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JERUSALEM A Palestinian broke into a West Bank settlement home and fatally stabbed an Israeli woman before fleeing Sunday, touching off a massive night manhunt, the Israeli military said.

The attack occurred hours after another Palestinian was shot dead by soldiers after trying to attack them with a knife, it said.

The latest incidents come amid a four-month wave of violence that Israel says is driven by Palestinian incitement and the Palestinians say is rooted in frustration at decades of living under Israeli occupation.

In the later attack, the Palestinian slipped into the Otniel settlement, broke into the woman's home and killed her before fleeing the scene, the military said. Israeli police identified the slain woman as Dafna Meir and said she was a mother of six in her late 30s.

Otniel is located near Hebron, the West Bank's largest city and a frequent flashpoint of violence. Residents of the settlement hid in their homes Sunday as Israeli forces blocked roads and lit the sky with flares while searching for the assailant.

The military said no soldiers were harmed in the earlier incident, which took place near a base south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

Palestinian health officials identified the assailant as Wissam Qasrawi, 21, from Mesilyeh village near the northern town of Jenin.

Also on Sunday, Israeli police canceled a meeting at the Hakawati Theater, the Palestinian national theater in east Jerusalem. Theater board member Ibrahim Deabis said staff planned to discuss its finances with Palestinian Authority Culture Minister Ehab Bseiso.

"We were surprised because this is not the first meeting like this in Jerusalem," Deabis said. "The Israelis are different now."

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said he instructed police to shut down the meeting because he learned the Palestinian Authority planned to sponsor an event at the theater. Erdan said such a move would be "a violation of the sovereignty of the State of Israel."

Israel does not allow the Palestinians to conduct what it considers political activity in east Jerusalem. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their capital. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital, including the eastern section of the city seized in the 1967 Mideast war.

Israel briefly shut down Hakawati Theater in 2013 over similar complaints.

The last four months have seen near-daily Palestinian attacks that have killed 25 Israelis and an American student. Some 145 Palestinians have been killed, of whom about 100 are said by Israel to have been attackers. The rest died in clashes with Israeli security forces.

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Danny Danon (Hebrew: , born 8 May 1971) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as Israel's envoy to the United Nations. He was previously a member of the Knesset for Likud, Minister of Science, Technology and Space and Deputy Minister of Defence.

Danon was born in Ramat Gan to Joseph and Yoheved Danon. He attended Blich High School and was a member of the Betar youth movement. he earned a Bachelor's degree in international affairs from the Florida International University, and a Master's degree in public policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After his national service in the IDF between 1994 and 1996, Danon was sent to Miami by the Jewish Agency.[1]

In 1996 he was appointed assistant to Likud MK Uzi Landau. Later on he was appointed the Chairman of the World Betar organization for a few years. Prior to the 2006 elections, Danon won 23rd spot on Likud's list in the party primaries. However, the party won only 12 seats, and Danon did not enter the Knesset.[1] In June 2006, after beating MK Yuval Steinitz, Danon was elected Chairman of the World Likud organization.[2] Danon was active against Prime-Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan during the referendum conducted by the latter in the Likud party's central committee.

In July 2007 Danon, described as one of Benjamin Netanyahu's biggest critics from within the Likud, declared his candidacy for the Likud leadership elections.[3] He eventually finished third. In 2008, Danon filed a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice to rescind the citizenship of former MK Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel after he was suspected of aiding Hezbollah, an enemy organization of Israel, during the 2006 Lebanon War. The petition was rejected.

Prior to the 2009 elections he won twenty-fourth place on the Likud list, and entered the Knesset as the party won 27 seats. He became a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. In an August 2011 interview with Teymoor Nabili on Al Jazeera English, Mr. Danon said "There is place only for one state on the land of Israel.... I do not believe in a two-state solution."[4]

After being re-elected in 2013, Danon was appointed as Deputy Minister of Defense in Netanyahu's government. However, on 15 July 2014 Danon was fired from the by Netanyahu after publicly criticizing Netanyahu's handling of Operation Protective Edge.[5][6]

Danon submitted his candidacy for the 2014 Likud leadership election on 8 December 2014.[7] The only candidate to run against Netanyahu, he received 19% of the vote. After retaining his Knesset seat in the 2015 elections he was appointed Minister of Science, Technology and Space in Netanyahu's new government.

On 14 August 2015 Danon was appointed by Netanyahu to be Israel's envoy to the UN replacing Ron Prosor.[8] He stepped down as a Knesset member and minister later in the month.

Danon asserted in 2013 that the Likud party has no place for anyone supporting a peace agreement with the Palestinians. He is opposed to a two-state solution. He argues for extending Israeli sovereignty over the majority of the West Bank, 'with the minimum number of Palestinians.'[9][10]

In May 2011, Danon wrote an opinion published in the New York Times where he advocated that Israel annex all West Bank settlements and "uninhabited areas". He concluded that Israel would bear no responsibility to Palestinians in the West Bank, who would live in their own "unannexed" towns and that this solution would avert the "threat to the Jewish and democratic status of Israel by a growing Palestinian population".[11]

Danon has made controversial comments suggesting Israel should undertake punitive attacks and action against civilian infrastructure and civilians. On 10 November 2011, in a Facebook post, he stated "for every missile that falls in our southern towns, we retaliate by deleting a neighborhood in Gaza".[12][13] In July 2014, after the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, Danon was quoted as saying "If we don't get the soldier back within a few hours we should start levelling Gaza."[14][15] In July 2014, Danon advocated cutting off all electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza to induce Hamas to request a cease-fire.[16][17]

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Gerard Menuhin: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil

A review by Fredrick Tben

The book has no chapters but divides into four sections, which makes for challenging reading:

Ito p 162: Thwarted: Humanitys Last Grasp For Freedom;

IIto p 294: Identified: Illumination Or The Diagnostic Of Darkness;

IIIto p 366: Extinguished: Civilization;

IVto p 457: Final Stage: Communist Vassalage.

