With 86% of the votes <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/live-updates-721259">counted</a> in Israel&#8217;s 25th Knesset election, the right-wing bloc led by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-exclusive-netanyahus-fierce-capitalism-if-youre-not-strong-you-disappear-youre-devoured">Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s</a> Likud Party leads with a projected 65-seat majority. 
As a result, Netanyahu is poised to return to the prime ministership after a brief year in opposition. Netanyahu was Israel&#8217;s ninth prime minister from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He will also become the first Israeli politician to have served for three non-concurrent terms.
Netanyahu <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/article-721231">thanked</a> his supporters in a speech early Wednesday morning for giving him and his bloc a vote of confidence from the Israeli public. &#8220;It was again demonstrated that Likud is the largest party in Israel,&#8221; said Netanyahu. &#8220;Israelis voted for national pride and a Jewish state. I’ll set up a national government that will look after all the citizens of Israel.”
&#8220;Israel is returning to sanity today,&#8221; <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/article-721231">said</a> former Israeli ambassador to the UN, and incoming Likud MK, Danny Danon. &#8220;After years of political instability, the citizens of Israel voted for a nationalist government that will restore security and governance to the people of Israel.&#8221;
In the lead-up to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-poised-for-comeback-as-israeli-elections-go-down-to-the-wire">election</a>, some polls indicated another stalemate, with the Netanyahu-led bloc stuck at 60 seats and the Yair Lapid-led bloc with 56 seats. Even according to the exit polls, Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition would only barely eke out a 61-seat majority. However, as the votes were counted, it became clear that certain left-wing parties that were expected to pass the threshold would not do so, giving the right-wing bloc a larger majority. The national voter turnout on Tuesday was 71.3 percent, the highest since 2015.
At present, Netanyahu’s Likud party has won 31 seats. Lapid’s Yesh Atid party won 24 seats. Betzalel Smotrich’s and Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Religious Zionism Party won fourteen seats. Benny Gantz’s and Gideon Sa’ar’s National Unity Party won 12 seats. Aryeh Deri’s Shas Party won 12 seats and Moshe Gafni’s and Yitzchok Goldknopf’s United Torah Judaism party won eight seats. 
Based on the current <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-85-of-votes-tallied-netanyahu-on-verge-of-breaking-deadlock-regaining-power/">numbers</a>, Netanyahu is poised to create a coalition made up of his Likud Party, the Religious Zionism Party, and the Haredi Shas and United Torah Judaism parties. This will end four years of political stalemate that have dragged the country through five elections in three years. 
While the National Unity Party could theoretically join the coalition and give Netanyahu a center-right majority of 77 seats, it appears unlikely that they will.
 &#8220;We have decided to continue our efforts to position the National Unity Party as a major organization at the center of the political map,&#8221; National Unity <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/national-unity-party-leaders-we-will-go-to-the-opposition/">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;We accept the voters&#8217; decision, and we will remain a responsible opposition after the establishment of the government.&#8221;
The only scenario that could thwart the Netanyahu bloc’s majority is if both the Meretz Party and Balad Party end up above the electoral threshold of 3.25% and if the Labor Party, which is currently at 3.57%, does not fall below it.
As officials begin tallying the final ballots cast by members of the security forces, prisoners, people with disabilities, and diplomats serving abroad, these figures may change. However, a significant shift in the number of seats held by Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition and its opponents is <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-85-of-votes-tallied-netanyahu-on-verge-of-breaking-deadlock-regaining-power/">unlikely</a>.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas">Hamas</a>-affiliated terrorist opened fire with an M-16 rifle in the Givat Ha’avot neighborhood of Kiryat Arba near Hebron on Saturday night, killing one and wounding five. This is yet another terror incident in a wave of terror attacks in Judea and Samaria as Israel heads to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-poised-for-comeback-as-israeli-elections-go-down-to-the-wire">elections</a> to decide the 25th Knesset. 
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بثبات وإقدام.. هذه هي اللحظات الأولى لعملية مستوطنة <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#كريات_أربع</a> في <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#الخليل</a> التي نفذها الشهيد <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#محمد_الجعبري</a>
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While initial <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361906">reports</a> claimed that the shooting targeted the home of MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, an outspoken member of Israel’s right-wing bloc and chairman of the Otzma Yehudit party, the IDF later <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1uu5zo4o">clarified</a> that the terror attack did not target the lawmaker, despite being carried out near his home. 
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🔴 Israeli security forces believe the shooting was not directed at Ben-Gvir&#39;s home, but rather at a military checkpoint near the settlement.<a href="https://t.co/uJbYiXI8lN">https://t.co/uJbYiXI8lN</a>
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The victim was <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/victim-in-kiryat-arba-shooting-named-as-ronen-hanania-wounded-son-recounts-horror/">identified</a> as Ronen Hanania, a 49-year-old resident of the area. Hanania&#8217;s son Daniel, who was in the car with his father at the time of the attack and one of the wounded, told <a href="https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/2022_q4/Article-8705f9a6da72481026.htm??utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=NewsChannelPost&amp;partne=rNewsChannelTwitter">Channel 12 News</a>: &#8220;We were shot at; my father was hit in the head and I watched him die. I knew there was no chance he&#8217;d survive.&#8221; After escaping the car, the younger Hanania was helped by several Arabs in a shop, who bandaged his hand and applied a homemade tourniquet to his wound before he was eventually evacuated to a nearby hospital.
Ofer Ohana, a Kiryat Arba community activist and paramedic, was shot and seriously injured as he responded to the scene. The Rescuers Without Borders organization <a href="https://twitter.com/mokednewsil/status/1586504448393748481">issued</a> a statement, saying, &#8220;We are all praying for the recovery of Ofer Ohana, a Rescuers Without Borders Judea and Samaria volunteer who was wounded in the attack near Kiryat Arba when he rushed to the scene to save a life.&#8221; Two Israelis and an Arab were also among the other victims, all of whom sustained minor injuries. 
The terrorist was rammed by an Israeli security officer responding to the attack before being shot dead by an off-duty Israeli military officer, as seen in security and dashcam footage. 
The terrorist, a teacher in Hebron, was <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-720970">reportedly</a> terminally ill with cancer. Several members of the terrorist’s family are reportedly associated with Hamas, including his brother who was released as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal in 2011. Arabs in Hebron celebrated the terror attack by distributing sweets and by shooting off fireworks as seen on social media.
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🔴 Palestinians celebrating Hebron&#39;s shooting attack with fireworks and sweets <a href="https://t.co/BxjnoTbkin">pic.twitter.com/BxjnoTbkin</a>
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ערבים בחברון חוגגים את פיגוע הירי בישיבה בהר חברון <a href="https://t.co/JvBrbovbRo">pic.twitter.com/JvBrbovbRo</a>
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In a eulogy at the funeral on Sunday, Hanania’s son <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361944">urged</a> the Israeli government to do everything possible to prevent this from happening again. MK Ben-Gvir also eulogized his neighbor at the funeral, which was attended by Israel&#8217;s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi David Lau, Likud MK Amir Ohana, and Religious Zionism party chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich.
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صور من جنازة المستوطن الذي قتل في عملية إطلاق النار بمستوطنة &quot;كريات أربع&quot; حيث أقيمت في مدينة القدس اليوم <a href="https://t.co/C4xEfJJL1y">pic.twitter.com/C4xEfJJL1y</a>
&mdash; AlQastal القسطل (@AlQastalps) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlQastalps/status/1586795461410709504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Former Prime Minister and Likud Party Chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1586428676530266114">statement</a>, saying, &#8220;I pray for the injured in the terror attack in Kiryat Arba, and I support the security forces who are acting on the ground. Only a strong hand will triumph over terror.&#8221;
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מתפלל לשלום הפצועים בפיגוע בקריית ארבע ומחזק את כוחות הביטחון שפועלים בשטח. רק יד קשה מנצחת את הטרור.
&mdash; Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1586428676530266114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Kiryat Arba/Hebron Council Chairman Eliyahu Liebman criticized current Defense Minister and National Unity Party head Benny Gantz for reopening the checkpoint that the terrorist used to enter the area. &#8220;Five months ago, the Defense Minister decided to open the Ashmoret checkpoint, which had been closed to Palestinian vehicle traffic for 20 years,” <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1uu5zo4o">said</a> Leibman. “We warned in real time that the opening of the checkpoint could lead to attacks, and unfortunately, as mentioned, this fear came true tonight.&#8221; 
Just a few hours afterward, shots were <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-people-hurt-one-critically-in-shooting-attack-on-west-bank-settlement/">fired</a> at Israeli troops from a passing vehicle near the Arab town of Bani Na’im, according to the IDF. The soldiers fired back at the terrorists, who fled by car.
In another incident that night, A 27-year-old Israeli man <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-29-2022/">received</a> a head injury when terrorists threw stones at his car near Ma’ale Amos in the Gush Etzion area of Judea. 
This <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-5-soldiers-hurt-in-ramming-attack-near-jericho-palestinian-assailant-shot/">afternoon</a>, a terrorist ran over a civilian with his car at Nebi Mussa near Jericho and then continued to the Almog Junction and rammed into a bus stop running over and injuring 4 IDF soldiers. A policeman who was at the scene shot the terrorist.
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פיגוע טרור בכביש 1 בין ירושלים ליריחו. 4 ישראלים נפצעו. המחבל חוסל. 
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&mdash; Nitsana Darshan-Leitner | עו&#39;ד ניצנה דרשן-לייטנר (@AttorneyNitsana) <a href="https://twitter.com/AttorneyNitsana/status/1586706970077184005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On the previous Thursday evening, a family narrowly <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361936">escaped</a> a lynching attempt near the Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem. Their vehicle was attacked when returning from a memorial event by a group of Arabs wearing masks who broke their windows and smashed their mirrors and other parts of their car before the driver was able to escape. 
In response to the wave of terror, MK Ben-Gvir <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361950">held</a> a press conference on Sunday evening, stating that he would request the public security ministry during coalition talks following the upcoming election. Ben-Gvir outlined a five-point strategy for dealing with the rise in terrorism, which included arming reserve soldiers, relaxing open-fire rules to allow police officers and soldiers to use live fire on rioters throwing stones and petrol bombs, and passing legislation that will grant police officers and soldiers immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken in response to terrorism.
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הודעתי הערב על כוונתי לשמש כשר לביטחון פנים בממשלת הימין שנקים בקרוב אחרי שננצח בבחירות ביום שלישי הקרוב בעזרת השם. הגיע הזמן <a href="https://t.co/DJP6vy8vMm">pic.twitter.com/DJP6vy8vMm</a>
&mdash; איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) <a href="https://twitter.com/itamarbengvir/status/1586761793648660487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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As reported by The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-poised-for-comeback-as-israeli-elections-go-down-to-the-wire">Daily Wire</a>, the race is neck and neck, with some polls showing a right-wing block led by Likud’s Netanyahu just eking out a 61-seat majority over the center-left block led by current interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid. Whether the current terror wave will boost the right-wing bloc to regain power will become clear on Tuesday evening when the polls close.

