Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita in his motzei Shabbos shiur addressed the horrific terror attack in N’vei Tzuf on Friday night, the slaughter that took place during a Shalom Zachor. The rav stated that any Arab who comes to murder should be killed and not left injured, as was the case in this attack. “Unfortunately, the terrorist was not killed. This terrorist should have been killed” stated the rav. As he continued the shiur, Rav Yosef stated any terrorist who comes to kill, it is prohibited that he remains alive. “We know that he came to harm Jews and we must kill him”.
Three members of Salomon family brought to Modiin cemetery Sunday, less than 48 hours after Friday night massacre in Halamish. Thousands of people came to the Modiin cemetery Sunday afternoon to pay their last respects to the three members of the Salomon family who were murdered by an Arab terrorist Friday night in the town of Halamish (Neve Tzuf) in western Samaria. The victims included Yosef Salomon, 70, his daughter, Haya, 46, and his son Elad, 35. The family had gathered in Halamish to celebrate the birth of a new grandchild, when an Arab terrorist broke into the house and stabbed four members of the Salomon family, leaving three dead and one wounded. Elad Salomon, a resident of the town of Elad in central Israel, is survived by his wife and five children. His sister...
Wife of Elad Salomon describes Halamish terror attack: 'I took the children and ran upstairs. I held the door with all my strength.' Michal Salomon, the wife of Elad Salomon, one of those murdered in the horrific terror attackin Neve Tzuf (Halamish) on Friday night, recounted the terrifying moments when her husband, his sister Haya, and their father, Yosef, were murdered. Michal and Elad had come with their 5 children to Neve Tzuf to spend Shabbat (the Sabbath) with Elad’s parents, Tova and Yosef, who were celebrating the birth of a new grandson with family and friends from the community. While most of the people remained in the kitchen at the end of the Shabbat meal, Michal had moved to the living room to prepare for the “Shalom Zachor” celebratio...
Arutz Sheva speaks with Miri Maoz-Ovadia, spokeswoman for town ravaged by barbarous terror attack Friday night. The spokeswoman for the Neve Tzuf-Halamish community where Friday night's barbaric terror attack took place, Miri Maoz-Ovadia, spoke with Arutz Sheva and said that it had been an "extremely traumatizing Shabbat for everyone here, and for all those who are following what happened." "We have known difficult times, intifadas, terror attacks on the roads where residents were murdered, but never anything like this: a terrorist entering a house and butchering a family, so feelings are very hard." It was your brother who neutralized the terrorist. Have you spoken to him since? My brother and father heard the screaming and ran quickly, when they realized that it wa...
Halamish community organizer tells Arutz Sheva local youth have already begun work on new neighborhood of residents murdered by terrorists. Less than 48 hours after the slaughter of three Halamish residents by an Arab terrorist sent shockwaves across Israel, local youth have already begun a new building project to memorialize the victims of Friday’s attack. Assaf Arzi, the youth organizer for Halamish (also known as Neve Tzuf) spoke with Arutz Sheva Sunday about the efforts of local teens to build something constructive out of their shared pain. Last Friday evening, an Arab terrorist armed with a knife broke into a home in Halamish and murdered three members of the Salomon family in cold blood. A fourth member of the Salomon family was wounded. Since the Sabbath e...
Police say lack of anti-Semitic graffiti suggests vandalism was random, not anti-Semitic. JTA - Some 60 headstones were toppled in a Jewish cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut. The damage at the Ateres Knesseth Israel Cemetery was discovered on Friday, when a relative of someone buried there visited the gravesite. The woman who made the discovery told police that when she visited the cemetery on Monday, five days earlier, she had not seen any such damage, according to reports. Most of the 60 gravestones reportedly can be reset on their bases, but at least two were shattered. The cost to repair the damage is estimated at up to $10,000. Hartford Police told the daily newspaper, the Hartford Courant, that there is no evidence that the vandalism is a hate crime since no ant...
