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Emma Tsurkov speaks out about her sister Elizabeth, an Israeli citizen, who is being held captive by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq.

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Passersby respond to the car ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist that injured 8 people.

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Bilateral trade between Israel and the UAE for the first five months of 2023 stood at $1.29 billion, marking a 42% increase from the year before.

By Andrew Bernard, The Algemeiner

The Manufacturers Association of Israel (MAI) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) intended to create investment opportunities for industrial companies in both countries.

MAI’s deputy CEO Hagai Edri said he hoped the agreement would lead toward meaningful industrial cooperation between the two countries.

“We see RAKEZ as a potential strategic partner that will allow Israeli industries to expand to other markets while maintaining their main industrial activity in Israel in a way that will benefit both organizations, their members and their respective economies,” Edri said.

Ras Al Khaimah is the northernmost of the UAE’s seven emirates, with a smaller population and economy than better-known Dubai or Abu Dhabi. RAKEZ was founded in 2017 to help establish companies in Ras Al Khaimah, while MAI is an umbrella organization for Israeli industrialists in sectors including high-tech, textiles, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

After normalizing relations in 2020 as part of the Abraham Accords, the UAE and Israel signed a free trade agreement in May 2022 with the goal of reaching $10 billion in annual bilateral trade. The agreement came into effect in March.

Trade between the UAE and Israel has grown rapidly since the two countries established relations. According to an analysis by the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, bilateral trade between Israel and the UAE for the first five months of 2023 stood at $1.29 billion, a nearly 42% increase from the same period in 2022.

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Today Teamsters are erecting practice picket lines as the July 31 expiration of their contract with UPS rapidly approaches. After negotiations broke down yesterday, the largest strike at a single employer in US history is a real possibility.

A UPS driver makes a delivery on June 30, 2023, in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Outside United Parcel Service (UPS) buildings across the New York area this morning, members of Teamsters Local 804, which represents some eight thousand UPS workers, practiced picketing. Holding signs that read “UPS Teamsters Just Practicing for a Just Contract,” the workers acclimated themselves to what will become their routine should they fail to reach a tentative agreement with the shipping giant by their current contract’s expiration on July 31.

Outside of the Foster Avenue UPS building in Brooklyn, workers, community allies, and elected officials such as state senators Julia Salazar and Jabari Brisport — both members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — joined the Teamsters.

“They made over $100 billion last year while you get peanuts,” Senator Brisport told the crowd. “They sit in air-conditioned offices while you swelter in your working conditions.”

BREAKING: @JabariBrisport went too hard at this morning’s practice picket & broke the mic 🥲

get up, get down, nyc is a union town 😏

solidarity w @804_local 🌹 pic.twitter.com/pufm6NfKNB

— @nycdsa.bsky.social🌹 (@nycDSA) July 6, 2023

It is only in the current negotiations that UPS has finally agreed to install air conditioning, exhaust heat shields, fans, and improved ventilation inside delivery vehicles. The issue was a long-standing priority among the company’s workforce, several of whom have died on the job during recent heat waves. The union has backed legislative solutions to the problem — in New York, Local 804 has been a proponent of a bill that would require companies to protect workers from extreme temperatures — while also pushing for a provision to that effect in the contract. The tentative agreement on the noneconomic issue is one win. So too is an agreement to make Martin Luther King Jr Day a paid holiday.

But with negotiations over the largest private sector contract in the United States now focused on economic proposals, major points of disagreement remain.

“Concede to our demands and give us what we deserve, and we’ll go out there and ratify this agreement,” said International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) president Sean O’Brien at a press conference after negotiations broke down shortly after 4 a.m. on Wednesday, July 5. “Or they can take the other road, where they don’t concede to our demands and stay loyal to Wall Street and forget about Main Street.”

Negotiations dissolved as the two sides were discussing the matter of part-time work. Part-timers, who work inside UPS’s buildings sorting packages and loading delivery trucks, comprise more than half of the company’s workforce. Many of these “inside workers” are paid as little as $15.50 an hour. Entering negotiations, they hoped to raise the starting rate to $25 an hour and create additional full-time jobs in the company’s warehouses, providing a means for part-timers to gain greater security.

“Part-time poverty doesn’t work for us in the Teamsters anymore, so we are fighting hard to take care of the part-timers, and UPS said, ‘We don’t have anymore to give,’ and that was it,” O’Brien told CNN. It was an echo of the Teamsters’ message during the last nationwide UPS strike in 1997: “Part-Time America Won’t Work.” That slogan conveyed the significance of the strikers’ fight for other workers, at a time when many of those who had once enjoyed stable full-time jobs were enduring a shift to part-time work.

