ISRAEL (IINO)
Over 100 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in under 24 hours By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Despite reports of ceasefire in the early morning, red alerts sounded two hours later • IDF allows activity to resume as normal in areas near the Gaza Strip.
May 03, 2023 – IDF struck 16 Hamas targets overnight in response to 100 rockets
Despite the low number of casualties on the Gaza side, Hagari denied that Israel had avoided targeting Hamas sites with personnel who were present.
A total of 104 rockets were fired into Israel between Tuesday and Wednesday, most by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad with some minor participation from Hamas, the IDF confirmed on Wednesday morning.
In response, Israel countered with approximately 16 airstrikes, mostly on Hamas positions, to hold the group responsible for what occurs in Gaza.
IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari said that despite an apparent ceasefire starting around 5:30 a.m. “all options are on the table” should any Palestinian group fire additional rockets at Israel.
Israel’s largest hospital honors Dr. Fauci
Sheba Medical Center honors Dr. Anthony Fauci with the “Sheba Champion of Global Health Award”.
May 2, 2023, 5:56 AM (GMT+3) – Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest hospital, on Monday honored American immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci with the “Sheba Champion of Global Health Award”, i24NEWS reports.
The award recognized Fauci’s work as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his contribution to the COVID-19 response.
Fauci played an important role during the pandemic as Chief Medical Advisor to then-President Donald Trump and then to President Joe Biden. He stepped down from his role at the end of 2022.
The award, presented to Dr. Fauci at a private ceremony in Washington, D.C., celebrated cooperation between Sheba Medical Center and the US government during the COVID-19 pandemic, including sharing data on infections, vaccinations, and boosters.
“I am proud to present to Dr. Fauci with this award which recognizes his commitment to global health and his significant contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Professor Yitshak Kreiss, Chief Executive Officer of Sheba Medical Center, during the ceremony.
“It is no exaggeration to say that Dr. Fauci and his team, through the sharing of information and research, have helped save countless Israeli lives and enabled us to implement our vaccination program,” he added.
[Ed.: Gaslighting and frightening!]
News and updates about Gaza rocket attacks
Rocket fire continues: IAF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza Strip Elad Benari
May 3, 2023, 2:53 AM – IDF fighter jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza following rocket attacks. Meanwhile, sirens in the south continue.
Gaza terrorists fire 6 mortars at Israel after rocket barrage Israel National News
May 2, 2023, 8:20 PM – Mortars follow barrage of 22 rockets which left 3 people wounded in Sderot.
IDF investigating unusually poor Iron Dome performance Gary Willig
May 2, 2023, 8:06 PM – 2 rockets out of 6 strike Sderot, leading to unusually low interception rate of just 67% for a system which boasts success rate of over 90%.
Miracle in Sderot: ‘Our car was hit as my wife was heading to it’ Israel National News
May 2, 2023, 6:31 PM – Husband tells INN terrorists deliberately fired rocket barrage at the time when children were returning from school.
Sderot Mayor after rocket attacks: Govt. must destroy Gaza terror groups Israel National News
May 2, 2023, 5:22 PM – Mayor Alon Davidi says his city has endured rocket attacks from Gaza for years, residents deserve to live in safety.
1 seriously injured in rocket barrage from Gaza Israel National News
May 2, 2023, 3:34 PM – 22 rockets fired in 3 minutes in latest barrage by Gaza terrorist groups.
50 Israeli Supreme Court decisions Rochel Sylvetsky
These decisions, all handed down during Aharon Barak’s period, show more than any essay could why Israel needs judicial reform. Op-ed
Israel’s oligarchy
May 2, 2023, 6:52 PM (GMT+3) – There are many reasons for effecting judicial reform in Israel, not the least of them the way Supreme Court judges are chosen and the absolute power held by the unelected legal advisor to the Prime Minister (who also functions as the attorney general) and the legal advisors to the government ministries. Add the absence of a demand for standing, the fact that everything, including religious, military and economic decisions can be (and are) adjucated in the courts, the fact that a justice’s opinion of the “reasonableness” of an issue allows him to strike it down and that all of the above are particular to Israel.
However, there is a more basic reason change is needed, a factor that the current liberal makeup of the courts does not deem worthy of taking into account. And as long as new justices are chosen by the current ones, in a process that seems almost like cloning, that will not change:
Israel’s justices must first and foremost take into account that Israel is a Jewish state.
They must take into account that Israel has been battling since its establishment against barbaric and cruel enemies.
They must realize how many families have offspring in the army and what kind of split second decisions young soldiers in danger have to make.
They must see to it that Israel is a place where procedures and regulations that can save Jewish lives, both of soldiers and civilians, are in a special category.
Israel should be a place where those who lift a hand against its Jewish citizens because they are Jewish know they will be punished swiftly and severely.
Israel should be a place where the right of each Jewish citizen to live according to halakha if he so wishes is sacrosanct.
Israel should be a place where every effort is made to find legal ways to uphold settling the land of our fathers, including Judea and Samaria, since this is government policy.
Israel’s being defined in the Declaration of Independence as a Jewish state means it should be a country where the basic symbols of Judaism are upheld in public spaces and that the feelings of the observant and their ability to participate in events are taken into account as much as possible – meaning kosher food in the army, El Al and the Knesset, no chametz in the army, Knesset and hospitals on Pesach, stores closed on Shabbat, no public transportation on Shabbat and Jewish holidays, hesder army service that is compatible with observant Judaism.
It is tragic that today’s Supreme Court does not attempt to meet the challenge of what the unique legal character of the first Jewish state in 2000 years should be.The courts should be carefully developing a unique and just legal system with an attitude to security that protects Jews and respects Jewish values. Instead, unfortunately, extremist liberal progressive opinions of judges are repeatedly forced upon the Zionist and tradition-oriented majority of Israeli citizens. The majority of the justices on Israel’s Supreme Court do not relate to the above statements at all, while retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak molded the system to suit his liberal way of thinking.
The best way to understand the issue is to see the court’s record. Dr. Assaf Malach, head of the Education Ministry’s civics committee, selected 50 Supreme Court decisions that were based on justices’ interpretations and opinions, rather than the law. These court decisions illustrate the lack of interest in how a Jewish state established after 2000 years of exile is expected to dispense justice. They are translated below:
[Ed.: ‘Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East’ is a misnomer. Israel, more accurately, is an oligarchy, run by “a gang of thugs” – Reuven Rivkin. I would add to that: a secular-leftist, erev rav, anti-Torah gang of thugs.]
