The minute that saved 4 lives On the night of Wednesday, October 17, at about 3:30 a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip, with a warhead containing about 20 kg of explosives. She came to a residential building in Beersheba.
The rocket broke through three layers of concrete, but the “fortified room” did not hurt, in which the mother and her three children in the house managed to hide, which saved their lives.. The house itself is not subject to restoration by experts..
At about the same time, an attempt was made at a rocket attack on the center of Israel, the rocket fell into the sea. The IDF launched retaliatory strikes against Gaza, and the Israeli ambassador to the UN appealed to the UN Security Council demanding to condemn the rocket attack on Beersheba.
Medical care A special flight brought a citizen of Syria and his son less than a year old to Cyprus from Israel who needs an urgent heart surgery.. To provide medical assistance to the Syrian refugee Israel was asked by the authorities of Cyprus. Interior Minister Arieh Deri gave special permission for the immediate delivery of the child with his father to Israel. The Israeli Embassy in Cyprus and the Consular Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also provided significant assistance..
Electric bikes On Sunday, October 14, the government approved a plan to reduce the number of accidents involving electric bikes and electric scooters.. Approved items include a “full” motorcycle helmet and a glowing vest, passing an electric bicycles driving course and vehicle inspection. Violators of the law provide for a delay in issuing a driver's license for one year.
Earlier, the age at which you can pass the driving theory exam from 16 years and three months to 15 and a half years was lowered.. This reform is a step taken by the Ministry of Transport in the fight against accidents with the participation of electric bicycles. Today, young people aged 16 years and older can manage this type of transport, and they pass an exam on the rules of the road three months later..
Elections The Ministry of the Interior reported that court decisions and decisions of election commissions led to the withdrawal of 657 candidates from the election, including 14 candidates for the mayor’s office.. For comparison, in the previous elections, 452 candidates were removed from the pre-election race, including 10 mayoral candidates.
Over the past few weeks, Facebook has shut down thousands of fake accounts created to influence public discussions before the municipal elections in Israel.. A management spokesman said such massive use of fake news and user accounts during the pre-election period should be a serious concern..
About languages ??On Monday, October 15, the opening of the winter session of the Knesset was held, which was accompanied by a protest action of Arab deputies.
The United Arab list’s parliamentarians announced that they would speak in Arabic during the plenary sessions of the winter session.. Ayman Ude said that this action will be a form of protest against the law on the national character of the state.
Ayman Ude began his speech in Hebrew, switched to Arabic, but after a minute spoke again in Hebrew. Knesset deputy Anat Berko (Likud) has demanded to translate the speech into Hebrew. "You should learn beautiful Arabic," - said Ayman Ude.
Terror of the Day of October 15 at the Gitai Avisar crossroads, near Ariel and the Barkan (Samaria) industrial zone, a man armed with a knife attacked Israeli soldiers standing at a bus stop. Soldiers from the 55th Division ("Dragon") of artillery troops opened fire on a terrorist and eliminated him.
On October 7, two Israelis were killed and several injured in the industrial zone of Barkan as a result of a terrorist attack using firearms. The killer continues to hide in nearby Arab villages, but, as practice shows, he will be caught if he does not resist arrest. The house in which he lived was marked up for demolition..
Jerusalem US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday, October 18, that the consulate, located in East Jerusalem and serving the inhabitants of the Palestinian Authority until now, will be united with the US Embassy in Jerusalem.
Fighting spies An observer from the Nesher battalion of field reconnaissance units Omer Kaplan, 20, said: "A warning signal was received. I rushed to the place where the incident was recorded, and saw dozens of rioters damaging the fence and setting up an explosive device. The explosion made a hole in the fence, and under the cover of smoke and several suspicious people approached the positions of our forces, I noticed them and on the radio reported on the progress of participants in the riots. A warning fire was opened in their direction, and most of them immediately returned to the sector’s territory, but I noticed that one remained on this side of the fence, and we lost sight of it. With the help of cameras, we restored the picture of the incident and informed the forces that the terrorist is definitely on our territory. One of the fighters found him and neutralized ".
Criminal Archeology Antiquities Authority staff and Border Guard volunteers detained two antiquities robbers who, with the help of a bulldozer, destroyed an ancient settlement identified with the city of Davrat mentioned in Scripture..
A few days earlier, inspectors of the anti-plundering department found traces of recent earthworks at the site and set up an observer. Last weekend, criminals returned and continued to tear the top layer to get to the values. They caused significant damage to the ruins of buildings erected over 2. 000 years ago.
Inspectors and border guards called to the scene detained intruders - brothers from the nearby village of Daburia.
From the rabbinate court, the rabbinical district court of the Haifa district decided to revoke the recognition of the Jewry of a woman after a forensic examination revealed that the documents on which she arrived in Israel with her mother are fake.
The decision to send a woman’s documents for examination was made during the divorce proceedings, during which the woman’s husband presented a video to the judges, in which she accused him of being a slave and confessed to engaging in prostitution.
An employee of the rabbinate court, who checks Jewishness, said that the woman not only forged the documents, but was able to make the appropriate changes to the computer data of the Ukrainian Population Register Office.
In addition to the annulment of Jewry, the court also declared her marriage to her husband invalid and obliged to pay 25 thousand shekels of court costs..
"Safari" A young Persian leopard who arrived recently from Greece to the Safari zoological center in Ramat Gan received the name Kurush (Cyrus), which means "Sun-like" in Persian.. The list of names was compiled by Iranian residents, who were asked to suggest names for the young leopard, without specifying his place of residence. The management of "Safari" selected six names from a large list, from which the Israelis were asked to choose one. Kurush received 27% of the vote..
And about the weather In the early morning, walking in shorts is getting cool..