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Thursday, Sep. 08 '16, ה' באלול תשע"ו
HEADLINES:
1. 'RABBI'S ATTACKERS MUST BE SEVERELY PUNISHED'
2. 'SHERIFF OF HEVRON' EDDIE DRIBBEN PASSES AWAY
3. RUSSIA: NETANYAHU, ABBAS AGREE TO MEET
4. HAIM KATZ: WORK WILL TAKE PLACE ON RAILWAY THIS SHABBAT
5. I DISCOVERED MY 'MORPHIUM ANGEL' WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION
6. A MEANINGFUL WEEK IN SEPTEMBER
7. FBI NABS TWO IN SATMAR MURDER PLOT
8. WATCH: CLINTON CLAIMS ISIS PRAYING FOR A TRUMP VICTORY
1. 'RABBI'S ATTACKERS MUST BE SEVERELY PUNISHED'
by Hezki Baruch
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman responded to last night's attack on the home of Kiryat Gat Chief Rabbi, Moshe Havlin, saying the incident "crossed a red line", demanding that the perpetrators be harshly punished.
According to witnesses, a dozen or so haredi demonstrators attacked Havlin's home Wednesday night, breaking in and tearing up furniture, while shouting and cursing at the rabbi. Rabbi Havlin's wife was hospitalized as a result of the incident.
Police arrested three of the attackers, who are believed to be associated with the radical anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement.
Rabbi Havlin, a member of the Chabad Hasidic community, was targeted by the vandals because of his support for a recently negotiated agreement between Chabad yeshivas and the IDF.
Under the agreement, 85% of Chabad yeshiva students will enlist in the army, while 15% receive an exemption, allowing them to continue to study and prepare for work as Chabad emissaries.
Liberman, who in recent weeks has appealed to the Justice Ministry and Internal Security Ministry to increase enforcement against inciters targeting haredi soldiers, said Wednesday's incident was proof Israel needed to send a "clear message" that it would not tolerate harassment of haredi soldiers or their supporters.
"We must send a clear message to these hooligans that the State of Israel will not tolerate any kind of incitement or violence against soldiers or rabbis."
"The attack against the [Kiryat Gat Chief] Rabbi crosses a red line, and justice system must use [its response to] the incident as a warning to any who threaten to or take action to harm haredi soldiers or those who works to integrate haredim into the IDF."
"Only decisive, unambiguous action and a serious punishment against the attackers can put a stop to this terrible phenomenon."
2. 'SHERIFF OF HEVRON' EDDIE DRIBBEN PASSES AWAY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Eddie (Avraham) Dribben, a member of the Jewish community in Hevron, known as the "Sheriff of Hevron", and bereaved father of Dov Dribben, passed away Thursday at the age of 85.
Born in the United States, made Aliyah in his 20s, moving to the Negev, where he worked as a farm watchman.
In the early 1990s, Dribben moved his family to Hevron.
Dribben's son, Dov, was murdered by terrorists in 1998 as he and two friends attempted to drive off Arab shepherds and their flock, which had trespassed on their land, next to the town of Maon, south of Hevron.
The trespassing, however, was a ruse, and Dov and his friends stepped into a trap laid for them by a gang of Arab terrorists.
The terrorists opened fire on the three, killing Dov and wounding his companions.
Kiryat Arba Council Chief Malachi Levinger praised Eddie Dribben in a written statement Thursday morning, calling him a "man of great devotion".
"This morning Eddie Dribben, one of the early settlers of Kiryat Arba-Hevron, passed away. He was a man of great devotion, who poured life into the industry of the city of our forefathers, even in the face of daily harassment, and continued his work even after his son Dov Dribben's murder nearly 20 years ago."
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3. RUSSIA: NETANYAHU, ABBAS AGREE TO MEET
by Nitsan Keidar
The Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had agreed to meet in Moscow to renew final status talks.
Despite the announcement, however, no date has been set for a meeting between the two leaders, and the apparent readiness of the two has yet to produce a firm commitment by either to restart negotiations.
Netanyahu earlier this week announced during his visit to the Dutch parliament that he was prepared to meet the Palestinian Authority leader, so long as no preconditions were attached to such a meeting.
Abbas, on the other hand, has demanded Israel halt all Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria prior to any negotiations, as well as the release of terrorists held in Israeli jails.
The US State Department acknowledged that it was aware of the efforts to bring the two leaders together and reboot negotiations, adding that the US supports any effort towards the creation of a final status agreement.
4. HAIM KATZ: WORK WILL TAKE PLACE ON RAILWAY THIS SHABBAT
by Haim Lev
Despite demands by Haredi parties that work which does not involve saving lives should not take place this Shabbat and in the following weeks, Minister of Welfare and Social Services Haim Katz, who is responsible for giving work permits on Shabbat, decided that essential work will take place on railways this Shabbat and in the following weeks on Shabbat. However he insists that the sanctity of the Shabbat will be maintained and "Work will take place quietly without acrimony."
"Every case will be dealt with individually' Katz was reported as saying in an interview with Yediot Aharonot. "Every work which promotes safety and needs to be performed on Shabbat will be done if there is no choice but to perform it then."
