Just before 14:00, exactly 20 years ago today, a suicide bomber stepped into a Pizza place in #Jerusalem.
He ordered pasta.
Then he detonated a bomb hidden inside a guitar case and all hell broke loose.

Thread. The results were catastrophic.
15 were killed, 7 of them children.
One family in particular, was destroyed in a split second.
43 year old Mordechai Schijveschuurder, his wife Tzira, 14 year old daughter Raya, 4 year old son Avraham and 2 year old daughter Hemda. Killed.

Now with the ceasefire, its important to remember that the fighting began 11 days ago, with Hamas taking a decision to fire rockets at Israel's capital.
Also important to refute claims that Hamas fired because of "the occupation".
There is no occupation in #Gaza.
THREAD >> On September 2005, the Israeli government carried out a FULL withdrawal, both military and civil, from the #Gaza Strip.
The Israeli disengagement from Gaza ended a 38 year long Israeli presence in the strip >>

Exactly 5 years ago today, Dafna Meir, a 38 year old nurse, wife, and mother of 4, was brutally murdered at her home in front of 2 of her children, by a 15 year old Palestinian.

Two days later, the murderer was arrested by Israeli security forces.

Here is his testimony >> “She struggled”, the 15 year old murderer told the investigators.
“I stabbed her until I couldn’t pull the knife out of her body” >>

On Tuesday #Israel will sign on normalization agreements with two Arab states.

So why did normalization and peace with the #Palestinians never come about?

The Oslo Accords between Israel & the Palestinians were signed #OnThisDay in 1993.

THREAD about what went wrong >> Basically, after decades of violent conflict, the Israeli government agreed to exclude the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from its terror list and to recognize it as the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people >>

ISIS could have had nuclear weapons.

Let

that

sink

in.

A five tweet thread.

1/5
On this day ,September 6 2007, the Israeli Air Force striked and destroyed a secret nuclear reactor located at Deir ez-Zor, Syria >> 2/5
Turned out that the #Assad regime had been building this Plutonium reactor for years, with the good help of some friends from #NorthKorea and with some generous funding from #Iran.
The strike left the facility irrecoverable >>

"Allah willing, we will massacre the Jews like we massacred them in Hebron".

Testimony from elderly Palestinian woman who remembers.
#OnThisDay in 1929, massacres resulted in murdering of 133 Jews and destruction of entire Jewish communities in British ruled #Palestine.

THREAD Violence erupted after vile anti-Jewish incitement was coming from the #Arab leadership, and in particular, from the grand Mufti Amin al-Hussaini.
False claims that the #Jews plan to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque instigated the masses “to take action”.
2/7

1/6
Just before 14:00 (local time), #OnThisDay in 2001, a suicide bomber stepped into a restaurant in #Jerusalem.

He ordered pasta.

Then he detonated a bomb hidden inside a guitar case.

Thread. 2/6
The results were catastrophic.
15 killed, 7 of them children.
One family in particular, in a split second, was destroyed.
43 year old Mordechai Schijveschuurder, his wife Tzira, 14 year old daughter Raya, 4 year old son Avraham and 2 year old daughter Hemda, were killed.

Quiz question -
From highest to lowest, rank monthly salary by profession in the Palestinian labor market:

a) civil engineer
b) deputy minister
c) judge
d) convicted terrorist

Seriously. Here’s some real information about public servants’ salaries in the Palestinian Authority. Bear with me:

A civil engineer working for the government makes a monthly salary of 580$.
A deputy minister makes aprox 1200$.
The basic salary for a judge is 1,800$.

Today, 73 year old Yehuda Wachsman passed away.
He became known to the Israeli public under tragic circumstances.
In 1994, #Hamas kidnapped his son Nachson and after 6 days murdered him during a failed attempt the IDF made to rescue him.
May their memories be a blessing. 12 years after Yehuda’s son was kidnapped and murdered, #Hamas kidnapped another Israeli soldier - Gilad Shalit. Shalit was held in captivity for more than 5 years until he was finally released after a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas was reached >>

How is the 🇮🇱 - 🇵🇸 conflict perceived in Saudi Arabia?
A FASCINATING article from a Saudi researcher sharing his perspective.
Unfortunately it’s in Hebrew but definitely worth google translating. I’ll translate some of the highlights >>
maariv.co.il/journalists/op… “...throughout history, never was there a sovereign political entity in Palestine apart from Jewish kingdoms.”