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Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-exclusive-netanyahus-fierce-capitalism-if-youre-not-strong-you-disappear-youre-devoured/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</a> could be poised for a dramatic comeback as Israelis go to the polls Nov. 1 for the fifth time in less than four years.
Polls show elections to the 25th Knesset headed down to the wire, with one showing a right-wing block led by Likud’s Netanyahu likely eking out a 61-seat majority over the center-left block led by current interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid. But other polls, such as the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/article-720420" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KAN radio poll</a>, show neither side getting a majority, with the Netanyahu-led block stuck at 60 seats and the Lapid-led block with 56 seats. If that happens, voters will try again while Lapid’s government rules until a new coalition materializes.
&#8220;Do you want to restore national pride? Reduce living costs? Restore personal safety?&#8221; a smiling Netanyahu recently asked a crowd in a Central Israel town. When the crowd chanted, “Bibi the king,” the 73-year-old politician replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a king. A king doesn&#8217;t get elected. I need to be elected and that depends on you.&#8221;
The Israeli government is <a href="https://www.gov.il/apps/elections/elections-knesset-15/heb/lexicon/esystem.html#:~:text=Summary%3A,is%20the%201.5%25%20qualifying%20threshold." target="_blank" rel="noopener">elected</a> through a nationwide proportional representation system. Voters vote for a party, and the 120 seats of the Knesset are distributed based on the percentage of votes for each party topping a 3.25% threshold. Each party then chooses its representatives to the Knesset. The leader of any party that can cobble together a 61-seat majority will become the new prime minister.
The president of Israel will usually task the leader of the largest party to try and form a coalition first. If the party leader is unsuccessful after 21 days, any other party can try to form a coalition. If no party is able to form a coalition, the Knesset is dissolved and new elections are scheduled for four months from the date of the dissolution.
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Following the previous election in <a href="https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/elections/2022-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a>, Naftali Bennett, whose right-wing party Yamina had only 6 seats, broke from a coalition supporting Netanyahu and formed a unity government with the center-left, including current interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s party, Yesh Tikva. Israel&#8217;s 36th government held a thin majority of 61 MKs, composed of eight parties representing a wide range of ideologies and varied interests, and was the first time that an Arab party was included in the coalition. The coalition encountered numerous disagreements among its members and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israels-political-crisis-bennett-government-coalition-loses-majority-as-whip-idit-silman-resigns?_gl=1*y9ybdt*_ga*MTAyOTA2NzE2OS4xNjU4OTM4NTg5*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2NjY3ODc5My4xMy4xLjE2NjY2Nzg4OTIuMjUuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ultimately fell</a> after just one year in office. Once the Knesset was dissolved, Yair Lapid was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-will-have-a-new-prime-minister-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sworn</a> in as interim Prime Minister.
Here is a quick look at the <a href="https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/elections/2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parties</a> running in the election:
The right-wing block is led by the Likud Party. At its head sits Netanyahu. The Likud platform is security-focused, traditional religion-state status quo, and somewhat capitalist in economics. It won 30 seats in the previous election and is <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-weeks-out-election-polls-see-renewed-gridlock-with-neither-bloc-winning-majority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">projected</a> to win between 30 and 36 seats this time around.
The Religious Zionism Party is projected to be the second-largest right-wing party and consists of a merger between Betzalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party and Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party. Its platform is focused primarily on a strong Israel internally and internationally, religious freedom, security, law and order, civil liberties, and judicial reform. It won six seats in the previous election and is projected to win between 10 and 15 seats.
The wild card is the rise of Ben-Gvir, a hardline conservative who has galvanized the right by calling for increased security by removing restrictions on the police and army in protecting Israel’s citizens from terrorism. Ben-Gvir has been vilified by the Israeli left, who see him as the new kingmaker and a real threat to their agenda. As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-seeks-to-stop-israel-from-turning-to-the-right-prompting-meddling-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, Biden administration officials have signaled to Netanyahu that the White House would be “troubled by the possibility” that Ben-Gvir might become a minister in the future Israeli government, prompting meddling accusations.
The Haredi (ultra-religious) parties consist of Aryeh Deri’s Shas Party, and Moshe Gafni’s and Yitzchok Goldknopf’s United Torah Judaism Party. Their platforms are similar, with each representing different segments of the Haredi population, championing ultra-Jewish religious and educational values, and securing funding for their private school systems. They generally sit in right-wing coalitions. Shas won nine seats in the previous election and are projected to win between six and eight seats. UTJ won 7 seats in the previous election and are projected to win between five and seven seats.
Bennett’s Yamina Party disbanded once he resigned from the premiership, and his deputy, Ayelet Shaked, is headlining the Bayit Hayehudi party. Yamina won six seats in the previous elections, while Bayit Hayehudi is currently not expected to pass the electoral threshold, a sound rebuke from the former prime minister&#8217;s right-wing constituents on his decision to create a unity government with the left-wing parties.
Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party is a center-left party, focusing on the secular democratic nature of Israel and a slightly socialist economic platform. Yesh Atid won 17 seats in the previous election and is projected to win between 22 and 27 seats.
The National Unity Party, a merger between Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party and Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party, are a centrist/left-leaning party running on an “anything but Bibi” platform. They collectively won 14 seats in the previous election, were members of the Bennett-Lapid coalition, and are projected to win between nine and 13 seats.
Avigdor Leiberman’s Yisrael Beitenu Party represents the Russian immigrant bloc and is very anti-religious in regard to state policy. They used to be part of the right-wing bloc, but a fallout with Netanyahu led Lieberman to join the Bennett-Lapid coalition. Yisrael Beitenu won seven seats in the previous election and are projected to win between four and seven seats.
Zehava Gal-On’s Meretz Party is an ultra-left-wing socialist party, with extreme liberal and anti-religious values, and is against any Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria. Meretz won six seats in the previous election, were members of the Bennett-Lapid Coalition, and are currently projected to win between three and seven seats with a nine percent chance of falling below the electoral threshold.
Merav Michaeli’s Labor Party has a liberal left-wing socialist platform. Once one of the dominating parties in Israel (winning 44 seats in 1992), it has now shrunk to a tiny shell of itself. Labor won seven seats in the previous election, were members of the Bennett-Lapid Coalition, and are currently projected to win between three and six seats with a 16% chance of falling below the electoral threshold.
The Arab parties are made up of Ayman Odeh&#8217;s Hadash-Ta’al party, Sami Abu Shehadeh’s Balad party, and Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party. Their platforms advocate for the rights of Arab citizens in Israel. However, while Hadash-Ta’al and Balad are generally anti-Israel, going so far as to demand from within the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria with East Jerusalem as its capital, and refuse on principle to sit in a coalition with Israeli parties, Ra’am, an Arab Bedouin party with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, has sat in the previous Bennett-Lapid coalition. Hadash-Ta’al and Balad ran together in the last election as The Joint List Party and won six seats. Ra’am won four seats. In this election, Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am are both projected to each win between two and five seats, with a 45% chance of falling below the election threshold, while the Balad party is not expected to pass the electoral threshold.