Section I: Thwarted:

Humanitys Last Grasp For Freedom

The heading conveys a grave, almost certainly a pessimistic message, and so with pencil in hand I begin to read through the section and immediately notice how Menuhins autobiographical account of his awakening to the German problem begins at home in England between the expressed views of his mother and father on the gassing allegations. His mother reminds him that had he been about in Germany during the war, then he would have been gassed, while his father, Yehudi 1916-1999, the world renowned violinist never talks about the war. This creates a conceptual dissonance that is further accentuated through Menuhin spending a year at the primary section of the private Salem boarding school at Lake Constance where he feels the German children around him are just like any other children. And later he also realizes that it does not make sense to him that a highly cultured nation, such as Germany has always been, could have become a part of a genocidal plan to exterminate the Jews. The final straw moment, so to speak, occurs when he is engaged in cleaning up his late grandparents home and finds copies of Gerhard Freys National-Zeitung.

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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe.

Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.

As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people. Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where these individuals worked and often died under deplorable conditions.

From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior did not match prescribed social norms. German police officials targeted thousands of political opponents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses). Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.

ADMINISTRATION OF THE "FINAL SOLUTION" In the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. Increasingly in the years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps.

To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit.

Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) and, later, militarized battalions of Order Police officials, moved behind German lines to carry out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist Party officials. German SS and police units, supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others.

Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.

THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called death marches, in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces announced their Victory Day on May 9, 1945.

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957.

The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely.

Further Reading

Bergen, Doris. War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.

Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1986.

Gutman, Israel, editor. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Gaza (em rabe: azzah, IPA:[azza]), tambm conhecida como Cidade de Gaza, uma cidade palestina localizada na Faixa de Gaza, com uma populao de cerca de 450.000 habitantes, o que a torna a maior cidade dos territrios palestinos. Habitada desde pelo menos o sculo XV a.C, Gaza tem sido dominada por vrios povos e imprios diferentes ao longo de sua histria. Os filisteus fez parte de sua pentpolis depois de os antigos egpcios terem governado a regio por quase 350 anos. Sob o Imprio Romano e mais tarde sob os bizantinos, a cidade experimentou uma relativa paz e o seu porto floresceu comercialmente. Em 635 d.C., tornou-se a primeira cidade da Palestina a ser conquistada pelo exrcito Rashidun e rapidamente evoluiu para um centro da lei islmica. No entanto, no momento em que os cruzados invadiram a cidade no final do sculo XI, ela ficou em runas. Nos sculos posteriores, Gaza experimentou vrias dificuldades, desde invases mongis, inundaes e pragas de gafanhotos que reduziram-na a uma aldeia por volta do sculo XVI, quando foi incorporada ao Imprio Otomano. Durante a primeira metade do governo otomano, a dinastia Ridwan controlava Gaza e sob eles a cidade passou por uma poca de grande fluxo comercial e paz.

Gaza caiu diante das foras britnicas durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, tornando-se parte do Mandato Britnico da Palestina. Como resultado da guerra rabe-israelense de 1948, o Egito administrou o recm-formado territrio da Faixa de Gaza e vrias melhorias foram realizadas na cidade. Gaza foi anexada por Israel durante a Guerra dos Seis Dias, em 1967, mas em 1993, a cidade foi transferida para a Autoridade Nacional Palestina conforme os Acordos de Oslo. Aps as eleies parlamentares de 2006, o conflito estourou quando o partido Fatah no pareceu disposto a transferir o poder para o Hamas, resultando na tomada do poder na Faixa de Gaza pela fora. O Egito e Israel impuseram um bloqueio Faixa de Gaza, depois de 2006. Israel aliviou o bloqueio permitindo a entrada de bens de consumo em junho de 2010 e o Egito reabriu a fronteira de Rafah em 2011, mas apenas para pedestres.[1][2]

As principais atividades econmicas de Gaza so de indstrias de pequena escala e a agricultura de subsistncia. No entanto, a economia foi devastada pelo bloqueio e pelos conflitos recorrentes. A maioria dos habitantes de Gaza so muulmanos, embora haja uma minoria crist. A cidade tem uma populao muito jovem, com cerca de 75% com idade em torno de 25 anos, alm de ter uma das maiores densidades populacionais do mundo.

Tendo sido habitada desde o sculo XV aC, a histria de Gaza remonta a 4.000 anos durante os quais esta cidade foi governada e habitada por diversos povos e governada por vrias dinastias.[3] Originariamente um assentamento cananeu caiu sob o controle dos antigos egpcios por uns 350 anos antes de ser conquistada pelos filisteus, que a converteram em uma das suas principais cidades de sua pentpolis no sculo XII a.C..

Em 730 a.C. Gaza caiu sob o domnio do Imprio Assrio e subseqentemente do Imprio sassnida persa e aps foi conquistada por Alexandre o Grande que sitiou a cidade por cinco meses antes de captur-la em 332 a.C.. A maior parte de seus habitantes foi assassinada no assalto cidade. Depois de re-povoada por rabes bedunos da regio tornou-se um centro de irradiao da civilizao helenstica, sofrendo mais um stio ainda, em 96 a.C., por parte dos asmoneus.

Com sua incorporao ao Imprio Romano no ano de 63 a.C., Gaza foi reconstruda sob a direo de Cneu Pompeu Magno e concluda por Herodes I o Grande trinta anos mais tarde. Durante o perodo romano e posterior , Gaza experimentou relativa paz e manteve sua prosperidade; seu porto floresceu e recebeu subvenes de vrios imperadores. Um senado de 500 membros governava a cidade. O povo que a habitava ento era constitudo de uma ampla gama de filisteus, gregos, romanos, cananeus , fencios, judeus, egpcios, persas e rabes. A converso ao cristianismo se deu sob o governo de Porfrio de Gaza, que destruiu seus oito templos pagos entre 396 e 420 d.C.

Em 635 dC, Gaza foi a primeira cidade de Palestina conquistada pelo exrcito Rashidum dos Califas bem guiados e logo se tornou um centro da Lei Islamica. A chegada dos governantes muulmanos trouxe consigo drsticas mudanas. A maior parte de suas igrejas foi transformada em mesquitas, a populao logo adotou o islamismo como sua religio e o Idioma rabe se converteu na lngua oficial. Sob os rabes muulmanos a cidade passou por perodos de prosperidade e declive.

Os Cruzados arrancaram o controle de gaza do Califado Fatmida em 1100 e governaram a cidade at 1187, quando a cidade foi conquistada por Saladino e os Aibidas. Gaza esteve em mos dos Mamelucos em fins do sculo XIII e se converteu na capital de uma provncia que abarcava desde o Sinai at Cesareia Martima. Em 1799, Gaza foi ocupada pelos franceses, e logo aps, quando foi incorporada ao Imprio otomano a cidade j no era mais que uma pequena povoao.

Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, a cidade de Gaza, como o restante da Palestina, foi tomada pelas foras britnicas e ficou sob seu poder desde 1917, no denominado "Mandato Britnico da Palestina", que perdurou at pouco depois do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, quando, com o advento da ONU foi preconizada a diviso da palestina em dois Estados, um para os judeus e outro para os rabes das demais religies que viviam na regio. Em 1948, aps a guerra perdida pelos palestinos, foi entregue com toda a faixa costeira, administrao do Egito que a manteve at 1962.

Na Guerra dos Seis Dias de 1967, Gaza foi capturada por Israel, que se manteve no controle direto da regio.

O levante popular chamado "Primeira Intifada" eclodiu em 1987 com centro das aes em Gaza. Durante a revolta as condies econmicas da cidade pioraram e em setembro de 1993 o Estado de Israel e lderes da Organizao de Libertao da Palestina (OLP) assinaram os Acordos de Oslo transferindo a administrao da Faixa de Gaza, da Cisjordnia e de Jeric, para os palestinianos. Em cumprimento do acordo, em maio de 1994 a Autoridade Nacional Palestina (ANP), liderada por Yasser Arafat, passou a administrar a cidade.

Em 2005, Israel decide entregar Gaza ao povo palestino e retirou, de forma forada, os judeus que ali viviam. Uma das exigncias americanas para que Israel se retirasse seria a organizao de eleies para decidir de forma democrtica quem governaria o territrio. Nas eleies de 25 de janeiro de 2006 o brao poltico do grupo fundamentalista islmico Hamas obteve a maioria das cadeiras no Conselho Legislativo da Palestina (CLP), rgo legislativo da Autoridade Nacional Palestina (ANP), com 74 dos 132 eleitos, enquanto o Fatah conquistou 43 assentos.

Diante da oposio dos pases do "Quarteto" (Estados Unidos, Rssia, Unio Europeia e ONU), o Fatah, a que pertence o presidente da ANP Mahmoud Abbas, recusou-se transmitir o poder ao primeiro-ministro da maioria vitoriosa. O Hamas acusou o Fatah de estar promovendo um golpe e aps uma srie de conflitos sangrentos, que seriam chamados de "Batalha de Gaza", o Hamas conquistou o poder em toda a Faixa de Gaza, expulsando o Fatah[4] e assassinando os membros que se recusassem sair.

Entre 27 de dezembro de 2008 e 18 de janeiro de 2009, as Foras de Defesa de Israel realizaram uma srie de operaes militares na Faixa de Gaza, em resposta aos constantes lanamentos de foguetes contra cidades da regio sul de Israel. Como esses lanamentos eram realizados no meio de zonas urbanas densamente povoadas por civs, a Operao Chumbo Fundido deixou 1314 mortos e cerca de cinco mil feridos no territrio palestino. No mesmo perodo, 13 israelenses morreram quatro atingidos por foguetes lanados por militantes do Hamas contra o sul de Israel, sendo trs civis e dez soldados mortos em ao[5] . Israel afirmou ter matado mais de 500 ativistas do Hamas durante a ofensiva, enquanto que o grupo palestino anunciou 48 baixas de militantes[5][6] . Grande parte da infraestrutura da Cidade de Gaza foi seriamente danificada nos ataques.

Uma escalada de violncia israelense ocorreu aps a morte de trs adolescentes israelenses na Cisjordnia no final de junho de 2014. Como vingana, um jovem palestino foi queimado vivo e assassinado em Jerusalm. Logo aps a descoberta dos corpos dos trs jovens, Israel iniciou uma ofensiva contra o Hamas . Avies de guerra passaram a bombardear Gaza destruindo casas e instituies e foram realizadas execues extrajudiciais. Os ataques israelenses causaram a morte de 600 palestinos entre eles 147 crianas e 74 mulheres , 74% dos quais eram civis. Tambm 27 soldados e dois civis israelenses morreram durante estes ataques.

Em 23 de julho de 2014, a alta comissria das Naes Unidas para os Direitos Humanos, Navi Pillay, denunciou que os ataques do Exrcito israelense contra Gaza poderiam constituir crimes de guerra. Ela disse: "Os exemplos que acabo de mencionar [ataques israelenses contra civis indefesos] mostram que a lei humanitria internacional foi violada at um alcance que poderiam constituir crimes de guerra". Navi falou perante o Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU, que na mesma data realizou uma sesso especial sobre a incurso israelense. Navy destacou que civis e suas casas no devem ser alvos militares, argumento que j havia sido usado pela ONG humanitria Human Rights Watch, e qualificou como "inaceitvel" o lanamento de foguetes de reas densamente povoadas, como presumivelmente faz o grupo islamita Hamas, "no entanto, a lei internacional clara: as aes de uma parte no absolvem outra de sua responsabilidade de respeitar suas obrigaes sob a lei internacional". A alta comissria fez um especial alerta sobre a morte de crianas nestes ataques. Navy reiterou a todas as partes do conflito "Israel, Hamas e outros grupos armados palestinos" que apliquem a lei internacional e deixem de ter como alvo os civis. Ela lembrou que desde 12 de junho Israel deteve mais de 1.200 palestinos na Cisjordnia e Jerusalm Oriental, e que muitos deles foram postos em deteno administrativa, ou seja, esto presos sem qualquer acusao. "Na Cisjordnia, Israel continua expandindo assentamentos, demolindo casas palestinas, usando excessivamente a fora, abusando de forma contnua e violando constantemente os direitos humanos da populao", informou a alta representante.[7]

