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 י"ח בתשרי תשע"ח / Sunday, Oct. 08 '17 Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report -http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe Headlines
1. 'The Jewish People at its best'by Hezki Baruch [video:2033704] Thousands of Jews flooded the alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem today, Sunday, and headed towards the Western Wall, where the traditional priestly blessing took place in honor of the Sukkot holiday. Israel Police and Border Police secured the crowds. Increased police security in Jerusalem is to continue for the duration of the holiday, which continues into the week. After the priestly blessing, Israeli Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau, and Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz shook hands with the thousands of Jews, wishing them a happy holiday and sweet new year. Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) told Arutz Sheva, “The Jewish People at its best, tens of thousands of people going up to the Western Wall, looking up to the place of the Holy Temple - “And let our eyes behold your return to Zion.” Ariel expressed hope, “With G-d’s help, the Prime Minister will allow all Jews to ascend and be as a nation united in the place of our Temple.” [album:open 2. Listen: Avraham Fried's new single celebrates waterby Arutz Sheva Staff [youtube:2033703] 3. Kindergarten aged girl dies in abandoned carby Arutz Sheva Staff A five-year-old girl was brought unconscious to a local clinic in Tel Sheva, after remaining alone in a car for several hours. Tel Sheva is an Bedouin town near Be'er Sheva. Initial investigations show the little girl entered an abandoned vehicle near the family's home. Her family found her several hours later. Magen David Adom paramedic Mouad Alamour said, "When we arrived at the clinic, we saw a girl of approximately four and a half. She was unconscious, was not breathing, and had no heartbeat. She showed severe signs of hyperthermia." "We performed medical examinations, and finding the girl to lack any sign of life, we were forced to declare her death. Those at the scene informed us that the girl had been found after spending an extended time in a closed vehicle." 4. 'Netanyahu missed a historic opportunity'by Hezki Baruch Former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, who now heads the Zehut party, reacted to US President Donald Trump’s statements about “[giving] peace a shot” before moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. According to Feiglin, “Israel doesn’t want to unify Jerusalem. Netanyahu says one thing, but all of his actions say that he is afraid. Netanyahu removed the metal detectors on the Temple Mount because the Arabs pressed on exactly the right point - they threatened to leave him the Temple Mount.” “Netanyahu is the historic successor of the leftist governments that gave up eastern Jerusalem,” Feiglin claimed. “He is the successor of Ben Gurion, who retreated from the Old City and allowed the Jordanians to take it. He is the successor of [Moshe] Dayan, who gave the Waqf the Temple Mount after the victory in the Six-Day War.” “Netanyahu, like his predecessors, decided to lose, and begged the Arabs to return to the Temple Mount after they murdered two policemen. Netanyahu gave up on the transfer of the American embassy to Jerusalem even before the process took form.” Feiglin added, “Both the Knesset Speaker and the most senior sources in the US said explicitly that Netanyahu is the one who prevented Trump from transferring the embassy. For those who understand that a truly united Jerusalem - and not just on paper - is an intolerable burden on the current leadership, there is no surprise here.” “Yet again, we missed a historic opportunity to unite Jerusalem, with the backing of the most sympathetic White House in years. Sorrow for the generations,” Feiglin said, referencing an expression from traditional Torah commentary about the “sin of the spies” related in the Book of Numbers. 5. Watch: Las Vegas professor blames shooting on Trumpby Guy Cohen [youtube:2033702] A lecturer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) explained on Thursday to her students that US President Donald Trump was to blame for the murderous shooting spree that took place in Las Vegas a week ago. One of the students filmed her statements and passed the footage onto the group Campus Reform, which uploaded the footage. “Right when he got elected, I told my classes, three semesters ago, that some of us won’t be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die,” the lecturer, Tessa Winkelmann, who teaches history, says. “Other people will die because of this. And we’ve seen this happen, right?” Professor Winkelmann brought up Trump’s threats to use force against North Korea and explained, “Words, especially if they’re coming from someone who is the president, have consequences.” “I don’t know that these events would have inevitably happened whether or not he got elected, but he has rhetorical powers every president has to encourage or to discourage. So far all he’s done is to encourage violence.” According to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, one student present at the lecture said that Winkelmann’s comments polarized the classroom, and groups of students began shouting at one another. UNLV said in response that Winkelmann’s comments were “insensitive, especially given the series of events this week and the healing process that has begun in the community.” