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They stayed for about 20 minutes on the Israeli side of the border.

By JNS

A number of Hezbollah terrorists and dozens of armed Lebanese army soldiers briefly entered Israeli territory last week, according to Israel’s Army Radio.

The July 5 incident occurred in the area of Menara, a kibbutz adjacent to the Lebanese border in the Upper Galilee region, while the IDF was carrying out work on the border area.

According to the report, the Hezbollah operatives and uniformed Lebanese soldiers stayed on the Israeli side of the border for about 20 minutes. During this time, the IDF did not use dispersal methods, taking a cautious approach and attempting to resolve the issue via liaison channels with the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL).

“The incident occurred during routine engineering work by IDF forces in the Ramim Ridge area. The work continued as usual,” an IDF spokesperson said.

An Israeli military official confirmed that “suspects crossed the Blue Line, and moved away after a discussion on the liaison channels.”

Tensions have been high along the border after Hezbollah set up an outpost in early April on the Israeli side of the demarcation line. It is one of dozens of outposts that the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group has set up along the contentious border with Israel.

“During the past year Hezbollah has erected at least 27 new military outposts along the Blue Line,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, wrote in a late June letter to the U.N. Security Council.

A Security Council resolution was passed after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and ratified by both Beirut and Jerusalem. Resolution 1701 stipulates that no armed forces are allowed south of the Litani River other than UNIFIL and the Lebanese army. It also calls for disarming Hebzollah.

The Israeli military carried out strikes against a missile launch site in southern Lebanon on July 6 after rockets were fired toward Israeli territory. It is believed that the missiles were fired by Palestinian factions and not by Hezbollah.

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Jewish man stabbed by attackers after confirming that he was Jewish; victim expected to make full recovery.

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News Staff

A Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man was stabbed on a New York street after his attackers asked about his Jewish identity, according to local news reports.

The man, who reportedly holds Israeli citizenship, was walking in the heavily Orthodox enclave of Crown Heights in Brooklyn around 2 a.m. on Saturday, when he was approached by two men.

The unidentified men asked the victim several questions, which he was unable to answer due to his limited English language skills.

However, the victim told investigators he was certain that the perpetrators had asked him if he was Jewish.

After confirming his religious identity, one of the men produced a screwdriver and brutally stabbed the victim in the arm.

The victim was initially assisted by paramedics from the United Hatzalah emergency response organization, then transferred to a local hospital.

He was later released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.

Yaacov Berman, an advocate for Crown Heights’ Jewish community, confirmed the attack in a press statement he released on social media.

“It is currently being investigated as a hate crime. According to the victim, he was questioned about his Jewish identity. Despite being visibly traumatized, the victim expressed gratitude for not having sustained more severe injuries,” Berman wrote.

“This incident is deeply concerning, and we have full confidence in the NYPD’s ability to conduct a thorough investigation and apprehend the perpetrators.”

The Anti-Defamation League said it was aware of the attack and are “reaching out to law enforcement and community partners.”

In recent years, New York City has seen a spike in violent antisemitic attacks against Jews.

In January 2023, Nessim Sahalon, a 30-year-old Jewish man, was stabbed to death on the street in Brooklyn.

A pro-Palestinian activist who brutally beat a Jewish man wearing a kippa (yarmulke) was recently sentenced to 18 months in prison for the violent hate crime.

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“Masked Bedouins were waiting for me when I closed my shop for the day, and demanded that I pay them 100,000 shekels ($27,000) to ‘guard’ my store,” says a small business owner.

By World Israel News Staff

Bedouin-Israeli organized crime gangs are targeting businesses in Bnei Brak, a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) city in central Israel and suburb of Tel Aviv, according to a Mako report.

Israel’s peripheral northern Galilee and southern Negev desert regions have long been plagued by the phenomenon of “protection,” in which mafia members threaten to torch small businesses or harm their owners and families, should proprietors refuse to pay thousands of shekels each month to the gangs.

Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has pledged to crack down on this type of extortion, which severely impacts small businesses’ ability to operate, but the practice is showing little signs of slowing down.