San Antonio police find 8 bodies, living victims stuffed into back of overheated truck in San Antonio in 'horrific' human trafficking case. Eight people were found dead inside a tractor-trailer outside a San Antonio Walmart Saturday, police said. "A number of other people" were found inside the truck on the 101 degree summer day. They were taken to local hospitals after being held in the air condition-less vehicle. The driver of the truck approached a Walmart employee late Saturday night to ask for water. The employee gave the driver water and called the police. The police arrived on the scene and found the eight bodies, as well as the other victims, in the back of the truck. Surveillance video showed that other vehicles had arrived and taken people from the truck before p...
Police seek to replace metal detectors with security cameras. Waqf rejects all security measures to prevent terror attacks. JTA - Israel Police installed sophisticated surveillance cameras at the Lion’s Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, where most Muslim worshippers enter the Temple Mount, in an effort to clear the metal detectors from the site. The new cameras installed on Saturday night would be able to detect those carrying weapons, who could be taken aside and checked by police. Worshippers who arrived at the site on Sunday morning refused to enter the compound due to the cameras. The Jordanian Waqf - an Islamic trust which administers the site - rejected the cameras as a violation of the status quo. “We confirm our total rejection of the electronic gates and all...
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas cancels security meetings between Israeli and Arab officials following Hamas terror attack in Halamish. JTA - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas canceled scheduled security coordination meetings between Israeli and Palestinian officials. The meetings were cancelled on Sunday, two days after Abbas announced that PA leaders have frozen all contact with Israel over newly installed security measures at the Temple Mount. It is the first time that security cooperation has been halted since Abbas was elected leader of the PA nearly a decade ago, according to Israeli reports. Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman told Ynet that Israel can manage without Palestinian security cooperation, but that the Palestinians will suff...
Father of victim of 2011 Itamar massacre slams publication of pictures from scene of Neve Tzuf terror attack. Haim Fogel, a resident of Neve Tzuf and the father of Rabbi Udi Fogel, murdered along with his wife and three children in the 2011 Itamar massacre, slammed the publication of the horrific scenes from the Neve Tzuf terror attack on Friday night. "My wife turned on the TV on Saturday night and saw the pictures, and it brought it all back to her," Fogel said this morning. "We are sorry that this is what is happening. It hurts families. Someone may think it's good to show the whole world [...] the blood. The problem is that it hurts us, it hurts the families. Why is it needed?” “If it were possible to stop it, I would ask that it be stopped,&rd...
With praise and a blessing for the military, President Donald Trump helped hand over the USS Gerald R. Ford to the Navy on Saturday and said the state-of-the-art aircraft carrier will send a “100,000-ton message to the world” about America’s military might when it is ultimately deployed. U.S. allies will rest easy, Trump said, but America’s enemies will “shake with fear” when they see the Ford cutting across the horizon. The president and commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces likened the $12.9 billion warship to “an incredible work of art” and boasted about the American labor that went into building a vessel that eventually will house thousands of sailors and crew members. Trump’s participation in the ceremony also capped &ldqu...
The U.S. Coast Guard says a launch from a rocket complex in Alaska will occur as soon as next week. The launch from Kodiak Island is scheduled to occur at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska between 7 p.m. on July 29 and 1:30 a.m. on July 30, according to a U.S. Coast Guard notice released Wednesday. Alternative times for the launch are listed as between 7 p.m. on July 30 and 1:30 a.m. on July 31, or between 7 p.m. on July 31 and 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 1. Mariners are advised to remain clear of swaths of ocean between Kodiak Island and Hawaii during those time periods. U.S. Army soldiers are stationed temporarily at the launch complex for U.S. Missile Defense Agency testing of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported. The U.S. Missile Defense...
Congressional Republicans and Democrats announced Saturday they had reached an agreement on a sweeping Russia sanctions package to punish Moscow for meddling in the presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, said lawmakers had settled lingering issues with the bill, which also includes stiff economic penalties against Iran and North Korea. The sanctions targeting Russia, however, have drawn the most attention due to President Donald Trump’s persistent push for warmer relations with President Vladimir Putin and ongoing investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign. Passage of the bill, which could occur before Congress breaks for the August recess, puts Capitol Hill on possibl...
