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 כ"ז בתשרי תשע"ח / Tuesday, Oct. 17 '17 Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report -http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe Headlines
1. Marketing of 300 housing units in Beit El approvedby Mordechai Sones The Supreme Planning Council approved this afternoon (Tuesday) marketing 300 housing units in Beit El, a promise the Prime Minister made to residents five years ago. Shai Alon, head of the Beit El Council, said, "A few months ago, we decided, together with the residents, to embark on a protracted struggle over beginning construction in council territory, for ten years there was not even one housing unit built here. To our delight, and after the struggle on which we set out, the Government of Israel agreed to ratify the marketing of 300 housing units in Beit El. "This is a needed breath of air for the hundreds of young couples who want to come and live within the boundaries of the council, but they are prevented from doing so. In recent years, Beit El has developed in every field, education, tourism, business, and more. Only in the field of construction did we stand in place, and we hope that these 300 units are the opening for additional housing units. As they build in Rishon Letzion, Kfar Saba, and Ra'anana, so should we build in Beit El, Ofra, and Efrat," Alon said. 2. Israeli lotto pulls out of Umm al-Fahmby Arutz Sheva Staff The national Israeli lottery has decided to temporarily stop all money transfers to the Umm al-Fahm municipality, Shai Glick, the CEO of the "Bzalmo" organization told Ynet Monday. The decision was made following the use of a community sports hall - funded by the Education Ministry and renovated with funding from the National Lottery - for an event in support of Sheikh Raed Salah, the anti-Israel leader of the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement and a resident of Umm al-Fahm. A letter sent from the office of the lottery chairman to Glick stated, among other things: "This is a community sports hall which was built in the 1990s by the Education Ministry and transferred to the Umm al-Fahm municipality. A few years ago, the hall was renovated through an allocation of NIS 400,000 from the Israeli lottery association." "The national lottery had no prior knowledge of this event or its content," the letter continued. "We view the existence of a political event in the lottery building with utmost severity, as it is in clear contradiction to the lottery's agreement with the local authorities." Glick also said that "the national lottery is asking the mayor to clarify the matter. The authority will clearly clarify the manner in which it handled the event's approval, and how it intends to prevent similar events in the future. Until the investigation is completed, all the money transfers to Umm al-Fahm are suspended." Umm al-Fahm has come under scrutiny for extremism and support for terrorism. The three terrorists who carried out the murderous terror attack at the Temple Mount in June in which two Druze police officers were killed came from Umm al-Fahm. Thousands attended the funerals of the terrorists in Umm al-Fahm, after news of the murders had been greeted with celebrations and cries of joy at their success in killing Israeli security personnel. Last month, the Shin Bet and the police foiled a second planned attack at the Temple Mount by residents of Umm al-Fahm. 3. MK: The nuclear family is unsafe for childrenby Tzvi Lev MK Merav Michaeli (Zionist Union) has claimed that children be raised not by their biological parents, but by strangers chosen by the government. Speaking on Australian television in September, Michaeli argued that "the core family as we know it is one of the least safe place for children - not just in Australia but in the entire western world." Michaeli went on to cite different studies she contended proved that the core family was detrimental to children's health and added that "marriage and parental rights hurts children". Michaeli also said that children should not be automatically raised by their parents, but by the government. "A child can have more than two parents, they don't have to be their biological parents. The person who takes responsibility for the child should be obligated to fulfill certain kinds of criteria that the State should decide on," Michaeli argued, saying that the government should decide what values children need to be taught. Michaeli is renowned for her progressive views on family issues. On Monday, Michaeli tweeted support for an article published in Yediot Aharonot that called for the government to take control over children's education from their parents. "Children are our future, and the future of our society and country," Michaeli tweeted. "They are not a private issue." "Enough with the neglect! It's time the government invest in our children accordingly. I have already proposed several laws regarding equal parental leave of one year after a baby is born. I have already pushed for a longer school day. The proposal to protect children and their parents is on its way. This is our most important investment." The law Michaeli referred to is an amendment to the Mandatory Education Law submitted in 2015. The amendment, if passed, would mandate free education for all children over the age of three months. Michaeli is also a fierce opponent of the institution of marriage and has advocated for its abolishment. In 2012, she gave a TED talk on the issue, where she told the audience that marriage was responsible for the abuse of women. "We must cancel marriage," said Michaeli. "Not only religious marriage, marriage is not an issue of religion. Also civil marriage. I want all secular states to totally eliminate all registration and regulation of marriage. I want to cancel the very concept of marriage." [youtube:2033948] 4. 