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At least 10 synagogues were attacked and burned in the past week of Muslim riots across the country while 28 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites, the data show.

Data from the Central District of Fire and Rescue show that from last Tuesday, 10 synagogues and government institutions in the city of Lod in the center of the country have been set on fire. No mosques were attacked or burned.

The data also show that 28 mosques were exposed as weapons caches, where rocks and Molotov cocktails were prepared and stored.

Similarly, 22 Muslim prayer houses were documented being used to incite riots against Jews.

112 Jewish homes have so far been burned in Muslim riots, compared to one house of an Arab family in Jaffa, which turned out to have been set on fire by Arabs.

No looted Arab homes have been reported so far while 386 looted Jewish homes were documented.

A total of 673 Jewish homes were vandalized and 12 Arab homes were damaged.

849 Jewish-owned cars were set on fire, as opposed to 13 Arab-owned cars.

Conversely, Jews who used weapons in self-defense were arrested by the police, while so far, no Arabs were arrested for the use of firearms, despite the injury of several Jews in shooting incidents.

Over 5,000 incidents of rock-throwing at Jews were recorded, as opposed to 41 such attacks on Arabs.

The terror attacks against Israel have not let up and Israel’s defense forces continue to strike back hard to rout out the terrorists determined to wipe Israel off the map.

Source:
In Pictures: A Wave of Violence in Israel, by Tazpit Press Service/TPS, May 19, 2021

The Muslim Riots in Data: 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes Burned, by Tazpit Press Service/TPS, May 18, 2021

Israel uses phone calls and roof-knock munitions to evacuate Gazans ahead of airstrikes. “We select warheads with the necessary lethality to hit those who need to be hit and to reduce the impact on others,” Israeli official explains.

The building watchman spoke on his mobile intently, pacing up and down a quiet street in the Gaza Strip. In video footage caught by an onlooker, Jamal Nasman showed no panic. Yet what he was hearing was deadly serious.

He later told Reuters an Israeli officer had been giving him advance warning that the 13-story block he looked after would be the target of an airstrike. Israel said Hamas terrorists used the building.

Amid the fiercest escalation in fighting between Israelis and Palestinians since 2014, this is what Nasman said in last Tuesday’s call: “How much time do you want?” Nasman stops to listen. “Two or three hours? You said two or three hours, and then no one should be there?” Pause. “So I’ll go to the block and say no one should come?”

This is what the majority of the pathetic media refuses to tell you. They only report on Israel as the “apartheid’ state, the “aggressor,” the targeted “killer of the Palestinian people.” Let’s not forget that a certain percentage of anti-Semitic, Israel hating Democrats in Congress believe this garbage too. Thankfully, we know better.

Source:
How Israel moves Gazan civilians out of the way of attacks on Hamas, by Reuters and ILH Staff/Israel Hayom, May 14, 2021

NOT JUST ANOTHER TERROR ATTACK: ISRAEL IS AT WAR NOW!

SIRENS * ROCKETS * FIRES * GUNSHOTS * VIOLENT MOBS * EXPLOSIONS

7 ISRAELIS DEAD | DOZENS INJURED | OVER 1,600 ROCKETS FIRED AT CIVILIANS

Since our Monday newsletter earlier this week, Israel has experienced a relentless, non-stop barrage of terror attacks, incidents and disturbances that rapidly erupted, along with injuries – and unfortunately – loss of life.

What has transpired in Israel over the last few days is not terrorism – not just another bomb thrown, several rockets fired at Israel, or a stabbing attempt. The mainstream media outlets want you to believe that this is a “conflict” between Israelis and Palestinians or just Israel and Hamas “trading rockets.” And the Arab mobs inciting violence against Jews in Lod? The media calls it “civil war”, but truth says it’s a pogrom. What’s going on is an open WAR with the Arab goal of eliminating Israel. The TRUTH: this is now a show of force by Israel exercising her Sovereign and legal right to defend itself.