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Yair Lapid

TEL AVIV &#8212; The deaths of four children in a rocket strike near a mosque in northern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gaza-militants-fire-missiles-into-israel-as-middle-east-crisis-heightens">Gaza</a> Saturday amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel">Israel&#8217;s</a> Operation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-your-time-is-up-israeli-forces-kill-terrorist-leader-attack-islamic-jihad-in-gaza">Breaking Dawn</a> were caused by a Palestinian rocket and not an Israeli airstrike, video shows.
The children&#8217;s deaths were among seven in a residence in the Jabaliya refugee camp, and prompted immediate finger-pointing by Hamas and Palestinian media. But <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1556155858219941891">videos circulating widely on social media</a> show that one of the many rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad toward Israeli citizens misfired and detonated inside Gaza. 
“Tonight, Islamic Jihad terrorists fired a rocket towards Israel which fell short inside Gaza, hitting a Palestinian home in the Jabalia neighborhood and tragically killing at least four children,&#8221; Keren Hajioff, spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, said in a <a href="https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/islamic-jihad-rocket-kills-children-in-gaza-6-aug-2022">video statement</a>. &#8220;There is video documenting the entire thing. There was no Israeli activity in the Gaza Strip, in that area or at that time.” 
The Israeli military launched Operation Breaking Dawn on Friday to combat what Israeli commanders claimed was an immediate and genuine threat that the terror group posed to Israeli communities. The Israeli Air Force carried out multiple strikes in Gaza targeting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. However, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials insisted there had been no air strikes in the area at the time when the children were killed.
The IDF also released a video that showed a rocket failing to cross into Israel and crashing into the Jabalia refugee camp. Officials <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/news/four-palestian-children-killed-after-misfiring-terror-rocket-hits-gaza-home-WCvlUgnkqDbxUsTI3DOZT">said</a> the clips “prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this incident was not the result of an Israel Defense Forces’ strike. Israeli security forces did not strike in Jabaliya in the past few hours,&#8221; according to The Jewish Chronicle.
According to a detailed chronology from Israeli military officials, the blast in the refugee camp happened at around 9 pm in the northeastern part of Gaza. Israel had targeted only the northwestern part of the Strip at 6:51 pm.
Hajioff said the terrorist group must be held accountable for its actions.
“Islamic Jihad is killing Palestinian children in Gaza,&#8221; Hajioff said. &#8220;One in four rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel – lands inside the Gaza Strip. The world should be outraged at this terrorist group targeting innocent Israelis and killing innocent Gazans. Israel will continue to stand up to this vicious terrorist organization – which threatens Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
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Palestinian Arabs chiefly pay the cost for radical Islamic terrorism <a href="https://t.co/b86jiRxLVy">https://t.co/b86jiRxLVy</a>
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According to the IDF, some 200 of the 1,100 rockets that Palestinian Islamic Jihad has fired at Israel since the operation began have landed within Gaza. More innocent people in Gaza were killed by failed Islamic Jihad rockets than by Israeli airstrikes during Operation Breaking Dawn, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-714165">according</a> to Brig. Gen. Ran Kochav.
“All fire by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is a double war crime,” <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-gaza-terrorists-failed-rocket-launch-kills-several-palestinian-children/">said</a> Elad Tene, head of the Prime Minister’s Office’s Public Diplomacy Directorate. “All fire by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is a double war crime: it is shooting at civilians, and using Gazan civilians as human shields. This incident is an example of Islamic Jihad harming the residents of Gaza. All harm to innocent civilians is tragic.”
Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket fire and IDF airstrikes continued throughout Saturday and Sunday until a ceasefire took effect Sunday night.

