ZAKA Search and Rescue, Inc., one of the world’s premiere international mass-disaster response agencies, has announced plans to expand operations in strategic cities in North and South America, as well as in the Caribbean.
“ZAKA’s primary mission is to save lives. Its effectiveness can be enhanced only through establishing autonomous ‘operations hubs’ in strategic locations in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and elsewhere,” says Edward Mermelstein, president of ZAKA in the United States. “Upgrading in this way will vastly improve its ability to respond as fast as possible when tragedy strikes.”

A report released on Wednesday argued that the pro-Palestinian student group National Students for Justice in Palestine is a “ main driver of Jew-hatred on campus” at many colleges.
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy released the 96-page report ahead of NSJP’s conference this weekend at the University of Minnesota.
Dozens of examples of NSJP members committing “gross violations” of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism were cited in the report, as well as examples of the group’s leaders and official university chapters allegedly spreading anti-Semitism on social media and at national conferences.

The Arab world’s perception of Israel is undergoing a seismic shift, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
Addressing a 200-strong crowd in Jerusalem at the kick-off event of the Christian Media Summit and inauguration of the Friends of Zion Museum’s new media center, Netanyahu said Israel has gone from being perceived as an enemy in the region to being seen as an “indispensable ally.”
“Something very big is happening: the transformation of Israel in the minds of many in the Middle East. It’s no longer being perceived as an enemy. We’ve become an indispensable ally against the enemy of militant Islam,” he said.

A man who attempted to break into a Jewish school in southern France while shouting anti-Semitic slurs was arrested by police after guards at the school confronted him and sounded an alarm, according to a report in the Algemeiner.
French authorities have not released the suspect’s name.
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, praised the guard’s “quick action” in preventing an attack at the Or Torah School in Nice on Tuesday and condemned the rise of anti-Semitism in France as “unacceptable.”
“I condemn these intolerable acts,” said Estrosi. “I cannot accept the rise of anti-Semitism in our country.”
According to local media reports, the suspect fled after being confronted by the school guards, but was quickly apprehended by police.

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Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” near the old US embassy on Monday, the 40th anniversary on the seizure of the mission, with the country’s army chief comparing the United States with a poisonous scorpion intent on harming Iran.
State television showed crowds packing the streets around the former mission, dubbed the “den of spies” after Iran‘s 1979 Islamic revolution. Marches and rallies were being held in some 1,000 communities across the country, state media said.
Hardline Islamist students stormed the embassy soon after the fall of the US-backed shah, and 52 Americans were held hostage there for 444 days. The two countries have been enemies ever since.

A city in eastern Germany has declared a “Nazi emergency” to tackle the rise of the far-right. Dresden is the capital of Saxony, which is considered a stronghold of the far-right movement.
“‘Nazinotstand’ means – similar to the climate emergency – that we have a serious problem. The open democratic society is threatened,” local councilor Max Aschenbach, who tabled the motion, told BBC News.
Dresden’s city council approved a resolution Wednesday night to 39 votes to 29 to pass the motion that declared “anti-democratic, anti-pluralist, misanthropic and right-wing-extremist attitudes and actions, including violence in Dresden, are occurring with increasing frequency.”

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz addressed the escalation on Israel’s southern border, saying he estimates a military operation could be inevitable.
“We hoped to reach an arrangement before a large operation, but the way it seems now, we might be forced to launch a large military operation and only then reach an understanding,” he told Israel’s Army Radio after the meeting ended.
“If there will be no choice and we will want to remove the Hamas regime, it will have to be a ground [operation], and that has its price,” he explained.
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