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Artzeinu ○ www.artzeinu.org ○ Vol. 20 No. 668 ○ May 8, 2021 Times of Israel reports. in the Six Day War in 1967, the Temple Lapid vows his government Mount's religious sites are under the Tensions have flared in Sheikh Jarrah 'will take us out of the crisis' p custody of the Waqf, or Islamic Council, over the last week where dozens of with Jews banned from praying on the A day after getting the presidential nod to Palestinians are at risk of being evicted site. form a government, Yesh Atid leader Yair following a long legal battle with right- Lapid vowed he would try to form a wing Jewish Israelis trying to acquire Health chief urges Israel to government that would cater to Israelis' property in the neighborhood, which is help vaccinate Palestinians need for calm, saying such "unity is not a just north of Jerusalem’s Old City. The director-general of Israel’s Health compromise, it is a goal; this is what the Thursday’s clashes followed violence Ministry on Thursday urged Israel to help country needs now," Israel Hayom overnight Wednesday, when 22 vaccinate the Palestinians, saying that reports. Palestinians were wounded, according to failing to do so risked undermining the Lapid, whose only hope of forming a the Red Crescent. Eleven people were gains of Israel’s vaccination drive, The government is by convincing right-wing arrested overnight Wednesday, the police Times of Israel reports. lawmakers in Yamina and New Hope to said. While Israel has launched a world-beating sit together with left-wing parties such as In recent weeks, Palestinian protesters vaccination drive, the Palestinian Meretz, said that Prime Minister have also clashed with Israeli police in Authority is struggling to vaccinate its Benjamin Netanyahu's warnings of the Jerusalem over restrictions on outdoor population. As of last week, only 3.6% of dangerous nature of such a coalition were gatherings during Ramadan. The tensions Palestinians had received at least one aimed at "fomenting divisions and have raised fears of sparking a wider dose, and less than 1% were fully disparaging." conflict, with the Hamas terror group in vaccinated. Those figures include the "This is going to be a complicated Gaza warning of renewed violence over more than 100,000 Palestinian workers government, but it will have a simple the issue. goal: to take us out of the crisis,” Lapid who come into regular contact with said. Police ban Jews from Israelis at their workplaces that Israel has vaccinated since March. Netanyahu's deadline for forming a Temple Mount But Israel has refrained from initiating a government expired on Tuesday, resulting Israel Police Tuesday banned Jewish campaign to vaccinate the general in Lapid getting a chance. But Lapid, like visitors from visiting the Temple Mount Palestinian population, despite calls from Netanyahu, might not have enough allies until further notice as tensions rise in the Israeli nonprofits, a petition to the High in the Knesset to swear in a government, Old City of the Israeli capital, Ynetnews Court of Justice, and senior health and if he fails within the allotted period, reports. experts’ urgings that it do so. the Knesset will most likely have to call Police were said to have informed Jewish another early election unless a groups organizing Temple Mount visits of Drive-by victim dies compromise is found between the two the moratorium. Yehuda Guetta, 19, died Wednesday of major blocs. The purported move is designed to ward wounds he sustained in Sunday's 15 arrested in fresh clashes off further tensions after clashes and riots Palestinian drive-by-shooting in the in East Jerusalem ‘hood in East Jerusalem amid the Muslim holy Samaria region, The Jerusalem Post month of Ramadan. Jews, however, will reports. A resident of Jerusalem, he had Palestinians and Israelis hurled rocks and be allowed to enter the area on Jerusalem been a student in the Itamar Yeshiva. chairs at each other in the tense East Day next week. Yehuda Guetta's funeral took place Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Thursday with 1,500 mourners in on Thursday before Israeli police moved Judaism, as it was once home to the attendance. "Our hearts are broken - but in to separate them, arresting at least 15 Jewish Temples, and the third holiest for our spirits are strong," Samaria Regional people, all of them Palestinians, The Muslims. Liberated from Jordan by Israel Council head Yossi Dagan, said, calling upon the government to establish a travel restrictions to countries with low Israeli scientists, entrepreneurs and settlement near Tapuah Junction in COVID levels for the Summer travel students will be conducted in outer space Guetta's