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TEL AVIV &#8212; President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel earlier this month featured saccharine platitudes and rote pledges of friendship and fealty, but given that Biden was spurned by the Saudis, used by the Palestinians, left Israel worse than he found it, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-joe-biden-has-covid-white-house-announces">apparently got COVID</a> for his trouble, maybe he should’ve stayed home.
After landing at Ben Gurion International Airport July 13, Biden was warmly greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who called the American president “​​a great Zionist and one of the best friends Israel has ever known.&#8221; Israeli President Isaac Herzog was equally effusive, calling Biden “a visionary and a leader,” “like the biblical Joseph.”
Biden’s very words and deeds while in the Jewish State belied their charitable words, and it wasn’t just the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-looks-lost-during-trip-to-israel-makes-holocaust-gaffe">shocking gaffe in which he referred to the “honor of the Holocaust</a>,” or his failure to visit the iconic Western Wall. Biden smiled to our faces, then insulted us behind our backs. His limousine sported Israeli and American flags during visits to Yad Vashem and the Maccabiah games, but the Israeli banner vanished when he headed east Jerusalem to visit the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives.
The Palestinian flag waved from the hood of the presidential limousine when Biden went on to Bethlehem to meet with the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas. Biden stood mute while Abbas accused Israel of “apartheid” and demanded an end to 74 years of “occupation,” an unmistakable call for the end of Israel.
Biden reiterated his support for a two-state solution, calling it “the best way to achieve an equal measure of security, prosperity, freedom, and democracy for the Palestinians as well as the Israelis.”
“The Palestinian people deserve a state of their own,” Biden said before <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israeli-news/article-712210">calling</a> for a divided Jerusalem to be the capital of that state, breaking from the Trump administration&#8217;s recognition that Jerusalem is the undivided eternal capital of the Jewish people.
“Jerusalem must be a city for all its people, its holy sites preserving the status quo &#8230; We must all be free to practice our faiths in peace, in safety, and in dignity,” said Biden.
Of course, Biden’s real mission on the Middle East trip was to beg the Saudis for more oil production. With the Kingdom interested in better relations with the Jewish State, Biden sought to position the U.S. as a facilitator – in effect using Israel to leverage oil from the Saudis.
“Biden didn’t come to Israel as a giver, rather as a beggar,” said former Likud Member of Knesset and Zehut founder Moshe Feiglin. “He came to the Middle East because of the oil prices in the United States. He needs Saudi Arabia to produce more oil, and don’t forget that it was Biden who left the Saudis alone to deal with Iranian attacks, so the Saudis are not exactly lining up to do him favors. The Saudis, due to U.S. foreign policy of abandoning them, have grown closer to Israel.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-unloads-on-biden-over-energy-crisis-hell-fist-bump-saudi-arabia-but-wont-produce-oil-here">Biden’s infamous fist bump with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman</a> angered the left, which was hoping he would take a break from begging long enough to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-confronted-saudi-crown-prince-over-murder-top-saudi-official-pushes-back">deliver a rebuke</a> for the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Of course, the same left sought no such rebuke for Abbas, who praises terrorists who kill innocent Jews and pays their families if they are killed or imprisoned, <a href="https://youtu.be/xhpC0ySJyuA?t=2335">noted</a> Israeli journalist Amit Segal during a recent question and answer session with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro in Tel Aviv.
“Biden’s Middle East trip was despicable, disastrous, and dangerous to the future of the Jewish state in the Middle East,” said Melissa Jane Kronfeld, a former Rutgers University lecturer and national security expert who now lives in Tel Aviv. &#8220;From the removal of the Israeli flag during his visit to Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods and his homage paid to the “honor of the Holocaust”; to his callous commitment to the long defunct two-state solution and feigned intent to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — whose sole purpose is the destruction of the State of Israel — and even his bestie fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman; Biden proved that his foreign policy is careless, cowardly, and always conciliatory to those state actors who seek to undermine the stability of the region.”
Gaffes, snubs, and cynical photo ops aside, the real damage done by Biden’s visit was caused by the leftist government of Lapid. As preconditions for the visit, Israel agreed to a host of “good-will” concessions, including the approval of hundreds of existing illegal structures and the territorial expansion of Arab settlements, consisting of thousands of dunams in Area C of Judea and Samaria. Those will effectively lead to the isolation of Gush Etzion, a major Jewish area, from Jerusalem. In addition, Lapid promised Biden that his coalition will not “<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356514">surprise</a>” the White House with any more Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria.
Meir Deutsch, director general of Regavim, an NGO that monitors and pursues legal action against illegal Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356467">called</a> on the right-wing members of the coalition to reverse this “catastrophe.”
“Saar, Shaked, Kahana, Elkin, Hendel, Orbach – you were elected on right-wing votes because you promised to protect the Jewish settlement enterprise,” Deutsch said. “It is your responsibility to block this insane plan to whitewash thousands of illegal structures that will cut off Jewish settlement blocs from Jerusalem and give permanence to the criminal Palestinian takeover of Area C.”
Israeli diplomats with decades of experience engaging U.S. presidents struggled to put the bungled trip into perspective.
&#8220;It starts with the visit of a U.S. President to a Palestinian institution in east Jerusalem; it continues with the inability of Lapid to set a red line and prevent this dangerous precedent; and it ends with the removal of the Israeli flag from Biden&#8217;s entourage in the capital of the State of Israel,&#8221; said Danny Danon, head of World Likud and a former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman called the trip offensive to the people of Israel.
“President Biden wouldn&#8217;t go to the Western Wall which is the iconic symbol of the Jewish people in the land of Israel,” Friedman told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVZhCts-YQ">Fox News</a>. “Instead, he goes to a hospital in Jerusalem, takes down the Israeli flag, and refuses to acknowledge that Jerusalem is fully the capital of Israel, even though the State of Israel has asserted its sovereignty over all of Jerusalem for more than 50 years. His actions were very clear. He denied Israeli sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem. Every Israeli prime minister, right, left, or center, would find that offensive.”
In an odd post script that would seem to indicate the White House was as confused about the purpose of the trip as Israelis, a video summarizing it in glowing terms was uploaded to the President&#8217;s Twitter account, where Biden wrote, “May Israel and the U.S. continue to prosper together for the benefit of the world.”
However, just a few hours later, without any explanation, the video was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356632">deleted</a>.

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View From Israel: Biden Visit ‘Despicable, Disastrous’ Flag-Waving Failure

