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30 this week that the Health Ministry will begin a campaign to vaccinate all children ages three months to seven years The Jewish Home | MARCH 31, 2022 with the polio vaccine. 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.”

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, 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 Orthodox 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.”

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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 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.

People Fleeing New York

According to a recent analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau, people are leaving the Big Apple in droves.

New York City experienced a significant population shift last year, with four of its five counties losing a greater percentage of people than almost any other major county in the United States.

The New York metro area led all others in population loses, according to the census data. The combination of New York, Newark, and Jersey City reflected a population loss of more than 385,000 people, almost double that of the Los An-

32 geles, Long Beach and Anaheim region. “The patterns we’ve observed in domestic migration shifted in 2021,” noted The Jewish Home | MARCH 31, 2022 Dr. Christine Hartley, assistant division chief for estimates and projections in the Census Bureau’s Population Division. “Even though over time we’ve seen a higher number of counties with natural decrease and net international migration continuing to decline, in the past year, the contribution of domestic migration counteracted these trends so there were actually more counties growing than losing population,” Hartley continued. Breaking this trend was New York City. In a closer look at the city’s changing population numbers by county, Manhattan (New York County) had the greatest percentage drop. According to the census data, the island saw a 6.9% decline between April 2020 and July 2021. Manhattan wasn’t alone in the top 10 counties for percentage decline, however. Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens, and the Bronx were on that list, as well as Hudson County in New Jersey. Hudson and Queens both recorded a 3.1% dip in population, whereas the Bronx saw a 3.2% decrease and Brooklyn a 3.5% decline. Between that same 15-month period, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx also made up four of the 10 counties with the largest drop in population by numbers, the census data shows.

Manhattan took the No. 2 spot with a drop of 117,375 residents. Brooklyn and Queens took fourth and fifth, respectively, losing 95,022 and 74,321 residents. A few spots down in eighth position was the Bronx, with a decline of 47,706 residents.

Slithering Smuggler

Jose Manuel Perez, 30, has ants in his pants. The California resident has been charged with smuggling more than a thousand reptiles – some endangered – into the United States.

Perez was taken into custody when he attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in February, with approximately 60 reptiles hidden in his clothes, authorities said.

Authorities said Perez first denied he had anything to declare at the border, then said the animals were his pets.

In total, Perez illegally imported more than 1,700 animals with a total value “exceeding $739,000,” according to the indictment.

If convicted, Perez could face up to 20 years in prison for each smuggling count and five years in prison for each wildlife trafficking count.

According to police, from 2016 to 2021, Perez, along with his sister and five others in the U.S. and Mexico illegally smuggled and sold reptiles, some of which were caught in the wild in Mexico and some of which were imported all the way from Hong Kong. They then shipped the animals to customers in the United States from Perez’s home.

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Broken Windows is Back?

New York’s Police Department (NYPD) has begun cracking down on relatively minor offenses which have become part of daily life in some neighborhoods around the Big Apple. Included in the list are public urination, open-air marijuana sales, and public consumption of alcohol.

According to the police department, these infractions lower residents’ quality of life and create disorder, which results in violent crime.

Meanwhile, a Detroit plan to reduce violent crime during the summer connects “urban blight” and gun violence and promises greater enforcement for traffic offenses and noise complaints, as well as better supervision of vacant buildings and lots.

The strategy is referred to as “broken windows” policing and maintains that aggressive enforcement of petty crimes will restore order and safety to high-crime areas.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said, “To be clear, this is not a return to ‘Stop, Question, and Frisk’ nor is it ‘policing for numbers.’ This enforcement will be responsive to community complaints and concerns.”

“We are not going back to the policing that I fought to change,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. “We won’t go back to abusive policing.”

Police officers’ behavior will be monitored using video technology, Adams added.

The broken windows theory was first proposed by criminologist James Q. Wilson in 1982. This criminal justice concept maintains that seemingly minor instances of social and physical disorder in urban spaces can contribute to an atmosphere of lawlessness that encourages more serious crimes. By making misdemeanor arrests for crimes like vandalism, the theory goes, police can reduce and prevent felonious activity in neighborhoods they patrol.

New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani brought the broken windows doctrine to national attention in the 1990s with his campaign against squeegee men who harassed drivers with unsolicited windshield washing.

Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton also focused on cleaning up the New York City subway system, where 250,000 people a day weren’t paying their fare. They sent hundreds of police officers into the subways to crack down on turnstile jumpers and vandals.

Police also ramped up misdemeanor arrests for things like smoking marijuana in public, spraying graffiti, and selling loose cigarettes. Very quickly, crime fell in the Big Apple. The murder rate plummeted. People felt safe again walking the streets. And Giuliani cruised to re-election in 1997.