Americans For A Safe Israel mourns all those in Israel who have needlessly lost their lives during this reign of terror. We wish a Refuah Shlema to all those who have been injured and strength and comfort for the families and friends. We pray for the safety of millions of Israelis still at risk from rocket attacks who are forced to remain hiding in bomb shelters. We pray for the Israel Defense Forces and all of the Jewish Nation State’s security agencies that are working vigorously to protect and defend Israel.

The IDF continues to hurl significant blows to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip via five types of targets:
1. High-rise buildings belonging to the terrorist organizations in one way or another.
2. Hamas underground assets.
3. Elimination of senior officials.
4. Launch pits – the broad attack on the launch pits that started Tuesday night, was concluded Wednesday morning.
5. Activist homes – demolishing the homes belonging to terrorists who have gone underground, so that they come out of hiding homeless.

To date, the IDF has attacked more than 600 terrorist targets and destroyed most of the production line of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) carried out a series of targeted killings of senior members of Hamas’ General Staff in Gaza City and Khan Yunis on Wednesday. Today, they destroyed Hamas’ internal security headquarters located in a 14-story building, as well as Hamas’ central bank.

We hear that Hamas was surprised by the intensity of the attacks from Israel this time around. Israel’s usual position of restraint seems to have taken a back seat. Israel has refused a ceasefire. The IDF has unleashed a show of full force to defend Israel’s Sovereignty and protect its people.

Just today, the IDF has called up 9,000 reservists and leaves of active combat units have been suspended. The IDF chief has requested an additional 2,000 reserves.

The situation is not slowing down and is getting worse. AFSI is not sure what is on the horizon, but we do know that Israel is facing very difficult days ahead The Israeli people are anxious, traumatized, and exhausted from several straight nights of running to and remaining for an unknown period of time in bomb shelters for their safety. They are fearful for the mental well-being of their children. “The children” means not just little kids terrified at the sound of sirens and being displaced underground from the security they know as home. It also means Israel’s other “children” – those who serve in Israel’s armed forces for the sole purpose of keeping Israel SAFE.

Americans For A Safe Israel stands with Israel and prays for a speedy end and lasting resolution to this vicious effort to wipe out the Jewish Nation State. We believe that it is time to pull out the stops and fight back with everything she has. As always we pray for peace and better days ahead for all of Am Yisrael.

Let’s stand strong together with Israel and pray for her with all our heart and soul.

The photo above shows fires set by Arabs in Lod and is courtesy of Tazpit Press Service/TPS. TPS has published a photo timeline of the violence – Click HERE.

The Innocent Victims of Terror
Photos courtesy of the Israel Defense Forces

In face of the mounting waves of terrorism striking all over Israel, we must return to the fundamental element that is driving the entire storm and respond to our attackers with a proud Zionist response – a sovereignty and governance offensive. OpEd by Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, Co-Chairs of the Sovereignty Movement

The entire country has become a front line. Civilians – men, women and children – are being killed and maimed by rocket fire in our country’s streets and homes. At this grave hour, Israel must respond with full force, determination and resolve to the terrorism and to terror leaders, but even more importantly, it must return to the source of the problem that has led us to this harsh reality. That is where we must provide a resolute and appropriate Zionist response and also finally put an end to the terrorist threat against us.

The impotence of the police, the acquiescence to the Arab sector, a lenient justice system in the face of terror and vacillating political leadership are all serious problems, but they are only the symptoms of a far more significant and widespread phenomenon. What has truly led us into this intolerable reality of missiles being fired at Israel’s cities and the violent and terrorist uprising of Israel’s Arab citizens, who are carrying out lynchings, pogroms and riots in the style of 1929, is the absence of governance and the weakness of sovereignty.

The absence of governance and sovereignty has led to capitulation in the face of Muslim demands regarding the Temple Mount and Nablus Gate, igniting the unrest and inflaming the mobs, allowing them to believe that they will be able to further chip away at Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem if they only continue their rampage.

