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in which the troops of Rank & File the Australian Mounted Division played a decisive Court won’t bar left-wing activists role, and so he’s “delighted SECOND-HAND SHOP FOR that we can pay tribute to ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS: this important event by A new second-hand shop screening the classic film, Ezra Nawi, Guy Butavia from West Bank has begun serving the new ‘The Lighthorsemen.’” The immigrants in Mevasseret films will be screened at the request, saying it stemmed Zion, operated by Telfed – respective cinematheques Nir Hasson from a desire to restrict his The South African Zionist of Tel Aviv (February 8-15), A court yesterday rejected client’s political activity rath- Federation. The Telfed Jerusalem (February 9-18) the police’s request to bar two er than from the needs of the Ethiopian Community and Haifa (February 10-17). left-wing activists from the investigation. Initiative opened the shop West Bank, terming it an un- In response, police repre- last month “to provide a BRAIN UNDRAIN: A new acceptable infringement on sentative Avi Tivoni, said, “I source of low-cost clothing initiative, the Zuckerman their freedom of occupation know he’s involved in provo- and household goods, some Postdoctoral Scholars and expression. cations against IDF soldiers new,” committee chairman Program, aims to attract Ezra Nawi and Guy Bu- and confrontations with sol- Mel Cohen told Haaretz. “A postdoctoral researchers tavia, both members of the diers as part of his activity significant number of people from North America and other Ta’ayush organization, were in what he terms a human have been coming in.” Three Western countries to Israel’s arrested over two weeks rights organization.” Peleg volunteers – former South major academic centers, ago on suspicion of various said this response proved Africans Roy Scher and the Technion-Israel Institute crimes, including contact his point that the police’s Shira Lipschitz along with of Technology announced with a foreign agent. After goal was political rather U.S. native Rochelle Lando this week. The program several days in jail they were than the good of the inves- – take turns running the will also send researchers released to house arrest. tigation. shop on Sundays, Tuesdays and devote resources to Their house arrest ended In response to a question and Thursdays. Jeff Kaplan the Hebrew University of yesterday, and the hearing from Butavia’s lawyer, Eitay helped equip the place. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, was called to determine the Mack, Tivoni acknowledged Cohen said a steady flow and the Weizmann Institute conditions of their release. that the head of the IDF Cen- of donations has included of Science, based on a gift Police asked the Jerusa- tral Command, Maj. Gen. a recent carload of winter from Mortimer Zuckerman. lem Magistrate’s Court to bar Roni Numa, had not issued coats, jackets and jerseys The Zuckerman STEM the men from the West Bank an order barring the men from the Ra’anana depot that Leadership Program intends for three months. They also from the West Bank, imply- cost hundreds of shekels to provide over $100 million asked the court to increase ing that the army itself does but sell for 20-40 shekels. To in scholarships and related their bail and to extend an not consider them a danger. donate, call Roy (054) 468- educational activities to order barring the suspects Judge David Shaul Gabai 3751 or Shira (052) 240-0073. benefit participating scholars from talking with others in- Richter roundly rejected the and universities, according to volved in the investigation. police’s request. DOWN UNDER FILM FEST: the Technion. Current North One reason the police rep- “I found no support Ezra Nawi, left, outside the Jerusalem District Court this week. His house arrest ended yesterday. Olivier Fitoussi The 12th Australian Film American researchers include resentative gave for want- for the initial suspicions Festival in Israel will open Floridian Dr. Beth Schoen, ing the men barred from the against” Nawi and Butavia, case and the fact that the support for the suspicions real reason to fear the two them], acceding to these with the screening of the who is focusing on drug West Bank was that they are he wrote. “The corollary is case began with a journal- against Nawi and Butavia, would endanger anyone if requests would restrict [the new comedy drama “The delivery to cancerous tumors “involved in provocations that this invalidates the ex- ist’s investigative report in- there is also no “investiga- left free of such restrictions. suspects’] liberty, their free- Dressmaker,” starring Kate under Prof. Marcelle Machluf against Israel Defense Forc- istence of relevant grounds dicates that the fear of ob- tive purpose that should be Therefore, he said, the dom of occupation and their Winslett, in Tel Aviv on at the Technion’s Faculty es soldiers.” for arrest.” structing [the investigation] protected by the measures” police’s requests should be freedom of expression to a February 8, in the presence of Biotechnology and Food Nawi’s attorney, Eytan Moreover, he said, “The doesn’t exist in this case.” police requested, the judge rejected, “because in the degree greater than neces- Australian Ambassador Engineering. Peleg, assailed the police media uproar around this Because he found no continued. Nor is there any absence of any basis [for sary.” Dave Sharma. The Australia Israel Cultural Exchange Rank and File was compiled and the Australian Embassy by Steven Klein. in Israel will showcase the best of the Down Under Alsheich: Hotline glitch didn’t mar hunt for gunman film industry with six feature films and one documentary. Have an idea about an item stained clothes on the north- the bus, the sisters heard the tigate, we’ll learn them and sister’s boss called the police was up north,” he said, not- Sharma noted that 