The Jewish Home | MARCH 31, 2022
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this week that the Health Ministry will begin a campaign to vaccinate all children ages three months to seven years with the polio vaccine.
Coalition Whip Rejects Western Wall Plan Coalition whip MK Idit Silman (Yamina) on Sunday rejected the Western Wall compromise plan, which would change the status quo at the holy site.
Speaking to Kan News, Dr. Alroy-Preis said that the campaign’s goal will be to have all children born between 2005-2013 complete the two-dose vaccine regimen. The campaign will be called “Two Drops” and will begin in Jerusalem, after which it will be expanded to other areas of the country. Dr. Alroy-Preis added, “We are definitely seeing an outbreak of polio in Israel.” She noted that traces of polio have also been detected in sewage in both Tiberias and Modi’in Illit and that it “reaches unvaccinated pockets and is spreading.” According to her, the recently-diagnosed cases are “just the tip of the iceberg, under which there are many other infected children.”
Speaking to Kan News, Silman said, “There’s a status quo with the Western Wall that I don’t think is going to change. All of the attention around this is just demagoguery. This is a house of prayer. There’s a minority — a Reform minority — that is making a lot of noise as though it’s the majority. We need to say the truth: That’s not the case. “This government and certainly us — or at least I — need to preserve the Ortho-
dox character of the Western Wall.” The Western Wall deal was initially agreed upon by the government in 2016, but it was later abandoned due to charedi opposition. It would include the expansion of the current egalitarian plaza – which remains empty most of the year – and allow the formation of a council including representatives from the Conservative and Reform movements to manage the Western Wall plaza. The compromise is part of Yesh Atid’s coalition agreement with Labor. MK Alon Tal (Blue and White), who is a member of Israel’s Masorti (Conservative) movement, told the Times of Israel that the agreement “leaves the present [Western Wall] plaza as an Orthodox space. That’s the compromise.” He added, “I don’t have an issue with what she [Silman] said.” The Reform Movement in Israel responded, “The Western Wall compromise represents a suitable solution that addresses the needs of everyone who wishes to pray at the Western Wall.… We expect that there will be no surrender to the extremist voices and that the government will work to make the Kotel an open and respectful place of prayer for every Jew.”
suitable preparations and adjustment by the security services to the circumstances within which extremist elements of Arab society, directed by extremist Islamic ideology, are carrying out terror attacks and taking lives.” Digital, intelligence, legal, and economic tools to manage the new wave of terror will also be provided, Bennett added. Meanwhile, additional security forces will be deployed in areas where there is a threat of violence and will remain deployed until Israel’s Independence Day in early May. Social media networks will also be monitored. The Be’er Sheva attack took place in three stages, when the Arab terrorist, a Bedouin, stabbed a woman at a gas station, entered his vehicle and rammed into a bicycle rider, and then exited his vehicle to continue stabbing passersby. Four people died in the attack and two others were injured. Both the terrorist in the Hadera attack this week and the terrorist Be’er Sheva attack were known to the authorities, identified with the ISIS terror group, and had been served relatively short sentences after their respective judges decided to issue only light sentences.
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday ordered security services to hold any terror suspects in administrative detention, without charging them. The instruction comes as part of a broader campaign focused on the Israeli Arab community, one day after two Border Police officers were killed in a shooting attack carried out by an ISIS-affiliated Israeli Arab. In a statement, Bennett’s office said the new guideline should be used in “appropriate circumstances in which it is possible to present a proper legal basis.” Bennett emphasized that the terror attack, which closely followed a similar attack last week in Be’er Sheva, is representative of “a new situation that requires
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