The slogan helped secure public support. UPS workers hope that should they be forced to strike over the issue, it will again resonate with a public more familiar than ever with the new normal of being forced to juggle multiple part-time jobs to stay afloat, even when workers want a full-time job.

Another priority going into negotiations was the matter of “22.4s,” named after the 2018 contract provision that created a tier of lower-paid full-time workers. These positions were the flash point of conflict within the union in 2018 and spelled the end of then IBT president James P. Hoffa’s Teamsters career. The two sides have reached a tentative agreement on the issue, with UPS agreeing to convert 22.4s to full-time package-car driver positions, eliminating the tier.

However, with negotiations now at an impasse, there are currently no future bargaining dates scheduled. Less than a month remains until the contract expires, and O’Brien has said that he will not accept any contract extension.

“The Teamsters have stopped negotiating despite historic proposals that build on our industry-leading pay,” said UPS in a statement on Wednesday after negotiations broke down. “Refusing to negotiate, especially when the finish line is in sight, creates significant unease among employees and customers and threatens to disrupt the US economy.”

Asked to respond, O’Brien told CNN, “That statement is compelling but highly inaccurate. UPS chose to walk away, and if there is a strike, it’s going to be UPS striking themselves.”

Around 6 percent of US GDP moves through UPS. The 1997 strike cost the company an estimated $40 million per day, and one estimate suggests that a two-week strike in 2023 would cost it $3.2 billion. UPS will lose customers, who will turn to its competitors — the United States Postal Service, FedEx, and Amazon — to try to fulfill their orders. As was the case in 1997, it will only claw back some, rather than all, of that business after the work stoppage.

As the July 31 contract expiration approaches, the Teamsters are planning more practice pickets, as well as rallies to grow public support. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will speak at one such gathering outside of the Maspeth, Queens, UPS building tomorrow morning. Teamsters are intensifying efforts to prepare themselves and their roughly 340,000 coworkers for what would be the largest strike at a single employer in US history.

Pro-Palestinian groups pressured the supermarket chain over concerns it was supporting “illegal settlement policy in the Palestinian territories”.

By World Israel News Staff

French supermarket chain Carrefour has announced that its entry into the Israeli market will not include the opening of branches in Judea and Samaria.

Following the opening of 50 stores in Israel in May, various parties, including pro-Palestinian shareholders, activists from the anti-Israel BDS movement, and trade unions, questioned at the last shareholder meeting if the move would make the company “complicit” in what one shareholder termed “illegal settlement policy in the Palestinian territories”.

This, despite the fact that the supermarket chain operates in Iran for the past ten years.

Pro-Palestinian protesters also gathered outside the venue of the shareholder general meeting.

Carrefour General Secretary Laurent Vallée responded to the concerns by saying that no branches would be opened in Judea and Samaria.

“No Carrefour store will be present in the territories mentioned,” and that “there is no complicity, and we are taking care to prevent any risk.”

The BDS movement has long been lobbying the UN to Electra Consumer Products, with which Carrefour is partnered in Israel, to a database on companies that operate in Judea and Samaria.

Carrefour, which is headquartered in France, has become a retail industry titan thanks to its low prices and branded non-food items, such as cleaning supplies, toiletries and other household goods.

The company already operates in 50 countries, boasting some 14,000 locations across the globe.

The opening in Israel was attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Nir Barkat.

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The judge noted that the officer made a split-second decision in a dangerous situation.

By World Israel News Staff

A Jerusalem court on Thursday acquitted a border police officer who was charged with reckless manslaughter when he fatally shot an autistic man from eastern Jerusalem.

The officer, known only as A., shot Iyad al-Halak in Jerusalem’s Old City, under the mistaken belief that he was a threat when he did not stop when called to.

Judge Chana Lump communicated the court’s empathy towards the bereaved family but described the incident as a tragic mistake, noting that the officer made a split-second decision in a dangerous situation.

She outlined the complex scenario the officer found himself in, considering the high frequency of terrorist attacks in the area. The officer arrived at the scene where Halak had been erroneously marked as a dangerous individual. This misconception led the officer to a genuine error, as he was unaware of Halak’s innocence or his disability.

Halak’s caregiver began screaming and A, thinking she was under attack from Halak, chased him into a trash room where he shot him.

