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>JN Aug. 6. 1998, Vol. 6, No. 139
Officials Call for Nuclear Retaliation
By IsraelWire
According to Jane's Defense Weekly, the successful test-launching of the Iranian ballistic missile Shahab 3 has stirred up a debate in Tel-Aviv over the proper Israeli response to the new threat from Tehran. Defense Ministry officials are pressing the government to approve a policy giving Israel the ability to retaliate after a nuclear attack, and thus to deter any government from launching one.
Yitzhar Terrorist Attack
By IsraelWire
Tens of thousands gathered Wednesday at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood to pay their last respects to Harel Bin-Nun and Shlomo Shneur Leibman, the two victims of Tuesday night's terrorist attack in Samaria.
The attack occurred approximately 1.2 miles north of the inhabited
portion of Yitzhar, on a new road that leads to where the new
neighborhood of Yitzhar is planned. At the time of the attack,
Bin-Nun, 20, was speaking on a cellular phone to someone in the
community of Bet Chaggai, in the southern Hebron Hills area.
In the midst of the conversation, the person in Bet Chaggai
realized the phone went quiet, and immediately thereafter, he heard
gunfire and shouts in Arabic. Not realizing what to make of the
situation, the person immediately phoned someone in Yitzhar,
informing him of what had taken place.
It was that phone call which activated notification to emergency
personnel and the search for the security team was implemented.
They were found dead, riddled with bullets fired from close range by
the AK-47 assault rifles used by the terrorists. They were also
shot in their heads at point-blank range, after the terrorists
dragged their mortally wounded bodies from their patrol jeep. The
IDF scouts found footprints belonging to the terrorists, which led
to a nearby village under the control of the PLO Authority.
It appears that Israeli security troops did not engage in a "hot
pursuit" by entering into the village in search of the attackers,
as outlined in the Oslo Accords. Israel has called upon the PA to
assist in apprehending the terrorists, as has become the standard
method of operation in these attacks.
In the jeep, only Leibman was armed, as Israeli authorities had
confiscated Bin-Nun's weapon, since he was deemed a "security risk.
More than 50 percent of the male residents of their community have
now been disarmed.
Jewish Agency Counselors Suspected in Russian Rape
By IsraelWire
Haaretz reports that Jewish Agency officials have managed to
persuade the parents of a 12-year-old girl to withdraw their
complaint against two summer camp counselors, accused of rape.
The two 17-year-olds are accused of raping the girl, a camper in
the Jewish Agency-run summer program. The summer camp is for
children who are eligible for immigrating to Israel, in accordance
with Israel's Law of Return. The two counselors are said to be
well-known figures in the Russian Jewish community.
Six Redemptions
By Arutz-7 News Service
An unusual "Redeeming of the First-Born" ceremony was held in
Ashdod. Although customarily it is the father who redeems his
one-month old first-born son from a Cohen (priest), this ceremony
featured six adults, recent new immigrants from Russia, who
redeemed themselves together at a moving ceremony.
One of those 'redeemed,' Shimon Ben-Dor, said, "Unfortunately, we
did not undergo this process while young, but after we heard from
our rabbi the importance of this biblical commandment, we requested
to be able to fulfill it."
The Cohen who accepted the redemption money -- five pure silver
coins - was Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen, who is accepted as one who traces
his ancestral roots back to Eli the Priest, mentor of Samuel the
Prophet. The event, including the customary festive meal for the
tens of relatives and other participants, was sponsored by an
anonymous donor from Ashdod.
Teacher Dismissed Because Husband Not Observant
By IsraelWire
Yaffa Rosenbaum said she was shocked to hear that she was being
dismissed from her position as a kindergarten teacher in an
Orthodox kindergarten, because her husband is not an observant Jew.
Rosenbaum has worked in the religious school system for over
25-years.
When it was learned that her children do not attend religious
schools, the wheels of the system began to turn and she was invited
to a meeting with senior officials of the religious education
system. Ultimately, she was told that all the members of her family
had to be religious and it was not enough that she was an observant
Jew.
Senior officials of the Ministry of Education reminded Rosenbaum
that when she began working 25 years ago, she signed a statement
stating that all the members of her family were observant Jews. She
said she did not remember such a document.
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