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Former head of IDF says that Israel carried out “extensive attack” against ISIS terror group on foreign soil, killing hundreds of operatives.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The Israeli air force launched a precision bombing campaign against the ISIS terror organization in 2015, killing hundreds of the group’s members, a former IDF chief of staff revealed on Sunday.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), former IDF head and current lawmaker for the National Unity party Gadi Eisenkot said that Israel executed a “very extensive attack” against the terror group and “hit many ISIS operatives.”
Though Eisenkot did not state in which countries the attack took place, it likely occurred in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria or Iraq.
“The campaign against ISIS was intensive and far beyond that of any other country,” Eisenkot said, adding that it garnered “results that, in some places, went beyond all imagination in terms of the types of operations and attacks carried out. Some of the actions went under the radar.”
Eisenkot stressed that the offensive was a testament to the power of the Israeli military and had made a lasting impression upon world superpowers.
“There aren’t many countries in the world that know how to identify targets the size of a postage stamp and insert a missile into a target within a radius of 1,000 kilometers around Israel,” he said.
“Our enemies saw it, the Russians saw it, the Americans saw it. Those who know best how much the IDF operated throughout the Middle East are the ISIS operatives because they paid the price of the hundreds of casualties, injuries and damages, and they understood who knew how to carry out these operations.”
The attack was a collaborative effort that involved various branches of Israel’s armed forces, Eisenkot said.
“[Many parts of the] army were involved in this campaign: Military Intelligence, Air Force, special units, foreign relations,” he added.
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Energy Minister says protesters spat on him as he attended event celebrating 100 years of electricity in Tel Aviv; social media users post photos of his suit jacket covered in what appears to be saliva.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Energy Minister Israel Katz said that left-wing protesters demonstrating against his presence at an event in Tel Aviv spat on him, calling their behavior “violent” and “dark.”
On Sunday, Katz was rushed by protesters upon his arrival at a ceremony celebrating 100 years of electricity on Tel Aviv’s streets.
Social media footage from the event showed the Likud party minister being shouted down with cries of “Shame!” by demonstrators as he spoke.
“On the 100th anniversary of the [launch of] electricity in Tel Aviv, there were the protesters of darkness, who screamed, cursed, and.. also spat,” Katz wrote on his Twitter account regarding the incident.
“I won’t be deterred by violence masquerading as democracy. I will continue to build the country according to my way and vision,” he added.
Several social media users posted images of white staining, which appeared to be streaks of saliva on the back of Katz’s suit jacket following the event.
תמונה מעכשיו, חליפתו של השר ישראל כ”ץ התמלאה ברוק של מפגיני שמאל עדינים וענוגים שירקו עליו בצאתו מכנס בתל אביב תוך צרחות “חזיר” “שמן” “חבר של פוטין”, אם לא הייתי רואה בעיני, לא הייתי מאמין pic.twitter.com/RMbyXHIKz0
— אבי רבינא Avi Ravina (@AviRabina) June 11, 2023
“Minister Israel Katz’s suit was covered with the saliva of ‘gentle’ left-wing protesters who spat on him as he left a conference in Tel Aviv, while screaming ‘pig,’ ‘fat’, ‘Putin’s friend,’” wrote right-wing radio commentator Avi Ravina on Twitter.
“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
Another Twitter user, Or Keren, posted a clip of Katz being escorted by police and bodyguards into a waiting vehicle on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street, after leaving the event.
איך אין שמירת מרחק בין השרים לבין המפגינים? איך המשטרה מאפשרת להם להגיע כ”כ קרוב לשר? pic.twitter.com/cbdeywP995
— or keren (@Wq0oQJmUSfZunt5) June 11, 2023
Protesters can be seen coming within arms’ reach of Katz, causing Keren to question operational procedures for protecting the physical safety of government ministers.
“Why is there no distance between the demonstrators [and the minister]?” she asked. “Why are they allowed to get so close to the minister?”
The incident comes several weeks after a left-wing protester was filmed intentionally striking Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter on the head with a flag.
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Official tasked with combatting antisemitism says forgiving Hamas-supporting Islamic organization and including them in fight against Jew hatred is a Jewish value.
By World Israel News Staff
After announcing a new plan to battle antisemitism, the Biden administration official tasked with combating Jew-hatred expressed a willingness to work with an antisemitic Islamic group, arguing that the organization deserves a “chance” to improve.
United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt admitted in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that her inclusion of the Muslim group CAIR has raised eyebrows among Jewish advocacy organizations.
CAIR’s senior leaders and staff have repeatedly made incendiary comments against the State of Israel. According to the ADL, CAIR officials have maintained ties with organizations affiliated with the Hamas terror group.
One of the founders of CAIR, Ghassan Elashi, was sentenced to federal prison for his participation in setting up a fraudulent charity that funneled millions of dollars to Hamas.
