To provide greater exposure to primary Israeli news sources and opinions in order to become better informed on the issues, and to gain a better understanding of the wide range of perspectives that exist in Israeli society and politics. Issue 1001 • April 8, 2016 • 29 Adar II 5776

ISRAEL SUSPENDS CEMENT DELIVERIES TO GAZA’S PRIVATE CABINET DISCUSSES UNILATERAL WITHDRAWALS (Arutz-7 INN.com SECTOR (JPost 4/4/16) 4/6/16) Israel this week temporarily suspended the delivery of cement to Gaza’s Security Cabinet to receive report on formerly secret talks with PA to pull IDF private sector after it discovered that Hamas was siphoning the material, from Ramallah and Jericho; 'this is a prize to terror.' which is intended to rebuild destroyed houses. Security Cabinet ministers are to receive an update on Wednesday on the The Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories formerly secret talks between Israeli representatives and the Palestinian (COGAT) monitors the flow of cement into Gaza to ensure that Hamas has Authority (PA), regarding the PA demand to remove IDF forces from not used it to construct tunnels to attack Israel. On Friday COGAT posted on Ramallah and Jericho. its Arabic Facebook page that it suspended the transfer of cement to Gaza The Cabinet discussion comes around three weeks after Haaretz revealed because some deliveries had been diverted by Imad Elbaz, the deputy that secret contacts were being held between top IDF brass and senior PA director-general for Hamas’s economics office. “This is a blatant violation of sources, without government ministers or the Cabinet being informed. agreements for rehabilitation,” COGAT said in its Facebook post. Those secret talks revolved around removing the IDF presence from COGAT head Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai temporarily halted the shipments Ramallah and Jericho, two cities in Area A of Judea and Samaria designated until the matter is fully investigated, COGAT said. adding that it regretted that as being under the PA's administrative and security control according to the Hamas continues to pursue its own personal agenda at the expense of 1994 Oslo Accords. However, the IDF was forced to reenter and take back Gaza’s residents. control during 2002 Operation Defensive Shield amid the Second Intifada The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay terror war. Mladenov, issued an unusually sharp response on Monday, accusing Hamas Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Jerusalem Affairs Ze'ev Elkin (Likud), a of theft. “Those who seek to gain through the deviation of materials are member of the Security Cabinet, responded to the report with outrage, and in stealing from their own people and adding to the suffering of Palestinians in response Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Elkin that the contacts did Gaza,” Mladenov said. not bear fruit and therefore ministers were not informed. “The reconstruction of Gaza remains critical to ensuring its stability and I urge Haaretz reports on Wednesday morning that for the first time since the initial a rapid resolution of this matter,” he added, stating that Israel alleged that “a report on contacts, the Cabinet ministers are to receive a detailed report substantial amount [of cement bound for the private sector] had been regarding the still ongoing contacts and give their opinions regarding them. diverted from its intended legitimate beneficiaries. A source involved in the affairs of the Cabinet ministers said that the The UN is working with the Palestinians and the Israelis to resolve the ministers have been given two options. situation, he said. “The people of Gaza depend on the entry of construction One option is for them to reject the IDF withdrawal plan completely and material to repair and reconstruct their damaged and destroyed houses declare that the negotiations deviated from the current government's red following the 2014 conflict and to enable much needed infrastructure and lines, while the other is to discuss all details of the plan and the responses development projects,” Mladenov said. Israel Report is a Student Publication of RIGHT-WING ISRAELIS CAUGHT TRYING TO ENTER AL-AQSA DISGUISED AS MUSLIMS (IMRA 4/5/16) Daniel Zolty, Editor-in-Chief Yonatan Kurz, Moshe Davis, Yosef Segal and Eli Levine, Editors Israeli police arrested two right-wing Jewish Israelis on Tuesday after they We are proud to be distributed by these institutions, though they do not necessarily support or condone attempted to sneak into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound disguised as any of the material published: Muslims, locals and Israeli police said. Anshei Chesed Cong., Boynton Beach, FL Hillel at California State University - Long Beach Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Hillel at Columbia University Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in a statement that midday Boca Raton Synagogue, FL Hillel at Johns Hopkins University Tuesday Israeli police officers suspected two young men approaching the Carmel School, Hong Kong Hillel at Yale University Chabad of Oak Park, CA Hillel High School, Deal NJ King Faisal gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Cong. Agudath Achim, Bradley Beach, NJ Jewish Center of Teaneck, NJ The officers approached the two for inspection, who said they were Muslims Cong. Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, NJ Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, Cedarhurst, NY Cong. Ahavath Achim, Fairfield, CT Kemp Mill Synagogue, Silver Spring, MD heading to the Al-Aqsa mosque. The officers checked their identification Cong. Anshe Shalom, Jamaica Estates, NY Mizrachi Shul, Johannesburg, SA documents to reveal that they were 21-year-old Jewish Israelis. Cong. Beth Aaron, Teaneck, NJ North Shore Hebrew Academy HS, NY Cong. Beth Shalom, Monroe Twp, NJ Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, NJ They were arrested and taken to al-Qishla police station in occupied East Cong. Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, NJ The Learning Shul, Columbia, SC Jerusalem’s Old City for questioning, al-Samri added. Cong. Ohr Torah, Edison, NJ Woodsburgh, NY Minyan The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which sits just above the Western Wall Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel Bet Tefilah of Aberdeen, NJ Cong. Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, NJ Young Israel of Brookline, MA plaza, houses both the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque. Cong. Sons of Israel, Allentown, PA Young Israel of East Brunswick, NJ The third holiest site in Islam, it is also venerated as Judaism's most holy Cong. Zichron Mordechai, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel of Fort Lee, NJ Cong. Zichron R. M. Feinstein, Brooklyn, NY Young Israel of Hancock Park, CA place, as it sits where Jews believe the First and Second Temples once Delray Orthodox Synagogue, Delray Beach, FL Young Israel of Holliswood, NY stood. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, CO Young Israel of Houston, TX Flatbush Park Jewish Center, Mill Basin, NY Young Israel of New Hyde Park, NY Following Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has maintained Harvard University Library Young Israel of North Woodmere, NY a compromise with the Islamic trust that controls the Al-Aqsa Mosque Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY Young Israel of New Rochelle, NY Hillel at Baruch College Young Israel of Sharon, MA compound to not allow non-Muslim prayers in the area. Hillel at Brandeis University YI Shomrai Emunah, Silver Spring, MD Israeli forces regularly escort Jewish visitors to the site, however, leading to We encourage our readers to subscribe to our sources on the internet. For more information or to tension with Palestinian worshipers. subscribe by e-mail, reach us at [email protected] 2 raised on both sides during the talks. ETHIOPIAN BRIGADE COMMANDER MAKES IDF HISTORY (Israel Hayom The second option would in essence grant legitimacy to the contacts with the 4/3/16) PA sources, and the PA's demand for withdrawals. Lt. Col. Avi Yitzhak has become the first Ethiopian Israeli to graduate the A political source said, "in my estimation holding these contacts in the current Israel Defense Forces' prestigious course for brigade commanders, which period is a prize to terror," noting on the current wave of Arab terror that has ended last week. Yitzhak is a doctor who heads the Combat Medical Branch claimed the lives of 34 victims since last September. in the Medical Corps. "After all any proposed idea of withdrawal comes due to the wave of terror we Yitzhak will soon vie for a promotion to full colonel, making him the first are in the midst of, and if we agree to a withdrawal like this, doing so will give Ethiopian in IDF history to earn such a rank. more than just a signal to the attackers and potential attackers that terror After immigrating to Israel in 1991 at the age of 19 and studying Hebrew for a pays, and with additional terrorist pressure we will withdraw from more and year at an absorption center, Yitzhak began his path in the IDF in the Medical more territory." Corps. He became the first Ethiopian Israeli to serve as a combat doctor, with In its demands the PA is asking that in the first stage of withdrawals the IDF both the Paratrooper Brigade and the elite Maglan unit. He later gained would remove its forces from Ramallah and Jericho, and in response it will expertise as a surgeon. Yitzhak was also chief medical officer for the Gaza not discontinue the security cooperation of its PA Security Forces with the Division during Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, during which he saved IDF as it has frequently threatened to do. the life of a lieutenant colonel in the reserves who had been hit in the chest by shrapnel from a mortar round. ISRAEL'S WEAPONS SALES TO EUROPE MORE THAN DOUBLE AMID "I always felt the responsibility of representing the Ethiopian community," REFUGEE CRISIS (Ha’aretz 4/6/16) Yitzhak told Israel Hayom. "I was the first student from the community to Israel signed contract for arms deals worth $5.7 billion last year, a slight study medicine in Israel and I believe, ultimately, that everything is increase over 2014 but down sharply from 2013 levels, Michel Ben-Baruch, dependent on the individual and the sky is the limit. In my community, people head of Sibat, the Defense Ministry’s defense export agency, said on