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Sunday, Oct. 16 '16, י"ד בתשרי תשע"ז
HEADLINES:
1. MINISTER LEVIN: B'TSELEM ARE TRAITORS!
2. POLICE OUTRAGED AT RELEASE OF TERRORIST'S DAUGHTER
3. FIGHTING FOR HIS FATHER'S MEMORY
4. WHEN THE ARAB PARTNER IS AFRAID OF ABUSE
5. SENIOR CLINTON AID MAY HAVE CUT A DEAL WITH FBI AGENTS
6. BOB DYLAN'S 5 MOST JEWISH MOMENTS
7. WORLD FIGHTS UNESCO
8. CLINTON IS NOT SOARING IN POLLS
1. MINISTER LEVIN: B'TSELEM ARE TRAITORS!
by Uzi Baruch
Tourism Minister Yariv Levin called on the judicial system to take legal action against the radical leftist organization B'Tselem.
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Levin spoke out against the participation of the director of B'Tselem in a UN Security Council meeting on Israel that was initiated by the Palestinian Arabs against Israel.
"In no other country would such behavior be accepted. A citizen goes and calls for the world to act against the country in which he is a citizen? This is treason," Levin stated.
Levin does not see any difference between those enemies who fight Israel on the battlefield and those enemies who fight Israel in the political or economic arenas. he stated that, "Those who aid the enemy in battle are no different from those who aid the enemy in the other fields."
"The time has come for the judicial system to take action against those who act against the State of Israel. The relevant sections of the penal code are clear-treason and providing aid to the enemy. It is time to implement those laws and put the anti-Israel activists behind bars."
Levin also spoke about the relationships between the government and the Zionist Union party, and between the Jewish Home party and the Prime Minister.
"The Prime Minister wants to expand the government, but only on the basis of the current government principles. It is no secret that this has not happened because no one in the Zionist Union is willing to accept the government's principles."
Levin said that not only does Netanyahu want to keep the Jewish Home party in the coalition, he has rejected demands from the Zionist Union to kick the Jewish Home party out of the coalition on several occasions.
Levin was critical, however, of attacks on Netanyahu by MKs from the Jewish Home party. "Unfortunately, I see that members of the Jewish Home party never miss an opportunity to attack the Prime Minister and the government on the issue of Amona."
Levin is also critical of the Supreme Court's decision to demolish the community of Amona. He stated that, "The Court's decision against Amona is unjust and discriminatory. They don't enforce building regulations when Arabs build in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and in many other places. But the legal system somehow wakes up when it comes to Jewish building."
2. POLICE OUTRAGED AT RELEASE OF TERRORIST'S DAUGHTER
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Officials in the Israel Police are expressing criticism and outrage at the decision by the court to release the daughter of Misabah Abu Sbeih, the terrorist who killed two in the shooting in Jerusalem last week.
Abu Sbeih's daughter posted calls for support for her father on social media and called for others to act like her father.
The 17 year-old was arrested after the attack after allegations that she incited violence. She has been under investigation these past few days and the Jerusalem police asked that she be tried but the court decided to release her.
Sources in the police say the decision to release her, even with limited conditions, was entirely against their stance on the issue. Sources say she is still dangerous because she incited the violence and unrest that ensued in Jerusalem during Yom Kippur.
The prosecution stated that she no longer serves as a threat and should be released.
The court has released the teen with limited conditions. She is forbidden to enter Eastern Jerusalem within the next six days and she isn't allowed to be interviewed by the press or use social media. She also must pay a fine of 2,500 shekels.
Her father, Arab terrorist Misabah Abu Sbeih, 39, murdered Levana Malichi, 60, and Yosef Kirma, a 29-year old police officer, near an Ammunition Hill light rail station in northern Jerusalem, and then continued his shooting spree as police pursued him last Sunday morning. Officers ultimately shot and killed the terrorist.
Abu Sbeih had been expected to report to an Israeli prison Sunday at the time of the shooting attack to serve a four-month sentence for assaulting a police officer in 2013.
