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School Year Opens in Israel Despite Gaza Rockets

August 25, 2014 Despite the continued barrage of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, the school year will start on September 1. In order to help students who are suffering from the stress of continually being bombed by Hamas, Israel’s teachers have been directed to lead discussions in which students talk about what they have experienced during the ongoing Gaza conflict.

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Hamas Executes Suspected Collaborators with Israel in “Operation Strangling Necks”

August 24, 2014 In recent days, Hamas operatives have executed at least 25 Gazans suspected of collaborating with Israel in what Hamas calls "Operation Strangling Necks." (JP) On Friday morning, 11 alleged informants were shot at the Gaza City police headquarters. Two of the 11 were women. Later in the day, masked gunmen wearing black openly shot seven alleged in formants, lining them up against a wall with their heads covered with bags. They then sprayed them with automatic rifles fire in front of worshippers emerging from the al-Omari Mosque.

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Four-Year-Old Israeli Murdered By Hamas Laid to Rest Sunday

August 24, 2014 On Sunday morning, four-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was the victim of Hamas' Friday afternoon rocket attack on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was laid to rest. Daniel was critically wounded by rocket shrapnel in his family home as he ran to the safe room when the code red siren sounded. With only seconds to reach the room, he didn't make it. He died shortly after.

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Hamas Hits Israeli Kindergarten and Synagogue

August 24, 2014 What began with three Gaza rockets on Tuesday hitting Be’er Sheva and Netivot escalated to about 70 by 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. A civilian home was hit Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday morning, a 33-year old man who shielded children with his body was seriously hurt in Eshkol. An empty kindergarten was also struck and several cows were also killed when a rocket kit a cowshed. By Thursday evening, Hamas had unleashed more than 300 rockets. On Friday, four-year-old Daniel Tragerman was killed when a Hamas rocket landed near his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

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Israel Helps Quadriplegics to Get Up and Go

August 22, 2014 The Israeli company ReWalk, which invented a unique device that allows paraplegics to walk, has taken their expertise to the next level with UPnRIDE, a stand-up wheelchair specially designed for quadriplegics and those without full use of their arms and legs.

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Israel Foils Hamas Plot to Take Over West Bank

August 22, 2014 Israel has thwarted a Hamas plot to topple the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, begin the third intifada uprising, and establish a second front against Israel during Operation Protective Edge. Israel’s internal security, the Shin Bet, uncovered the plot during May and June, in the process of arresting over 90 Hamas operatives, confiscating guns and other weapons that included 24 M-16 rifles, six handguns, seven missile launchers, magazines, and ammunition, and seizing more than $170,000 funneled into the West Bank from Jordan to fund the attacks

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Parasha Reeh (See): The Mountain of Blessing

August 22, 2014 In this week’s Torah portion, God sets before the people of Israel a clear choice: they could either obey God’s commandments (mitzvot) and enjoy a life of blessing (brachah), or disobey and suffer the resulting curse (klalah). The blessings are to be proclaimed on Mount Gerizim and the curses on Mount Ebal when the people cross over the Jordan into the Holy Land. “When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering in order to take possession of it, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.” (Deuteronomy 11:29)

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Israeli Surplus Potato Crop Destined for Hungry Gazans

August 22, 2014 Gershon Baskin, the founder and co-chairman of the Israel Palestine Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI), has raised $93,000 to be used to buy surplus Israeli potatoes for Palestinians in Gaza who are hurting due to the aftermath of the Hamas bombing of Israel.

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Journalists Slam Hamas for Censorship in Gaza

August 18, 2014 In an August 11 statement, the Foreign Press Association (FPA) condemned Hamas for holding international journalists under threat and for censoring stories about Hamas war crimes and terror activities in Gaza during Israel's Operation Protective Edge in July 2014. The FPA berated Hamas for forcing journalists to underplay or ignore the terror group's activities in the Gaza Strip. It claimed forceful threats were used against its journalists, the first such claims by an official organization. (Ynet)

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Iran, Hamas Call West Bank to Rise Up Against Israel

August 18, 2014 On August 11, the Iranian Armed Forces' deputy chief of staff, Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri encouraged "West Bank" Arabs (Arabs in Judea and Samaria) to take part in "more serious fighting" against Israel. "The countdown has started for a change in the model of confrontation in the West Bank," Jazzayeri said to the Iranian state news agency, Fars, adding that "the Palestinian people—especially the youth, resistance forces and warriors—have valuable experiences in fighting the Zionist enemy."

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