O Conselho de Direitos Humanos das Naes Unidas aprovou em 23 de julho de 2014 uma resoluo que condena Israel por sua ofensiva militar contra Gaza e tambm cria uma comisso prpria para investigar crimes e violaes do direito internacional na empreitada. Entre os 47 pases-membros do conselho, a resoluo foi aprovada por 29 votos favorveis todos os pases latino-americanos, incluindo o Brasil, apoiaram a proposta e 17 abstenes (Alemanha, Itlia, Frana e Reino Unido permaneceram neutros). Os Estados Unidos foram os nicos a se opor proposta, assinalando que o contedo do documento "destrutivo" e que em nada contribui para o fim das hostilidades. Em termos gerais, o documento pede que Israel detenha imediatamente sua operao na Faixa de Gaza, especialmente os ataques contra os civis. Alm disso, reivindica a suspenso do bloqueio contra Gaza, para que seja possvel a entrada segura de ajuda humanitria e comrcio de bens no territrio. Sobre a comisso investigadora, o documento destaca que ter personalidade independente e internacional, e que deve viajar de forma urgente aos territrios palestinos para realizar sua investigao. Suas indagaes devero cobrir o perodo desde o dia 13 de junho, alm de incluir a identificao dos responsveis dos crimes e recomendar medidas para que sejam julgados por seus atos. "Tudo isto com o propsito de evitar e pr fim impunidade, e garantir que os responsveis prestem contas", indica a resoluo.[8]

A vitria do Hamas, grupo considerado terrorista por Canad, Unio Europeia, Israel, Japo e Estados Unidos[9] , possibilitou a decretao de um bloqueio econmico Faixa de Gaza, cuja manuteno exercida pelas foras armadas de Israel e do Egito. O bloqueio permite apenas que suprimentos humanitrios cheguem regio, aps um controle minucioso de seu contedo[10] .

Os efeitos do bloqueio tm consequncias graves para a economia da Cidade de Gaza e de toda a Faixa de Gaza. Os oponentes do bloqueio afirmam que a medida gera desabastecimento e pune apenas a populao civil. Diversas entidades de defesa dos direitos humanos qualificam o bloqueio Faixa de Gaza como desumano e cruel. A Anistia Internacional chamou o bloqueio de "punio coletiva", que resulta em uma "crise humanitria"[11] ; funcionrios da ONU descreveram a situao como "preocupante". O governo israelense nega tais afirmaes e diz que no h carncia de itens bsicos em Gaza[12] .

Ainda assim, o Hamas tem um brao armado que consegue contrabandear arsenal blico que usado contra a populao civil israelense e palestina.

Astana, Cazaquisto Bisqueque, Quirguisto Duchambe, Tajiquisto Asgabate, Turquemenisto Tashkent, Uzbequisto

Daca, Bangladesh Thimbu, Buto Nova Deli, ndia Mal, Maldivas Catmandu, Nepal Islamabad, Paquisto Kotte3, Sri Lanka

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Phnom Penh, Camboja Dli, Timor-Leste Jacarta, Indonsia Vienciana, Laos Kuala Lumpur, Malsia4 Putrajaya, Malsia5 Naypyidaw, Mianmar Manila, Filipinas Singapura, Singapura Banguecoque, Tailndia Hani, Vietname

Cabul, Afeganisto6 Erevan, Armnia Bacu, Azerbaijo Manama, Bahrein Nicsia, Chipre Tflis, Gergia Teer, Iro Bagd, Iraque Jerusalm, Israel7 Am, Jordnia Kuwait, Kuwait Beirute, Lbano Mascate, Om Doha, Qatar Riade, Arbia Saudita Damasco, Sria Ancara, Turquia Abu Dhabi, Emirados rabes Unidos San, Imen

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Holocaust Revisionists and Historians claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II ~ usually referred to as the Holocaust did not occur at all (seldom) or in the manner or to the extent historically recognized.

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Shabbat is a joyful day of rest Shabbat is two commandments: to remember and to observe A traditional dish is cholent, slow-cooked stew

The Sabbath (or Shabbat, as it is called in Hebrew) is one of the best known and least understood of all Jewish observances. People who do not observe Shabbat think of it as a day filled with stifling restrictions, or as a day of prayer like the Christian Sabbath. But to those who observe Shabbat, it is a precious gift from G-d, a day of great joy eagerly awaited throughout the week, a time when we can set aside all of our weekday concerns and devote ourselves to higher pursuits. In Jewish literature, poetry and music, Shabbat is described as a bride or queen, as in the popular Shabbat hymn Lecha Dodi Likrat Kallah (come, my beloved, to meet the [Sabbath] bride). It is said "more than Israel has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept Israel."

Shabbat is the most important ritual observance in Judaism. It is the only ritual observance instituted in the Ten Commandments. It is also the most important special day, even more important than Yom Kippur. This is clear from the fact that more aliyot (opportunities for congregants to be called up to the Torah) are given on Shabbat than on any other day.

Shabbat is primarily a day of rest and spiritual enrichment. The word "Shabbat" comes from the root Shin-Beit-Tav, meaning to cease, to end, or to rest.

Shabbat is not specifically a day of prayer. Although we do pray on Shabbat, and spend a substantial amount of time in synagogue praying, prayer is not what distinguishes Shabbat from the rest of the week. Observant Jews pray every day, three times a day. See Jewish Liturgy. To say that Shabbat is a day of prayer is no more accurate than to say that Shabbat is a day of feasting: we eat every day, but on Shabbat, we eat more elaborately and in a more leisurely fashion. The same can be said of prayer on Shabbat.

In modern America, we take the five-day work-week so much for granted that we forget what a radical concept a day of rest was in ancient times. The weekly day of rest has no parallel in any other ancient civilization. In ancient times, leisure was for the wealthy and the ruling classes only, never for the serving or laboring classes. In addition, the very idea of rest each week was unimaginable. The Greeks thought Jews were lazy because we insisted on having a "holiday" every seventh day.

Shabbat involves two interrelated commandments: to remember (zakhor) Shabbat, and to observe (shamor) Shabbat.

We are commanded to remember Shabbat; but remembering means much more than merely not forgetting to observe Shabbat. It also means to remember the significance of Shabbat, both as a commemoration of creation and as a commemoration of our freedom from slavery in Egypt.

In Exodus 20:11, after Fourth Commandment is first instituted, G-d explains, "because for six days, the L-rd made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and on the seventh day, he rested; therefore, the L-rd blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it." By resting on the seventh day and sanctifying it, we remember and acknowledge that G-d is the creator of heaven and earth and all living things. We also emulate the divine example, by refraining from work on the seventh day, as G-d did. If G-d's work can be set aside for a day of rest, how can we believe that our own work is too important to set aside temporarily?

In Deuteronomy 5:15, while Moses reiterates the Ten Commandments, he notes the second thing that we must remember on Shabbat: "remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the L-rd, your G-d brought you forth from there with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore the L-rd your G-d commanded you to observe the Sabbath day."