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Two people were killed and 12 more were wounded in a terror shooting attack in the center of Tel Aviv on Thursday night. The attack took place in multiple locations on Dizengoff Street, a popular scene filled with restaurants and bars, turning the crowded area into a scene of chaos and panic, as reported by the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-703568">Jerusalem Post</a>. This is the latest in a series of deadly terror attacks that began last month in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/4-israelis-murdered-by-arab-terrorist-worst-attack-in-almost-6-years-hamas-praises-killer">Beersheba</a>, Hadera, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-in-israel-continues-5-killed-by-terrorist-in-bnei-brak-shooting">Bnei Brak</a>. So far, 13 people have been killed.
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Police video shows response to Tel Aviv shooting <a href="https://t.co/UT7aezXZmB">pic.twitter.com/UT7aezXZmB</a>
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Two males approximately 30 years old were pronounced dead at the hospital, while a 38-year-old male, a 28 year-old-female, and a 20-year-old male are said to be in critical or serious condition, according to officials at Icholov Medical Center. The rest are classified as having serious to mild injuries of various degrees.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: More then 6 injured in multiple locations in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv (video: <a href="https://twitter.com/rbinyamini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rbinyamini</a>) <a href="https://t.co/sluRKQHHGg">pic.twitter.com/sluRKQHHGg</a>
&mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1512132834114244608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Israeli Ambulance Service Magen David Adom (MDA) Spokesperson <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325450">said</a>, &#8220;At 9:00 p.m., MDA received reports of multiple victims wounded in shootings at multiple locations, including on Dizengoff Street, Gordon Street, and nearby, in Tel Aviv. EMTs and paramedics treated and evacuated nine patients who were wounded in the attack in Tel Aviv to Ichilov, Sheba Tel Hashomer, and Wolfson Hospitals.”
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“There was a large commotion at the scene, with dozens of people running in the streets,” <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325450">said</a> MDA Paramedic Yisrael Weingarten, one of the first to arrive at the scene. “We saw six patients lying on the sidewalk. We immediately began treatment, including bleeding control and bandaging. Two of them were unconscious and underwent resuscitation, and four others were conscious.&#8221;
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I was very close. Heard many shots behind me on Dizengoff. People ran in every direction. Medics came. Civilians with pistols came. Police came. I hid in an apartment stairwell with people. With police searching with weapons drawn, we were invited into a stranger’s apartment.
&mdash; Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulrubens/status/1512137468878929935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Renan Shimon, 32, from Ramat Gan, was injured by a bullet that went into his cheek. He told <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325457">reporters</a> that he “went out for a beer with a friend and after a quarter of an hour, the terrorist appeared in front of me and started shooting. I went down to the floor, we were looking for shelter and we stood on the beer kegs and I was dripping with blood.” Doctors who treated him at Ichilov Hospital said that it was a “miracle” that he came out alive.
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🇮🇱 — UPDATE: 4 hours since the terror attack in Tel Aviv and the suspect is still on the run — Newly released footage shows the moment of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv. The Terrorist then runs into an apartment building. <a href="https://t.co/iYLKNSDZut">pic.twitter.com/iYLKNSDZut</a>
&mdash; Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBelaaz/status/1512188800117755907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-703583">shooter</a> fled the scene and is still at large five hours after the attack. Large security forces are searching the area, and over 100 roadblocks were set up throughout Tel Aviv and Gush Dan, as Tel Aviv residents were told to stay inside and lock their doors. The manhunt included Israeli special forces from the IDF&#8217;s elite Sayeret Matkal and Shaldag Units, as well as the police&#8217;s Yamam elite counter-terror unit and senior agents of Shin Bet (the Israeli equivalent of the FBI).
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Tel Aviv, tonight: manhunt after the terrorist <a href="https://t.co/j45dUppn4I">pic.twitter.com/j45dUppn4I</a>
&mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1512151168893521925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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TV footage showed hundreds of police officers and military personnel gathered with guns drawn outside a building where the suspect was reported to be holed up inside, just down the street from the scene. However, the terrorist is still at large. Police have shared a photo of the suspect and are asking the public to help locate him.
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Police are scanning buildings on Dizengoff St. in Tel Aviv, searching for a possible shooter in hiding <a href="https://t.co/AYln3YO2gA">https://t.co/AYln3YO2gA</a>
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1512149343586902024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Unreal <a href="https://t.co/FnWNuGJC3N">pic.twitter.com/FnWNuGJC3N</a>
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1512164189724463111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1512187725952303109">said</a> in a statement, “This is a very difficult night. My condolences to the families of the murdered and I’m praying for the complete recovery of the wounded. Security forces are in pursuit of the terrorist who carried out the murderous rampage this evening in Tel Aviv. Wherever the terrorist is — we’ll get to him. And anyone who assisted him, directly or indirectly, will pay the price.”
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לילה קשה מאוד. תנחומיי למשפחות הנרצחים ואני מתפלל לרפואתם השלמה של הפצועים. כוחות הביטחון נמצאים במרדף אחר המחבל שביצע את ההשתוללות הרצחנית הערב בתל אביב. 
היכן שהמחבל נמצא &#8211; אנחנו נגיע אליו.
וכל מי שסייע לו בעקיפין או במישרין &#8211; ישלם מחיר.
&mdash; Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1512187725952303109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dimiter Tzantchev, the European Union&#8217;s ambassador to Israel, <a href="https://twitter.com/DTzantchev/status/1512136392838717464">tweeted</a> that he was &#8220;deeply worried&#8221; by the reports of the terror attack in Tel Aviv. &#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. The EU stands with Israel.&#8221;
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Deeply worried about reports about another terror attack against Israeli civilians, this time in the heart of Tel Aviv. Appalling. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. The EU stands with Israel 🇮🇱
&mdash; Dimiter Tzantchev (@DTzantchev) <a href="https://twitter.com/DTzantchev/status/1512136392838717464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides<a href="https://twitter.com/USAmbIsrael/status/1512146819370917897"> tweeted</a>: “Horrified to see another cowardly terror attack on innocent civilians, this time in Tel Aviv. Praying for peace, and sending condolences to the victims and their families. This has to stop!”
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Horrified to see another cowardly terror attack on innocent civilians, this time in Tel Aviv. Praying for peace, and sending condolences to the victims and their families. This has to stop!
&mdash; Ambassador Tom Nides (@USAmbIsrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAmbIsrael/status/1512146819370917897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups celebrated the terrorist attack, yet neither of them took responsibility. Palestinian media shared videos of celebrations throughout the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon. Hamas called the attack a &#8220;natural and legitimate response to the escalation of the occupation&#8217;s crimes against our people, our land, Jerusalem, and al-Aqsa Mosque.&#8221;
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Sweets being handed out in Ramallah in celebration of the attack in Tel Aviv this evening. <a href="https://t.co/Is2L4ga2Cs">pic.twitter.com/Is2L4ga2Cs</a>
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Handing out sweets in Ramallah to celebrate the murder of Israelis.
But tell me more about Israel&#39;s &#39;partner for peace&#39; <a href="https://t.co/fEYEVWGPTr">pic.twitter.com/fEYEVWGPTr</a>
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1512155005570199563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M Friedman <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1512166752603578373">tweeted</a>: “Palestinians in Ramallah, Jenin and elsewhere are celebrating yet again the murder of Israeli civilians. I want my government to end — end — all financial support and diplomatic engagement with Palestinian terrorists and their enablers. Create some accountability for God’s sake!”
This is the latest in a string of deadly terrorist attacks in Israel in recent weeks, which have occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israels-political-crisis-bennett-government-coalition-loses-majority-as-whip-idit-silman-resigns">government crisis</a>. Whip Idit Silman, a member of Bennett’s Yamina party, quit the coalition yesterday, stripping it of its parliamentary majority and putting the coalition on the verge of collapse.

