“Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick hospitalized with light injuries after incident at home of Iyad Halak, a Palestinian autistic man shot dead by police”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Former Likud MK assaulted during visit to family of slain East Jerusalem man
by Staff
June 4, 2020

A former Likud lawmaker was assaulted Thursday in East Jerusalem while visiting the family of an autistic Palestinian man who was shot dead by police. Yehudah Glick, a longtime activist for Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount, said he wanted to pay his condolences to the family of Iyad Halak, 32, who was killed in Jerusalem’s Old City over the weekend. Police said Halak appeared to be holding a gun, but he was unarmed and apparently didn’t understood officers’ orders to halt as he passed near the Lion’s Gate. He reportedly fled on foot and hid in a garbage room, where he was gunned down. READ MORE

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“In 1967, Arab militaries based much of their strategy and battle doctrine on Soviet concepts; a doctrine Israel closely studied”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

MIRYAM INSTITUTE
The Six Day War: Israel’s Air Force Seizes the Advantage
by Avishai Levi
June 5, 2020

The Six Day War presents an exceptional case study of the Israeli Air Force’s ethos of military planning and preparation – something that resulted from the clear understanding that the country’s very existence rested – in no small part – upon the shoulders of its pilots, air crew and ground crews. On land, tens of thousands of graves had been dug to be filled by the anticipated casualties of war.  Our young nation felt like it was on the edge of the abyss, with powerful enemies rounding upon it in the form of several Arab militaries.  The sense throughout the defense establishment was that if Israel was to avoid what it perceived to be a looming second Holocaust, it must capitalize upon the first opportunity to push back the threats massing against it to the north and, much more forebodingly, to the south. READ MORE

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“El Al direct flight from Buenos Aires to Tel Aviv shortened by 2 hours; Sudanese authorities insisted aircraft enter its airspace only after local TV news broadcasts end”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
In fresh sign of warming ties, Israeli airliner enters Sudan’s airspace
by Raphael Ahren and Michael Bachner
June 4, 2020

An El Al plane flying from Argentina crossed through Sudan’s airspace on Thursday, the first Israeli airliner to do so, in another sign of warming ties between the Jewish state and the Arab African country, which had long been hostile to Israel. The plane, marked ELY046, was seen on flight tracker site flightradar24 entering Sudan’s airspace around 9:30 p.m. (Israel time), about 12 hours after it took off from Buenos Aires, and was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv around midnight. The development, if it turns permanent, would allow for direct flights between Ben Gurion Airport and Buenos Aires to be shortened by some two hours. READ MORE

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“The radicalization of white progressives at the heart of the mayhem represents the greatest threat to the communal future of American Jewry, to relations between the American Jewish community and the rest of the Jewish world, and to US-Israel relations”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The great threat to America – and to American Jewry
by Caroline B. Glick
June 5, 2020

…For American Jews, the violent riots constitute a challenge on several levels. First, there is the challenge of squaring their political identity with their Jewish identity. As the 2014 Pew survey of American Jews showed, around half of American Jews identify as progressives. As progressives, many American Jews share the views of their non-Jewish progressive counterparts regarding the need to prioritize the interests of minority communities over their own interests. But the Jews’ progressive desire to work on behalf of those demonstrating for African Americans places their political identity on a collision course with their Jewish identity. Black Lives Matter, the radical group leading the demonstrations, is an anti-Semitic organization. READ MORE

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“The families of Bezalel and Ruth found themselves at the ‘COVID-19 Hotel’ in Nir Etzion. Last Thursday, the two announced their engagement”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Only in Israel: Love in the time of COVID-19
by Staff
June 6, 2020

The families of Bezalel Rafael Cohen and Ruth Shema found themselves at the “coronavirus hotel” for virus patients in Nir Etzion as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. On Thursday, the two announced that they were engaged to be married. Their story is another reminder of the special merit of life in the Jewish State. The couple and their families became infected with coronavirus over the Passover holiday and were taken to the hotel, which was converted into a coronavirus recovery ward for the haredi public…A friend of the families who received word of the potential match organized a date between the two. The rest is history. READ MORE

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Antisemitism In Four Mutations: “The increasing bigotry, and at times violence, within each of these four countries paints a terrifying portrait of how global hatred disseminates and harms”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

PBS
Viral: Antisemitism In Four Mutations
June 2020

By virtually every yardstick, antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening in ways not seen since the 1930s. It comes in the forms of vandalism, social media abuse, assault and murder. Like a virus, it mutates and evolves across cultures, borders and ideologies, making it all but impossible to stop.