What does the Exodus have to do with resting on the seventh day? It's all about freedom. As I said before, in ancient times, leisure was confined to certain classes; slaves did not get days off. Thus, by resting on Shabbat, we are reminded that we are free. But in a more general sense, Shabbat frees us from our weekday concerns, from our deadlines and schedules and commitments. During the week, we are slaves to our jobs, to our creditors, to our need to provide for ourselves; on Shabbat, we are freed from these concerns, much as our ancestors were freed from slavery in Egypt.

We remember these two meanings of Shabbat when we recite kiddush (the prayer over wine sanctifying Shabbat or a holiday). Friday night kiddush refers to Shabbat as both zikaron l'ma'aseih v'rei'shit (a memorial of the work in the beginning) and zeikher litzi'at Mitz'rayim (a remembrance of the exodus from Egypt).

Of course, no discussion of Shabbat would be complete without a discussion of the work that is forbidden on Shabbat. This is another aspect of Shabbat that is grossly misunderstood by people who do not observe it.

Most Americans see the word "work" and think of it in the English sense of the word: physical labor and effort, or employment. Under this definition, turning on a light would be permitted, because it does not require effort, but a rabbi would not be permitted to lead Shabbat services, because leading services is his employment. Jewish law prohibits the former and permits the latter. Many Americans therefore conclude that Jewish law doesn't make any sense.

The problem lies not in Jewish law, but in the definition that Americans are using. The Torah does not prohibit "work" in the 20th century English sense of the word. The Torah prohibits "melachah" (Mem-Lamed-Alef-Kaf-Hei), which is usually translated as "work," but does not mean precisely the same thing as the English word. Before you can begin to understand the Shabbat restrictions, you must understand the word "melachah."

Melachah generally refers to the kind of work that is creative, or that exercises control or dominion over your environment. The word may be related to "melekh" (king; Mem-Lamed-Kaf). The quintessential example of melachah is the work of creating the universe, which G-d ceased from on the seventh day. Note that G-d's work did not require a great physical effort: he spoke, and it was done.

The word melachah is rarely used in scripture outside of the context of Shabbat and holiday restrictions. The only other repeated use of the word is in the discussion of the building of the sanctuary and its vessels in the wilderness. Exodus Ch. 31, 35-38. Notably, the Shabbat restrictions are reiterated during this discussion (Ex. 31:13), thus we can infer that the work of creating the sanctuary had to be stopped for Shabbat. From this, the rabbis concluded that the work prohibited on Shabbat is the same as the work of creating the sanctuary. They found 39 categories of forbidden acts, all of which are types of work that were needed to build the sanctuary:

(Mishnah Shabbat, 7:2)

All of these tasks are prohibited, as well as any task that operates by the same principle or has the same purpose. In addition, the rabbis have prohibited handling any implement that is intended to perform one of the above purposes (for example, a hammer, a pencil or a match) unless the tool is needed for a permitted purpose (using a hammer to crack nuts when nothing else is available) or needs to be moved to do something permitted (moving a pencil that is sitting on a prayer book), or in certain other limited circumstances. Objects that may not be handled on Shabbat are referred to as "muktzeh," which means, "that which is set aside," because you set it aside (and don't use it unnecessarily) on Shabbat.

The rabbis have also prohibited travel, buying and selling, and other weekday tasks that would interfere with the spirit of Shabbat. The use of electricity is prohibited because it serves the same function as fire or some of the other prohibitions, or because it is technically considered to be "fire."

The issue of the use of an automobile on Shabbat, so often argued by non-observant Jews, is not really an issue at all for observant Jews. The automobile is powered by an internal combustion engine, which operates by burning gasoline and oil, a clear violation of the Torah prohibition against kindling a fire. In addition, the movement of the car would constitute transporting an object in the public domain, another violation of a Torah prohibition, and in all likelihood the car would be used to travel a distance greater than that permitted by rabbinical prohibitions. For all these reasons, and many more, the use of an automobile on Shabbat is clearly not permitted.

As with almost all of the commandments, all of these Shabbat restrictions can be violated if necessary to save a life.

At about 2PM or 3PM on Friday afternoon, observant Jews leave the office to begin Shabbat preparations. The mood is much like preparing for the arrival of a special, beloved guest: the house is cleaned, the family bathes and dresses up, the best dishes and tableware are set, a festive meal is prepared. In addition, everything that cannot be done during Shabbat must be set up in advance: lights and appliances must be set (or timers placed on them, if the household does so), the light bulb in the refrigerator must be removed or unscrewed, so it does not turn on when you open it, and preparations for the remaining Shabbat meals must be made.

Shabbat, like all Jewish days, begins at sunset, because in the story of creation in Genesis Ch. 1, you will notice that it says, "And there was evening, and there was morning, one day." From this, we infer that a day begins with evening, that is, sunset. For the precise time when Shabbat begins and ends in your area, consult the list of candle lighting times provided by the Orthodox Union, by Chabad or by any Jewish calendar.

Shabbat candles are lit and a blessing is recited no later than eighteen minutes before sunset. This ritual, performed by the woman of the house, officially marks the beginning of Shabbat. Two candles are lit, representing the two commandments: zakhor (remember) and shamor (observe), discussed above.

The family then attends a brief evening service (45 minutes - that's brief by Jewish standards - see Jewish Liturgy).

After services, the family comes home for a festive, leisurely dinner. Before dinner, the man of the house recites Kiddush, a prayer over wine sanctifying Shabbat. The usual prayer for eating bread is recited over two loaves of challah, a sweet, eggy bread shaped in a braid. The family then eats dinner. Although there are no specific requirements or customs regarding what to eat, meals are generally stewed or slow cooked items, because of the prohibition against cooking during Shabbat. (Things that are mostly cooked before Shabbat and then reheated or kept warm are OK).

After dinner, the birkat ha-mazon (grace after meals) is recited. Although this is done every day, on Shabbat, it is done in a leisurely manner with many upbeat tunes.

By the time all of this is completed, it may be 9PM or later. The family has an hour or two to talk or study Torah, and then go to sleep.

The next morning Shabbat services begin around 9AM and continue until about noon. After services, the family says kiddush again and has another leisurely, festive meal. A typical afternoon meal is cholent, a very slowly cooked stew. My recipe is below. By the time birkat ha-mazon is done, it is about 2PM. The family studies Torah for a while, talks, takes an afternoon walk, plays some checkers, or engages in other leisure activities. A short afternoon nap is not uncommon. It is traditional to have a third meal before Shabbat is over. This is usually a light meal in the late afternoon.