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Yamina MK Idit Silman <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-703365">announced</a> early Wednesday morning that she is resigning from the government coalition. As a result, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett&#8217;s government lost its 61 seat Knesset majority, putting his government in a tie with the opposition. This potentially enables the opposition to veto any coalition bills and If another MK were to leave the coalition, the government could be brought down in a law brought by the opposition that would disperse the Knesset. If the opposition achieves a majority, they will be able to establish a government without having to hold elections.
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Huge political development in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a>: The head of the coalition from the party of PM <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@naftalibennett</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/iditsilman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@iditsilman</a>, is leaving the coalition because she &quot;cannot take it anymore.&quot; Scoop by <a href="https://twitter.com/amit_segal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amit_segal</a>
&mdash; Gil Hoffman (@Gil_Hoffman) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gil_Hoffman/status/1511553911706066950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Amit Segal of N12 News, who <a href="https://twitter.com/amit_segal/status/1511552031764459520">broke</a> the story of Silman’s resignation, reported that Prime Minister Bennett did not have advance notice that a member of his party would resign, leaving the premier to learn through media reports that he had lost his government majority
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בנט גילה על הפרישה מהדיווח שלנו
&mdash; עמית סגל Amit Segal (@amit_segal) <a href="https://twitter.com/amit_segal/status/1511556059416170497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Silman&#8217;s <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-dramatic-move-whip-silman-quits-government-robbing-coalition-of-majority/">decision</a> to leave was due to her ideological differences with the government’s Left-wing partners, including the Meretz and Labor factions and comes just days after she leveled an ultimatum against Health Minister and Meretz faction chief Nitzan Horowitz over his order to allow hametz (leavened grain products) into hospitals in Israel over the holiday of Passover.
In her resignation letter to the prime minister, Silman <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-703365">said</a> that she had &#8220;joined the current coalition out of a genuine desire to produce unity and closeness on the basis of the common good that unites us as a people and as a state. I honestly believed that in this way we would be able to realize the ideals with which we set out.” 
“I cannot [continue] any longer,” Silman <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325304">said</a>. &#8220;I tried unity. I worked hard for the present coalition government. Unfortunately, I won&#8217;t be able to support harming the Jewish character of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. My values and where I came from do not let me continue on this path. I am ending my membership in the coalition, and I will continue to try to convince my friends [in the coalition] to come home and form a right-wing government. I know that I am not the only one who feels like this.&#8221;
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A second Yamina MK <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325340">hinted</a> that he may not remain in the Bennett government for much longer. MK Nir Orbach told the Giluy Da’at newspaper that he will not sit in any government which freezes construction in Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria, adding that a building freeze is being considered by the current coalition.
Other members of the coalition were hopeful that the current political crisis could be resolved. Yamina MK and Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-dramatic-move-whip-silman-quits-government-robbing-coalition-of-majority/">said</a> in a radio interview that he hoped Silman would change her mind. “I hope it is reversible. This government is doing good things for the people; it was formed because of political exigency, but I think it is very worthwhile for it to continue to function.” 
“We are in a difficult time for our coalition. Political crises happen, and this is definitely a difficult one,” <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325348">said</a> Labor Party chief and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli. “The Labor Party and I are committed to doing everything possible to keep this government functioning and working.”
Right-wing lawmakers were quick to congratulate and praise Silmin for her resignation. Former Prime Minister and current opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1511561371988733953">video statement</a> “I was very moved to hear MK Idit Silman’s statement, and I congratulate her on behalf of the masses of the people of Israel who yearned for this moment.” He also predicted that the Bennett government will collapse in the near future. 
MK <a href="https://twitter.com/shitrit_keti/status/1511554066031259648">Keti Shitrit</a> (Likud), MK <a href="https://twitter.com/bezalelsm/status/1511555999928356868">Bezalel Smotrich</a> (Religious Zionism), and MK <a href="https://twitter.com/itamarbengvir/status/1511559887595220992">Itamar Ben-Gvir</a> (Otzma Yehudit) were among the many who released <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/325305">statements</a> praising Silman&#8217;s decision.
According to the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-703372">Jerusalem Post</a> and <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/silmans-coalition-defection-catches-political-partners-off-guard/">Times of Israel</a>, if the Bennett government is unable to restore its majority, the two most likely outcomes are either elections or the formation of a new government within the Knesset. If the Knesset is dissolved and new elections are called, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid would immediately replace Naftali Bennet and become interim Prime Minister until a new government is formed, according to the coalition agreement.
Alternatively, the opposition could cobble together a coalition of at least 61 Knesset within the current Knesset, avoiding handing the premiership to Lapid. Given that the Arab Joint List would not support the formation of a right-wing administration, it would need to pull away seven members of the current coalition. Defense Minister Benny Gantz&#8217;s eight-seat Blue and White party, as well as right-wing components of the present coalition, are potential options for joining with Likud and the other right-wing parties, although it is unclear whether Bibi Netanyahu would become Prime Minister in such an agreement.
A third scenario would be where the current coalition government, which is now unable to pass any legislation, would continue until the beginning of 2023 when a new budget must be passed and failure to do so would trigger dissolution. At that point, Israel would go to new elections and Yair Lapid will become Prime minister until a new government is formed.

Naftali Bennett

Israel’s Political Crisis: Bennett Government Coalition Loses Majority As Whip Idit Silman Resigns 

An Arab terrorist opened fire and killed five people in a shooting spree across at least two locations in Bnei Brak, a suburb of Tel Aviv, according to Israeli Police. This is the latest terrorist attack in Israel, coming after the two recent Islamic state-inspired attacks, one in Hadera and the other in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/4-israelis-murdered-by-arab-terrorist-worst-attack-in-almost-6-years-hamas-praises-killer">Beersheba</a>.
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In one location, a person was killed in a car and two others were found killed on a sidewalk nearby. In another location not far from the first, another man was killed and a police officer was shot, as reported by <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-702649">Jerusalem Post</a>. The officer was evacuated to Rabin Medical Center where he died soon after from his wounds. 
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Graphic video shows the moment of the attack in Bnei Brak. The gunman can be seen shooting at a man riding a bicycle. <a href="https://t.co/LVFuCBrF5D">https://t.co/LVFuCBrF5D</a> <a href="https://t.co/GCwBcgQ8Zx">pic.twitter.com/GCwBcgQ8Zx</a>
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Lipa Hirsch, a medic for the Israeli Ambulance Service Magen David Adom (MDA) who treated the wounded at the scene, told <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324855">Arutz 7 News</a>: &#8220;We arrived at the scene at Herzl Street and came across a man in his 30s lying unresponsive. He was not breathing, didn&#8217;t have a pulse, and had suffered gunshot wounds. We performed medical checks and found we had no choice but to pronounce him deceased. Approximately 100 meters from him, we came across a 40-year-old man, lying unresponsive with gunshots to his body. An additional MDA team that arrived at the scene provided him with medical treatment and conveyed him to Beilinson Hospital in critical condition. With my team, I continued to the scene at Hashneim Street at the corner of Bialik Street where we found 3 victims, 1 in a car and 2 lying on the sidewalk, all unresponsive. We performed medical checks and had no choice but to pronounce them deceased.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/N12News/status/1508872411877416975?cxt=HHwWnoC5ldvdy_ApAAAA">Channel 12</a> reports that the terrorist was a Fatah-affiliated 27-year-old male from the northern West Bank village of Ya&#8217;bad near Jenin who was imprisoned in 2015 for an illegal arms trade. He recently worked at an illegal construction site in Bnei Brak. The terrorist was shot dead by security forces and the Israeli police have arrested two alleged accomplices.
“Israel is facing a deadly wave of Arab terrorism,” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1508881613261791238?cxt=HHwWjICz6ab1z_ApAAAA">Twitter</a>. “My heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones tonight, and I pray for the wellbeing of the wounded. Security forces are responding. We will fight terror with perseverance, stubbornness, and an iron fist. They will not move us from here. We will win.”
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ישראל ניצבת בפני גל טרור ערבי רצחני. 
לבי עם המשפחות שאיבדו הערב את היקרים להן, ואני מתפלל לשלום הפצועים. 
כוחות הביטחון פועלים. 
נילחם בטרור בהתמדה, בעיקשות וביד ברזל. 
הם לא יזיזו אותנו מכאן. 
אנחנו ננצח.
&mdash; Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1508881613261791238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz <a href="https://twitter.com/gantzbe/status/1508881487864676357?cxt=HHwWioCyxYDuz_ApAAAA">vowed</a> that Israeli security forces will use “all means” to bring an end to the string of deadly terror attacks. “The entire security establishment — the IDF, the Shin Bet, and police — will work using all means to restore security to the streets of Israel and a sense of security to the citizens.”
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1508869088520638469?cxt=HHwWisC4naKcyvApAAAA">said</a> &#8220;A sad and very difficult evening. Israel is in the midst of a dangerous wave of terrorism that we have not seen for many years. I send my condolences to the families of those killed and pray for the recovery of the wounded. I strengthen the security and rescue forces on the ground. We must act resolutely to restore peace and security to the citizens of Israel.&#8221;
Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both praised the deadly shooting attack but neither of them claimed responsibility for the slaughter. Social media posts are circulating of Palestinians in Gaza handing out candy in celebration of the attack.
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A Palestinian man distribute sweets to people on the street after five Israelis were killed in shooting attack, in Deir al-Balah in the center of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> strip, on March 29, 2022. Photo by Ashraf Amra <a href="https://t.co/lQXzWIdj8K">pic.twitter.com/lQXzWIdj8K</a>
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The attack is the third in a week in which 11 people were killed, making it the bloodiest since 2006 when a suicide bus bombing killed 11 Israelis in Tel Aviv. It is the tenth terror attack in the month of March. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-702649">Tensions</a> are high in anticipation of the upcoming month of Ramadan which begins on the evening of Saturday, April 2.

