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Terror Attack
Early this morning an 18 year old terrorist got off a bus at the Tapuach junction in Samaria (West Bank) and began running towards soldiers brandishing a knife. After first warning him to stop, the soldiers opened fire and killed the terrorist. There were no other casualties.

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Terrorists Busted
The Shin Bet and IDF arrested three terrorists who committed four shooting attacks over the past couple of months. The terror cell was planning another attack on the settlement of Ofra. Security forces also arrested family members who were involved in hiding weapons for the terrorists.

The Shin Bet commented that the “attacks the cell planned and committed, which were revealed during the course of the investigation, demonstrate the high level of threat that local terror activities pose, especially with the access to weapons and/or the means to produce them.”

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Hamas Tunnel
Hamas has reported that two of its operatives were killed when the terror tunnel they were digging to infiltrate into Israel collapsed.

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Germany Attacks
Germany strongly criticized Israel’s attempt to pass the “regulation bill”, which would legalize settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land, saying that it would break international law and undermine chances for a two-state solution. The regulation bill has already passed its first reading in the Knesset.

Asked whether Germany and the European Union should punish Israel with economic or diplomatic sanctions, a German spokesman said: “We don’t think that sanctions would be the right path in this case to make headway in the Middle East peace process.”

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El Al Again
Just when you thought that EL Al’s problems were over, after reaching an agreement with its pilots, the airline is now having issues with its flight attendants. El Al Flight attendants are gearing up for a legal battle against the airline to fight for better pay and working conditions. They claim that most of them make less than minimum wage. So although your El Al flight might be on time now, the service you get on the flight might be a bit less than you expected.

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Israel Funding Diaspora
The norm has been for the diaspora to fund programs in Israel. But that’s changing. For the first time, the Israeli government will be funding educational programs in diaspora schools.

Israel’s Education and Diaspora Affairs ministries, both headed by Bayit Yehudi MK’s, plan to spend as much as 136 million shekels ($35.8 million) over the next four years to develop programs for Jewish schools overseas. The funds will be used to develop programs on Israel, the Hebrew language and Jewish history as well as provide schools with expert advice, teacher training and pedagogical services. The program will initially be offered to 65 Jewish schools in Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union.

According to the ministries the goal of the program is, “to strengthen Jewish identity and connection to Israel on the part of students at Jewish schools around the world by building a systematic pedagogic strategy in these areas inside Jewish schools.”

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