Shabbat ends at nightfall, when three stars are visible, approximately 40 minutes after sunset. At the conclusion of Shabbat, the family performs a concluding ritual called Havdalah (separation, division). Blessings are recited over wine, spices and candles. Then a blessing is recited regarding the division between the sacred and the secular, between Shabbat and the working days, etc. For details, see Havdalah Home Ritual.

As you can see, Shabbat is a very full day when it is properly observed, and very relaxing. You really don't miss being unable to turn on the TV, drive a car or go shopping.

Cholent is a traditional Shabbat dish, because it is designed to be cooked very slowly. It can be started before Shabbat and is ready to eat for lunch the next day. The name "cholent" supposedly comes from the French words "chaud lent" meaning "hot slow." If French seems like a strange source for the name of a traditional Jewish dish, keep in mind that many of the ancestors of Ashkenazic Jews traveled from Israel to Germany and Russia by way of France.

Soak the beans and barley until they are thoroughly softened. Sprinkle the flour and spices on the meat and brown it lightly in the oil. Cut up the potatoes into large chunks. Slice the onions. Put everything into a Dutch oven and cover with water. Bring to a boil on the stove top, then put in the oven at 250 degrees before Shabbat begins. Check it in the morning, to make sure there is enough water to keep it from burning but not enough to make it soggy. Other than that, leave it alone. By lunch time Shabbat afternoon, it is ready to eat.

This also works very well in a crock pot on the low setting, but be careful not to put in too much water!

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Final results: Netanyahu's Likud scores decisive victory in Israeli election, set to win 30 Knesset seats, Zionist Union gets 24 Netanyahu calls for 'strong' government to safeguard security, welfare Meretz leader Zehava Galon resigns in wake of election results.

With nearly all votes counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is set to emerge as the election's big winner with 30 seats. The Zionist Union trails behind with 24 seats. The Joint List of Arab parties is the third-largest party at this point, followed by Yesh Atid, Kulanu, Habayit Hayehudi, Shas, Yisrael Beiteinu, United Torah Judaism, Meretz and Yahad.

President Reuven Rivlin said he would work for a national unity government.

Ballots were cast at 10,372 polling stations throughout Israel. There are 5,881,696 Israelis (citizens over the age of 18) who were eligible to vote today for the 20th Knesset.

Latest opinion and analyses:Netanyahu resorts to race-baiting in attempt to win elections |Netanyahu, Herzog fight Election Day battle of the gap |A last-minute bid to block Netanyahus rescue me campaign(Yossi Verter)|A black hole at core of Israeli electoral politics (Aluf Benn).

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11:15 A.M.Labor MK Shelly Yacimovich says Isaac Herzog told her that the Zionist Union won't join a Likud-led government. "This morning I spoke with Herzog and he explicitly told me that we are going to the opposition," she told Army Radio.

Netanyahu at the Western Wall Photo by Emil Salman

Yacimovich, a former Labor leader, says, following the election results, that teaming up with Tzipi Livni was a right call, but argued that too many concessions were made. (Jonathan Lis)

10:45 A.M. Meretz No. 2 Ilan Gilon says he does not accept Galon's resignation and is not prepared to take on chairmanship of the party in her stead. (Haaretz)

9:56 A.M. Meretz chief Zehava Galon officially announces that she will resign from chairmanship in the wake of the election results.

9:30 A.M.Senior Palestinian officials tell Haaretz that the fact Israelis reelected Netanyahu after he declared that there will be no Palestinian state means that Israel is not a partner for peace. The international community needs to realize that and stop defending Netanyahu and his policy, they added. (Jack Khoury) Read full story

8:54 A.M.Zionist Union MK Stav Shafir says in a Facebook post: "We will serve the people from the opposition." (Haaretz)

8:44 A.M.Isaac Herzog says he called Netanyahu and congratulated him for the election results. "Nothing has changed, we will keep fighting for a just society." Herzog refused to explicitly say that the Zionist Union won't join a Netanyahu-led government. (Haaretz)

8:32 A.M. Moshe Kahlon: "Netanyahu spoke with me and said his intentions are serious. I am waiting for the results. There were never any personal issues, only differences in ideology that I hope to resolve now with a government focused on social aspects."

7:45 A.M. Zionist Union's Herzog and Livni: "This is not an easy morning for us and for those who believe in our way. We will lead the fight, together with our partners in Knesset, for the values believe in. We will fight on behalf of the citizens of Israel for social justice, diplomatic horizon, equality and democracy in hope that we can maintain a just, safe Jewish and democratic state. We thank from the bottom of our heart to all those who believe in us and in our way."

6:50 A.M. Meretz leader Zehava Galon says if final results give Meretz four seats, she will resign from Knesset in order to allow TamarZandberg to remain MK (Ilan Lior).

6:06 A.M. With 99 percent of the ballots counted, Likud is increasing its lead with 30 Knesset seats, compared to the Zionist Union's 24.

The Joint List, the third-largest party, gets 14 seats, followed by Yesh Atid with 11, Kulanu with 10, Habayit Hayehudi with eight, Shas with seven, United Torah Judaism with six, Yisrael Beiteinu with six, and Meretz with four. It appears at this point that Yahad has not crossed the electoral threshold. (Haaretz)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, March 18, 2015. Photo: Reuters

4:30 A.M. Likud increases its lead over the Zionist Union as the vote count nears completion. (Haaretz)

3:23 A.M. With 60 percent of votes counted, Likud leads with 23.73 percent over Zionist Union's 19.07 percent. Yesh Atid stands at 8.92 percent, the Joint List at 9.63 percent, Kulanu at 7.53 percent, Habayit Hayehudi at 6.4 percent, Shas at 5.88 percent, Yisrael Beiteinu at 5.26 percent, United Torah Judaism at 5.15 percent, Meretz at 3.95 percent and Yahad at 3.04 percent.

2:45 A.M.Some 71.3 percent of Israeli soldiers voted on Tuesday, a 2.3 percent bump compared to the 2013 election. The rate does not include soldiers voting in civilian polling stations. (Gili Cohen)

2:30 A.M. The chief Palestinian negotiator expects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government and has declared that the Palestinians in turn will push forward with diplomatic efforts at the International Criminal Court.