need to understand this." Wednesday. “Completing a challenging year, we succeeded through Among the other course graduates were Paratrooper Brigade deputy collaborative and determined work to preserve the scope of contract signings commander Lt. Col. Kobi Weller, who is slated to assume command of the compared to 2014,” he said, citing $5.6 billion of new orders in 2014 and $6.5 brigade, and Lt. Col. Avi Rahamim, who commanded the Sagi Territorial billion in 2013. Brigade. Sales to Europe more than doubled last year to $1.63 billion from $724 million, presumably as a consequence of the refugee crisis and the rise in RIVLIN ASKS PUTIN TO BRING BACK REMAINS OF LEGENDARY terror attacks on the continent. Sales to North America also climbed, to $1.02 ISRAELI SPY ELI COHEN (YNet 4/6/16) billion. President Reuven Rivlin asked Russian President Vladimir Putin, during their But after three years of growth in weapons sales to African states, 2015 saw meeting in Moscow last month, to take advantage of his military presence in a drop of almost 50% to $163 million, down from $318 million in 2014 and Syria in order to bring the remains of the legendary spy Eli Cohen to Israel. $223 million in 2013. Sales to Latin America fell to $577 million while those to Israel hopes that the fact that the Russians are the main lifeline of the Assad Asian countries — by far Israel’s biggest regional market — declined to $2.3 regime, it would be easy for them - if they so wished - to persuade the Syrian billion from just under $3 billion in 2014. president to end the historic affair. Asian sales should show improvement next year as Israeli companies pursue Before the meeting, Rivlin received a briefing from the defense major arms deals with India. Last week, Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense establishment, during which the widow Nadia Cohen's request to bring up the Systems and India’s Reliance Defense said they were forming a joint venture matter with Putin was brought to his attention. The Russian president listened in India to manufacture air-to-air missiles, air defense systems and and promised to look into the matter. observation balloons in order to address procurement programs valued at Eli Cohen spied in Syria from 1961until he was caught and executed in 1965. $10 billion over the next decade. Over the years, including during the Syrian civil war, the State of Israel has Earlier in March, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security approved the done everything possible to bring back his remains. In 2007, Prime Minister purchase of two additional Phalcon Airborne Early Warning and Control Ehud Olmert asked Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was very Systems from Israel. close to Assad, to help in the matter. Erdogan also handed Assad a letter In all, India is expected to procure Israeli military equipment worth an from Nadia Cohen, and from reports that Jerusalem received, the Syrian estimated $3 billion ahead of a visit to Israel by Indian Prime Minister president answered orally that "now is not the time". Narendra Modi, according to a report on the IHS Jane’s 360 website. Israel asked the American government several times to intervene. Prime The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said this week that Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also sent his associate Ronald Lauder to global military spending rose for the first time in several years in 2015, to Assad in late 2010 in order to request the return of Cohen's remains. nearly $1.7 trillion. Nadia Cohen told Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth, "We greatly respect President But the Defense Ministry termed 2015 “another challenging year for defense Rivlin and we all hope that maybe this time it will work. I hope that appealing industries around the world” amid declining oil prices and unfavorable to Putin will succeed. In any case, we have nothing to lose. Each person or exchange rates. It said sales for 2016 should remain steady. any factor that can affect the situation will make me very happy. This will Some 700 small and medium-sized Israeli companies export defense remove some of the sorrow and pain that we experience every day. I think equipment, but between 75% and 80% of Israeli military exports are that bringing Eli to Israel is just like a live meeting." generated by just three companies — the state-owned Rafael and Israel According to Cohen, today there are many options in Syria now to retrieve Eli Aerospace Industries and the publicly traded Elbit Systems. Cohen's remains, but unfortunately nobody has been able to influence the The largest single category of the military exports, accounting for 14% of all Syrians. "Mossad chief Meir Dagan was active in this regard," she added. new contracts, was upgrading aircraft and aerospace systems. Radar and "Dagan tacted with great fervor during his tenure so that Eli Cohen could be electronic systems came in second, at 12%, and drones at 11%. Intelligence returned Israel for burial. He made lots of efforts." and information systems made up 10%. Cohen said the Syrians have argued in the past that they do not know the exact place where Cohen is buried, since in that same place a road was built 3 and a new