#FreeYishaiFleisher Yishai Fleisher banned from Twitter after he suggested throwing bodies of dead terrorists into the sea

Posted on May 5, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Twitter reinstates adviser to Israel’s national security minister
May 7, 2023

Twitter briefly banned Yishai Fleisher, an adviser to Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, over the weekend following a May 4 post in which he suggested throwing the bodies of dead terrorists into the sea. The ban was lifted on Sunday. Twitter initially banned Fleisher for his response to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s decision to return to their families the bodies of the terrorists who murdered three members of the Dee family. The IDF operation that killed the terrorists took place on May 4. READ MORE

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Chicago’s Standard Club: The shuttered club near the Dirksen Federal Building is being used to house 761 migrants now and up to 1,200 in the coming months

Posted on May 5, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

CHICAGO SUN TIMES
Storied Standard Club latest to house asylum-seekers
Fran Spielman
May 5, 2023

For 150 years, the Standard Club was a mecca for Chicago’s business titans, many of them Jews who were banned by the discriminatory membership policies of the University Club and Union League Club. Now, the shuttered club near the Dirksen Federal Building is being used to house 761 asylum-seekers, a number that could grow to as many as 1,200 in the coming months. “As the city continues to respond to this humanitarian crisis,” the club is one of the sites being used as a temporary shelter to support new arrivals, a city statement said in response to questions from the Chicago Sun-Times. It’s been a temporary shelter since March 1, the city stated. READ MORE

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Veteran Chicago prosecutor quits with blistering letter on crime: ‘I will not raise my son here’

Posted on May 5, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
Jason Poje
May 10, 2023

Editor’s note: The following is an email written by Cook County prosecutor Jason Poje, circulated to colleagues last week.

To my colleagues: After 20 years, I always kind of figured an email like this would start with “It is with a heavy heart that I leave…” The truth is, I can’t get out of here fast enough…And yet, I’m leaving. Why could that be? The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt…I will not raise my son here. I am fortunate enough to have the means to escape, so my entire family is leaving the State of Illinois. I grew up here, my family and friends are here, and yet my own employer has turned it into a place from which I am no longer proud to be, and in which my son is not safe. READ MORE

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IAF said Thursday that interception rate of rockets headed for populated areas during the flare-up was 90.5%

Posted on May 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
‘Technical error’ caused Iron Dome to malfunction during Gaza terror onslaught
May 4, 2023

A “technical error” caused a malfunction in the Iron Dome missile defense system during Tuesday’s conflagration with Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip, an Israel Air Force investigation found. During a barrage on Tuesday afternoon, several rockets hit populated areas in Sderot, including one that wounded three foreign nationals working on a construction site. A ceasefire that took effect early Wednesday ended 24 hours of fighting during which more than 100 rockets were fired at the Jewish state…The exchange erupted early Tuesday morning when senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Khader Adnan died in an Israeli prison after an 87-day hunger strike. READ MORE

JNS Yaakov Lappin: Rocket attacks from Gaza demonstrate the fragility of Israeli deterrence Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are prepared to absorb airstrikes in order to terrorize Israeli civilians and market themselves as “authentic” fighters against the Jewish state.

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NY Times says UK told Israel about nuclear activity at Fordo based on info from Ali Reza Akbari, who was hanged in January; Russia assisted Tehran in identifying source of leak

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel got intel on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program from executed spy
May 1, 2023

Russian intelligence reportedly helped Iran discover that a dual Iranian-British national who once served as its deputy minister of defense was leaking information about its top-secret nuclear weapons program. In January, Tehran hanged Ali Reza Akbari over accusations of espionage, an execution that was harshly denounced by the UK and other Western nations. According to an in-depth New York Times report released on Monday, Akbari was indeed a spy and began leaking Iranian nuclear secrets to the British in 2004 — keeping his activities hidden for 15 years. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Gallant: Iran has amassed enough uranium for 5 nuclear weapons Visiting Athens, defense minister says Tehran ‘won’t be satisfied by a single bomb,’ warns the Islamic Republic against efforts to establish military foothold in Syria

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A month after Palestinian terrorists killed Dee and 2 of her daughters, widower and surviving children use stethoscope to listen to her heartbeat inside woman who got transplant

