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Mossad Mission To Israel
from annual report 2019
by Liora Blum
MOSSAD MISSION TO ISRAEL NOVEMBER 2020
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Hear inside stories from the legendary intelligence spy agency
• Go behind the scenes of Israel’s legendary Mossad • Receive briefings from a former head of the Mossad, Officers, Shin Bet Commanders, and IDF intelligence operations officers • Experience riveting tours to the strategic northern and southern fronts and Gaza border checkpoints • Visit Sderot and Kibbutz Alumim to hear from local residents about life under the constant threat of mortars, tunnels and kites • Gain new insight into the intelligence and security challenges faced by Israel and its citizens
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• February 2019 Israel Bonds Women Brunch Rockland County Club Rockleigh, NJ, USA
• March 2019 George Washington University Washington, D.C., USA
• March 2019 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
• March 2019 Israeli Advocacy and the Law Washington, D.C., USA
• March 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference Washington D.C., USA
• March 2019 Boca Parliament Boca Raton, FL, USA
• April 2019 Jewish National Fund New York, NY, USA
• May 2019 Fighting Jihad on Social Media Elizabeth, NJ, USA
• May 2019 Etz Chaim Beit Shemesh, Israel
• May 2019 The German Federal Agency for Civic Education Ramat Gan, Israel
• June 2019 Standing up to BDS Oslo, Norway
• June 2019 Police Prosecution Beit Shemesh, Israel
16 • June 2019 Am Yisrael Foundation-Fighting Anti-Israel Efforts on Social Media Tel Aviv, Israel
• June 2019 Brazilian Supreme Court and Federal Judges Delegation Ramat Gan, Israel
• June 2019 SAS Delegation Tel Aviv, Israel
• July 2019 The Chevra Trip: Bankrupting Terrorism Jerusalem, Israel
• July 2019 Speaking event for Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Washington, D.C., USA
• September 2019 Lions of Judah Montreal, Canada
• September 2019 Lecture for Police Officers – Legal Department Beit Shemesh, Israel
• October 2019 CJUI Boston, MA, USA
• October 2019 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA, USA
• October 2019 Rhode Island Coalition for Israel Providence, RI, USA
• October 2019 UJA Federation Touro Boston, MA, USA • November 2019 Board of Keren Hatoremet Tel Aviv, Israel
• November 2019 The National Police Academy Beit Shemesh, Israel
• January 2019 Ambassadors’ Club program at StandWithUs Herzliya, Israel
January 2019, The Algemeiner, “Jerusalem District Court Issues Lien on Property Belonging to Yasser Arafat”
January 2019, The Jewish Voice, “Calling on US Jews to Join as Plaintiffs in Lawsuit Against Airbnb”
January 2019, Breaking Israel News, “Palestinian Martyr Gunned Down by Israel”
January 2019, Arutz Sheva, “Are you a homeowner in Judea and Samaria? Airbnb lawsuit affects you”
January 2019, Arutz Sheva, “Will Arafat’s Jerusalem property be used to pay terror victims”
January 2019, The Times of Israel, “Court seizes Arafat’s East Jerusalem property in terror victims’ lawsuit”
February 2019, The Washington Post, “A U.S. law is about to end security aid to the Palestinians, and Israel is not happy”
February 2019, Ynet News, “Families of terror victims hail end of US security aid to Palestinians”
February 2019, Arutz Sheva, “Shurat HaDin informs 22 US states Airbnb policy violates BDS law”
February 2019, Sputnik, “Cryptocurrency Fundraiser by Hamas Shut Down by US Online Exchange”
February 2019, CCN, “Israeli NGO Threatens to Sue Coinbase for Enabling Hamas’ Bitcoin Donations”
February 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Israeli NGO Threatens Lawsuit Over Hamas Cryptocurrency Use”
February 2019, The Jewish Press, “Shurat HaDin Warns Giant Cryptocurrency Brokerage Hamas Is Using Its Platform to Raise Bitcoin Donations” February 2019, BLOCKONOMI, “Hamas Using Coinbase for Bitcoin Funding: Israeli Legal NGO Threatens to Sue”
February 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Will the ICC Criminally Probe Abbas for Mass Torture?”
