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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Monday, Apr. 24 '17, כ"ח בניסן תשע"ז HEADLINES: 1. BENNETT WITH TORAH SCROLL SAVED FROM HOLOCAUST 2. SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH ELIE WIESEL'S SON 3. 4 WOUNDED IN TERROR ATTACK IN TEL AVIV 4. SUSPECT IN JCC BOMB THREATS ATTEMPTED TO BLACKMAIL GOP OFFICIAL 5. JERUSALEM WOMAN GIVES BIRTH AFTER BEING STABBED 6. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ACTIVATES REMEMBRANCE DAY SIREN 7. 'QALANDIYA TERRORIST WANTED TO DIE' 8. NEW HEBREW-GERMAN PRAYER BOOK IN MEMORY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS 1. BENNETT WITH TORAH SCROLL SAVED FROM HOLOCAUST by Yoni Kempinski, Poland [youtube:2027210] Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday will lead the 29th March of the Living while holding a Torah scroll in his arms. The Torah scroll survived the Holocaust and was restored after being nearly destroyed by the Nazis. It was written before the First World War broke out, and served the Transylvanian Jewish community until Romanian Jewry was wiped out by the Nazis. After it sat for decades beneath the ruins of the Bucharest synagogue, the "Menorah" association led by Moshe Moskowitz brought the Torah scroll to Israel. It was restored by the Machon Ot, and now serves synagogues in Judea and Samaria. Moskowitz, who is one of the founders of Gush Etzion, acceded to Bennett's request to bring the Torah scroll with him to the 2017 March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau. "The possibility of holding this Torah scroll, which itself is a survivor of the Nazis, while standing together with dozens of Holocaust survivors, hundreds of IDF soldiers, the families of terror victims and injured IDF soldiers, and thousands of Jewish youth from around the world - is itself proof of Israel's spiritual greatness and the fact that we are an eternal people," Bennett said. "In this Torah scroll, which I am holding now, it says, 'The blood of your brethren is screaming to Me from the earth.' This is what I feel now, when I hold this Torah scroll, a scroll which saw so many horrors, which saw the worst period in Jewish history. Yet, this scroll survived and merited to arrive in Israel. "Today, standing in Auschwitz, we must remember that we have received our greatest gift, the gift of the State of Israel." Naftali Bennett holds Torah scroll outside Auschwitz Yoni Kempinski 2. SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH ELIE WIESEL'S SON by Yoni Kempinski [youtube:2027170] Arutz Sheva spoke to Elisha Wiesel, the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate the late Eli Wiesel. Wiesel was in Krakow, Poland, to participate in the annual March of the Living Holocaust commemoration. "To see this cemetery, and to see a thousand years of Polish Jewry, and some of the great names that are buried here, brings you to remember that it's not just that there was death here in Poland. There was vibrant life for Jews here, before the war, in Poland," Wiesel said. "I don't think you can boil [the Holocaust] down to just one message," he said. "I think there was a message for the world, which very much resonated on 'we can't allow this to happen again.' Humanity should treat itself in a humane way, not in an inhumane way." 3. 4 WOUNDED IN TERROR ATTACK IN TEL AVIV by David Rosenberg Four people were stabbed in northern Tel Aviv Sunday afternoon inside a hotel lobby and on a nearby beachfront popular with tourists. The victims included three men, two in their 50s and one in his early 70s, and a woman in her early 50s. The four were treated on the scene by United Hatzalah and MDA paramedics before being evacuated to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. The injuries sustained by all four victims have been listed as light. United Hatzalah emergency responder Yossi Eckler described the scene of the attack. "When I arrived at the hotel, we found two men and one woman lightly injured in the lobby. They were suffering from wounds in their upper body. While treating them together with other EMTS from the ambu-cycle unit who arrived after me, we were told of another wounded man outside of the hotel. EMTs promptly ran to treat him as well." Police have taken an 18-year old Arab man suspected in the attacks into custody. Authorities say the suspect is a resident of the Palestinian Authority. The suspect acknowledged his crimes during interrogation, and claimed the attack was nationalistically motivated, confirmed suspicions the incident was indeed a terror attack. 