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Like I’m with her’: Terror victim Lucy Dee’s family visits recipients of her organs
Staff
May 2, 2023

The family of an Israeli woman recently killed by Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank met Tuesday with the recipients of organs she donated…At Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, her widower Rabbi Leo Dee and their three surviving children met with three of the people who received the transplants, including Lital Valenci, 51, who got Dee’s heart. In video footage from the hospital, one of Dee’s daughters can be seen growing emotional as she uses a stethoscope to listen to the heartbeat inside Valenci, who had suffered from heart failure for five years prior to the transplant. READ MORE

JNS Netanyahu praises Nablus operation that eliminated Dee family killers Israeli prime minister visitsShin Bet headquarters that oversaw morning mission

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With antisemitic hate crimes on the rise, Orthodox Jewish women are packing heat to defend their communities

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
A Skirt, a Wig, and a Glock-19
Adam Popescu
May 2, 2023

The first thing Mushka Lowenstein does after saying her morning prayers, adjusting her wig, and serving her three kids breakfast, is take her Glock-19 out of the safe. Then she puts on her uniform—a sweater and a skirt with hidden pants and belt loops sewn in where she places the holster for her gun. Then she grabs the portable case that carries her Glock and puts it under the stroller she uses to push her five-year-old to synagogue in Los Angeles. It’s hot out, but she stays covered up as she treks La Brea, passing men in black hats and beards who avoid eye contact with her, and the other women in yoga bra tops walking their dogs this Saturday morning. READ MORE

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Whatever short-term benefits the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement may deliver in terms of regional de-escalation could be far outweighed by the long-term costs

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Were There Clues Foreshadowing Saudi Arabia’s Diplomatic Shift?
John Hannah
May 2, 2023

…I’ve been reviewing my notes from a trip to Riyadh last November with a delegation from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). We spent a week meeting top Saudi leaders. Nothing we heard would have led me to predict that less than four months later, the world would wake up to the shocking image of China’s top diplomat clasping hands with senior Saudi and Iranian negotiators. But in hindsight, there were plenty of clues dropped that provide important context for making sense of the kingdom’s recent machinations. Three stand out. The first concerns Saudi Arabia’s collapsing confidence in the durability of its bilateral relationship with Washington. READ MORE

JPOST White House’s Sullivan to travel to Saudi Arabia this weekend White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia this weekend for talks with Saudi leaders, as the United States seeks to bolster often-frayed ties with Riyadh. Sullivan, speaking at a think tank conference, also said the United States will “take the necessary action to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon” and still seeks a diplomatic outcome to the challenge posed by Tehran.

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A 75-year span in which a stable Jewish government that governs the Holy Land from the Negev to the Galilee has never happened before in Jerusalem…until now

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
The Miracle at 75
Meir Y. Soloveichik
May 1, 2023

…Churchill’s words are worth bearing in mind as we consider the contretemps over judicial reform in Israel as the nation moves toward the 75th anniversary of its inception. In the midst of all of the rancor, it is easy to overlook how remarkable, from a historical perspective, this anniversary actually is. It should be obvious, of course, that Israel’s birth was astounding: that, as Paul Johnson reflected in these pages, while 100 states came into being in the 20th century, only Israel’s birth counts as a miracle. But as we mark 75 years of a modern Jewish state, a study of history reveals another fascinating fact: This might be the most stable 75 years of government that the Jewish people have had in Jerusalem in all of Jewish history. READ MORE

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Demonstrators at mass right-wing gathering in Jerusalem call to move ahead with judicial revamp following talks, deny societal rift is caused by suspended legislative push

Posted on April 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Minority can’t rule here’: In Jerusalem, pro-overhaul protesters stand by government
Lazar Berman and Staff
April 28, 2023

Tens of thousands of right-wing Israelis gathered in Jerusalem on Thursday evening for a mass rally in support of the government’s efforts to drastically overhaul the judiciary, a contentious bid that has drawn widespread opposition at home and abroad in weekly protests nationwide. Thursday’s event was the first rally of this magnitude by pro-overhaul activists, with organizers of the “March of the Million” hoping to draw as many right-wing supporters to the demonstration around the Knesset. Estimates of crowd size ranged between 150,000 and 200,000 people by news networks which cited figures from firms that specialize in estimating crowd sizes. READ MORE

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