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Israel's Population Grows 2% Over 2014 to 8.345 Million-Independence Day census: 176,000 babies were born and 32,000 people immigrated in 2014; Israel now has 6.251 million Jews.By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 4/21/2015, 12:42 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Israel's population stands on the eve of Israel's 67th Independence Day at 8.345 million people, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) stated Tuesday - compared to just 806,000 in 1948.Of the 8.345 million, 6.251 million are Jews (74.9% of the population); 1.73 million are Arabs (20.7%); and 364,000 (4.4%) are defined as "other" (non-Arab Christians, other religious sects, and atheists according to the population registry).
Since 2014, Israel's population grew by 162,000 - a 2% increase. During this period, 176,000 babies were born; 44,000 people died; and 32,000 people immigrated. In 2014, about 75% of the Jews were "native" - born in Israel - compared to only 35% in 1948.In 1948, Israel only had one city with more than 100,000 residents - Tel Aviv-Yafo. Today, 14 cities number more than 100,000 residents.Six cities number more than 200,000 residents: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Haifa, Rishon LeZion, Ashdod and Petah Tikva.
Auschwitz guard tells court he shares moral guilt, witnessed how Jews were led to gas chambers-The Canadian PressBy David Rising, The Associated Press | apr 21,15-yahoonews
LUENEBURG, Germany - Former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told a German court Tuesday that he helped keep watch as thousands of Jews were led from cattle cars directly to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp where he served as a guard.The 93-year-old, charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, said as his trial opened that he witnessed individual atrocities, but did not acknowledge participating in any crimes.He recalled how a fellow guard discovered a baby abandoned among luggage and bashed it against a truck to stop its crying. After that, he unsuccessfully requested a transfer and started to drink vodka heavily to cope with working at the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, he said."I share morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law, you will have to decide," Groening told judges hearing the case at the Lueneburg state court in northern Germany. Under the German legal system, defendants do not enter formal pleas.Groening testified in a lengthy statement to the court that he volunteered to join the SS in 1940 after working briefly at a bank, and served at Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944.Aside from helping on the ramp as transports of Jews arrived, Groening said his main task was to help collect and tally money as part of his job dealing with the belongings stolen from people arriving at Auschwitz — a job for which the German press has dubbed him the "Accountant of Auschwitz."Groening said the money was regularly sent back to Berlin. Pressed by presiding Judge Franz Kompisch, he said his view was that it belonged to the state."They didn't need it anymore," he said of the Jews from whom the money was taken — drawing gasps from Auschwitz survivors watching.Among them was Eva Kor, one of some 60 survivors and relatives from the U.S., Canada, Israel and elsewhere who joined the trial as co-plaintiffs as allowed under German law. She is expected to testify as a witness.Kor, 81, told The Associated Press that she lost her parents and two older sisters in Auschwitz, and that she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected as 10-year-olds to horrific experiments by notorious camp Dr. Josef Mengele.Kor, who now lives in Indiana, said she will ask Groening about what may have happened to Mengele's files in the hope she can learn what she and her sister were subjected to — experiments she said caused her sister to die early nearly 30 years ago of kidney failure.Groening could face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. On his way into court, he told reporters that he expects an acquittal. His attorney, Hans Holtermann, wouldn't speculate on the outcome."Mr. Groening made a long statement about the things he did in Auschwitz and he confessed that in a moral way he's guilty in the Holocaust, but in the end the decision whether he's guilty or not needs to be made by the court," Holtermann told reporters.Groening, who is not in custody, entered the courtroom with the help of a walker. He was lucid as his testimony began but gradually lost focus and Kompisch ended the court session early, saying he would question Groening further Wednesday.The trial is the first to test a new line of German legal reasoning that has unleashed an 11th-hour wave of new investigations of Nazi suspects. Prosecutors argue that anyone who was a death camp guard can be charged as an accessory to murders committed there, even without evidence of involvement in a specific death.There are currently 11 open investigations against former Auschwitz guards, and charges have been filed in three of those cases, including Groening's. Eight former Majdanek guards are also under investigation.The charges against Groening relate to a period in May and June 1944 when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought to Auschwitz and at least 300,000 almost immediately gassed to death."Through his job, the defendant supported the machinery of death," prosecutor Jens Lehmann said.Groening recalled that he and other recruits were told by an SS major before going to Auschwitz they would "perform a duty that will clearly not be pleasant, but one necessary to achieve final victory."Groening testified that he did not know what that duty was until he arrived at Auschwitz but quickly learned that Jews were being selected for work and those who couldn't work were being killed. In the vocabulary of the camp, he said, "the enemies of Germany were being exterminated."Thomas Walther, who represents many of the co-plaintiffs, welcomed Groening's decision to make a statement and answer questions — almost unheard of in Nazi prosecutions."It's a positive signal for the future course of the trial," he said.Kor said she saw Groening as an old man who had had a hard life, "but by his own doing.""If you're guilty," she asked, is there such a thing as being morally guilty but not legally guilty?___Kirsten Grieshaber contributed to this report.