March 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Cold Turkey for Europe’s Iranian Addiction”
March 2019, Ynet News, “Eurovision drama: Calls to ban Iceland entry over Palestinian protest plan”
March 2019, Haaretz, “Israel to Examine Whether Iceland’s European Reps Plan to Violate Boycott Law”
April 2019, Haaretz, “Airbnb Will Cancel Its Ban on West Bank Settlement Listings”
April 2019, Hamodia, “Airbnb Reverses on Delisting Israeli Settlements, Won’t Profit Off Yehudah and Shomron”
April 2019, Jewish News Syndicate, “Airbnb reverses its decision to blacklist Jewish properties in Judea and Samaria”
April 2019, The Times of Israel, “Airbnb to cancel its ban on West Bank Settlement listings”
April 2019, Arutz Sheva, “Airbnb: We’ve always opposed BDS”
April 2019, Ynet News, “Airbnb reverses on delisting Israeli settlements, won’t profit off West Bank”
April 2019, Breaking Israel News, “Thank You Shurat HaDin and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner”
April 2019, Arutz Sheva, “There is such thing as Jewish justice” April 2019, The New York Times, “Airbnb Reverses Policy Banning Listings in Israeli Settlements in West Bank”
April 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Terrorist Groups Evolve Their Social Media Strategy to Avoid Ban”
May 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “The Return of Baksheesh Diplomacy”
June 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Shurat HaDin: Fighting the Legal Battle for the Most Moral Army in the World”
June 2019, The Times of Israel, “Israel Shutters 30 BDS fundraising accounts by revealing alleged terror ties”
June 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Boomerang: Economic Pressure Hits BDS Campaigners”
June 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Erdan Slams Terrorists for ‘Abusing International Law,’ Warns U.N.”
June 2019, Middle East Monitor, “Israeli Minister: ‘the laws concerning warfare must be changed’”
June 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “German Bank Account and BDS Group Accused of Aiding Palestinian Terrorists”
July 2019, Australian Jewish News, “Abbott’s praise for ‘inspirational’ Israel”
July 2019, Arutz Sheva, “The war on BDS goes up a step: That’s how it is done”
July 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “PA Liable for Second Intifada Terror Attacks, up to 1B. NIS in Damages”
July 2019, i24 NEWS, “Israeli court finds PA responsible for terrorist attacks during Second Intifada”
July 2019, Hamodia, “Court: PA a Terror Outfit, Must Pay a Billion Shekels to Victims” July 2019, TV7 Israel News, “Legal Precedent Holds PA Accountable for Terrorist Acts”
July 2019, The Washington Post, “Israeli court blames Palestinian Authority for past attacks”
July 2019, ABC News, “Israeli court blames Palestinian Authority for past attacks”
July 2019, The New York Times, “Israeli Court Blames Palestinian Authority for Past Attacks”
July 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Palestinian Terror Liability”
July 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “PA Rejects Israeli Legal Decision on Liability in Attacks”
July 2019, Israel Hayom, “Israeli lawsuit targets European effort to bypass sanctions on Iran”
July 2019, The Times of Israel, “ Israeli group seeks sale of seized Iranian tanker over damages for Hamas attack Shurat Hadin petitions Gibraltar’s top court to raise $178.5 million awarded by US court to family of three-month-old killed in 2014 by Palestinian terrorist”
July 2019, Ynet News, “Facebook defeats appeal in U.S. Claiming it aided Hamas attacks in Israel”
August 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Tel Aviv NGO Petitions Court to Bar Ilhan Omar From Entering Israel”
August 2019, JewishPress, “Shurat HaDin Asks Court to Block Ilhan Omar from Entering Israel”
August 2019, CBN News, “Israeli Legal Firm Petitions Government to Ban Ilhan Omar from Entering Israel”
August 2019, Israel Hayom, “Funding illegal Palestinian settlements: Links to terrorists” August 2019, Cleveland Jewish News, “Former Cleveland lawyer uses legal background to fight terrorism”
September 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Fighting Israel’s Asymmetric War”
September 2019, WKMS, “Israel’s Supreme Court to Decide Whether To Deport American Human Rights Advocate”
September 2019, Israel National News, “The State of Israel’s Allowed to say ‘enough’”
September 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Shurat HaDin’s Legal Warrior is Bringing Justice to Terror Victims”
November 2019, Ynet, “Supreme Court rejects Human Rights Watch activist’s appeal against expulsion from Israel”
November 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Arabs and Jews Speak Up for Israel and Foster Coexistence”
November 2019, BBC, “Israel court rejects Human Rights Watch activist’s deportation appeal”
November 2019, Ynet, “Israelis sue Hamas for compensation after family members die”
November 2019, The Times of Israel, “Families of Israeli terror victims suing Hamas for half a billion shekels”
November 2019, Hamodia, “Lawsuit Targets Hamas Money Changers for Damages”
November 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Top Experts Debate Whether High Court sufficiently protects human rights”
December 2019, The Jerusalem Post, “Refusing to play the Palestinians’ ICC game”
BY YONAH JEREMY BOB JULY 8, 2019
The ruling was obtained by Shurat HaDin on behalf of eight victims’ families
The Palestinian Authority is liable for civil damages for a series of terror attacks carried out mostly during the Second Intifada, the Jerusalem District Court has ruled.
