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The young daughter of Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Iyad Al-Hassani, who was eliminated by the IDF during the recent Operation Shield and Arrow, said in a message not to “Israelis,” but to “Jews”: “My dad is happy in Paradise. You will melt in Hell. We will continue to bomb you.”

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Focus on Ukraine and China will hurt Israel, both because Iran threat is being ignored and Arab states feel alliance with Washington is weaker, says Elliot Abrams.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

A foreign policy expert and adviser to three presidents said that the United States is disengaging from the Middle East to the detriment of its own interests and Israel’s, The Media Line reported.

Elliott Abrams, who served in three Republican administrations, including that of former president Donald Trump, told the news agency’s Spanish podcast Medio Oriente 123 that in his opinion, the Biden administration has shifted its focus to “the Ukraine war and on the competition with China. And it seems like they do not want to invest so much in solving the problems of the Middle East.”

This includes, first and foremost, a willful blind eye to the global danger that Iran presents, which he regards as the most pressing issue in the region.

“What is the U.S. policy toward Iran? Non-existent, in my opinion. There is no policy and, in the meantime, every month the Iranians keep progressing and getting closer to achieving a nuclear weapon,” he said.

Washington is also in danger of being seen as a paper tiger on this issue, he warned, since it isn’t vigorously challenging those who are breaking American sanctions against the Islamic Republic. China, he noted, has thrown a lifeline to Tehran with its huge oil trade, without facing consequences.

Sunni Arab allies have taken notice of American inaction against their foremost Shiite foe, which also includes ignoring Iran’s support for terrorism and aggressive actions against them, Abrams said. This is especially true of Saudi Arabia, which has experienced attacks by Iranian terror proxies with no response from America.

Concluding that it can no longer rely on Washington has led Riyadh to resume relations with Tehran in March through Chinese mediation, as a way to “hedge” its bets in protecting itself, he noted.

Another way the U.S. has shown weakness, and very visibly left the region, was its withdrawal from Afghanistan last year and its abandonment of its allies in the country, Abrams said.

This impression that Washington wants less and less to do in the Middle East is not good for Israel, he noted, because Arab states that thought they had an unspoken security partnership with Jerusalem and Washington may now think that this is “unachievable.”

In addition, in contrast to past decades when they saw Israel “as a country that has lots of influence in Washington,” they have noted the current strain between the Biden and Netanyahu administrations and may conclude that it doesn’t pay to be openly friendly with the Jewish state.

On the other hand, he added, the leading Arab country, Saudi Arabia, “has what they want,” which is an under-the-table security relationship with Israel. And they are convinced that Israel will act against Iran if Jerusalem feels the nuclear danger is too great, thereby removing Riyadh’s main regional enemy.

In any case, the veteran policy analyst opined, Riyadh will not normalize relations with Israel until Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman becomes king, as he has much less of an emotional attachment to the Palestinians than his father, the current monarch.

MBS, as he’s known, has already noted a list of things he would want from the U.S. in exchange for diplomatic recognition of Israel, and progress on Palestinian-Israeli peace was not on it.

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“What we’re seeing now is… a ‘wartime arms expo’. And it certainly seems that way with various NATO systems being sent to the AFU. We have the ‘Patriot’, NASAMS, IRIS-T, ‘Hawk’, etc. Coupled with various Soviet-era ones, this ‘salad of systems’ is a real logistical nightmare that is bound to get worse, ” – Colonel Wolf.

Plan for 400 housing units for Jewish families receives initial approval, but similar plan approved 20 years ago was indefinitely shelved.

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee approved a plan last week to construct a Jewish enclave in Abu Dis, a town on the outskirts of eastern Jerusalem, according to a Zman Israel report.

Some 400 housing units for Jewish Israelis received initial approval for construction, but the plan must undergo additional reviews and revisions before building begins.

Political considerations, such as pressure from the Biden administration to avoid building in the area, may also prove to be a major factor as to whether the plan comes to fruition.

Because the Palestinians claim eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a potential future state, Jewish construction outside of the western part of the city is often a contentious issue.

Notably, a similar plan for 225 housing units for Jewish families was approved in 2000. Shortly afterwards, the plan was shelved indefinitely, and more than two decades later, no progress has been made regarding the initiative.

However, senior members of the Jerusalem Municipality said they were certain that the ruling right-wing government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would approve Jewish building in eastern Jerusalem and beyond.

Arieh King, deputy mayor of Jerusalem and a member of the Otzma Yehudit party, told Zman Yisrael that the current government had discussed budgeting for a new eastern Jerusalem road due to their “understanding of its strategic importance for the future” of the capital city.

King added that he was confident the government would also approve the “Kidmat Zion neighborhood plan that is planned on the borders of [that road.]”

“This is our big opportunity and we will not give up on it,” another official, speaking anonymously, told Zman Yisrael.

Earlier this year, the Israeli government twice agreed to freeze settlement building, construction, and expansion under pressure from the U.S.

In March, Israel committed to stop “settlement discussions” for up to half a year at a security summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh that was also attended by representatives from the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan and the U.S.

The same day, a shooting attack by a Palestinian terrorist took place in Huwara, seriously injuring dual American-Israeli citizen David Stern.

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Local terror groups opened fire on troops, triggering a gun battle. No IDF soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire.

By World Israel News Staff

Three operatives from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terror group were killed and an explosives manufacturing site was destroyed in an IDF raid in Nablus (Shechem) that culminated in a firefight between Israeli soldiers and armed terrorists.

Security blogger Abu Ali Express reported that Palestinian media had named the killed terrorists as Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade Commander Fathi Rizk, 30, Abdullah Abu Hamdan, 24, and Muhammad Zaytoun, 32.

