JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE
PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads;
for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that
summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT
COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A
fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES
AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the
garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea,
and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and
their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM
ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD
PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they
shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand
shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN
WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say
to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour
every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall
not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be
burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor
their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for
he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC
BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here
are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through
war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only
Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land
in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel,
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half
of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18,
Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY
OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND
IN THE FUTURE
RCMP TRACKING CANADIANS-TODAYS BREAKING NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2017/04/rcmp-reveals-use-of-secretive-cellphone.html
UN Security Council postpones resolution vote
on Syria chemical attack-Russia threatens to veto draft document as
diplomats spar over assault that may have involved nerve gas; vote
likely on Thursday-By Agencies April 6, 2017, 5:16 am-THE TIMES OF
ISRAEL
UNITED NATIONS — Britain, France and the United
States on Wednesday held off calling a vote at the UN Security Council
on a resolution demanding an investigation of the suspected chemical
attack in Syria to allow time for negotiations with Russia.However, a
vote on the draft text presented by the Western trio could be held as
early as Thursday, diplomats said.Diplomats at the UN Security council
sparred on Wednesday over whether to hold Syrian President Bashar
Assad’s government responsible for the chemical weapons attack that
killed more than 80 people in northern Syria, while US intelligence
officials, Doctors Without Borders and the UN healthy agency said
evidence pointed to nerve gas exposure.The Trump administration and
other world leaders said the Syrian government was to blame, but Moscow,
a key ally of Assad, said the assault was caused by a Syrian airstrike
that hit a rebel stockpile of chemical arms.Early US assessments showed
the use of chlorine gas and traces of the nerve agent sarin in the
attack Tuesday that terrorized the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun,
according to two US officials who weren’t authorized to speak publicly
on the matter and demanded anonymity.Israeli military intelligence
officers also believe Syrian government forces were behind the attack,
Israeli defense officials told the Associated Press. Israel believes
Assad has tons of chemical weapons still in his arsenal, despite a
concerted operation three years ago by the Organization for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to rid the government of its stockpile,
said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they
weren’t authorized to brief the media.Earlier Wednesday, Russia rejected
a draft resolution as “categorically unacceptable,” suggesting it is
ready to veto the measure if no compromise text is agreed.British
Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters that “the negotiations
continue with our colleagues on the Security Council and I would not
anticipate them coming to a conclusion today.”“We very much hope that it
will be possible for everyone to come together,” Rycroft said. “If not,
we will press ahead.The draft resolution backs a probe by the
Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and demands
that the Syrian government cooperate to provide information about its
military operations on the day of the assault.At least 72 people,
including 20 children, died in Tuesday’s attack on the rebel-held town
of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province. The Syrian Obseravtory for Human
Rights has put the death toll at over 80.Dozens more were left gasping
for air, convulsing and foaming at the mouth, doctors said.Victims of
the attack showed signs of nerve gas exposure, the World Health
Organization and Doctors Without Borders said, including suffocation,
convulsions, constricted pupils and involuntary defecation. Paramedics
were using fire hoses to wash the chemicals from the bodies of
victims.Medical teams also reported smelling bleach on survivors of the
attack, suggesting chlorine gas was also used, Doctors Without Borders
said.The magnitude of the attack was reflected in the images of the dead
— children piled in heaps for burial, a father carrying his lifeless
young twins.It is thought to be the worst chemical weapons attack in
Syria since 2013, when sarin gas was used.The visuals from the scene
were reminiscent of that 2013 attack on the suburbs of Damascus that
left hundreds dead and prompted an agreement brokered by the US and
Russia to disarm Assad’s chemical stockpile. Western nations blamed
government forces for that attack, where effects were concentrated on
opposition-held areas.Britain, France and the United States blame
Assad’s forces for the attack Tuesday, but the Syrian army has denied
any involvement.Russia turned up at the negotiations with a rival draft
resolution that made no reference to specific demands that Damascus
cooperate with an inquiry, diplomats said.However, French Ambassador
Francois Delattre told reporters that negotiations were being held “in a
good spirit” and that “there is a chance” for agreement.“It’s time for
action — no doubt about it,” he added.But other diplomats sounded more
pessimistic, saying a Russian veto appeared likely. “It’s not going
well,” a council diplomat said.The talks on the proposed council measure
opened after US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned of unilateral US action
if the United Nations fails to respond to the attack.“When the United
Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are
times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own
action,” she told an emergency council meeting on the attack.“When you
kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies, little babies — with a
chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it
was, that crosses many, many lines,” US President Donald Trump said
Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden. The president declined to say
what the US would do in response, but he did say that his “attitude
towards Syria and Assad has changed very much.”