'Only one without children could say that'by Tzvi Lev Condemnations poured in after MK Merav Michaeli (Zionist Union) suggested that the government should raise children, and not their biological parents. A video recently surfaced of Michaeli telling a panel in Australia in September that "the core family as we know it is one of the least safe place for children - not just in Australia but in the entire western world." Michaeli went on to cite different studies she contended proved that the core family was detrimental to children's health and added that "marriage and parental rights hurts children". Michaeli also said that children should not be automatically raised by their parents, but by the government. "This is incomprehensible," tweeted MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home). Pointing out that Michaeli is childless, Smotrich said that Michaeli's words "could only come from someone who never experienced parenthood and a family". MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) concurred. "It seems that something really obvious needs to be said. A warm family is the best place for a young child" tweeted Glick. Journalist Erez Tadmor also harshly criticized Michaeli. "It should frighten everyone to think that this Marxist might one day be Welfare Minister," he said. "For years, the Left has been whining about a danger to democracy but they will never be able to copy what this madwoman Michaeli is doing. She wants the government to decide whether you can raise your children." "She would have your children seized because you didn't meet the criteria written by a committee of disturbed politico's like herself." Michaeli is renowned for her progressive views on family issues. On Monday, Michaeli tweeted support for an article published in Yediot Aharonot that called for the government to take control over children's education from their parents. "Children are our future, and the future of our society and country," Michaeli tweeted. "They are not a private issue." "Enough with the neglect! It's time the government invest in our children accordingly. I have already proposed several laws regarding equal parental leave of one year after a baby is born. I have already pushed for a longer school day. The proposal to protect children and their parents is on its way. This is our most important investment." The law Michaeli referred to is an amendment to the Mandatory Education Law submitted in 2015. The amendment, if passed, would mandate free education for all children over the age of three months. Michaeli is also a fierce opponent of the institution of marriage and has advocated for its abolishment. In 2012, she gave a TED talk on the issue, where she told the audience that marriage was responsible for the abuse of women. "We must cancel marriage," said Michaeli. "Not only religious marriage, marriage is not an issue of religion. Also civil marriage. I want all secular states to totally eliminate all registration and regulation of marriage. I want to cancel the very concept of marriage." 5. 'Attack on religious reminiscent of Nazi propaganda'by Mordechai Sones An unprecedented attack by a secular cultural icon was leveled against people organized to fight the "Rashit" Torah core group in Ramat Hasharon. In an interview given to Ma'ariv last week, Yehoram Gaon, himself a resident of Ramat Hasharon, chose to sharply attack the activity, comparing their publications to Der Sturmer, a weekly that was a centerpiece of Nazi propaganda. "There are people here who hate Israel, and when they see one of them (a man with a religious appearance) they are appalled," Gaon said, adding, "So they threaten him to get out of here. I have already received text messages about all kinds of strange characters, who are moving around Ramat Hasharon in order to change the character of the place and to get rid of them, and when I read it, it reminded me of the old anti-Semitic Der Sturmer. The Rashit community says that "Yehoram Gaon represents the majority of the city's residents who renounce the activity of the extremist and political minority that engages in incitement and hatred of the other, and believe in mutual respect and unconditional love." In the past year a small group of secular activists called "Ramat Hasharon Free" has fought the Torah core group in Ramat Hasharon. On its Facebook page, the movement notes that the Torah core group of the city is "messianic, whose declared goal is to bring all the residents to do teshuva (returning to G-d). Their rabbis openly speak out against other streams of society, such as the Reform and the LGBT community. All with the knowledge of the municipality, which closes its eyes and allows this takeover to deepen in the city ... Slowly and surely the Torah core in Ramat Hasharon usurps power and authority for themselves in the city." 6. 