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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Thursday, Jun. 07 '18, כ"ד בסיון תשע"ח HEADLINES: 1. PM: ASSAD IS 'NO LONGER IMMUNE' 2. FEMALE DAYCARE ASSISTANT SUFFOCATED 14-MONTH-OLD GIRL 3. WATCH: GAZA MEDIC THROWS GRENADE 4. ZIV DAUS AND NETANEL KAHALANI MURDERER'S HOUSE TO BE DESTROYED 5. ACADEMY THAT LOST 10 STUDENTS TO FLASH FLOOD CLOSES TO 'REBUILD' 6. 'IF EUROVISION NOT HELD IN J'LEM, DON'T HOLD IT IN ISRAEL' 7. 'BUS DRIVER THREATENED US, REFUSED TO LET ANYONE OFF' 8. INTEL TECHNOLOGY OPEN HOUSE SHOWS INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES 1. PM: ASSAD IS 'NO LONGER IMMUNE' by AFP Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is "no longer immune" from retaliation, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned during a visit to London on Thursday. "He is no longer immune, his regime is no longer immune. If he fires at us, we will destroy his forces," Netanyahu said, speaking at an event organized by the Policy Exchange think tank. "I think there is a new calculus that has to take place and Syria has to understand that Israel will not tolerate the Iranian military entrenchment in Syria against Israel," he said. "The consequences are not merely to the Iranian forces there but to the Assad regime as well," he said, adding: "I think it's something that he should consider very seriously". Israel has been pledging for months to prevent its main enemy Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria, where Tehran is backing Assad's government. Last month, Israel launched a large-scale attack on Iranian targets in Syria, following a barrage of rockets fired at Israeli forces in the Golan Heights by Iran from Syria. Even before that, Israel had been accused of a series of recent strikes inside Syria that killed Iranians, though it has not acknowledged them. 2. FEMALE DAYCARE ASSISTANT SUFFOCATED 14-MONTH-OLD GIRL by Ido Ben Porat Israel Police concluded the investigation into the death of 14-month-old Yasmin Vineta, who died while at her Petah Tikva daycare last month. The investigation raised suspicions that a 23-year-old woman caused Vineta's death around 2:00p.m, while she was working to get Vineta and another child to sleep. The woman, who is Ukrainian and lives in Israel as a temporary resident, worked as an assistant in the daycare. Initial investigations showed that Vineta's body did not show signs of violence, causing medical professionals to initially believe that no criminal activity had occurred. Testimonies were collected from daycare staff, medical professionals, and Vineta's parents, who are Moldavian. The investigative staff issued a search warrant, discovering a camera and DVD which recorded the incident but which the daycare staff did not believe to be in working order. Watching the video, investigators discovered that the moments of Vineta's death had been taped in their entirety. The recording showed that the 23-year-old assistant killed Vineta by suffocating her. It also showed at least ten other incidents in which the suspect and the other assistant use force against the children in their care. Both the second assistant and the daycare manager were released on condition, and the suspect's arrest continues to be extended. The daycare manager, a 50-year-old Petah Tikva resident, a 33-year-old Russian assistant on a temporary visa, and the 23-year-old suspect, were arrested and taken for interrogation, where they argued against the recording. On Wednesday, after evidence had been gathered, the suspect was brought for another court discussion, during which the prosecutor requested to extend her arrest until she is indicted and the proceedings against her are completed. Her arrest was extended by five days. 3. WATCH: GAZA MEDIC THROWS GRENADE by Tal Polon [twittervideo:2043371] The IDF pushed back today against Hamas claims that a female Gaza medic killed during border riots on Friday was was merely an innocent health worker. Razan Najjar was killed on Friday evening as thousands of Gaza rioters converged on the border. Gaza health officials subsequently claimed that Najjar and other medics wearing white medical coats had approached the fence with their arms raised to evacuate injured rioters when she was shot. On Tuesday, the IDF said that initial investigations of the incident found that Najjar had not deliberately been targeted by Israeli soldiers. "During an initial examination regarding the incident that took place on June 1st, 2018, in which a 22-year-old Palestinian woman was killed, it was found that a small number of bullets were fired during the incident, and that no shots were deliberately or directly aimed towards her," the IDF said. This morning, Thursday, Arabic IDF Spokesperson Avichay Adraee tweeted a video which indicated that Najjar had actually played an active role in the riots. Commenting on the video, in which Najjar is seen being interviewed and throwing a grenade, Adraee wrote in Arabic, "Razan Najjar is not the queen of mercy, as Hamas is trying to present her. She admitted that she served as a human shield for rioters, and this proves how Hamas exploits all members of Gaza society for its goals and those of Iran." "Do other paramedics around the world throw grenades and participate in riots, and call themselves human shields?" he asked. 4. ZIV DAUS AND NETANEL KAHALANI MURDERER'S HOUSE TO BE DESTROYED by Mordechai Sones Supreme Court Justices Noam Solberg, Dafna Barak Erez, and David Mintz today rejected the petition by the family of Alaa Kabha who murdered IDF soldiers Ziv Daus and Netanel Kahalani hy"d against the demolition order issued for the house where the Kabha lived. The attack occurred in March this year. Kabha careened toward a guard post located near the town of Mevo Dotan and ran over a number of soldiers standing next to it. Two of the soldiers, Captain Ziv Daus and Sergeant Netanel Kahalani, were killed as a result of the fatal attack, and two of their comrades sustained serious injuries. At the beginning of May, a demolition order was issued for the apartment where Kabha lived with his wife, daughter, and brother, on the third floor of a five-story building. The two petitioners, both from the terrorist's family, demanded the apartment not be demolished. They argued that demolition was contrary to international law. In addition, they claimed the suspicions against Kabha were not proven because his trial had not yet been completed, and that because the terrorist did not live in the entire apartment but only in part of it, it should not be demolished. The judges rejected the petition and ruled that according to case law permitting destruction of terrorist murderer's homes, there is no basis for accepting the arguments appearing in the petition. "In