“I’m not naive,” Lipstadt told the Post. “I know CAIR is problematic, [but] there are other groups and individuals that have problematic histories that are now talking about antisemitism.”
Lipstadt suggested that “one can also step back and say, Okay, we’re going to judge you by what you say going forward. We’re going to evaluate what you do henceforth.”
She told the Post that she was not expecting CAIR to apologize for promoting violent rhetoric against Israel.
“I’m not talking about apologies,” she said. Rather, she would ask CAIR, “Do you acknowledge that you might have, or might not have, engaged in statements or declarations that were easily and rightfully considered to be antisemitic?”
Lipstadt then suggested that forgiving the group for its history of terror support and antisemitism was a fundamental Jewish value.
“If I put on my Jewish hat, you and I both come from a tradition that believes in forgiveness. Our holiest days of the year are about change. So if they’re really willing to change,, if they’re really willing to say, ‘hey, we now see this is a serious problem,’ then they are welcome.”
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On Sunday, a vehicle was still trapped underneath a huge amount of wreckage from the part of I-95 in Philadelphia that collapsed. Officials mentioned that it will take several months to rebuild the overpass that was destroyed fully.
Authorities declared there were no casualties or injuries due to the tanker explosion that caused the overhead section of the vital interstate highway to collapse. Governor Josh Shapiro spoke at the location of the collapse, saying that at least one vehicle is still stuck under the rubble of the collapsed road and that authorities are still trying to determine if anyone was there during the fire and collapse.
An explosion caused by a tanker truck containing a petroleum-based product caused the overpass of I-95 to collapse at 6:20 am. Governor Shapiro reported that the highway’s northbound lanes were entirely decimated, while the southbound lanes remain fragile.
He anticipates the total reconstruction of the I-95 roadway to take several months and stated that a disaster declaration would be issued the following day to speed up the process and summon federal funds to begin the repair process. Moreover, Shapiro had a conversation with the US Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, in which Buttigieg promised to deploy federal resources to support the rapid reconstruction of this major roadway.
In the meantime, Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll declared that the state transportation authorities were striving to devise alternate routes and public transportation services to assist people in avoiding the damaged road. He further said that a contractor had been hired and had sent the necessary tools to the explosion site within several hours to start the fixing process.
Carroll noted that they would be devoting the following 24 hours to clearing away the debris as swiftly as they could and then begin the replacement and repair work.
What’s Next to the Moon? An “Apex Body” and Digital ID to Rule Us All
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Sheba Hospital and Volcani Institute researchers invent peanut powder that accustoms the body to the food safely.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Sheba Hospital’s ARC Center recently presented a new food powder that may change the lives of millions who have dangerous nut allergies by accustoming the body to the food safely, Channel 12 reported Monday.
“To get a person, even a child to … eat without having an allergic reaction, you have to feed him what he’s allergic to,” Dr. Mona Kidon, head of the allergy clinic in the Safra Children’s Hospital in Sheba’s medical center, explained to Channel 12.
There were already such ways to wean people off of dairy and egg allergies, but it didn’t work for peanuts, which are often life-threatening. Those with an anaphylactic allergy carry EpiPens wherever they go just in case they are in need of an emergency injection of epinephrine to allow them to breathe after an inadvertent exposure to the product.
Kidon began collaborating with Dr. Ran Hovav, a peanut expert in the Volcani Institute, the largest center in Israel that focuses on agricultural research.
They decided to take the peanut at an unripe stage, when the allergenic proteins have not yet made their appearance, and make a powder out of it. They gave the powder to selected parents and told them to make whatever foods they wanted out of it, from pancakes to cookies. By raising the amount of powder gradually, they exposed the children to peanuts slowly and safely throughout the clinical test.
“Giving them one to two cookies a day for 40 weeks brought them to the point where… they could eat a small bag of Bamba [Israel’s ubiquitous peanut-flavored treat], and half a year later they’re successfully passing out exit test – eating 100 pieces of Bamba,” Dr. Kidon said.
The treatment was so successful that it is now being optimized, the researcher said, and soon industrial production will begin of peanut cookies made from this powder.
The same process can work for other nuts as well, Kidon pointed out.
“This platform is not only for peanuts,” she said. “We know how to do it with walnuts, cashews, hazelnuts, almonds – any of these things can [use this process], which is a safe and good, to move a child from a place where his life is in danger when he eats something to a place where he can eat like children all over the world.”
“We think … the treatment we developed here can affect all those children all over the world who today cannot eat different types of foods and whose lives are in danger on a daily level,” added Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, VP of Innovation and Transformation at Sheba. “If we succeed in cracking this – then we will have made an impact not only in Israel, but on all of humanity.”
The ARC Center in Sheba was established in 2019 and named for its strategy, to Accelerate innovation and Redesign healthcare by Collaborating with startups and industry giants in order to bring their new healthcare solutions to the public. Its annual three-day summit begins Tuesday in Tel Aviv, where more than 800 participants will hear of the center’s recent breakthroughs and future plans.
