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Hamas slams French peace plan, decries ‘personal move’ by Abbas-Terror group says Paris initiative is ‘attempt to distract Palestinian people, circumvent their national rights’-By Sara Miller May 30, 2016, 2:00 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
17:43-Zarif visits Poland as Warsaw, Tehran build business ties-Iran’s foreign minister and Iranian businessmen are seeking to build economic ties with Poland at a forum for political and business leaders.Mohammad Javad Zarif is on a two-day visit ending today, the first by Iran’s foreign minister to Poland in 12 years. It is one of Zarif’s first foreign trips since January’s lifting of economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.Zarif meets with Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, Culture Minister Piotr Glinski and Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, and the two nations sign a document on forging political, economic and cultural cooperation.Polish officials say trade between the nations could rise within a few years to $1 billion (900,000 euros). Trade slumped to $57 million (51 million euros) in 2014.Separately, aides say the two foreign ministers discussed the conflict in Syria.— AP-17:43-French jihadis who groomed Bataclan killer go on trial-The members of the jihadi network who recruited and groomed one of the suicide attackers in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris are on trial this week.Defendants include the brother of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who joined Islamic State extremists in December 2013 and went on to help carry out the attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead. Karim Mohamed-Aggad returned to France along with six others in the group from the eastern French city of Strasbourg. Two in the group of 10 died.The men insist they went to Syria for humanitarian reasons and were forced to join Islamic State as one thing after another went wrong with their journey. All returned to France within three months and were arrested in May 2014.— AP-17:18-IDF to hold massive drill in north, south-The army is holding large-scale exercises in the Upper Galilee and in the area surrounding Eilat on Tuesday, the IDF says.In northern Israel, the army will activate an emergency siren that will be heard in Acre, Carmiel, Sakhnin, Alon HaGalil, Kfar Masaryk and other towns and village in the Galilee.If there is a real attack, the siren will sound twice, the army says.Near Eilat’s Uvda airbase, residents may notice a large number of soldiers and army vehicles. This is a pre-planned exercise and not a cause for alarm, the IDF says.— Judah Ari Gross-17:18--Police: Double murder suspect died from own bullet, not cop’s-The Police Investigations Department (PID) says a man who killed his ex-girlfriend and her current partner died from a self-inflicted bullet wound and not from police fire while he resisted arrest on Saturday.The announcement comes at the conclusion of a preliminary investigation into the death of Ian Gavrielov, who killed Anastasia Rusanov, 29, and Eliezer Kandinov, 34, in Rusanov’s apartment in Rishon Lezion on May 25.Police believe that Gavrielov committed suicide after coming to the conclusion that he had no way of shaking off the law enforcement officials following him.-17:07--Bennett defends security cabinet ultimatum: Suddenly we get updates-Education Minister Naftali Bennett defends his demand for a military attache to the security cabinet in order to guarantee his support for the expansion of the government.“It is no secret that … the security cabinet was run very badly,” Bennett tells the Knesset during the inaugural Q&A session for ministers.“The security cabinet of Israel … was a rubber stamp,” he says, highlighting its poor performance during the 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza.Bennett says that only by talking to officials on ground was he made aware of the issue of the terror tunnels from Gaza, which he then reported back to the cabinet for the first time.He also claims that the rate of updates to the security cabinet has increased dramatically since he issued his ultimatum to the prime minister.“Suddenly there are security updates,” he says, adding that he intends to “follow up” on this issue.“There is an improvement,” he says. “Let’s see how it stands the test of time.”-16:28-Jordan heads into elections by fall as parliament dissolved-Jordan is heading into parliamentary elections by September, after King Abdullah II dissolved the current legislature.The monarch also appoints a new prime minister, Hani Mulki, who will oversee preparations for new elections. Mulki replaces Abdullah Ensour, who resigned after more than three years as prime minister.— AP-16:19-PM urges all supporters of peace, security to join coalition-Netanyahu calls on all those who are dedicated to Israel’s peace and security to join the coalition.