2017 for Rank and File? Yaniv Kubovich bound bus they were riding driver tell him he could catch we’ll also inform the public hotline, the hotline operator ing that police had raided marks the centenary of E-mail us at: Police Commissioner shortly after the attack. Some a bus to Wadi Ara from there. of the main lessons.” promised to get back to him, houses in the Wadi Ara re- the Battle of Be’er Sheva, [email protected] Roni Alsheich denied yes- hours later, when police pub- Commenting on the inci- The hotline’s conduct, but hours passed and nobody gion that same evening. terday that a police hotline lished photographs of the dent during an officers’ pro- he insisted, “certainly had called him back. At midnight, Terming the claim that mishandled a call with po- suspect, Nashat Melhem, motion ceremony yesterday, no operational impact on he called again, and was the hotline screwed up “a tentially valuable informa- the sisters concluded he was Alsheich said, “It seems to anything in the [police’s] transferred to a different tempest in a teacup,” he add- tion in the aftermath of a the man they had noticed. me the main thing we need decision making, [but] that hotline, which doesn’t deal ed that the first call placed shooting attack in Tel Aviv They told one sister’s boss, to address, insofar as we can doesn’t mean there won’t be with urgent calls. That hot- by the boss came five hours on January 1, but said the in- who called the police hotline address it now, is whether lessons.” line kept him on hold for half after the shooting. cident would be investigated twice and was ignored. But what happened did or didn’t Asked why police had an hour, at which point he got “The information was and any necessary lessons their information could have impair our operational ac- concealed the women’s tired of waiting and hung up. passed to the police intelli- would be learned. clued the police in earlier to tivity. Insofar as there are call from the public, he re- On Wednesday night a gence officers dealing with The incident started when the fact that Melhem had left any lessons beyond that, and sponded, “We truly didn’t different senior police of- the investigation,” he said. two sisters spotted a tense, Tel Aviv and headed back to there’s almost no incident hide it. We’re in the midst ficer, Maj. Gen. Aharon “You have to remember there nervous man with blood- home: When Melhem got off without lessons, we’ll inves- of a probe, and in the midst Aksol, also said that ques- were thousands of calls about of a probe, we don’t publish tioning the sisters in real the suspect, and they were details before we can state time wouldn’t have led to sorted according to the type what the lessons are.” any change in the police’s and importance of the infor- Israel Radio reported on conduct. “We were aware of mation, and we responded to Telfed volunteers Roy Scher, left, and Eric Berzack at the new Wednesday that when the the possibility that Nashat these calls quickly.” second hand shop in Mevasseret Zion. Melvyn Cohen Israeli gets 4.5 years for selling equipment to Hamas

Prosecutors claimed Technology and Science els to a Hamas activist who also claimed the Shin Bet Almog Ben Zikri Mashrawi had known that in Gaza since 2005. These served as an accountant in security service had never An Israeli man was sen- the items he sold were being items included projec- Haniyeh’s office, asking that warned Mashrawi not to sell tenced to 4.5 years in prison used by Hamas to fire rock- tors, pylons and cables for the money be distributed to the items to Hamas activists. yesterday for selling equip- ets and establish communi- phones and computers. He Hamas operatives. Judge Yoel Eden sen- ment to Hamas operatives cations in their tunnels sys- was also charged with sell- Mashrawi was first ar- tenced Mashrawi to 4.5 years that was allegedly used for tem. However, the court was ing an electric switch worth rested in January 2015. in jail, minus time served, as rocket launches from Gaza not presented with evidence 36,000 shekels ($9,060). He In the sentencing hear- well as a 12-month suspended and in the group’s network showing specifically that was convicted on several ings, prosecutors asked for a sentence and a fine of 100,000 of tunnels. the products he sold were counts of selling predomi- six-year sentence. Prosecut- shekels. The judge said the Trader Riad Mashrawi used for these purposes. nantly electrical products ing attorney Moran Gez also medical documents present- was convicted at Be’er She- Mashrawi was convict- to activists connected with asked the court to impose ed to him did not convince va District Court of trans- ed of contacting a foreign the Health Ministry in the a 1-million-shekel fine on him that a lighter sentence ferring equipment worth agent, providing service to Hamas government, as well Mashrawi. The defendant’s was in order.. hundreds of thousands of an unlawful organization, as to employees from Hamas attorney, Moanes Younes, At the end of the hearing, shekels to Hamas via the forbidden use of property Prime Minister Ismail Hani- asked for a prison term Younes asked for a stay of Kerem Shalom border cross- and other counts. yeh’s office. ranging from six months to implementation of the sen- ing. The equipment was sold The charge sheet in- During Operation Protec- two-and-a-half years, plead- tence until an appeal could to numerous Hamas activ- cluded a total of 11 counts. tive Edge in the summer of ing for the lower limit due be filed. The judge acceded ists, including some who had Mashrawi has been selling 2014, Mashrawi transferred to his client’s medical condi- to Younes’ request, stating been released in the 2011 Gi- electrical appliances to the three separate donations of tion and the fact that he had that Mashrawi had abided lad Shalit prisoner swap. Hamas-run University of between 1,000 to 2,000 shek- no prior convictions. Younes by his house arrest terms.