He reportedly had been known to Israel Police as a suspected terrorist and member of Hamas for several years. He previously spent a year in jail for incitement in Facebook posts.
3. FIGHTING FOR HIS FATHER'S MEMORY
by Tal Polon
An IDF Sergeant whose father was murdered by an Arab terrorist in Hevron has undertaken the unusual step of switching from the navy to the infantry - so that he could serve in the place where his father was murdered.
Sergeant David Kofman decided to switch from the navy to infantry as his ship was near Gaza and he received news of the death of his father.
"We heard on the radio that there had been a stabbing at the Cave of Machpela, and I immediately told my friend that I had a bad feeling, that I thought it was my father," Kofman related yesterday in an interview with Yediot Achronot.
David's father, Ganedi Kofman, who worked as a gardener at the Cave of Machpela, died after he was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in front of the Cave. After three weeks of struggling for his life, he succumbed to his wounds.
"Already on that day on the ship, the thought crossed my mind to transfer and [continue my service] at the Cave of Machpela, so that things like this wouldn't happen again," David related.
After meeting and creating a connection with high-ranking officer Eitan Dana, responsible for the Hevron region, during the mourning period for his father, David said that his decision to transfer was set.
"I immediately told him that I wanted to leave the navy and go serve in the place where my father was murdered. It's hard for me to explain, but my heart took me there."
Today, David serves in the infantry, under Dana's command.
"Every time I rush to the scene of an incident and I put on my equipment and pass the place [where my father was murdered], my heart stops," David says. "But I have a feeling of control. Now, when we [...] are standing guard, we will do everything to make sure that things like this won't happen here again."
4. WHEN THE ARAB PARTNER IS AFRAID OF ABUSE
by Chaim Lev
R. was born and raised in a religious community in central Israel. Last year she made contact with a young Arab. A few months ago she moved to an Arab village in the north to be with him.
"About a month ago," the organization Yad L'Achim explained, "R's mother contacted us for help. While explaining her desire to end the relationship between the two, she asked us to give her advice on what parents should do when their young daughters fall into this kind of situation. She also asked us to give her the tools to bring her daughter back on the right path."
For a long time professionals from the organization attempted, together with R's mother, to convince R. to end the relationship, all without R's family finding out. All of their attempts to convince R. failed.
"Then we received help from an unexpected place. One day R. contacted us saying that she wanted to meet with us. When we tried to determine the reason for her change of heart, she told us that the Arab she moved in with asked her to contact Yad L'Achim."
R' explained to Yad L'Achim that the young Arab she was living with "suffered abuse as a child" and that he had begun to "express concern" whenever they talked about the future of the children they would have.
"I was convinced that he wanted to raise the kids in our house, which is the same house as the rest of the family." R. explained. "But he is actually terrified (of doing that) when he remembers how he suffered growing up. Children who are considered Jews could suffer even worse within this household."
"He told me that he had heard about the organization Yad L'Achim that helps girls and women like me and that I should contact them for help about raising and educating our children. He said that he had checked and that the Arabs did not have the kind of organization that could help deal with this kind of issue. Since he had traumatic experiences he wanted to take action early on."
The organization said that while it is unusual, there have been cases in the past when Arabs approached them for help. "You could say that the other side is not happy about relationships between Jews and minorities. They understand the incompatibility and complexity of this dubious connection," the organization said.
"Today we provide R. with professional and emotional assistance. We also provide her mother with support. We have good reason to expect very good news."
5. SENIOR CLINTON AID MAY HAVE CUT A DEAL WITH FBI AGENTS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
FBI interview summaries and notes, provided on Friday to the House Government Oversight and Intelligence Committees, indicate that Senior Clinton aid Patrick Kennedy tried to make a deal with FBI agents to reclassify emails that were marked as "classified," two congressional sources told Fox News.
"In return for altering the classification, the possibility of additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas was discussed," Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz who was briefed on the FBI interviews told Fox News.
