Terror.

Continuing provocations and unrest on the border of the Gaza Strip. On Friday, October 12, during riots in the southern Gaza Strip, a group of Palestinians mounted an explosive device on the security fence.

Terror.

After the explosion, there was a gap in the fence, through which about 20 terrorists penetrated into Israeli territory. IDF troops opened fire in their direction. Most of the terrorists immediately returned to Gaza, but several tried to approach the IDF’s position and were eliminated. A knife was found at the scene..

Hamas terrorist organization still incites Palestinians to participate in unrest and tries to organize terrorist attacks on Israelis.

On the same day, the Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman issued a decree prohibiting the passage of diesel tank cars through checkpoints into the Gaza Strip..

The Office of the Minister of Defense said that "Israel will not tolerate a situation in which fuel tankers freely enter Gaza, while the terror and violence directed against the IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens continues".

Fire terror.

Balloon launches continue to be launched from the Gaza Strip, with incendiary containers tied to them, which cause forest and field fires, causing serious damage to the country's agriculture.

The fire service reported that "fireballs" launched from the Gaza Strip only during the day of October 11 caused seven fires in Israel, adjacent to the border of the sector.

The tunnels.

On Thursday, October 11, the army press office reported on the destruction of a tunnel laid out from the Khan Yunis area in the south of the Gaza Strip across the border with Israel. The length of the tunnel in Israel was 200 meters. In total, the length of the tunnel was about a kilometer.. It is reported that electricity and telephone connections were made in the tunnel..

The tunnel, continued to commit terrorist attacks in Israel, was destroyed by engineering means in Israeli territory.

Over the past year, since October 2017, 15 Hamas tunnels were destroyed by the Israeli military, the IDF press service reported..

Guests from Venezuela.

A group of Venezuelans, including priests, businessmen and government officials, arrived in Jerusalem to "apologize to the Jews and ask them to remove the curse that fell on their country after Hugo Chavez cursed Israel".

The late Venezuelan leader delivered a curse on Israel in 2010 shortly after the events of Mavi Marmara.. Shortly thereafter, he was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, which led to his death in 2013..

In Venezuela, one of the richest countries in oil, chaos and poverty have reigned in recent years, caused by the economic crisis and the problematic behavior of the authorities at the end of Chavez’s rule and under his successor Nicolas Maduro.

To remove the curse, the delegation turned to Rabbi Daniel Beaton, who lives in Jerusalem, who had good relations with Chavez in the early years of his reign..

Europe.

Public opinion polls conducted by European sociological institutes commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, indicate that residents of European countries began to change their attitude towards the Jewish state for the better. Surveys in most European countries were conducted in two rounds, at the beginning and at the end of 2017. Each country was interviewed 1. 000 respondents who were representative sample of the population of the country. Interviewers did not tell respondents who their customer was..

Main survey question: "Is your attitude towards Israel positive or negative?".

On average, in the European Union, the share of supporters of Israel grew by 5% to 43%, while the share of opponents decreased by 2% to 29%.

Archeology.

Archaeologists of the Department of Antiquities discovered 125 skeletons of 2000 years old with traces of head and limb cutting off on the territory of the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. Apparently, a large group of people were thrown into a well, and then covered with stones and earth..

A terrible find was made by chance during the work on the purification of an ancient well in the territory of the Russian Compound, behind the building of the Jerusalem municipality.

Along with the skeletons, fragments of earthenware were found, dating back to the time of the kingdom of Alexander Jannaya from the Hasmonean dynasty, known for its brutal reprisals against its opponents..

According to those who studied the remains of anthropologists, men and women, adults and children, and even those not yet born were thrown into the well.. Cervical vertebrae of many skeletons were fractured and dissected..

Russia does not want a public discussion of Iran’s nuclear program.

On September 27, speaking at the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented information about another secret nuclear repository in Tehran, showing his photograph and location on the map.

Netanyahu noted that the decision to tell about this facility from the UN rostrum was taken because the IAEA did not take any measures for several months after the submission of the Iranian nuclear archive, did not inspect the facilities specified in the documents.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East, Mikhail Bogdanov, on October 11 gave an interview to an Israeli television channel in French i24. In this interview, he criticized the part of the Benjamin Netanyahu report to the UN General Assembly that dealt with Iran’s nuclear program..

"It would be naive to think that only one country knows something that no one else knows. Israel should have transferred its data to the International Atomic Energy Agency, since they are not a topic for public discussion, "Bogdanov said.

Ari Fuld.

Gilad Erdan, Minister of Homeland Security, addressed the Chief Inspector of Police, Roni Alsheikha, with a request to convene an award commission to consider the award of Ari Fulda.

The Minister posthumously presented Fulda to the highest police award - the medal "For Heroism" - because, already mortally wounded, he managed to stop a terrorist who attacked him, not allowing him to attack other people.

So far, only two people in the history of the Israeli police have received the highest award: a road patrol employee Jona Komemi (posthumously) for pursuing the killer who opened fire on passers-by in Tel Aviv in 1965 and the border patrol commander Yosef Vakil for evacuating the wounded under fire and maintaining combat with terrorists before reinforcements arrived in 1969 on the border with Jordan.

The Medal for Heroism is awarded on the recommendation of the Minister of Homeland Security for displaying exceptional heroism and dedication..

On Sunday, September 16, at about 11:08 AM, near the entrance to the shopping center, a terrorist armed with a knife with a blade length of about 30 cm struck several in the back of 45-year-old Ari Fulda. The wounded man tried to pursue the assailant and shot him. In addition, a security guard and a visitor who managed to injure him and neutralize him shot at the terrorist.. The seriously injured Ari Fuld was taken to the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, where doctors stated his death. The terrorist, a 17-year-old resident of the village of Yatta (south of Hebron), Khalil Yusuf Ali Jabarin, was detained and taken under escort to a Jerusalem hospital.

Nelagaly.

The Government of Israel for the first time began direct negotiations with Asmara to make sure that the Eritrean authorities canceled the mandatory indefinite conscription, which caused many Eritreans to flee outside the country, including to Israel..

The goal of the talks is to expel the 20,000 Eritrean illegal immigrants residing in Israel upon receiving guarantees that the authorities in Asmara will not be prosecuted for desertion.

According to the news service "Tens", in parallel, Israel is consulting with Switzerland, also planning to expel 40,000 Eritreans on its territory..

Meanwhile, the state television channel Kan 11 reported that the government intends to grant official status to refugees from the Sudanese province of Darfur. According to this report, approximately 3. 000 people will receive a temporary status allowing them to be expelled to their homeland in case of stabilization of the situation in Sudan.

On October 9, the Department of Population and Migration reported that, in accordance with the decision of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arieh Dery, Congolese citizens who applied for refugee status in Israel must leave the country within 90 days.

The decision was made after the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Israel, together with the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs studied the situation in the Congo and came to the conclusion that the citizens of this country are not in danger after returning home.

The Office promises to provide assistance to Congolese citizens who decide to voluntarily leave Israel before January 5, 2019.