Lod Placed Under Lockdown After Arab Rioting, Netanyahu Vows to ‘Restore Order’ By JLNJ Staff | May 13, 2021
(JNS) The central Israeli city of Lod was placed under emergency lockdown on Tuesday night, May 11, to clamp down on violence undertaken by Arab residents there.
The population of about 80,000 Jews and Arabs saw rioting and looting that night. Arab mobs were seen throwing stones, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police, while also burning trash cans and tires. They also firebombed the Maoz yeshivah, with a synagogue and dozens of cars belonging to Jewish residents set on fire.
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the country’s border police to come back up the local police, which was overwhelmed by the onset of attacks.
Lod placed under lockdown after Arab rioting, Netanyahu vows to ‘restore order’
Lod placed under lockdown after Arab rioting, Netanyahu vows to ‘restore order’
Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai said the situation harkened back to the start of the Second Intifada: “We have not seen this kind of violence since October 2000.”
The remains of a car set on fire during riots and clashes between Arab and Jewish residents in the central Israeli town of Lod on May 11, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
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(May 11, 2021 / JNS) The central Israeli city of Lod was placed under emergency lockdown on Tuesday night to clamp down on violence undertaken by Arab residents there.
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2021-05-09 22:06:22 GMT2021-05-10 06:06:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JERUSALEM, May 9 (Xinhua) The number of passengers passing through Israel s Ben Gurion International Airport on international flights rose by 103.9 percent in April, compared to March, found a report issued by the Israel Airports Authority on Sunday.
The number of passengers passing through the airport reached 271,849 in April, compared to 133,334 in March, and only 9,377 in April 2020, it said.
Nearly 10 percent of April s passengers flew between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in both directions. The two countries signed a historic normalization agreement in September 2020. April is a turning point in the map of destinations, the number of operating airlines, in passenger and aircraft traffic and symbolizes the beginning of recovery, said Shmuel Zakay, managing director of the Ben Gurion International Airport.
Medieval slander and lies resurfaced. Mon May 3, 2021 An egregious lie has been making the rounds lately. It is a timeworn smear against the Jewish people in a modern guise. The ancient blood libel “Jews are poisoners” which stoked antisemitic violence through the ages, from the Black Death to tainted wells, has reappeared. This time, it is the claim that Israel is denying COVID-19 vaccinations to its non-Jewish citizens and to the residents of the not-yet-sovereign Palestinian Authority. This lie is the same as all the predecessor lies. Yet, the vaccine slander is being widely disseminated by Israel’s enemies, especially on college campuses. For example, on March 2, 2021, the Palestine Solidarity Committee held a teach-in at the University of Texas at Austin alleging “medical apartheid” not only in Israel’s COVID response but in the ability of pregnant Palestinian women to access hospitals, allegedly leading to roadside deaths related to childbirth.