4. SUSPECT IN JCC BOMB THREATS ATTEMPTED TO BLACKMAIL GOP OFFICIAL by David Rosenberg An Israeli-American teenager suspected of making hundreds of threats to Jewish institutions around the world was indicted in a Tel Aviv district court Monday morning, after Israel denied a US extradition request. The 18-year old suspect, whose name remains under a gag order in Israel, has also been indicted in the US for 28 counts of threatening phone calls and cyberstalking. On Sunday, Israeli media outlets reported that Israel had turned down a request by the US Department of Justice to extradite the man for trial in the US. The suspect is also wanted in Israel for a variety offenses, including making threats, assault and attempted weapons theft stemming from an attack on a female officer during his arrest, and a litany of other charges. Authorities say the suspect used an underground web network for a variety of illegal operations including drug dealing, document counterfeiting, and sale of materials for explosives. The suspect also allegedly ran a harassment-for-hire business and was responsible for threats against a number of airline flights which caused major travel disruptions. Police add that child pornography was found on the suspect’s computer. The indictment with the Tel Aviv court also alleges that the suspect attempted to blackmail a Delaware state senator, and used a shipment of drugs to damage the official’s image. According to the indictment, the suspect targeted Republican state senator Ernesto Lopez after the senator spoke out against the wave of bomb threats, sending a shipment of drugs to Lopez’s residence in a blackmail scheme. 5. JERUSALEM WOMAN GIVES BIRTH AFTER BEING STABBED by Arutz Sheva Staff A pregnant woman roughly 35 years of age was stabbed Monday morning on Mordechai Ben Hillel Street in downtown Jerusalem. Authorities say the assailant, the woman’s husband, fled the scene shortly after he stabbed his wife. Police later apprehended the suspect and took him in for questioning. An MDA emergency response team was called to the scene to treat the woman, who was then evacuated to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in moderate condition. The woman, in the 35th week of pregnancy, was approved for a Caesarian section after arriving in the hospital for treatment of her stabbing wounds. Hospital officials report that despite her wounds, the woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy. MDA emergency responder Yonatan Spitzer described the scene of the stabbing. "When we arrived, we were brought in to a hallway where we saw a woman about 35-years old, fully conscious, who was suffering from stab wounds to her upper body. We provided medical treatment, including stopping the bleeding, before she was evacuated to the hospital in stable, moderate condition." 6. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ACTIVATES REMEMBRANCE DAY SIREN by Arutz Sheva Staff The country-wide Holocaust Remembrance Day siren, sounded at 10 a.m. in memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust was activated on Monday morning by Holocaust survivor Stephanie Fortuno. Stephanie, 77, survived the Holocaust as a young girl in Poland. On Monday morning Stephanie arrived at the Home Front Command's war room, which is run by her son Yoni Fortuno, to press the button which would sound the siren all over the country. Fortuno's father was a factory owner, and her mother was an accountant. When the Nazis invaded Poland during World War II, she was hidden in the home of one of her father's factory workers, until the host family could no longer hide her. In the meantime, her father was taken to a concentration camp where he eventually met his death. Her mother was arrested by the Gestapo on her way to visit the home where Stephanie was hiding - and then disappeared, leaving young Stephanie on her own. Stephanie's uncle, who was a partisan, took her under his wing and found another Polish family who would hide her until the end of the war. For three years, Stephanie hid in a closet in the family's home, which was located just opposite the local Gestapo headquarters. Two years after the war, when Stephanie was seven years old, she was sent from Poland to England. She was adopted at age 9 by a couple who raised her until her marriage at age 21. "I met many people who did me kindnesses," Stephanie said. "I learned that in every situation, there is at least one good thing." "People endangered their lives to help me, ignoring the risks involved. I owe them my life." Yoni Fortuno said, "My mother's story is a life lesson for me. The great kindness strangers showed her is something I try to incorporate into my life. Everywhere I go, I try to do something good for someone else." "The fact that my mother sounded the siren is a kind of closure for me. I am the commander of a unit in charge of activating sirens during air strikes, when there is a danger to Israeli civilians. "The siren today was not a siren of war, it was a siren of unity, a siren of remembrance." 7. 