Your daily spiel for Monday, April 3
In today’s spiel: The mother of JCC bomb threat suspect speaks, ultra-Orthodox group threaten to stage protests at Ben-Gurion International Airport and Adrian Grenier stars in Israeli commercial.
ISIS planning attacks on Jewish schools in Turkey: reports
The most likely target of the attack is a synagogue in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district, which is attached to a community centre and school
Iran is more dangerous than ISIS, ex-Israeli official says
“The world ignores the role of Iran in the Syrian slaughter, the rape of Lebanon,” not to mention its unabated goal of eliminating Israel, says Eran Lerman
Iran a bigger danger than ISIS, consul general warns
Despite last year’s deal to stall its plans to develop nuclear weapons, Iran remains a bigger threat to Israel and the West than ISIS, the Israeli Consul General to Toronto and Western Canada said
Opinions differ on Canada’s air role against ISIS
The Trudeau government is being tested on crucial foreign policy matters early in its mandate, and reactions have been mixed about how it’s dealing with the fight against terrorism
We are in ‘world war,’ says French PM, citing attacks in Israel and France
In explaining the reasons for the existence of a terrorist threat in France, Manuel Valls notes “upheaval in the Arab world” and “the reality in certain neighbourhoods in France, where young people are being radicalized”
Focus on ISIS is obscuring Iranian threat to Israel
It must be gratifying for the Israel Defence Forces to have learned that while the world galvanizes against ISIS, the terrorist group is apparently scared of only one country: Israel
Israel arrests five suspected ISIS recruits
Five Arab-Israeli men suspected of pledging support to the Islamic State terror group have been arrested
Islamism: extremism, not material deprivation, is the problem
Religion, including Islam, is not itself inherently violent, but, as we’re witnessing today with Islamists of one stripe or another, in extremist and politicized hands it can – and indeed has – become just that
New Islamic State video threatens IDF, Netanyahu
The videos warn that the current wave of Palestinian terrorism is nothing compared to “the real war” that has yet to begin