Nikki
Haley: 'How many more children have to die before Russia cares?'-Trump:
Assad regime ‘crossed many lines’ with chemical attack-US president
calls Syria incident ‘an affront to humanity’; UN envoy says US may be
‘compelled to take our own action’-By Agencies April 5, 2017, 10:57
pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
US President Donald Trump on
Wednesday denounced the Syrian regime’s latest alleged chemical weapons
attack as an “affront to humanity” and warned it would not be
tolerated.Speaking alongside Jordan’s King Abdullah II at a White House
news conference, Trump did not lay out in any detail as to how the
United States would respond to the killings.While continuing to fault
predecessor Barack Obama for much of the current situation in Syria, he
acknowledged that dealing with the crisis is now his own responsibility
and vowed to “carry it very proudly.”Only days earlier multiple members
of Trump’s administration had said Assad’s ouster was no longer a US
priority, drawing outrage from Assad critics in the US and abroad. But
Trump said Tuesday’s attack “had a big impact on me — big impact.”“My
attitude towards Syria and Assad has changed very much,” he said.Trump
said of this week’s attack that “it crossed a lot of lines for me. “When
you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies, little babies —
with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what
gas it was, that crosses many, many lines.” US officials said the gas
was likely chlorine, with traces of a nerve agent like sarin.Since the
attack Tuesday in rebel-held territory in northern Syria, Trump has been
under increasing pressure to explain whether the attack would bring a
US response. After all, Trump’s first reaction was merely to blame
Obama’s “weakness” in earlier years for enabling Assad.Obama had put
Assad on notice in 2013 that using chemical weapons would cross a “red
line” necessitating a US response, but then failed to follow through,
pulling back from planned airstrikes after Congress wouldn’t vote to
approve them. Trump and other critics have cited that as a key moment
the US lost much global credibility.“I now have responsibility,” Trump
said. “That responsibility could be made a lot easier if it was handled
years ago.”Yet he was adamant that he would not telegraph any potential
US military retaliation, saying anew that that was a mistake the Obama
administration had repeatedly made.“These heinous actions by the Assad
regime cannot be tolerated,” he said. “The United States stands with our
allies across the globe to condemn this horrific attack.”Asked whether
the attack, which Washington has squarely blamed on Assad, could trigger
a change of policy on the Syrian conflict, Trump replied: “We’ll
see.”“I’m not saying I’m doing anything one way or another, but I’m
certainly not going to be telling you,” he told reporters.US Ambassador
to the UN Nikki Haley was more explicit, threatening direct action.“When
the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively,
there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our
own action,” she told a Security Council emergency meeting.At least 72
people, among them 20 children, were killed in the strike on Khan
Sheikhun, and dozens more were left gasping for air, convulsing, and
foaming at the mouth, doctors said.It is thought to be the worst
chemical weapons attack in Syria since 2013, when sarin gas was used.“If
we are not prepared to act, then this council will keep meeting, month
after month to express outrage at the continuing use of chemical weapons
and it will not end,” Haley said. “We will see more conflict in Syria.
We will see more pictures that we can never unsee.”She also lashed out
at Russia for failing to rein in its ally Syria.“How many more children
have to die before Russia cares?” she said.“If Russia has the influence
in Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it,” she said.
“We need to see them put an end to these horrific acts.”Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson said Russia needed to “think carefully about their
continued support for the Assad regime.”“There’s no doubt in our mind
that the Syrian regime under the leadership of Bashar al Assad is
responsible for this horrific attack,” Tillerson said.Early US
assessments show the attack most likely involved chlorine and traces of
the nerve agent sarin, according to two US officials, who weren’t
authorized to speak publicly about intelligence assessments and demanded
anonymity. Use of sarin would be especially troubling because it would
suggest Syria may have cheated on its previous deal to give up chemical
weapons.After a 2013 attack, the US and Russia brokered a deal in which
Syria declared its chemical weapons arsenal and agreed to destroy it.