“A broad government headed by Likud will continue along its responsible policy, firm on security while equally looking for paths to peace, in particular on the regional path,” he tells a meeting of his Likud faction in the Knesset.“I call for the government to expand and urge all those who wish to offer support to the challenges of peace and security, to join and give it a chance,” he says.— Raphael Ahren-16:19-Hamas slams French peace plan, decries ‘personal move’ by Abbas-The Hamas terrorist group reaffirms its rejection of the French peace initiative, calling it a “personal move” by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, despite the fact that the Arab League has adopted the plan.“The French initiative is an attempt to distract the Palestinian people and circumvent their national rights, especially the right of return,” Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zurhi says in a statement.“Mahmoud Abbas’s response to this initiative is a personal move and does not have any national consensus,” he says.— Dov Lieber-15:42-Egyptian court jails Muslim Brotherhood leader for life-An Egyptian court sentences the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader and 35 other people to life in prison over violent clashes after the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, a judicial official says. The clashes, in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, killed three people.Mohammed Badie, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, was already sentenced to death and prison terms in other trials.The court also sentences 48 defendants to jail terms ranging from three to 15 years, and acquits 20 others.The authorities have arrested thousands of Brotherhood leaders and members, including Morsi, since his ouster by the army. Hundreds have been sentenced to death, although many have appealed and won retrials.— AFP
Israel intercepts communication equipment en route to Gaza terror groups-Drones, rifle scopes, and radio and video receivers discovered in mail packages bound for Palestinian enclave, Defense Ministry says-By Times of Israel staff May 30, 2016, 3:51 pm
Dozens of packages containing drone parts and other communications equipment en route to terror cells operating inside the Gaza Strip were intercepted by Israeli security forces in recent weeks, the Defense Ministry said Monday.The packages, which were shipped through the Israeli postal service, contained disassembled drones, rifle scopes, radio receivers, cellphone signal boosters and video transmitters, a statement from the ministry said.Some of the equipment, including the 5.8 GHz video transmitters confiscated at the border crossing earlier on Monday morning — are banned for private use both in Israel and Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the West Bank.According to the statement, a joint operation by border authorities, police, the Shin Bet security agency, and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories intercepted the packages at the Erez border crossing at the Gaza-Israel border over the past several weeks.Security forces have launched an investigation into locating the source of the equipment and those responsible for their attempted smuggling into Gaza.The ministry said a number of other smuggling attempts of drones have been foiled by the Shin Bet in recent weeks.Earlier this year, guards at the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the southern Gaza Strip uncovered a shipment of drones equipped with high-quality cameras hidden in an Israeli truck carrying toys.In March, Hamas drones reportedly flew out of the Gaza Strip and into Egyptian airspace above the Sinai Peninsula several times as the Egyptian army stood by helpless to prevent the incursions. Egyptian radar picked up three drones flying out of the southern Gaza Strip on numerous occasions, the Egyptian Al Osboa newspaper reported at the time. The unmanned aerial vehicles penetrated as far as El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, some 50 kilometers from the Egypt-Gaza border.Border forces opened fire on the drones but couldn’t hit them because they were flying at an altitude of 750 meters (2,250 feet), the report said. Under the terms of the 1979 peace deal with Israel, Egypt is not allowed to station any anti-aircraft weapons in the Sinai region.In December 2014, Hamas’s military wing launched a locally manufactured drone during a Gaza City march in honor of the founding of the group, prompting the Israel Air Force to summon jets to the area, but no shots were fired at the unmanned aircraft.Earlier that year, during Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the terrorist group launched two drones into Israeli airspace before they were promptly blasted out of the sky by IAF-launched Patriot missiles.