'Nazi Grandma' convicted in Berlin of Holocaust denialby JTA JTA - Ursula Haverbeck, a well-known historical revisionist and neo-Nazi, was again convicted of Holocaust denial. Haverbeck, 88, was convicted in a Berlin district court on Monday and sentenced to six months in prison, Deutsche Welle reported. The conviction was for saying at an event in the city in January 2016 that the Holocaust did not occur and that there were no gas chambers at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, which she said was a labor camp. Haverbeck said she will appeal the conviction. Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. She is scheduled to go on trial in the western German town of Detmold for the third time, after twice being convicted of incitement to hatred there for denying a genocide of the Jews during World War II. In November 2016, Haverbeck was convicted by a court in Verden on the basis of numerous articles she had published in the local newspaper Stimme des Reiches, or “Voice of the Reich,” in which she denied that the Holocaust occurred. The previous month, a court in Bad Oeynhausen sentenced Haverbeck to 11 months in jail for incitement to hate. In September 2016, the court in Detmold sentenced her to 8 months in prison. And the previous year, a court in Hamburg sentenced her to ten months in jail. She has appealed all of these decisions as well and has not spent any time in jail on the convictions. German media call her the “Nazi grandma,” according to DW. 7. Kosher winery damaged in California fires partially reopensby JTA Hagafen Cellars, the only kosher winery in the Napa Valley and Sonoma, partially opened despite sustaining heavy damage in the wildfires racing through the area. The winery’s tasting room reopened on Monday morning, and “We’re waiting now for our first tourist,” owner and winemaker Ernie Weir told J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Several buildings and virtually all of the winery’s agricultural equipment were destroyed in the fire. And while one of the winery’s 12 acres of vineyards was burned, the grapes already had been harvested. The inventory remained intact as well. There are hundreds of wineries in the region and most were forced to close in the first days of the fires, which have been burning for more than a week. Some of the wineries burned to the ground, according to J. There have been at least 41 deaths reported from the northern California wildfires and more than 80 people remain missing. The fires have burned over 217,000 acres and destroyed more than 5,700 homes and other structures. Damage estimates have topped $3 billion. As of Monday night some 60 percent of the fires were reported contained, with rain in the forecast for later in the week. The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties reported that as of Monday evening the nine local synagogues in the path of the fires were unharmed, as well as the JCC of Sonoma County. At least 21 local Jewish families have lost their homes in the fires, and are currently sheltering in one of the synagogues, with the others working to help provide the families with meals. IsraAid is also on the scene, providing supplies and grief counseling, according to the Federation. In addition, representatives from Sonoma County Chabad Jewish Center and Chabad Jewish Center of Petaluma have been visiting emergency centers and providing support, as well as meals via Oakland Kosher. 8. Netanyahu to Russian Defense Min: Iran has to know our red linesby David Rosenberg [youtube:2033963] Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) met with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, days after President Donald Trump refused to recertify Iranian compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, and a day after Israeli fighter jets hit a surface-to-air missile battery in Syria, a client state of the Kremlin. According to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office, the meeting focused primarily on Iran’s military buildup in Syria. Netanyahu reportedly told Shoygu that an Iranian presence near Israel’s northern border would not be tolerated. “Iran must understand that Israel will not permit this,” the Prime Minister said. The leaders also discussed Iran’s nuclear program, and the future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal. The future of the JCPOA was thrown into doubt last Friday when President Trump announced he would not recertify Iranian compliance with the deal. Under US law, the president must certify Iran’s compliance every 90 days. Failure to do so forces Congress to either reimpose sanctions lifted under the JCPOA, or vote to alter the sanctions regime. The deadline for recertification passed on Sunday, with the President declining to certify Iranian compliance. While congressional Democrats have backed the JCPOA and earlier called on Trump to recertify, many Republicans in both the House and Senate have argued the agreement must be radically altered – or scrapped. The president echoed this sentiment, calling to “fix it – or nix it”. On Tuesday, Netanyahu warned the Russian Defense Minister that without serious alterations to the deal, Iran will be able to manufacture its own nuclear arsenal within 8 to 10 years. A day earlier, Israeli security officials contacted their Russian counterparts to notify them of an impending Israeli airstrike on a surface-to-air missile battery in Syria. Syria, a client state of Russia, had opened fire on the Israeli aircraft as they conducted routine reconnaissance operations over southern Lebanon, forcing the planes to return fire. Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe | |
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