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☆ Hamas launched a 'surprise' attack on Israel, but for Netanyahu's critics, the writing was on the wall for months
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing at least 70 people. Critics have long been warning of a security lapse as a result of internal civil unrest in Israel. They warned that protests linked to judicial reforms were impacting Israeli national security. Netanyahu's judicial reforms, which were proposed in January and eventually passed in July, seek to limit the Supreme Court's power to exercise judicial review and declare legislation unconstitutional. "This is a clear, immediate, and real danger to Israel's security," Gallant said at the time.

Persons: —, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Yuval Sade, Calcalist, disdainfully, Israel, Netanyahu, Yair Lapid, Tamir Pardo, We've, Tomer Bar, Yoav Gallant, Gallant Organizations: Hamas, Service, IDF, PLO, Israel, Shin, Los Angeles Times, Israeli Air Force Locations: Israel, Iran

☆ Israel’s Arab citizens demand justice after alarming rise in gang-related murders
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Standing at a protest march in Haifa against the rising crime wave affecting Arab communities in Israel last week, Abu Salah cries out “Enough! Filling a ‘vacuum’The rise in violence is fueled by organized crime, Israeli officials say. Nobody else is doing this job except the criminal organizations,” Abu Rass says. “In the Arab sector, criminal organizations are active that have armed militias with thousands of soldiers and many weapons,” Ben Gvir said last month. On Thursday the committee announced proposals including giving police additional technology and administrative tools, and increasing financial penalties against criminal organizations.

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Israelis marching toward Jerusalem on Saturday in protest of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judicial system. Adding to the uncertainty Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu was taken to the hospital to have a pacemaker implanted during a procedure in which he would be placed under sedation, his office said. “The proper balance between the authorities has been disturbed over the past decades,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech Thursday. “The fear is that our country won’t look like it looks today,” Ms. Holzman said of the judicial overhaul plan. Similar mass protests in March prompted the government to suspend, at least for now, other planned judicial changes.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu’s, ”, Ilana Holzman, “, Holzman, Menahem Kahana, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shin, Netanyahu, ” Mr, Gil Cohen, Navot Silberstein, Silberstein, Ms Organizations: Agence France, Histadrut, Air Force Locations: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel, Shoresh .

☆ Israel's Shin Bet spy service uses generative AI to thwart threats
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TEL AVIV, June 27 (Reuters) - Israel's Shin Bet security service has incorporated artificial intelligence into its tradecraft and used the technology to foil substantial threats, its director said on Tuesday, highlighting generative AI's potential for law-enforcement. Among measures taken by the Shin Bet - the Israeli counterpart of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations or Britain's MI5 - has been the creation of its own generative AI platform, akin to ChatGPT or Bard, director Ronen Bar said. "AI technology has been incorporated quite naturally into the Shin Bet's interdiction machine," Bar said in a speech to the Cyber Week conference hosted by Tel Aviv University. Acknowledging the public-domain backbone of the fast-emerging technology, Bar urged cooperation between commercial hi-tech and government agencies such as his "to ensure AI leads to evolution and not to revolution". With Israel still pondering its AI policies, Bar called for the expected regulations to include a review of Shin Bet-related laws as well as a redefinition of official secrecy.

Persons: Shin, Bard, Ronen Bar, Bar, Israel, Shin Bet, Dan Williams, Conor Humphries Organizations: U.S . Federal Bureau of Investigations, Tel Aviv University, Shin, Thomson Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel

☆ Israel hands lawmaker held in gun-running case over to Jordan
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

JERUSALEM, May 7 (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday handed over to Jordan a member of the Jordanian parliament who had been held on suspicion of trying to smuggle weapons into the occupied West Bank. A Jordanian security source said the case will be brought to trial. Its investigation, Shin Bet said, determined that Adwan was smuggling for money and "indeed received large sums of money". Shin Bet said a number of suspects in Jordan have also been arrested by Jordanian authorities over their alleged involvement. Israel enjoys close security ties with Jordan, the Arab neighbour with which it shares its longest stretch of border, but political relations have soured in recent years.

☆ Israel approves 'national guard' sought by far-right security minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

It was not immediately clear who would have direct authority over the national guard. Having moderated some of his positions, he wields an expanded law-and-order portfolio in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist governing coalition. Ben Gvir has described the planned national guard in media interviews as an update of the previous government's initiative. "Why does the State of Israel - which has an army, police, military intelligence, the Shin Bet, Mossad, National Security Council, Prisons Service, riot police, a SWAT team - need another national guard?" He said that the national guard would take months to get off the ground and that he was trying to fill police posts in parallel.

☆ Netanyahu fires defense minister for urging halt to overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during the the 2016 Genesis Prize award-ceremony in Jerusalem, June 23, 2016. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister on Sunday, a day after he called on the Israeli leader to halt a planned judicial overhaul that has fiercely divided the country and prompted growing discontent within the ranks of the military. "The prime minister of Israel is a threat to the security of the state of Israel," Lapid wrote on Twitter. "The prime minister will be forced to bow his head before the law and comply with the provisions of the law." The prime minister responded saying the appeal should be dismissed and said that the Supreme Court didn't have grounds to intervene.