neighborhood was constructed, "but we do not believe them. We On the other hand, Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern welcomed the ruling. "The are convinced that they know exactly where Eli is buried." High Court ruling is great news for the state of Israel, for the war on assimilation and for those seeking to convert, but not though the Chief HIGH COURT: STATE MUST RECOGNIZE PRIVATE CONVERSIONS Rabbinate's alienating conversion process," he said. (Israel Hayom 4/1/16) Meretz leader Zehava Galon was similarly pleased with the decision. "This A nine-judge panel at the High Court of Justice ruled Thursday in a decision dramatic ruling breaks down the rabbinate's monopoly and represents to require the state to recognize conversions to Judaism performed in any another step forward for other denominations to practice Judaism in their own Orthodox community, rather than only those supervised by Chief Rabbinate. way in Israel, without a ranking of which Jews are better," she said. As anticipated, the ruling was sharply criticized by the rabbinate and by MKs Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova echoed Galon, saying: "Another improper from religious parties. Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef called the decision monopoly has been taken down. The time has come for the country to "a scandal," adding that "it is inconceivable that the pirate conversion recognize all forms of conversion, including Reform and Conservative." industry, which is not regulated by any government body, will be recognized Rabbi Gilad Kariv, the head of the Reform Movement in Israel added that as official. This kind of recognition leads to the de facto elimination of the "the High Court ruling determines that there is more than one way to convert country's state conversion system." to Judaism in the state of Israel, and that conversions performed by Jewish Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau said: "The High Court and its judges will communities in Israel belonging to any Jewish denomination will be not determine who is Jewish -- the Torah will. That is how it has always been, recognized by the state for the purpose of the Law of Return." and we will see to it remaining that way in the future." Itim founder Rabbi Seth Farber said that the ruling also reinforced Halachah‎, The judges, for their part, stressed that they were not dealing with a religious or Jewish law, on conversion. "According to Jewish law," he said, "Orthodox question, but a civil-societal question: Who will be recognized as a Jew for conversion, whether carried out by the state system, by a religious court in the purpose of receiving citizenship under the Law of Return? Bnei Brak or by a religious court in Efrat, is [a proper] conversion for all The petition to the High Court on the matter was filed by the Itim organization intents and purposes. Therefore, the High Court's decision achieved both in the name of a mother and her toddler son who sought citizenship under halachic justice and humane justice. "Ultimately, we all want the same thing: the Law of Return. The woman had converted to Judaism via a private To make Judaism accessible to everyone, and not just to one group." Orthodox court run by Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, and despite being recognized Professor Aviad Hacohen, dean of the Academic Center of Law and Science as Jewish by the Chief Rabbinate, the interior ministry refused to recognize said, "The High Court determined for the first time that the state [religious] her as Jewish for citizenship purposes as the conversion was not through a courts do not have a monopoly on conversion, and as long as it has been state-run religious court. Another two converts in similar situations joined the proven that conversion has taken place in a recognized Jewish community, petition, as did the Masorti (Conservative) and Reform movements. the state must recognize it for the Law of Return." High Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor, who led the panel of justices, wrote in the ruling: "Limiting recognition of conversions to the state system alone will HAREDI MK GAFNI HINTS AT POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO WESTERN harm the Right of Return, which is a basic right afforded to all Jews, and WALL PLURALIST PRAYER AREA CRISIS (JPost 4/5/16) would violate the instructions of the Law of Return." Senior United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni hinted on Tuesday that his Justice Neal Hendel added: "In our country, there is a Chief Rabbinate party might be willing to accept the plan for a non-Orthodox prayer area at responsible for a variety of religious issues. I did not attempt to undermine its the Western Wall if it is changed so that there will not be a common entrance position. However, in the situation before us, the Law of Return does not to the Western Wall complex for both Orthodox and non-Orthodox visitors. explicitly agree to grant the Chief Rabbinate exclusive control over The stipulation in the agreement of a joint entrance for all visitors is one of conversion procedures. ... Creating excessive centralization and granting an the critical demands of the Reform and Conservative movements and the absolute