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The Israeli Foreign Ministry ignored the fact that Soros is a generous donor to numerous social movements, politicians, and charities that are vehemently anti-Israel.

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

After Elon Musk criticized Jewish billionaire George Soros – who has used his massive wealth to fund a number of far-left and progressive causes, including the anti-Zionist Black Lives Matter movement and various anti-Israel NGOs – Israeli officials rushed to the philanthropist’s defense.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Musk wrote that Soros reminds him of X-Men villain Magneto. A Twitter user replied that like the comic book bad guy, Soros has good intentions that are being misunderstood by the wider world.

Musk pushed back, writing, “You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry took offense at Musk’s tweet, blaming the entrepreneur for what they claimed was an uptick in antisemitic discourse on the site following his statement.

“The phrase ‘The Jews’ spiked today on the list of topics trending on Twitter following a tweet with antisemitic overtones by none other than the owner and CEO of the social network, Elon Musk,” the Foreign Ministry tweeted. They also charged that Musk’s comment “immediately led to antisemitic conspiracy theories on Twitter.”

Notably, the Foreign Ministry ignored the fact that Soros is a generous donor to numerous social movements, politicians, and charities that are vehemently anti-Israel.

His Open Society Foundations chose Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for a “Leadership in Government Fellowship” and paid her $85,307 in 2017. Tlaib, who is known for her antisemitic statements, recently held a “Nakba Day” event demonizing Israel, refused to vote to support Iron Dome replenishment, and has repeatedly made comments that the Jewish state is guilty of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

A Tablet report from 2016 revealed widespread anti-Israel bias in funding from the Open Society Foundations, finding that the organization had methodically created a series of shell nonprofits in order to make it difficult to link the origin of the funding back to Soros.

“We wanted to build… a portfolio of Palestinian grants and in all cases to maintain a low profile and relative distance — particularly on the advocacy front,” read a leaked internal document from the Open Society Foundations.

Soros’ critics have noted his backing for far-left District Attorneys, such as San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, who implement radical policies like refusing to incarcerate criminals.

Soros’ supporters have often accused people concerned with his policies as being antisemitic or conspiracy theorists.

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“A storm is brewing in the city of Tel Aviv over Yeshiva Maale Eliyahu, and that, in my opinion is very sad,” said MK Matan Kahana.

By World Israel News Staff

A religious Zionist yeshiva in Tel Aviv has found itself in the crosshairs of secular residents.

City officials had requested that Yeshiva Maale Eliyahu, located on Henrietta Szold Street near Ichilov Medical Center, relocate just 500 yards away in order to permit the expansion of a neighboring school.

The yeshiva’s leadership agreed to the request and, together with the with Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal officials, worked out a plan to move to a larger facility. In exchange, the city vowed to facilitate the yeshiva’s expansion at the new location.

Two months ago, the city’s planning and construction committee approved plans to convert a building on Clay Street in north Tel Aviv into a facility to house the yeshiva. Part of the yeshiva’s current campus has already been vacated and sectioned off by the city, in keeping with the agreement.

Now, however, it appears city officials have reneged on the deal in response to pressure from secular residents who protested the yeshiva’s relocation.

While the yeshiva has been at its present location since 1996, plans to move the institution some 500 yards to the north prompted an angry backlash from some residents, who accused the city of plotting to force a “far-right yeshiva” into a largely secular neighborhood.

“The residents of north Tel Aviv…were horrified to discover recently that a plan to construct a huge building on the pastoral Clay Street for the far-right yeshiva Ma’ale Eliyahu is about to receive final approval from the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality,” a group of activists who dubbed themselves the Headquarters of the Struggle Against the Messianists wrote last Wednesday, The Jewish Press reported, calling on locals to protest the relocation.

“This is expected to increase the yeshiva’s size four times…and will allow it to house 700 students, who will bring their families with them to expand the religious community in the big city.”

The protesters have drawn support from left-wing groups – including the Crime Minister and the Black Flag movements – involved in mass protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the judicial reform plan.

