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Iranian Crown Prince
@PahlaviReza
to Arutz Sheva at the
@israeliamerican
conference: "The best army in place are the people of Iran themselves... I think there's a much better solution - this regime is scared of the people themselves."
@Yoni_Kempinski
#WATCH
: Rescued hostage Noa Argamani boards the state plane Kanaf Zion (Wing of Zion) as she accompanies Prime Minister Netanyahu on his trip to the US together with the family members of hostages and bereaved families.
Israeli singer-songwriter and Fauda star Idan Amedi, who was seriously wounded in battle in Gaza, shared footage from his rehabilitation and wrote: "Nothing is for granted in this life. We all learned this firsthand in the past year... It's all a miracle."
The daughter of President Trump
@IvankaTrump
and her husband
@jaredkushner
visited Kfar Aza today and met with residents who experienced the October 7th massacre. They were accompanied by Knesset Speaker
@AmirOhana
.
🎥Natan Weil, Knesset Spokesperson
Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Holocaust Remembrance Day opening ceremony: "If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone... And I say to you, we will defeat our genocidal enemies.
Never again is now!"
🎥Yad Vashem
The IDF has arrested Arab activist Ahed Tamimi after she wrote, "Our message to the herds of settlers is: We are waiting for you in all cities of the [West] Bank, from Hebron to Jenin. We will slaughter you, and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke."
Approximately 100 Israelis whose loved ones were injured or murdered in the October 7 massacre will file a federal lawsuit in New York against UNRWA.
The suit alleges that UNRWA allowed Hamas to carry out the massacre and commit crimes against humanity.
آقا
@PahlaviReza
به یسرائل خوش آمدید!
Reza Pahlavi, son of the exiled Shah of Iran, has arrived in Israel on a historic visit. Pahlavi was welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport by Intelligence Minister
@GilaGamliel
.
📸 Ariel Zandburg
#HappeningNow
: Tens of thousands have gathered in "Hostages Square" in Tel Aviv to show support for the families of those who are in Hamas captivity and those who are missing since the October 7th massacre.
📸 Aviv Atlas
Exiled
#Iranian
Crown Prince, Shahzadeh
@PahlaviReza
traveled to Efrat, south of Jerusalem, to visit the family of Maia, Rina, and Lucy
#Dee
, who were murdered in the Jordan Valley shooting attack.
Israeli Government Spokesman
@EylonALevy
to Arutz Sheva: "There is simply no amount of evidence that you can present that will make some people admit what happened, because they can't bring themselves to admit what their heroes in the Hamas death squads did on October 7."
#CONFIRMED
: One of the terrorists eliminated in this morning's airstrike in the
#Gaza
Strip was Jihad Ghannam, who, on May 2nd, 2004, murdered Tali Hatuel, who was eight months pregnant, and her four daughters: Hila, Hadar, Ron i, and Merav.
#WATCH
: Students and faculty from Yeshivat Hakotel dance at the Western Wall in Jerusalem following the end of
#YomKippur
.
🎥 Western Wall Heritage Foundation
#Watch
: Israeli rescue teams operating in
#Turkey
rescue a 26-year-old woman from the rubble. So far, the Israeli delegation has rescued ten civilians.
🎥 IDF Spokesperson
#Turkish
no longer:
@StraussGroup
has decided to remove the term "Turkish Coffee" from the packaging of its popular coffee grounds and replace it with various patriotic slogans such as: "Am Israel Chai", "Generation of Victory," "We Have No Other Land," and "Strong Together."
#Iranian
anti-regime activist
@Vahid_Beheshti
to Arutz Sheva: "Israel is the only country that understands this regime and how to confront them. The attack in Damascus was the most precise and effective measure that could be taken. Iranians were celebrating."
@Yoni_Kempinski
#MazalTov
: Fox News journalist
@KassyDillon
has completed the process of converting to Judaism, taking to Twitter to announce the exciting development with a simple picture of her wearing a Star of David necklace overlaid with her new Hebrew name: Devorah Rut.
#BREAKING
: IDF soldiers identified a number of vehicles with terrorists in an area adjacent to Kibbutz Nir Am. An IDF tank responded by firing toward them, and thwarted three terrorists.
IDF soldiers are continuing to conduct searches in the area.
Mossad Director David Barnea: "Harm to an Israeli or a Jew, in any way, would lead to action deep in Iran and even in the heart of Teheran, from the executive level to the decision-makers."
During IDF activity in the area of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, over 70 terrorists exited the hospital with weapons in hand and surrendered. They were transferred to field interrogators from Unit 504 in the Intelligence Directorate and ISA coordinators for further questioning.
At 95, Ezra Yachin is the oldest IDF reservist. Prior to the foundation of the state, Yachin fought for the Lehi underground. He was called up for reserves service to motivate the IDF troops and to recount how he survived Arab pogroms in Jerusalem during his childhood.
עזרא יכין, בן 95, המילואימניק המבוגר ביותר בצה”ל. גוייס למילואים לתת לחיילים מוטיבציה ולספר להם, שלמרות הילדות הקשה שלו בירושלים, בה חווה באופן תדיר את פרעות הערבים וראה מראות מזעזעים וכל זאת בעידוד של השלטון הבריטי. הוא וחבריו הצליחו להקים מדינה לתפארת.
עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱
While flying with PM Netanyahu to the US, Yaakov, the father of rescued hostage Noa Argamani, convened a minyan (quorum of ten men) for afternoon prayers and recited the Kaddish prayer for his late wife together with bereaved father's Yehuda Shani and Itzik Bonzel.
Rabbi Leo Dee who lost his wife and two daughters in a terror attack in the Jordan Valley: "Jewish violence against innocent Arabs is a Chilul Hashem which only creates darkness in the world. The elimination of terror is essential, but this must be done by professionals."
US Sec. of State Antony Blinken arrived at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem.
"Good to see you", Blinken said, "sorry it's under these circumstances".
"We're here", he added, "we're not going anywhere"
🎥 Omer Meron/ Ben Peretz/ GPO
During his eulogy for his son, Major Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who fell in Gaza, Yehiel Leiter addressed US President Biden: "Mr. President, don't pressure us. Let us do what we know how to do and what we must do: defeat evil."
President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal were touring the massacre-ravaged Kibbutz Be'eri when they ran into their grandson, who was called up to the IDF reserves at the beginning of the war.
#BREAKING
: Security forces have regained control of the Sderot police station after an hours-long standoff with terrorists who captured the station on Saturday morning. 10 terrorists were eliminated at the police station.
#WATCH
: Amid the fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip, an IDF reservist named his newborn daughter in a traditional Jewish naming ceremony. Upon announcing the name: "Klil", his fellow troops cheered and threw candy.
The Ministry of Information of
#Eritrea
has published an official statement in which it accused central intelligence agencies in the West, including the Israeli Mossad, of being responsible for promoting and financing violent riots against Eritrean citizens around the world.
Yehudit Nitzan laid her son, Gilad, to rest last night after he fell in battle in Gaza. "God, you gave us a wonderful gift, but why so short-lived? There is still so much to do in the world, so much sadness to be banished, so much love to be spread, so many smiles to be shared."
Watch: Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley visited the Re'im Forest in southern Israel where Hamas terrorists massacred partygoers at the Nova Festival on October 7th. During her visit, Haley heard first-hand accounts from survivors of the massacre.
🎥Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS
Members of an Israeli delegation were denied entry into Jordan Tuesday, after border guards refused to allow those wearing
#Jewish
garb from entering the country. One participant told Israel Hayom that a Jordanian border guard took his kippah and threw it in the trash.
During an address to the UN Security Council, Israeli Ambassador
@giladerdan1
announced that he will wear a yellow star when ever he is in the UN, "From this day on, each time you look at me you will remember what staying silent in the face of evil means."
📸 Spokesperson
#WATCH
: Soldiers from the haredi Netzah Yehuda Battalion who were en route to join their battalion in Gaza stopped at the scene of the October 7th Nova massacre to sing and pray.
At over 50, Rabbi Nir Yaakov Mas, the dean of the Lev Tel Aviv-Shir Leneriya Yeshiva, still leads convoys through the dark deep in Gaza as a Humvee driver.
Overnight Monday, two armed terrorists approached the border fence with the goal of carrying out a shooting attack on Israeli towns from the direction of Tulkarm. Soldiers from Unit 636 who were in the area eliminated the terrorists and confiscated the weapons.
#WATCH
: David, who was called up due to
#Hamas
' attack on Israel, participates in the Brit (circumcision ceremony) of his new born son over the phone.
Jewish-American actor and comedian
@MichaelRapaport
to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News: "I am extremely disappointed that in NYC, where I was born and raised, it has become acceptable to scream and yell, taunt, harass, and openly be anti-Jewish."
@Yoni_Kempinski
Border and Military Police officers at the al-Checkpoint near Jerusalem stopped a suspicious vehicle. Upon searching the car, the officers found five illegal infiltrators hiding in the trunk who were suspected of attempting to enter Israeli territory illegally.
📸Israel Police
IDF International spokesperson
@LtColRichard
explains to
@Yoni_Kempinski
the importance of showing the world the aftermath of the 10/7 massacre immediately.
"Just like Eisenhower took the press to Bergen Belzen, this is how they understood the catastrophe.”
@COLRICHARDKEMP
to INN's Gary Willig on the IDF counterterrorism operation in
#Jenin
: "To conduct an operation of such intensity in an urban area without killing any uninvolved civilians at all is a remarkable achievement by the IDF and probably unprecedented in modern warfare."
The IDF has revealed that 200 Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre in Israel escaped into Gaza and are hiding in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
PM Netanyahu to France's TF1 in French: "I say: Our victory - it is your victory. Our victory is the victory of Israel against anti-Semitism, it is the victory of Judeo-Christian civilization against barbarism. It’s France’s victory.”
🎥PM's Office
#WATCH
: Thousands of yeshiva students gathered at the Western Wall this morning for a celebratory morning service in honor of
#JerusalemDay
.
🎥 Western Wall Heritage Foundation
PM Netanyahu in a pre-Passover address: "Hamas hardens its heart and refuses to let our people go, and therefore, we will send it additional and painful plagues - and it will happen soon."
#WATCH
: Passersby welcomed rescued hostage Noa Argamani as she arrived at Ichilov Hospital, where her mother Liora, who is battling terminal cancer, is hospitalized.
In a conversation with Arutz Sheva,
#Iranian
opposition activist
@Vahid_Beheshti
called on Israel to strike Iranian regime targets. "Let's not forget that we have a great military of 18 million Iranians who are thirsty for democracy and freedom in Iran."
@yoni_kempinski