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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Far-right Israeli activist attacks defense minister’s car in Hebron
(JTA) — A far-right Jewish activist and one-time Knesset candidate attacked the Israeli defense minister’s car in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Baruch Marzel, calling defense chief Moshe Yaalon an “enemy of the settlements” who was “strong against Jews and weak against Arabs,” jumped on Yaalon’s car while Yaalon was visiting the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Yaalon was not injured and Marzel was not arrested, although security forces forcibly escorted him from the scene.
Marzel headed the outlawed Kach movement after the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose grandson was one of three suspected Jewish terrorists placed in administrative detention without charges last week in the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank. Marzel, a Boston native who lives in a Jewish settlement in Hebron, was on the Yachad party’s slate in Israel’s March 17 elections, but the far-right party did not win any seats in the Knesset.
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From PressTV
Mother of slain Palestinian toddler may have gone brain dead: Report
The mother of the 18-month-old Palestinian baby boy killed in a recent arson attack on his home by Israeli settlers in the West Bank may have gone brain dead, a report says.
Riham Dawabsheh, Ali’s mother, who was herself injured and who also lost her husband in the arson attack, was put on a respirator at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, also known as Tel HaShomer Hospital, in the occupied Palestinian territories on Monday, Arabic-language Akhbaar 24 news website reported on Tuesday.
The decision to put her on a respirator came after her general health condition deteriorated, and some of her organs stopped functioning, according to the report.
Some doctors and medical officials have also suggested that she might be brain dead.
Her 32-year-old husband, Sa’ad Dawabsheh, died at a medical center early on Saturday.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U.S. energy secretary to pitch American Jews on Iran deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will make the case for the Iran nuclear deal to American Jews.
Moniz, a nuclear physicist, will appear Thursday via a webcast sponsored by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. He was one of the lead negotiators in the sanctions relief for nuclear restrictions deal reached July 14 between Iran and six major powers.
“As the debate continues over the Iranian nuclear agreement, we welcome the opportunity to allow individuals across North America to hear directly from one of the most important members of President Obama’s administration on this issue,” said Michael Siegal, the JFNA’s chairman, in a statement. “Sec. Moniz is one of the world’s foremost leaders on nuclear development, and his expertise is beyond reproach.”
The Moniz webcast will follow a similar appearance on Aug. 5 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stridently opposes the deal.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
British petition calls for arrest of Netanyahu for ‘war crimes’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A petition calling for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Britain in September has reached more than 41,000 signatures and must receive a government response.
The online petition was uploaded on Aug. 7 to the United Kingdom Parliament’s official website. After 10,000 signatures the government must respond to the petition, and after 100,000 signatures it will be considered for debate in Parliament.
“Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the U.K. for the massacre of over 2000 civilians in 2014,” the petition says, citing Netanyahu’s scheduled September visit.
As of Wednesday evening, the government has not responded to the petition. The Israeli news website Ynet quoted unnamed officials at the British Foreign Office as calling the petition “a publicity stunt.”
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From Ynet News
Arab, Jewish protesters clash outside Ashkelon hospital
Arab lawyers hold rally in solidarity with Palestinian hunger-striker, while Jewish right-wing activists hold counter-protest, calling racist jeers; two people arrested.
Arab and Jewish protesters clashed on Wednesday evening outside the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, where Palestinian hunger-striker prisoner Mohammed Allaan is hospitalized.
Some 200 Arab lawyers held a protest rally outside the hospital in solidarity with Allaan, who has been on hunger strike for 59 days. The protesters were joined by Arab MKs.
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From Ynet News
Hamas claims captured Israeli drone, made it operational
Military wing says it took over Skylark I UAV on July 22, rebuilt it and put it to use in the service of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Hamas’ military wing claimed on Wednesday that its fighters were successful in taking over an Israeli drone and making it operational. The IDF said it was looking into the Hamas claim.
The Palestinian al-Aqsa channel aired a video that purports to show the takeover of the drone.
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From The Times of Israel
Iran’s Syria plan: Hezbollah withdrawal, Assad as toothless leader
Iranian foreign minister heads to Damascus for Syria talks after meeting Hezbollah leader, Lebanese officials in Beirut
Iran’s latest plan to end the five-year civil war in Syria includes a withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters and and keeping Bashar Assad as a powerless head of state, according to pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was to visit Syria on Wednesday to discuss a “new plan” by the Islamic Republic to help resolve the conflict there, his spokeswoman said.
Iran is Assad’s main regional ally, providing him with both financial and military support. It will be Zarif’s first visit to Damascus since Tehran signed a nuclear deal with world powers on July 14, and comes as part of a regional tour.
During his visit, Zarif will raise “Iran’s new plan to help solve the Syrian issue,” spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said.
Asharq al-Awsat cited sources as saying that Zarif had planned in his Tuesday visit with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon to convey “Iran’s support for Hezbollah, which is still a main player, like other main players.”
