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Wednesday, Mar. 02 '16, Adar 22, 5776
HEADLINES:
1. WATCH: WIFE OF ELI 'HERO' RECOUNTS HARROWING ATTACK
2. ONE WOUNDED IN ATTACK ON BINYAMIN REGION COMMUNITY
3. 'THEY JUMPED ON ME WITH CLUBS AND BROKE INTO THE HOUSE'
4. 'IT COULD HAVE ENDED WITH KIDS SLAUGHTERED ON THE SIDEWALK'
5. NETANYAHU MOVES TO EXPEL TERRORISTS' FAMILIES TO GAZA
6. 19 YEARS LATER, JORDAN VALLEY TOWN GETS BUILDING APPROVAL
7. MOLDOVA SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED IN SHOCKING POGROM
8. WHAT IF AMERICAN TV INCITED TERROR AGAINST MUSLIMS?
1. WATCH: WIFE OF ELI 'HERO' RECOUNTS HARROWING ATTACK
by Yoni Kempinski
Shira Harel, the wife of Roi Harel, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about how her husband managed to save her and their five kids from two Arab terrorists who broke into their house early in the morning.
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The two terrorists, aged 17, had breached into their town of Eli in Samaria from the adjacent village of Karyut. They were armed with clubs and knives. They also had brought an improvised handgun but they dropped it while getting through the barbed wire security fence of the town.
Harel said she knew something was wrong as her husband, who was loading up the car to leave for his reserve army duty, shouted that she go into the room and not come out and call security. One of their five children went out of their bedroom and he told them to get inside the door, as just down the hall he was struggling with the terrorists.
She said her husband stopped the terrorists "a second before they came into the rooms."
After being hit repeatedly by the terrorists and suffering light wounds, Roi Harel managed to push them out of the house and lock the door. It was only later when they opened the door that they saw a 20 centimeter (8 inch) knife sticking into it.
According to Harel it was a miracle that her husband was able to stop the terrorists "before they got him. And they didn't use their knives, and they didn't get to the kids."
She said she can't imagine what could have happened if husband wasn't there, and went on to call him "a big hero," noting how he gave them instructions on exactly what to do even while still bleeding from his wounds to the head.
2. ONE WOUNDED IN ATTACK ON BINYAMIN REGION COMMUNITY
by Ben Ariel
Two terrorists broke into the community of Eli, located in the Mateh Binyamin region, early Wednesday morning, where they attacked one of the local residents with a knife and clubs before fleeing the scene.
The lightly wounded man was evacuated to the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem with cuts in the head.
Security forces who were called to the scene located the two terrorists a short time later and killed them. Forces then conducted large searches to make sure no additional terrorists were present.
During the searches a handgun was found outside the town on the path the terrorists used in breaking in to Eli, with the forces estimating that the weapon belonged to the terrorists.
The terrorists were identified as Labib Azam and Mohammed Zarluwan, both aged 17. They hail from the Arab village of Karyut, located adjacent to Eli.
The resident who was attacked described what happened and said: "Two Arabs were waiting outside the door. When I opened the door they burst in with wooden clubs and broke in. I was able to push them out and lock the door."
The man was praised by a spokeswoman for Eli, who said he averted a greater disaster by pushing the terrorists out and preventing them from harming his family.
"The family was saved from disaster today, there was a great miracle here, the husband's resourcefulness saved his wife and five children," said the spokesperson.
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3. 'THEY JUMPED ON ME WITH CLUBS AND BROKE INTO THE HOUSE'
by Yoni Kempinski
Roi Harel, the resident of the Hayovel neighborhood of Eli in the Binyamin region of Samaria who fought off two Arab terrorists who broke into his house and attacked him on Wednesday morning, later described the attack.
The two 17-year-old terrorists from the adjacent Arab town of Karyut were waiting outside the door and forced their way in while armed with a knife, clubs and an improvised handgun. Roi, a reserve soldier, was lightly wounded as he pushed them out, and was hospitalized at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. The terrorists fled, before being shot dead by security forces.
"I went to leave the house, to put things in the car, and two terrorists were standing at my door, youths, they looked around 15 or 16, dressed in dark clothes with wooden clubs in their hands," Harel told Army Radio.
"They jumped on me with the clubs and succeeded in entering the home."
Harel described how the terrorists nearly made it all the way to the bedrooms where his wife and five children were.
"After several minutes I succeeded in pushing them out as they were hitting me. I succeeded in pushing them, and closing the door," he said.
"After the security forces arrived and we opened the door, we saw that a knife of around 20 centimeters (nearly 8 inches - ed.) was stuck in the door. That apparently was the plan for afterwards."
After the terrorists gave up on his home they tried to attack the soldiers and were shot dead.
"We need to remember that it isn't just me in a war for my home, we all are together in the war for our home," said Harel.
