Israel News for June 23, 2016
Jaffa Attack
A 17 year old Jewish boy was attacked and stabbed by a group of four or five Arab teens in a public park in Jaffa on Tuesday evening. He had been working out wearing headphones so he failed to hear the group approaching. They attacked him with broken bottles and yelled, “Stinking little Jew, you deserve to die.”
Isn’t Israel supposed to be the one place we can go to get away from anti-semitism?
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Terror Sentencing
The four terrorists who murdered Eitam and Naama Henkin in front of their children last year were sentenced by a military court to life in prison. Israel does not have a death penalty.
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Abbas Refuses
President Reuven Rivlin is in Brussels on an official visit to the EU Parliament, where he delivered a speech yesterday. PA President Abbas is due to arrive there too. So the EU president suggested that he set up a meeting between them. Rivlin agreed. Abbas, however, refused to meet with Rivlin.
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Mikvah Ruling
Women going to the Mikvah (ritual bath) in Israel will no longer be required to immerse in the presence of a Mikvah attendant. That was the rule before the Chief Rabbinate changed it as a result of a petition submitted by a women’s group before the Supreme Court. Now each woman will be able to decide for herself whether to immerse in the presence of an attendant, alone, or in the presence of a friend.
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Icelandic Esther
Did you know that the First Lady of Iceland is Israeli? Yup. Dorit Moussaieff is the wife of Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson. With Iceland’s recent advancement into the round of 16 in the 2016 UEFA European Championship (soccer), she’s offering to help teach Israel some lessons from the tiny country’s (300,000 residents) sporting success. The interesting part of this story is that the First Lady of Iceland is Israeli. Who would have thought?
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Hasidic Pepsi
Pepsi is apparently aiming for the Israeli Haredi market, judging by a new commercial featuring hasidic singing star Lipa Shmelter. To check out the video click here.
