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Chaotic Opposition as Judicial Reform Passes First Reading by AFSI Staff
February 13, 2023 – Senior Likud officials and their coalition partners said Monday that they would continue the judicial reform process despite President Isaac Herzog’s call Sunday for a pause in the Knesset committee discussions and votes so that the sides could negotiate a compromise.
While acknowledging that “there are positive elements” in the president’s proposal, Justice Minister Yariv Levin said that talks between the Opposition and coalition “should not be linked to the progress of the legislative procedures” so that they do not “become a means of foot-dragging to delay and prevent a substantial and significant reform in the judicial system.”
MK Simcha Rothman said he “welcomes the president’s initiative to hold real talks” and would be “happy to sit, without any delay, through the mediation of the president and wherever he chooses, with any representative of the opposition who wishes to do so” – but without any “preconditions,” such as delaying the legislative process.
Rothman did not budge from his stand that the details of the laws themselves had to be thrashed out in the Knesset, “the representative of the people,” because that is the only place where legislating can and should take place, he said, referencing former Supreme Court Justice and Israel Prize winner Moshe Zilberg.
All the opposition can do is respond with riots, screaming and shouting matches. That speaks volumes about what kind of changes they would like to see in the judicial reforms. To date, we have not heard any suggestions they wish to see. Have you?
Genetic research: almost 25% of Latinos, Hispanics have Jewish DNA By ASHLEY PERRY | Jerusalem Post
Unprecedented genetic research undertaken by dozens of professors from around the world has provided evidence that almost a quarter of Latinos and Hispanics have significant Jewish DNA.
Published: MARCH 1, 2019 09:09 | Updated: MARCH 8, 2020 14:00 – A few weeks ago, something extraordinary happened that could forever affect the future of the Jewish People and the State of Israel.
There has long been speculation of significant Jewish ancestry among the populations of Latin and North America and Europe. Much of that was consistent with historical data, in that we know that extremely large numbers of those Jews who had been forcibly converted in Spain and Portugal – referred to variously as Anousim, Marranos, Conversos and Crypto-Jews – fled the Iberian Peninsula to the New World during the Age of Discovery, beginning late in the 15th century.
Throughout the years, many tried to place a number on the descendants of these Jews, the progeny of a couple of hundred thousand who were forced to the baptismal font to regain kidnapped children held hostage or as a result of repressive legislation and oppression.
Now, unprecedented genetic research undertaken by dozens of professors from around the world has provided evidence that almost a quarter of Latinos and Hispanics have significant Jewish DNA. The study, published in Nature Communications in December 2018, revealed that the number of descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities is far higher than even the largest estimates previously suggested.
[Ed.: A friends wife had to go to her former home to visit Brazil, for personal reasons. When there she saw that the government was doing genetic testing on the people. From this testing they found that just in Brazil, there were 48 million people with Jewish genes!]
Initial reports: Stabbing attack in the Old City Eitan Divinsky
17-year-old victim is in mild to moderate condition.
Feb 13, 2023, 4:13 PM (GMT+2) – A 17-year-old boy arrived near the Western Wall after he was stabbed at the Chain Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics treated the teenager at the scene, and evacuated him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in mild to moderate condition.
MDA medics Yehuda Zand and Baruch Weissman said: “The wounded man arrived at the tunnel near the Western Wall conscious, with a stabbing wound to his body. He told us that he was stabbed near the Chain Gate and ran towards the Western Wall. We gave him medical treatment that included stopping the bleeding and dressing the wound and evacuated him in a light and stable condition for further treatment at the hospital.”
Police are investigating the incident.
Three Jewish funerals and an Israeli hate-fest Ruthie Blum
The terrorist murder of two children and a newlywed didn’t put a dent in the demonstration against the so-called “death of democracy.” Op-ed.
