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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Wednesday, May. 10 '17, י"ד באייר תשע"ז HEADLINES: 1. NETANYAHU: EVERY COUNTRY SHOULD MOVE THEIR EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM 2. 'THERE IS NO EUROPE WITHOUT JEWS' 3. ARAB PLANNED TO BLOW UP MILITARY COURT 4. ARCHAEOLOGIST UNLOCKS GATEWAY TO THE PAST 5. REUTERS CHIEF SLAMS US AMBASSADOR FOR DESECRATING 'NAKBA DAY' 6. PIZZA HUT APOLOGIZES FOR LAUGHING AT EATING HUNGER STRIKE LEADER 7. 'THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY LOVES ISRAEL' 8. WATCH: 60 EUROPEAN RABBIS RECITE THE 'PRAYER FOR ISRAEL' 1. NETANYAHU: EVERY COUNTRY SHOULD MOVE THEIR EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM by Nitsan Keidar Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office on Wednesday responded to the report claiming US President Donald Trump had decided to extend the order preventing the US Embassy from being moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "Prime Minister Netanyahu's office has not received any notice about a decision by the US government to move or not to move the US Embassy," an official notice said. "Israel's stance is that all the embassies belong in Israel's capital of Jerusalem, and the US Embassy should be one of the first to move." Various reports have said the Israeli government was not sure it wanted to move the Embassy at present and had requested Trump delay the move. Earlier on Wednesday, 360 reporter Ariel Kahana said Trump had extended the order preventing the US Embassy from being moved to Jerusalem. 2. 'THERE IS NO EUROPE WITHOUT JEWS' by Yoni Kempinski, Amsterdam [youtube:2027899] Frans Timmermans, First Vice President of the European Commission, said on Tuesday that "there is no Europe without the Jewish Community". Timmermans spoke at the Conference of European Rabbi’s 60th Anniversary Gala Dinner, held in Amsterdam. The Gala Dinner was chaired by the Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, Rabbi Eliezer Wolff. "Europe is faced with a huge surge of anti-Semitism, which is inspired by people coming from elsewhere, who were raised with anti-Semitism. Our society should be helping them to get it out of their system and signs of anti-Semitism should not remain unaddressed. But sadly, we also face the eternal European anti-Semitism, which is live and kicking," said Timmermans in his remarks. "Freedom of religion is essential and we will defend the principle that one should not be questioned how they practice religion. There is no Europe without the Jewish community," he added. In a video message played to the delegated of the Conference, President Tajani, President of the European Union said, "Europe will not be Europe without Jews. Any attack against Jewish communities in Europe is an attack against Europe. We have to act together reaffirming the values at the center of the European integration. Religions are part of the solution for peace and tolerance." Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wrote a letter to the Conference, in which he said, "Regrettably, anti-Semitism has not disappeared from our world. In recent years, we have been witness to a resurgence in anti-Semitic attacks and many Jews are once again afraid to openly practice their religion and identify themselves as Jews. I appreciate your actions to combat this scourge and refuse the libelous smear campaign against Israel." Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, said, "This is a new very scary environment in which negative forces are taking advantage of globalization and abusing the internet to spread their hate. We rabbis have to provide to our community and to the world a tent, a spiritual tent, which will provide clarity, charity and love, sanctity and tolerance, where the respect to every human being who has been created in the image of G-d is demonstrated. I thank Frans Timmermans and President Tanjani for their kind words of support for European Jewry." The gathering that brings together close to 300 delegates, predominantly Chief Rabbis and Rabbis from across Europe, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It started on Monday and runs through Wednesday. 3. ARAB PLANNED TO BLOW UP MILITARY COURT by Mordechai Sones An Arab arrived Wednesday at the Samaria military court near the village of Salem, with two pipe bombs hidden in his clothes. The Arab arrived at one of the military court's checkpoints seeking to enter. He claimed that he did not have an identity card and aroused suspicions of the soldiers there. In their search, two pipe bombs were found hidden in his clothes. An initial investigation revealed that the Arab apparently wanted to explode the devices inside the military court to harm the security forces there. The terrorist, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, was arrested for further investigation by security forces. Border Police sappers neutralized the charges. המטענים צילום: דוברות המשטרה 4. ARCHAEOLOGIST UNLOCKS GATEWAY TO THE PAST by Arutz Sheva Staff [youtube:2027913] 5. REUTERS CHIEF SLAMS US AMBASSADOR FOR DESECRATING 'NAKBA DAY' by David Rosenberg Newly-appointed US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is set to arrive in Israel next Monday, beginning his service in the Jewish state a week ahead of President Trump’s first visit to Israel since taking office in January. On Tuesday, a Twitter account in Friedman’s name confirmed that he would be heading to Israel on May 15th. "I am arriving in Israel on May 15 to represent the United States as Ambassador to Israel. I hope to work out of Jerusalem very soon!" The post, which was retweeted by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, appears to be fraudulent and the account fake. The faux Friedman announcement drew consternation, from at least one senior journalist, who criticized the timing of Friedman’s departure for Israel. Luke Baker, Israel