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The two leaders “agreed to continue strengthening bilateral relations and to bring them to new heights.”
By World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his election victory in a phone call on Monday.
According to a readout from his office, the two leaders “agreed to continue strengthening bilateral relations and to bring them to new heights.”
Netanyahu told Erdogan that he is committed to expanding the “circle of peace” and to strengthening relations with Turkey, the statement said.
For his part, Erdogan expressed his thanks for the Israeli search and rescue aid following the recent earthquake that devastated his country, according to the readout.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem, crowds of Muslims celebrated Erdogan’s victory on Sunday evening at the Temple Mount, chanting “Khyber, Khyber al-Yehud” – an explicit call for the massacre of Jews as occurred in the Khyber battle in 629.
According to Israeli journalist Yoni ben Menachem, public Islamic figures from eastern Jerusalem have helped Erdogan’s election campaign in recent weeks.
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“It wouldn’t do any harm if artificial intelligence could replace your entire government.”
By World Israel News Staff
Opposition leader Yair Lapid blasted the government’s proposed government resolution prioritizing “the values of Zionism” as racist and discriminatory, especially against Israel’s Druze community.
The resolution, which is set to be passed this week, states that “the values of Zionism, as they are expressed in Basic Law: Nation-State of the Jewish People, will be the leading and decisive values in setting public policy, domestic and foreign policy, legislation and actions of the government and all of its units and institutions.”
The bill, if passed, would promote Zionism as a factor for eligibility for state benefits.
Lapid emphasized that Zionism should not be equated with racism.
“According to this bill, if a Jew evades the IDF draft – he will receive more” than a former IDF Druze soldier, Lapid said.
Addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lapid quipped: “It wouldn’t do any harm if artificial intelligence could replace your entire government.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attacked Lapid as “ignorant and a liar,” and strongly refuted claims of racism in the resolution, which his Otzma Yehudit party advanced.
“The proposal not only does not prioritize Jews, but is valid on behalf of soldiers and IDF veterans from any demographic,” Ben Gvir said, adding that Lapid was “an extreme leftist who opposes Zionism.”
Development of the Negev and Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf Wasserlauf noted that Lapid overlooked the lack of a Jewish majority in the Galilee region and what he called discriminatory policies against Jews, including a cap on the number of new residents permitted in Jewish towns while Arab towns face no such restrictions.
Wasserlauf noted that the proposal would simply implement the principles outlined in the “Nation-State Law,” which promotes Jewish settlement development as a national value, and rectify discrimination against Jews by “strengthening the connection of the Jewish people to this land and giving preference to soldiers.”
Ministers from the ultra-Orthodox parties, many of which represent populations that do not define themselves as Zionist, expressed concerns about potential discrimination faced by their constituents. The wording of the proposal was subsequently changed to reflect emphasis on Torah study as a value as well.
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Further training sessions have been suspended and an investigation into her death will be launched, Border Police said in a statement.
By World Israel News Staff
An 18-year-old Border Police cadet, who was training to become a fighter, died suddenly during a routine exercise on Monday.
Maya Aloni collapsed during a training session at a Border Police training base in Michmas and was pronounced dead after resuscitation attempts failed during a helicopter evacuation.
Further training sessions have been suspended and an investigation into her death will be launched, Border Police said in a statement.
Aloni, who was a resident of the moshav Sha’ar Efraim, left behind her parents, two brothers and a sister.
A date for her funeral has not yet been set.
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“The expansion of settlements undermines the geographic viability of a two-state solution, exacerbates tensions, and further harms trust between the parties.”
By World Israel News Staff
The U.S. State Department has lashed out at Israel over its move to rebuild the Homesh yeshiva in a new, “permanent” site as part of the government’s efforts to legalize settlements in Judea and Samaria that were evacuated during the 2005 Disengagement.
“We are deeply troubled by the Israeli government’s recent order that allows its citizens to establish a permanent presence in the Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank,” the State Department said in a statement. “It is inconsistent with both former prime minister [Ariel] Sharon’s written commitment to the Bush administration in 2004 and the current Israeli government’s commitments to the Biden administration.”
However, the statement failed to mention that the Obama administration, in which President Joe Biden served as vice president, rejected the validity of the agreements between Sharon and Bush in 2011.
