When an Indecent, Immoral Act is NOT Moral Turpitude

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Ramon Considers Returning to Politics, By Dan Izenberg (Jerusalem Post)

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Associates of former justice minister Haim Ramon said Thursday that he was to decide on whether to return to politics only after the Pessah holidays.

Earlier, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court decided to uphold the Ramon’s conviction of committing an indecent act, but ruled that the felony would not carry with it moral turpitude, which would enable Ramon to return to public life, if he chose to do so.

Ramon will still have to carry out 120 hours of community service. read more

Ashkenazi’s Committment to Stop Arms Smuggling — Credible?

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Ashkenazi: I’ll Stop Arms Smuggling

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DF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday that the buildup of terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip required a swift and urgent response, Army Radio reported.

At his first appearance before the committee, Ashkenazi said that one of the main immediate goals he had set for himself was to stem the smuggling of weapons and technology from the Gaza Strip into the West Bank.

Following the meeting, MKs expressed satisfaction with Ashkenazi’s presentation, and did not hesitiate to compare him to his predecessor, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz. read more

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Thursday War News

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Two Arabs Held in Kidnapping Plot [Involving Chareidim]

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“The two suspects allegedly scouted several Jerusalem neighborhoods — including Neve Yaakov, Givat Shaul, Har Nof, and Beit Hakerem — in one of their vehicles and offered haredim rides.”

Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Car Near Nablus [Shechem]

Gaza: Kassam Cell Member Injured by IDF Fire Dies

IDF troops Kill [Armed] Palestinian in Jenin

IDF Arrests Islamic Jihad Head in Nablus

Three More Kassam Rockets, No Injuries read more

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Police Evict Remaining Activists From Homesh

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Police Begin Evacuating Homesh Settlers by Force, by Yaakov Katz , Ben Uchitelle-Pierce (Jerusalem Post)

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Police began evacuating settlers one by one from the former settlement of Homesh on Wednesday morning, after the hundreds of demonstrators spent two nights at the site in an attempt to reclaim it.

According to a report on Israel Radio, a bulldozer was on the way to the settlement to dismantle the makeshift shelters and tents that the settlers had set up.

Police were picking up protesters bodily and taking them away, with officers commanding the operations by megaphone, the report said. read more

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Wednesday War News

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Palestinian Suspected of Hurling Bomb at Police

IDF Forces Come Under Fire During Ops in West Bank

IDF Foils Rocket Attack in Northern Gaza

Related report: IAF Strikes Kassam Cell in Hot Pursuit

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“Israel’s Air Force struck a Gaza terrorist cell engaged in launching Kassam rockets Wednesday, striking back for the first time in four months in response to a volley of missiles fired toward Ashkelon.”

Arabs Attack Israelis Near Hevron

Four More Rockets Hit Israel

Kassam Lands in Open Area Near Sderot; None Hurt read more

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Continuing Coverage: IDF Strategy to “Dry them Out” at Homesh

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Homesh Settlers Celebrate Evacuee Family Brit

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Settlers stationed in Homesh were celebrating on Tuesday afternoon the ritual circumcision of the son of one of the families evacuated from the settlement in 2005.

Family members came to the settlement especially for the occasion, which was approved after negotiations between the IDF and settler representatives.

Hundreds of settlers who arrived at the ruins of the settlement on Monday morning also participated in the event.

The settlers have refused to leave the site, vowing to reclaim the home they lost in the disengagement from Gaza. read more

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Former Gush Katif Residents: Regime Leaves Them Indefinitely Homeless

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20 Months Without a Home: Gush Katif Report, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

For related reports, click here as well as; Expulsion Won’t be Repeated, by Elyakim Haetzni (Ynet)

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Out of 1,667 families expelled from Gush Katif in August 2005 by the Ariel Sharon government, 1,405 are living together in 26 temporary sites. Not one permanent home has begun to be built.

In order to turn a temporary site into a permanent one, a contract must be signed between the government, the residents, and the permanent community already there or the owners. read more

Saudi Plan: Israel Must Walk Away

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Embrace of Jihadist ‘Peace’ By Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

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Sunday, the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government has announced that it is open to negotiating on the basis of the Arab plan. As one government official told The Jerusalem Post, Israel will “not dismiss” the plan.

THIS IS Israel’s position in spite of the fact that the Arab plan calls for Israel to surrender east, north and south Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights to Hamas and Syria and for Israel to permit four to five million hostile, foreign-born Arabs posing as Palestinian “refugees” to immigrate to its truncated territory. As the “peace” plan makes clear, all these suicidal Israeli moves must come before the Arab states will be willing to have “regular” (whatever that means) relations with the indefensible, overrun Jewish state. read more

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Parsha Tzav 5767: The Constancy of the Jews

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by Moshe Burt

In our Parsha, Tzav is Moshe’s command from Hashem to Aaron HaKohen and his sons to take up and clothe themselves in their Vestments, their garments of service in the Mishkan, and to begin their daily Avodah (service and offerings in the Mishkan).

For seven days, Moshe taught Aaron HaKohen and his sons the laws of their Avodah in the Mishkan. (You might say that they were given, as they term it in the US, OJT from Shemayim.) On the eighth day, Aaron and his sons began their Avodah. read more