 Motzei Shabbos: Security forces near the Ma’aras HaMachpelah in Hebron checked a suspicious Arab male and found he was concealing a knife, which the assume was intended for use in an attack. B’chasdei Hashem, he was apprehended in time and there are no injuries reported.In other terror-related news on motzei Shabbos, Efrat residents a short time ago received the ‘all clear’ after the IDF determined there was not an infiltration as feared earlier. Residents were instructed to remain in their homes. Violent protests, firebomb and rock attacks against police are ongoing motzei Shabbos in Arab areas of the eastern capital.
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate-affiliated batei din and the family courts are forced to deal again and again with complaints to the police, who are issuing restraining orders for tactical reasons to improve positions in marital disputes. Tel Aviv Av Beis Din Rabbi Meir Freeman and Rabbi Meir Kahan published a harsh and aggressive ruling this week in which he ruled out a false complainant and ordered her to divorce. The court discussed the dispute between a Tel Aviv real estate man and his veterinarian wife, parents of two children aged four and two, and the husband filed a divorce suit, while the woman asked for shalom bayis. It turns out that at one point the woman filed a complaint with the police, and the husband was then automatically expelled from his home for five days. Then the wo...
Embattled former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has opened a new consulting firm called Resilient Patriot, LLC that is advising private equity firms, according to one of his brothers, who says Flynn is “moving on with his life.” Joe Flynn said his family also is in the early stages of starting a fund to pay for the legal bills his brother is racking up as he sits at the center of multiple probes into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. “Mike’s not a millionaire, not even close,” Joe Flynn told The Associated Press this week. “This situation has put him in a tough spot financially. This is going to cost him a lot of money.” “There’s a lot of people that are big fans of his across the country,”...
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says he believes there is still a path to getting a health care bill passed, despite “a handful of holdouts.” Cruz told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Friday that “we’ve got to deliver now. There is a path to yes.” That path, however, is far from clear. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell postponed consideration of a GOP bill again this week after it fell short of the number of votes needed to pass. Republicans remain divided on the issue, and Democrats are unanimously against efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s signature health care bill. Cruz says President Donald Trump’s message to lawmakers on health care is clear: “Get it done. Stop messing around.” ...
Sen. John McCain is telling his best friend in the Senate to keep it together as he grapples with brain cancer. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says McCain called him three times on Thursday about immigration legislation. Graham says McCain “is yelling at me to buck up so I’m gonna buck up.” McCain’s glioblastoma diagnosis has devastated his Senate colleagues. But he’s told them he’s not gone yet. The resilience is classic McCain, the Navy pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war turned congressman and senator. He twice ran for president, losing a GOP primary to George W. Bush and a general election to Barack Obama. Still a force in Congress, the 80-year-old six-term Arizona Republican is chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee. The grave medic...
New York state has raised the age of marriage to 17 in an effort to prevent child marriage. The change took effect Thursday, a month after lawmakers voted to rewrite a state law that had allowed children as young as 14 to legally wed. Under the new rules, an individual aged 17 must receive judicial approval before marrying. New York had been one of only three states that allowed 14-year-olds to marry, the others being North Carolina and Alaska. More than 3,800 minors were married in New York between 2000 and 2010. Supporters of the new rules say child brides are often forced to give up economic and educational opportunities and are frequently the victims of domestic violence.
The Trump administration will ban American citizens from traveling to North Korea, U.S. officials said Friday, following the death of university student Otto Warmbier who died in June after falling into a coma in a North Korean prison. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had decided to impose “geographic travel restriction” for North Korea, the officials said, which would make it illegal to use U.S. passports to enter the country. They said the restriction would go into effect 30 days after a notice is published in the Federal Register, but it was not immediately clear when that would be. There was no announcement in Friday’s editions of the government publication. The officials were not authorized to publicly discuss the decision before it is announced and spoke on condit...
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