'QALANDIYA TERRORIST WANTED TO DIE' by Uzi Baruch The terrorist who stabbed a soldier on Monday morning at the Qalandia crossing has been identified at Asya Kaabana, 41, who lives in the Shechem (Nablus) area town of Duma, the Shin Bet security agency reported. Kaabana is married and a mother of nine children, and recently has had marital problems, resulting in her husband threatening to send her back to her family in Jordan. The Shin Bet also discovered that the terrorist argued fiercely with her husband on Sunday night over their children's education. This argument caused the woman to decide to carry out a terror attack, hoping Israeli security forces would shoot her, since, "she was sick of her life anyway." A female security guard was lightly injured in the attack. She has been transferred to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital for treatment. Initial investigations show the terrorist was waiting at the checkpoint, and requested to approach the security guard "in order to ask a question." She then pulled out her knife, quickly approached the guard, and stabbed her. Police officers and security guards overtook the terrorist and neutralized her. 8. NEW HEBREW-GERMAN PRAYER BOOK IN MEMORY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS by Chana Roberts [youtube:2027201] Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Berlin's Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, published a new prayer book (siddur) with German translation. The prayer book, whose production spanned four years, features close to 1,400 pages of clear print and attractive design. According to Teichtal, this is the first time in over a century that a one-volume complete Orthodox prayer book encompassing all daily and holiday prayers with contemporary German translation, along with instructions and explanations regarding the prayers, has been printed in Germany. While in the process of compiling the prayer book, Rabbi Teichtal founded a Jewish publishing house in Berlin which he named "Juedisches." The prayerbook is its first publication. New Hebrew-German siddur Juedisches Publishing House "This prayer book has all the prayers that a person needs for the entire year, including the holidays, except for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur" Rabbi Teichtal said. "Publishing this prayer book is also our way of announcing the opening of a new Jewish publishing house in Germany." "For hundreds of years, one of the main ways of commemorating the tribulations in Jewish history was through prayer. This year, I’m certain that reciting the prayer 'Almighty, Filled with Compassion,' (El Malei Rachamim said at memorials and funerals, ed.) in memory of the six million who were murdered in the Holocaust, will evoke great emotion in me, because I will be reciting it along with the contemporary German translation as appears in the new prayer book. "Aside from the technical advantage of translating the prayers into German, I feel that one way to encourage the younger generation to join us in remembering and honoring the past is by linking memories of the past to a revitalized movement of Jewish spirituality. "The fact that specifically here, in a place where they attempted to exterminate European Jewry, there is now a vibrant, active Jewish community, as manifest by the publication of one of the most prominent and basic Jewish works in the German language, attests to the spiritual force and power of humanity, and of the Jewish nation in particular. I sincerely hope that this will be a source of inspiration and message of unity to a younger generation." Juedisches hopes to print other basic Jewish texts, and has already completed nearly one-third of a Book of Psalms with German translation. The Psalms will be published in conjunction with and with the permission of the Kehot American publishing house. The new "Tehillat Hashem" prayer book comprises some 1,400 pages, half of which are in Hebrew and the other half in German. In addition to the actual prayers, translation, and elucidation, the book also includes Ethics of the Fathers, Torah readings for Mondays, Thursdays and Holidays, and basic Jewish laws of prayer. It will be available for purchase in German Jewish communities, on the Swiss Jewish website "Books & Bagels," and on Amazon. In 1895, Frankfurt's Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, who was one of the leading Orthodox Rabbis in nineteenth century Europe, printed one of the first Jewish prayer books to include German translation. In the twentieth century, several other prayer books were printed in German, as well, but few included all the prayers, and others were divided into several volumes. Rabbi Teichtal is the grandson of Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, a Hungarian Torah scholar who differed from mainstream Hungarian rabbis by changing his views on Zionism during WWII when he saw what was happening to European Jewry. He wrote that redemption can be brought closer by building up the Holy Land and that the tragedy might have been averted had Jews returned to Israel. His seminal work expounding that position, "Eim Habanim Smeicha," was penned during the Holocaust.. He was killed while being transported to Mauthausen concentration camp from Auschwitz. ------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe/ | |
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