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said: “It is sad she is teaching students such divisive, inaccurate and irresponsible rhetoric. She should be ashamed of herself, and the university should look into it. What a terrible example to set for students.” Winkelmann, for her part, apologized on Friday in an email to the Review-Journal. “I regret that my comments caused more pain during this difficult time,” she wrote. “Emotions were running high and I wish I would have been more thoughtful in how I directed the conversation.” 6. Israeli light in a Jaffa gallery - and at the Venice Biennaleby Rochel Sylvetsky The first association with the name Wertheimer for most Israelis is industrialist Stef Wertheimer, founder of the Kfar Vradim rural industrial village in the Galilee. But there is another Wertheimer, the artist Ariella Wertheimer, Stef's daughter in law, whose penetrating observations of Israel's national psyche light up – literally – what is behind the steel frameworks that fill the urban landscapes of a complex country that deals with the uneven mixture of mixed cultures, Holocaust memories, Jewish traditions, the enemy without and the conflicts within. Universal themes such as motherhood, violence, the smartphone generation – and the artistic contrast between Jaffa and Venice, two ports on the Mediterranean – add other dimensions to her powerful work. Ariella's method of artistic expression is so unusual and arresting that this mother of five grown children has achieved global recognition. Her works are on display at the prestigious Venice Biennale 2017, which continues until mid November. Ariella's studio is on Kibbutz Galuyot Street in the industrial area of Tel Aviv. And in 2016, she opened an exclusive exhibition at the Farkash Gallery called “The Freedom to Let Go” Light Boxes. Arutz Sheva met Ariella over a cup of coffee in Jerusalem to find out more about .the artist whose unique works have gone global and found that behind the talent, creativity and international fame there is an idealistic, Zionist, family oriented, "salt of the earth" Israeli woman who continues her family's tradition of giving to others. Explain how you create your unique "light box" art. Ariella: I photograph steel frameworks of consruction around Tel Aviv and print them on transparent plexiglass. My paintings are on canvas placed behind the plexiglass, but between the two surfaces is a source of light that illuminates the work in both its facets. What is the result? Ariella: The work is three-dimensional, but looks different from near, far away and from the side, just the way we see things differently from different perspectives. And one never looks at anything as a flat surface, because nothing you see is ever flat. What do the grids symbolize? Ariella: The first thing that fascinated me when I moved to Tel Aviv was all the steel frameworks of all the buildings going up everywhere. I wanted to get behind them to the human beings inside and that is why many of my works have a grid as the front panel, behind which the subject of the work is seen. Arutz Sheva discovered that there is another Ariella Wertheimer, the giving person behind the grid that describes her art. What brought you to Jerusalem today? Ariella: I had a meeting with an organization here that deals with troubled youth. All the proceeds from my art sales go to charity – the Rambam Oncology Department, at-risk teens, Ethiopian immigrants. We help existing organizations, but we do it anonymously and you won't find my name listed or on a plaque. Where and how did you grow up? Ariella: I was born in 1957, grew up in Nahariya, the place to which my family immigrated. I also grew up on their stories, turning me into a staunch Zionist who served as a radiologist in the IDF for 12 years and married a pilot who had come from Czechoslovakia. We eventually divorced and I later married my first sweetheart, Eitan, a successful technology industrialist in his own right today and whom I had known since the age of 10. He proposed when I was 21, but I was in love with the pilot I had met in the army and refused him, Later he said he had simply waited for me. Both our families are from Argentina, and although today our family is non-observant, it is suffused with the values of pioneering Eretz Yisrael, love of mankind and helping those in need. I feel that we carry on our family's tradition that way. How did your family choose Nahariya? Ariella: I grew up on the stories of my famiy. My maternal grandmother's family fled the Ukraine pogroms in 1882 and moved to Argentina where Baron Hirsch had built settlements. My grandfather built the synagogue and had a mikveh in his home, founded a small factory. My grandmother had an open house where she served Sabbath meals to everyone. They helped other immigrants get settled. My paternal grandfather's family left Lithuania before WWII and they are the only survivors of his extended family. He was the shamash in his synagogue and taught Bar Mitzvah boys in Nahariya where they settled. I remember going to synagogue with my grandparents and a flag on Simchat Torah. My father joined the Shomer Hatzair youth movement and was non-observant, but still, I was raised on traditional, caring Judaism. You