Reform Jewry waits for answers as Knesset reboots-With a new coalition deal, will Israel’s non-Orthodox Jews see further reversals of newly granted ‘reforms’?-By Amanda Borschel-Dan May 30, 2016, 5:01 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
On the face of it, 2016 looked to be a banner year for Reform Jewry. On January 31, the government passed a much-celebrated “historic” decision promoting egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. A mere few weeks later in mid-February, the Supreme Court gave Israel’s Reform and Conservative movements blanket use of state mikvehs (ritual baths), heralded as a “significant step on the road to full recognition.”But after the champagne glasses were emptied, Reform Jewry found itself in a familiar situation: while one hand of the government gives, another attempts to take away.“There’s no question: You win one and then you have to hold your breath to see whether it’s going to go back to the Knesset to see if someone will try to cancel your success by passing a law to try to stop it,” said Nicole Maor, a leading lawyer at the Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center.Maor, who largely deals with legal aid for immigrants, told The Times of Israel on Monday that it is not uncommon for a “reform” to be followed by ploys for delays in implementation or legislation which would negate a ruling.“It’s very much a cat-and-mouse situation,” said Maor.Case in point: After an uproar from the ultra-Orthodox factions in the tenuous coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, David Sharan, was tasked with forming a committee to review the Western Wall compromise. The deal, a labor of love, sweat and tears masterminded by Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky, calls for a new permanent prayer pavilion to be erected in the Davidson Archeological park, which abuts the southern end of the Western Wall.Sharan, who was appointed cabinet secretary on May 23, was given 60 days to review the plan and meet with the various players involved in drafting the deal. His time runs out on June 1. According to The Forward, only one or two such meetings have been held.This week, as the government reboots with the addition of new Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu to the coalition, there is much speculation over how, if at all, pending issues of religion and state will be affected.According to section 36 of the coalition agreement, a committee headed by Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) will be created to discuss issues of religion and state, made up of representatives of the coalition parties. (Levin, one may recall, was “boycotted” by Reform leadership after stating in mid-February that the movement represents a “dying world” that has succumbed to assimilation.)-One could see the Levin committee as a forum in which Liberman’s party would be able to stymie ultra-Orthodox-proposed legislation, as no religion-state bill can progress without the unanimous support of the committee’s members.On the flip side, the coalition is expected to vote as a bloc if such bills do reach the Knesset floor, a provision that will soon be tested as a bill rejecting the Supreme Court decision opening state mikvehs to non-Orthodox conversions is made ready.The court decision was decried instantly upon its announcement by Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, who said the court’s “miserable decision to allow reform Jews and Conservatives to immerse in mikveh baths intended to serve the entire public is outrageous.”It is therefore unsurprising that a bill to bar non-Orthodox use was quickly proposed by members of the United Torah Judaism party and heavily supported by Shas, which was founded by Yosef’s father Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. It passed a preliminary law committee vote on March 14, and on June 6 there is a follow-up committee meeting before the law’s first reading in the Knesset.Although there are indications that some state ritual baths have already begun to allow non-Orthodox conversions, as part of the newly inked coalition agreement, in the upcoming vote on a law rejecting non-Orthodox use of state ritual baths, Yisrael Beytenu must vote as part of the coalition bloc in support of the bill.In conversation with The Times of Israel on Monday, IRAC’s Maor is still optimistic of progress for Reform and Conservative Jews in Israel..Last week, on the heels of an April 1 sweeping court decision calling for the acceptance of independent Orthodox conversions in Israel, the High Court directed the attorney general’s office to explain why non-Orthodox converts whose conversions were performed in Israel are not eligible for citizenship under the Law of Return.The new government has 60 days to respond.
17:43-Zarif visits Poland as Warsaw, Tehran build business ties-Iran’s foreign minister and Iranian businessmen are seeking to build economic ties with Poland at a forum for political and business leaders.Mohammad Javad Zarif is on a two-day visit ending today, the first by Iran’s foreign minister to Poland in 12 years. It is one of Zarif’s first foreign trips since January’s lifting of economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.Zarif meets with Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, Culture Minister Piotr Glinski and Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, and the two nations sign a document on forging political, economic and cultural cooperation.Polish officials say trade between the nations could rise within a few years to $1 billion (900,000 euros). Trade slumped to $57 million (51 million euros) in 2014.Separately, aides say the two foreign ministers discussed the conflict in Syria.— AP-17:43-French jihadis who groomed Bataclan killer go on trial-The members of the jihadi network who recruited and groomed one of the suicide attackers in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris are on trial this week.Defendants include the brother of Foued Mohamed-Aggad, who joined Islamic State extremists in December 2013 and went on to help carry out the attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead. Karim Mohamed-Aggad returned to France along with six others in the group from the eastern French city of Strasbourg. Two in the group of 10 died.The men insist they went to Syria for humanitarian reasons and were forced to join Islamic State as one thing after another went wrong with their journey. All returned to France within three months and were arrested in May 2014.— AP-17:18-IDF to hold massive drill in north, south-The army is holding large-scale exercises in the Upper Galilee and in the area surrounding Eilat on Tuesday, the IDF says.In northern Israel, the army will activate an emergency siren that will be heard in Acre, Carmiel, Sakhnin, Alon HaGalil, Kfar Masaryk and other towns and village in the Galilee.If there is a real attack, the siren will sound twice, the army says.Near Eilat’s Uvda airbase, residents may notice a large number of soldiers and army vehicles. This is a pre-planned exercise and not a cause for alarm, the IDF says.