It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we will go to the Hague Tribunal, we will accelerate, continue and intensify diplomatic efforts, top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Agence France-Presse. (JTA)

1:10 A.M. Netanyahu: "Dear friends, against all odds we have achieved a great victory for Likud, for the national camp which is headed by Likud, for our people. I am proud of the Israeli people, who recognized what's important and stood up for real security, economy and social welfare, which we are committed to.

"This is what's important to everyone, Jews and non-Jews alike," he said."All of you are important to me.

"Now we must form a strong and stable government that will care for the security and welfare of all of Israel's citizens," he said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kisses his wife, Sara, as he addresses supporters.Photo: Tomer Appelbaum

12:25 A.M. Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid: "We are the biggest centrist party, and will remain a political force for many years to come."

12:16 A.M. Zionist Union Chairman Isaac Herzog on the exit polls: "These results will bring Labor back into power." He calls on the "social parties" to unite under him to form "a real reconciliation government."

"This is a big victory for the Labor Party, which hasn't done this well since Yitzhak Rabin won in 1992."

Referring to his efforts to from a governing coalition, Herzog says "no decision will be made tonight. We have formed a negotiating team." (Haaretz)

Zionist Union party co-leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni.Photo by AP

12:20 A.M. Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman says his party's five Knesset seats are a triumph over attempts to "take out" his "entire party."

Lieberman says the close election results are further proof that Israel needs a different system of government.

Shas Chairman Arye Dery says this election has been the "toughest we have ever experienced."

"This was a great battle for legacy, a struggle for a path, a struggle of leadership, a very tough struggle," he said. "But, thank God, the way of the truth won, the Torah's way won."

He said that he made efforts to unite with Eli Yishai, but the latter resisted.

Zionist Union MK Shelly Yacimovich suggests that Shas and Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu may join a government led by Isaac Herzog.

"You treat Kahlon like he's in Netanyahu's pocket, and Shas like it's clearly with Netanyahu," she said in an interview with Channel 2. "People say a lot of things before the election. It's possible that they will understand that they could fulfil their desires under Herzog as prime minister."

12:15 P.M.Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon says he will work with any party working on social, economic lines.

"This election has caused rifts and polarization in our nation. This is the time to mend, to unite," he says. (Haaretz)

12:10 A.M. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman talk. (Jonathan Lis)

11:59 P.M. Channel 1's corrected exit polls indicate Eli Yishai's Yahad party has crossed the electoral threshold with four Knesset seats.

The corrected polls show that Likud has gotten 27 seats, the Zionist Union 26, the Joint List 12, Yesh Atid 11, and Kulanu nine. (Haaretz)

11:54 P.M.Hamas: Elections should convince Abbas to abandon talks with Israel

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas should abandon negotiations with Israel following the elections in the Jewish State, Hamas official Ismail Radwan says in the Gaza Strip.

"The results should be enough to convince the Palestinian Authority and Fatah Party to forget about the choice of keeping the absurd negotiations," he says in a statement. (DPA)

11:34 P.M. Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon says on Twitter that his party's election result is a "great success."

11:27 P.M. Zionist Union Chairman Isaac Herzog is holding talks with potential coalition partners as part of an effort to form a broad government that excludes Netanyahu and Bennett.

The Zionist Union says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's and Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett's celebration is premature, claiming the rightist bloc has "crashed."

11:21 P.M.The 2015 election had 71.8% voter turnout, up from 67.8% in the 2013 election. The 2009 election had 65.2% voter turnout, compared to 63.2% in the 2006 election (Ofra Edelman).

11:15 P.M. AvigdorLieberman on whether he will join a coalition headed by Netanyahu: "Why not? ... we should join the friends who worked hard and gave everything they could. We can't talk of defeat, it was a difficult journey."

11:00 P.M. Joint List Chairman Ayman Odeh: "The list is a success story. More than 65% of the Arab public voted, and that was a positive referendum for the list and its future."

The party expected to get 14-15 Knesset seats, but has gotten 13, according to the preliminary results.

MK Ahmad Tibi of the Joint List: "The general result is disappointing, but the Joint List has won the support of the public, Marzel has disappeared and the public said Nyet to Lieberman."

MK Ya'akov Litzman, head of United Torah Judaism, told Channel 2 that he is awaiting tomorrow morning's decision from the Council of Torah Sages on whether his party's six seats will be part of the next government. (Haaretz)

10:57 P.M. Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali Bennett, whose party won a disappointing eight Knesset seats according to the exit polls, said his party is a "long distance runner."

"We are long distance runners. We're not afraid and we're not lowering our heads," Bennett said, adding he is proud of his public, the religious Zionists. (Haaretz)

10:53 P.M. Likud officials estimate: Netanyahu will work for coalition with Herzog

Likud officials estimated Netanyahu will work toward forming a national unity government with Zionist Union's Isaac Herzog.

"Netanyahu doesn't want a unity government, but sometimes you find yourself with no choice. In this case, the most likely scenario is that the prime minister will agree to pay Zionist Union a heavy price, among other things, leaving Bennett or Lieberman in the opposition, to make it easier for Herzog to make the move agreeable for his party. (Jonathan Lis)

10:48 P.M. Kulanu leader Moshe Kahlon told Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu and Zionist Union's Isaac Herzog that he will decide on his next move only after the full results are tallied.

Kahlon's party won 10 Knesset seats according to the exit polls.

10:40 P.M. Zionist Union: Everything's possible until the real results are in

Zionist Union, which gained 27 Knesset seats according to the exit polls, said in response: "Likud keeps misleading. The rightist bloc has shrunk. Everything is possible until the real results are in, when we can know which parties passed the electoral threshold and which government we can form. All the spins and statements are premature. A negotiating team has been formed in an effort to form a government led by Herzog."

Meretz, which gained five Knesset seats according to the exit polls, called on Zionist Union's Isaac Herzog not to form a unity government with Benjamin Netanyahu. (Gili Cohen)

10:35 P.M. Netanyahu announces 'great victory, against all odds'

Likud leader and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the exit polls, which gave his party 27 Knesset seats, a tie with Zionist Union, announcing a "great victory for Likud."