Feb 13, 2023, 7:57 AM (GMT+2) – (JNS) Imagine the scene on Saturday night at 8-year-old Asher Menachem Paley’s funeral. The previous morning, he and his brother, Yaakov, 6, had been among a group of Jews targeted by an Arab terrorist on a car-ramming rampage in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood.
Yaakov was killed on the spot. He was laid to rest a few hours later, before the onset of Shabbat.
Asher was rushed, in critical condition, to Shaare Zedek medical center. Despite doctors’ efforts to save his life, he died of his wounds the next day.
Their 10-year-old brother, Moishie, whose injuries from the attack were far lighter, was treated and quickly released from the hospital. This enabled him, along with his five other siblings and their mother, to be present at both burials.
Their father, Avraham, on the other hand, couldn’t attend either. The 42-year-old had been with the above three of his six kids when Hussein Karaka, 31—an Israeli citizen residing in Issawiya in eastern Jerusalem—accelerated his Mazda into them and the several other people standing at a bus stop.
Avraham’s “moderate” condition didn’t allow for him to part properly with his little boys or be present to comfort his devastated wife and surviving children. He was forced to remain, in physical and emotional pain, at the Hadassah Medical Center/Mount Scopus.
Chaos in Knesset committee: 14 MKs ejected during debate on judicial reform Israel National News
Opposition members sang, screamed, jumped over tables, and sat on the floor.
Feb 13, 2023, 10:52 AM (GMT+2) – Following a stormy and at times chaotic debate in the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, the first of the government’s proposed legal reforms to alter the composition of the committee that appoints judges was passed in its first vote, clearing its passage to the Knesset plenum.
During the debate, 14 committee members were ejected from the conference room for unruly and disruptive behavior. Some had to be physically dragged out while loudly protesting their removal.
The disruptions began with opposition members from the Yesh Atid party singing, “Ein li eretz acheret” (I have no other country) but quickly descended into pandemonium with shouting and screaming, committee members jumping over the table to confront the chairman, MK Simcha Rothman, and others sitting down on the floor in order to prevent their being removed by ushers.
The chaos erupted mere hours after both the President, Isaac Herzog, and the committee chairman, Simcha Rothman, called for dialogue. Adding his voice to those calling for calm consideration was Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
ARABS RIOT AND ATTEMPT TO LYNCH JEWISH FAMILY IN NORTHERN JERUSALEM by Micha Gefen
October 12, 2022 – A Jewish family was attacked by a group of Arabs while driving through the Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem yesterday.
لحظة إلقاء زجاجات حارقة على حافلة مستوطنين أثناء مرورها بحي رأس العامود في القدس. pic.twitter.com/IJewUj41GH
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) October 12, 2022
Police were called to the scene of an attempted lynching in the Northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. According to the family, the Arabs blocked the road as they began to pelt the car with rocks.
The attack in Beit Hanina followed another attack on Jews on the Mount of Olives, where Arabs threw a molotov cocktail a Jewish vehicle .
Attacks raged all day long in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas.
[Ed.: Cultivate Islamophobia!]
Palestinians Celebrate Murder of Israelis in Terrorist Attack, Media Headlines Call Victims ‘Settlers’ by Dion J. Pierre
FEBRUARY 10, 2023 1:50 PM – Images on social media circulated Friday of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza celebrating a terrorist attack in Jerusalem that left two Israelis dead on Friday morning, just hours before the beginning of Shabbat.
In a video posted to Twitter, a man instructs children in Gaza to hand out pastries to passerby in honor of 31-year-old Hussein Qaraqe, who rammed his car into a bus stop in the East Jerusalem in an attack that killed six-year-old Yaakov Pelli and twenty-year-old newly-wed Alter Shlomo Liderman while injuring five others. Images also purported to show members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Khan Yunis, Gaza, distributing sweets.
“The heroic action in Jerusalem is a natural response to all the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people, the last of which is the massacre in the Aqabat Jaber camp,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Kassem said on Friday, citing an IDF operation to neutralize roughly half a dozen terrorists who conspired to commit an attack on an Israeli restaurant in January.
