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 כ"ח באלול תשע"ז / Tuesday, Sep. 19 '17 Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report -http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe Headlines
1. Watch: Unmanned aircraft shot down over northern Israelby David Rosenberg [twittervideo:2033047] An unmanned aircraft was shot down over the Golan Heights Tuesday afternoon, an IDF spokesperson reported. The drone unit was shot down by Israeli forces after it penetrated Israeli airspace. According to the IDF spokesperson, a Patriot missile downed the unmanned aircraft, which likely entered Israeli airspace from Syria. No injuries or damage were reported. “Soldiers from Israel Air Force’s air defense [command] fired a Patriot missile to shoot down an unmanned aircraft, apparently operated by the Hezbollah organization,” a statement released by the IDF read. “The IDF will not permit an incursion or encroachment on the frontier in the Golan Heights by Iranian terror groups, Shi’ite militias and global jihad. We will forcefully respond to any action and we will act to prevent any such attempt." 2. 'Hamas wastes Gazan money on absurd goals'by Ido ben Porat Head of The Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), General Yoav Mordechai, referred on COGAT’s Facebook page in Arabic to the death this morning, Tuesday, of a 24-year-old Gazan electrocuted while working on a terror tunnel. “Between the electricity stolen from their Gazan brothers and the tunnels that are killing those they contain - the youth of Gaza are dying,” Mordechai wrote. “24-year-old Hani Faraj Shaluf died for nothing, electrocuted in one of the underground terror tunnels in Rafiah,” he added. “While Gazans need electricity and concrete to rebuild their lives and the strip, the Hamas terror organization disparagingly wastes their money on absurd goals that don’t help anything. “We emphasize another time that anyone who enters the terror tunnels will find nothing but death,” he concluded. 3. 'Worse than Irma': Category 5 hurricane threatens Caribbeanby David Rosenberg A Category Five hurricane – the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) – tore through the Caribbean island nation of Dominica Monday night, leaving the country” brutalized and devastated”, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said. “Initial reports are of widespread devastation,” Skerrit wrote on Facebook. “So far we have lost all what money can buy and replace. My greatest fear for the morning is that we will wake to news of serious physical injury and possible deaths as a result of likely landslides triggered by persistent rains. So, far the winds have swept away the roofs of almost every person I have spoken to or otherwise made contact with.” Hurricane Maria, which was downgraded on Monday to a Category Four, regained strength Tuesday and was upgraded back to a Category Five, with wind speeds in excess of 155 miles per hour. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned that the hurricane would continue to gain strength over the next two days as it hits the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello warned that Hurricane Maria would likely cause even greater damage than Hurricane Irma. “It will essentially devastate most of the island,” he said in an interview with USA Today. “It will provoke massive flooding in flooding prone regions ... our priority is to save lives.” Earlier this month, Hurricane Irma, battered the Caribbean, before hitting Florida, killing 84 people and causing tens of billions of dollars-worth of damage. 4. 20 years in jail for man who murdered girlfriend's twin sisterby Tzvi Lev The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced David Eran to 20 years in jail for killing 18-year-old Hili Sobol at the urging of her twin sister. The court invoked a clause that restricts the court from handing out life sentences in cases where authorities doubt the killer's sanity. Sobol's sister, Shiri, received six years in jail for soliciting bodily harm. Eran stabbed Hili Sobel outside the stairwell of her Givatayim home in February 2016 after months of urging by Shiri Sobol. Sobol told Eran that she hated her sister, and couldn't enjoy life whenever Hili returned from boarding school, texting Eran that "I’m fed up with living here with that nutcase,” and “It’s hard for me to live like this when she’s here at home. It’s not her house, she should get out of my life.” Shiri told Eran that she wished her sister would die, writing that "If only an Arab or a terrorist would stab her." She also told him that Hili threatened to harm her if she refused to break up with Eran. Shiri and Eran planned out the murder for months and even made two unsuccessful attempts. On the day of the murder, Eran stabbed Hili 130 times while Shiri watched, including 30 times in her neck. Shiri then called the police and reported that Arabs had stabbed Hili before fleeing the scene. Eran changed his clothes and hid in her mother's bedroom and disabled the door in order to prevent police from entering. After police forced in the door, Shiri told police that "I didn’t do anything, what, do you think me and David planned to murder her?" In the trial, prosecutors had painted a picture of Eran as a troubled person, who was completely under the spell of the manipulative Shiri. Their romance "was defined by the fact that Shiri exercised a great deal of influence over him and knew that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it took to satisfy her and sustain their romantic connection," read the indictment. 5. 'Haredi - Jewish Home alliance a great boon for the settlements'by David Rosenberg Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) praised Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) for his cooperation with the coalition’s haredi partners, saying the alliance between the predominantly Religious Zionist Jewish Home and the haredi factions was mutually beneficial. “My alliance with Minister Naftali Bennett is one my greatest accomplishments this year, benefiting both the haredi community and the ,settlements,,” Litzman said in a Besheva interview on Tuesday. “[Bennett] is a great education minister who knows the job and helps us whenever we need it. His place is with us. I think that the next haredi coalition will have to include the Jewish Home,” Litzman continued. While Bennett allied himself with Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid during the 2013 election, and enabled Lapid to press his demand that Netanyahu’s coalition government exclude the haredi factions and present the second Draft Law targeting haredi yeshiva students, Lapid wanted to add criminal punishments for haredi draft evaders to the law, leading Bennett to distance himself from the Yesh Atid leader in favor of closer ties with the UTJ party. Litzman also noted Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel’s (Jewish Home) involvement with haredi leaders to combat Shabbat desecration by the Infrastructure Ministry