memory. season, with Israel being expected to be by Eytan Stibbe, who is set to become All three 19-year-old victims of the theon the top of the list, The Times of Israel the second Israeli to leave Earth’s orbit, attack, students at the Itamar Yeshiva, reports. Israel21C reports. were taken to hospital. Benaya Peretz of It has not been 100% confirmed that Israel A former Israeli Air Force fighter pilot, Beit She'an, remained in very serious would make the cut but an EU official Stibbe is scheduled to travel to the condition with a back wound. The third who has not been authorized to be quoted International Space Station as part of victim, 19-year-old Amichai Hala from said Israel would definitely be on the list. Axiom Space’s AX1 mission in 2022. It Safed, was lightly wounded and was EU officials have said that they believe will be the first space mission to the ISS discharged from the hospital. that the COVID-19 vaccination that will be manned entirely by private Shortly after Guetta's death, the IDF campaigns will soon be “a game-changer” astronauts, and Stibbe is donating the apprehended the Palestinian terrorist, in the fight against the virus. The proposal $50 million cost of his trip and of the identified as Muntasir Shalabi, 44, from will be discussed with member states’ experiments that will be conducted. the Palestinian town of Turmus Ayya. ambassadors this week and the ‘Jerusalem’ in song Shalabi had recently returned from living Commission hopes it could be put into Israeli pop singer Omer Adam on in the US and held US citizenship, action by June. Wednesday released a new song called according to media reports. COVID aid to India “Jerusalem," Algemeiner reports. Lebanon, Israel resume As a catastrophic second wave of The song was released in advance of talks on maritime border COVID-19 infections ravages India, an Yom Yerushalayim, which begins on the evening of May 9. After a nearly six-month pause, Lebanon Israeli non-governmental humanitarian and Israel on Tuesday resumed indirect aid agency has begun providing “Jerusalem, Jerusalem/the greatest of the talks over their disputed maritime border, emergency medical supplies and support poets have not yet captured your beauty,” Israel Hayom reports. to 20 government-run hospitals in a rural Adam sings in the chorus. “Jerusalem, areas with fewer resources than the Jerusalem/the greatest of the magicians The resumption comes after a new US country’s cities, Algemeiner reports. have not explained your spell.” administration took over. Lebanon has sunk deeper into an economic and IsraAID has teamed up with the local Adam, among Israel's most popular financial crisis that started in late 2019 – a Gabriel Project Mumbai, a Jewish singers, also made public a music video culmination of decades of corruption and volunteer-based non-profit organization, to go with the song. The singer said he mismanagement by the political class. to help with urgent relief needed in the filmed scenes for the clip in the middle Maharashtra’s Palghar district, a mostly of the night at the Western Wall and the The small Mediterranean country is eager rural and tribal region bordering Mumbai, Ammunition Hill national memorial site. to resolve the border dispute with Israel, and home to over 4 million residents. paving the way for potential lucrative oil “I want to remind us all of our strength Palghar is among the worst hit areas of the and gas deals. as a nation and our uniting connection, state, where the COVID-19 case count has and send you a song that will connect The Lebanese delegation is speaking to gone up to 90,654, with a death toll of everyone, especially these days,” Adam the Israelis through UN and US officials. 1,621. said. Closing the song, he sings, “If I Defense official in Jordan Founded in 2001, IsraAID has responded forget Jerusalem, it’s as if I also forget to humanitarian crises in more than 55 A senior member of the Israeli defense my heart.” countries as of March 2021. establishment visited Jordan this week, Check out the song’s video on Arutz Sheva reports. Tests in space Artzeinu.org. The official flew to Jordan on a light Air Forty-four experiments conceived by Force aircraft and stayed there for several hours. He then met with officials and attended the traditional dinner, before returning to Israel, Kan 11 reported. Separately, Mossad head Yossi Cohen visited Bahrain on Thursday, Kan reported, citing Bahraini media. th EU to OK Israel tourism Artzeinu, online at www.artzeinu.org, is published weekly by Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, 125 E. 85 Street, New York, NY 10028. To get Artzeinu in your shul, email [email protected]. 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