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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Tuesday, Apr. 25 '17, כ"ט בניסן תשע"ז HEADLINES: 1. BENNETT ENDORSES NETANYAHU 2. NETANYAHU ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER 3. SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE? 4. REPORT: TERRORIST RESPONSIBLE FOR HANG GLIDER ATTACK KILLED 5. STOLEN SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD ANTIQUITIES RECOVERED IN SAMARIA 6. THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE - AS SEEN FROM ISRAEL 7. GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER RESPONDS TO NETANYAHU'S ULTIMATUM 8. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: KEEP OUR STORIES GOING 1. BENNETT ENDORSES NETANYAHU by Uzi Baruch Education Minister and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett endorsed the Prime Minister's ultimatum which he presented to German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel Monday. Netanyahu said that if Gabriel meets with members of B'Tselem and Breaking he Silence, his scheduled meeting with Gabriel would be cancelled. "We endorse Prime Minister Netanyahu on his decision regarding the visit of the German foreign minister," said Bennett. "Breaking the Silence is not an anti-Netanyahu organization, it is anti-IDF. "It is not right that a foreign minister visiting a certain country should meet with officials working against that country, " added Bennett. "We wouldn't have done that and we expect our friends to act the same way." Former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon also responded to Netanyahu's ultimatum and said "I support the Prime Minister's demand from the German Foreign Minister regarding Breaking the Silence. The funding and intervention by European governments regarding these subjects crosses red lines between countries." Yaalon added that "Israel has lost patience with government funding, supporting and intervening with organizations like this. They don't do it to help us, they use organizations like Breaking the Silence to strengthen the spurious Palestinian narrative and to weaken Israel's status in the world." Yaalon emphasized that he supports the right for free speech and does not favor outlawing left-wing organizations but stated that they should not be allowed access to the IDF. 2. NETANYAHU ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER by Arutz Sheva Staff Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu presented an ultimatum Monday night to the German foreign minister, whom he is scheduled to meet with tomorrow. Channel 2 reported that the minister, Sigmar Gabriel, was required to choose between a meeting with the prime minister and a meeting with the leaders of Peace Now set for him. "Choosing these meetings [with Peace Now] constitutes a defiant message against the policy of the government and against its leader personally, and Netanyahu thinks that a red line should be placed against the German officials," political sources said. Sources close to the German foreign minister have yet to respond. Gabriel is a controversial firgure in the relations between Israel and Germany, which have been deteriorating in recent months. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party and, before serving in his current post, wrote many articles on social media condemning Israel, which he called "an apartheid state." He refused to apologize for these statements, although he was asked to do so. The German foreign minister is also one of the leaders of the foreign policy of the Merkel administration, and has worked to strengthen Germany's relations with Iran as much as possible after the lifting of sanctions from the rogue state. The German media reported this morning that due to the deterioration in relations, Israel conveyed a clear message to the Merkel government that it is not interested in its involvement in attempts to renew contacts with the Palestinian Authority. 3. SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE? by David Rosenberg A man found dead in his apartment Tuesday morning may have been the victim of a serial murderer, Israel Police reported. The body of a 51-year old man was found in his bed this morning in the Galilee town of Maalot. MDA emergency responders who were called to the scene said signs of violence were found on the man’s body. "When we arrived, we went into the apartment and saw a man roughly 50-years old lying down, unconscious, with no heartbeat, [and who] was not breathing, with signs of violence on his body," said MDA first responder Alon Kotzi. "We performed a number of medical checks but he had no vital signs, and after a short period a MDA paramedic pronounced him dead." Authorities say they are examining the possibility that the murder may be linked with two other unsolved murder cases in Maalot. Over the past year and a half, say police, an elderly man and an elderly woman were killed in similar circumstances in two separate incidents. No details of the most recent murder, nor the specific similarities with the two prior murders have been disclosed. 4. REPORT: TERRORIST RESPONSIBLE FOR HANG GLIDER ATTACK KILLED by David Rosenberg The terrorist mastermind responsible for one of the worst terror attacks against Israel in the late 1980s was killed over the weekend in Syria, NRG has reported. Abd al-Rahim Ahmed Atik, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command – a splinter group from the later PFLP terror organization – was responsible for the "Night of the Gliders" attack on November 25th, 1987 against an IDF post near Kiryat Shemona in northern Israel. Two Arab terrorists operating from southern Lebanon used gliders to cross the border into Israel overnight and attack an IDF position with assault rifles and grenades. Six soldiers were murdered in the attack. Both terrorists were killed in the gun battle which followed. Ahmed Atik was apparently killed early Sunday morning in the airstrike on a Syrian military facility near the town of Nebaa Al-Fawwar, near the Golan Heights. Arab media outlets have attributed the strike to Israel, though the IDF has not claimed responsibility for the operation. It is unclear whether Ahmed Atik was the target of the strike. The PFLP-GC is allied with the Assad regime. 5. STOLEN SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD ANTIQUITIES RECOVERED IN SAMARIA by Ido Ben Porat Israeli police and members of the archaeological department of the Civil Administration raided the village of Hawara in Samaria and confiscated hundreds of old coins from various periods, as well as pitchers, earthenware items and jewelry valued at high prices. The forces arrested an Arab resident of the village in his fifties who is suspected of purveying ancient artifacts, not announcing their discovery as required by law and illegal possession of weapons. The search in the suspects house and store revealed hundreds of coins, pitchers, figurines, earthenware scales, jewels, basalt stones used to grind wheat, copper utensils, water and oil jars as well as a Sten gun and a rifle. Members of the archaeology department estimated that the artifacts were from the Hasmonean, Bar Kochba, Second Temple, Assyrian and Roman periods and are worth tens of thousands of dollars. The Arab claimed on investigation that he had bought the artifacts for his own private collection. The investigation is continuing. 6. THE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE - AS SEEN FROM ISRAEL by ILTV [brightcove:2027242] 7. GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER RESPONDS TO NETANYAHU'S ULTIMATUM by David Rosenberg Germany’s Foreign Minister responded Tuesday morning to an ultimatum issued by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday night, warning the German official that he would not be received by the Israeli government if he went through with a planned meeting with a radical left-wing organization. Netanyahu issued the ultimatum to German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel Monday night, after it was revealed that Gabriel was slated to meet with radical leftist groups critical of the IDF, including Breaking the Silence. "Choosing these meetings [with Peace Now] constitutes a defiant message against the policy of the government and against its leader personally, and Netanyahu thinks that a red line should be placed against the German officials," a senior political official told Channel 2. The Prime Minister is scheduled to meet with Gabriel, but has warned that the meeting will not go forward should Gabriel meet with Breaking the Silence members as planned. Responding to Netanyahu’s ultimatum Tuesday, Gabriel told ZDF it would be "regrettable" to cancel, saying that if Netanyahu carried out the threat it would be a "remarkable event, to put it mildly." "Imagine if the Israeli Prime Minister ... came to Germany and wanted to meet people critical of the government and we said that is not possible ... That would be unthinkable." 8. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: KEEP OUR STORIES GOING by Yoni Kempinski [youtube:2027246] Bob Geminder survived the German death squads in Russia and escaped together with his mother and brothers just before his death train entered Auschwitz. Bob told Arutz Sheva about his feelings on joining the March of the Living for the fourth time. ------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe/ | |
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