“The horrific incident took place at the attacker’s and the three victims’ place of employment in the large Barkan Industrial Park, one of the few commercial centers to employ both thousands of Israelis and thousands of Palestinians, and a working example of coexistence”

Posted on October 8, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Barkan terror attack attempts to ‘sabotage the normalization’ of local Jews and Arabs
by Josh Hasten
October 8, 2018

Just as shocking as the execution-style murders of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, a 29-year-old mother of an infant, and Ziv Hajbi, a 35-year-old father of three from Rishon Letzion, was the location of the vicious attack: the Barkan Industrial Park in Samaria, with its mix of Israel and Palestinian employees. The Israel Defense Forces and other security personnel remain in pursuit of the terrorist, identified as 23-year-old Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alwa from the West Bank village of Shuweika, just north of Tulkarm. Levengrond Yehezkel was laid to rest on Sunday night in her hometown of Rosh Ha’ayin. READ MORE

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“Governments around the world are quietly turning to YAMAM, Israel’s special police force, for help with their most intractable security problems”

Posted on October 7, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

VANITY FAIR
“We Try to Learn Every Terrorist Attack”: Inside the Top-Secret Israeli Anti-Terrorism Operation That’s Changing the Game
by Adam Ciralsky
November 2018

On a spring evening in late April, I traveled to a fortified compound in the Ayalon Valley between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The location is not identified on Waze, the Israeli-built navigation tool, and so, as far as my app-addled cabdriver was concerned, it does not exist. Then again, the same could be said for its inhabitants: YAMAM, a band of counterterror operatives whose work over the last four decades has been shrouded in secrecy. YAMAM is the world’s most elite—and busiest—force of its kind, and its expertise is in high demand in an era when ISIS veterans strike outside their remaining Middle East strongholds and self-radicalized lone wolves emerge to attack Western targets. READ MORE

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“Until about 15 years ago, spinal surgery was a lot like grasping in the dark”

Posted on October 7, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE TOWER
Eye on the Spine
by Avi Jorisch
October 2, 2018

Medtronic, an Irish-American medical device company, announced last Friday that it was purchasing Israel’s Mazor Robotics for a hefty $1.64 billion, the biggest exit ever for an Israeli biotech company. Mazor’s signature piece of technology, a robotic-assisted procedure, represents the future gold standard of spine surgery, which is now poised to be executed globally. Israeli innovations are improving the lives of millions of Americans and other people around the world, and this technology’s proven track record should encourage more American hospitals to adopt it. READ MORE

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“It is clear why those groups that support the destruction of the State of Israel are afraid of Canary Mission”

Posted on October 7, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
Canary Mission Protects Jews. It Should Be Thanked, Not Criticized
by Yisrael Rosenberg
October 5, 2018

A recent exposé in these pages disclosed that Canary Mission, a website that collects the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement of activists, received funding from the San Francisco Jewish Federation. The Federation was forced by the report to promise that it would no longer fund Canary Mission. This is a mistake. Canary Mission provides a huge public service, operating as an early-warning alarm system for the safety and well-being of American Jewry. READ MORE

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“ACLU’s ‘reinvention in the Trump era'”

Posted on October 7, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
ACLU’s Opposition to Kavanaugh Sounds Its Death Knell
by Alan M. Dershowitz
October 6, 2018

So why did the American Civil Liberties Union oppose a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court and argue for a presumption of guilt regarding sexual allegations directed against that judicial nominee? The answer is as clear as it is simple. It is all about pleasing the donors. The ACLU used to be cash poor but principle-rich. Now, ironically, after Trump taking office, the ACLU has never become so cash-rich, yet principle-poor…The problem is that most of the money is not coming from civil libertarians who care about free speech, due process, the rights of the accused and defending the unpopular….READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER Abraham H. Miller: The Politics of Hate and the Soul of Democracy For now, hate is winning, and it is out of control. Kelley Paul, wife of Sen. Rand Paul, writes a heartfelt plea to Sen. Cory Booker to dial down the rhetoric of hate and incitement. The Pauls live in a state of fear. The senator was severely beaten by a deranged neighbor and still suffers the pain and physical damage of the beating. Mrs. Paul sleeps with a loaded gun by her bed.

