Today’s Top Stories
1. Israel laid to rest Dafna Meir, who was stabbed to death in her home in the settlement of Otniel, near Hebron. Meir, a nurse, was a mother of six, including two foster children. Security forces are still searching for the killer. Police suspect Meir’s killer who had permission to work in Otniel. Settlements in the Hebron and Gush Etziyon regions have since banned Palestinian workers.
More at the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, and YNet. See also HonestReporting’s media critique: Palestinian Terrorism No Longer Deemed Newsworthy? Just how bloodthirsty does a Palestinian terror attack against Israelis have to be to deserve coverage?
Renana 17
Akiva 15
Noa 11.5
Ahava 10
Yair 6
Yaniv 4
Their mother, Dafna Meir, was murdered in front of them by a Palestinian terrorist today— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) January 17, 2016
2. One day after the world lifted sanctions on Iran, the US placed some new sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The sanctions were on Iran’s ballistic missile program, not nuclear program. The move was in response to an Iranian missile test in October.
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3. This development reported by Reuters makes my antennae twitch:
Twitter Inc. is being sued by the widow of an American killed in Jordan who accuses the social media company of giving a voice to Islamic State, adding to the pressure to crack down on online propaganda linked to terrorism.
Tamara Fields, a Florida woman whose husband Lloyd died in the Nov. 9 attack on the police training center in Amman, said Twitter knowingly let the militant Islamist group use its network to spread propaganda, raise money and attract recruits.
Israel and the Palestinians
• A Palestinian stabbed a pregnant woman in Tekoa. The Palestinian was then shot and killed by security forces.
The victim wounded in the stabbing attack was later identified as Michal Froman, the daughter-in-law of late renowned peace advocate Rabbi Menachem Froman.
Eyewitness; the woman approached #Palestinian terrorist because he seemed lost,asked if she can help, he stabbed her https://t.co/N0URn8q8pM
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 18, 2016
• The Palestinian Authority is going to honor a Palestinian terrorist, Muhannad Halabi, by dedicating a park on the site of his now demolished home near Ramallah. Halabi killed Rabbi Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Banita in an October stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City in October. Halabi was shot and killed by police.
On a related note, the Prime Minister’s Office released a slide share summing up Palestinian Authority incitement in 2015.
• The Jerusalem Post reports that California-native David Keyes will become Prime Minister Netanyahu’s English language spokesman, replacing Mark Regev.
Keyes is currently the executive director of Advancing Human Rights and a co-founder of CyberDissidents.org. He is also a contributor to The Daily Beast news and opinion website.
More background on Keyes at the Times of Israel. Regev was appointed ambassador to the UK, and is due to take on the post in March.
• The Israeli Navy is keeping an eye on Hamas’s underwater capabilities. More at the Jerusalem Post.
• El Salvador denied recent media reports it is moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Ramallah.
Commentary/Analysis
• Tweet of the day:
Arab Cartoonist @EmadHajjaj on #Iran Deal , how it's viewed by some in region: pic.twitter.com/Xeae0bYZ0a
— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) January 17, 2016
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Haim Shine: We are all targets
– Avi Issacharoff: As the cash flows to Iran’s regime, a dark day for the Middle East
– Michael Binyon: Saudi Arabia and Israel united in their condemnation of deal
– Josh Rogin: US prisoner swap may help Iran arm Assad
– New York Times: A safer world, thanks to the Iran deal (staff-ed)
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