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The find coincides with the celebration of Israel’s 75th anniversary.
By Pesach Benson, TPS
It’s easy for archaeologists to detach themselves from ancient finds, but the discovery of a brass compass from a massacre of 35 Israeli soldiers in 1948 left two researchers feeling like they were given a “punch in the stomach.”
The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday the discovery of the compass from what Israeli history calls “The Battle of the 35” during the War of Independence.
The story of the compass begins on January 16, 1948, when a convoy of 38 men from the Haganah, the primary paramilitary organization of pre-state Israel, set out to deliver supplies to besieged Jewish communities in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. Three men returned early after one sprained an ankle and couldn’t continue.
The activity was detected by the Arabs who cut off the convoy. After an all-day fight, the Jews ran out of ammunition. The Arabs killed and mutilated all 35 people in the convoy. The massacre and mutilation became known in Israeli history as “The Convoy of 35.”
After the war, the bodies were recovered and reburied at the Mt. Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem.
The compass, as well as Bren-type machine gun pods, were discovered behind a rock at the top of Battle Hill, which apparently served as a shelter for one of the fighters. Forensic research done at the Israel Police laboratories concluded that the glass of the compass shattered after being hit by a bullet.
According to the researchers, the compass belonged to either division commander Danny Mass or to scouts Yitzhak Halevi or Yitzhak Zevuloni.
“This study is a kind of punch in the stomach,” said Eyal Marko of the Antiquities Authority who discovered the compass with Dr. Rafi Lewis from Ashkelon Academic College and the University of Haifa.
“It is unlike any archaeological research we have done. Even if the events we studied from the distant past included evidence of destruction and severe acts of violence, the study at Battle Hill is different,” Marko said.
“Although 75 years have already passed since the fall of the 35, here there are faces and names. There is an almost personal acquaintance with each of the characters. You wonder what happened to the warriors. Or did the compass — which has the marks of a bullet on it — pierce the heart of whoever held it in their pocket or hand? You do as much scientific work as possible, but it is very difficult to detach yourself from the emotional aspect.”
For the past two years, Marko and Lewis have been conducting an archaeological study of Battle Hill. The two met while serving in a reserve military unit tasked with finding missing soldiers. Marko and Lewis used archaeological methods to search for soldiers whose burial places are unknown.
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Borrell’s controversial statements seem to be indicative of a major (and rapidly growing) divide between the EU as a (geo)political entity and its top member states. The EU’s head diplomat might have been seeking a counterargument to French President Emmanuel Macron’s recently revealed stance voiced earlier in the month that boils down to the EU essentially minding its own business, taking care of its own numerous issues and just leaving China alone.
Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson on stage after winning his mayoral runoff against Paul Vallas on April 4, 2023. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
When the cryptocurrency exchange FTX opened its US headquarters in Chicago last May, Mayor Lori Lightfoot heralded it as a win for communities that historically had been denied access to quality banking and financial services. She announced that FTX would donate $1 million to help expand a program to provide formerly incarcerated Chicagoans with a universal basic income. She called the initiative “a mechanism and a tool to bring historically underrepresented and ignored populations into the world of crypto so they can take ownership and control over their own financial destiny.”
Seven months later, the crypto bubble had burst, and FTX had filed bankruptcy without having donated enough money to even get the program off the ground.
Many cryptocurrency and financial technology (“fintech”) firms paint themselves as champions of financial security for black and brown people who have been excluded and underserved by traditional banks and lenders. In reality, these institutions are another set of unregulated or under-regulated corporations trying to make a profit by extracting wealth from poor and working-class communities of color. Rather than putting formerly incarcerated Chicagoans in “control over their own financial destiny,” Mayor Lightfoot instead left them at the mercy of alleged fraudster and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has an opportunity to avoid predatory institutions like crypto and instead put Chicagoans in control of their financial destiny: by establishing a city-owned public bank.
This would allow unbanked and underbanked poor and working-class, black and brown communities to access high-quality, low-cost financial services, like no-fee bank accounts and low-interest microloans. A public bank could provide financing for black and brown neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West Sides by providing access to low-interest loans to establish and grow small businesses. It would enable the city and its sister agencies like Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Transit Authority to save millions in fees and interest on cash, investment, and debt-management services.
