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Tuesday, Mar. 14 '17, ט"ז באדר תשע"ז
HEADLINES:
1. IDF SOLDIERS FORCED TO VISIT A CHURCH
2. UK: MUSLIMS OUTNUMBER CHRISTIANS IN DOZENS OF CHURCH SCHOOLS
3. PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER CLOSES PA OFFICE IN JERUSALEM
4. REPORT: IRAN SET UP WEAPONS FACTORIES FOR HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON
5. WATCH: JASON GREENBLAT MEETS PM NETANYAHU
6. JONATHAN BARANSKY TO CONTEST JEWISH HOME LEADERSHIP
7. 'A DESPICABLE ACT, WE NEED TO WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE'
8. THIS WEEK IN RECENT HISTORY: ARAB SPRING
1. IDF SOLDIERS FORCED TO VISIT A CHURCH
by Ido Ben Porat
Dozens of soldiers from the Engineering Corps were forced Tuesday to visit a church during the course of an "educational seminar" the IDF organizes for soldiers.
The visit to the church was in direct opposition to the Chief of Staff's directives. Soldiers contacted Army Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim to try and prevent the visit to a Christian site but nothing has been done as yet regarding the matter.
The Chief of Staff's directive forbids entering a church except when there is an operational requirement. "A commander will not force a soldier to enter a church unless the matter is required for the sake of or in the course of operational duty," says the directive.
The educational seminar the soldiers are attending is called "Human Mosaic" and during the course of it they will visit Mitzpe Benayah, named in memory of Major Benayah Rein who fell in the Second Lebanon war. They will also visit Akko in the footsteps of Islam, meet a Druze Sheikh and visit a church in the North of the country.
The goal of the workshop, according to an official document of the Education Corps is to "strengthen the sense of belonging and commitment of the soldier to Israeli society, the State of Israel and the IDF. Soldiers will investigate their value systems and how they manifest themselves in daily life throught their walking tour in the North and exposure to different cultures."
"The Galilee and the Kinneret basin serve as a meeting place of different cultures, religions and communities which together forge and create Israeli society. During the course of the educational seminar, we will be exposed to the human mosaic of society and we will try to understand how it manifests itself in the IDF," stated the document.
2. UK: MUSLIMS OUTNUMBER CHRISTIANS IN DOZENS OF CHURCH SCHOOLS
by Hillel Fendel
The Muslim population in Britain is growing so fast that Muslim pupils outnumber Christians in each of more than 30 church schools. One Church of England primary school has a "100% Muslim population," according to the Sunday Times, while the local diocese in Werneth, Oldham reports the same for its St. Thomas school.
The Church of England estimates that about 20 of its schools have more Muslim pupils than Christians, while the Catholic Education Service says the same for 15 Roman Catholic schools. Some church schools include Islamic prayers in their services.
In Staincliffe Church of England's Junior School in Batley, West Yorkshire, 98% of the pupils "come from a Muslim background."
Another indication, Gatestone Institute reports, is that almost half of the new homes built in the next five years will go to migrants, according to government figures. It is estimated that an extra 5.3 million new properties could be needed to meet the growth in population over the next two decades, and an extra 2.4 million of the new homes will be needed for migrants alone.
Jim Walker, a 71-year-old clock-winder at Carnforth Railway Station in northern England, has been banned from the premises – because of an alleged racist comment he made. For more than a decade, Walker has been voluntarily winding a famous clock at the station. This has now come to an end, because he was overheard discussing a newspaper article about young migrants – most of them, admittedly, Muslims - entering Britain. The fear of offending Muslims has come to the point that he was let go because "Carnforth Station Trust received a complaint from a visitor who was not happy about me speaking to somebody about the issue," Walker said. "What they are doing is outrageous. It is absolutely unbelievable, it is a violation of free speech.... I must be the only man in Carnforth who has a document saying where he can and can't walk - and all for expressing a point of view."
In other February events in Britain, six Muslim men shouted "Allahu Akbar" as they were sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court for a total of 81 years for sexually abusing two girls in Rotherham.
Gatestone also reports that Muslims who wish to leave their religion face harassment – and the police can do nothing. A month ago, Faisal Bashir, 43, and his family were forced to move out of their home because of ongoing harassment after he stopped attending mosque services. Police dismissed his pleas for help as "just a nuisance." The Chairman of the Ilford-based British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) said, "Police and councils up and down the country just don't understand the level of animosity people choosing to leave Islam can face."
On the other hand, counter-terrorism police have launched an investigation into claims that Trish O'Donnell, head of Clarksfield Primary School in Oldham, was being forced to work from home after death threats from Muslim parents opposed to her Western values. O'Donnell has reportedly been threatened with having her car blown up and other intimidation and abuse from parents pushing conservative Muslim ideals. The school is mostly filled with Pakistani pupils who do not speak English as a first language.
3. PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER CLOSES PA OFFICE IN JERUSALEM
by AFP and Arutz Sheva
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan ordered on Tuesday the closure of a PA-funded cartography office in Jerusalem.
The office was shut down for six months, a police statement said. Likewise, the office's director was arrested.
Israeli officials said that its head, Khalil Tafakji, had been working with the Palestinian Authority to monitor the sale of land by Palestinians to Israeli Jews in eastern Jerusalem.
