Arab terrorist are being caught, thank G-d

IDF Destroys Hevron Tunnel, Foils Beit El Terrorist Attack
 
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli soldiers Tuesday destroyed a 100-meter (328 feet)-long tunnel in Hevron that the Palestinian Authority (PA) discovered in intensified attempts to stifle growing strength by the rival Hamas terrorist organization.
 
The PA discovered the tunnel underneath a Hevron shop and notified the IDF. No explosives or weapons were found, but the IDF is investigating whether terrorists intended to use the tunnel to carry out attacks, possibly against the Jewish community in Hevron.
 
In Samaria, the IDF shot and killed a young Arab terrorist and wounded two others who were preparing to throw firebombs (Molotov cocktails) at motorists on the approach road to Beit El in Samaria Tuesday night. Soldiers discovered 10 firebombs next to the body of the terrorist, who was described as being around 16 years old.
 
The two other Arabs were wounded but managed to flee and may be part of the same terrorist cell that attacked the community with firebombs earlier this week. Arabs sources complained that the IDF reaction was extreme and unjustified in light of cooperation between PA security forces and the IDF.
 
During the Sukkot holiday earlier in the day, soldiers at a checkpoint stopped two other terrorists who tried to smuggle explosives and five pipe bombs into pre-1967 Israel. 

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Hut Time in Israel

Things in sherut leumi are slowly coming together, just in time for succot. I feel like I kind of know what's going on at least half of the time now. :)

My last day at gan made me feel pretty funny after it took me a while to make an almost decent cup of coffee. I must have boiled water four or five times until I found the time to actually pour it into the cup and add coffee and sugar. Or at least I thought it was sugar. Oops. Yeah after I waited enough for my coffee not to burn my tong, I took a sip and tasted something really bad. Haha, I thought my coffee was spoiled for a second before I realized that I probably put salt into my coffee instead of sugar since I've never heard of instant coffee spoiling. Everyone had a good laugh at that one.

Later that night there was a "casino night" for the Tzur Hadassah youth. It lasted a few hours and kids came to play card games, billiard, ping pong, air hockey, backgammon and more. They had fun. Plus there was food. Kids were making "Belgium Waffles" whatever that's called in real English. I was busy doing other stuff, so I didn't even see them. The end of the night I ended up clean up with the Tzur Hadassah youth director, Dalit. Then I drove back to Jerusalem with her and did my laundry there and stuff. Next day she dropped my off at the central bus station and I took a bus south to the moshav Zavdiel where my cousins live. My brother was also there and we spent the first day of succot together. I was tired like crazy the whole time, but I still got to see friends from years ago. We got to catch up a bit.

I'm already back in Tzur Hadassah for the night, but I might be going to Itamar for the day to help my cousins with their farm. They said they have a lot of picking to do tomorrow. Succot here is really exciting. There are lots of parties everywhere and people are all on vacation and traveling around with their lulov and etrog.

First Yom Kippur!

Yom Kippur was GREAT! My friend stayed with me in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem for Yom Kippur. My cousins live there and went to Rishon Letziyon for Yom Kippur. She was really scared about it at first, but then she came and even brought a friend with. At night we went to pray at Chazon Yechezkel, the Yound Israel shul that's on the same street that my cousins live on. Rabbi Meir Kahane's brother Nachman Kahane is the rabbi of the shul and I always like hearing when he speaks. It's always inspiring and strengthening. Being that the shul was ashkenaz though, me and my other sephardi friend were totally lost!!! So the next day we all went to Yeshivat Hakotel. They had a HUGE crowd in their ashkenaz minyan. I was in the sephardic minyan, and it wasn't nearly as big, but I thought it was really nice. I felt so good being in Israel. It seems my love affair with Israel just doesn't stop! :) I hope it never does, I'm so grateful for being here.
I had a nap for an hour or two before I went back to shul for the ending part of Yom Kippur.