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EVENT Highland Park Democrat and Republican Town Halls

Posted on October 7, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

Men’s Club of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El invites you to two Town Halls
1175 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL

2018 Republican Candidate Town Hall
Sunday, October 14th at 10:00AM
Candidates currently committed to appear: 10th Congressional District candidate Douglas Bennett, State Senate candidate Barrett Davie, State Representative candidate Rick Lesser, David Stolman, Lake County Treasurer, and Mark Curran for Lake County Sheriff.

2018 Democratic Candidate Town Hall
Sunday, October 21st at 10:00AM
Candidates currently committed to appear: Congressman Brad Schneider, State Senator Julie Morrison, candidate for State Representative, Bob Morgan and several other Lake County candidates.

If you have any questions contact Michael Salberg at 847-831-0581
or email mbsalberg@sbcglobal.net

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#Corbyn: “A disturbing glimpse at the U.K. Labor Party’s leader — and his dark Jew-hating world”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Oren extends ‘invitation’ for British Jews to make Aliyah if Corbyn elected
by Jeremy Sharon
October 4, 2018

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) has called for Israel to prepare “the warmest invitation” for British Jews to make aliyah, including various state-backed incentives, should UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn win a general election and become prime minister. Oren described Corbyn as being extremely hostile to Israel, and said that his election would create an even worse atmosphere in the UK for Britain’s 270,000 Jews…A poll conducted for the UK’s Jewish Chronicle last month showed that 40 percent of British Jews would consider emigrating should Corbyn become prime minister. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Jeremy Corbyn Calls For an Arms Embargo on Israel: A disturbing glimpse at the U.K. Labor Party’s leader — and his dark Jew-hating world…While Israel does import a large amount of weaponry from the United Kingdom, there is nothing it receives from the U.K. that is not available elsewhere, albeit at a higher price.

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DC’s “PLO Mission has been operating illegally since 1987. Subsequent administrations, however, allowed it to stay open anyway for political and diplomatic reasons”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Despite outcry, shuttered PLO Mission did not aid peace process while contravening U.S. law
by Israel Kasnett
October 5, 2018

After months of speculation over what steps the Trump administration would take against the Palestinian Liberation Organization Mission in Washington, the U.S. State Department finally announced in recent weeks that it has given Palestinian representative Husam Zomlot and his staff a month to pack their bags. The U.S. State Department said the PLO office “has not taken steps to advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel.”…In December 1987, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987. Section 1002 of that act provided that “Congress determines that the PLO and its affiliates are a terrorist organization…Thus, in essence, the PLO Mission has been operating illegally since 1987.  READ MORE

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#Syria “If Russian missiles (presumably operated by Russian military personnel) begin to shoot at Israeli aircraft, the Israelis will undoubtedly attack”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL POST
Putin may not want a fight with Israel, but he may get it
by David J. Bercuson
October 5, 2018

Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad can sleep a little better these days now that Russia has completed delivery of a new system of long-range S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. These missiles replace an obsolete system of S-200 missiles that Syria has operated for some time…The sale — objected to by both Israel and the United States — came in the wake of the destruction of a Russian reconnaissance aircraft by Syria’s older anti-aircraft missiles, which were actually aimed at Israeli fighter-bombers raiding Syria but which brought down the Russian aircraft instead. READ MORE

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Chicago: Was Rogers Park 24 year old shooting victim targeted for his religious identity?

Posted on October 5, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Rogers Park crime spree renews fears for Orthodox Jewish community
by Elyssa Cherney and Madeline Buckley
October 5, 2018

After one of the most joyous holidays in Judaism ended at sundown, Rabbi Shalom Gurewicz drove to the lakefront bike path in Loyola Park to visit the makeshift memorial marking where his colleague in the kosher food industry was fatally shot earlier in the week. The rabbi took a picture of the candles and Pokemon items and Chicago sports hats that were left in the memory of Eliyahu Moscowitz. The 24-year-old, who supervised a kosher kitchen at a Jewel-Osco, was wearing traditional religious attire — a black suit, white shirt and black hat — when a gunman shot him in the head along the popular trail Monday evening. READ MORE

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