President Rivlin: Israelis Bound By Grief - and a Shared Destiny-Riviln and Chief of Staff speak at Kotel, as Israel stands silent for sirens nationwide to remember fallen warriors, victims of terror.By Arutz Sheva Staff-Last Update: 4/21/2015, 9:25 PM-israelnationalnews
Israelis began marking Memorial Day Tuesday afternoon, with a series of ceremonies nationwide commemorating Israel's fallen warriors - including soldiers, police and members of the pre-state Jewish underground - as well as the country's many victims of terrorism.President Reuven Rivlin began speaking at the official ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel) before bereaved families on Tuesday night, noting how the shared experience of having loved ones who fell defending Israel unites all segments of Israel's society.
“Last summer, I traveled far and wide, across this country. I visited the homes of beloved and wonderful boys who fell defending the country during Operation Protective Edge," the president said. "The geography of pain, as I learned, stretched the length and breadth of the country, yet it did not divide it.""Death struck at the door of many, regardless of their religious beliefs. No camp was left untouched by death. I saw the sons of the Kibbutzim, of the settlements, of the villages, towns and cities, Jews and non-Jews, lone soldiers and new immigrants."I got to them though, too late. I got to know them, when they were already gone. I watched them laughing in home movies, I saw them smiling in photographs, hugging their nephews, holding their girlfriends hands, who are left bereft."The bereaved family is intertwined, with a shared fate. A fate which was forced upon them. Israeli society, with all its camps, is connected not just in terms of shared destiny, but in terms of purpose and meaning. Memorial Day is a day upon which we, all of us, gather together in the national mourning tent."Rivlin recalled meeting the father of a soldier who was killed in Gaza 20 years ago, who told him about the constant pain of loss, and urged Israel to work in the future to make sure that the death of the fallen will "not have been in vain."The president called to have Israel's different populations be united not only in their joint fate, but also in their identity and goal.Life in Israel demands that its residents fight for the existence of the state, and at the same time for the idea and identity for which the state was created, said Rivlin, adding "we are forced to fight...to defend our borders, to defend our homes.""Our obligation to our children and grandchildren...is to try and avoid the next war" in trying to convince the other side not to wage war, while in parallel being aware of the reality and the dangers, and prepare for the coming challenges, he said.Aside from physically defending the state, Rivlin also spoke about the mission of defending the essence of the state, saying the Jewish people will not "make do with survival," but instead will "live" as a free nation with creativity and vision."We have risen from the dust and the graves...to hope and faith," he said.
Ensuring Israel's existence
Next to speak was IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who noted the Western Wall behind him represented the long history of the Jewish people and its struggles to defend itself."Our soldiers stand side to side... working together on the ground, air and sea at all times to defend the state and ensure its existence," said Eizenkot.The strength of the IDF is its support from the public, he said, calling it a "people's army in the fullest sense of the term."The memory of the fallen is "an order for us" to continue their mission of defending the Jewish state of Israel."In my long years as a fighter and as a commander, I saw your pain," Eizenkot told the bereaved families, saying he understood the great emptiness created in their lives with the loss of their loved ones.He promised that the IDF would always stand by their sides to support them."67 years after the war of independence...we continue to need to stand on the defense of the existence of the state," he said. "We will do all that is needed to complete our mission."After the reading of a literary piece written about Operation Protective Edge, in which the IDF put down a terror war launched by Hamas in Gaza that fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilian centers, the IDF Chief Rabbi Rafi Peretz said a prayer for the fallen soldiers, including numerous scriptural references relating to those who fall while fighting to sanctify G-d's name.Kotel Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz then read a psalm in memory of the fallen, after which a bereaved father read the Kaddish prayer for the dead, and then the national anthem Hatikva was sung by the IDF Chief Cantor Shai Abramson."Our determination grows"Around 1.5 million people are expected to visit military cemeteries over the course of tomorrow.The opening events began at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Yad Lebanim House (the association of the families of fallen soldiers of IDF and Security Forces) in Jerusalem, led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.At 8 p.m. on Tuesday sirens were sounded throughout Israel, and immediately thereafter at the Western Wall Plaza a Memorial Day candle lighting ceremony took place, led by Rivlin and IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Eizenkott.Speaking at the Yad Lebanim ceremony earlier today, Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed that attempts by Israel's enemies to destroy her would only make the country stronger."As the threats from our enemies to destroy our homeland grow, our determination to defend our homeland grows," he said."We saw this last summer during Operation Protective Edge, such courage, unity and sacrifice," he continued, referring to Israel's 50-day war with Islamist terrorists in Gaza, during which 67 soldiers were killed in action."We saw also lone soldiers who came from the Diaspora to serve in the IDF and were killed in the war. They left family and a comfortable life abroad and chose to join fighting units. They said this is our home and we came to defend it.""When your grief is painful, be comforted in the fact that your sons and daughters fell to ensure the existence of the nation," the PM told the grieving families. "There is no future for the Jewish people without the state of Israel."Netanyahu also related to his own person loss: that of his brother Yoni, who died during the IDF's famous raid on a hijacked airplane in Entebbe Airport, Uganda."Thirty nine years after my brother fell, the sorrow does not release its grip," the PM related."The sorrow did not release its grip of my parents, may they rest in peace, to their final day. The sorrow does not release its grip on you."On this day, the people join us in our sorrow. The people stand tall and bow their heads, lower their flag in gratitude… in memory of our loved ones who died."
