance Ben-Gvir from the Temple Mount on grounds that he had committed no crime and, on the contrary, had ordered the Waqf to pay Ben-Gvir fifty thousand shekels.
Ben-Gvir asserted in his letter this week that the decision not to allow him onto the Temple Mount is a severe attempt to override the previous court decision, which was in his favor. Ben-Gvir also protested the police action which barred his son from entering the Temple Mount with the special t-shirt.
For all this, Ben-Gvir demanded monetary compensation from the district command to a tune of ten thousand shekels, and emphasized that this letter should be treated as a warning before a law suit.
Several hours after receiving the letter, the chief attorney of the Jerusalem district command announced that there had been a mistake, and that Ben-Gvir would be allowed onto the Temple Mount without having to sign any document.
The Jerusalem Police chief attorney said that the police would investigate the policeman who had blocked Ben-Gvir's son. However, Ben-Gvir's request for monetary compensation was rejected.
"The police freely breaks the law on the Temple Mount, thumbing their noses at the decisions of judges who ruled that my actions contained no fault, and trying to turn my actions into crimes," Ben-Gvir said. "It's good to hear that the decision not to allow me entry to the Temple Mount was a mistake, as was established by the learned chief attorney, but it seems to me that the rejection of my monetary compensation is unjust, and I will consider a law suit.
"The police hurt me, caused me damages, hurt my son Shoval, and took away our freedom of movement, one of the fundamental principles of a democratic society," Ben-Gvir emphasized.
7. MK GLICK: GUSH KATIF 'DREAMERS' WILL RETURN HOME
by Rachel Kaplan
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MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) urges Arutz Sheva readers to "continue dreaming," as he touches on the growing "Homeward" movement to re-establish Israeli control over the Gaza strip, and make it bloom again.
In 2005, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the evacuation of Jews from the Gaza strip, and handed the region over to Palestinian control. Since then, the former residents of the Gush Katif farming belt in Gaza have been trying to rebuild in areas scattered around the country, yet many still feel connected to their old home, as evidenced by their rally yesterday.
"We've learned that you cannot succeed without dreaming," says Glick. "And there are people who are dreaming to return back home to Gush Katif, and I am sure, if these people continue dreaming, and...promoting this initiative, there's a good chance they will succeed."
Glick goes on to compare the uphill battle of the Gush Katif residents to his own mission of freedom of prayer on the Temple Mount: "In my personal life we've seen it, that dreaming of the Temple Mount. Just a few years ago, talking about it was considered something like a nuisance, something you couldn't even talk about, only zealots spoke about it, and today it's mainstream.
"I think people have to dream, and that's the only way to build this land, the land of Israel."
During these days, under the title "From Rubble to Holiness", Arutz Sheva has joined forces with the Committee of Gush Katif Residents to help rebuild the Gush Katif synagogues. Click here for more.
8. WATCH: MINISTER BENNETT MARKS 11 YEARS SINCE GUSH KATIF
by Eliran Aharon
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