Today’s Top Stories
1. IDF uncovers a tunnel from Gaza into Israeli territory for the first time since 2014. Read the full story, or take a look at the IDF video, below.
2. NPR discusses the large number of Jews leaving France for security reasons. Robert Ejness, executive director of CRIF (Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France, an umbrella body of French Jewish organizations in Paris), points to a failure by French society to properly integrate Muslim immigrants.
3. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is on a landmark visit to Israel leading a 60-member delegation. This is the first-ever visit by a Singaporean head of state to Israel even though the two opened diplomatic relations in 1969, just four years after Singapore was founded.
Israel and the Palestinians
• As vacation season approaches, Israeli West Bank residents are opening a bold new front in their battle for legitimacy: tourism.
• IDF prosecution files an indictment for manslaughter with the military courts against the Hebron soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist on March 24 after he was already wounded and lying motionless on the ground.
• IDF monitoring the social media accounts of young Palestinians has yielded a list of potential suspects, and in some cases has allowed the IDF in recent weeks to stop attackers before they could act.
Mideast Matters
• In Egypt, thousands protested against the Saudi Arabia/Tiran Islands deal. But is it really a protest against the Sisi government in general?
• Jordan recalls its ambassador from Iran due to Iran’s “interference in Arab affairs.”
• In a strange twist of events: a German citizen could be facing jail time under German law for reciting a poem that insults Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Around the World
• Israeli Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Aaron Ciechanover will visit North Korea as part of an international delegation to promote diplomacy through the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation.
• Sweden’s Housing Minister to resign following comments where he likened Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to what happened to Jews in Nazi Germany.
Featured image: CC BY John Ragai via flickr with additions by HonestReporting
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