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June 24, 2011| 15 Sivan 5771
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Vol. 7, Iss. 22
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Israeli Police: Arab Towns “Like the Wild West”
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POLLARD BARRED FROM ATTENDING FATHER’S FUNERAL
Regional Commander Pledges more Pro-Active Response to Spiraling Gun Violence in Israel’s Arab Triangle
PHOTO BY MARK PROBST,
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Sotheby’s to Auction Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra
Pleas on behalf of Jonathan Pollard for a furlough to attend his father’s funeral were deliberately ignored. BY CHANA YA'AR
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Israeli Police are struggling to combat violent crime in Israeli-Arab towns, receiving little to no support from locals. BY DAVID LEV
Rabbi Pinto Addresses Brooklyn Kiruv Group
Police on Tuesday admitted that they were out of ideas on how to stem the high level of crime in the cities of “the triangle,” the Arab towns and cities that extend from north of Kfar Sava to Um el-Faham and Wadi Ara. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Shimon Shomroni, Israel Police Commander of the Sharon Region, said that police “were unsuccessful in meeting some of our goals in reducing crime. Some murders have not been solved,” he said, going on to describe the cities of the triangle as “the Wild West.” homroni said he did not use that term loosely. “Residents of these cities have a tradition of gunfighting like in the old West,” he said. “If I were to fly a plane with a magnet attached to its bottom over Tira and Taibe, the plane would fall apart, and be dragged to the ground by all the metal
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weapons in these cities. That's how many weapons there are in the Triangle. “The Arabs threaten us, while they educate their children that the police are inconsequential, all the while complaining that we don't do enough,” Shomroni continued. “I reject these charges.” Police statistics showed that 71% of incidents of shootings and murders in the cities of the Triangle occurred on weekends, with at least half of them occurring between 9 PM and 3 AM. “We have increased patrols during these times and days, trying to keep track of the high-crime periods,” Shomroni said. Shomroni told the reporters that police had allocated many resources to ensure safety in the Triangle, but that residents offered almost no cooperation. “We have taken off the gloves, and are operating with zero tolerance towards criminals. We recently began operating special units in the area, along with
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Professor Morris Pollard was laid to rest Monday, denied the privilege of having his son Jonathan present to recite the Kaddish – the traditional Jewish prayer for the dead – over his grave. onathan Pollard sat grieving for his father in his jail cell instead, his mother already having died -- also without his presence to comfort her in her final hours. Despite thousands of phone calls that flooded the White House switchboard, an appeal to the U.S. State Department by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren and pleas by dozens of Israeli lawmakers, the Obama administration refused to allow Pollard to attend his father's funeral. Pollard's father, 95, was an award-winning microbiologist at the University of Notre Dame for half a century. His service to the country did not help him, however,
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