On Sunday, the city announced that it has frozen the planned relocation in order to “reexamine” other possible options.

“After discussions and listening to all the relevant parties, the mayor this morning (Monday) ordered the local planning committee to re-examine the plan to move the Ma’ale Eliyahu yeshiva to a building on Clay Street, and to propose additional alternatives,” the announcement read.

Lawmakers from both the opposition and the coalition condemned the campaign against the talmudic institution. MK Avi Maoz (Noam) quoted comments by New York City Mayor Eric Adams defending yeshivas.

“Instead of us focusing on, how do we duplicate the success of improving our children, we attack the yeshivas that are providing a quality education that is embracing our children,” said Adams during a speech at the Teach NYS Annual Dinner 2023, hosted by the Orthodox Union.

“Here, in contrast,” said MK Maoz, “when the Maale Eliyahu yeshiva was asked to move out of its facility next to Ichilov hospital after more than 20 years in order to expand a school, and in exchange was offered large synagogue nearby [to be converted into a yeshiva], a small group of anti-religious activists…launched a crusade, apparently well-funded, to prevent the yeshiva from moving into the building.”

Israel National News reported that Opposition MK Matan Kahana (National Unity) lamented the politicization of the yeshiva’s relocation, saying Tuesday: “A storm is brewing in the city of Tel Aviv over Yeshiva Maale Eliyahu, and that, in my opinion is very sad.”

“The yeshiva agreed to the mayor’s request to relocate in order to expand an existing school. Now there’s a conflict over the new location, just 500 yards away from its original location. No one had ever complained to them about noise or religious coercion or anything else.”

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Demand for the Chinese Yuan is increasing as more and more nations opt against using the U.S. Dollar. Russia’s Sberbank CEO, German Gref, said that demand for the Chinese Yuan is increasing within the country

Iran’s trade with BRICS member states, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, reached 43.28 million tons worth $34.98 billion during the first 11 months of last Iranian year

Ambassador Sabino Vaca Narvaja held meetings with BRICS Bank President Dilma Rousseff and Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Shanghai

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“If at least part of the judicial reform doesn’t pass by the end of the [Knesset’s] summer session – what am I doing in this job?”

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionism), head of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committe,e told 103FM Monday that the government will not survive without passing some form of judicial reform.

“This coalition, without [passing] the repair of the judicial system – not as a threat, and not as a deadline or an ultimatum… will not manage to exist,” he said. “It won’t be because someone flexed his muscles at someone else, but because it is a most essential promise [to the voters].”

Rothman was interviewed this week after Justice Minister Yariv Levin, his fellow architect of the reform that has hotly divided the nation, reportedly said that “if at least part of the judicial reform doesn’t pass by the end of the [Knesset’s] summer session – what am I doing in this job?”

It was not the first time Rothman had issued such a warning. In an interview with Ynet last month, he said the coalition could not last without the reforms. That statement was seen by many as a veiled threat that he would leave the government as a tactic to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into moving forward with the project.

“It’s not my personal project,” Rothman told 103FM. “It’s a coalition-wide project, of 64 mandates – and even more, because as you know today there is wide agreement among Opposition members and Opposition voters, that a reform of the judicial system is necessary. So I’m optimistic that it will happen and also pessimistic about the ability to hold together a coalition without it happening.”

Considering what he called its “unparalleled importance,” Rothman also said that while he “very much hoped” that the negotiations between government and Opposition representatives under the auspices of President Isaac Herzog on all aspects of the reform would bear fruit, “if they keep staying at the point of automatic rejection of every [proposal] and attempts to blow it up as we’ve seen in the last 24 hours, 48 hours, then we have to proceed by ourselves.”

“We all want to [have the reform] by agreement,” he said. “We have invested many hours of effort to it. But if the Opposition thinks it has veto power … that’s not going to happen.”

When the interviewer stated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no longer supportive, giving as an example that he had told the S&P credit rating agency that he had “stopped” the reform, Rothman firmly disagreed. Netanyahu was just saying that it would not be passed in its original form, which was true even now, he said, as changes were already made by his committee after one part of the reform passed its first reading in the Knesset.