4. 'IT COULD HAVE ENDED WITH KIDS SLAUGHTERED ON THE SIDEWALK'
by Yoni Kempinski
Shilo Adler, director of the Yesha Council and a resident of the Hayovel neighborhood in Eli, Samaria, where Roi Harel fought off two terrorists who breached into his house on early Wednesday morning, reenacted the events for Arutz Sheva.
Adler praised the incident as a "miracle," given how Harel managed to push out of his home the two 17-year-old Arab terrorists from the adjacent village of Karyut, who were armed with clubs and knives, while only sustaining light injuries.
The Yesha Council director told Arutz Sheva he was awake and working on his computer when at around 5:30 a.m. he got an SMS from security forces saying a security incident had occurred and asking residents to stay indoors.
Adler, an IDF reserve soldier and a member of the town's security team, found out the incident took place at the house right behind his, where IDF reserve company commander Harel was on his way to do reserve army duty and putting things in his car when he was attacked by the two terrorists.
The terrorists apparently got past the security of the town as they were finishing their shift on guard duty, but got stuck in the barbed wire fence, where their improvised handgun fell. Likewise the shoes of one of the terrorists got stuck in the barbed wire and were later found by security forces, and the terrorist's sweater ripped as well, said Adler.
The attackers saw the light at Harel's house, but he managed to kick them out of his home and lock the door, at which his wife contacted the security team which began scouring the neighborhood.
During the search, Adler noted on seeing the broken windows of cars before hearing gunshots, as Nahal Brigade soldiers identified one of the terrorists hiding in the bushes by the local mikveh (ritual bath). "Right by my car the second terrorist jumps out with a club and a knife, we succeeded in neutralizing him too," he said.
Adler noted that the attack took place just before the time he normally studies with youth at the synagogue, at around 5:50 a.m.
"By a miracle it happened before that, because otherwise we could have ended this incident very differently with several children slaughtered here on the sidewalk."
He said the neighborhood has gone through hard times, noting on two soldiers who fell in war, "but we're a strong neighborhood, and not this incident or another incident or two terrorists from the adjacent village are going to break us."
Adler called the attack an opportunity to call on the government, the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister, and demand they end the policy of "containment" towards terror which "is no longer relevant."
5. NETANYAHU MOVES TO EXPEL TERRORISTS' FAMILIES TO GAZA
by Nitsan Keidar
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu turned Wednesday to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, to explore the legal viability of expelling the families of terrorist murderers to Gaza.
The potential measure has long been advocated by some officials - including members of the government from the Jewish Home and Likud parties - as a means of deterring terrorists.
Families of terrorists who celebrate or knew about their attacks in advance already have their homes bulldozed as part of a raft of counterterrorism deterrence measures enacted by the government since the wave of terror began last year, but the option of expulsion has until now not been implemented.
"Many terror attacks in the last few months have been carried out by 'lone wolf' terrorists," Netanyahu wrote in his letter to Mandelblit. "These attackers sometimes come from families who encourage and assist their attacks.
"I request your legal opinion on the possibility of... distancing family members who aided terror to the Gaza Strip."
"I will explain that the use of this measure will bring about a significant decrease in acts of terror against the State of Israel, its citizens and residents," the PM added.
Supporters of the move within the government include Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan of the Jewish Home party, and Transportation Minister Haim Katz of Netanyahu's own Likud party.
Earlier this week, Katz once again voiced his support for expelling terrorists' families to Gaza.
"Our duty as a government is to save lives, and expelling the families of terrorists will decrease the motivation among those minors to carry out attacks," he said, referring to the young ages of many attackers, most of whom are not formally members of terrorist organizations.
"I am sure that after the expulsion of several individual families this 'terror of individuals and minors' will stop," he added. "This is our obligation. We are fighting for our home and our job is to make sure this stops."
If plans to expel terrorists' families from the country altogether face too many legal obstacles, MK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) has suggested relocating them to isolated areas in Israel's southern Negev Desert.
"No son wants his father and mother to find themselves with no livelihood, and his brothers without an education," Yogev said.
6. 19 YEARS LATER, JORDAN VALLEY TOWN GETS BUILDING APPROVAL
by Shimon Cohen
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) has signed his approval for the urban building plan of Hemdat, a town in the Jordan Valley that has had its construction frozen for the past 19 years.
Shalom Kuperman, a member of the Hemdat secretariat and one of the most long-standing residents of the town, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about the welcome news.
Kuperman noted that around 40 families live in the town, and said that with the approval "we are approaching building processes for a new neighborhood."
Without an approval on the urban building plan, all construction in the town had automatically been classified as illegal, blocking the natural development of the town - a situation replicated in Jewish towns and villages throughout Judea and Samaria.
