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BRIEFS

3,000-YEAR-OLD GOLD and force it into reckless compromises. conclusion that cyber...required a na- machinery to implement the “Final
BEAD DISCOVERED IN Having failed to eliminate it tional program. Israel has many more Solution” was set for them.
TEMPLE MOUNT EARTH through terrorism and war, Israel’s en- advanced systems that can be impaired On November 8, 1942, U.S. and
A First Temple-era gold bead was dis- emies have successfully delegitimized than our neighbors. We created a na- British forces in Operation Torch land-
covered in August during sifting of Israel by taking advantage of post-co- tional program for critical infrastruc- ed on the beaches of North Africa and
earth from the Temple Mount by Bin- lonial guilt in the West and the antise- ture like electricity and water, as well fought against Vichy French forces.
yamin Milt, age 9, from Jerusalem. The mitic tendencies prevalent in Europe. as for safeguarding hospitals and trans- U.S. Gen. Eisenhower wrote in his
bead was in such outstanding condition The U.S. and Europe came to believe portation.” memoir, Crusade in Europe, “Under-
that it was initially dismissed as mod- that forcing “the will of the interna- Inside the directorate in Beersheba, ground resistance forces staged a coup
ern. But Temple Mount Sifting Proj- tional community” on Israel, the condi- which employs 350 people, the Cyber d’etat in Algiers and were able to neu-
ect co-director Prof. Gabriel Barkay tions of which crippled Israel’s ability Emergency Response Team (CERT) tralize the French XIX Army Corps....
took a closer look and dated the bead to defend itself, would end hostilities handles hundreds of reports about cy- Of the 377 participants in the coup, 315
to the First Temple period, based on in the region. berattack attempts daily. were French Jews.”
almost-identical silver beads manu- Egypt is in partnership with Israel From September 2019 through On November 9, the Allied land-
factured using the same “granulation” against three common enemies – the September 2020, CERT dealt with ings triggered the invasion of Vichy
technique, which Barkay had exca- Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and Turkey. 10,200 incidents. (Joshua Shuman, Tunisia by Hitler’s forces. An Einsatz-
vated in Jerusalem in the 1970s. Jordan is aware of the dangers of the Media Line - Jerusalem Post) kommando unit led by SS command-
The handmade bead is fashioned Palestinian national movement and ALLIED FORCES SAVED er Walter Rauff, who was responsible
from four layers, each made of tiny knows that its very existence depends 400,000 JEWS IN NORTH for the murder of Jews in Nazi-occu-
gold balls that adhere to each other. To on Israel’s strength. The Gulf states pied Eastern Europe using mobile gas
produce it required the ability to melt understand the existential threat from AFRICA IN WORLD WAR II vans, also entered Tunis to implement
the metal at high temperatures, and Iran. During World War II, 400,000 Jews the “Final Solution” there. During its
a high level of skill from the artisan. The democratic West no longer living in Tunisia, Algeria and Moroc- six months of occupation, the Nazi re-
In the past 15 years, through the help needs to choose between Israel and co came under the German sphere of gime created a local Judenrat, forced
of some 200,000 paying volunteers, the Arabs. Israel and the core states of influence, as French North Africa came Jews to wear a yellow badge, and sent
the sifting project has recovered over the Arab world are on the same side. under control of the new Vichy regime more than 5,000 Jews to forced labor
500,000 artifacts, including 5,000 (Dr. Dan Schueftan, Israel Hayom) of Field-Marshal Petain, who collabo- camps. In May 1943, the Allies liber-
coins. (Amanda Borschel-Dan, Times rated with Hitler. Jews living in French ated Nazi-occupied Tunisia, liberating
of Israel) ISRAEL’S NATIONAL territory on both sides of the Medi- the 100,000 Jews there after 260 had
CYBER DIRECTORATE terranean were identified, ostracized, died in the forced labor camps. (Edith
WORLD’S VIEW OF ISRAEL The Israel National Cyber Directorate discriminated against and deprived of Shaked, Jerusalem Post)
IS SHIFTING was created to become involved in the their civil rights and property as the
The implications of Israel’s peace deals aftermath of cyberattacks.
with Arab countries go far beyond the Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben- Get to know Israel and her people!
issue of the Palestinians. It’s about Is- Israel, chairman of Israel’s National
rael’s decades-long struggle to shift the Council for Research and Develop- Visit jfedsrq.org/israel.
diplomatic paradigm that seeks to un- ment, said, “Israel was the first coun-
dermine Israel’s standing in the world try to understand and come to the

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