The absence of governance and sovereignty in the Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood has led to all-out war with Jews who have purchased legally Jewish-owned homes in their own capital city.

The absence of governance and sovereignty where Israel’s Arabs are concerned has led to Arab citizens arming themselves without any government control or enforcement. These guns and ammunition, acquired to be used in clashes between Arab crime clans, are now being wielded against Israel’s Jewish citizens and security forces.

The absence of governance and sovereignty is what allowed the terrorist leaders in the Gaza Strip to believe that inflaming the atmosphere would lead to a further political withdrawal on the part of Israel on their way to Israel’s complete destruction.

The absence of governance and sovereignty has led leaders from all over the world to apply increasing pressure on Israel to withdraw, capitulate and give up, as if Israel is the one to blame for its enemies rising up to annihilate its citizens.

For too many years, Israel’s leaders have elected to turn a blind eye to the rapid aggravation of the situation that has led us to this point. Take as an example the illegal Arab take-over of state lands in Judea and Samaria. The desire to secure yet another period of imaginary and false peace and quiet has blinded the leaders, who are afraid to confront the truth and reality, along with the complexity required to provide a fitting and Zionist response.

In face of this absence of governance and sovereignty, Israel must respond with an offensive of sovereignty and do it now.

It must enforce its sovereignty on the Temple Mount, the place where everything begins. Foreign political interference cannot be part of our foothold over the holy site, the source of our historical right to the land of Israel.

Israel’s leadership must take significant steps to enforce the law where the rioters are concerned, and if necessary, to bar Muslims from entering the Temple Mount until order is restored. At the same time, genuine and justified freedom of worship must be permitted, that of Jews who seek to pray on the mount.

As part of the offensive to restore sovereignty and governance that are so crucially needed at this time, legislation should be enacted that makes eminently clear the price that rioters must pay for their actions, that allows for the revocation of citizenship and expulsion of terrorists who participate in violent activities, pogroms and lynch mobs as we have seen in the past few days. This legislation must make Israel’s legal system more effective, firmer and less tolerant in the face of actions aimed at undermining the Jewish-Israeli identity of the State of Israel.

The revolving door policy so typical of the arrests of Israeli Arabs must end.

The governance offensive must include infiltration by all Israel’s intelligence services into the ranks of the Arab arms dealers to cut off the tentacles of this dangerous trade exploding all around us.

The sovereignty and governance offensive must include the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. This is both because it is a just and moral political act that will restore our birthright, and also because it removes the question mark still hovering over the future of Judea and Samaria that encourages leaders and perpetrators of terror to continue on their evil path. This will also make it clear that not only will we restore the situation to its former state in response to the escalating terror, but that we are willing to advance further significant steps on our way to implementing and actualizing the Zionist vision and dream.

Israel’s leaders must come to their senses: This is the time for a practical and effective sovereignty offensive. The people of Israel have faced up to and withstood complex challenges, only to grow stronger through them. This will be the case with the challenge of sovereignty and governance too. “The eternal nation does not fear a long road..”

Resolute national leadership can accomplish these historic and game-changing steps. To that end, what is needed now is a national emergency government that does not have to rely on the votes of those who support and encourage terror, one whose leaders are fully cognizant of the magnitude of the hour. This is your historic moment. The people of Israel look to you for leadership of stature, united in the desire to take action and succeed. You have both the privilege and duty to be such leaders.

Source:
The only response: A sovereignty offensive! ~Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar/Arutz Sheva, May 12, 2021

 

As the people of Israel gathered for Yom Yerushalayim festivities, the Jewish Nation State was quickly forced to turn to self defense. Violence perpetrated by Arabs and a barrage of rocket attacks from the start of the weekend to today have changed the tone of this significant and joyous holiday.

These are just some of the headlines coming out of Israel in the last 24 hours.

Rocket attacks hit Israeli capital of Jerusalem.