(Referring to the Kingdom of Judea between 10th-6th century BCE and the Hasmonean kingdom between 140 BCE–37 BCE)
>>

Following Germany’s decision to designate #Hezbolalh as a terror organization, here’s a thread listing some of the organization’s terror attacks along the years >>
bbc.com/news/world-eur… #Hezbollah was founded in 1982 in Lebanon after the Ayatollah regime in Teheran was dissatisfied by the ‘Amal Movement’ - the already existing Lebanese Shiite armed militia >>

Tomorrow is Israel’s #MemorialDay for the 23,816 fallen soldiers and the 3,152 victims of terror killed since Israel’s independence.
Here at @IsraelMFA, we commemorate today 16 of our colleagues killed in terror attacks.

https://twitter.com/Yuval_Rotem/status/1254688982002216960

The first @IsraelMFA victim was 34 year old Edna Pe’er, from Israel’s embassy in #Paraguay. She was shot dead when 3 #Palestinian #Fatah terrorists broke into the embassy planing to kill the Ambassador. Thankfully he was unharmed but Edna was killed. May her memory be a blessing.

Tonight #Jews celebrate the jolly holiday of #Purim. Customs include dressing up in costumes, reading the book of Esther, eating traditional foods like Hamantashen and in general - partying and having a good time.
But where did it all come from?

Here’s the story of PURIM 1/9 >> #Purim commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian empire from a plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the #Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day,” as told in the book of Esther 2/9 >>

Who loves #JewishHistory?

2020 marks 300 years to the birth of one of the most important, most influential Jewish scholars of all times. How did he become so important?

Here’s a thread about Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Shlomo Zalman, commonly known as the #VilnaGaon >> Rabbi Eliyahu was born on April 23rd 1720, in a small village called Sialiec, today in #Belarus but back then it was under the sovereignty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth >>

Lihkku beivviin!
Happy Sámi álbmoteaivi to all my Sámi friends (you know who you are) from Norway.
I have to share a great story of an incredible Sámi-Israeli cooperation. Bear with me through this THREAD >>

https://twitter.com/IsraelinNorway/status/1225354762075418624

The Sámi people (also known as Lapps in some areas) are an indigenous people living in northern Norway, in Sweden and in Finland >>

THREAD
Ahead of #HolocaustMemorialDay, every day I’ll tweet a photo of a person that was murdered by the Nazis.
The 6 Million victims of the Holocaust all had faces and names but we can’t grasp that number.
6,000,000.
More than the entire population of Denmark, for example
>> What we can grasp, however, is one face, and one name.
May the memory of the Six Million Jews - men, women and children - who were murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish, forever be a blessing.
#UnitedinMemory75
#NeverAgain
>>

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The face of evil.
This is Abd elRahman Animath, that headed a #Hamas terror cell back in the late 90's.
Animath was responsible for murderous terror attacks. In one of them, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a café in TLV killing 3 young women, one of them was pregnant >> 2/4
The baby in the photo, Shani Winter, was six month old when she survived that attack.
Her mother Anat didn't >>

Piero Terracina died earlier this week in #Rome. He was 91.
He was 15 when the Nazis deported him, together with 2090 other #Jews, to the #Auschwitz death camp. Only 15 of them, Piero included, survived Auschwitz.
A THREAD about the Holocaust in Rome >>
timesofisrael.com/piero-terracin… The Jewish Community in #Rome, is the oldest in Europe. Jews were brought to Rome as slaves, directly from Judea, when Titus (then a military commander under Emperor Vespasian) destroyed #Jerusalem and burnt down the Temple. This was in 70 AD >>

Letters written (in perfect Hebrew) by Jewish children in Poland on the eve of WWII (1938), reveal a horrible reality for Polish Jews.
A few years before the gas chambers and ten years before the Jewish state was established. SHORT THREAD >> “You’ve surly heard about the events in Poland. Bad people are hitting Jews and there is no one coming for our help. All the Jews in n Poland wish to move to Eretz Yisrael (Mandatory Palestine)” >>

The Palestinian Authority’s policy over the past six months is to prevent chronically ill patients from receiving life saving treatments in Israeli hospitals.
There are exceptions of course for top official family relatives. Their treatments in Israel are fully covered by the PA So who’re those denying their people from getting medical care in #Israel?
President Abbas, for one, that together with his wife Medina were treated at Asuta Medical Center at Tel Aviv >>

BREAKING apartment on fire at Ben Yehuda st. in #Jerusalem.
Hopefully nobody’s inside. Took the rescue guys only a couple of minutes to show. Let’s hope all are safe.