Chlorine, which has legitimate uses as well, isn’t banned except when
used in a weapon. But nerve agents like sarin are banned in all
circumstances.As Trump and other world leaders scrambled for a response,
the US was working to lock down details proving Assad’s culpability.
Russia’s military, insisting Assad wasn’t responsible, has said the
chemicals were dispersed when a Syrian military strike hit a facility
where the rebels were manufacturing weapons for use in Iraq.An American
review of radar and other assessments showed Syrian aircraft flying in
the area at the time of the attack, a US official said. Russian and US
coalition aircraft were not there, the official said.Britain, France and
the United States presented a draft resolution demanding a full
investigation of the attack, but Russia said the text was “categorically
unacceptable.”The draft resolution backs a probe by the Organization of
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and demands that Syria
cooperate to provide information on its military operations on the day
of the assault.Russia’s Deputy Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told the
council that the proposed resolution was hastily prepared and
unnecessary, but voiced support for an inquiry.“The main task now is to
have an objective inquiry into what happened,” he said.Negotiations were
continuing on the draft text after Russia’s foreign ministry said in
Moscow that “the text as presented is categorically unacceptable.”
Israeli
intelligence believes Assad behind chemical attack-West condemns
Tuesday’s attack that killed dozens in rebel-held Idlib province; Trump
calls it ‘an affront to humanity’-By Agencies April 5, 2017, 9:08 pm-THE
TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israeli military intelligence believes
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces were behind the suspected
chemical attack that killed at least 72 civilians, defense officials
said Wednesday.The officials said that Israel believes Assad has tons of
chemical weapons currently in his arsenal. They spoke to The Associated
Press on condition of anonymity as they are not allowed to brief
media.Other countries also blamed Assad’s regime for the attack, which
took place in Khan Sheikhun in the rebel-held Idlib province.US
President Donald Trump denounced the attack. “These are very troubled
times in the Middle East,” he said as he welcomed King Abdullah II of
Jordan to the White House on Wednesday.He called the attack a “horrible
thing, unspeakable” and added, “It’s a terrible affront to
humanity.”Asked how he planned to respond to the attack, which he blamed
on Assad, Trump said, “You’ll see.”US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
lashed out at Russia for failing to rein in its ally Syria.“How many
more children have to die before Russia cares?” Haley told an emergency
meeting of the UN Security Council. “If Russia has the influence in
Syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. We need to see
them put an end to these horrific acts.”Doctors Without Borders said
that its team had found victims showing symptoms consistent with toxins
such as sarin gas after the attack.The team saw victims at the Bab
al-Hawa hospital, 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of the attack, the
charity said in a statement Thursday.“Eight patients showed symptoms –-
including constricted pupils, muscle spasms and involuntary defecation
-– which are consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as
sarin gas or similar compounds,” the statement said.The teams reported
smelling bleach at other hospitals treating victims, suggesting they
were also exposed to chlorine gas. The organization said the reports
“strongly suggest that victims… were exposed to at least two different
chemical agents.”Matthew Rycroft, Britain’s UN ambassador, said that the
attack “bears all the hallmarks” of Assad’s regime and the United
Kingdom believes a nerve agent capable of killing over a hundred people
was used.“We are talking about war crimes here, war crimes on a large
scale, war crimes with chemical weapons,” French Ambassador Francois
Delattre told reporters as he entered the council chamber.Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also blamed the attack on the Syrian
regime and accused the world of not speaking out against it.However, the
Russian Foreign Ministry said it opposed a Western draft UN resolution
condemning the attack on the grounds that there was no proof Assad was
behind the attack. The ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said the
draft blamed the Syrian government for Tuesday’s attack without any
credible investigation.Syria’s army has denied any use of chemical
weapons, saying it “has never used them, anytime, anywhere, and will not
do so in the future”.Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny
Danon called the attack “evil incarnate.”“The use of chemical weapons
and the appalling murder of innocent children are evil incarnate,” he
said Wednesday. “The Security Council must use all its authority to put
an end to the situation in Syria.”He also called on the international
community to take immediate action.“The world must not remain silent in
the face of crimes against humanity,” he said. “The international
community should act immediately to stop the ongoing massacre of
civilians.”Chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people since the
start of Syria’s civil war, with the UN blaming three attacks on the
Syrian government and a fourth on the Islamic State group.