Erdan said Tafakji's work had been "part of the Palestinian Authority's plan to undermine our sovereignty in Jerusalem and terrorize Arabs selling real estate to Jews in the city."
"I'll continue to act assertively to prevent Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem."
4. REPORT: IRAN SET UP WEAPONS FACTORIES FOR HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON
by Gary Willig
Iran has set up weapons construction factories for Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a report by the Kuwaiti newspaper al Jarida.
According to the report, the decision to construct the weapons factories in Lebanon followed alleged attacks by the Israeli Air Force on Iranian weapons shipments in Sudan, which were meant for terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas? Israel has also allegedly targeted Iranian weapons shipments meant for Hezbollah in Syria in recent years.
The Hezbollah terrorist organization is an Iranian proxy, and fought in the Syrian civil war to secure the regime of Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran.
"Iran has set up factories for the production of rockets in Lebanon and for Hezbollah weapons," the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said in an interview with al Jarida.
He explained that a special department was established at an Iranian university to train talented Lebanese "experts" in the manufacturing of rockets and other weapons so that they could construct the weapons back home with fearing that an Israeli air strike would destroy the weapons transports before Hezbollah could receive them.
5. WATCH: JASON GREENBLAT MEETS PM NETANYAHU
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6. JONATHAN BARANSKY TO CONTEST JEWISH HOME LEADERSHIP
by Hezky Baruch
Colonel (Res.) Jonathan Baransky announced Tuesday that he would submit his candidacy for head of the Jewish Home party and contest Naftali Bennett for the leadership of the party.
Baransky, a resident of Eli in Samaria, is married to Liora and a father of five. He left the army two and a half years ago after 25 years of combat service. Among other roles he served as Deputy Commander of the Gaza division and director of staff at the Interdisciplinary Officer's Training school as well as commanding the Negev brigade and the Netzah Yehuda battalion.
During the previous elections Baransky supported the Yahad party headed by Eli Yishai.
"in the last few months I have been touring around the country and meeting with Jewish Home voters in every branch as well as seeing the people of Israel. Everywhere I here the same tone: the connection is missing. The leadership of the Jewish Home party is detached from its voters," said Baransky.
"I decided to compete for head of the Jewish Home party and the political leadership of Religious Zionism in order to present a connected leadership, one that is in touch with the voter base, in touch with the values of Religious Zionist, attached to the people of Israel, the land of Israel and the Torah of Israel," he added.
" I come with a great sense of mission after all my life I have grown up and been educated on Religious Zionist values," said Baransky, adding that Naftali Bennett had brought a new spirit to the Religious Zionist community and placed it in its appropriate position in the national leadership.
"For this he should be congratulated. However the party now faces a historic crossroads and must decide whether to lose its unique character and relinquish its values or reconnect to voters and take its place as a strong Religious Zionist party which represents the values of Religious Zionism in education, economics, welfare, law, maintenance of the entire land of Israel and in all other facets of life. We need a connected leadership.I call on all those connected to the path of Religious Zionism to join me."
7. 'A DESPICABLE ACT, WE NEED TO WAKE UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE'
by Yoel Domb
ZAKA head Yehuda Meshi Zahav reacted sharply on Tuesday to the effigies dressed as haredi soldiers which were hung out by extremist elements in a number of Jerusalem streets on Purim.
"I'm convinced that they are a tiny minority who do not represent anybody except for themselves and make a bad name for the entire haredi community," Meshi Zahav told Yediot Aharonot.
Meshi Zahav founded ZAKA in 1995 as a non-governmental rescue and recovery volunteer organization, with thousands of volunteers on call 24/7 to respond to any terror attack, accident or disaster.
Meshi Zahav said the phenomenon of baiting haredi soldiers had begun two years ago when haredi elements coined the term "hardakim" for haredi soldiers, an acronym for "simpleminded soldiers" or "simpleminded haredim."
"It began with shaming and has now come to the burning of effigies. This is a disgraceful act. The haredim who enlist are risking their lives for the people of Israel. Instead of working for a living they are devoting their lives to protecting the nation. They are to be compared to Haman? They are to be hung in the town square? This is the most despicable act that could be done.
Meshi Zahav also targeted the haredi leadership. "Those demonstrators are making a bad name for our entire community. We have political leaders and rabbis who should go out publicly and excoriate this behavior. These people must be removed from our neighborhoods, from our community. We cannot be afraid of a small minority which is harming all of us."
"I have issues with the state leadership as well," said Meshi Zahav. "These are IDF soldiers doing their duty and they are the holiest thing we have. I know this myself because my children enlisted in the army. It is unacceptable that the state does not place an 'iron dome' over them and protect them. What are they waiting for? The distance between hanging dummies and physical assaults is very small and it is only a matter of time before they occur.
"To this day there have been tens of cases of incitement and attacks yet only two indictments have been issued, it is unfathomable. I call on legislators, police, the State Prosecutor and Attorney General to wake up before it's too late."
Meshi Zahav's older son served in the Golani brigade, while his younger son is in the paratroopers. "I'm not embarrassed by them, I only speak in their name. They are proud to go in uniform. They have also suffered taunts byt they are strong and believe in what they are doing. Unfortunately not everyone is as bold and has the stamina to deal with this phenomenon, so it must be addressed and taken care of."
8. THIS WEEK IN RECENT HISTORY: ARAB SPRING
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