Fatal PA Highway Crash

On Monday, three people were killed and more than a dozen were injured when tractor-trailers and other vehicles lost control and slammed into each other during a snow squall on a stretch of an interstate highway in Pennsylvania.

34 On Tuesday, officials were still attempting to clean up the mess of 60 to 80 cars, and sections of the highway remained The Jewish Home | MARCH 31, 2022 closed. On Tuesday, there were still vehicles on the northbound road, with some vehicles mostly burned and others melted onto the highway. Dr. David J. Moylan, the Schuylkill County coroner, said three fatalities have been confirmed and that number could rise. A Pennsylvania State Police incident report noted 24 people were taken to four hospitals. People who could get out of their vehicles and walk were taken by buses to a Wegmans Distribution Center and then to Good Will Fire Company in Minersville serving as a reunification center, according to the report. Estimates of the number of vehicles involved from the emergency management agency and state police ranged between 40 and 60, including multiple tractor-trailers.

In one video of the crash, an out-ofcontrol tractor-trailer smashed into a large dump truck, turning it nearly 180 degrees. Another large truck caught fire and spewed black smoke into the air, and an SUV struck a passenger car sending it spinning narrowly past a person standing on the shoulder in snow and fog.

George Floyd Protesters Awarded $14M

Jurors in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on Friday ordered the city and county of Denver, Colorado, to pay $14 million in damages to 12 plaintiffs who claimed police used excessive force against them in 2020 during the George Floyd riots.

The jury, comprised of eight Coloradans, concluded that the city and county failed to properly train their police officers, thus causing the officers to violate the plaintiffs’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Mark Silverstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, which represented the plaintiffs, said, “The verdict is a message to the police department, to the highest echelons of the police department, but also a message to police departments all over the country.”

Though the city and county of Denver acknowledge that the police response was not fully appropriate, they argued that the protests caused an unprecedented “level of sustained violence and destruction” in the city.

“We were prepared for a worst-case scenario, but we weren’t fully prepared for what transpired,” a statement, the Denver Department of Public Safety said. “Unfortunately, Denver Police Department officers and other law enforcement officers responding to assist encountered extreme destructive behavior from some agitators among largely peaceful protesters. We recognize that some mistakes were made.”

The police department has since changed its protest response plans, the Department of Public Safety said.

Over 80 police officers were injured during the riot as protesters hurled rocks, water bottles, and canned food at them, and the state Capitol, the hub of the protests, incurred $1.1 million in damage, according to the city. Lawyers for the protesters who sued stressed they were not accused of being violent themselves.

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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright, the U.S.’s first female Secretary of State, died on Wednesday at 84.

Albright, a native of Prague, was born Marie Jana Korbelova. She arrived in the U.S. in 1948 as a young girl from war-torn Czechoslovakia.

Albright served as Secretary of State between 1997-2001 under then-U.S. President Bill Clinton. In 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Albright first served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before becoming the nation’s top diplomat in Clinton’s second term. She championed the expansion of NATO, pushed for the alliance to intervene in the Balkans to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing, sought to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons, and championed human rights and democracy across the globe.

“Few leaders have been so perfectly suited for the times in which they served,” Clinton said in a statement. “As a child in war-torn Europe, Madeleine and her family were twice forced to flee their home. When the end of the Cold War ushered in a new era of global interdependence, she became America’s voice at the UN, then took the helm at the State Department, where she was a passionate force for freedom, democracy, and human rights.”

She saw the U.S. as the “indispensable nation“ when it came to using diplomacy backed by the use of force to defend democratic values around the world.

“We stand tall, and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us,” she told NBC in 1998. “I know that the American men and women in uniform are always prepared to sacrifice for freedom, democracy and the American way of life.”

Throughout her career, Albright was known for wearing brooches or decorative pins to convey her foreign policy messages. When she found out that the Russians had bugged the State Department, she wore a large bug pin when she next met with them. When Saddam Hussein referred to Albright as a snake, she took to wearing a gold snake pin; when she was called a witch, she proudly brandished a miniature broom. When she slammed as “completely un-American” acting Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli’s suggestion that only immigrants who can “stand on their own two feet” are welcome in the United States, Albright wore a Statue of Liberty pin.

U.S. President Joe Biden called Albright a “force” and said he worked with her during the 1990s.

“When I think of Madeleine, I will always remember her fervent faith that ‘America is the indispensable nation,’” Biden said.

He also ordered flags at the White House and all federal buildings to be flown at half-staff in Albright’s honor.