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An annual pilgrimage of Christians took place on June 11th in Turkey to celebrate the spiritual leader of the world’s approximately 300 million Orthodox faithful.
His All-Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch, celebrates his patron saint – the Holy Apostle Bartholomew – on that day.
The feast brings together hierarchs, senior politicians, and simple faithful to two sacred Christian sites in the historic city of Constantinople (Istanbul): the Monastery of the Life-Giving Spring at Baloukli and the Patriarchal Church of St. George the Great Martyr at the Phanar.
Elected to the First Throne of Orthodoxy in October 1991, the tenure of His All-Holiness is in many ways unprecedented. He is the longest-serving Ecumenical Patriarch in the history of the 2,000-year-old local church founded by St. Andrew the First-called Apostle, which include such luminaries of Christendom as John Chrysostom, Gregory the Theologian, and Photios the Great.
A leading bishop of Orthodoxy for decades, Bartholomew’s patriarchal ministry began as many traditionally Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe began to unshackle themselves from the stifling yoke of communism.
Through societal paradigm shifts, globalization, wars, recessions, pandemics and other destabilizing phenomena such as the digital revolution, His All-Holiness has remained the one constant figure in global Orthodoxy: from a humble spiritual leader to a trusted global advocate; from a prudent and wise organizational administrator to an unrelenting servant for truth, justice, and mercy.
It is the last few years, however, the mettle of the man born a leapling on the island of Imvros in 1940 has been particularly revealed. His steely resolve and tenacity – despite internal Turkish challenges, external (mostly Russian) misinformation campaigns, and other obstacles – have been proven time and time again.
These words, and this characterization, may seem like sentimental rhetoric or a romanticized characterization from a Greek Orthodox author, but the reality paints a picture of the Ecumenical Patriarch as one of the most important religious leaders in the last half-century.
It was at Bartholomew’s initiative that the Ecumenical Patriarchate established September 1st of each year – which coincides with the beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year – for the Protection of the Natural Environment. He called all people to care for God’s creation long before celebrities and social media influencers jumped on the proverbial bandwagon. In his 2015 environmental encyclical, Pope Francis praised the enduring leadership of His All-Holiness on matters related to the environment, which twenty years earlier earned him the title of “Green Patriarch.”
It was Bartholomew, who lives in increasingly Islamized Turkey, who preached cooperation and dialogue between and among religions before many were open to the idea. Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, for instance, Bartholomew was instrumental in bringing together Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders for a conference on peaceful coexistence in Brussels.
It is Bartholomew who has and continues to spearhead global initiatives to bring hope to the hopeless and comfort to the impoverished. From leading international symposia to help curtail human trafficking, especially of women and girls, to providing direct pastoral support to refugees in the Eastern Mediterranean, to visiting Poland, at the personal invitation of that country’s president, to pray with and give love to Ukrainian families displaced as a result of Russian’s unilateral and ongoing war in Ukraine.
It was Bartholomew who despite intense, albeit underhanded, opposition from Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate, together with their well-funded proxies of convenience, convened the 2016 Holy and Great Council in Crete, Greece. This historic gathering, almost one-century in the making, brought together hundreds of hierarchs from the vast majority of independent (autocephalous) local Orthodox churches to concelebrate the Divine Liturgy – the most important symbol of Orthodox unity – and to discuss and agree upon important texts that speak to today’s community of faithful.
And it was Bartholomew, above all, who, with the support of his synod, granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (OCU), a move so reviled by the Moscow Patriarchate that they resorted to deploying the “nuclear” option in its long-running war to dethrone Constantinople as the leader of Orthodoxy, namely, severing all communal ties with Constantinople, together with other local churches who support the OCU.
It is in Ukraine, both before and after Russia’s invasion, that illustrates not only the identity of His All-Holiness, but also that of his detractors. Whereas Bartholomew provided spiritual freedom for the Orthodox of Ukraine and supports them in their sacrifices to achieve peace and territorial integrity, his opponents wish to keep the faithful in Ukraine subservient and characterize Russia’s invasion as a “holy war.” Bartholomew will be remembered as the humble Patriarch who desired not to be the greatest, but a servant of all.
It was this humility that was in full display during the Holy Week and Paschal celebrations on his native Imvros earlier this year. There, amidst a small yet growing and vibrant Orthodox community, did the Ecumenical Patriarch celebrate the triumphant feast of the Resurrection. Not in lavish cathedrals constantly surrounded by bodyguards, but as a spiritual leader who despite honors and awards, degrees and distinctions, is a man from, of, and for the people.
It is this mindset and Orthodox ethos that attracts so many pilgrims from around the world to visit Constantinople to meet and receive the blessings of a pious Patriarch.
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