— Judah Ari Gross-17:18--Police: Double murder suspect died from own bullet, not cop’s-The Police Investigations Department (PID) says a man who killed his ex-girlfriend and her current partner died from a self-inflicted bullet wound and not from police fire while he resisted arrest on Saturday.The announcement comes at the conclusion of a preliminary investigation into the death of Ian Gavrielov, who killed Anastasia Rusanov, 29, and Eliezer Kandinov, 34, in Rusanov’s apartment in Rishon Lezion on May 25.Police believe that Gavrielov committed suicide after coming to the conclusion that he had no way of shaking off the law enforcement officials following him.-17:07--Bennett defends security cabinet ultimatum: Suddenly we get updates-Education Minister Naftali Bennett defends his demand for a military attache to the security cabinet in order to guarantee his support for the expansion of the government.“It is no secret that … the security cabinet was run very badly,” Bennett tells the Knesset during the inaugural Q&A session for ministers.“The security cabinet of Israel … was a rubber stamp,” he says, highlighting its poor performance during the 2014 conflict with Hamas in Gaza.Bennett says that only by talking to officials on ground was he made aware of the issue of the terror tunnels from Gaza, which he then reported back to the cabinet for the first time.He also claims that the rate of updates to the security cabinet has increased dramatically since he issued his ultimatum to the prime minister.“Suddenly there are security updates,” he says, adding that he intends to “follow up” on this issue.“There is an improvement,” he says. “Let’s see how it stands the test of time.”-16:28-Jordan heads into elections by fall as parliament dissolved-Jordan is heading into parliamentary elections by September, after King Abdullah II dissolved the current legislature.The monarch also appoints a new prime minister, Hani Mulki, who will oversee preparations for new elections. Mulki replaces Abdullah Ensour, who resigned after more than three years as prime minister.— AP-16:19-PM urges all supporters of peace, security to join coalition-Netanyahu calls on all those who are dedicated to Israel’s peace and security to join the coalition.“A broad government headed by Likud will continue along its responsible policy, firm on security while equally looking for paths to peace, in particular on the regional path,” he tells a meeting of his Likud faction in the Knesset.“I call for the government to expand and urge all those who wish to offer support to the challenges of peace and security, to join and give it a chance,” he says.— Raphael Ahren-16:19-Hamas slams French peace plan, decries ‘personal move’ by Abbas-The Hamas terrorist group reaffirms its rejection of the French peace initiative, calling it a “personal move” by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, despite the fact that the Arab League has adopted the plan.“The French initiative is an attempt to distract the Palestinian people and circumvent their national rights, especially the right of return,” Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zurhi says in a statement.“Mahmoud Abbas’s response to this initiative is a personal move and does not have any national consensus,” he says.— Dov Lieber-15:42-Egyptian court jails Muslim Brotherhood leader for life-An Egyptian court sentences the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader and 35 other people to life in prison over violent clashes after the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, a judicial official says. The clashes, in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, killed three people.Mohammed Badie, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, was already sentenced to death and prison terms in other trials.The court also sentences 48 defendants to jail terms ranging from three to 15 years, and acquits 20 others.The authorities have arrested thousands of Brotherhood leaders and members, including Morsi, since his ouster by the army. Hundreds have been sentenced to death, although many have appealed and won retrials.— AFP
Israel intercepts communication equipment en route to Gaza terror groups-Drones, rifle scopes, and radio and video receivers discovered in mail packages bound for Palestinian enclave, Defense Ministry says-By Times of Israel staff May 30, 2016, 3:51 pm
Dozens of packages containing drone parts and other communications equipment en route to terror cells operating inside the Gaza Strip were intercepted by Israeli security forces in recent weeks, the Defense Ministry said Monday.The packages, which were shipped through the Israeli postal service, contained disassembled drones, rifle scopes, radio receivers, cellphone signal boosters and video transmitters, a statement from the ministry said.Some of the equipment, including the 5.8 GHz video transmitters confiscated at the border crossing earlier on Monday morning — are banned for private use both in Israel and Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the West Bank.According to the statement, a joint operation by border authorities, police, the Shin Bet security agency, and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories intercepted the packages at the Erez border crossing at the Gaza-Israel border over the past several weeks.Security forces have launched an investigation into locating the source of the equipment and those responsible for their attempted smuggling into Gaza.The ministry said a number of other smuggling attempts of drones have been foiled by the Shin Bet in recent weeks.Earlier this year, guards at the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the southern Gaza Strip uncovered a shipment of drones equipped with high-quality cameras hidden in an Israeli truck carrying toys.In March, Hamas drones reportedly flew out of the Gaza Strip and into Egyptian airspace above the Sinai Peninsula several times as the Egyptian army stood by helpless to prevent the incursions. Egyptian radar picked up three drones flying out of the southern Gaza Strip on numerous occasions, the Egyptian Al Osboa newspaper reported at the time. The unmanned aerial vehicles penetrated as far as El Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, some 50 kilometers from the Egypt-Gaza border.Border forces opened fire on the drones but couldn’t hit them because they were flying at an altitude of 750 meters (2,250 feet), the report said. Under the terms of the 1979 peace deal with Israel, Egypt is not allowed to station any anti-aircraft weapons in the Sinai region.In December 2014, Hamas’s military wing launched a locally manufactured drone during a Gaza City march in honor of the founding of the group, prompting the Israel Air Force to summon jets to the area, but no shots were fired at the unmanned aircraft.Earlier that year, during Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the terrorist group launched two drones into Israeli airspace before they were promptly blasted out of the sky by IAF-launched Patriot missiles.