“The expansion of settlements undermines the geographic viability of a two-state solution, exacerbates tensions, and further harms trust between the parties,” the statement went on. “This is consistent with the views of previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican. We regularly engage with Israeli officials on this issue and will continue to do so.”
On May 20, the head of the IDF’s Central Command signed off on permission for Jews to enter Homesh and annex it to the Samaria regional council. This followed the Knesset’s repeal two months ago of the Disengagement Law as it pertained to the four villages that were forcibly evacuated in 2005 in northern Samaria.
While Sa-Nur, Ganim and Kadim have always remained empty, there was already a yeshiva in Homesh before the Disengagement, and its students soon came back to study there in temporary accommodations that were periodically destroyed by the army over the ensuing years.
Israel’s High Court of Justice had ruled that the yeshiva was illegal, as it allegedly stood on private Palestinian property.
The only permission granted towards the actual reconstruction of the yeshiva was to plan new buildings there, on paper. The Biden administration strongly objected to the rebuilding of the settlement itself, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Washington that this would not happen.
Before dawn Monday, students and volunteers set up the study hall in new mobile homes several hundred meters from its original location on land legally designated for construction, in full approval from Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
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“According to our findings, this lack of evidence is due to the fact that no such cases took place in 2022 and that the claims are false.”
By World Israel News Staff
The United Nations has accused Israel of enlisting Palestinian minors as combatants and human shields and Israeli “settlers” of abducting a Palestinian minor in the preliminary draft of a new report deemed “baseless” by the Jewish state’s embassy to the global body.
Israel’s mission to the UN issued an official response calling the UN Children and Armed Conflict report for 2023, which covers incidents from 2022, as “false” and called on the UN to remove “baseless claims from the final report.”
“These claims are not supported by any evidence that could be examined by the Israeli authorities,” the Israeli Embassy wrote.
“According to our findings, this lack of evidence is due to the fact that no such cases took place in 2022 and that the claims are false.”
The UN provided no information about the alleged abduction by Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria – or “settlers” as per the report – of a Palestinian minor, even after Israel requested details from the global body. Both the IDF and Israel Police have no records of such an event occurring.
“We believe that a case with such extreme and unusual allegations merits a serious and thorough verification before being included in the report, thus the [Israeli government] expects the mentioning of this unverified [incident] should be removed,” the embassy wrote.
The report charged Israel with killing and wounding Palestinian minors but stops short of adding context, which include teenagers killed while carrying out terrorist attacks, children used as human shields and misfired rockets on the part of Gaza-based terror groups.
The report, which purports to be neutral, also neglected to mention over 1,000 rockets launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad into Israeli population centers in the previous year and their own impact on Israeli minors.
Palestinian terror attacks injured 23 Israeli minors in 2022, but the report only mentioned seven of these incidents.
The Israeli Embassy pointed out that most of the Palestinian minors allegedly killed by Israel in airstrikes were the result of misfired rockets by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group within Gaza. The remaining minors killed in Israeli airstrikes were directly connected to the Palestinian use of minors as human shields. Israel emphasized that its strikes targeted military facilities and infrastructure belonging to PIJ to prevent ongoing rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, including minors. However, these targets were often located in densely populated civilian areas.
The UN report also failed to report on Hamas and PIJ’s use of schools and hospitals as bases for terrorist activities and the construction of attack tunnels targeting civilian sites.
Throughout the year covered by the report, Israeli fatalities from terrorist attacks increased by 55%, a fact omitted in the report, while the number of wounded Palestinian minors decreased by 53% in the same period.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, and Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Maj.-Gen. Ghassan Alian, met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to submit Israel’s response to the allegations.
“We presented the secretary-general with clear data proving that the majority of Palestinian minors killed in the past year were involved in acts of violence and terrorism,” Erdan was cited by the Jerusalem Post as saying.
“This information was omitted from the UN data, along with the fact that terrorist organizations use Palestinian children as human shields and fire missiles and rockets from densely populated areas,” he added.
A final draft is slated for release in late June or early July.
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The daughter of a state trooper was severely injured in a “terrible accident” involving a seat belt. Six-year-old Aubrey Scaletta was playing with a ratchet strap in the passenger seat of a pickup truck on May 17th when one end of the strap went out the window and got caught around the drive shaft, with the other end looping around Aubrey’s feet. It tightened quickly and, in the process, severed both her feet.