Netanyahu Visits the Grave of His Late Brother Yoni-Ahead of Memorial Day, Prime Minister Netanyahu visits the grave of his brother who fell during the Entebbe operation in 1976.By Uzi Baruch-First Publish: 4/19/2015, 5:30 AM-israelnationalnews
Ahead of Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars (Memorial Day), Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah on Saturday night visited the grave of the prime minister’s brother Yoni, who fell during the operation to free the hostages at Entebbe in 1976.The Netanyahus visited the grave, on the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on Saturday evening in order to avoid bothering the bereaved families.Memorial Day will begin with a minute-long siren at 8:00 p.m. this coming Tuesday. According to statistics released Friday by the Defense Ministry, 23,320 Israelis have been killed at war or in terror attacks, with another 116 being killed in 2014.In total, 16,760 families are "bereaved families" in Israel, with 9,753 grieving parents, 4,958 widows, and 2,098 orphans.Of those, 67 soldiers fell during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, adding 131 bereaved parents to the list. Eleven women lost their husbands, 24 children lost parents, two were born orphans, and 187 lost siblings.
Israel's Population Grows 2% Over 2014 to 8.345 Million-Independence Day census: 176,000 babies were born and 32,000 people immigrated in 2014; Israel now has 6.251 million Jews.By Tova Dvorin-First Publish: 4/21/2015, 12:42 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
Israel's population stands on the eve of Israel's 67th Independence Day at 8.345 million people, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) stated Tuesday - compared to just 806,000 in 1948.Of the 8.345 million, 6.251 million are Jews (74.9% of the population); 1.73 million are Arabs (20.7%); and 364,000 (4.4%) are defined as "other" (non-Arab Christians, other religious sects, and atheists according to the population registry).
Since 2014, Israel's population grew by 162,000 - a 2% increase. During this period, 176,000 babies were born; 44,000 people died; and 32,000 people immigrated. In 2014, about 75% of the Jews were "native" - born in Israel - compared to only 35% in 1948.In 1948, Israel only had one city with more than 100,000 residents - Tel Aviv-Yafo. Today, 14 cities number more than 100,000 residents.Six cities number more than 200,000 residents: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Haifa, Rishon LeZion, Ashdod and Petah Tikva.