Previously this month, Fox News reported that Kennedy pressured his subordinates to change classified email codes in order to hide them from congress. In December, Kennedy rejected allegations that he had tampered with email codes.
"Left to their own devices, the FBI would never have provided these [records] to Congress and waited until the last minute. This is the third batch because [the FBI] didn't think they were relevant," Chaffetz told Fox News.
A spokesperson from the FBI released a statement saying, "Prior to the initiation of the FBI's investigation of former Secretary Clinton's personal email server, the FBI was asked to review and make classification determinations on FBI emails and information which were being produced by the State Department pursuant to FOIA [the Freedom of Information Act]. The FBI determined that one such email was classified at the Secret level."
"A senior State Department official requested the FBI re-review that email to determine whether it was in fact classified or whether it might be protected from release under a different FOIA exemption. A now-retired FBI official, who was not part of the subsequent Clinton investigation, told the State Department official that they would look into the matter. Having been previously unsuccessful in attempts to speak with the senior State official, during the same conversation, the FBI official asked the State Department official if they would address a pending, unaddressed FBI request for space for additional FBI employees assigned abroad.
"Following the call, the FBI official consulted with a senior FBI executive responsible for determining the classification of the material and determined the email was in fact appropriately classified at the Secret level. The FBI official subsequently told the senior State official that the email was appropriately classified at the Secret level and that the FBI would not change the classification of the email. The classification of the email was not changed, and it remains classified today.
"Although there was never a quid pro quo, these allegations were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials for review."
6. BOB DYLAN'S 5 MOST JEWISH MOMENTS
by Gabe Friedman
Bob Dylan onstage during the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards at The Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 12, 2012. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for VH1)
JTA - Maybe the times are a changin'? Bob Dylan became the first person considered primarily a musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature when he was bestowed the prestigious honor on Thursday. The Bard — as he is known affectionately by fans, underscoring how he is often seen equally as a poet and musician — became the fifteenth Jew to win the literature prize, joining the ranks of Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Patrick Modiano. He even beat out fellow Jew Philip Roth, who has for years been seen as a favorite to win the Nobel (and at age 83, may feel the opportunity is fast slipping away).
Dylan's religious trajectory has been interesting, to say the least. Born Robert Zimmerman and raised in a tight Jewish community in Hibbing, Minnesota (he spent summers at Herzl Camp, a Zionist camp in Webster, Wisconsin), Dylan became a born again Christian in the 1970s. After releasing a couple of polarizing gospel music albums, he returned to his Jewish roots in the '80s. In recent decades he has even participated in holiday services at Orthodox Chabad synagogues.
So in honor of Dylan's historic achievement, we give you his five most Jewish moments.
Holding his son's bar mitzvah at the Western Wall
Bob Dylan, third from left, with his son Jesse, in the white tallis on right, at the Western Wall in September 1983. (Facebook)
Not too long after releasing the last of his Christian music albums in the early '80s, Dylan made an extremely Jewish statement: he held his eldest son Jesse's bar mitzvah at the Western Wall. Jesse, born to Dylan's first wife Sara (née Shirley Marlin Noznisky), went on to become a music video director and founded the media production company Wondros.
Playing "Hava Nagila" at a Chabad telethon
After his mysterious "return" to Judaism, Dylan studied with Chabad rabbis in the 1980s. His appearance on the Chabad telethon fundraiser in 1989 wasn't his first endorsement of the movement (or his first telethon cameo) — but it might have been his Jewiest. A yarmulke-clad Dylan accompanied songwriter Peter Himmelman (his Jewish son-in-law) and Harry Dean Stanton on harmonica as the group played "Hava Nagila."
