Israel News for 10-15-18
Terror Attack
A Palestinian terrorist attempted to stab a soldier standing at a bus stop at the busy Gitai Avishar Junction on Highway 5 in Samaria today. The soldiers guarding the stop shot and killed the terrorist. No soldiers were harmed.
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Judge Attacked
Supreme Court Justice David Mintz said he escaped a violent assault by three men armed with hammers who attempted to block his car as he drove on a West Bank highway near his home in the settlement of Dolev on Monday morning. Police opened an investigation into the incident.
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Gaza Strife
An IDF aircraft attacked a cell of terrorists launching incendiary balloons from the northern Gaza Strip into Israel on Sunday afternoon. Several fires caused by incendiary balloons erupted during the day throughout the Gaza border communities. Incendiary balloons were carried by winds into central Israel as far as Beit Shemesh, Rishon Letzion, Bat Yam, Modiin and Jerusalem.
Speaking at the Security Cabinet meeting on Sunday evening, PM Netanyahu warned Hamas, saying the IDF is edging closer to a large scale military activity in the Gaza Strip and if the ongoing border violence continues, Israel will strike the terror group with “very powerful blows.” He added that, “if Hamas has any sense, they will stop the violence immediately.”
On Friday, during riots on the Gaza border, 20 terrorists attempted to cross into Israel. The IDF shot 3 terrorists dead. A total of 7 Palestinians were reportedly killed during the riots.
Defense Minister Lieberman warned that he will cut off the fuel supply to Gaza if the violence continues.
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Tax Cuts
Despite problematic deficit figures, the minister of finance is starting to signal an upcoming tax cut. According to a television news report on Friday, Moshe Kahlon said, “There is a large-scale plan for cutting taxes, and I will pursue it, regardless of whether elections are held.” Kahlon did not state what taxes were involved.
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New Embassy
Israel’s foreign ministry will open an embassy in the central African state of Rwanda in 2019, in the capital city of Kigali. Rwanda currently has an embassy in Tel Aviv. The move constitutes the fulfillment of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s promise to the Rwandan government in 2017 to open a full embassy in Kigali.
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