200 terrorists begin hunger strike • Summary of Shabbat events
Haredim 10
April 12, 2014
The Chase for the Black Box • The Russian Foreign Ministry recommends against visiting Israel, and to which son of the Haggadah did the Meretz chairwoman choose to compare the coalition leaders? • All Shabbat events
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Hamas announced on Saturday that 200 Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israeli prisons will begin an indefinite hunger strike starting tomorrow, in protest of the isolation of Ibrahim Hamed, a senior member of the military wing of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Senior prisoners, including non-Hamas members, including Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat, will participate in the hunger strike.
After blocking Twitter in Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Twitter of tax evasion and says he will bring it to justice. As you may recall, the ability to surf Twitter was blocked after it posted content against Erdogan's government.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the European Union of declaring a new Cold War on Russia that would harm all concerned. Le Pen, leader of the National Front party, made the remarks during a visit to Moscow.
An official statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website claims that the American government is trying to create a routine of persecuting Russian citizens in third-party countries, so that they can later be extradited to the United States. In the statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry recommends that its citizens not leave the country's borders, in particular not to visit countries that have an extradition agreement with the United States - such as Israel.
Victory for pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk: The local police chief has given in to their demands and announced his resignation. Shortly before, the Ukrainian flag was removed from police headquarters.
The New York Times reports that Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American who served in the US Navy and was sentenced to death for spying in Iran, has been secretly retried and convicted of collaborating with the US government. Hekmati, who has been detained in Iran since 2011, was sentenced to ten years in prison.
A 30-year-old motorcyclist has been pronounced dead after being injured after sliding off the side of the road near the hills in Gush Etzion today. Rescue forces who treated him immediately after the accident attempted to perform CPR, but during the operations he lost consciousness and died. The police have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the accident.
This afternoon, an MDA team evacuated a man in his 40s who was moderately injured on HaKommiyat Street in Kiryat Yam following a stabbing. The man was taken to Rambam Hospital in Haifa with stab wounds to his upper limbs. The police have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.
Two young men, about 20 years old, from the city of Maalot, were moderately and seriously injured after falling from a four-meter-high wall in the city. MDA forces treated the two and evacuated them to a hospital in Nahariya.
Meretz Chairwoman Zahav Galon said today at a Meretz youth conference in Kibbutz Hatzor that no one in the current coalition "has any interest in advancing the peace process." She called Netanyahu, Bennett, Lapid, and Lieberman "evil, evil, evil, evil." "I believe that the coalition of these four can be replaced.".
Minister Amir Peretz today accused Jewish Home Chairman Bennett of "fighting for Pollard, but ultimately leaving him in an American prison.".
Seven young Jews were arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of participating in a fight in which a young Arab man was slightly injured after allegedly being attacked. The fight took place overnight on Gebirtzman Street in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem. The background to the fight: music blaring from the Arab youths' vehicle, who refused to turn down the music at the boys' request. The police said that additional arrests are possible.
Chloe Campbell, the three-year-old Australian girl who went missing from her home in Queensland, Australia, on Thursday, was found wandering the streets of the city on Saturday night. "We have no idea how she got there," said police officer Kevin Gutteridge. Following her disappearance, police feared Campbell had been kidnapped, and a 'child abduction alert" was issued on the radio – a message broadcast every 15 minutes.
Millions of residents of the northern Chinese city of Lanzhou are being prevented from drinking tap water after an oil leak from a pipe that burst. The leak released a toxic chemical called benzene and seeped into the city's tap water.
Allison Michelle Ernst, the woman who threw a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a speech she gave in Las Vegas, was released from custody today. During her interrogation, she said that she was "aware of her actions." If convicted, she could spend a year in prison. Ernst did not give an explanation for the act.
Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia, addressed the search for the missing Malaysian plane at a press conference this morning, saying: "We are entering a phase where the signal from what we are sure is the black box is starting to fade. We hope to obtain as much information as possible before the signals fade permanently." The search for the box, whose batteries are nearing the end of their lifespan, resumed early this morning.
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