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From The Times of Israel
27 dead as rockets hit Damascus ahead of Iran FM’s arrival
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least another 120 people injured, and death toll is likely to rise
At least 27 civilians were killed in Syrian government air strikes Wednesday on the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus as a barrage of deadly rebel rocket fire hit the capital, a monitor said.
The attacks came just hours before the arrival of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Syrian capital. Zarif arrived in Beirut on Tuesday, for talks with Hezbollah and Lebanese officials.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 120 people were injured in the raids, several of them seriously, and that the death toll was likely to rise.
The air raids hit the towns of Douma, Saqba, Kafr Batna and Hammouriyeh in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel stronghold region outside the capital.
The strikes came as rebels fired dozens of rockets into Damascus, killing at least four people, according to Syria’s interior ministry.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Haredi school cancels Rivlin visit over LGBT support
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A haredi Orthodox school in Jerusalem canceled a visit by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reportedly over his support for the LGBT community following the deadly attack at the city’s gay pride parade.
Kehilat Yaakov administrators sent a letter to Rivlin on Tuesday via the Jerusalem municipality nixing the visit, which was scheduled for Sunday, the first day of school in the haredi community. He was to be part of a class on unconditional love.
The school cited the president’s statements following the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem gay pride parade that left one teenage marcher dead, according to Israeli news reports. Rivlin condemned the attack, calling it “a terrible hate crime.”
Army Radio, which first reported the cancellation, reported on Wednesday that several haredi rabbis had pressured the school to cancel the appearance.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U.S. anti-Semitism envoy opposes criminalizing anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top U.S. official combating anti-Semitism said he does not counsel any restrictions on speech in his interactions with foreign officials.
“In our interactions with other governments and civil society outside the United States we make very clear that we support freedom of speech and assembly and oppose criminalizing speech – even the most odious forms of anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred,” Ira Forman, the State Department’s special envoy to combat and monitor anti-Semitism, said in an Aug. 10 letter to Jewish Voice for Peace.
Forman was replying to the group after it said that the State Department definition of anti-Semitism, which is used to deal with foreign officials, inhibits free speech on U.S. campuses.
Jewish Voice for Peace, or JVP, a group that supports the movement to enact anti-Israel boycotts, divestment, and sanctions, had in May sent Forman and Secretary of State John Kerry a letter from its academic advisory council saying that the State Department definition of anti-Semitism was “vague” and “problematic” and had been “construed to silence any criticism of Israeli policies.”
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From Russia Today
ISIS releases ‘hit list of US military personnel’, claims hacking victory
The data was published on a website and advertised on social media by the self-proclaimed Islamic State Hacking Division, supposedly a group of hackers working for the radical Islamist group. It includes a spreadsheet with names, emails, passwords and contact information of some 1,500 people. There are also alleged bank card numbers and screenshots of what appear to be private Facebook conversations between serving US military personnel discussing operations.
The data is accompanied by a threat towards the officials, saying the terrorists would “strike at your necks in your own lands.”
From The Times of Israel
Turkey named as top Israeli destination in July, kind of
Some 172,000 Israelis flew to Turkey last month, though many flew on elsewhere; Greece comes close second and US third
Turkey was the top flight destination from Israel during the month of July, showing a jump of nearly a third in the number of passengers arriving in its airports compared to the year before, according to figures released Monday by the Israel Airports Authority.
Greece was the second most visited place followed by destinations in the US, the Ynetnews website reported.
In total, some 172,507 Israelis and tourists flew to Turkey during July, although many then took connecting flights on to other destinations in Europe, Far East, and America.
The number was 30% higher than the figures for July 2014, when Israel was embroiled in a 50-day war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Last month 169,248 people flew to Greece, a 29.7% increase on the same period from the year before, and 136,373 traveled to the US, an increase of less than 10%.
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From The Times of Israel
Trump surges in polls despite Fox News controversy
Billionaire up 7 percent in public survey after seemingly sexist comments about Republican debate moderator Megyn Kelly
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continued to exhibit a seeming imperviousness to criticism on Monday, surging in the polls after the first Republican debate, and following several days of statements that many pundits had considered disastrous to his campaign.
A Morning Consult survey published Monday showed Trump’s lead in the Republican field growing in the days following Thursday’s Fox News debate, with 32 percent of the vote. This represented a 7% increase over last week’s poll.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll did not show a rise for Trump, but also appeared to indicate that the candidate had not damaged himself with his contentious language — the business mogul continued to lead with 24%, unchanged from his numbers before the debate.
It should be noted that polling was conducted between August 7 – August 9, and may not indicate the full electoral impact of Trump’s statements over the past few days.
Trump’s turbulent relationship with Fox News showed signs of improvement Monday even as Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on the billionaire businessman’s clash with the network to cast the entire 2016 Republican presidential field as being bad for women.
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