All of us at Im Tirtzu would like to wish you a happy, healthy & sweet New Year!
Thanks to the help and support of dedicated Zionists across the world, we accomplishished a lot this year.
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Here are ten of our best highlights from the year!
1. Following Im Tirtzu pressure, imprisoned terrorists are no longer permitted to take pictures and send them to their families.
2. We organized more than 50 online lectures during the COVID-19 lockdown that were viewed more than 800,000 times and reached more than 1,500,000 people.
3. We thwarted a New Israel Fund initiative to interfere in Israeli elections by busing supporters of the anti-Zionist Joint Arab List to the polls.
4. We launched a new website, "Know the Anti-Israel Israeli Professor" that provides info on 150 radical Israeli professors.
5. We broadcasted 28 live videos from 17 demonstrations organized during COVID-19 that were attended by thousands of people (while adhering to the necessary regulations). The videos reached more than 3,000,000 people and were viewed more than 1,700,000 times.
6. Following Im Tirtzu's exposé, the Prime Minister's Office announced it will no longer cooperate with far-left NGOs.
7. We thwarted Tel-Aviv University's attempt to boycott students from Ariel University.
8. We received more than 19,000,000 views and 52,000,000 reach on posts uploaded to our Hebrew & English social media!
9. Following Im Tirtzu pressure, Israel cancelled tax breaks for anti-Israel NGOs.
10. Following Im Tirtzu pressure, Israel cancelled COVID-19 aid for anti-Israel NGOs.
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Today in Anti-Israel Propaganda History: Tuvia Grossman, the Bloodied "Palestinian"
On Sep. 30, 2000, an image of a bloodied “Palestinian” teenager crouching in front of a club-wielding Israeli policeman made headlines in the NY Times, AP, & other major media outlets.
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The caption, “An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount,” implied that the Israeli policeman was the cause for this unknown “Palestinian’s” battered state.
But this teenager was not a Palestinian Arab – he was Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish American yeshiva student who was pulled from his taxi in Jerusalem by a mob of Arabs and beaten to an inch of his life.
On this day 15 years ago, Michael Levin of blessed memory was killed during the Second Lebanon War.
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Mickey, as he was known by his friends, was born in Philadelphia in 1984 and at age 19 decided to leave all his friends and family behind to enlist as a lone soldier in the IDF's Paratroopers Brigade.
His love of Israel was strongly shaped by his grandfather who survived the Holocaust, and by his parents who actively encouraged him to be a strong member of their Jewish community.
Yossi Amar, a soldier in the IDF's Kfir Brigade, was waiting at a bus stop when a terrorist jumped out at him, pepper-sprayed his eyes, and tried to steal his gun.
But despite the unexpected attack, Yossi managed to fight off the terrorist and beat him into submission.
Yossi recounted:
"I was standing at a bus stop near Nebi Musa. The terrorist, 30 years old and well built, took me by surprise. He pepper-sprayed my eyes and then tried to steal my weapon.
My cell phone flew out of my hands and my gun magazine broke.
I couldn't see anything because my eyes were burning. We struggled in a fist fight but I managed to pin him to the ground and choke him. He wouldn't give up and tried to flee to the sand dunes nearby.
I chased him despite barely being able to see anything. I tackled him.
Avraham Stern was born in Poland in 1907 and immigrated to the Holy Land at the age of 18. Stern excelled in classical languages & literature studies at Hebrew U and was awarded a scholarship to the University of Florence. Upon returning to Israel in 1929, he joined the Haganah.
After the Arab Riots of 1929, Stern abandoned the ideology of restraint, and when his friend and Haganah commander Avraham Tehomi founded the Irgun, he joined. It was then that he adopted the underground name Yair, as a tribute to the commander of the Jewish zealots at Masada.
Natan was born in Morocco in 1932 and immigrated to the fledgling State of Israel by himself at the age of 18 in order to join the IDF.
On February 11, 1954, Natan's company in the Givati Brigade received a shipment of grenades, which Natan and a few friends volunteered to unload from the truck.
While they were unloading the grenades, the pin of one of the grenades Natan was holding was accidentally released.
On this day two years ago, 19-year-old Ori Ansbacher of blessed memory was savagely raped and murdered by a wicked Palestinian Arab terrorist.
May Ori's memory be a blessing.
Following the horrific murder, Ori's mother said these words:
“It’s important for us that the world knows who Ori was. Ori was a child of light, who added so much light to the world.
"She cured broken hearts wherever she went, be it with her friends, the boys and girls she worked with in her national volunteer service, and even with people she didn't know.
"She also healed our pain. She had a deep and exact inner understanding of the world.