Israel
appoints its first female Muslim diplomat-Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa
al-Gharbiya, will be heading to Turkey-By Dov Lieber April 5, 2017, 2:12
pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday
appointed Rasha Atamny, 31, to represent the Jewish state in Ankara,
Turkey, making her Israel’s first female Muslim diplomat.Atamny, who is
completing the final months of the ministry’s cadet course, will serve
as the embassy’s first secretary in the influential Muslim nation.Turkey
is an important regional ally for Israel, with strong economic ties.
The two countries signed a reconciliation agreement in June, 2016,
ending a six-year rift.Atamny hails from the Arab town of Baqa
al-Gharbiya in central Israel, located just inside the pre-1967 Green
Line between Israel and the West Bank.She is not Israel’s first female
Arab diplomat. Christian-Arab Rania Jubran, the daughter of Supreme
Court Justice Salim Jubran, worked for the ministry from 2006 to 2009,
but left shortly before she was due to be sent to Cairo.Israel also has
several male Muslim and Christian diplomats.Atamny, who studied
psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said in a blog
(Hebrew) posted to the Foreign Ministry’s website that she honed her
diplomatic skills in her collegiate Model UN club.While in university,
she wrote,”The concept of the ‘UN’ fascinated me. At the time I did not
know too much about the organization, but I did know that I, a girl who
grew up in Baqa al-Gharbiya and experienced the Israeli-Palestinian and
Arab-Jewish conflict in the flesh, believed and still believe in peace
between nations of the world.”One year after joining the Model UN club,
Atamny applied for and was accepted to represent Israel at the actual UN
in New York City as a youth ambassador for three months.“From the three
months I was at the UN, one turning point will forever accompany me.
One day, I sat at the Israeli seat as usual in the Human Rights Assembly
Committee, and I listened with great interest to the discussion that
took place — the violation of women’s rights,” she wrote.She continued:
“By this point, I had become used to hearing the series of charges
against Israel from many countries on the council, as [United States UN
envoy] Nikki Haley recently described in the media. The discrimination
against Israel is very prominent in the UN, and disappointing.”However,
this time, Atamny said, it was different.“This time I listened to the
speeches from Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Egypt condemning
Israel’s ‘systematic violations of women’s rights’ while I, an
Arab-Muslim woman of Palestinian origin represent Israel at the UN
General Assembly,” she said.“That day at the UN, which made me
desperately disappointed, pushed me to take the matter into my own
hands,” she concluded. “I believe in peace because I believe that people
can make a positive difference in the world, and I want to be part of
the change. So I started by choosing to join the Foreign Ministry cadets
course.”
US court says profs can sue academic body for
Israel boycott-Federal judge rejects American Studies Association claim
that lawsuit infringes on First Amendment rights-By JTA April 5, 2017,
12:41 am-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
A US federal court has ruled
that four college professors can sue the American Studies Association
over its academic boycott of Israel.The United States District Court for
the District of Columbia on Friday ruled that the professors’ lawsuit, a
case called Bronner v. Duggan, can go forward after the American
Studies Association, or ASA, asked the court to dismiss it.The court
rejected ASA’s argument that going forward with the lawsuit infringes on
its First Amendment rights.The lawsuit charges the ASA with violating
the District of Columbia law governing tax-exempt nonprofit
organizations. That rule limits a nonprofit from acting beyond its
chartered purposes, which in the case of the ASA, according to the
plaintiffs lawyers, includes promoting knowledge and the “strengthening
of relations among persons and institutions in this country and
abroad.”The four plaintiffs, who are longtime members of the
association, also charge that the boycott violates the group’s internal
rules. They are American studies professors Simon Bronner, Michael
Rockland, Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer.In December 2013, the ASA
membership approved the boycott with two-thirds of the 1,252 members who
voted in support. At the time of the vote, there were 3,853 eligible
voters, meaning one third of the membership participated. The boycott is
not binding on members and targets institutions, not individuals.The
judge dismissed the lawsuit’s claim that a boycott of another country is
outside the scope of ASA’s charter.At least four US universities
withdrew their membership in the association following the vote —
Brandeis University, Indiana University, Kenyon College and Penn State
Harrisburg — and at least 55 American universities and colleges rejected
the boycott resolution.Since the ASA boycott vote, the American
Anthropological Association and the Modern Language Association have
both failed to pass boycott measures.
