The levaya for R’ Pinchas Menachem Pashwazman, who was killed by a rocket in the city of Ashdod, took place in Beit Shemesh tonight at the Bais Hachassidim Ateres Nuchem D’Gur.
Pinchas Menachem was a Gurrer yungerman who was born in Beit Shemesh and moved to Ashdod after he got married. His parents are originally from Monsey, New York, and his father is a rebbi in Gur.
According to the family, this is the third time that the family has lost family members in disasters. His mother’s two brothers perished in disasters, one of them in a terror attack on a bus on Mount Meron, and the other in the Gesher Bnot Yaakov disaster.
He is survived by his wife and four-month old baby.

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A senior Palestinian Arab source said on Sunday night that “at the present time there is no ceasefire. Israel is delaying the implementation of the understandings reached in the past, but wants to achieve calm in return for calm.”
“The battle will not end until the occupation responds affirmatively to our people’s demands,” the Joint Command Center of armed Palestinian factions in Gaza says in a statement early Monday.
“We will not allow the settlers to leave their shelters as long as the enemy’s leadership denies its understandings with the resistance, it says.
The statement comes as rocket sirens continue to wail despite reports Israel and the Gaza terror groups are working toward a cease-fire brokered by Egypt and the UN.
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Defiant Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials said on Sunday that they don’t rule out the possibility that the current round of fighting in the Gaza Strip could lead to an all-out war with Israel.
The warning came as leaders of the two Palestinian groups continued their discussions in Cairo with senior Egyptian intelligence officials on ways of ending the current round of fighting with the Jewish state.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) took to Twitter on Sunday to slam the New York Times for a headline about the rocket attacks on Israel: “Gaza militants fire 250 rockets, and Israel responds with airstrikes.” The Times headline is accurate, considering that is precisely how the attack started.
“When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this & framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress & target Palestinian children and families. #FreePalestine,” Tlaib wrote.
Prominent conservatives slammed Tlaib for her anti-Semitic comments:

Israel’s air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the weekend, which were triggered by a rocket barrage on Israel overnight Friday, have prompted the European Union to issue a statement urging both sides to exercise calm.
The organization’s chief foreign policy and defense coordinator, Federica Mogherini, issued a general call for both sides to engage in talks.

The Israeli military said its soldiers thwarted a cyber attack by the Hamas terror group over the weekend, without elaborating on the nature or target of the offensive.
The Israel Defense Forces said once the digital threat was neutralized, fighter jets destroyed the building housing the headquarters of the terror group’s cyber unit.
“Hamas no longer has cyber capabilities after our strike,” IDF spokesperson Ronen Manelis told reporters.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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The building that was attacked by the IDF on Sunday evening was the office of Twafiq Abu Naim, the interior minister and head of the security services of Hamas, according to the IDF spokesperson.
Abu Naim was jailed by Israel in 1991 and was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal.
Upon his return to the Gaza Strip, Abu Naim became a political leader. He is responsible for the security mechanisms of Hamas, which are often used to commit terror acts.
Read more at JPOST.
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Hamas leadership has reportedly approved a UN and Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, according to reports in Palestinian media.
Foreign diplomats are quoted in media reports as saying the proposal, that is set to go into effect at midnight, is now being presented to Israel.
 
Earlier, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said that restoring calm in and around the Gaza Strip is possible if Israel agrees to stop all retaliatory strikes in the Palestinian enclave.
 
Read more at Times of Israel.
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