He also suggested that the term “stopped” was used because the prime minister had frozen the process in order to negotiate with the Opposition. This was a political ploy he and his party had disagreed with, he noted, but if it brings about a reform acceptable to all, then “the State of Israel played it very well.”

What part of the reform to advance first if negotiations fail will be a matter of discussion between the party heads in the coalition, he said, while noting that on a technical level, the issue that is “most ready” is the revision of the Judicial Selection Committee.

This is also perhaps the most controversial element of the reform, as the bill as it currently stands would erase the veto that sitting justices have over the selection of their successors, with a majority of those on the committee becoming elected representatives of the public. The Opposition claims that this change would “destroy democracy” in Israel.

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A 9-year-old girl from Illinois, Kayla Unbehaun, was tragically abducted by her noncustodial mother, Heather Unbehaun, in July 2017. The pair went missing for three years until a miraculous reunion and an arrest by authorities on May 13, 2021.

The reunion came to life when an employee of Plato’s Closet in Asheville, North Carolina, recognized the mother-daughter duo from “well-publicized media” and contacted the police. Though the exact source of media is unknown, the kidnapping has been featured in Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries” episode dedicated to parental abduction last year, which could have provided the initial clues for the employee.

Authorities arrested 40-year-old Heather with a $225,000 bond and are now in the process of extraditing her to Illinois, where she will face a charge of child abduction from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Meanwhile, Kayla, now 15 years old, will be in the full care of the North Carolina Department of Social Services. Kayla’s father, Ryan Iskerka, is justifiably overjoyed at her safe return and deeply appreciates the South Elgin Police Department, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and all of the law enforcement agencies who have assisted with her case. Ryan also thanked the “Bring Kayla Home” Facebook page followers for helping keep her story alive and spreading awareness of the case.

The story of Kayla Unbehaun’s abduction and the groups that worked together to bring her home emphasizes the power of media and awareness in locating missing persons. It also serves as a reminder of the need for parental supervision to prevent abduction and exploitation. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children provides such resources for parents to help keep their children safe during such times.

On Tuesday, two homeschool parents in Georgia were charged with various counts of attempted homicide, child cruelty, battery, and false imprisonment after their 10-year-old son was discovered emaciated and wandering the streets. Spalding County District Attorney Marie Broder shared in a press conference that had the boy not been found; the outcome would have been much different.

Friday saw the boy, described as “very thin” with discolored skin, being treated for malnutrition and a low heart rate. Residents of Westminster Circle, who first noticed the child, took him in and made the emergency call. Severe malnutrition had caused the 10-year-old to weigh 36 pounds, far lower than the healthy average for his age in the United States.

Tyler Schindley and Krista Schindley each face charges of attempted homicide and malice murder as well as cruelty to children in the first, second, and third degree, battery, simple battery, and false imprisonment. The warrants detailed that the couple inflicted “cruel and excessive physical and mental pain” on their son by withholding food for an extended period and preventing medical attention. The Schindleys allegedly have gone so far as to lock the child in his bedroom on multiple occasions, denying him any access to food, clothing, lights, or adult contact.

The abuse of the boy occurred for at least three years, starting from May 12, 2020. The father presented himself to the police soon after the child was found, and the mother was arrested following an interview. The other kids were immediately taken into Georgia’s Department of Family and Children’s Services custody so they might remain safe.

At this time, law enforcement is still trying to uncover what caused this horrific runaway of events. Broder clarified that none of the siblings had undergone “forensic” interviews, nor had the victim, leaving motives a mystery. Both spouses made their initial court appearance Monday, and a bond hearing is forthcoming in the following weeks.

“Bold Goals”: Biden’s Executive Order Will Have Us Bioengineering Everything

By Marie Hawthorne, May 15, 2023

In September 2022, President Biden released an Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology. Then, In March 2023, he released a document entitled Bold Goals …

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