The Virginia State Police Association (VSPA) reported that Aubrey was immediately airlifted to a hospital for a six-hour surgery, where doctors attempted to reattach her amputated feet. 10 News reported, “Both feet seem to be receiving good blood flow after being reattached.”
The VSPA states that Aubrey, the daughter of a state trooper named Daniel Scaletta, will need several surgeries to reattach her tendons and graft skin. As for the medical bills, the VSPA has started an emergency relief fund to help cover the costs of Aubrey’s treatment.
Aubrey’s mother, Lauren Wensel Scaletta, updated her Facebook followers on Thursday that Aubrey had been taken off the ventilator and was breathing on her own. She said Aubrey will be transferred from the Intensive Care Unit to the pediatric floor and undergo surgery for skin grafts on June 9th. The goal is to have her walking with braces and walkers by Christmas.
In addition to the VSPA fund, a separate GoFundMe page has already raised $50,000 for Aubrey’s recovery. The Virginia State Police is asking the public for donations to their fund to help the family with Aubrey’s treatment.
Israeli corvettes launch interceptor missiles from new Naval Iron Dome system intended to protect Israeli coast and offshore gas drilling sites.
By World Israel News Staff
The Israeli navy successfully tested its new missile defense system, the Defense Ministry announced Monday morning.
The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), under the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development, along with the Israeli Navy and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Monday completed a series of multi-system and multi-tier tests using the naval version of the Iron Dome system, known as “C-Dome.”
Israel’s Iron Dome system, which uses advanced missile interceptors, has been deployed on land-based sites since 2011 to shield Israeli communities from projectiles launched by terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria.
The IDF’s new C-Dome, a naval adaptation of the Iron Dome, is slated to be deployed to Israeli vessels guarding the coast and offshore assets, including natural gas drilling platforms.
In the recent tests, C-Dome, installed on the Israeli Navy’s Saar 6 Magen class corvettes for the tests, successfully intercepted advanced targets which were used to represent threats to Israeli infrastructure and strategic assets in its offshore economic zone. Israeli Navy combat personnel operated the systems used in the test as part of the operationalization process of the Magen corvettes.
The series of tests included simulated existing and future threats that the Magen ships may face during conflict, such as rockets, cruise missiles, and drone attacks.
“The current experiment is part of the road map for the development and improvement of the defense capabilities of the defense ships, while providing a response and adaptation to the evolving needs in the arena,” said the Head of Material, Technology and Logistics Command, Rear Admiral Ariel Shir.
“This experiment is further evidence of the development and improvement capabilities of the various systems in the face of threats, and the ability of the defense ship systems to operate in an integrated and complete manner. From the construction of the naval and aerial picture, through the discovery, classification and identification of threats and ending with interception and accurate destruction of the threats.”
The tests integrated shipboard systems with Israel’s multi-tier defense array and tested new technologies to enhance the air and missile defense multi-tier array’s operational effectiveness at sea and on land.
Israel’s Defense Ministry said the success of the tests marks another significant milestone in the array’s development to counter existing and future threats in various combat arenas.
“The C-Dome system constitutes a significant leap forward in our defense capabilities, and ensures the Israeli defense establishment’s superiority and operational capabilities in the face of growing threats in the maritime arena,” said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
“The system’s naval adaptation is part of our advanced multi-tier air and missile defense system. I would like to express my great appreciation for the Directorate for Defense R&D, the IDF, and Rafael, for turning a tech vision into reality – developing operational capabilities in the field.”
Once deployed, the C-Dome will expand Israel’s defense array, which currently includes operational defense tiers: Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow 2, and Arrow 3.
Development of these systems is being led by DDR&D’s Israel Missile Defense Organization.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is the prime contractor and developer of the Iron Dome and works in partnership with subcontractors such as Israel Aerospace Industries’ Elta Systems, which supplies the multi-mission radar, and mPrest, responsible for the command-and-control systems.
The head of the Defense Ministry’s DDR&D, Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Daniel Gold touted the new missile tests, saying they “are one of the many efforts we are carrying out to improve our air and missile defense systems’ preparedness for future threats and improve system performance in the face of existing threats.”
“The campaign’s success further strengthens our confidence in the defense systems and their ability to protect extensive areas as well as the State of Israel’s strategic assets on land and at sea. We will continue working together with the IDF and Israeli defense industries to protect the State of Israel, while realizing and preserving the State of Israel’s qualitative advantage.”
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