have a set of works on leaders. Whom do you choose? Ariella: When public figures are my subjects, they are those who have been through a great deal and understand that they have to help others. Life can be like a palm tree, a tree that grows from a seed to the fruit, through climate changes, and its every part can be used by man: for shelter, ropes, fire, building. The fruit is success, peace, the tree generosity, strength. That is what leadership must be. Why did you turn to art? Ariella: I have been painting since I was a child. Eitan encouraged me to study and develop my dream. We moved to Tel Aviv when the children grew up and I became drawn to iron, steel, the skeletons of the buildings - maybe a connection to my IDF work as a radiologist. Maybe I thought of the framework for building this country. Tell us some of your themes: Ariella: There is Jaffa, the place where before WWI, Jews came from Eastern Europe and met sights, smells, colors, weather, spices, culture, light that was totally new. Rabbi Kook was among them and soon became a leader. How did that happen? How did they find their way, how was that meeting? Art is about the meeting of different people, different cultures, and that is behind my Jaffa series. And the grids? Ariella: Then there is the fact that each of us has a prison, one he stands behind. Once he embraces the bars of his prison, embraces problems, he can obtain the strength to set himself free, but everyone is trapped to some extent between those railings. A person has to look at himself while he looks at my works. So alongside each story there is a virtual mirror so the viewer can actually look at himself. Ariella herself writes the accompaniment to each work. A selection is below Works: Chandelier – 100 shards of glass made into a light fixture, even on the bottom and of different heights on the top, the vulnerabitlity and breakability of married life, how it can be shattered, like the cup shattered at a Jewish wedding ceremony, but can be full of light as well. As one walks around it, it looks different, as marriage changes over the years. A man and woman are painted on it, along with the words from the Jewish chuppah : For you are sanctified unto me. Wertheiemer: Chandelier INN:PR The Last Supper: 12 young people enter a restaurant to dine together Each is immediately and totally preoccupied with his smartphone, then photographs the meal, sends it on, waits for the Facebook critique and so on. It conveys a sense of social anxiety, instant judgment, no real communication with gradations of opinion. A smartphone is a kind of light box itself. Part of The Last Supper INN: PR My father He ran away from war, cold and hunger, but Zionism ran through his bones, he came to Israel, but nothing awaited him there. A hard working man that looked up with hope and the belief that one day the land will embrace him. The neighbor: When I was a child, in our neighborhood, there was the old lady who constantly yelled, didn't like children, didn't like noise, didn't like herself. Wertheimer selection INN:PR Ariella: One woman, a subject of a light box, said that she is not as strong as I have made her to be. You are an intense, strong women, I said to her. This has a price. It is the weight of life on our shoulders. Life, like light, changes, nothing should be taken for granted, but everything should be faced. 7. Trump: Give peace efforts a shot before moving embassyby Elad Benari [youtube:2033691] U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wanted to give his efforts to reach peace between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs a chance before moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” Trump told former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee in an interview on his new TBN program “Huckabee”. “If we can make peace between the Palestinians and Israel, I think it’ll lead to ultimately peace in the Middle East, which has to happen,” he added. Asked by Huckabee whether there is a timeframe for the embassy move, Trump replied, “We’re going to make a decision in the not too distant future.” The president had promised during his 2016 White House campaign to move the embassy to the Israeli capital if elected. Since the election last November, however, Trump had remained mum on whether he intended to follow through on his pledge. In June, Trump decided to sign a presidential waiver on the Jerusalem Embassy Act, delaying the embassy move for six months. The waiver delaying the implementation of a 1995 decision by Congress to move the embassy has been signed by every U.S. President since 1995. After Trump signed the waiver, his then-press secretary Sean Spicer stressed that the president still intends to move the Embassy to Jerusalem. “No one should consider this step in any way to be a retreat from the President's strong support for Israel and for the U.S.-Israeli relationship,” he stressed. “The President made this decision to maximize the chances of successfully negotiating a deal between Israel and the Palestinians,” explained Spicer. “But as he repeatedly stated, his intention is to move the Embassy. The question is not if that move happens, but when.” 8. Watch: 'I know where I go - you go,' Beinoni's Sukkot singleby Arutz Sheva Staff [youtube:2033694] Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe | |
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