I went to pray in the newly restored shul in the Muslim Quarter. It's absolutely gorgeous! Anyone coming to Israel really needs to see it. I was told that it was destroyed about 80 years ago, and Neturei Karta used to pray there. I'm really happy it's in good hands now! Neturei Karta might be Jewish, but they are against the Jewish cause. A lot of guys that were praying at this shul were from the yeshiva Ateret Kohanim, in the Muslim Quarter. It was a sephardi minyan, so I was really happy about that. The yeshiva already has an ashkenaz minyan that davens across the street from the new shul.

It's really nice to see how everyone in Israel can get along together despite all the differences. In America it feels much more separated in certain ways. I know each place has its good and bad points, but I just thought it's cool how things work differently in Israel. Things feel much more mixed here. I really like that.

Arabs Stone Jewish Baby in Akko, Hamas Calls for Solidarity

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(IsraelNN.com)
Arabs and Jews battled each other Saturday night after several hours of quiet tension that gripped the ancient city. Police dispersed both sides while Arab and Jewish leaders met to try to find ways to restore calm to the city.
 
Three Jews, including a baby, suffered injuries by rock-throwing Arabs who attacked Hasidim who were dancing after the Sabbath. Akko city officials said that police arrived at the scene but did not immediately act to restrain the Arabs and instead pushed back the Jews with water hoses. Jews protesting the Arab violence firebombed one Arab apartment.
 
Police during the day staved off a violent confrontation between several hundred angry Jews and Arabs following the Yom Kippur eve disturbance by an Arab driver who drove into a Jewish neighborhood.
 
Eyewitnesses contradicted the Arab driver's claim that he respected the sanctity of Yom Kippur by driving quietly into the neighborhood on the evening of Yom Kippur. He inexplicably told reporters that his radio was turned off, while Jews in the neighborhood said it was blaring and that he drove at such a high speed that people were afraid he intended to run them over in a repeat of similar terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria.
 
Arab leaders condemned the driver for disregarding the sanctity of the holy day, but Hamas leaders called on Gaza Arabs to march in solidarity to "reveal the true face of the Israeli oppression against Palestinians in Acre and in all the Palestinian cities."

 
De facto Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh's spokesman said that the anger by "Jewish settlers" in Akko "should serve as a wake-up alarm to those who are betting on reaching peace with an occupation that rejects everything Palestinian or Arab." Spokesman Taher al-Nono accused "extremist Jewish settlers [in Akko] of acts of terror that could be the start of the final phase of ethnic cleansing of the 1948-occupied Palestine." He referred to the city as "occupied in 1948."
 
Arab and Jewish leaders in the city of 50,000 have boasted in the past about coexistence in the ancient port city, and Arab community leaders made a point to condemn the Arab driver, regardless of his behavior. They said he should have found a different way to arrive at the predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
 
Jews stoned his car, prompting other Arabs to drive to the neighborhood at high speed while a busload of Arabs arrived and went on a rampage, wielding knives, axes and truncheons and damaging more than 150 stores and cars.
 
More than 700 policemen guarded the city on the Sabbath and staved off a violent confrontation between 300-400 angry Jews and masked Arabs. Earlier, two Arab residences were torched.  
More than 700 policemen guarded the city on the Sabbath and staved off a violent confrontation between 300-400 angry Jews and masked Arabs.

 
Despite the calls for calm, 20 Arabs protested in Haifa and waved Palestinian Authority flags while Jews in neighboring Akko were trying to repair the damage from the Arab riots. Mordechai Shamilashvilo, the owner of a pizzeria, told the Toronto Star, "Five years ago, there was some trouble, but not like this."
 
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter (Kadima) promised to arrest rioters and inciters and to investigate reports that calls for violence against Jews were heard in Arab mosques in the city.
 
Akko Arab Sami Hawary, who is active in coexistence efforts, told Reuters, "The tension is very high here, things are on a knife-edge."
 
Akko has suffered a decline in tourist traffic since the Oslo War (second Intifada) that broke out eight years ago.
 
Several Jewish merchants have begun an SMS campaign calling on Jews to boycott Arab businesses. A similar protest action began after the Oslo War began eight years ago.


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