In another celebratory statement, the Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ) said, “We affirm that this blessed operation, which healed the hearts of our people, came as a natural and legitimate response to the crimes of the occupation.”
More Innocent Jews Murdered. The Most Humane Punishment to Deter Terror Against Us [Audio 9:05] Avi Abelow
February 12th, 2023•9:05 – The people of Israel just buried two little boys and a recently married young Jewish man.
It is hard to cry without crying, not just over the dead and the continued terror against us, but about so many of my fellow Jews who are not pained about the problems we must solve in order to properly stop this terror against us. Find out why the judicial system is one of these major problems that must be reformed in order to save Jewish lives, and truly provide justice.
[Ed.: Avi Abelow is reiterating verbatim my words at the dinner table last night, as if he is plagiarizing me word for word – including the provision for those who want to stay and swear allegiance to Israel! Meir Kahane, who was labeled “a right-wing extremist and a terrorist”, was absolutely prophetic when he said: “They MUST Go!“]
Israel’s 2023 key national security challenge Amb.(ret.) Yoram Ettinger
This may apply to other Western democracies. Op-ed.
Feb 12, 2023, 7:00 AM (GMT+2) – *Israel’s primary national security challenge is the reinforcement of education on the 4,000-year-old Jewish/Zionist roots in the Land of Israel, through the bolstering of the Jewish/Zionist identity (self-determination), vision (the reestablishment of the Jewish State in its Homeland) and destiny (the Jewish Ingathering/Aliyah to the Land of Israel).
*These core values are currently threatened by a cosmopolitan and post-Zionist worldview – in addition to the anti-Zionist worldview, that is dedicated to Israel’s physical destruction – which aims to play-down, misrepresent and replace Jewish/Zionist roots and values with multicultural and universal values and institutions.
*Post-Zionism considers Jewish/Zionist identity, vision and destiny as a major obstacle on the way of advancing its top goal: being embraced by the international community.
More guns in Israeli hands, fewer vigils Dr. Robert M. Schwartz
Enough vigils, on to action. Let the terrorists know that they are up against civilian Israeli gun carrriers with good aim. Op-ed.
Feb 10, 2023, 11:37 AM (GMT+2) – “It could never happen in Pittsburgh” was once a common mantra. When I arrived in Pittsburgh nearly 40 years ago from New York City, it seemed like a cross between a quiet village and a Hollywood stage set designed to depict peace and security. The late Fred Rodgers, the cardigan-attired former minister and later star of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood lived four blocks from my house in a heavily Jewish community. This was close to the Tree of Life Synagogue, a sanctuary where I previously worshipped. Fred Rogers famously comforted children worldwide with the soothing saying, “I love you just the way you are.”
In 2015, America wasn’t yet rocked by mass shootings. Still, a watershed event occurred on June 17 of that year: Nine Blacks were murdered during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Previously, I had no interest in carrying a firearm and certainly not in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
But if Christians were being killed in Church, how long would it be, I wondered, until Jews were murdered in synagogues?
With a shot heard worldwide, the answer came just three years later, on October 27, 2018. Eleven Jews worshipping in the Tree of Life were murdered by a deranged antisemite shouting that he wanted all Jews to die. Among those were a 97-year-old grandmother, two brothers with special needs beloved by the local community, and Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, a bowtie-donning, a 66-year-old physician whom I knew as a professional colleague. He was killed when he ran outside to attend to the wounded.
It took only another year for the Poway synagogue shooting in 2019. The violence has since spread to pandemic proportions in the United States. Within the first month of 2023, there have been more mass shootings in the United States (thirty-nine) than there have been days.
Jonathan Pollard to INN: ‘Government should commemorate Israelite conquest of the land’ Hezki Baruch
On the banks of the Jordan River, the former spy lamented the fact that no monument exists at the site where the people of Israel entered the land of Israel.