This Day in Jewish History January 29, 1803 American patriot who defied British dies

in Reading, Pennsylvania. Two years earlier, when first permanent home. the British, Phillips wrote David B. Green Jonas and Rebecca mar- British troops occupied New On July 28, 1776, Phillips in Yiddish. In fact, the letter On January 29, 1803, Jo- ried in 1762, and settled in York, Phillips joined with wrote to Gumpel Samson, a was confiscated by British nas Phillips, early American New York. Over the next 29 Gershom Seixas, the rabbi of relation and business associ- censors, but they were un- merchant, patriot, Jewish- years, they had 21 children Shearith Israel, in persuad- ate in Holland. In his letter – able to identify the language rights activist and blockade together, most of whom sur- ing their fellow congregants to which he attached a copy and concluded it was written runner, died. vived to adulthood. They that the synagogue should of the Declaration of Inde- in code. Phillips is thought to have also adopted two of their or- relocate to Philadelphia for pendence, signed just three In 1787, Phillips addressed been born in 1735 in either phaned grandchildren. the war’s duration. They weeks earlier – Philips com- a letter to the constitutional Buseck or Frankfurt, Ger- Phillips initially made a liv- were hosted by Congrega- bined a strategic analysis of convention then taking place many. His parents were Aar- ing as a merchant, but the re- tion Mikveh Israel, which the situation (the British, he in his city. Describing him- on Phaibush and the former strictive trade arrangements self as “one of the people Phila von Stein. imposed by Great Britain called Jews of the City of At the age of 15, Jonas, who made business a challenge for Philadelphia,” he urged the grew up speaking Yiddish colonists, and he went bank- Jonas Phillips stymied the British by delegates to include a clause but had also studied Eng- rupt in 1764. He then trained prohibiting states from re- lish, moved to London. From to be a shohet, a Jewish ritual writing suggestions of how to break quiring holders of public of- there, in 1756, he set sail for slaughterer, and worked in fice to swear their belief in Charleston, South Carolina, that capacity for New York’s their blockade — in Yiddish. the New Testament, as Penn- the colony that at the time Congregation Shearith Israel sylvania had done, something had the largest Jewish popu- synagogue until he had accu- that precluded Jews from lation in America. He paid mulated enough money to go had been founded as a burial said, had a force of 25,000, taking such positions. off the cost of his passage back into business for him- society in 1735 but came into compared to the 100,000 Indeed, Article VI of the by going into service as an self. For the remainder of his its own during the war, as ref- patriots of the Continental Constitution finally prohib- indentured servant for Mo- life, he worked as a retailer, ugees arrived not only from Army), with heavy hints that ited religious tests for office- ses Lindo, an indigo planter. broker and auctioneer. Jonas New York but also from other a lot of money was to be made holders in any state. Three years later, Phillips was also an active supporter colonies under siege. (profits up to 400 percent, he Jonas Phillips died in was a freeman. He moved of the colonists’ struggle for wrote) by traders like them- Philadelphia, and was buried briefly to Albany, New York, independence. In 1778, at the Psst. Run the blockade selves who dared to run the in New York, at the Shearith before heading south to New age of 43, he joined the Phila- British naval blockade. He Israel cemetery. His wife Re- York City, where he received delphia Militia, as a private Later Phillips, who re- even sent Samson a list of becca lived another 28 years, an introduction to Rebecca in the company of Capt. John mained in Philadelphia, be- items, mainly textiles, he was and was very active in phil- Mendez Menchado (1746- Linton, which was under the came the synagogue’s presi- interested in importing. anthropic and humanitarian 1831), the young daughter of command of Col. William dent, and oversaw the drive Out of concern that his let- activities in the decades fol- Portuguese-born Jews living Bradford. to finance construction of its ter might be intercepted by lowing her husband’s death.