Today’s Top Stories
1. Israel plans to build an underground wall along its border with Gaza. According to YNet, the wall be “tens of meters” below and above ground and will cost NIS 2.2 billion, or more than a half-billion US dollars.
2. Did Hezbollah clash with Syrian regime soldiers?
3. The US is signalling willingness to accommodate Israeli terms for missile defense funding, Reuters reports.
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4. “Water Apartheid,” Was Really Just a Burst Pipe, But the Media Doesn’t Care: Latest Palestinian canard doesn’t hold water.
5. Terror & Coexistence: Personal Thoughts on HonestReporting’s Mission to Israel: HR’s Daniel Pomerantz shares some observations about Israel and the West grappling with terror and coexistence.
Israel and the Palestinians
• The Defense Ministry is barring PA liaison from Israel “because he tried to create a political party that included Arab citizens of Israel and Mizrahi Jews.”
• The Knesset’s Ethics Committee voted to keep in a place a ban on MKs visiting the Temple Mount. Israeli police recommended continuing the prohibition, while suggesting it might be lifted after Ramadan.
• As the first Palestinians move in to Rawabi, a new Palestinian city, Elliott Abrams debunks Associated Press spin.
• The Media Line checks in on the progress of restoration work at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Considering the spread of Islamic State, Israel’s the only country in the region where projects are now underway to restore Christian holy sites such as the Church of Holy Sepulchre and Qasr al-Yahud.
• Reporter Sophie McNeill of Australia’s ABC News vividly captures scenes of hope, uncertainty, and tumult as Palestinians sought to take advantage of a sporadic opening in the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah.
• Cyber-terror relentlessly targets Israel:
The number of cyberattacks on Israeli computers responsible for critical infrastructure has grown from hundreds or thousands a day four years ago to as many as two million in a day . . . “We discover between 200,000 and 2 million hacking attempts every day in Israel on critical infrastructure such as water, electricity and railroads, but they are well-protected,” Ben Israel said.
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Henry Kissinger: Regional turmoil makes normalization hopeless
– Eugene Kontorovich: Anti-BDS laws don’t perpetuate discrimination, they prevent it
– Khaled Abu Toameh: Anarchy returns to the West Bank
– Yonah Jeremy Bob: Israel on thin ice with the ICC
– Alan Johnson: UK Labour must understand anti-Semitism has shape-shifted
– Neil Macdonald: Has the activist left decided anti-Semitism doesn’t exist?
– Aaron David Miller: Five enduring myths about US Mideast policy
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