☆ Hundreds of elite Israeli reservists say they are joining judicial protests
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

That, critics say, could foster corruption and imperil judicial independence key to Israel's economic strength and defences against attempts to isolate it internationally. Netanyahu has condemned the protests' reach into the military ranks as an attempt to subvert an institution meant to be above politics. While reservists have helped Israel prevail in previous wars, more recently it has relied on regular forces. But some units consider reservists especially valuable given their maturity and accrued skills. An air force pilot taking part in the protests told Channel 12 TV that as many as 60% of crews sent on bombing sorties in Syria are volunteer reservists.

☆ 'I've grown up,' far-rightist tells Israelis worried about his rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Jewish Power party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks following the announcement of exit polls in Israel's general election, at his party headquarters in Jerusalem November 2, 2022. Having won an election last week, conservative former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most powerful likely coalition ally is Religious Zionism, a party led by ultranationalist Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. "I've grown up, I've moderated and I've come to understand that life is more complicated," Ben-Gvir, 46, said in a front-page article in the biggest-circulation Israel Hayom newspaper. He said security services had "used irresponsible manipulation, which to this day has not been fully exposed, to encourage the murderer". Religious Zionism, like other Israeli parties on the right, opposes Palestinian statehood.

☆ Israel: Şeful armatei, Aviv Kohavi, afirmă că Hamas nu a estimat corect amploarea reacţiei israeliene
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-17 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

"Acţionăm cu un simţ al dreptăţii, cu sentimentul că este corect ce facem, că este ceea ce trebuie făcut pentru a proteja cetăţenii Israelului", a adăugat Kohavi într-o declaraţie după o întâlnire la Tel Aviv cu premierul Benjamin Netanyahu, cu ministrul apărării Benny Gantz şi cu şefii Shin Beth şi Mossad. "Niciun terorist nu este în siguranţă (...), vom continua să acţionăm atât timp cât este necesar pentru a restabili liniştea şi securitatea cetăţenilor Israelului. Aceasta va dura ceva timp", a declarat Netanyahu. Cele mai multe au căzut în enclava palestiniană, pe terenuri nelocuite din Israel sau au fost interceptate de scutul antirachetă Domul de Fier.Şeful armatei israeliene a precizat că a fost cel mai intens ritm de lansare a unor rachete spre Israel înregistrat vreodată. Conform estimărilor lui Aviv Kohavi, arsenalul celor din Fâşia Gaza este de aproximativ 15.000.Rachetele lansate au făcut zece morţi în rândul populaţiei israeliene, în timp ce atacurile israeliene asupra Fâşiei Gaza au produs moartea a cel puţin 192 de persoane, dintre care 58 de copii.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Shin Beth, Mossad, Netanyahu, Aviv Organizations: Hamas Locations: Tel Aviv, Israelului, Gaza, israelian, Israel

☆ Hamas a anunțat că unul din liderii mișcării din Gaza a fost ucis împreună cu câțiva dintre frații săi
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-12 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Comandantul din orașul Gaza al mișcării islamiste palestiniene Hamas, Bassem Issa, a fost ucis miercuri într-un atac aerian israelian, a anunțat Hamas, potrivit Washington Post, citează digi24.ro. Aripa armată a Hamas a declarat că Issa a fost ucis „împreună cu câțiva dintre frații săi” în timpul luptelor care au loc de două zile în Gaza. Declarația Hamas vine după ce autorităţile israeliene au anunţat uciderea a 16 lideri ai grupurilor islamiste din Fâşia Gaza. Bilanţul raidurilor aeriene israeliene în Fâşia Gaza a ajuns la 53 de morţi şi 320 de răniţi. În Israel, bilanţul celor peste 1.000 de atacuri cu rachete lansate din Fâşia Gaza a ajuns la şase morţi şi peste 120 de răniţi.

Persons: Bassem Issa, Issa, Shin, Bejnamin Netanyahu Organizations: Hamas, Washington Post Locations: Gaza, Hamas, israelian, Israel, Cisiordania, Israelului

☆ Israelul acuză Iranul că îi ademenește cetățenii pe Instagram folosind conturi false de femei pentru a-i răpi
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-12 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Serviciile secrete israeliene acuză Iranul de crearea unor conturi false de femei pe platforma Instagram cu scopul de a ademeni și răpi cetățenii israelieni, după ce Teheranul a ameninţat cu o ripostă la un presupus atac împotriva centrului nuclear din Natanz, atac pe care îl atribuie Israelului, relatează AFP, citat de Agerpres. Totodată, serviciile israeliene afirmă că acest mod de operare este bine cunoscut şi asemănător cu cel utilizat deja de Iran împotriva oponenţilor regimului în Europa. Acuzațiile Israelului vin la scurt timp după ce autoritățile iraniene au acuzat statul israelian, inamicul declarat al Teheranului, de sabotarea centrului nuclear Natanz, promiţând "răzbunare". Iranul a anunţat duminică că uzina nucleară din Natanz (centrul ţării), a suferit un "accident" pe care l-a calificat drept act de "terorism", ce a dus la o "întrerupere a curentului electric", fără să producă victime sau "poluare". Uzina vizată, din cadrul complexului din Natanz, este aceeaşi cu cea unde Teheranul a pus în funcţiune sau a început să testeze sâmbătă noile cascade de centrifuge.

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