and efforts by the Reform Movement to expand the mixed-prayer space at the Western Wall. “Minister Uri Ariel is present at every meeting [of UTJ’s religious council] regarding Shabbat and the Western Wall.” 6. Introducing: 'Agam' by the Kinneretby Infomercial [youtube:2033025] Through the "Agam" project on the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), lakeside apartments are offered at prices suitable for everyone. The project benefits both from the beloved coastline and the rich history of the area. "This is a modern project," says Zeev Yochelman, the initiator of the Agam project. "You have here the power of a city with a glorious history.” He said that, during the planning and building of the project, the public not only will not be harmed but will benefit. “The values of nature and view are being preserved.” "We have one lake in Israel and I am convinced that it will become a lake no less beautiful than the lakes in Italy and no less attractive than the lakes in Geneva," says Yochelman, noting that, while anyone seeking to buy lakeside real estate abroad must be very rich, the Agam project on the Kinneret is affordable for everyone. For more details, click here. 7. We love you, IDF, but you are not wellby Gil Ronen How can a proud Jew not love the IDF? After nearly 2,000 years in which we got used to Jews' getting beaten up without hitting back, we established a fighting force. Our tall, strong, well armed Jewish fighters in their olive uniforms are our greatest pride. We love the IDF because we can't help it, but we also need to admit that it has been afflicted by a very dangerous malady. If Yediot Aharonot's interview this morning with Brig. Gen. Mordechai Kahana, Commander of the Field Intelligence Array, was not demonstrably real, one would think it was some kind of satirical item. The article announced that the training track for mixed-sex units would be "dramatically eased". The obstacle course / physical test known as bohan maslul will be abolished from basic training, along with the component that proved most difficult for the female soldiers – the roughly 6-ft. tall wall obstacle. [youtube:2025733] This wall became a source of much embarrassment for the proponents of the IDF's radical gender-mixing policy when Arutz Sheva exposed the fact that commanders placed a bench next to it, for women to step up on when traversing the wall. Since the mainstream media is highly feminized, it studiously ignored the bench, but Arutz Sheva, Facebook, Whatsapp and campaigns by activist groups made sure that hundreds of thousands of Israelis were exposed to the uncomfortable truth: they had been lied to for many years. Promises to the High Court and the general public notwithstanding, the IDF did not really subject male and female candidates for combat units to the same demands and standards. Running in circles The bench became a symbol for opponents of the IDF's mixed-sex agenda, and something had to be done. It could be scrapped, but then most of the women would not be able to scale the wall. The IDF therefore decided to get rid of the wall altogether. Brig. Gen. Kahana then told officers that there was no need for the entire obstacle course, either. This, too was scrapped, "in order to raise the rate of 'survival'" of the women in combat training, he said. His terminology is unfortunate, since these young women's ability to "survive" the training may come at the expense of the units' ability to survive actual warfare. Kahana, it turns out, has been saving women from the perils of excess exertion for a while, now. Six months ago, he lowered the number of bullet magazines carried by women in their combat vests, from six to four. His explanation for this is a classic: "If four magazines are not enough for a female soldier in battle, when they have other female and male warriors alongside them, then the battle has already been decided anyway," he said. "When I was commander of the Egoz [Unit], we fought for more than 30 days in the Second Lebanon War and there was not one single warrior for whom the magazines he carried in his vest were not enough." Mixed-sex units Hadas Parush/Flash90 These funny excuses are just the latest attempt by the IDF to camouflage the embarrassment known as "women in combat". For years, now, mixed gender units march and walk in circles and not in straight lines. The reason? That way, you can't tell that the women are only in their third lap when the men are already in their seventh… This is true, folks. PC in Israel The results of this sham are not funny at all, however. Lately we have been informed that there has been a decline in the motivation of male recruits to join the real combat units: Paratroopers, Golani, Armored Corps etc.. More men want to join the co-ed units now. Can you blame them? If being a combat soldier is such a joke anyways, they might as well enjoy the service as much as possible. Why does the IDF keep shooting itself in the foot this way? For the same reason the US military has been forcing co-ed units down its own throat: PC political power. Men are afraid of being labelled chauvinists or misogynists. Women are terrified of what abandoning the feminist flag might entail. But it seems to be worse here. Since November 9, the US appears to be on a path to waking up from PC brainwashing. Terms like "neo-Marxism" are understood by more and more Americans, and conservative discourse has found its way to the campuses… yes, even Berkeley. Israel is not there yet. Say "neo-Marxism" to Israelis, even those with very sharp political minds, and you will usually elicit a blank stare and a dismissive remark about conspiracy theories. What to do? However, unlike the US, we are in a daily fight for survival here, and our enemy is not oceans away. We are now reaching the stage in which our fear of military defeat at the hands of the enemy must somehow become greater than our fear of the feminist labels. A decline in the motivation of young males to serve in combat is a red line that Israel cannot cross and expect to survive. There are a few activist groups who have been fighting the good fight against PC feminist for quite a number of years: the Forum for IDF Fortitude and Brothers in Arms focus on the IDF, and the Family Movement has a broader agenda against neo-Marxist gender craziness. Truth is on our side, but censorship is strong. We have been fighting a guerrilla war despite the opposition of the feminist-run mainstream media, through sites like Arutz Sheva, through Facebook, through original videos – but that is not good enough. There is, however, no shortage of smart, savvy Jews out there – Jews with political clout and other forms of power. We just need them to join us and help us climb this wall. Gil Ronen is Chairman of The Family Movement 8. Watch: Israel's biggest stars sing 'Ochilah LaEil'by Tzvi Lev [youtube:2033044] Video taken from Yedidya Meir's Facebook page. Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe | |
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