"Against all odds, a great victory for Likud, a great victory for the nationalist camp headed by Likud, a great victory for the nation of Israel," Netanyahu said in a Facebook post. (Haaretz)

10:25 P.M. Netanyahu and Bennett agree to start negotiations for right-wing government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Habayit Hayehudi's Naftali Bennett several minutes after the exit polls were released. The two agreed to initiate accelerated negotiations to establish a right-wing government. (Haaretz)

10:08 P.M. President Rivlin says would work for national unity gov't

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin made clear to political officials on Tuesday evening that he would work for a national unity government.

"I am convinced that only a unity government can prevent the rapid disintegration of Israel's democracy and new elections in the near future," Rivlin said. (Yossi Verter)

10:00 P.M. Exit polls: Zionist Union and Likud neck and neck at 27 seats, slight lead for Likud

Channel 10 and Channel 1 both gave Likud and Zionist Union 27 Knesset seats, while Channel 2's exit poll gave 28 seats to Likud, and 27 to Zionist Union.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said final tally may not be published until Friday. For full results of exit polls click here

9:28 P.M. Zionist Union "very carefully optimistic," officials say

Officials in the Zionist Union voiced "very careful optimism" with their projections of the election results. A party official said the voter turnout in their bases have been relatively good.

The far right Yahad party, however, issued an urgent call to its supporters, calling on them to vote as their polls show they are only 1,500 short of crossing the electoral threshold. (Ido Efrati)

Zionist Union headquarters in Tel Aviv (Moti Milrod)

9:20 P.M. Likud MK praises high voter turnout in Arab sector

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his supporters to go and vote, warning that his rule is in danger because "the Arab are voting in droves," Likud MK Gila Gamliel expressed her happiness with reports of high voter turnout among Arab citizens.

"I praise the high voter turnout in the non-Jewish sector. I'm glad. It gives them a sense of belonging and a will to change. Maybe it won't be expressed as support for Likud, but it will make different parties understand they should relate more to this public and put the treatment of Israeli Arabs in the foreground," Gamliel said. (Jonathan Lis)

8:59 P.M. Over 80% of Israeli prisoners cast their ballots (Yaniv Kubovich)

8:33 P.M. Voter turnout at 8 P.M. stands at 65.7%, up from 63.9% in 2013 (Haaretz)

Attorney Elad Naveh, who runs the control room of the Central Elections Committee, explained that the voting data is based on 9,000 polling stations across Israel, not a sample of 400, like in previous elections, making the data more accurate. (Ofra Edelman)

8:07 P.M. "Hamas" called on Israeli Arabs to vote, endorsing the Joint List (JTA)

A Twitter account purporting to be the official account of the Hamas' armed wing called on Israeli Arabs to vote for the Joint List.

7:51 P.M. Palestinians march in West Bank in effort to send message to Israel on Election Day

Earlier, Palestinians, joined by Israelis and foreigners, marched near the West Bank town of Abu Dis, in effort to send a message against the settlements on Election Day, AFP reported.

The demonstrators clashed with Israeli security forces, and some demonstrators were detained, AFP reported. (Haaretz)

7:41 P.M. IDF soldiers' voter turnout 59% at 17:00, 4% increase on 2013 (Haaretz)

7:30 P.M. Herzog: Netanyahu is a 'lying, divisive, inciting prime minister'

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "panicking," adding that his "lies" earlier on Tuesday prove that he is a "hysterical, divisive, inciting prime minister."

In a Facebook post, Herzog urged voters to "join the upheaval," so that Israel "won't wake up tomorrow morning with the same lying, divisive, inciting prime minister." (Haaretz)

Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, at a polling station in Ramat Gan (Moti Milrod)

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Holocaust Handbooks, Volume 15:

In 1976, Holocaust revisionism produced its last "standard work," if there ever was such a thing: A.R. Butz' Hoax of the Twentieth Century. "How can a quarter century old text not be obsolete today?" Butz asks in the preface of the 2003 edition of his own book, pointing out "the age of this text, and the great advances that have subsequently occurred in Holocaust revisionism." Hence, there is a great need for a new, integrated work summarizing Holocaust revisionism after 30 years of very intensive and thorough research.

And here it is, the new standard work of Holocaust revisionism! It was written by German scholar, writer, and publisher Germar Rudolf, based on the research of the most prominent revisionists, most of which Rudolf had the pleasure to publish in a multitude of German and English language journal articles and books over the past 15 years.

The book was written to fit the need of both those who have no in-depth knowledge of the Holocaust or of revisionism, as well as for well-versed readers familiar with revisionism. Anyone who wants to bring himself up to date on revisionist scholarship, but does not want to read all the special studies that were published during the past ten years, needs this book!

Since 1992, Rudolf has been giving lectures to various mainstream audiences all over the world. His topic is very controversial: the Holocaust in the light of new forensic and historical findings. Rudolfs sometimes astounding facts and arguments fall on fertile soil among his listeners, as they are presented in a very sensitive and scholarly way. This book is the literary version of Rudolfs lectures, enriched with the most recent findings of historiography.

The books style is unique: It is a dialogue between the lecturer and the reactions of the audience. Rudolf introduces the most important arguments and counter arguments of Holocaust revisionism. The audience reacts with supportive, skeptical, and also hostile questions. The Lectures read like an exciting real-life exchange between persons of various points of view. The usual moral, political, and pseudo-scientific arguments against revisionism are addressed and refuted. This book resembles an entertaining collection of answers to frequently asked questions on the Holocaust. With generous references to a vast bibliography, this easy-to-understand book is the best introduction into this taboo topic for both readers unfamiliar with the topic and for those wanting to know more.

2nd, revised and corrected edition, 500 pages. Format: pb, 6"9", 151 illustrations, bibliography, index. Published by The Barnes Review (Washington, D.C.) in Oct. 2010. ISBN: 9781591480013 For prices please see retail outlets.

In case you decide to download a free PDF file of this book instead of purchasing a printed copy, please consider supporting the author for his efforts and for the injustices he has suffered (he was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment and a fine of 21,000 (some $28,000) for the German edition of this book) by making a donation. Details can be found on his website.

Electronic files of some (but not all) of the volumes of the Holocaust Handbooks have been released to the public domain for educational purposes only. Where this is the case, the files can be downloaded above. They may be copied and distributed by third parties free of charge only. No commercial use by third parties is permitted. If copied and distributed, no changes to the book are permitted without the prior written consent of the book's author(s)/editor(s).

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