“Masked Bedouins were waiting for me when I closed my shop for the day, and demanded that I pay them 100,000 shekels ($27,000) to ‘guard’ my store,” a small business owner in Bnei Brak told Mako.

The victim said the criminals, who were brandishing machine guns, told him that they would create a “bonfire” out of his business if he did not pay, and that “they knew where I live, what my wife does for work, and where my children go to school.”

The businessman told Mako that he initially transferred the money to the criminals, but quickly realized that the gang would only keep increasing its demands for financial compensation.

“At first, I paid them out of fear… however, it became clear that it would never end.”

Fearing for his life and livelihood after he stopped paying, the man said he was forced “to hire Bedouin bodyguards and security to watch over me and the business.”

Other small businesses confirmed the prevalence of Bedouin extortion gangs operating in the city, expressing that the police were failing to apprehend the lawbreakers.

“It’s scary to live in Bnei Brak. The criminals have taken over and do whatever they want,” a resident told Mako. “The police are doing their best, but they have difficulty reaching the big bosses, the shot-callers who [are] the most dangerous criminals.”

In a separate incident last week, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast in northern Israel described being threatened by a similar criminal gang, and his frustration with what he said was a lack of a robust response from the police.

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Shannon McCarthy, Sheppard’s partner, had already been facing battery charges that stemmed from an incident in January, and the judge revoked her bond due to the fact that the victim had been found deceased.

Though the police have not yet identified the human remains as Sheppard, according to FirstCoast News, her daughter confirmed her mother’s death and stated that the remains found were her mother’s.

At 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, officers from Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office were following up on the missing person’s case when they made the shocking discovery of the decomposing remains.

Authorities were called to the scene, and officers are treating the incident as a death investigation. According to reports, neighbors had noted that they could smell a “foul odor” in the area.

Sheppard had last been seen on Colonial Avenue last Thursday, and her family reported that her phone was turned off, her credit cards were missing, and that they found her truck with a bullet hole in it. McCarthy and Sheppard had been in a relationship since November 2022, and McCarthy was arrested for the incident in January.

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Rosa Baca, a 55-year-old woman from California, has been found guilty of first-degree murder for the 2018 killing of her 38-year-old boyfriend, Jose Magana. It was ruled that Baca had committed the murder with the special circumstances of torturing Magana, and with the use of a deadly weapon.

The Porterville Police Department was called to a trailer in the 200 block of South Indiana Street at around 8:15 a.m. on December 17, 2018 in response to a report of an unresponsive adult male victim who had been assaulted. When officers arrived, they found Baca who explained that she and Magana had a heated argument the night before which led to him leaving the house. She then said that he returned to the trailer early in the morning with severe injuries, but without a shirt or shoes. Baca claimed he had been attacked by someone else, however, police noted that the victim’s feet were clean and there was no sign of a struggle or blood.

Emergency Medical Services personnel took Magana to a nearby trauma center in an ambulance, stating that he had received major injuries all over his body. He was quickly put on life support at the center and unfortunately passed away the following day.

Investigators revealed that his wounds showed that he had been assaulted with a blunt object, thus sending detectives to the trailer where Baca and Magna lived. A search warrant was then issued for the trailer and the evidence collected appeared to disprove Baca’s statement, highlighting many inconsistencies. After being questioned, Baca admitted to kicking the victim, beating him with a hammer, and disposing of their clothes in a dumpster.

Law enforcement declared that Magna was probably asleep at the time of the attack and Baca waited for several hours after the assault before calling for medical assistance. Baca is set to appear in court on July 31 for her sentencing hearing where she could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

What Palestinian leaders want least.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FrontPage Magazine

In the No-Good-Deed-Goes-Unpunished Department, Israel has decided to allow Palestinians in Gaza to use the Ramon Airport near Eilat for flights abroad. Until now, they have had to use airports in Amman and Cairo, requiring long and expensive trips overland from Gaza. More on the Israeli plans to help the Palestinians, and the angry response from Palestinian officials, can be found here: “Residents of Gaza could soon fly from Israeli airport,” The JC, June 26, 2023:

Residents of the Gaza Strip may soon be able to fly to Turkey via Israel’s Ramon Airport near Eilat.