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“As we watch our cities burn, we cannot fool ourselves by thinking that what happened in France in the 1790s, in Russia in the 1930s, in China in the 1960s and in Cambodia in the 1970s cannot happen here. We owe it to ourselves and our children to make sure that it doesn’t happen here”

Posted on June 4, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH WORLD REVIEW
Collective Guilt Is a Catastrophic Mistake
by Laura Hollis
June 4, 2020

During my lifetime, the national conversation about race has gradually moved from culpability for individual behavior to culpability for ideology to collective culpability without regard to behavior or ideology. This transition is significant. It is deliberate. And it is dangerous. Focusing on “discrimination,” as our laws have done for decades, places the emphasis on conduct , which can be clearly identified and prohibited. Individuals (or groups) who engage in that prohibited conduct can be penalized. Punishing an attitude of racism, however, is more problematic. It is one thing to condemn it. But how do you penalize or sanction it, apart from the conduct that reflects it? READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Ruthie Blum: Right from Wrong: Ellen DeGeneres, George Floyd and Iyad al-Halak SADLY, LOVE, peace and communication are far from the minds of the looters who have been destroying storefronts and stealing anything they can lay their hands on, including from mom-and-pop shops owned by black people. But then, those involved in the rape of US cities do not care about the man in whose name they claim to be smashing windows and beating innocent people to a bloody pulp.

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LA synagogues, schools and Jewish memorials vandalized with anti-Semitic, anti-Israel slogans, Jewish-owned businesses battered, particularly in Fairfax district

Posted on May 31, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
LA Jews reeling after local institutions looted and burned in Floyd protests
by Tom Tugend
June 3, 2020

Graffiti on the walls of a synagogue read “Free Palestine” and “f*** Israel.” A statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis, was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans. Along with the synagogues, Jewish-owned buildings and stores were defaced, in several cases also with anti-Semitic graffiti. The businesses were looted, too. This city’s Fairfax district was hit particularly hard…Some 600,000 Jews are believed to live in Los Angeles, which would make the city the second largest Jewish city in the world, after New York but ahead of Tel Aviv. READ MORE

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Israeli Health Ministry official says that the new cases of COVID19 across the country are cause for great concern

Posted on May 31, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Health Ministry official: Israel is on the verge of another outbreak
by Staff
June 4, 2020

A senior Health Ministry official warned on Wednesday that Israel is on the verge of a second wave that will lead to a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus, Channel 13 News reported on Wednesday. The official said that it is not possible to link all the infections across the country to the recent spread of the virus in high schools. He added, “The hospitals have difficult cases the likes of which we haven’t seen in two months.” The Ministry of Education said earlier on Wednesday that 51 schools have been shut down after 261 cases of coronavirus infection were discovered among their students and teaching staff. READ MORE

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Iran cyber attack was to poison Israelis with chlorine through their drinking water

Posted on May 31, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Iran ‘opened a Pandora’s box’ in cyber attack on Israeli water system
by Yaakov Lappin
June 2, 2020

The Iranian cyber attack in early April on an Israeli water-treatment facility, designed to get computers to add too much chlorine to the Israeli water supply, represents a new phase in Iranian aggression, a former Israeli defense official has said…According to international media reports, Israel retaliated by paralyzing Iran’s key seaport—the Shahid Rajaee port in the city of Bandar Abbas, which is a strategic hub for Iranian sea imports, exports and trafficking of illicit weapons. “It is not possible to know whether Israel’s reported response will deter Iran, which to a certain extent has opened a “Pandora’s box’ in a cyber attack designed to harm civilians,” said [Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov] Amidror. READ MORE

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