the present case a number of pieces of evidence were presented to the military commander, including the confession to the police as well as a reenactment he staged in which he repeatedly admitted that he committed the crime in order to murder soldiers, plus additional evidence attesting to the state of the vehicle used by Kabha and findings on the ground. In this sense, we cannot say this is a 'borderline' case of administrative evidence," noted Justice Barak Erez. The Court ruled it will be possible to demolish the house in seven days. 5. ACADEMY THAT LOST 10 STUDENTS TO FLASH FLOOD CLOSES TO 'REBUILD' by JTA The pre-military academy that suffered the deaths of ten incoming students in a flash flood during a school-sponsored hike in southern Israel will close temporarily. Joint Council of Pre-Military Academies announced the temporary closing of the Bnei Zion Academy on Wednesday, Ynet reported. The council "sees great value in the continued existence of the Bnei Zion Academy as part of the family of academies," it said in a statement. The council said it would partner with the academy to "rebuild" its program  in a "process that is public and transparent." "We believe that the academy should not be opened before the completion of this process," it said. Nine girls and one boy were killed at Nahal Tsafit, south of the Dead Sea, when a flash flood rushed through the riverbed, following unusually heavy rainfall on April 26. Fifteen other hikers were rescued. The hikers were all 17- and 18-year-olds on a bonding trip ahead of entering the pre-military academy in September. Yuval Kahan, the school's principal, resigned a week later. He is suspected of causing death by negligence, following a police investigation. The trip's guide, Aviv Berdichev, who planned the hike and then went ahead with it despite warnings, is suspected of manslaughter. 6. 'IF EUROVISION NOT HELD IN J'LEM, DON'T HOLD IT IN ISRAEL' by Tal Polon Amid disappointment over the cancellation of the friendly match between the Argentinian and Israeli national soccer teams, Israeli organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest, set to take place next year in Israel, expressed apprehension that this event, too, would not ultimately be held in Israel. According to Yediot Aharonot, sources familiar with the matter said that members of the European Broadcasting Union made clear to their counterparts in Israel tasked with producing the event that there was "real danger" that Eurovision would not be held in Israel "if the politicians are adamant about getting involved." The sources noted that, during a recent meeting between European and Israeli broadcasting officials related to planning of the event, the Europeans demanded that at least two cities be proposed as possible locations to hold the song contest, as they sought a "non-divisive place" to host the event, in an apparent hit at Jerusalem. "Our goal is that countries will not boycott the location of the event," the European officials reportedly said. So far, no other Israeli cities have submitted candidacy to host the event. Culture Minister Miri Regev threatened that if the Eurovision contest is not held in Jerusalem, she will work to ensure that it is not held in Israel altogether. "If they try to move the hosting of Eurovision from Jerusalem, I will ask the Prime Minister not to invest 50 million shekels, and to give up on hosting Eurovision in Israel," she told Yediot Aharonot. "There is no reason to invest 50 million shekels if we cannot show the beautiful faces of the State of Israel and our capital, Jerusalem." Regev elaborated that "Every country that hosts Eurovision uses it as a public relations tool, and without Jerusalem it's not worth it for us to host it." "The European Broadcasting Union cannot establish for the State of Israel where to host Eurovision." 7. 'BUS DRIVER THREATENED US, REFUSED TO LET ANYONE OFF' by David Rosenberg Passengers say a bus driver in Jerusalem threatened them and refused to let anyone off the bus, after one passenger refused orders to remove a bicycle. The incident occurred in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of northeastern Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon at approximately 4:15 when a passenger brought a bicycle onto an Egged bus from line 59. According to eyewitnesses, the driver told the passenger that the Egged bus company did not permit bicycles to be brought inside of the bus, but the passenger refused to follow the driver's instructions. As other passengers were boarding the bus, the driver shouted that he would not continue on his route until someone removed the bicycle from the bus. According to Efraim H., a Jerusalem resident who was traveling on the bus with his 8-year-old daughter, the driver made U-turn, and began driving back towards the beginning of his route. Despite pleas by passengers that the driver let them leave the bus, the driver refused to open the doors, driving back towards the beginning of the line route. When Efraim approached him, the driver made a threatening motion, Efraim said. "At 4:15 p.m., I got on an Egged bus... leaving Neve Yaakov," Efraim told Arutz Sheva. "I was planning to take my daughter out for a picnic." "Immediately upon entering the bus the driver refused to continue, demanding someone remove a bicycle. He then returned to his seat and made a U-turn, heading deeper into the neighborhood." "I quickly went to the driver demanding he let us off, at which point he attempted to hit me when I reached for my tablet to take a picture of him." Eventually the driver relented and allowed the passengers to leave the bus. "Finally he opened the doors, after my daughter who was left in tears, begged me to get off. All of the kids on the bus were crying, they were freaked out. Afterwards, the bus continued to the bottom of the neighborhood." A complaint was filed with Egged against the driver, though no response has yet been received from the company. 8. INTEL TECHNOLOGY OPEN HOUSE SHOWS INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES by Hezki Baruch - Taipei [youtube:2043369] Arutz Sheva was at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, to see innovations being showcased by Intel corporation, and an exhibit on history and future of the personal computer. "As we go forward we want to keep innovating technology that powers people's most meaningful contributions and enables and enables them to accomplish at the level they want to," said Intel Mobile Innovation Segments General Manager Josh Newman. "We're focused on the PC and how far we've come as an industry in innovating the PC." Newman showed Arutz Sheva various qualities needed to best "power people's contributions", and the innovations that have developed to accommodate those needs.