Holding a seder with Marlon Brando
By 1975, Dylan had released many of his seminal albums, such as "The Times They Are A'Changin'," "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blood on the Tracks." Marlon Brando had already starred in most of his iconic films, from "On the Waterfront" to "The Godfather." So the 1975 congregational seder at Hollywood's Temple Israel — which Brando crashed, and where Dylan played his anti-war anthem "Blowin' in the Wind" — was not your grandmother's festive meal. According to the JTA story on the event, Rabbi Haskell Bernat, the senior rabbi of the congregation, said that Brando, Dylan and a third guest — Dennis Banks, a leader of the American Indian Movement (misidentified in the story as "Kenneth" Banks) — "had contributed to the sense of justice and social awareness of the American people."
The pro-Israel anthem "Neighborhood Bully"
Just after his son's bar mitzvah at the Kotel — and a year after Israel's controversial first Lebanon War — Dylan released the song "Neighborhood Bully" on his 1983 album "Infidels." In what is arguably one of the most pro-Jewish rock songs ever recorded, Dylan describes Israel as an "exiled man" who is unfairly labeled a bully for fending off constant attacks from his neighbors. One verse goes: "Well the neighborhood bully, he's just one man/His enemies say he's on their land/They got him outnumbered a million to one/He got no place to escape to, no place to run/He's the neighborhood bully."
Endorsing "Like a Rolling Stone" music video by an Israeli director
"Like a Rolling Stone," one of Dylan's most popular songs, was released in July 1965. Nearly 50 years later, in 2013, Israeli director Vania Heymann — a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design — created an interactive music video for the song. The video allowed viewers to change "channels" and choose from an array of celebrities singing the song's lyrics. Dylan unexpectedly endorsed the project and promoted it on his official website. Heymann, born to an Orthodox family in Jerusalem, has since directed the acclaimed music video for Coldplay's song "Up & Up."
7. WORLD FIGHTS UNESCO
by Hezki Baruch
Sixty thousand people from around the world signed a petition from StandWIthUS opposing UNESCO's declaration that there is no connection between the Jewish nation and the Western Wall and Temple Mount.
StandWithUs is an international non-profit dedicated to informing the public about Israel and to combating extremism and anti-Semitism.
20,000 people signed the petition in April, after the decision to have the declaration was first made, but after last week's declaration, the number of signatures jumped to 60,000.
The petition calls on UNESCO to recognize the Jewish nation's history. It also declares that UNESCO's decisions are entirely politically motivated and ignore basic human rights and facts.
Attorney Yifat Segal, who runs the International Legal Forum said, "UNESCO's denial of the connection between Jews and Jerusalem is in violation of UNESCO's own mandate not to erase the traditions of millions or to violate anyone's religious or cultural rights. We believe that the Temple Mount, which is holy to several religions, can be an example of UNESCO's principle of accepting and honoring others, as well as uniting nations. Instead, UNESCO has decided to erase and segregate those with differing beliefs and narratives."
The First and Second Holy Temples were built by Jews on the Temple Mount thousands of years ago, and all Jews are commanded in the Bible to come to the Temple Mount at least three times a year to celebrate the main festivals together. Until their destruction in 586 B.C.E. and 70 A.D. respectively, the Temples were the center of Jewish spiritual life. The Western Wall, an outer wall of the Second Temple compound, is the only vestige of its construction. The Arab Wakf does not allow excavations on the Mount, which might uncover much more, and has purposefully set about destroying whatever archaeological remains it can.
8. CLINTON IS NOT SOARING IN POLLS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
A new poll released by the Washington Post and ABC shows a 4% lead for Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton over Republican Candidate Donald Trump.
According to the poll, Clinton received 47% of the vote while Trump received 43%.
The mere 4% lead comes despite a media onslaught against Trump last week surrounding a leaked recording of Trump making lewd comments about women and, later, accusations that Trump had touched several women.
Trump continues to deny accusations that he abused women and, at a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday, stated that,"Hillary is running for president in what looks like a rigged election."
"The election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president," the Republican nominee said.
Trump also attacked Hillary and claimed she was under the influence of drugs at the previous presidential debate. He requested that She be tested for drugs prior to the debate.
"We're like athletes, right," Trump mused, "I don't know what's going on with her, but at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, 'Oh, take me down' – she could barely reach her car."
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