President-elect Joe Biden was hurt on Saturday and is expected to be examined by an orthopedist “out of an abundance of caution,” according to officials. Biden’s team released a statement saying the 78-year-old slipped “while playing with his dog Major, and twisted his ankle.” “Out of an abundance of caution, he will be examined this afternoon by an orthopedist.” (AP)
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The leftist Jewish “pro-peace” lobby group J Street denounced the killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, claiming that the assassination was intended “to sabotage” efforts of US President-elect Joe Biden to reenter the Iran nuclear deal. “It seems those who oppose the JCPOA will stop at nothing to kill the agreement once and for all,” J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami stated.

A senior Israeli official involved in tracking top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh for years told The New York Times that Iran’s aspirations to nuclear weapons, headed by Fakhridzadeh, is such an international threat that the world should thank Israel. The NYT report also briefly described the elimination of Fakhrizadeh in a village near Teheran on Friday as well as elaborated on Israel’s capabilities of striking down Iranian citizens in the heart of the Islamic Republic. “Driving a carefully circuitous route to the home of his in-laws in a city outside Tehran, Mr. Fakhrizadeh’s car was stopped Friday by a car bomb in a Nissan so laden with explosives that it knocked out a power line,” the report stated.

The IDF recently revealed information on a Hamas terror tunnel that was discovered on the Gaza border last month. The tunnel, which was excavated by Hamas terrorists at a rate of five meters per day,  descends 242 feet (74 meters) underground, so deep the IDF constructed an elevator to allow soldiers to descend into the tunnel. The tunnel’s length is over 1.2 miles long (2 kilometers), extending from the Gazan city of Khan Younis deep into Israeli territory. The IDF has almost completed the construction of a “smart wall,” an underground concrete barrier equipped with radar and optical sensors that will be capable of detecting intruders and tunnels dug from the Gaza Strip, preventing Hamas from carrying out attacks from underground tunnels in any future war.

Amichai Stein of Kan News reports that the assassination was carried out by an automatic weapon operated by remote control, and not by a squad of assassins as first reported. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and his wife drove to their home in the suburbs of Tehran last Friday, accompanied by three security vehicles. In the middle of the trip, a remote control weapon opened fire, and Fakhrizadeh went out to check what had happened. Fakhrizadeh thought that it was his car that had actually collided with something. From the moment he left, he was shot at by an automatic machine gun that was on top of a nearby Nissan vehicle. After he was hit, the Nissan vehicle with the machine gun on it exploded. The operation lasted about 3 minutes, and no human factor was present at the scene of the assassination.

Sixty-two people were involved in the plan to eliminate the “father” of Iran’s nuclear program Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, according to Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze, who discovered the information through leaks of senior Iranian officials, The Sun reported. Ahwaze reported that according to the information he received, 12 team members, whom he described as “highly trained” and “assisted by security and intelligence services abroad,” were stationed in the city of Absard, 80 kilometers east of Tehran, where Fakhrizadeh had a second home. “Apart from the 12 assassins, another 50 people took part in the assassination by providing logistical support,” Ahwaze said. The team was aware that Fakhrizadeh was planning on driving from Tehran to Abasard on Friday.

An opinion piece published by a hard-line Iranian newspaper on Sunday suggested Iran should attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of a scientist linked to its disbanded military nuclear program. Though the hard-line Kayhan newspaper has long argued for aggressive retaliation for operations targeting Iran, Sunday’s opinion piece went further, suggesting any assault be carried out in a way that destroys facilities and “also causes heavy human casualties.” Israel, suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the past decade, has not commented on Friday’s slaying of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Iranian officials roundly have blamed Israel for the attack, raising the specter of renewed tensions that could engulf the region, including U.S.

A rabbi was attacked at knifepoint in Vienna by a woman who ripped the yarmulke from his head and yelled an anti-Semitic threat before fleeing, police in the Austrian capital said Friday. Passersby looked the other way and did not come to the rabbi’s defense, Austrian media outlets reported. The rabbi, who fortunately was not seriously harmed, told the police that although several passersby witnessed the incident, no one came to his aid. The incident occurred Thursday afternoon when the woman, described as about 50 years old and wearing a grey coat, suddenly approached the rabbi and pulled the knife from her handbag. She kicked the rabbi in the leg, knocked his hat from his head, then tore off his yarmulke and yelled an anti-Semitic insult before fleeing, police said.

A Chareidi man in his 20s was arrested on Thursday night on suspicion of being involved in four fires that broke out on Thursday in Chareidi neighborhoods of Jerusalem. The man later admitted to being responsible for the huge blaze on Sorotzkin Street earlier this week as well. Israel Police carried out a search of the suspect’s property and discovered flammable substances in his possession as well as a communications device that is believed to belong to a rescue organization. The suspect aroused suspicion when he showed up at the scenes of several fires on Thursday night on an electric bike and photographed the fires. Initially, the man told the police that he was taking photos of the fires in order to post them on a local news WhatsApp group.

Israeli has placed its embassies worldwide on high alert in the wake of Iranian threats of reprisal for the assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in a village near Tehran on Friday, Channel 12 News reported. The killing of Fakhrizadeh, who has been called the “father” of Iran’s nuclear program, has been widely attributed to the doings of Israel’s Mossad but Israel has maintained complete silence on the incident. A spokesperson for Israel’s Foreign Ministry said that the ministry does not comment on issues of security regarding its representatives abroad, Ynet reported.