An additional five men affiliated with the terror group, all from the Awed family, were also detained by troops.

The raid took place in the early hours of Monday morning, with Israeli security forces entering the Balata neighborhood on the outskirts of Nablus with the intention of arresting several wanted men who had attacked IDF outposts in recent days.

Upon their arrival, local terror groups opened fire on troops, triggering a gun battle. No IDF soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire.

An IDF spokesman said that in addition to capturing the wanted men, troops “confiscated three M-16 rifles, ammunition, military equipment and weapon parts.” They also discovered an “explosives-manufacturing site containing dozens of kilograms of explosives designated for carrying out attacks.”

The bomb laboratory was destroyed by the IDF, the spokesman added.

In a separate overnight operation, troops entered the terror hotbed of Jenin and arrested three terror suspects. During the arrest process, locals pelted soldiers with Molotov cocktails and other improvised explosive devices, as well as rocks.

The IDF responded by opening fire. The army said that “hits” among the rioters were detected, but did not specify whether any had been killed or seriously wounded.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised security forces and the operation on his Twitter account on Monday morning.

“In two successful operations carried out by the security forces overnight in Jenin and Nablus, terrorists who opened fire on our forces were eliminated and those planning terror attacks against Israeli citizens were arrested,” tweeted Gallant.

“We will hunt down and reach our enemies.”

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14 arrested in anti-mafia raid in northern Bedouin town; Ben-Gvir says operation just the beginning, pledges to restore governance to crime-ridden region.

By World Israel News Staff

Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pledged that his ministry would engage in “total war” to restore governance to Israel’s crime-ridden north, where Arab crime families have terrorized local business owners and residents.

Following a raid in the northern Bedouin town of Tuba-Zangariyye, which saw 14 suspects arrested for crimes including arson and extorting businesses by charging them “protection fees,” Ben-Gvir told Hebrew-language media that the operation was only the beginning of a widescale crackdown on crime in the region.

Residents of the Galilee “call me, and I hear their pain and despair, due to this phenomenon of ‘protection…’ criminals are waging a brutal war against law-abiding residents here, Jews and Arabs alike,” Ben-Gvir said in a media conference in the town.

“We’re [launching] a total war [against] the criminals,” he added. Crime in the area has “crossed all red lines, and it’s important that we continue to be intense [in] responding to it.”

As the head of the Otzma Yehudit party, Ben-Gvir made clamping down on organized crime in the peripheral Galilee and Negev regions a central focus of his campaign.

“We call on every citizen who has fallen victim to threats by criminals to avoid giving into extortion and instead to notify police immediately,” a police spokesman said in a follow-up statement.

“Obedience or payment to the criminal elements does not guarantee safety, and in fact it encourages them to expand their blackmail efforts and continue carrying out their plots against more victims,” he added.

In recent years, residents have suffered from a massive crime wave in the Galilee and Negev. Emboldened by a lack of serious consequences, mostly Arab crime families and mafias have demanded payments from merchants in exchange for them being able to operate their businesses unhindered. Business owners who refused to pay have seen their businesses torched in arson attacks or even shot at.

The phenomenon has expanded to include nearly all local industries, from restaurants and retail shops to transportation companies, including public bus operators.

On Sunday, dozens of Arab-Israelis protested what they referred to as a lack of police response to crimes in their community.

However, according to a leaked phone conversation between Ben-Gvir and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, police find themselves in a challenging conundrum when it comes to battling crime in Arab municipalities.

The vast majority of serious crimes in the Arab community, such as murder, go unsolved, largely due to residents’ resistance to testifying in court and refusal to provide eyewitness testimony to police. Arab MKs often complain of racism and discrimination when police do engage in crackdown efforts in Arab towns and cities.

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“It is not every day that one witnesses the convergence of glorious history and technological advancements in the medical field.”

By Pesach Benson, TPS

In a meticulously planned operation that took five months to organize, a pair of 2,000-year-old coffin lids from ancient Egypt was transferred from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to undergo a CT scan on Friday.

Part of the museum’s esteemed Egyptian collection, these intricate coffin lids carved from sycamore wood were subjected to an examination at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in order to unravel the techniques employed by craftsmen during their creation thousands of years ago.

The collaboration between the museum and the hospital could set a precedent for merging historical artifacts with cutting-edge medical technology to better understand the past.

CT (computerized tomography) uses a series of X-rays taken from different angles to create cross-sectional images of bones, organs and blood vessels. Usually, they are used to diagnose certain types of cancer, heart disease, blood clots, broken bones, bowel and spinal disorders, and broken bones, among other things.

“Through the scan, we were able to identify cavities in the wood that were filled with plaster as part of the preparation for the coffins’ decoration, as well as sections that were entirely cast from plaster instead of being directly carved from the wood,” said Nir Or Lev, the Israel Museum’s curator of Egyptian archeology.

“The examination has shed light on the craftsmanship of the ancient artisans responsible for creating these coffin lids, thereby significantly contributing to our ongoing research,” he said.

The first coffin lid, belonging to a ceremonial singer named Lal Amun-Ra, dates back to approximately 950 BCE. Inscribed on the lid are the words “Jed-Mot,” representing the name of the deceased, alongside a blessing. The second coffin lid, dating from the period between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE, once belonged to an Egyptian nobleman named Petah-Hotep.

“It is not every day that one witnesses the convergence of glorious history and technological advancements in the medical field,” said Shlomi Hazan, the chief radiologist of Shaare Zedek’s imaging department.

“The high-resolution scans enabled us to differentiate between various materials, such as wood, plaster, and air spaces. Moreover, the cross-sectional scans unveiled the tree rings, and three-dimensional reconstructions were generated to aid the research team in analyzing the composition of the different materials,” Hazan said.

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