Feb 12, 2023, 5:02 PM (GMT+2) – Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard toured the Jordan Valley Sunday with The Sovereignty Movement and Israel Forever. Israel National News caught up with the Pollard near the site known as Qaser Al-Yahud, traditionally considered the spot where the Israelites crossed the Jordan River and entered the land of Israel led by the prophet Joshua.
“I find myself very angry; we’re missing something here. There should be a huge monument to the crossing of the Jordan River by Joshua and our people, just as the conquest of the land began. But instead, there’s nothing, there’s another building here,” the former spy lamented.
He added that he maintains that there should be a national holiday celebrating the Israelites’ conquest of the land and that there should be a large monument commemorating the event at the site where it began “So people will understand exactly what happened so long ago and why it’s still relevant to this day,” he explains.
No retaliation after Gaza rocket attack Israel National News
Right-wing government decides not to retaliate against terrorists after Iron Dome shoots down rocket last night.
Feb 12, 2023, 7:11 AM (GMT+2) – The IDF did not retaliate after terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket at Israel on Saturday night, at the behest of the political echelon.
The Iron Dome missile defense system shot down a rocket launched from Gaza towards the Nahal Oz region on Saturday night, after the end of Shabbat. Red alert sirens were activated in the Gaza envelope, and residents reported hearing explosions.
It is believed that the political leadership decided not to respond to the rocket fire out of a desire to avoid an escalation in light of the violence which has claimed 10 Israeli lives in Jerusalem in recent weeks.
This is the first time since the formation of the current right-wing government that the firing of a rocket from Gaza did not result in retaliation.
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[Ed.: “desire to avoid an escalation”?? Not only do we need an ‘escalation, we need to decimate the enemy!]
‘Changes we made to ‘open-fire’ procedure have saved lives’ Ido Ben Porat
‘After the fall of soldier Noam Raz, I held a discussion with his friends at the unit. This resulted in the elimination of many terrorists.’
Feb 12, 2023, 10:56 AM (GMT+2) – In an interview with Hanoch Daum, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett discussed the change in the rules of engagement that he implemented. According to Bennett, the new procedure resulted in the elimination of a large number of terrorists in the year and a half of his government’s tenure.
“About half a year into my tenure, a series of attacks began in Beer Sheva, Bnei Brak, Elad, etc., which is when we initiated the “Breaking the Wave” operation together with Defense Minister Gantz and the Chief of Staff, head of the Shin Bet, and the Foreign Minister, and the idea was to [destroy] the terrorists’ nests by holding nightly operations, and this worked out well,” Bennett said, noting that the move led to the eradication of the spate of terrorist attacks at the time.
Not backing down: Ben-Gvir determined to launch operation in eastern Jerusalem Hezki Baruch
Ben-Gvir intends to present his demands, which include a total lockdown of the Isawiya neighborhood, to the security cabinet on Sunday.
National Security Minister Itamar repeated his intentions on Saturday evening to launch a significant operation in eastern Jerusalem to quell terrorism.
“I am determined to launch ‘Operation Defensive Sheild 2’ in Jerusalem. To those officials who are speaking against me: the police have the authority to demolish illegal houses, arrest over 150 suspected terrorists, raid houses, stop the incitement in the mosques, detain those who owe taxes, and more. The security cabinet is important, and I will request additional things there, but governance is crucially important, and I will make sure it stays that way,” Ben-Gvir wrote on social media.
Ben-Gvir intends to present his demands to the security cabinet, which will meet Sunday to discuss the reaction to the ramming attack in Jerusalem, which killed three Jews.
Ben-Gvir is expected to demand a total lockdown of the Isawiya neighborhood in Jerusalem, a demand which was denied by Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai.
10 killed in Jerusalem terror attacks in just 2 weeks Israel National News
Deadly ramming attack comes 2 weeks after Neve Yaakov synagogue massacre.
Feb 11, 2023, 6:16 PM (GMT+2) – Ten people have been murdered in terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in the last two weeks.