monopoly of the institution of conversion to the Chief Rabbinate -- a Women of the Wall organization, and it is unlikely they will concede. monopoly that de facto means adopting a stricter approach and placing Gafni said that this was the position he and his Knesset colleagues had told obstacles before Jews who want to move to Israel -- completely contradicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but indicated that if this position is the central purpose of the Law of Return, which is to encourage aliyah." adopted it could be possible that the haredi parties would not oppose the rest The ruling went on to state: "We waited for the legislature's word, but of the agreement for the pluralist prayer section. because the legislature dragged its feet on the decision, we saw no way to The MK was speaking at a conference of the Degel Hatorah political party, a avoid a judicial decision on this issue." constituent of the UTJ Knesset faction, which represents the Ashkenazi, non- United Torah Judaism heads Yakov Litzman and Moshe Gafni released a hassidic, “Lithuanian” haredi community. statement in response to the ruling, saying: "The High Court is signing the Hundreds of Degel party officials, functionaries, politicos, and municipal deed to the destruction of Judaism in the country. We will demand the issue council representatives, along with its two Knesset members, have gathered be fixed with legislation in order to preserve the Jewish nation for generations at Kibbutz Hafetz Haim for the conference, the first since 2002. to come and to maintain the status quo that has been in effect for years “We are conducting a war with the Reform, a war that will go on for regarding the sensitive topic of converts. generations,” said Gafni, known for his fire and brimstone orations. United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler added that "if the High Court is The MK referenced the recent agreement to create a government recognized calling to privatize conversion, perhaps the time has come to privatize the egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall, and in particular the High Court and to establish private courts." consultations being conducted by Netanyahu’s bureau chief David Sharan to Habayit Hayehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich criticized the court for what he saw try and change the plan, following the objections of the haredi parties. as overstepping its authority, saying, "Once again, the High Court is meddling Gafni spoke specifically about a key condition of the non-Orthodox in sensitive policy issues and not leaving legislators any choice but to correct movements for the deal, which is that there be a common entrance at the the distortion created in the legislation. Western Wall complex to both the central prayer area of the site and the "Based on recent rulings, in which the High Court has seen itself as a pluralist section. legislator and has set harmful policies, there is no choice but to regulate its “They can go wherever they want, they can do whatever they want but not authority with legislation and to give the reins back to the elected officials in together with us. We will not allow them to be with us in any way. Not at the the Knesset and the government." entrance to the Kotel, not at the exit, we won’t allow in any way recognition of 4 the Reform, and not those similar to them. be next to an Arab woman in the maternity ward because who knows, maybe He elaborated later that the issue of a joint entrance was something that had the Arab boy would grow up to be a terrorist 20 years from now. been explicitly rejected by the late haredi rabbinic leader Rabbi Shalom Yosef Above all else, such comments run against core Jewish values, the very Elyashiv when the issue while he was still alive values that are being tarnished by Smotrich and his likes in Israel and “The world could turn upside down, but we will not enter together. In beyond. In one rabbinical tale, angels ask God why Ishmael is entitled to everything we do we distance ourselves from them. If they are far from us, water in the desert despite knowing that he will one day try to attack the we don’t want to be together with them for anything. We don’t want this people of Israel. "Right now, is he righteous or wicked?," God retorts. The partnership. Why do they want to be with me? I’m a racist!” he declared angels concede that Ishmael is still righteous, at which point God orders that sardonically.” he be given water based on who he is, not who he will become. Gafni said that if this change is accepted then further deliberations would be Smotrich probably missed class when this great lesson was taught in school. needed to decide on who will manage the non-Orthodox site, but indicated As a lawyer and as a well-educated individual, Smotrich knows full well that that an agreement on this outline would be possible. liberal minded Jews were disgusted by his comments, including many religious people. He knows that what he said plays right into the hands of the THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MORAL MILITARY (Eitan Haber, YNet evildoers of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, who work 3/31/16) around the clock to besmirch Israel and cast