“These were a few seconds that felt like an eternity. It’s such a quick event, I didn’t have time to break it all down. I wanted to save that woman,” he told the court.

After hearing the verdict, Halak’s mother cried out,“There is no justice. Shameful. My son is under the ground.”

A. took to Facebook to express his feelings about the impending judgement, saying, “I hope this ends tomorrow, but whatever happens in court, I will always carry this heavy weight around for the rest of my life. I want justice. I deserve justice. I want all the lies that were told about me to disappear. I want the court to tell everyone that I am not a criminal, that I am a fighter that wanted to do one thing: prevent a terror attack. I would never harm an innocent person.”

A.’s father backed his son’s actions, stating, “The shooting was completely operational, there was a report by police of a terrorist, there was a chase, and my son got there before everyone else. He was certain that he was neutralizing a terrorist and that he was shooting to stop a threat, and the internal investigations unit took this story and tried to spin it with crazy fake news. All of these things fall apart in court, and I repeat that the witnesses that the internal investigations unit brought support my son’s version. All of the officers there said they would have done the same thing.

“My son was not abandoned, he is backed by the Commissioner and by Amir Cohen, the commander of the Border Police. He has the support of the high ranks, he continued his service. As far as the system, he was not a disobedient officer, he was an officer who followed orders and did what was needed.”
A’s mother said, “It a tragedy for both sides. To families were destroyed, but I can tell you that my son doesn’t wake up in the morning with the plan to kill someone.”

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A 25-year-old man from Rhode Island suffered a fatal injury when he fell off the edge of a waterfall at a national park in Colorado on Sunday, as reported by authorities.

The man, whose name has not been disclosed, was pulled under the water after he tumbled from West Creek Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park.

His body was discovered on Monday night, brought to Upper Beaver Meadows by helicopter, and then transferred to the Larimer County Coroner’s Office to determine the exact cause of death.

Authorities stated that the man’s identity would not be released until the next of kin was contacted.

Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado is an incredibly popular destination for hikers, with an estimated 4 million visitors annually. Spanning 400 square miles of mountainous terrain.

The National Park Service reminded visitors to stay safe near the fast-running, icy waters of its rivers, streams, and waterfalls. The National Park Service has issued a warning urging visitors to maintain a safe distance from these bodies of water.

A 57-year-old female passed away while hiking in extreme heat at the Grand Canyon on Monday. Last month, a father and his teenage stepson died at Big Bend National Park in Texas. The 14-year-old boy was discovered unconscious and later pronounced dead, while the 31-year-old step-father had died after his car crashed while driving to get help.

Raising the next generation of recruits for Palestinian terror.

By Vijeta Uniyal, FrontPage Magazine

President Joe Biden’s administration has allocated $223 million for the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a body which has a history of promoting terrorism and Jew-hatred among Palestinian children.

The Biden State Department raised the annual funding for the agency by $16 million, despite repeated reports showing that the UNRWA-run schools are used to indoctrinate Palestinian youth in the ideology of jihad terrorism.

The textbooks, generously funded by the U.S. and European countries, are designed to raise the next generation of recruits for Palestinian terrorist organizations, investigative reports show. “UNRWA teachers and schools regularly call for the murder of Jews and create institutional teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism, a recent report found,” the news agency Jewish News Syndicate noted June 25.

In 2018, President Donald Trump ended all funding for the UNRWA, rightly labelling it an “irredeemably flawed” organization. President Biden reversed the decision shortly after taking office, pledging $235 million for the UN agency in 2021. The U.S. pays nearly one-third of the agency’s $1 billion annual budget.

“Textbook incitement continues as US reaches peak support of UNRWA,” Ynet News, June 26, 2023:

The U.S. State Department announced Monday that the United States support budget for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will reach a record high of $223 million this year.

The increasing amount of support, which is $16 million higher than the previous year, solidifies Washington’s position as the largest donor to UNRWA. Former U.S. President Donald Trump halted all funding of the agency, but since the beginning of President Joe Biden’s term the U.S. has allocated almost a billion dollars to UNRWA.

The announcement of support for UNRWA comes despite the statements of Barbara A. Leaf, the U.S. assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, who criticized UNRWA. In a conversation with members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee last week, Leaf said that the State Department is aware of ongoing reports of incitement to violence in UNRWA schools.

We have concerns about curricula or classroom instruction that promote violence and terrorism. It’s a work in progress, and we are committed to it,” Leaf said. However, she did not elaborate on how the State Department plans to address this issue….

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