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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in al-Quds
Israeli forces kill a Palestinian driver in al-Quds (Jerusalem) after accusing him of hitting a group of Israeli police force with his car.
Israeli forces said an Israeli policeman and policewoman were injured in the purported incident involving the Palestinian driver on Wednesday. The driver was identified as Omran Abu-Dahim, 41, a resident of Jabel Mukhaber in the neighborhood of the East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Abu-Dahim was killed after being shot in the head by a third Israeli policeman.
Earlier in the month, an Israeli security guard killed another Palestinian in similar circumstances on the line separating al-Quds’ west and east.
Palestinians face various forms of Israeli aggression nearly every day, including the heavy-handed suppression of protests in the occupied West Bank and deadly aerial attacks in the Gaza Strip.
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From PressTV
Palestinian gets 8 months in jail over anti-Israel posts
An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian man to eight months in prison on charges of posting comments critical of the Tel Aviv regime’s policies and Zionism on the online social networking service Facebook.
On Tuesday, the Magistrates Court in al-Quds (Jerusalem) handed down the sentence to 28-year-old Sami Jamal Faraj Ideis, a local resident of the Palestinian Shufat neighborhood of East al-Quds, after convicting him of “inciting anti-Jewish violence and supporting terror” on his Facebook page between July and November last year.
The court said Ideis wrote “Death to Israel” on his account on July 5, 2014, and on the same day condemned Israel over its expropriation of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank for settlement expansion.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners and Former Prisoners’ Committee has released a report, in which minor Palestinian prisoners have testified to cases of Israeli forces attacking them while being kept or interrogated in Israel’s detention facilities.
Hiba Masalha, a lawyer for the committee, said 15-year-old Palestinian Jamal al-Zaatari, was beaten and assaulted during his detention in Israel’s HaSharon Prison.
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From The Telegraph
New York bankers pay their wives year-end ‘performance bonuses’… IF they deserve it
- Wives awarded tens of thousands of dollars based on their ‘performance’
- Cash can be based on how well home was run and grades children got
- Claims revealed in new book by sociologist who lives on Upper East Side
You may have thought that marriage was about partnership, teamwork and compromise.
But it’s a rather different story for the elite bankers who are using their business skills to manage their domestic affairs – and paying their wives bonuses if they’re happy with how they are running the home.
In one gilded New York enclave, those who manage to get the children into their man’s preferred school as well as keep a tight hold on the utilities budget are rewarded with lump sums of tens of thousands of pounds.
The money is paid at the end of the year – just like the bonuses given to their husbands, who are usually Wall Street tycoons and hedge fund managers.
According to US author and sociologist Wednesday Martin, the wives blow the cash on clothes or tickets for charity events run by friends, which sell for as much as $10,000 (£6,400) a time.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Program banning Palestinians from public Israeli buses suspended
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A controversial program to prevent Palestinian workers from riding on Israeli public transportation in the West Bank was suspended a day after it was launched.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon suspended the program, which restricted the workers to four West Bank checkpoints to go to work and required them to return home by the same crossings. The workers would then take Palestinian bus services the rest of the way home. The plan added up to hours to their daily commutes.
Palestinian workers are not allowed to stay overnight in Israel. They are allowed to exit and enter the West Bank through a variety of checkpoints using a magnetic card.
Yaalon announced the program in October. At that time, Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank said it would explore other options to provide the Palestinian workers with appropriate transportation. It had been scheduled to be reviewed after three months.
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From PressTV
HRW blasts Israeli confiscation of Palestinian Bedouins’ land
Human Rights Watch has condemned an Israeli court ruling on the expropriation of Palestinian Bedouin lands, saying the verdict will pave the way for the eviction of Palestinians.
“It is a sad day when Israeli Supreme Court decisions provide legal cover for forced evictions, as in the case of these two villages,” Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East and North Africa director said in a statement on Wednesday, said in reference to the villages of al-Araqib and Shariaa in northern Negev.
The Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the confiscation of a 100-hectare piece of land, owned by Palestinian Bedouins, near the two villages.
The land is the inheritance of the Palestinian al-Ukbi tribe, who have dwelled there and farmed the land for decades.
But the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the ground should be registered under the name of the so-called Israeli Development Authority.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
British Jewish teacher found guilty of sexually assaulting students
(JTA) — A former teacher at several Jewish schools in England was found guilty on sexual assault charges.
Todros Grynhaus, 50, of Salford, reportedly faces a “substantial prison sentence,” according to Manchester Crown Court judge Timothy Holroyde.
They are now adult women.
The conviction comes after a two-week trial, and after an earlier trial ended in March with a hung jury, that failed to reach a verdict in the case.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Haredi papers welcome Israel’s women ministers — without first names or faces
Another group of women in powerful positions, another haredi Orthodox paper erasing them. Here we go again.
After each new Israeli government is sworn in, its ministers pose for a group photo with the president. This year’s photo, taken yesterday, features Israel’s three women ministers in the middle row — Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Senior Citizens, Minorities and Gender Equality Minister Gila Gamliel.
Regev, Shaked and Gamliel are all smiling. But if you saw the photo on haredi news site B’hadrei Haredim, you wouldn’t know that. Their faces are all blurred out.
A similar obfuscating maneuver allegedly happened at HaModia, a haredi print newspaper. According to a photo posted on a religious feminist Facebook page, HaModia’s list of the new government’s ministers omitted the women ministers’ first names. So while it listed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, for example, it noted only Justice Minister Ms. Shaked.
This time, the women weren’t fully erased, as has happened with previous photos of women politicians. A Brooklyn haredi paper, Di Tzeitung, erased then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the famous 2011 photo of government officials monitoring Osama Bin Laden’s killing. And Israeli haredi paper Hamevaser airbrushedGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel out of the photo of world leaders marching in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo attack this year.
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