it as an apartheid state. The IDF wants to be the most moral military in the world, the most virtuous it His comments are considered proof of Israel's supposed segregation can be, but it can't, even if all the soldiers and commanders were angels. policies, just like anti-Israel activists tried to create the impression that the War and ethics are not mutually exclusive. In the military one kills and shooting of a subdued terrorist last month (seen in footage taken by the left- sometimes one is even killed. Everything connected to shootings and death wing group B'Tselem) was the widely accepted norm in Israel, even though is immoral. "By way of deception, you shall make war", our sages said, and other militaries would have done the same, and on a much wider scale, in everything involving blood and sending enemy soldiers and terrorists into the similar circumstances. afterlife is immoral. Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett reacted to Smotrich's comments by It seems that the politicians who were combat commanders have forgotten saying "everyone was created in God's image." Bennett hoped Smotrich their lessons. Only those who did not experience bullets whistling around would take his cue and fix the damage. Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern also made their heads and ears can talk about a "moral military." In the military one is comments aimed at saving Judaism's reputation, but the ill-advised Smotrich confronted with man's ultimate test-life or death. Enemy soldiers and did not change course, despite being a wise man. He will not retract his terrorists are trying to kill you. You're trying to kill them. Where is the comments, he is unwilling to climb down from his high horse and clear the morality? stench, despite being offered a way out. The soldier who shot the terrorist who was lying on the road in Hebron a few The loathsome views Smotrich expressed are not limited to the maternity days ago was not the first who acted immorally towards enemy terrorists. I ward. Why not have segregated buses? Why not fire Arab security guards, personally witnessed a popular officer shoot the bodies of 11 terrorists to even though they do their job well and seize firecrackers in stadiums? mark the location of the attack at a briefing for military reporters. The other Regardless of how far this evil policy is extended, Smotrich will be there to side, the enemy, certainly doesn't care about morality. support it. Smotrich is a racist, we get that. But why does he have to sound Next Friday family and friends will visit the grave of Major Yossi Kaplan on his views everywhere, and in the process inflict damage on an entire the 47th anniversary of his death. Kaplan was part of a squad chasing segment of the population? terrorists in the Jordan Valley. The cell reportedly came to a cave at the What is particularly troubling and saddening is his conviction that such opening of which a Bedouin was nursing her baby. The moral Israeli soldiers statements bolster his political standing. He believes that his base approves did not want to bother the Bedouin as she was nursing her baby and asked of this racist ideology, as if the Jewish people have forgotten what the her if there were people inside the cave. The woman replied in the negative. Smotriches in other nations said, in various languages, on our parents and The moral and ethical Israelis were satisfied with her response. They did not probably still say on us. examine the cave. After a minute or two, terrorists came out of that cave, Smotrich will killing Kaplan and three of his comrades. They were moral, but dead. The probably say Bedouin woman received curses and insults, and she no doubt was immoral, something to clear but she apparently lived to a ripe old age. up the mess and This does not mean that the soldier who shot the terrorist in the alleyways of his supporters will Hebron acted properly. He probably didn't. Only those who have walked try to create a though the alleys of Jenin or Nablus or Hebron in full gear, only those who charade by had bullets whizzing by their ears can understand what happens to a soldier explaining that he who finds himself suddenly facing stone throwers or getting actively shot at. has retracted his This does not mean, God forbid, that we intend to protect this particular comments. But soldier. The courts will determine his sentence. But when he is sentenced, that will be hardly and he will probably receive a severe punishement, it's important to true. I dread the remember that the spirit of the IDF - the IDF's values - is nothing but a piece notion of waking of paper. In reality a military that has been operating for almost 50 years in up tomorrow and the alleys of Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Qalqiliya loses its ethical finding out just principles. Therefore, the IDF can't be - and probably never will be - the most how many more moral military in the world. A moral military simply doesn't exist. people have endorsed his DON'T TARNISH ISRAEL'S IMAGE (Dan Margalit, Israel Hayom 4/6/16) views. Habayit Hayehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich showed a combination of stupidity and insensitivity on Tuesday when he tweeted that his wife wouldn't want to