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The six members of the cell had also plotted attacks on a bus station in northern Israel and a police station in Nazareth, according to Israel’s security services.
Biden offered prayers for Jewish families affected by the deadly Florida hurricane and said the American Jewish community can’t remain silent on anti-Semitism during the call.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have all labelled Youssef al-Qaradawi’s International Union of Muslim Scholars as a terrorist entity; Hamas mourns his passing.
“Jordan has dropped from the warmest peace with Israel some five years ago to the coldest,” said Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
“We’re the people of the book, but we don’t read our own book,” says Robert Weinger, a master shofar-blower who lives in Israel.
As tension again spikes between the Iranian-backed proxy and Israel, observers flag key milestones in the evolution of the most heavily armed terror entity, and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
Hassan Iquioussen “has for years spread insidious ideas that are nothing less than incitement to hatred, discrimination and violence.”
He is gathering research for his next book on Israeli security threats, traveling along Israel’s often tense borders with Gaza, Syria and Lebanon. Details of his trip, including visits to the Temple Mount, the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and the Western Wall have made waves on social media.
“In this regard, no one can blame the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Nasser Kanaani, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry. “We believe that the insults made and the support he received was an insult against followers of all religions.”
Sources say it is “clear” that at some point before the attack, Hadi Matar had been in contact with “people either directly involved with or adjacent to the” IRGC Quds Force.
A “fatwa” (religious edict) was placed on the author by Iran in the late 1980s; it has since been upgraded to a $3.3 million bounty.
The complex houses a new hotel and an active archeological site where visitors can have a first-century Galilee experience in the 21st century.
