Jewish and Israeli Holidays
While the motive is unknown, the timing and location of the incident, which is being investigated as a hate crime, are “extremely disturbing.”
The child-safety organization Beterem–Safe Kids Israel said that since 2008, 31 children in Israel have been killed on Yom Kippur.
“We offer our sincerest condolences to the friends and families of the victims killed in the attacks in Halle, Germany, and wish the injured a speedy recovery,” said the U.S. State Department.
“I call on the German authorities to continue taking determined action against anti-Semitism,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a gunman kills two people on the Jewish holiday.
While 27.5 percent do not expect to fast, 5 percent of respondents said they will only drink liquids. The rest were undecided.
“Enough is enough,” said Brooklyn Councilman Chaim Deutsch. “If they have to bring in 200 cops to patrol our streets to show their visibility, that’s what has to be done.”
The Special Committee on Decolonization is notoriously anti-Israel, singling out the Jewish state by adopting various resolutions against Israel—and only against Israel.
The new immigrants had all made aliyah to Israel with the assistance of the Jewish Agency just two months earlier, as they begin their lives in Israel bringing in the Jewish new year, 5780.
Palestinian media reports seven wounded as Israeli security forces disperse rioters during pilgrimage of 1,000 Jews to the tomb.
Indian sources say Israeli support for the country’s abrogation of an article of its constitution giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir motivated terror groups to attack.
Social-media users called the omission “shocking” and “sickening,” with some suggesting that the inclusion of “non-Jewish Poles” showed that the Union deliberately decided who to include and leave out.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the New York State Hate Crimes Task Force to help the NYPD investigate the “disturbing” case.