Reform Jewry waits for answers as Knesset reboots-With a new coalition deal, will Israel’s non-Orthodox Jews see further reversals of newly granted ‘reforms’?-By Amanda Borschel-Dan May 30, 2016, 5:01 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
On the face of it, 2016 looked to be a banner year for Reform Jewry. On January 31, the government passed a much-celebrated “historic” decision promoting egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall. A mere few weeks later in mid-February, the Supreme Court gave Israel’s Reform and Conservative movements blanket use of state mikvehs (ritual baths), heralded as a “significant step on the road to full recognition.”But after the champagne glasses were emptied, Reform Jewry found itself in a familiar situation: while one hand of the government gives, another attempts to take away.“There’s no question: You win one and then you have to hold your breath to see whether it’s going to go back to the Knesset to see if someone will try to cancel your success by passing a law to try to stop it,” said Nicole Maor, a leading lawyer at the Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center.Maor, who largely deals with legal aid for immigrants, told The Times of Israel on Monday that it is not uncommon for a “reform” to be followed by ploys for delays in implementation or legislation which would negate a ruling.“It’s very much a cat-and-mouse situation,” said Maor.Case in point: After an uproar from the ultra-Orthodox factions in the tenuous coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, David Sharan, was tasked with forming a committee to review the Western Wall compromise. The deal, a labor of love, sweat and tears masterminded by Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky, calls for a new permanent prayer pavilion to be erected in the Davidson Archeological park, which abuts the southern end of the Western Wall.Sharan, who was appointed cabinet secretary on May 23, was given 60 days to review the plan and meet with the various players involved in drafting the deal. His time runs out on June 1. According to The Forward, only one or two such meetings have been held.This week, as the government reboots with the addition of new Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu to the coalition, there is much speculation over how, if at all, pending issues of religion and state will be affected.According to section 36 of the coalition agreement, a committee headed by Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) will be created to discuss issues of religion and state, made up of representatives of the coalition parties. (Levin, one may recall, was “boycotted” by Reform leadership after stating in mid-February that the movement represents a “dying world” that has succumbed to assimilation.)-One could see the Levin committee as a forum in which Liberman’s party would be able to stymie ultra-Orthodox-proposed legislation, as no religion-state bill can progress without the unanimous support of the committee’s members.On the flip side, the coalition is expected to vote as a bloc if such bills do reach the Knesset floor, a provision that will soon be tested as a bill rejecting the Supreme Court decision opening state mikvehs to non-Orthodox conversions is made ready.The court decision was decried instantly upon its announcement by Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, who said the court’s “miserable decision to allow reform Jews and Conservatives to immerse in mikveh baths intended to serve the entire public is outrageous.”It is therefore unsurprising that a bill to bar non-Orthodox use was quickly proposed by members of the United Torah Judaism party and heavily supported by Shas, which was founded by Yosef’s father Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. It passed a preliminary law committee vote on March 14, and on June 6 there is a follow-up committee meeting before the law’s first reading in the Knesset.Although there are indications that some state ritual baths have already begun to allow non-Orthodox conversions, as part of the newly inked coalition agreement, in the upcoming vote on a law rejecting non-Orthodox use of state ritual baths, Yisrael Beytenu must vote as part of the coalition bloc in support of the bill.In conversation with The Times of Israel on Monday, IRAC’s Maor is still optimistic of progress for Reform and Conservative Jews in Israel..Last week, on the heels of an April 1 sweeping court decision calling for the acceptance of independent Orthodox conversions in Israel, the High Court directed the attorney general’s office to explain why non-Orthodox converts whose conversions were performed in Israel are not eligible for citizenship under the Law of Return.The new government has 60 days to respond.