“The pilot program could start as early as July when two flights are anticipated, Channel 12 reported.

The final decision is subject to approval by the security and political echelons. Gaza sources say the flights will be available to residents ages 35 and older.

Younger Palestinian males are regarded as much greater security risks.

They will be shuttled to the airport from the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip. At present, Gazans travel via the Erez crossing by land to Jordan and fly abroad from there.

Gazans wishing to go abroad now have to endure a long trip that begins at the Erez crossing in Gaza, where they undergo a first security check, then they travel all across Israel to the Allenby Crossing, where they have a long wait, before undergoing a second security check by Jordanian border police. From there they make another trip overland from the border to the airport just outside Amman. The time, and money saved by travelers from Gaza, now able to fly from the Ramon Airport, will be considerable.

The announcement follows a similar one from the Israel Airports Authority in August 2022 that Palestinians from the West Bank would be able to take charter flights from Ramon Airport to Turkey.

The first flight from the airport with Palestinian Arabs on board departed on August 22. Its destination was not Turkey but rather Cyprus.

Elder of Ziyon notes:

While the announcement is not official, Palestinian travel agencies are already advertising the trips.

Right now, for Gazans to travel anywhere, they need to get permission to enter Egypt, which is difficult to get to begin with, and then travel by bus directly to Cairo’s airport – a six hour trip – and then wait hours more for their flights.

The trip from the Gaza crossings to Ramon is about three hours.

Gazans who will now be allowed to fly out from Ramon Airport will thereby cut their overland travel time in half.

Elder of Ziyon continued:

The Palestinian Authority announced that it opposes this and will do whatever it can to block Palestinians from traveling to Ramon Airport, saying that this will hurt relations with Jordan and Egypt, which would lose out on revenues from Palestinians traveling through those countries to get to Amman and Cairo, respectively.

So the PA is more concerned with making sure that both Egypt and Jordan continue to profit from Palestinian travelers, rather than helping those travelers save money by using the Ramon Airport. It intends to block Palestinians – but how? — from using that airport.

The leftist terror groups Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which are closely linked with many “human rights” NGOs, issued condemnations for allowing Gazans to fly to Turkey through Ramon Airport.

Their reasons are a perfect example of the blind hatred that Palestinian leaders have for Israel – so much so that they are eager to make their own people miserable for nebulous political gain.
They called on Palestinians to boycott Ramon airport, saying that Israel is using this as a means to reduce terror from Gaza.

So Israel’s attempt to make things easier for Palestinian travelers from Gaza is a bad thing, because it could lessen their hostility to the Jewish state, and the impulse to sow terror. The cunning Zionists are helping the Palestinians, not out of any real sympathy, but only to decrease terrorism. What a diabolical people!

PFLP political analyst Zulfiqar Swergo said…“The Gaza government must carefully consider the strategic interests of the Palestinian people, and not forget that it is a government of resistance, and that this step will harm the idea of resistance that our people are now strongly adopting in the West Bank, and it must be aware that the ‘neutralization’ of the Gaza Strip is a major blow to the escalation of resistance in the West Bank.”…

The PFLP wants to keep the Palestinians in as deep a state of wretchedness as possible, in order to keep up their “spirit of resistance.” Any attempt by Israel to make their lives easier is misperceived as part of a plot to weaken Palestinian hostility, when it only reflects the decency of the Israelis, who are trying to ameliorate the Palestinian condition, without harming Israel’s security, wherever possible. Opening up Palestinian access to Ramon Airport is one such way.

DFLP political analyst Mahmoud Mardawi complained that “there is an economic goal for the occupation behind this matter, especially since none of the Zionists went to use Ramon Airport when it opened.”

He warned about “the political motives and the affirmation of the apartheid policy that the occupation practices day and night against our people” and called for all Palestinian institutions to “thwart this racist project.”…

In the twisted minds of some Arab analysts, such as DFLP’s Mahmoud Mardawi, Israel is only opening the Ramon Airport to the Palestinians in order to make money from the increase in air traffic at that airport. To the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine), it is better that the Palestinians continue to use the distant airports in Cairo and Amman, even if it will cost them far more. The economic well-being of the Palestinian travelers doesn’t matter. What counts is preventing the Zionists from taking Palestinian travel away from fellow Arabs.