A public bank would be initially capitalized with the deposits of the City of Chicago and its sister agencies. It would also be able to take deposits from other customers, including individual consumers, corporations, and even other local governments and agencies in Illinois. A public bank would have an explicit public-interest mission, and its primary goal could be to boost economic development in historically underinvested communities in Chicago.
Because a public bank would generate a profit, it could use that money to increase investments in affordable housing, economic development, and green infrastructure on Chicago’s South and West Sides. During difficult economic times, a public bank could even issue a dividend to its lone shareholder, the City of Chicago, and help fill unforeseen budget gaps.
Racist banking is deeply etched into the history of Chicago’s segregated neighborhoods. Whether it was robbing black families of the benefits of homeownership by refusing to make mortgage loans in redlined black neighborhoods, or targeting black and Latino families with predatory subprime mortgages that resulted in a mass wave of foreclosures, banks and mortgage lenders actively helped drive the racial wealth gap in Chicago.
Brandon Johnson can actually put Chicagoans in the driver’s seat of their own financial destiny by giving them access to no-fee checking accounts and affordable credit through a public bank.
Furthermore, banks’ refusal to adequately locate branches in poor communities of color has had devastating consequences for the financial health of those communities. Areas in Chicago that are more than half a mile from a bank branch are heavily concentrated on the city’s South and West Sides. Unbanked and underbanked residents of urban banking deserts are often forced to rely on predatory payday lenders and expensive check-cashing services to meet their financial needs. This can make it difficult to build household wealth. Nationally, even though black and Latino households account for only 32 percent of the population of the United States, they make up 64 percent of households without a bank account.
By establishing a public bank and opening branches throughout the city, Johnson can start to mitigate the pernicious effects of racist and exploitative banking in Chicago. Unlike Lightfoot and her failed bet on crypto, Johnson can actually put Chicagoans in the driver’s seat of their own financial destiny by giving them access to no-fee checking accounts and affordable credit. Opening branches across the city would also help create good government jobs in neighborhoods starved of economic opportunity. With a public bank, Johnson can lay the groundwork for wealth building for working-class, black and brown households in Chicago.
The benefits of the consumer-facing business of a public bank would be amplified dramatically by the benefits of the municipal-facing business. Chicago’s low credit ratings mean taxpayers are hit with high interest rates and fees when the city takes out debt. The city and its sister agencies, like CPS, pay $2.1 billion a year in interest on municipal bonds. Chicago and CPS pay nearly $26 million a year in bond issuance fees to banks.
To manage their debt, Chicago and CPS also have a history of taking out predatory financial deals like toxic swaps and payday loans that end up costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. This is all money that would be better spent on services like fully funding schools, reopening mental health clinics, and expanding public transit.
A public bank could underwrite and issue municipal bonds for Chicago and its sister agencies. It could be structured to allow access to the Federal Reserve’s lending facilities. This could enable the public bank to charge 0 percent interest on the bonds it underwrites for Chicago and its sister agencies and sell them on the secondary market to the Federal Reserve, saving taxpayers more than $2 billion in interest and fees every year. This is money that can go back into critical neighborhood services.
Furthermore, a public bank could hire in-house investment managers to manage Chicago’s seven pension funds. This would enable the city and its sister agencies to avoid $156 million a year in fees. Because the pension funds would be able to invest that money and earn a return on it, it would grow to nearly $1 billion after five years and nearly $16 billion after thirty years. This can help break the cycle of pension underfunding and ultimately also free up more city money for services.
Traditional banks have failed poor and working-class black and brown Chicagoans time and again. Lightfoot’s crypto experiment went bust. These communities cannot wait around for Wall Street to decide we are worth investing in. Brandon Johnson can help us break free of its stranglehold and chart a new path for building wealth by establishing a public bank.
“People were shouting things that weren’t of any substance, just to disrupt,” says an audience member.
By JNS
Member of Knesset Simcha Rothman, one of the key figures behind the government’s judicial reform initiative, was continuously interrupted by hecklers during a panel discussion at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Tel Aviv on Monday.
Although the panel discussion at the Expo Tel Aviv convention center was not on judicial reform but rather on issues related to the Law of Return, protesters, many identifying with Achim L’Neshek (“Brothers in Arms”), an extremist group made up of IDF reservists, chanted slogans as Rothman, who is chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, tried to speak.
