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Friday, Nov. 18 '16, י"ז בחשון תשע"ז
HEADLINES:
1. 'THEY ARE TERRORIZING THE RABBIS'
2. TRUMP ASSOCIATES TO LIBERMAN: DON'T MOVE TO THE LEFT
3. JUSTICE MINISTER AGAINST MUEZZIN LAW
4. MK GLICK: THINGS ARE IMPROVING ON TEMPLE MOUNT
5. ZOA CHIEF: BANNON IS PRO-ISRAEL, NOT ANTI-SEMITIC
6. 'NETANYAHU WOULD NEVER SELL OUT ISRAEL'S SECURITY'
7. 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE, HELP ME CHEAT DEATH'
8. WATCH: HUNDREDS SING AT GRAVESITE OF REBBE CARLEBACH
1. 'THEY ARE TERRORIZING THE RABBIS'
by Arutz Sheva Staff
The Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, responded to attacks on him for his statements regarding the Reform Movement and the LGBT community.
In an interview with Israel Hayom, Rabbi Amar called the "LGBT community" a "sect. It is a sect whose acts are without doubt an 'abomination.'" He also called Reform Jews "wicked."
Several police complaints were filed in response to Rabbi Amar's interview, which was widely criticized on the left and led to demands that he be dismissed from his position.
Rabbi Amar responded to the criticism Thursday night. "They told me that they are mad because I said that it is an 'abomination.' They want to bring us to delete - heaven forbid - to delete what was written in the Bible. They are terrorizing the rabbis not to speak. You cannot say that there should be no desecration of the Sabbath, because the public wants more and more Sabbath desecration."
Rabbi Amar believes that the harassment of the rabbis will not end. "Tomorrow they will say 'don't do hakafot' (dances on Simchat Torah). Why? Because...they want to get rid of the mechitzot (separation barriers between men and women in Synagogues)." he told the Hebrew news site Kikar Hashabat.
Rabbi Amar said that he is against violence and incitement and that he is not afraid of losing his position as a result of his words. "I yelled everywhere not to raise a hand [to do violence] and there was no raising of hands, heaven forbid, even to say things that are nasty. And the one time an evil man killed a girl, I went wholeheartedly and wrote against him-that he is a despicable murderer."
2. TRUMP ASSOCIATES TO LIBERMAN: DON'T MOVE TO THE LEFT
by David Rosenberg
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's (Yisrael Beytenu) recent comments, suggesting that Israel restrict construction in Judea and Samaria to the major "settlement blocs", drew sharp criticism from not only the Israeli right, but apparently also from the incoming Trump administration.
Earlier this week Liberman surprised coalition partners, declaring that Israel should renew the understanding forged between President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whereby new construction would only be authorized inside "settlement blocs" – and would be frozen outside of them.
"We will not build outside the blocs," he explained. "I prefer to build in Alon Shvut, Efrat, Maaleh Adumim and Ariel, where 80% of the residents are."
The Defense Minister also commented on the Regulation Law, which recently passed the initial vote in the Knesset, saying that the bill, even if passed, would not save Amona from the pending demolition order.
"I am not sure that this law is the best solution. It doesn't [even] apply to Amona. Once I entered the Defense Ministry I spent a lot of meetings [on the issue of] Amona. And my conclusion was clear. Anyone who says that it is possible to keep [Amona in its] current location is dealing in lies and delusions, and doing a disservice to the good people who have lived there for many years."
Liberman's comments drew the ire of Likud leaders, who said his recent comments had revealed his true colors.
Now, however, sources close to President-elect Donald Trump say Trump's inner circle was just as surprised – and dismayed – by Liberman's comments as his critics in Israel.
According to a report by NRG, a Trump associate said the Trump administration, now in its formative stages, felt that the public comments on Israel-US relationship were inappropriate, given that no consultation with the new president or his representatives had taken place.
The source also said that Trump's inner circle was stunned by the Defense Minister's apparent sharp turn to the left despite the election of a more conservative American government, one with close ties to the Jewish state.
One individual close to the president-elect reportedly said that Liberman appeared to be trying to "move to the left of Trump" on Israeli internal affairs, wondering if the Defense Minister believes the American administration should be more hawkish than Israel's own government.
Some in the Trump camp suggested that Israelis had yet to internalize the meaning of Trump's victory, and its implications for the Jewish state, adding that the Trump administration would not be opposed to Israeli proposals to annex large swaths of Judea and Samaria – if the Israeli government would make such a request.
3. JUSTICE MINISTER AGAINST MUEZZIN LAW
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked does not support the "muezzin law" despite the national camp rallying around the bill and refrained from voting for it when it came up for discussion in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has expressed his support for the bill to solve the issue of the loudspeakers blasting the Muslim call to prayer at extremely loud decibel levels waking citizens up several times a night in many parts of the country. "I can't tell you how many times people have approached me, from all walks of Israeli society, who are crying out about the suffering that is caused by excessive noise reaching them from prayer house announcements." Netahyahu said.
The office of Justice Minister Shaked said: "There is already a law against excessive noise which is not being enforced. The Interior Minister, the Internal Security Minister, and the Environment Minister all agreed that the existing regulations [cover the issue of the muezzin], but they have to be enforced."