Auschwitz guard tells court he shares moral guilt, witnessed how Jews were led to gas chambers-The Canadian PressBy David Rising, The Associated Press | apr 21,15-yahoonews
LUENEBURG, Germany - Former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told a German court Tuesday that he helped keep watch as thousands of Jews were led from cattle cars directly to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp where he served as a guard.The 93-year-old, charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, said as his trial opened that he witnessed individual atrocities, but did not acknowledge participating in any crimes.He recalled how a fellow guard discovered a baby abandoned among luggage and bashed it against a truck to stop its crying. After that, he unsuccessfully requested a transfer and started to drink vodka heavily to cope with working at the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, he said."I share morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law, you will have to decide," Groening told judges hearing the case at the Lueneburg state court in northern Germany. Under the German legal system, defendants do not enter formal pleas.Groening testified in a lengthy statement to the court that he volunteered to join the SS in 1940 after working briefly at a bank, and served at Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944.Aside from helping on the ramp as transports of Jews arrived, Groening said his main task was to help collect and tally money as part of his job dealing with the belongings stolen from people arriving at Auschwitz — a job for which the German press has dubbed him the "Accountant of Auschwitz."Groening said the money was regularly sent back to Berlin. Pressed by presiding Judge Franz Kompisch, he said his view was that it belonged to the state."They didn't need it anymore," he said of the Jews from whom the money was taken — drawing gasps from Auschwitz survivors watching.Among them was Eva Kor, one of some 60 survivors and relatives from the U.S., Canada, Israel and elsewhere who joined the trial as co-plaintiffs as allowed under German law. She is expected to testify as a witness.Kor, 81, told The Associated Press that she lost her parents and two older sisters in Auschwitz, and that she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected as 10-year-olds to horrific experiments by notorious camp Dr. Josef Mengele.Kor, who now lives in Indiana, said she will ask Groening about what may have happened to Mengele's files in the hope she can learn what she and her sister were subjected to — experiments she said caused her sister to die early nearly 30 years ago of kidney failure.Groening could face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted. On his way into court, he told reporters that he expects an acquittal. His attorney, Hans Holtermann, wouldn't speculate on the outcome."Mr. Groening made a long statement about the things he did in Auschwitz and he confessed that in a moral way he's guilty in the Holocaust, but in the end the decision whether he's guilty or not needs to be made by the court," Holtermann told reporters.Groening, who is not in custody, entered the courtroom with the help of a walker. He was lucid as his testimony began but gradually lost focus and Kompisch ended the court session early, saying he would question Groening further Wednesday.The trial is the first to test a new line of German legal reasoning that has unleashed an 11th-hour wave of new investigations of Nazi suspects. Prosecutors argue that anyone who was a death camp guard can be charged as an accessory to murders committed there, even without evidence of involvement in a specific death.There are currently 11 open investigations against former Auschwitz guards, and charges have been filed in three of those cases, including Groening's. Eight former Majdanek guards are also under investigation.The charges against Groening relate to a period in May and June 1944 when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought to Auschwitz and at least 300,000 almost immediately gassed to death."Through his job, the defendant supported the machinery of death," prosecutor Jens Lehmann said.Groening recalled that he and other recruits were told by an SS major before going to Auschwitz they would "perform a duty that will clearly not be pleasant, but one necessary to achieve final victory."Groening testified that he did not know what that duty was until he arrived at Auschwitz but quickly learned that Jews were being selected for work and those who couldn't work were being killed. In the vocabulary of the camp, he said, "the enemies of Germany were being exterminated."Thomas Walther, who represents many of the co-plaintiffs, welcomed Groening's decision to make a statement and answer questions — almost unheard of in Nazi prosecutions."It's a positive signal for the future course of the trial," he said.Kor said she saw Groening as an old man who had had a hard life, "but by his own doing.""If you're guilty," she asked, is there such a thing as being morally guilty but not legally guilty?___Kirsten Grieshaber contributed to this report.
President Rivlin: Israelis Bound By Grief - and a Shared Destiny-Riviln and Chief of Staff speak at Kotel, as Israel stands silent for sirens nationwide to remember fallen warriors, victims of terror.By Arutz Sheva Staff-Last Update: 4/21/2015, 9:25 PM-israelnationalnews
Israelis began marking Memorial Day Tuesday afternoon, with a series of ceremonies nationwide commemorating Israel's fallen warriors - including soldiers, police and members of the pre-state Jewish underground - as well as the country's many victims of terrorism.President Reuven Rivlin began speaking at the official ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel) before bereaved families on Tuesday night, noting how the shared experience of having loved ones who fell defending Israel unites all segments of Israel's society.
“Last summer, I traveled far and wide, across this country. I visited the homes of beloved and wonderful boys who fell defending the country during Operation Protective Edge," the president said. "The geography of pain, as I learned, stretched the length and breadth of the country, yet it did not divide it.""Death struck at the door of many, regardless of their religious beliefs. No camp was left untouched by death. I saw the sons of the Kibbutzim, of the settlements, of the villages, towns and cities, Jews and non-Jews, lone soldiers and new immigrants."I got to them though, too late. I got to know them, when they were already gone. I watched them laughing in home movies, I saw them smiling in photographs, hugging their nephews, holding their girlfriends hands, who are left bereft."The bereaved family is intertwined, with a shared fate. A fate which was forced upon them. Israeli society, with all its camps, is connected not just in terms of shared destiny, but in terms of purpose and meaning. Memorial Day is a day upon which we, all of us, gather together in the national mourning tent."Rivlin recalled meeting the father of a soldier who was killed in Gaza 20 years ago, who told him about the constant pain of loss, and urged Israel to work in the future to make sure that the death of the fallen will "not have been in vain."The president called to have Israel's different populations be united not only in their joint fate, but also in their identity and goal.Life in Israel demands that its residents fight for the existence of the state, and at the same time for the idea and identity for which the state was created, said Rivlin, adding "we are forced to fight...to defend our borders, to defend our homes.""Our obligation to our children and grandchildren...is to try and avoid the next war" in trying to convince the other side not to wage war, while in parallel being aware of the reality and the dangers, and prepare for the coming challenges, he said.Aside from physically defending the state, Rivlin also spoke about the mission of defending the essence of the state, saying the Jewish people will not "make do with survival," but instead will "live" as a free nation with creativity and vision."We have risen from the dust and the graves...to hope and faith," he said.