ISRAEL-ATTACK

Terror In Israel Continues: 5 Killed By Terrorist In Bnei Brak Shooting

Between 750,000 and one million people flocked to Bnei Brak on Sunday for the funeral procession of Israel&#8217;s most influential Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Rabbi and Torah leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324274">according</a> to police estimates. Rabbi Kanievsky, known as the “Prince of Torah,” passed away in his Bnei Brak home on Friday afternoon at the age of 94 and was considered the premier Torah leader for Jews in Israel and around the world. Leading rabbis and community leaders issued a proclamation that businesses and schools be closed at the time of the funeral to honor Rabbi Kanievsky. 
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✡️🕯 — PHOTO: An estimated 800,000 people attending the Levaya of Reb Chaim Zatzal in Bnei Brak now. <a href="https://t.co/wHiRi69se7">pic.twitter.com/wHiRi69se7</a>
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&#8220;As many as 1 million mourners attended the funeral of the leader of the haredi Orthodox community, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, on Sunday afternoon in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak, making it the largest funeral in Israel’s history,&#8221; <a href="https://www.jta.org/2022/03/20/israel/mourners-throng-bnei-brak-for-funeral-of-rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-largest-in-israels-history">JTA</a> reported.
Rabbi Kanievsky was born in 1928 in Pinsk, Poland, in what is now Belarus, to Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the &#8220;Steipler Gaon,&#8221; and Rebbitzen Miriam Karelitz, sister of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, known as the &#8220;Chazon Ish.&#8221; He moved to Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) as a young child and never left. Even as a young man, he was supremely dedicated to Torah study, spending many hours immersed in Torah Books. During Israel&#8217;s War of Independence, Kanievsky <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Kanievsky#cite_note-Legendary-1">served</a> in the IDF, guarding an outpost overlooking Jaffa. 
Rabbi Kanievsky studied for around seventeen hours daily and gained expertise in virtually every aspect of Torah. He astonishingly completed the entire Torah yearly, which includes the Pentateuch, Prophets, Writings, Mishnah, Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, Medrash, Sifra, Sifri, Miamonodies, Zohar, Shulchan Aruch, and many more Torah Books, a feat that most Jews don’t complete in their lifetime. He authored many books on all topics of Judaism and selflessly dedicated hours of his time to answering questions from people around the globe, writing out untold thousands of responses to the letters that poured in over the decades. 
The following <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/obituaries/rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-dea.html">story</a>, told over by Rabbi Nosson Scherman of Artscroll, illustrates the depth of Rabbi Kanievsky’s Torah knowledge. Once, when asked “how many times is the name of Moses mentioned in the Torah?” he did a mental tally and answered that Moses appears 97 times. When he was told that a computer had tallied 99 mentions, Rabbi Kanievsky pointed out that the extra two words utilized the same Hebrew letters as Moses but that they had completely different meanings.
He lived a life of utter simplicity from his tiny apartment in Bnei Brak, completely uninterested in luxuries or even comforts. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701834">Despite</a> his widespread renown, he never sought or accepted any formal position as the head of an institution or the rabbi of a community; still, many in the Religious Jewish community considered him to be the final say in all matters related to the Jewish people worldwide.
The Israeli police and the Bnei Brak municipality took every effort to maintain safety at what was likely the largest funeral in Israeli history. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-701756">implored</a> the public before the funeral that &#8220;We must make sure that [the funeral] does not end in a mass disaster. The trauma of the <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-said-hurt-as-stand-collapses-at-mass-lag-bomer-gathering-in-mount-meron/">Meron disaster</a> is still fresh in all of us, this tragedy must not be repeated. I ask everyone to take personal responsibility.&#8221; Public Security Minister Omer Barlev <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/central-israel-to-largely-shut-down-sunday-as-kanievsky-funeral-set-to-draw-masses/">said</a> the funeral will be “an event the magnitude of which we have not encountered before.”
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✡️ — VIDEO: Hundreds at the central train station in Jerusalem tonight, as they head to Bnei Brak for Sunday’s massive Levaya of the Gadol Hador, Hagaon Reb Chaim Kanievsky Zatzal. <a href="https://t.co/2d7miiXzpF">pic.twitter.com/2d7miiXzpF</a>
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In central Israel, major highways and routes, as well as the entrance and exit from Bnei Brak, were closed to private traffic. Thousands of extra buses and trains were made available for those who wished to come to the funeral. Approximately 3,000 IDF Home Front Command police officers, medics, and soldiers were stationed at and near the <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/central-israel-to-largely-shut-down-sunday-as-kanievsky-funeral-set-to-draw-masses/">funeral</a>. 
&#8220;The funeral passed with no serious incidents, and the hundreds of EMTs and Paramedics who had been out in the field since the early hours of the morning treated minor ailments only, such as weakness, faints or minor injuries,” <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324298">said</a> Magen David Adom’s Eli Bin, director-general of Israel’s National Rescue Service.
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תודה למשטרת ישראל ולכוחות ההצלה על היערכות מהירה ומדויקת, ועל ניהול למופת של מסע הלווית הגר״ח קניבסקי זצ&quot;ל. אני מבקש להביע שוב את תנחומיי למשפחה ולציבור רב שחווה אבדן עצום. <a href="https://twitter.com/omerbarlev?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@omerbarlev</a> <a href="https://t.co/w1gj46JbnR">pic.twitter.com/w1gj46JbnR</a>
&mdash; Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1505629202837647365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rabbi Kanievsky was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQJFgfF4BXI">eulogized</a> by his son Rabbi Shlomo Kanievsky at the funeral, who shared personal memories from his childhood home. &#8220;My father always made sure to honor my mother in every way. My mother always had Lunch prepared when my father arrived after studying in yeshiva, however, he would never eat without her; he would only eat if she was seated at the table with him. If she wasn&#8217;t ready, he would wait for her. These seemingly insignificant gestures reflected my father&#8217;s way of life and his devotion to the things that truly mattered.&#8221;
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✡️ — VIDEO: Reb Chaim’s son, Rav Shlomo Kaniesvsky delivering a Hesped at the Levaya. <a href="https://t.co/W7w3Em5moo">pic.twitter.com/W7w3Em5moo</a>
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The funeral was attended by Israelis of all backgrounds. Many tore their garments in mourning, treating the loss of Rabbi Kanievsky as their personal loss. “It still hasn&#8217;t hit home,” said Binyomin Biron, a resident of Modiin Illit who attended the funeral with his children, “We always relied on being able to seek his guidance for all matters, now who will we turn to for sage advice?&#8221; Shlomo Meir Eisenmann of Jerusalem said he made the effort to attend “to pay my last respects to someone who devoted his life to Torah study, an expert in every aspect of the Torah, a master scholar, and a Torah giant. I wanted to witness and be a part of one of the largest events in Israeli history and that this event was about honoring the importance of Torah study shows what is valued here in Israel.” 
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Synagogues around Israel will hold memorial services and eulogies for Rabbi Kanievsky this week as people come to terms with this loss. Many public figures and Israeli notables took the time to issue <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/03/20/prince-of-torah-haredi-sage-rabbi-chaim-kanievsky-dies-at-94/">statements</a> including Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, Sefardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Opposition Leader Bibi Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Religious Zionism Party Leader Bezalel Smotrich, and Otzma Yehudit Chairman Itamar Ben Gvir, among others, showcasing how much stature and respect he held in the eyes of the public. 
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הגר&quot;ח קנייבסקי זצ״ל, גדול הדור, מובא כעת למנוחות. לכתו היא אבדה גדולה לעם היהודי. ** רבות דובר על סגפנותו, ויצא לי לראות זאת במו עיניי כשביקרתי אותו &#8211; הדירה הפשוטה, אורח החיים הצנוע והדל, הוויתור על החומר לטובת הרוח. &gt;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/tioNXGAV7r">pic.twitter.com/tioNXGAV7r</a>
&mdash; Naftali Bennett בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1505503404059152386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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הרב קניבסקי זצ״ל היה צדיק ענק ששמר על הגחלת של תורת ישראל. הסתלקותו מאיתנו היא אבידה גדולה מאוד לעם ישראל. יהי זכרו ברוך. <a href="https://t.co/ZvUqTMP1WN">pic.twitter.com/ZvUqTMP1WN</a>
&mdash; Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1505487784705994755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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🇮🇱✡️ — VIDEO: Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz this morning, paying a Shiva visit to the sons of Reb Chaim Kanievsky Zatzal. <a href="https://t.co/YRphMr2Spl">pic.twitter.com/YRphMr2Spl</a>
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✡️ — PHOTO: Moments after arriving back from Paris, Israeli President Isaac Herzog is now paying a Shiva visit at the Kanievsky home on in Bnei Brak. <a href="https://t.co/ShtpONYONi">pic.twitter.com/ShtpONYONi</a>
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The loss wasn&#8217;t just felt in Israel; thousands around the world watched the funeral via <a href="https://youtu.be/YZScrenX4G0">livestream</a> and memorial services and eulogies were held in communities across the USA, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. “This loss isn’t just a loss for the city of Bnei Brak or for the State of Israel,” said Rabbi Zecharia Rubin, Rabbi at Ahavas Torah Center, Henderson, NV. “Rabbi Kanievsky was beloved by Jews all over the world and his loss will be felt and memorialized by Jewish communities worldwide.”
“He was a universal Torah leader,” said Osniel Rozen of Lakewood NJ, “Each segment of religious Judaism respected him and considered him their own.” “Religious Jews value deep scholarship,” said Yehoshua Yankelewitz of Jerusalem, “Rabbi Kanievsky was by far the greatest scholar of Torah in this generation. He was the ‘Babe Ruth’ of Torah study, and no one will come close to the dedication and devotion he put into his studies. That is why his death is such a loss and why so many people around the world are honoring him. May his memory be a blessing.”

