President Reuven Rivlin addressed the rocket fire Tuesday from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, sought to strengthen the political echelon and called for avoiding political clashes.
”May the hands of all the security forces be strengthened – the efforts to succeed this morning have been a long time in the making. I know that before their eyes, and the eyes of the Israeli government that approved the operation, is Israel’s security only,” Rivlin said.
“This is not a time for political clashes and they do not add honor to anyone who deals in them – it is time to stop making such statements immediately,” the president emphasized.
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad declared Tuesday that it was preparing for war with Israel after the IDF carried out a dawn assassination of one of the terror group’s senior leaders in the northern Gaza Strip.
“We are going to war. [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has crossed all the red lines in assassinating Al-Quds Brigades Commander Baha Abu al-Ata. We will respond forcefully,” PIJ Secretary-General Ziad al-Nakhala told the Dar al-Hayat Arabic-language news site.
The Hamas terror group, which rules the Gaza Strip, said the assassination of Abu al-Ata would not pass without a “punishment.”

An 8-year-old girl lost consciousness and collapsed in a residential building in the city of Holon while on her way to a protected area.
MDA paramedic Andrei Yermayev said: “When we arrived at the scene, we spotted an 8-year-old girl unconscious with no pulse and not breathing. We were told that at the time of the alarm, they went out to the stairwell to protect themselves and then she lost consciousness.”
“We gave her life-saving medical care that included advanced resuscitation, massages, respiration, electric shocks, and medication until her heart rate returned, and we stabilized her condition and then evacuated her to the hospital in serious and stable condition, anesthetized and on respiration,” Yarmiev described.

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday afternoon launched a campaign of retaliatory airstrikes against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gaza Strip following approximately six hours of unanswered rocket attacks on central and southern Israel from the enclave.
The military said its airstrikes targeted Palestinian Islamic Jihad underground facilities and training camps. The IDF said these underground facilities were used “for storage and manufacturing of weapons.”
IDF aircraft also bombed a group of Islamic Jihad operatives in the northern Gaza Strip as they prepared to fire rockets at Israel around 1 p.m., the military said.

Schools are closed in the South and the central Gush Dan region due to the sensitive security situation, according to Israel’s Home Front Command, which is responsible for civil defense.
This is the first time since Operation Protective Edge in 2014 that the country is on such high alert.
Special security advisories for southern and central Israel called for all non-essential work has been cancelled. Those working in life-saving jobs, such as healthcare workers, are not under the advisory.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, and Shin Bet internal security chief Nadav Argaman made public statements Tuesday afternoon, addressing the elimination of a senior Gaza terrorist and the ensuing wave of rocket attacks on central and southern Israel.
In a televised live address, Netanyahu said Baha Abu al-Ata, the Islamic Jihad terrorist eliminated in a targeted strike in the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning, was a “ticking time bomb” who had carried out numerous attacks on Israel in the past, and continued to threaten Israeli civilians and security personnel.

Israel killed a top commander from Iran-backed Islamic Jihad in a rare targeted strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and terrorists responded by firing rockets at Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv.
In the most serious escalation in months, an Israeli missile attack also targeted the home of an Islamic Jihad official in Damascus, killing two people including one of his sons, Syrian state media said. Israel declined any comment on that incident.
“Israel executed two coordinated attacks, in Syria and in Gaza, in a declaration of war,” Islamic Jihad leader Khaled Al-Batsh said at the Gaza funeral of Baha Abu Al-Atta.

It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the sudden passing of Rav Hillel Mandel zt”l of Chicago. He was 62 years old.
Rav Mandel was a veteran mechanech who served as the menahel of Yeshiva Ohr Boruch/the Veitzener Cheder in Chicago. He also served as an educational consultant for Torah Umesorah and delivered numerous lectures over the years on chinuch on other topics.
Rav Mandel, who formerly learned at Bais Medrash Govoah in Lakewood, was beloved by talmidim and their parents alike, and devoted himself b’lev v’nefesh to tinokos shel bais rabbon and their wellbeing. Over the year, Rav Mandel taught in mosdos haTorah in Montreal and Los Angeles as well.

In this exciting episode of SHMUZIK we take a look at the life of a talented musician. Ever wonder what the wedding/concert life is like for these talented musicians day in and day out. Some of them have performed with world-renowned stars of the secular market, others have played with the Israeli philharmonic, some have even played on Broadway, others in bands for the Army. Tune in Monday, November 11 at 8:30 PM for a candid conversation with three of the biggest musicians in the industry; Danny Flamm of New York Brass Co., woodwinds expert Mark Fineberg and drummer extraordinaire Gal Gershovsky.