Israel can’t win. If it imposes restrictions on the Palestinians – such as limiting Muslim visitors to Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan to women of all ages, male children up to 12 years old, and men over 55 years old, in order to minimize the chances of violent riots — it will be denounced. If it lifts restrictions on Palestinian travelers, as with this new policy of allowing them to use Ramon Airport, it will also be denounced, for trying to weaken the “spirit of resistance,” by making life easier for the Palestinians.

The worse things are for the Palestinians, according to the leaders of the terror groups, the stronger will be their will to resist. So keep them immiserated. It’s for the very best of causes – to destroy the Jewish state and replace it with a 23rd Arab state, the state of “Palestine, that will soon be free/From the river to the sea.”

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Eight Palestinian residents of eastern Jerusalem were arrested after they filmed themselves abusing a mentally ill Orthodox Jewish man, police said on Friday.

The abusers live-streamed themselves laughing at the man and saying “free Palestine” and calling him “you son of a w****.”

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The local Federation first stated the bakery’s decision was not aligned with Jewish values, and then apologized for dividing the community.

By JNS

Several weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not compel a Christian designer to create a website promoting gay marriage, a kosher West Orange, N.J. bakery canceled orders for a rainbow cake and 10 pounds of rainbow cookies celebrating Pride month.

The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ initially wrote to staff and supporters on June 20 that it would no longer order from West Orange Bake Shop, after the kosher bakery canceled two orders from Congregation B’nai Israel, a Conservative congregation in Millburn, N.J.

Dov Ben-Shimon, executive vice president and CEO of the local Federation, wrote that the bakery’s decision “did not align with the value of B’tzelem Elohim, that each one of us is created in the Divine Image and deserves to be treated as such,” the New Jersey Jewish News reported.

A week later—after the first email had been publicly reported—Ben-Shimon emailed a new statement. “We are looking forward to future conversations with the vendor with the goal of finding a resolution,” he wrote.

“We sincerely regret that our actions have caused divisiveness in our community as our aim is to bring the variety and richness of our many constituents together,” he added.

Yitzy Mittel, the bakery’s co-owner, told JTA that he had made a rainbow cake for the synagogue last year, but had been unnerved, since it goes against his religious beliefs.

He told the wire that he also declines to make cakes with crosse, and that he would turn down business if a customer wanted him to write a homophobic message on a cake.

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker, who declined to create a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds.

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“It’s terrifying, I can’t believe it has escalated to this.”

By World Israel News Staff

Personal details of the man who neutralized the Palestinian terrorist behind the stabbing and vehicular attack in Tel Aviv last week have been making the rounds on Palestinian social media networks, with calls to kill him.

A threatening video disseminated by the “Fauda Palestine Movement” features images of Kobi Yekutiel’s wife and children, along with their address and a caption: “We obtained the information and details about the Zionist terrorist who killed the martyr.”

The video ends with a call to “avenge the blood” of “your brother, the martyr’s murderer.”

A stunned Yekutiel revealed to Channel 12, “It’s terrifying, I can’t believe it has escalated to this.”

“I’m at a loss for words when it comes to my children, but I’ve instructed my wife to stay indoors and remain vigilant. We will see how the police handle this matter.”

Yekutiel, who operates a renovation business, fears his numerous interactions with Arab workers. While he is uncertain if his approach towards them will change, he admitted, “I hire Arab workers who know me and my residence. Despite our cordial relationship, the threat could emerge from anywhere.”

The attack, in which 20-year-old Abdel-Wahab Khalaila rammed his car and then went on a stabbing spree, left nine individuals wounded, among them a pregnant woman who sustained severe injuries and lost her unborn child.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday said Yekutiel’s quick action underscored his stance for broader gun ownership.

Ben-Gvir told Yekutiel: “I wish to commend you; your actions in saving lives mark you as a true hero. It’s crucial to recognize the importance of armed citizens in safeguarding others. I value you, and I appreciate every citizen who steps in to rescue others.”

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