Rocket fire emerges from Gaza into Israel.

Jew nearly lynched outside of Old City after Arabs pelted a car with rocks and he loses control.

Public bomb shelters being opened in the south of Israel.

Knesset evacuated due to Hamas rocket attack.

Clashes on the Temple Mount and in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Jerusalem on brink of eruption: More clashes in and around Al Aqsa mosque on Monday morning.

Eastern Jerusalem braces for a planned Jewish nationalist march later today.

Israeli Troops raid Al Aqsa Mosque.

Hamas military wing issues ultimatum: Israel must withdraw police forces from Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah by 6 pm today. Israeli army orders all combat units to get ready and prepare for escalation, according to an Israeli state broadcaster.

It is obvious the Biden administration has opened the flood gates and green lighted violence by Palestinian terrorists, supported by Iran, against The Jewish State. There is a reason this scenario did not happen under the Trump presidency. It simply was not allowed. Biden is allowing it, even encouraging it.

The anti-Israeli forces sense an opportunity under Biden to finally destroy The Jewish State once and for all. This has coincided with the effort to destroy the security-focused government of Benjamin Netanyahu, very similar to what happened to Donald Trump.

Expect extreme violence in the near future in the Levant and the rest of the Middle East as Iranian militia forces are unleashed.

The developments coming out of Israel on this matter have been rapidly evolving and this is the latest as of this writing.

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Sources:
Israel Erupts As OBiden Purposefully Destroys Trump Peace, by Tsionism Staff/Tsionism, May 10, 2021

Hamas fires 7 rockets at Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh after Temple Mount clashes, by Michael Bachner and TOI Staff/Times of Israel, May 10, 2021

1 Injured, 2 Missiles Intercepted by Iron Dome, Rocket Fire Directed at Jerusalem, Central Israel, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, May 10, 2021

For the Jewish communities near the Gaza border, this week started with 10 fires, as southern Israeli was up in flames from Ashdod to Eilat. Fires are to be expected in Israel as the temperatures rise and the air becomes dry. But those 10 fires along the Gaza border—and more are expected this week—are the result of incendiary balloons shot over from the Gaza Strip, according to firefighting services.

All fires started within the Eshkol Regional Council area. The Nature and Parks Authority reported that large parts of the Be’eri Nature Reserve caught fire. The Be’eri Forest covers about 2,700 acres. It was planted by the founders of Kibbutz Be’eri in 1946. It is now mostly scorched earth.

“We returned to the routine of fires after a break, it is very disturbing,” Maayan Schneur Fuld from Kibbutz Netiv HaAsara said. “We are in early summer, the whole area around us is on fire, from every vantage point in the area we see fires. We’re afraid we’re going back to the days when we were running from one fire to the next.”

Rafi Babian, Sdot Negev Council Chief of Security, noted, “There are deployments of security and firefighting forces in the area, including Military Ongoing Security Coordinators (Ravshatzim) that are prepared for any fire scenario. The fires are returning.”

Source:
On Sunday the Arabs Burned Down 2,000 Acres of Israeli Forest Near Gaza, by David Israel/Jewish Press, May 10, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday chose Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival, to try to form a new government. Lapid’s path to success is still uncertain.

Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving leader, has been fighting to hold onto office through four inconclusive elections since 2019. His 28-day mandate to put together a coalition ran out at midnight after he failed to agree on terms with potential right-wing partners. This opened the way for Rivlin to assign the task to another member of parliament. Now Lapid has 28 days to form a government.

Rivlin, in a televised address announcing his choice of Lapid, said the former finance minister had the pledged support of 56 of parliament’s 120 members, still short of a majority.

“It … became clear that Yair Lapid has the possibility to form a government that will win parliament’s approval, but there are many difficulties,” Rivlin said.