"Justice Minister Shaked believes that when it is possible to enforce the existing law there is no need to legislate further. Nevertheless, the idea expressed in the law is important, and therefore Shaked decided to abstain." the statement continued.
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman also objected to the law on the grounds that it may be used against the siren that sounds in many Israeli cities on Friday afternoons to announce the start of the Sabbath.
4. MK GLICK: THINGS ARE IMPROVING ON TEMPLE MOUNT
by Ofra Lass
When MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) gets excited, he speaks quickly and his breathing becomes heavy - because of the assassination attempt which nearly killed him two years ago.
The gunman, who fired four bullets at Glick from the point-blank distance of just 30 centimeters (less than a foot),was certain that he had finished the job and drove off. "Four Jews were assassinated in the month of Mar Heshvan (bitter Heshvan)." Glick said. "Rehavam Ze'evi, Yitzhak Rabin, Rabbi Kahane, and myself. I was the only one to survive."
Glick is an unusual MK. He is the head of the Knesset Lobby for Strengthening the Jewish Connection to the Temple Mount, and he is also the head of the Lobby to Strengthen the Relations between Jews and Muslims.
Glick wears a blue and white bracelet with the words "The Temple Mount is in our hands," which was distributed on Monday at a conference held by the Doresh Tzion organization on the ascension of Jews to the Temple Mount. The conference also marked the second anniversary of the assassination attempt on Glick.
"I think God kept me alive because he thought that my mission was not over." Glick said. "Over the last two years I have had the urgency of direction. Now I promote the issue [of the Temple Mount] not as an individual,but as a representative of the people of Israel."
Nearly seven years have passed since I had an interview with Glick in a Jerusalem Cafe. He was then a civilian working on the cause of the Temple Mount. The thought that he would one fay become a Member of the Knesset organizing conferences to encourage Jews to ascend the Temple Mount seemed ridiculous at the time. It turns out that I was not the only one to think that way.
"As far as the police are concerned we have always been a nuisance and 'extremists.'" Glick says. "We asked them to do something about the Mourabitoun and Mourabitat (Arab extremist groups which harass and attack Jews on the Temple Mount) and they would not listen. For years I would go to the Public Security Minister and tell him that they are tampling and spitting on us, and he would tell me "You are guilty and you will cause World War 3." Yesterday the Public Security Minister came to me at the conference and said "You are right. There is discrimination against Jews on the Temple Mount."
Glick added that that steps have already been taken to improve the situation, with the banning of the Islamic Movement in Israel and the banning of the Mourabitoun and Mourabitat groups from the Temple Mount.
5. ZOA CHIEF: BANNON IS PRO-ISRAEL, NOT ANTI-SEMITIC
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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6. 'NETANYAHU WOULD NEVER SELL OUT ISRAEL'S SECURITY'
by Uzi Baruch
Education Minister and Jewish Home chief Naftali Bennett defended Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Friday morning, following accusations of corruption in connection with a large military hardware purchase from Germany.
Writing on Twitter, Bennett rejected claims Netanyahu had acted improperly or had sold out the Israeli defense establishment.
"The Prime Minister is not corrupt," Bennett wrote. "He would never sell out Israel's security for money."
On Thursday the Prime Minister's Office rebuffed a report by Channel 10 that Netanyahu circumvented normal channels for the purchase of four warships and three submarines from Germany.
The report also alleged that the acquisition deal had been negotiated by Netanyahu's attorney, David Shimron, who Channel 10 suggests also represents Miki Ganor, an employee of the German manufacturer of the submarines Israel purchased.
Former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon called for a formal investigation into Netanyahu's handling of the purchase and denied claims by the National Security Council that he had been involved in the purchase.
"The description of the sequence of events described by the National Security Council is lacking and does not reflect reality as it is," insisted the former Defense Minister.
7. 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE, HELP ME CHEAT DEATH'
by David Rosenberg
In a stranger-than-fiction legal drama, a British court has granted a teenage girl who passed away from cancer her dying wish – to be resurrected.
Justice Peter Jackson ruled in favor of the girl's mother, who had requested that she alone determine the fate of her deceased daughter's remains.
While her ex-husband had opposed the idea of preserving her body, the girl's mother wanted to comply with her daughter's request that she be cryogenically frozen, in the hopes that one day "in hundreds of years" she could be restored to life.
The girl, identified only as J.S., had told relatives of her plans, and was confident she would be returning in the distant future.
"I'm dying, but I'm going to come back again in 200 years," J.S. said, according to a Telegraph report.
J.S. even appealed to the court from beyond the grave, writing a letter to the judge shortly before her death on October 17th.
"I don't want to die, but I know I am going to… I want to live longer… I want to have this chance."
J.S. suffered from a rare form of cancer, diagnosed in 2015. After learning that her condition was terminal, she began researching the possibility of cheating death – through the use of cryogenic freezing.
The girl's father, however, is skeptical she could ever be resuscitated, and worried that even if she could, she would awaken into a wholly alien world.
"Even if the treatment is successful and she is brought back to life in, let's say, 200 years," he said, "she may not find any relative and she might not remember things.
8. WATCH: HUNDREDS SING AT GRAVESITE OF REBBE CARLEBACH
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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