Ensuring Israel's existence
Next to speak was IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who noted the Western Wall behind him represented the long history of the Jewish people and its struggles to defend itself."Our soldiers stand side to side... working together on the ground, air and sea at all times to defend the state and ensure its existence," said Eizenkot.The strength of the IDF is its support from the public, he said, calling it a "people's army in the fullest sense of the term."The memory of the fallen is "an order for us" to continue their mission of defending the Jewish state of Israel."In my long years as a fighter and as a commander, I saw your pain," Eizenkot told the bereaved families, saying he understood the great emptiness created in their lives with the loss of their loved ones.He promised that the IDF would always stand by their sides to support them."67 years after the war of independence...we continue to need to stand on the defense of the existence of the state," he said. "We will do all that is needed to complete our mission."After the reading of a literary piece written about Operation Protective Edge, in which the IDF put down a terror war launched by Hamas in Gaza that fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilian centers, the IDF Chief Rabbi Rafi Peretz said a prayer for the fallen soldiers, including numerous scriptural references relating to those who fall while fighting to sanctify G-d's name.Kotel Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz then read a psalm in memory of the fallen, after which a bereaved father read the Kaddish prayer for the dead, and then the national anthem Hatikva was sung by the IDF Chief Cantor Shai Abramson."Our determination grows"Around 1.5 million people are expected to visit military cemeteries over the course of tomorrow.The opening events began at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Yad Lebanim House (the association of the families of fallen soldiers of IDF and Security Forces) in Jerusalem, led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.At 8 p.m. on Tuesday sirens were sounded throughout Israel, and immediately thereafter at the Western Wall Plaza a Memorial Day candle lighting ceremony took place, led by Rivlin and IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Eizenkott.Speaking at the Yad Lebanim ceremony earlier today, Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed that attempts by Israel's enemies to destroy her would only make the country stronger."As the threats from our enemies to destroy our homeland grow, our determination to defend our homeland grows," he said."We saw this last summer during Operation Protective Edge, such courage, unity and sacrifice," he continued, referring to Israel's 50-day war with Islamist terrorists in Gaza, during which 67 soldiers were killed in action."We saw also lone soldiers who came from the Diaspora to serve in the IDF and were killed in the war. They left family and a comfortable life abroad and chose to join fighting units. They said this is our home and we came to defend it.""When your grief is painful, be comforted in the fact that your sons and daughters fell to ensure the existence of the nation," the PM told the grieving families. "There is no future for the Jewish people without the state of Israel."Netanyahu also related to his own person loss: that of his brother Yoni, who died during the IDF's famous raid on a hijacked airplane in Entebbe Airport, Uganda."Thirty nine years after my brother fell, the sorrow does not release its grip," the PM related."The sorrow did not release its grip of my parents, may they rest in peace, to their final day. The sorrow does not release its grip on you."On this day, the people join us in our sorrow. The people stand tall and bow their heads, lower their flag in gratitude… in memory of our loved ones who died."
Netanyahu Visits the Grave of His Late Brother Yoni-Ahead of Memorial Day, Prime Minister Netanyahu visits the grave of his brother who fell during the Entebbe operation in 1976.By Uzi Baruch-First Publish: 4/19/2015, 5:30 AM-israelnationalnews
Ahead of Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars (Memorial Day), Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah on Saturday night visited the grave of the prime minister’s brother Yoni, who fell during the operation to free the hostages at Entebbe in 1976.The Netanyahus visited the grave, on the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on Saturday evening in order to avoid bothering the bereaved families.Memorial Day will begin with a minute-long siren at 8:00 p.m. this coming Tuesday. According to statistics released Friday by the Defense Ministry, 23,320 Israelis have been killed at war or in terror attacks, with another 116 being killed in 2014.In total, 16,760 families are "bereaved families" in Israel, with 9,753 grieving parents, 4,958 widows, and 2,098 orphans.Of those, 67 soldiers fell during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, adding 131 bereaved parents to the list. Eleven women lost their husbands, 24 children lost parents, two were born orphans, and 187 lost siblings.
