Today’s Top Stories
1. The UN’s Commissioner on Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, is demanding a blacklist of Israeli and international companies doing business in the West Bank, Golan, and eastern Jerusalem to facilitate a boycott.
Ties which can qualify a business for the Black List include those with any branches in the territories. These include, for example, banks which could be boycotted by the UN under the criteria set out by Al-Hussein even if its main operation centers are not situated in the West Bank or the Golan Heights.
Officials from the Israeli Foreign Ministry have said that that the implementation of the resolution could result in an economic disaster for the State of Israel since Israeli businesses operating outside Israel will be threatened with consumer boycotts. Furthermore, international corporations operating in Israel will be forced to choose between having their products labelled by the UN or activity in large parts of Israel.
2. Ethiopian aliya resumed as first group of 63 Falash Mura arrived in Israel yesterday. It was the first flight after a three-year hiatus in airlifts due to budgetary and contentious political reasons. See Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel coverage.
The government aims to bring all of the last 9,000 Falash Mura to Israel by the end of 2020.
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3. Thousands came to pay their respects as Yosef Kirma and Levana Malihi were laid to rest yesterday. The two were killed in yesterday’s Jerusalem terror attack.
Kirma, a member of the police force’s elite Yasam unit, is survived by his wife of five months. Malihi was a grandmother of six and a veteran Knesset employee who retired in 2010.
4. The Times’ Weird Headline Regression: A Times of London story on a Jerusalem terror attack had a correct headline. So why was it changed to something so wrong?
5. Misrepresenting an Israeli Ambassador: Did Ambassador Zeev Boker really imply that Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital, or did a reporter butcher the paraphrase?
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Israel and the Palestinians
• Although you can easily find online the name of the Palestinian terrorist responsible for yesterday’s attack, the police asked for and obtained a 30-day gag order preventing Israeli reporters from publishing his name. The Times of Israel takes a closer look at the issue of gag orders and the media, as well as the confusion created when Israeli agencies unwittingly violated it on social media.
• The terrorist’s daughter was detained, possibly for her Facebook video that went viral in which she praised the murders and her father’s “martyrdom.” IsraellyCool rounded up Palestinian footage and other social media posts celebrating yesterday’s terror attack. Fatah also celebrated online.
• Tweet of the day from Herb Keinon:
When US "strongly condemns" building 98 new homes in Shilo, what's left for deadly attack in J'lem? "Condemns in strongest possible terms."
— Herb Keinon (@HerbKeinon) October 9, 2016
• Who will inherit Mahmoud Abbas’ throne? With no clear PA plan of succession, i24 News looks at the Palestinians vying for the top leadership post.
• Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz will become the first senior Israeli official to visit Turkey since ties between the two countries fell apart over the Mavi Marmara affair. Steinitz will be in Istanbul for the World Energy Congress on October 13.
• A Palestinian professor of astrophysics accused of incitement on Facebook and having ties to Hamas was placed in administrative detention. Times of Israel coverage.
• 500 Islamic clerics pouring fuel on the fire can’t be wrong . . .
• According to AP, one of its photographers, Majdi Mohammed, was wounded by an Israeli rubber bullet while covering a West Bank clash yesterday. The IDF said it is investigating the incident.
• Jerusalem Post: Security concerns among factors keeping visiting International Criminal Court delegation out of Gaza.
Around the World
• The Washington Post takes a closer look at French Jewry, which is adjusting to new security measures over the High Holidays as well as last year’s wave of immigration from the community.
• American BDS Organization Takes Its Case to Capitol Hill
• Rabbi beaten in Ukraine airlifted to Israeli hospital.
• A Jewish-owned restaurant in Munich announces it is closing because of the city’s rising anti-Semitism.
• The Lemba Jews of Zimbabwe are having a hopeful new year.
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Yaakov Lappin: Jerusalem shooting attack serves Hamas goal of igniting West Bank
– Avi Issacharoff: Does Jerusalem terror attack signal a new uprising?
– Nadav Shragai: The blood libel that breeds terrorism
– Ben-Dror Yemini: How to deal with the next Gaza-bound flotilla
– Victoria Coates: Rewriting the history of Jerusalem (click via Google News)
– Jonathan Greenblatt: UC Berkeley distorting history under guise of academic discipline
– Benny Morris: Israel conducted no ethnic cleansing in 1948
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