Senior Fatah member
hit with lawsuit upon arrival at JFK-Jibril Rajoub served with civil
claim for $250 million by family of Palestinian-American man allegedly
tortured, killed by PA-By Times of Israel staff April 6, 2017, 4:13 am
A
senior member of the Palestinian Authority was served with a $250
million civil lawsuit on Wednesday, upon his arrival at a New York
airport, over his alleged involvement in the torture and killing of a
Palestinian-American man.Jibril Rajoub, who is a senior Fatah member and
heads the PA Olympic committee, was handed the writ for $250 million
and a court summons as he descended from the plane at JFK airport, Ynet
news reported Wedmesday.The suit accuses Rajoub of involvement in the
alleged torture and killing of Azzam Rahim by the Palestinian Authority
security forces in 1995.The suit was filed by Rahim’s family on Tuesday
in their home state of Texas against Rajoub, who at the time of the
alleged killing served as head of Palestinian security in the West Bank.
According to the writ, Rahim was detained by the PA on September 29,
1995, and tortured to death.The claimants accused Rajoub of playing a
major role in the arrest, torture and death of their relative. The
family testified that Rahim was visiting his home town of Ein Yabrud,
near Ramallah, over 20 years ago, when plainclothes security forces
detained him while he was playing backgammon in a local coffee house and
took him to prison in Jericho. Two days later an ambulance delivered
his dead body back to the town.The ambulance driver allegedly told the
family that Rahim died of a heart attack in the Jericho hospital.
However the hospital told the family that Rahim was already dead when he
arrived there.An autopsy revealed injuries to Rahim’s head and face,
broken teeth and cut lips, and cigarette burns all over his body. He
also had broken ribs, but no heart damage.The family claimed that Rahim
was taken for ransom on the assumption that he was a rich American, and
that when he refused to pay he was tortured to death.Rahim left behind a
wife and six children.Rajoub is not likely to be detained or questioned
by US authorities, according to the Ynet report, which added that the
lawsuit was first filed 11 years ago but had been erased since Rajoub
was not physically present in the US at the time.
6
Israelis killed or injured abroad recognized as victims of
terror-Amendment to legislation entitles families of those murdered or
hurt in recent attacks outside Israel to compensation, other forms of
assistance-By Times of Israel staff April 6, 2017, 1:28 am
The
Defense Ministry has recognized six Israelis killed or injured in
recent attacks abroad as state victims of terror following a legislation
amendment recently approved by a Knesset committee.They are Shmuel
Benalal, killed in Mali in November 2015; Chaim Winternitz and Mendy
Farkash, injured in Brussels in March 2016; Dalia Elyakim, killed in
Berlin in December 2016 and her husband Rami who was injured in the
attack; and Lian Zaher Nasser, killed in January 2017 in
Istanbul.Israeli victims who die or are injured in terror attacks either
within Israel or abroad are considered “victims of hostilities” by the
state, under a law drafted in 1970. Those injured receive special
benefits from Israel’s tax authority and compensation from Israel’s
social security, as do the families of those who are killed. But the
terror attacks must specifically target Israelis for the victims to be
eligible for the benefits.After the amendment approved on March 21, the
law would apply to those injured or killed outside of Israel in terror
attacks if the group behind the attack states that one of its objectives
is to harm Israel, citizens of Israel or Jews, even if the purpose of
the specific attack was not directed at Israelis or Jews.The law change
applies retroactively to those injured or killed since April 1,
2012.Benalal was 60 at the time of an attack which killed 27 people on
November 20, 2015. Terrorists stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako
and laid siege to the luxury hotel for some nine hours. Thirteen foreign
nationals were among the dead, including several Russians, three
Chinese, two Belgians, an American and a Senegalese.Ultra-Orthodox
brothers-in-law Winternitz and Farkash were waiting to board a flight in
Brussels on March 22, 2016 when they were injured in a double attack in
which 32 people were killed and 340 were injured in twin bombings at
the airport and at a metro station.Dalia Elyakim of Herzliya was one of
12 people killed on December 19, 2016 when an alleged Islamic State
terrorist plowed a truck into the Berlin market. Her husband was wounded
in the attack.Nineteen-year-old Nasser from the Arab Israeli city of
Tira was killed in a shooting attack on New Year’s Eve on December 31,
2016 in the exclusive Reina nightclub in Istanbul. A total of 39 people,
including many foreigners, were killed in the assault.