bureau chief for Reuters, expressed disapproval that Friedman would be beginning his service in the US Embassy in Israel on May 15th, coinciding with "Nakba Day". Nakba, Arabic for "catastrophe" is the term used by Arab opponents of the existence of a Jewish state to describe the establishment of Israel in 1948. Declared by arch-terrorist and mass-murderer Yasser Arafat in 1998, Nakba Day is marked each year with condemnation of the establishment of Israel and accusations of wrongdoing during Israel’s War of Independence, when the nascent Jewish state was invaded by its Arab neighbors. More than 7,000 Jews, or more than one percent of the total Jewish population in Israel at the time, were killed during the struggle for Israel's independence, from the onset of violence following the UK’s November 1947 declaration it would withdraw from the Mandate of Palestine through the end of the war in 1949. Nakba Day, held on May 15th, the day after Israel declared independence (according to the Gregorian calendar), has been condemned by the Knesset, which voted to empower the Finance Ministry to strip organizations participating in Nakba Day events. Nevertheless, on Tuesday Baker hit Friedman over the timing of his arrival, saying it ignored "the tragedy" suffered by Arabs "at Israel’s founding". "U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, will arrive on Nakba Day, when Palestinians mark the tragedy they suffered at Israel's founding." Baker later deleted the tweet from his account, following criticism from Israel’s Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, who slammed Baker’s comment as "one of the most outrageous tweets ever by the bureau chief of a major news org." "On May 15 Israel was founded. No better day to arrive," Dayan added. After deleting the original tweet, Baker apologized for the phrasing of his comment. "I deleted my tweet after realizing my phrasing could be misconstrued. I dropped the attribution unintentionally. Apologies." Dayan wrote on Twitter that he accepted Baker's apology, and claim that no malice was intended. Baker has a history of apparent hostility towards the Jewish state, slamming what he termed the "idiocy" of Israel’s security establishment, and blasting an invitation to speak at a Knesset hearing on media bias as a "witch-hunt". Nor has his bias been confined to his private Twitter feed or off the record comments. Baker’s reporting in Reuters often emphasizes Israeli responses to terror attacks, rather than the attacks themselves. For example, instead of emphasizing the stabbing attack by an Arab terrorist which left three wounded on April 1st, an article by Baker highlighted the death of the terrorist during the attack – and declined to identify him as such, calling him instead a "Palestinian". "Israeli police kill Palestinian who stabbed three in Jerusalem," read the headline. Yet Baker not only denied any bias in his own writing, he went so far as to claim that there is no problem of anti-Israel bias whatsoever in the foreign media. "I clearly don’t think the foreign press is biased," Baker told a Knesset hearing in 2016. "I don’t think anyone is denying there have been errors, problems from time to time. Sometimes it’s been harder to correct them than others." Foreign reports, he argued, had succeeded in producing a "huge amount of coverage with very few factual errors. I fail to see the media has something to answer in terms of systemic bias." In December 2017, media watchdog organization Honest Reporting named Baker first runner-up for Most Distrusted Reporter of 2016. Luke Baker's tweet Twitter/Screenshot 6. PIZZA HUT APOLOGIZES FOR LAUGHING AT EATING HUNGER STRIKE LEADER by Arutz Sheva Staff Pizza Hut Israel apologized for an "inappropriate" picture mocking archterrorist and hunger strike leader Marwan Barghouti for secretly breaking his fast. Published by Israel Police earlier this week, the picture shows Barghouti eating secretly in his prison cell. Pizza Hut took the picture and photoshopped a pizza box into it, adding the caption, "Barghouti, if you are going to break your (hunger) strike, isn't pizza the better choice?" The Arab world did not like the joke, and called on the public to boycott Pizza Hut. In response,Pizza Hut Israel removed the picture and published an apology. "Pizza Hut International apologizes for the insult caused by Pizza Hut Israel's Facebook post," the Facebook apology read. "It was completely inappropriate and does not reflect Pizza Hut's values. The image was removed immediately, and we have fired the employee who posted it. "We apologize to all who have been insulted." Pizza Hut Israel responded, "This was a humorous post regarding our delivery services. Pizza Hut Israel decided to remove the post immediately after being requested to do so by Pizza Hut International." 7. 'THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY LOVES ISRAEL' by Eliran Aharon [youtube:2027901] Jewish Americans are connected to Israel a lot more than some think, strategic adviser Charlie Harary told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday. "People in Israel don’t fully understand how much the American Jewish community loves and adores them," he said. "I go to Israel. I bring a group of 200 men from all over the world. We go to an army base, and the soldiers are crying when we say ‘we love you.’" "It’s hard for people in Israel to fully grasp it, and I hope they do, that in the Diaspora we see them as family. When something happens in Israel, everybody’s praying for them," said Harary. "We really do have this connection to our homeland, and I’ve seen this from Jews that have never stepped foot in Israel, and they step foot on the land, they feel like they’re home." 8. WATCH: 60 EUROPEAN RABBIS RECITE THE 'PRAYER FOR ISRAEL' by Yoni Kempinski, Amsterdam [video:2027894] ------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe/ | |
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