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Snow fell in Jerusalem this Thursday as winter storm Elpis swept across the region. Elpis reached Israel Wednesday morning with heavy rains in northern Israel and along the coast, as snow fell all day on Mount Hermon and the northern Golan Heights. The storm gradually migrated south in the afternoon to central Israel. Jerusalem received between <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/snow-blankets-jerusalem-transforming-city-into-winter-wonderland/">3 &#8211; 6 inches</a> of snow overnight.
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion canceled school for all students on Thursday. Most residents of the city made the most of this rare snow day to play in the snow. However, there were those who took advantage of the snow for more nefarious purposes.
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✡️❄️ — WATCH: Snowing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem now. <a href="https://t.co/5Gee5gGx4U">pic.twitter.com/5Gee5gGx4U</a>
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✡️❄️ — VIDEO: The Western Wall covered in snow Thursday morning. <a href="https://t.co/mqxeksq2JB">pic.twitter.com/mqxeksq2JB</a>
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🇮🇱❄️ — PHOTO: Israeli President Yitzchok Herzog having a good time in the snow this morning at the President’s residence in Jerusalem. <a href="https://t.co/jZkPajXhSu">pic.twitter.com/jZkPajXhSu</a>
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/22-arrested-as-police-clash-with-rioters-in-east-jerusalem-during-snow-storm/">Times of Israel</a> reported that police were attacked Wednesday evening by Arab rioters in East Jerusalem. Police said that rioters threw ice, rocks, and debris at officers, lightly wounding one policewoman. 22 were arrested.
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ניידת משטרה נרגמה באבנים וחפצים בידי מתפרעים בשכונת א-טור במזרח ירושלים<a href="https://twitter.com/SuleimanMas1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SuleimanMas1</a> <a href="https://t.co/Qx8jE6gvz0">pic.twitter.com/Qx8jE6gvz0</a>
&mdash; כאן חדשות (@kann_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1486445185567531011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cars were attacked by a large group of Arabs throwing snow-covered stones at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem. Gila Kadosh, whose car was attacked, told <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321271">Arutz 7 News,</a> &#8220;We felt very threatened and my husband suggested we drive back home, but when we started driving they threw stones at us from all directions, smashed the windshield, broke the front mirrors and a large stone shattered the rear window. Where were the police? How is it possible for this to happen in the heart of Jerusalem without a police response?&#8221;
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ערבים תקפו ניידת משטרה סמוך לכניסה לאוניברסיטה העברית בהר הצופים, כשבתוכה שוטר. חשוד אחד נעצר<a href="https://twitter.com/SuleimanMas1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SuleimanMas1</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/VeredPelman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VeredPelman</a> <a href="https://t.co/27DCC8nafu">pic.twitter.com/27DCC8nafu</a>
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תגובות במייל בלבד. <a href="https://t.co/n5DlkdyV9B">pic.twitter.com/n5DlkdyV9B</a>
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<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321271">Arutz 7 News</a> reported that similar attacks were committed against Jews who entered the Old City of Jerusalem through the Damascus Gate. The attackers threw snowballs at them, pulled off their hats, and shouted insults and curses at them.
Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, many who ascended today to commemorate the memory and 80th anniversary of the assassination of Commander and Founder of the Freedom Fighters of Israel (Lehi), Avraham Stern, were pelted by snowballs by groups of Arab youths. Police, whose job it is to protect the Jewish pilgrims on the Temple Mount, reportedly did nothing to stop this. The Temple Mount is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-temple-mount-is-judaisms-holiest-site-and-it-always-has-been-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">Judaism&#8217;s holiest site</a>.
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לפני זמן קצר בהר הבית ערבים זורקים אבנים וכדורי שלג על יהודים לא ראיתי שום גינוי של עמר בר לב. <a href="https://t.co/JWBot7tPvn">pic.twitter.com/JWBot7tPvn</a>
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זריקת כדורי שלג ואבנים לעבר יהודים שנכנסו בדקות אלה להר הבית. <a href="https://t.co/OJbyGC79ys">pic.twitter.com/OJbyGC79ys</a>
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An eyewitness and regular visitor to the Temple Mount said that the Arab youths were yelling “Allah hu Akbar” while throwing the snowballs at the group, yet the police did not react. Later, the witness was again attacked by Arab youths throwing snowballs with rocks hidden in them while leaving the old city. He sustained a minor head injury. One rioter was detained by the Israeli Police.
Further taking advantage of the lack of police response, Arabs on the Temple Mount built a snowman in the shape of an M-75 rocket, a Hamas-produced rocket with a range of up to 75 kilometers, which encompasses the Temple Mount itself. The terrorist organization&#8217;s flag was wrapped around the snowman by Arabs. This was in addition to other snowmen adorned with Hamas flags.
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أحد المجسمات التي صنعها الشبان بالثلوج في الاقصى <a href="https://t.co/lD5w1CTQme">pic.twitter.com/lD5w1CTQme</a>
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رجل الثلج الفلسطيني في باحات المسجد الأقصى هذا الصباح<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AB%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D8%B3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ثلوج_القدس</a> <a href="https://t.co/YrlGKKzSHr">pic.twitter.com/YrlGKKzSHr</a>
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Tom Nisani, Director of Beyadenu, an organization that advocates for Jewish freedoms on the Temple Mount, stated, &#8220;Throughout the day, we saw riots by Arabs, who are utilizing the snowy conditions to challenge the police by throwing snowballs and rocks at police officers and at Jewish worshipers on the Temple Mount. The Police need to ensure that the snow does not provide coverage for riots against the Jewish worshipers on the Temple Mount.&#8221;

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