Yesterday, Shlomo Lederman, a 20-year-old Yeshiva student, and Yaakov Yisrael Paley, a six-year-old boy, were murdered in a terrorist ramming attack in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Yaakov’s eight-year-old brother Asher, who was seriously injured in the attack, succumbed to his injuries over Shabbat.
The boys’ father was moderately injured, and their ten-year-old brother was lightly injured.
Four people were injured in the ramming attack in addition to the fatalities.
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The ramming took place exactly two weeks after a terrorist opened fire outside a synagogue in the Neve Ya’akov neighborhood of Jerusalem, murdering seven people as they left the synagogue.
The day after the shooting, a 13-year-old terrorist shot and seriously wounded a Jewish father and son near the City of David in Jerusalem.
[Ed.: Israel has held the position of being ‘inclusive’, meaning that the world’s “three great religions” are welcome here. But the Arabs’ religion instructs them to kill Jews! That’s the paradox. Israel thinks that if we were to be ‘exclusive’, the world would think that we’re shits… It is far better to be a shit, than to be killed all day – every day! That’s another paradox! Now that we’re correcting many of the errors in our political structure, we will hopefully become far more ‘exclusive’ and be far more discerning about who is allowed to be in Israel, and thus not include even our sworn enemies. Either way, the world will continue to hate us and call us the “Neighborhood Bully”…]
‘These boys were so holy’: Two additional victims of Jerusalem ramming attack laid to rest Israel National News
8-year-old Asher Menachem Paley and Alter Shlomo Lederman were laid to rest after they were murdered in a ramming attack on Friday.
Feb 12, 2023, 12:18 AM (GMT+2) – Hundreds attended the funeral on Saturday night of Asher Menachem Paley, the eight-year-old boy who was murdered in a ramming attack in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem together with his younger brother Yaakov Yisrael on Friday.
At the same time, Alter Shlomo Lederman, who was also murdered in the attack, was laid to rest.
The eulogies for Asher Paley took place at the entrance to his home, from which the scene of the attack can be seen. Rabbi Shmuel Paley, the boys’ grandfather, eulogized: “Who knew that now a fire had to come and consume these two holy souls, these two flowers? We don’t understand why, but we know that G-d does it himself. All this suffering is not for naught, it has a reason.”
The second grandfather, Rabbi Amos Guner, also eulogized: “These boys were so holy, so spiritual. We suffered a terrible tragedy, how can we be consoled.”
United Hatzalah mission leaves Turkey after serious security threat
Israeli aid team forced to return to Israel after receiving intelligence of an immediate threat to their safety in Turkey.
Feb 12, 2023, 11:49 AM (GMT+2) – Due to a significant security threat on the Israeli rescue and relief mission in Turkey, and following a joint situational assessment with the heads of the IDF Home Front Command and Search and Rescue Units which took place on Saturday night, United Hatzalah CEO Eli Pollack and Vice President of Operations Dov Maisel instructed the head of United Hatzalah’s rescue mission Major (res.) Yossi Cohen to end the mission and return to Israel as soon as possible.
The team quickly packed up their equipment and gear and made hasty arrangements to fly back to Israel at the earliest opportunity. Due to the lack of available planes, Dr. Miriam Adelson donated her private jet to fly the team back to Israel already on Sunday.
Maisel said: “We knew that there was a certain level of risk in sending our team to this area of Turkey, which is close to the Syrian border but we took the necessary steps in order to mitigate the threat for the sake of our lifesaving mission. Unfortunately, we have just received intelligence of a concrete and immediate threat on the Israeli delegation and we have to put the security of our personnel first. We are extremely proud of what our team has accomplished in just a few days, assisting in the rescue of 15 individuals in cooperation with the IDF Home Front Command, Israel’s Search and Rescue units, local rescue forces, and the Turkish Red Cross. I want to thank Dr. Adelson for assisting us in bringing our people back quickly and safely.”
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