Today’s Top Stories
1. At a White House summit, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama agreed to increase military aid and create a joint task force on Iran’s military program.
According to reports, Netanyahu told the President he set a red line with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Iranian activities in Syria, insisted that any international agreements about Syria take Israeli interests into account, and reiterated support for a two-state solution. More at the Washington Post.
2. The IDF busted a Hamas terror network in the West Bank town of Kalkilya planning attacks on Israelis. Twenty four operatives were taken into custody.
The infrastructure received guidance, instructions and large-scale funding from Hamas command centers in Qatar and the Gaza Strip.
3. A group of Iranian hackers who tried to spy on Israeli scientists and senior academics, among others, was counter-hacked by European authorities. According to Reuters, the Iranians had also attacked targets in Europe, the US, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and inside Iran too. More on Operation Rocket Kitten at CheckPoint Software.
According to an advance copy obtained by Reuters, the report details how its experts burrowed inside the hacker group’s database, giving them a map of malicious software tools and remote-controlled computers used by the group.
In coordinated actions, “command and control” computer links hosted unknowingly by five commercial data hosting and satellite communications operators in Europe, have largely now been shut down, Tal said, crippling the hackers’ capacity, at least for some months, to launch fresh attacks.
4. CNN’s Anonymous Terrorist: What word is missing from this report?
Israel and the Intifada
• This afternoon, shortly after this roundup was published, breaking reports of a Palestinian stabbing attack in eastern Jerusalem. This morning, two Palestinian teens tried to stab a security guard at a Jerusalem light rail station. The attackers were 12 and 13 years-old. Police in Jerusalem foiled a second stabbing by the Old City’s Damascus Gate around the same time.
• Is Mahmoud Abbas desperate, off his rocker, or perhaps both?
Abbas claims Hamas and Israel are meeting to annex part of Sinai to Gaza
• Sparks flew on Deutsche Welle as cabinet minister Naftali Bennett had a heated interview with aggressive British journalist Tim Sebastian. Read the story or watch the video.
• London mayor lashes out against ‘foolish’ Israel boycotters.
• In Sweden, a Kristallnacht commemoration without Jews(!?)
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today:
– Bret Stephens: Palestinian state of denial (click via Google News)
– David Horovitz: Obama and Netanyahu carefully present themselves as allies
– Raphael Ahren: What wasn’t said as important as what was
– Boaz Bismuth: A cordial affair
– Scott Martelle: Liberal think tank should host Netanyahu speech — that’s democracy
– Khaled Abu Toameh: When will Obama and the West listen to Hamas?
– Benjamin Weinthal: The mood in Germany: Kristallnacht ‘nein,’ BDS ‘ja’
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