"This approval opens for us all the possibilities for developing Hemdat and the (Jordan) Valley," he said.
Kuperman described how established families have been waiting to build their homes in Hemdat, and likewise new families hoping to join the community have been delayed as they couldn't have houses built for them. Aside from personal houses, the long wait for approval has caused the town's synagogue, kindergarten and day care center to be housed in caravans.
In addition, roads and infrastructure have not been developed or maintained for nearly 20 years - but now that all is set to change.
"As a town of law-abiding citizens who want to develop the (Jordan) Valley and the entire country, this delayed us. We couldn't draw up contracts for the purchase and sale of houses. It delayed all development of life here," said Kuperman.
Sovereignty - for good or bad?
When asked what prevented the granting of the permission until now, Kuperman said no valid reason existed for the delay.
"There was no problem. We are on state land. Also in terms of plans there was no problem, and the urban building plan could have been passed ten years ago," he said. "Currently it was necessary to make several changes because the law is advancing and we needed to fix several new amendments."
Kuperman noted that in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, urban building plans have to pass through several steps in order to reach the Defense Minister's approval, and afterwards there are another seven to ten steps that need to occur.
As for the possibility that the approval may signal a move towards an implementation of Israeli sovereignty on the Jordan Valley, he said, "we believe with full faith that all parts of the land of Israel belong to us, whether they were territories that we liberated in 1948 or in 1967 or parts we will liberate in the future, all of it needs to be under the sovereignty of the nation of Israel."
"The problem is that if we want to implement the law in a way that only the obligations and the regulations and the irritating things are implemented, but the other things, the 'candies,' are not implemented for us, that's kind of problematic," he added.
"The (Jordan) Valley is mostly made of farmers, and if the outcome of sovereignty is harm to the farmers then we have a problem."
At the same time, Kuperman said, "I think that the Defense Minister and the Prime Minister are people who love the (Jordan) Valley and the nation and want what is good for it, and work so that the Jordan Valley will be under the full sovereignty of the state of Israel."
"I know that they have difficulties and I trust that they will do their job in the best way possible for the nation of Israel."
7. MOLDOVA SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED IN SHOCKING POGROM
by Chaim Lev
Members of the synagogue in the city of Orgiev, in Moldova, were shocked on Wednesday morning to find their Torah scroll thrown to the floor of the synagogue, and other religious objects desecrated on the floor as well.
Leaders of the Jewish community submitted a complaint to the local police, and an investigation was launched to locate those responsible for the appalling attack.
An initial investigation indicates that vandals broke in through the back door of the synagogue.
According to the description of locals, the new inner doors of the synagogue were destroyed, and the menorah candelabras that were attached to the walls were brutally ripped off and stolen.
"The pictures bring to mind photographs from the dark days in the history of the nation of Israel, in which Torah scrolls were torn in synagogues that were desecrated by pogroms, in Orgiev, in Kishinev and in Romania," the leaders of the community were quoted as saying by Chabad Online.
8. WHAT IF AMERICAN TV INCITED TERROR AGAINST MUSLIMS?
by Ari Yashar
During recent months amid a wave of Arab terror the incitement on Palestinian TV has been working overtime, to the point that for many, the site of TV hosts, children or cartoon characters inciting to murder Jews is no longer remarkable.
But a new global campaign by Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center seeks to revolutionize the counter-terror war by targeting the source of incitement.
A new video released by Shurat HaDin on Wednesday reveals just how unbelievable the state of incitement calling to murder Jews is, by imagining what American TV would look like if it followed the model of Palestinian TV.
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Shurat HaDin hopes to gets thousands of citizens to sign onto a lawsuit, which can be found here, allowing them to submit it at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, accusing the Palestinian TV directors of war crimes.
Countless terrorists have admitted under investigation that they launched their lethal attacks after watching Palestinian TV shows inciting the public to violence. Just one example was the murderer of Dafna Meir, who was stabbed to death at her doorstep in Otniel, Judea.
The Shurat HaDin campaign specifically targets Palestinian broadcasting directors Riyad al-Hassan and Ahmed Assaf.
There is precedent for such actions at the ICC, as the heads of the TV and radio authorities in Rwanda were put on trial for war crimes due to their incitement to murder in the civil war there, and were handed life sentences.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin, said, "the current terror is not the terror of individuals - it is clearly television-based terror."
"When institutionalized television conducts brainwashing to viewers (telling them they) need to murder Jews - they go out and do it. We used to arrest inciters in mosques - today you just need to arrest the heads of the Palestinian broadcasting. That isn't an opinion, that's a fact that is proven by the testimony of the murderers themselves," she said.
"I call on all those who want to stop the terror, in Israel and the entire world, to join the lawsuit. If we don't do it, the next murder is just a matter of time, and not only in Israel," concluded Darshan-Leitner.
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