However Katz insisted that the Shabbat will not be desecrated in the public sector. "The sanctity of the Shabbat will be maintained. I will ensure that it will be done quietly and without acrimony. Where work is unnecessary it will not be performed. For years work has been done on Shabbat and it will continue to be done in the future. The furor over it was purposeless and exaggerated."
Two days ago High Court Judge Anat Baron issued an interim order preventing the Prime Minister from stopping railway works on Shabbat.
The order said that the Prime Minister's directive to Israel Railways not to work on Shabbat was 'suspended' meaning that it was invalid.
The order was given in response to Zehava Galon's petition against Netanyahu, Transport Minister Katz and Minister of Welfare and Social Services Haim Katz to issue an order to rescind the decision to stop railway works on Shabbat.
5. I DISCOVERED MY 'MORPHIUM ANGEL' WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION
by Yoel Domb
Na'ama Peled, one of the wounded in the terror attack on an Israeli group in Istanbul a few months ago, published a moving account on her Facebook page after watching the activities of rescue workers at the Tel Aviv car park site.
"A few minutes ago the television revealed to me the name of my 'Morphium angel', wrote Peled. "I didn't remember the name of the nice MDA man who spoke Hebrew in the Turkish hospital and promised me that everything would be alright as far as he could assist me.
"I asked him to prove it to me empirically and with morphium and he did. He gave me a smile and stroked me and gave me morphium because in the public hospital in Istanbul they didn't give out painkillers and patients were supposed to organize them before entering the hospital. I didn't manage to obtain any as I came from the terror attack.
"Felix Lotan was the face of good in that darkness and he does his holy work patiently and responsibly in the most difficult and dangerous places.This is my opportunity to say thank you and to hope that the missing people deep in the Ramat Hahayal car park will get to see his beaming face and will emerge from there safe and sound", concluded Peled.
6. A MEANINGFUL WEEK IN SEPTEMBER
by Jay Shapiro
This September marks the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II - a moment that forever changed the world and the Jewish people.
How has anti-Semitism changed since the Holocaust?
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7. FBI NABS TWO IN SATMAR MURDER PLOT
by David Rosenberg
FBI agents arrested two members of the Satmar Hasidic sect on Tuesday, on suspicion the pair were planning the kidnap and murder of a third Satmar man over the latter's refusal to grant his wife a divorce.
According to a statement released by the FBI Wednesday evening, the plot involved an Israeli rabbi and an American associate, who hired a private investigator to assist them in luring out their intended victim, kidnapping him, and then murdering him.
Unbeknownst to the conspirators, however, the private investigator – himself an Orthodox Jew – had alerted the FBI. He feigned interest in aiding the two, and tape-recorded conversations with them regarding the plot.
Rabbi Aharon Goldberg, 55, of Bnei Brak, and Shimen Liebowitz, 25, of Kiryas Joel have been charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder for hire. The two plotters could face up to life in prison if convicted.
The two had planned to lure the victim either to Pennsylvania or the Ukraine, where, with the aid of the private investigator, he would be abducted and, ultimately, murdered. They planned to pay more than $55,000 to the investigator for his assistance in the plot.
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. noted that the conspirators had initially planned to abduct the recalcitrant husband and force him to grant his wife a divorce.
"As if the plan to kidnap the victim and force him to divorce his wife in this alleged conspiracy wasn't bad enough," said Sweeney, "the plotters allegedly decided halfway through the arrangement to go a step further and add murder to the list of their planned crimes. Our country protects freedom of religious beliefs and practices, but no one is allowed to plot a kidnapping and murder regardless of their motivation."
8. WATCH: CLINTON CLAIMS ISIS PRAYING FOR A TRUMP VICTORY
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton gave her first interview to an Israeli media outlet this election season, sitting down for an exclusive interview with Israel's Channel 2 that is set to air Thursday evening.
Clinton ripped into Republican nominee Donald Trump during the interview, claiming that his campaign rhetoric had bolstered the ISIS terror group.
When asked by interviewer Yonit Levi whether she would, if elected president, she would pursue the war on ISIS differently than her predecessor and, specifically, if she would refer to the conflict as a "war on radical Islam" - noting that the Obama administration has shied away from referencing "radical Islam" – Clinton suggested use of such terminology could actually strengthen Islamic terror.
"We've made a judgment, based on a lot of research, that bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the purpose of the radical Jihadists, and there's a lot of evidence of that," Clinton responded.
The former Secretary of State then added that Matt Olsen, the former chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, had written in a TIME article, published Thursday, that "ISIS supports Donald Trump".
"He quoted ISIS spokespeople rooting for Donald Trump's victory, because Trump has made Islam and Muslims part of his campaign. And basically, Matt Olsen argues, the Jihadists see this as a great gift. They are saying, 'Oh, please, Allah, make Trump president of America."
"I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to their aid and comfort to their evil ambitions," added Clinton. "I want to defeat them, I want to end their reign of terror. I don't want them to feel as though they can be getting more recruits because of our politics."
The former First Lady then turned to her own plan for confronting ISIS, saying she would "intensify what is already happening: our air campaign, more support on the ground to the Arab and Kurdish fighters."
Clinton also suggested the need to gain "leverage" with Syria's chief patrons, Russia and Iran.
"I still believe that we need leverage to deal with the Russians and the Iranians and the Syrians, whether it's a no-fly zone or some other tool."
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