With liability decided against the PA, the court case moves to the next stage where the plaintiffs will need to prove their damages, which could add up to as much as NIS 1 billion. Shurat Hadin has been pursuing a judgment for years on behalf of eight victims’ families and relating to 17 complaints.
The 17 complaints mostly come from the 2000-2002 period of the Second Intifada, including the infamous Ramallah lynch in 2000. One claim also dated back to 1996 when there was an attack at Joseph’s Tomb. Some of the attacks involve Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but Judge Moshe Drori still held the PA liable based on official PA statements taking credit for all of the terror attacks during the Second Intifada. Drori added that the PA had also sometimes provided logistical or material support to other groups in carrying out the terror attacks.
More broadly, the court held the PA liable not only on the basis of such logistical and material direct support to terrorists, but also on the basis of continued financial support of terrorist prisoners and their families. Going even beyond financial support, the court noted that the PA regularly dedicates street names and other landmarks to terrorists.
Despite these rulings, the court denied arguments against the PA that said it had direct responsibility for certain specific attacks due to general statements of incitement.
Though the ruling was handed down on Sunday, the court spokesperson’s office announced the decision for the first time on Monday.
The issue of the PA making “martyrs” payments to terrorists has led to significant public and legal fighting between Israel and the US on one hand, and the PA on the other. Israel and the US have portrayed the payments as support for terror, and both countries recently passed laws to penalize the PA monetarily for continuing the payments.
In response, the PA has been rejecting US and Israeli financial support. Some in the Israeli defense establishment believe that the PA itself could collapse in the near future due to a lack of funds.
Groups in favor of penalizing the PA say that it is grandstanding, and that it is always able to find funds for wealthy top officials and high-end portions of the West Bank that the PA controls.
Commenting on Monday’s decision, Shurat Hadin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said that the court’s “historic” decision showed that PA leader Yasser Arafat had tried to use war and murder, via the Second Intifada, to obtain concessions from Israel that he had not succeeded in getting through the Oslo negotiations.
With the dramatic decision handed down, the stan- dard question arises on whether there will be any way to collect on any future potential judgment.
In January, the same court placed a temporary lien on a plot of land in Jerusalem owned by Arafat, after Shurat Hadin sought the land as collateral for the claims against the PA. The land in question is mainly situated on the Mount of Olives Cemetery, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem.
Darshan-Leitner had told the court that if they won the lawsuit, it would be difficult to collect the compensation from the Arafat estate, and as a result, she requested a lien on the property.
“Yasser Arafat was the grandfather of modern terrorism, responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children,” said Darshan-Leitner at the time. “This move is one step closer toward justice for the victims and their families. We will not allow a situation in which the Arafat estate can own land in the heart of Jerusalem, while avoiding paying damages to his victims.”
Drori himself issued Monday’s decision as one of his last upon his retirement, meaning that evidence regarding damages will be held by a different Jerusalem District Court judge.
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