Never before have we seen an ongoing political crisis in Israel such as this. The next possible scenario is that Lapid forms a rotation with Naftali Bennett. Both Lapid and Bennett must pull together a majority coalition from an unlikely mixture of parties across the political spectrum. This includes the Islamist Ra’am party, which complicates everything. More important is that it raises the question of how stable such a government would be to begin with. That has us concerned.

Source:
President taps Lapid to form gov’t despite lack of majority, by Reuters and ILH Staff/Israel Hayom, May 5, 2021

 

 

The Shin Bet, in cooperation with the Israel Police and IDF, uncovered a mechanism to use humanitarian assistance from the European Union to finance the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP} terrorist organization.

The investigation revealed that the funding was transferred to institutions and organizations in Judea and Samaria, which actually belong to the PFLP. They also operate under a ‘humanitarian’ cover, with an organization called the ‘Health Committees’ at their center.

A Shin Bet source stated: “The extensive financial activity promoted by the Popular Front organization joins a long line of terrorist activities, which have been thwarted by the Shin Bet in recent years. The Popular Front organization is a murderous terrorist organization which is responsible for the 2019 bombing in which Rina Shnerb was killed while walking with her family. The Shin Bet will continue to act and thwart the terrorist infrastructure and financial infrastructure of the PLFP organization, an organization that is constantly working to undermine security stability in Judea and Samaria and to promote organizational and military terrorist activity against Israel.”

AFSI applauds the spirit of cooperation among Israel’s security agencies. It uncovered a security loophole and will now benefit Israel’s security and help to keep it that much safer.

Source:
Shin Bet: EU humanitarian funds diverted to terrorism, by Arutz Sheva Staff/Arutz Sheva, May 6, 2021

 

 

 

 

The Samaria Regional Council plans to sue the left-wing NGO B’Tselem for slander after it alleged that settlers from Yitzhar had set fire to fields near the Palestinian village of Burin.

B’Tselem tweeted a dramatic nighttime photo of the village with the flames burning in the background. In the tweet it stated, “settlers torched Palestinian fields in Burin.” At 8:10 am it also sent a release to the media about it, but within two hours, at 10:07am, it retracted the charges.

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said the actual story was precisely the opposite. Palestinians “were the ones that ignited the fire that threatened residents’ homes.” Dagan said the initial tweets had been shared 2,000 times including by the left-wing NGO B’Tselem. The Council and Yitzhar have now asked an attorney to prepare a defamation case against B’Tselem.

“Freedom of expression is a sacred value, but not freedom of expression and defamation,” he added.

Source:
Settlers to sue B’Tselem for alleging they set Palestinian fields ablaze, by Tovah Lazaroff/Jerusalem Post, May 5, 2021

 

 

 

 

Three 19-year-old yeshiva students were injured, two of them seriously, in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop at Tapuah Junction on Sunday evening, Israeli authorities said.

The shots were fired from a passing car at the Tapuah Junction south of Nablus. The victims were all civilians, according to the Israel Defense Forces. All three victims are rabbinical students at the Yeshiva Gedolah in the Samaria Jewish community of Itamar.

“IDF troops returned fire at the vehicle, which fled the scene. IDF troops are searching for the vehicle and are setting up roadblocks in the area,” the military said.

As of noon today, Yehuda Guetta, 19, is still in critical condition and there is an immediate danger to his life. Benaya Peretz, 19, is in very serious condition. The third wounded Israeli, Amichai Challah, 19, was released from the hospital after sustaining light injuries.

This attack is especially heartbreaking since it follows just days after the Mount Meron tragedy. In this terror attack, and in the Meron disaster, so many, but not all, of the victims were young people. Our friends in Yitzhar told us that the young people there are devastated with what has happened in both Meron and Tapuah.

Americans For A Safe Israel mourns the loss of all the victims involved and prays for a speedy refuah for all those who are recovering.

Source:
3 hurt, 2 seriously in West Bank drive-by shooting; IDF searching for terrorists, by Judah Ari Gross. Times of Israel, May 2, 2021