Two Yeshivah Bochurim Arrested At Ben Gurion Airport For Failure To Respond To IDF Summons.
April 20, 2025.
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Two Yeshivah Bochurim Arrested At Ben Gurion Airport For Failure To Respond To IDF Summons YWN]
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WATCH: In Heart Of NY, Hamas Fan Seen Wearing Mock Suicide Vest.
April 21, 2025.
A Hamas supporter was seen wearing a mock suicide vest at an anti-Israel protest in Manhattan.
The vest is reminiscent of the suicide vests worn by terrorists to murder and maim Israelis during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. And of course, the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City were also carried out by suicide attackers.
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The video shows the would-be suicide bomber with other pro-Hamas supporters arguing with counter-protesters.
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WATCH: In Heart Of NY, Hamas Fan Seen Wearing Mock Suicide Vest YWN]
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Islamic Jihad terrorist who took part in October 7 assault killed in strike, IDF says.
Army reports airstrikes hit over 200 targets in Gaza over weekend, including terrorist cells and weapons depots.
By Stav Levaton.
21 April 2025.
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Islamic Jihad terrorist who took part in October 7 assault killed in strike, IDF says TOI]
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Israeli delegation holds talks in Cairo as mediators float long-term truce ā report.
By TOI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and AP.
21 April 2025
Mediators said to offer years-long agreement involving end to war, release of all Israeli hostages; Hamas-run civil defense agency says seven killed in airstrikes.
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Israeli delegation holds talks in Cairo as mediators float long-term truce ā report TOI]
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104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising.
By Nomi Kaltmann.
Apr 22, 2025.
MELBOURNE, Australia ā At 104 years old, Berysz Aurbach is one of the last surviving Jews who witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Smuggled out just before the uprising began on Passover of 1943, Aurbach can still describe in detail the acrid smell of the burning ghetto while sitting in Caulfield, a quiet suburb in Melbourne, Australia.
Despite his age, Aurbachās memory is razor sharp. He was born in Biala Podlaska, Poland, to a middle-class family with close ties to the grand rabbi of the Gerrer Hasidic dynasty. His mother died when he was just 3 months old.
āI can talk for six months and I wouldnāt tell you everything I want to tell you,ā Aurbach told The Times of Israel, reflecting on his survival.
He had three older brothers, a sister, and, later, a half-brother from his fatherās second marriage. His early life was stable and his family were considered upper middle class. He still recalls, word-for-word, the prayers and Torah verses he learned in his local religious school in Poland.
When World War II broke out, Aurbach was just 19 years old. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he worked in a factory, while surrounded by death and despair. Around 90,000 Jews in the ghetto died from starvation and disease; over 300,000 were deported to extermination camps. Thousands more were killed during the April 1943 uprising, when the Nazis torched buildings and reduced the ghetto to rubble.
Just before the uprising, Aurbachās older brother Mordechai, who was part of the underground resistance and a member of the Zionist HaNoar Hatzioni youth movement, arranged for him to escape. Mordechai secured false papers and a Polish police uniform, allowing Aurbach to walk out of the ghetto undetected.
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āMy elder brother Mordechai, together with other ghetto leaders, went to rich people in Warsaw to obtain money for arms. Rich people gave him and other leaders money after my brother convinced them to fund resistance in the ghetto,ā he said.
After slipping out, Aurbach spent the rest of the war hiding in safe houses run by the Polish underground. He has never forgotten the horrors he left behind. His father and brothers were not as lucky.
My brother had arranged for himself a place⦠but he couldnāt arrange a place for [the rest of the family]. ..
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Jews marched out of the ghetto during the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt in April and May, 1943. public domain)
Although Mordechai survived the initial ghetto uprising, he was later betrayed by Polish informants and executed by the Gestapo.
āI donāt know where he is buried,ā Aurbach said. A photo of Mordechai still sits on the mantle of Aurbachsā home.
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Mordechai Aurbach. Courtesy of Berysz Aurbach).
Safe harbor in far-away Australia
After the war, Aurbach had only one surviving sister, Esther, who had emigrated to what was then British Mandate Palestine before the war. Aurbach chose to move to Australia, joining the roughly 35,000 Holocaust survivors who settled there by the 1960s. Of those, approximately 2,000 were from Warsaw. He still resides in the same home where he has lived for decades, together with his son Moshe.
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Berysz Aurbach, back center left, with other members of a Jewish burial service exhuming victims of Nazis from a mass grave after the Holocaust. Courtesy of Moshe Aurbach).
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104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising TOI]
Report projects fewer than 100,000 living Holocaust survivors by 2032.
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Claims Conference predicts that only about 20,000 eyewitnesses to the murder of six million Jews will remain worldwide by 2040.
By Zev Stub.
Apr 22, 2025
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Report projects fewer than 100,000 living Holocaust survivors by 2032 TOI]
Ministry of Welfare:
10% of Holocaust survivors passed away in the last year.
Israel National News.
Apr 22, 2025, 2:36 PM
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Ministry of Welfare: 10% of Holocaust survivors passed away in the last year INN]
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ADL says 2024 antisemitic incidents in US shattered records for fourth year in a row.
By Zev Stub. Apr 22, 2025.
9,354 cases of harassment, vandalism, and assault recorded throughout year, led by 84% rise on college campuses.
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ADL says 2024 antisemitic incidents in US shattered records for fourth year in a row TOI]
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Hadera shark attack | Police: Remains found in search area.
Divers located remains and findings in the area where a diver was attacked by a shark. The remains will be sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for examination.
Israel National News.
Published: Apr 22, 2025, 2:48 PM (GMT+3)
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Hadera shark attack | Police: Remains found in search area INN]
'Al-Qassam shark': Arab social media explodes after northern Israel shark attack.
Images of the shark wearing a keffiyeh or the green Hamas headband appeared with caption 'the warrior in the Abu-shark force,' with tragic incident used as tool in the online anti-Israel campaign
LIor Ben Ari | 04.22.25.
Arab social media sites were humorous posts about the shark attack off Israel's Hadera shore on Monday, with the attacked diver still missing and the searches for him intensifying.
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'Al-Qassam shark': Arab social media explodes after northern Israel shark attack YNet]
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Sen. Sanders calls to halt aid, Minister Katz shoots back: 'He learned nothing from 10.7'.
Far-left US Senator Bernie Sanders called on the US to stop supplying military aid to Israel since it stopped letting aid into Gaza. Defense Minister Katz replied and ensured: 'Large quantities of aid were delivered.'
Israel National News.
Apr 22, 2025, 12:40 PM (GMT+3)
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Sen. Sanders calls to halt aid, Minister Katz shoots back: 'He learned nothing from 10.7' INN]
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IDF confirms:
Senior Jamaa Islamiya terrorist eliminated in Lebanon.
Hussein Izzat Mohammad Atwi was involved in planning and advancing terrorist activity from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
Israel National News.
Apr 22, 2025, 2:06 PM
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IDF confirms: Senior Jamaa Islamiya terrorist eliminated in Lebanon INN]
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Mysterious messages offer Gazans an escape from the Strip, prompting Hamas to threaten back.
Hamas, already facing shortages and dissent, warns citizens to ignore messages promising meetings to discuss leaving Gaza.
Avi Nachmani.
04/22/2025.
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