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Volume 13, Issue 48:
As we are approaching the days of Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Days of mourning for soldiers who have been lost on the battlefield, and for victims of terrorism, and for the celebration of Israel’s National Day of Independence we should remember the words of Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, ”Courage is a special kind of knowledge, the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
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** Israel's Northern Border Heats Up ([link removed])
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** By Sarah Stern / April 24, 2020
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Coronavirus pandemic or not, Israel can ill afford to let its guard down, not even for a single moment. On Friday, April 17^th the fence separating Israel and Lebanon was penetrated in three separate places, and pictures were hung up of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nissrallah, and Qasem Soleimani, former leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, who had been killed in an American air strike, earlier this year. By Tuesday, April 21, Hezbollah made clear in its official website, Al-Akhbar ([link removed]) , that they were responsible for this.
As Brigadier General Shimon Shapiro of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs wrote ([link removed]) , “Hezbollah is gloating over Israeli mentions of the damage to ‘the most sophisticated border protection system in the world.’ Hezbollah believes that its ‘fence operation’ punctured what Israel views as the great achievements of eliminating the threat of the cross-border tunnels from Lebanon. Hezbollah wants to make clear that even though its ability to operate under the fence has been impaired, it is still operationally capable of crossing the fence above ground.”
This act was in retaliation for an air strike last week, carried out by the IDF on Syrian soil against a tank carrying three Hezbollah members, who immediately fled. According to a report in the New York Times ([link removed]) this was an intentional warning shot intended to send a message about Hezbollah’s increasing presence in Syria, but not intending to kill.
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** Israel
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** Pompeo says annexation of West Bank is Israeli decision to make ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Netanyahu cements electoral victory with large 'national emergency government' ([link removed]) - Jewish News Syndicate
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** Warning shots: Israel spares Hezbollah fighters to avert a war ([link removed]) - The New York Times
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** Iran shows off drones that can reach Israel, threat increases ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Hizbullah makes clear it will strike Israel from Lebanon even if it is attacked in Syria ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
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** Lebanon border fence damaged at 3 locations, but not breached, IDF says ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Middle East
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** Trump instructs the Navy to 'shoot down and destroy' Iranian gunboats that 'harass' U.S. ships ([link removed]) - The Washington Post
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** Saudi Arabia executed record number of people in 2019 ([link removed]) - BBC News
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** Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it has launched a military satellite into orbit ([link removed]) - Time
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** A new Soleimani? U.S. zeroes in on shadowy Hezbollah power broker in Iraq ([link removed]) - Times of Israel
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** Iran executes Kurdish prisoner who escaped to avoid coronavirus ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Syrian air defenses respond to alleged Israeli airstrike near Homs ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Coronavirus puts missile showdown between Turkey and U.S. on hold ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Anti-Semitism
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** U.N. rapporteur 'extremely concerned' about rising anti-Semitism during coronavirus pandemic ([link removed]) - Jewish Journal
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** Antisemitic fliers blaming Jews for COVID-19 passed around the D.C. area ([link removed]) - Antisemitism.co
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** In Ohio, signs showing blue demonic Jews as guilty of coronavirus appear ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Israeli Holocaust event in Germany 'Zoom bombed' with anti-Semitic slurs ([link removed]) - Haaretz
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** Minnesota students mock Jews being sent to Auschwitz in TikTok video ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Two-thirds of U.S. Jews say they are less safe than a year ago, ADL finds ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** 18% spike in physical acts of antisemitism in 2019 - report ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Sunday, April 26th | Various Times
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** Sunday, April 26th | 9am EST
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** Sunday, April 26th | 2pm EST
Celebrate Israel through film. Presenting for the first time to a digital audience the award-winning film Sustainable Nation
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