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Jerusalem police detained a 35-year-old woman who took off her clothes and roamed around the Western Wall plaza wearing nothing but her underwear.
The woman took disrobed as a protest against a bill proposal floated last week by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which would impose a penalty of six months in prison and a fine on anyone who visits the Western Wall in "inappropriate attire” or behaves in a disrespectful way.
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More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the toll is expected to soar with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country's worst modern disaster.
Within three days the death toll rose from 33,000 to 45,000. The death toll in Turkey stands at 39,672, while neighboring Syria has reported more than 5,800 deaths. Syria's toll has not changed for days. Mosques around the world on Friday performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead in Turkey and Syria, many of whom could not receive full burial rites given the enormity of the disaster. The missing will soon be assumed dead. The numbers will be shocking.
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No less than 150,000 Israelis arrived over the weekend for the annual Darom Adom (Red South) festival. The festival takes place throughout February and offers a wide variety of activities for the whole family, some free of charge. The greatest attraction is the flowers.
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A senior Israeli diplomat on Saturday was removed from the African Union's annual summit in Ethiopia, as a dispute over Israel's accreditation to the bloc escalated.
Images posted online showed African Union security personnel confronting the diplomat during the opening ceremony of the summit, before she left the auditorium. "Israel looks harshly upon the incident in which the deputy director for Africa, Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li, was removed from the African Union hall despite her status as an accredited observer with entrance badges," the foreign ministry said.
The African Union said that only the Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia was credential to attend the event.
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North Korea announced that it had fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a "sudden launching drill" that confirmed its readiness for "mobile and mighty counterattack" against hostile forces. North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile into the sea off Japan's west coast after warning of a strong response to upcoming military drills by South Korea and the United States.
North Korea is flexing it muscles and announcing to everyone that they are prepared to strike back if necessary
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran was responsible for a reported attack on an Israeli owned oil tanker last week. An attack on the Liberian-flagged Campo Square was confirmed by the ship's captain, who said it was lightly damaged by an airborne object on Feb. 10 while sailing through the Arabian Sea.
Shipping databases linked the tanker to Zodiac Maritime, which is controlled by Israeli shipping magnate Eyal Ofer. "Last week Iran again attacked an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and harmed the international freedom of navigation," Netanyahu said at a weekly cabinet meeting.
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Bloomberg is reporting that International atomic monitors in Iran detected uranium enriched to levels just below that needed for a nuclear weapon. Bloomberg cited two senior diplomats who confirmed that Iran is enriching uranium levels far higher than permitted.
According to the report, the International Atomic Energy Agency is trying to clarify how Iran accumulated uranium enriched to 84% purity — the highest level found by inspectors in the country to date, and a concentration just 6% below what’s needed for a sophisticated nuclear weapon. Iran had previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to a 60% level of purity.
This is deeply problematic!
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Israel is prepared to extend its aid to Turkey and to Syrian, to the victims of the recent earthquake. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a rare overture to the enemy Arab state. "I ordered to send, at the request of the Turkish government, rescue teams and medical aid," Netanyahu announced this at a ceremony in a hospital near Tel Aviv. "Since a request was also received to do this for many victims of the earthquake in Syria, I instructed to do this as well," he said. Netanyahu did not elaborate on who had made the request regarding Syria.
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The huge earthquake has rocked the Middle East. Thousands have died and many more are not yet found.
Israel has confirmed that it had received a Syrian request thru a third party for assistance with earthquake relief. Israel said that it was prepared to help.
This would be rare example of cooperation between the enemy neighbors. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech he had ordered Israeli aid for Turkey which was the epicenter of the earthquake.
Netanyahu said: "since a request was also received to do this for many victims of the earthquake in Syria, I instructed to do this as well". Asked who had made the request regarding helping Syria an Israeli official said: "The Syrians". Asked if this referred to opposition members or to President Bashar al-Assad's government, the official said only: "Syria.”
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The Turkish intelligence agency arrested a network of 15 Islamic State operatives, who planned to carry out a terrorist attack against the consulates of Sweden and Holland in Istanbul, in response to the protests in which burned Qurans.
The report from the Hürriyet news agency also said that the operatives planned on carrying out attacks in synagogues and churches in Istanbul.
After interrogating the terrorists Turkey said that they are certain that the terrorists were not connected to a larger cell operating in Turkey.
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Israeli Judo athletes are once again dominating international competitions.
Israeli judoka Gili Sharir won the under-63 kg gold medal at the recent Paris Grand Slam judo tournament. She won a convincing victory after dominating Japanese judoka Nami Nabekura in the final. “I am really happy to have been able to win my first Grand Slam gold medal after a very long and difficult day. A big thank you to my amazing family and good luck to all the competitors tomorrow,” said the champion after her victory.
Another Israeli competitor, Gefen Primo, won bronze in the under-52 kg category after beating Brazil’s Larissa Pimenta.
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Shevah Weiss, the former Speaker of the Knesset, passed away at age 87. Weiss was a member of the Labor party, and an MK for 18 years. Weiss was a holocaust survivor form Poland. He also served as Israel’s ambassador to Poland. November 4, 1995, Weiss was on the stage at the peace rally in Tel Aviv next to Shimon Peres when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
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Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned "tens of thousands" of prisoners, almost all were arrested in recent anti-government protests over security-related charges, state media reported. "Prisoners not facing charges of spying for foreign agencies, having direct contact with foreign agents, committing intentional murder and injury, committing destruction and arson of state property, or not having a private plaintiff in their case will be pardoned," state media said.
According to the HRANA activist news agency, about 20,000 people have been arrested over anti-government protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman who died in Iranian police custody, in September.
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Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said that Israel and Sudan will sign a peace deal this year. Cohen returned from a brief visit to the African country and met with its leadership. Sudan joined the Abraham Accords in 2021 but did not normalize relations with Israel due to the political situation there.
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IDF and U.S. forces have concluded a joint drill. The drill was billed as their largest joint drill to date. Over 6,500 U.S. soldiers and commanders were in participation. The drill also included training and exercises between Israeli and U.S. air-forces, ground forces and navies.
Sources from both the United States and israel confirmed that this joint drill was a huge success.
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A 17-year-old Israeli was rescued after discovering himself in the middle of a minefield in the Golan Heights. The teenager was guided out of the 55 year old minefield with help from the IDF Combat Engineering Corps. The minefield, which was in an area that had been the site of wars between Israel and Syria, was strewn with deadly anti-personnel landmines decades after the hostilities ended.
Areas such as this one are all clearly marked - but every year people still wander into them. Inevitably grazing animals get blown up when they, too, wander in.
This incident had a happy ending.
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The U.S. Treasury announced that it was placing sanctions on Lebanese money exchanger Hassan Moukalled and on his because of financial ties to Hezbollah, which is on the US Treasury’s terror list. In other words, they are blackballed.
Moukalled was described as a financial adviser to Iranian-backed Hezbollah, who carried out financial transactions on the behalf of the terrorist organization that earned him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Obviously, Iran is also on the US Treasury’s terror list. Moukalled was dealing with two parties on the US terror list, on both sides of his money exchange.
The US Treasury believes in squeezing terrorist money sources.
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