“From the get-go, from the first word, people were standing up in the crowd, and it was an onslaught from beginning to end,” an audience member who preferred to remain anonymous told JNS.
“People were shouting things that weren’t of any substance, just to disrupt. They were shouting ‘Busha’—Shame. Liar—‘Shakran.’ To his credit, Avi Mayer, the moderator, editor of The Jerusalem Post, did try to quiet the crowd and tell them we’re trying to have a respectful discussion. That lasted merely a matter of seconds. It did not work.
“There was a real failure of security because they would take a protester out and then I’d see him return. The same protester would come back two or three times and continue disrupting,” said the audience member.
המחאה מול רוטמן בכנס הפדרציות היהודיות בגני התערוכה:
קריאות בוז כשהוצג על הבמה;
ופיצוץ הפאנל שבו השתתף ע”י חברים מ’אחים לנשק’ ועוד נציגי קהילות יהודיות:
“אתה פושע של העם היהודי! תתבייש לך! העם היהודי לא ישכח לך ולא יסלח לך!” pic.twitter.com/uNSeLVjzbk
— Or-ly Barlev ~ אור-לי ברלב (@orlybarlev) April 24, 2023
“It was terrible,” a second audience member concurred. “I wanted to hear what he had to say. It’s not about whether you agree with him or not. He should be allowed to speak.”
Rothman’s aide told JNS, “They shout ‘Democracy’ but they silence everyone who doesn’t think like them.”
Before the panel discussion, Achim L’Neshek activists interrupted an interview between Rothman and JNS. They surrounded Rothman and shouted at him. One placed a ballcap with the Achim L’Neshek logo on the Knesset member’s head. He kept his cool despite the provocations.
Rothman told JNS, “The real motto of the left is ‘Thou shall not speak.’ ”
Achim L’Neshek has carried out similar actions in the past. In March, the group barricaded with sandbags and barbed wire the offices of the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem-based think tank that supports judicial reform. And in February, its activists attempted to block Rothman and other lawmakers from leaving their homes.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a scheduled address on Sunday night at the JFNA General Assembly, amid planned protests over the government’s paused judicial reform program.
The Prime Minister’s Office told Ynet that “scheduling issues and preparations for Memorial Day and Independence Day ceremonies” were the reason for the cancelation, and not the planned protests.
The JFNA last week issued a statement explaining why it had decided not to boycott the prime minister as demanded by obscure and unnamed groups.
It also expressed support for individuals to protest at the conference.
“We have also been awed by the powerful statement Israel’s citizens have made exercising their democratic right to protest. Given the immense importance of this debate and its implications for Jews all around the world, we understand that some will choose to exercise that right at the General Assembly. We will do everything we can to ensure that our attendees and security professionals respect these protesters, and expect that any protestors will respect our participants by demonstrating in a way that does not disrupt their ability to attend the event, participate, or listen to the speakers,” said the organization.
The JFNA has not issued a formal response to the harassment of Rothman at its event.
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The Israeli military also dropped leaflets warning Syrian soldiers against cooperating with the Iranian terror proxy.
By JNS
Israel Defense Forces tanks reportedly shelled a Syrian army post used by Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah early on Monday morning, in the second such incident in as many weeks.
According to Syrian media, the artillery strike targeted a military observation post located close to the village of Hader in the Quneitra Governorate.
Thereafter, the IDF dropped leaflets in the area warning Syrian soldiers against cooperating with Hezbollah.
The Israeli military did not comment on the development.
The IDF last week struck assets belonging to Hezbollah in the Syrian-held part of the Golan Heights.
And earlier this month, the IDF attacked targets in Syria in response to six rockets fired towards the Golan Heights. Among the targets were a military compound of the Fourth Division of the Syrian Armed Forces, military radar systems and artillery posts.
“The IDF sees the Syrian state as responsible for all activities occurring within its territory and will not allow any attempts to violate Israeli sovereignty,” the military said.
Israel regularly conducts airstrikes in Syria with a view to preventing Iran and its terror proxies, foremost among them Lebanon-based Hezbollah, from developing permanent military infrastructure with which to open a front against the Jewish state.
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