IDF Admits to Airstrikes in Syria This Week | 12/27/18

1. 2019 election campaign officially begins
   The 20th Knesset officially dispersed on Wednesday as the bill to dissolve it passed all three general plenum votes - officially kicking off the 2019 election campaign.
   2. Netanyahu set to travel to Brazil
   In the middle of Israel’s political revolution, Prime Minister Netanyahu is now set to travel to Brazil today, in a historic visit and here with the details is ILTV’S Latin American correspondent, Joy Gavillon.
2. Netanyahu set to travel to Brazil

Julia Verdel, Publisher Of The Diplomatic Club Magazine speaking at ILTV Studio via Skype about the Prime Minister's scheduled visit to Latin American and in particular, Brazil.
4. Likud MK calls Ethiopian lawmaker ‘token immigrant’
The Knesset officially dispersed on Wednesday but not before controversial Likud Knesset member, Oren Hazan called Yesh-Atid member Pnina Tamano-Shata, who is of Ethiopian descent, a "token immigrant." Hazan has often gotten himself into trouble and has been suspended from the Knesset more than once in the past.

5. IDF admits to airstrikes in Syria this week

Israeli defense officials acknowledged responsibility for the airstrikes on Damascus the night before claiming to have primarily targeted storage and logistics facilities used by Iran and Hezbollah to trade weapons.

6. IDF admits to airstrikes in Syria this week

As the IDF was busy defending the northern border; president trump on Wednesday also commented during a surprise visit to Iraq that Israel would fare just fine in the region without the U.S. military presence in Syria.

7. IAF graduates new group of pilots

The prime minister’s comments yesterday, on protecting the north also came during a very special graduation ceremony at the Hatserim base for the newest group of Israeli pilots– the last class of 2018.

8. Countering the anti-Israel BDS movement

Adv. Nati Rom, Israel Advocate & Founder of Lev Haolam speaking at ILTV Studio about the Lev Haolam that supports local jewish businesses under threat in Judea and Samaria.
9. IFCJ facilitates final Aliyah of 2018

Around 250 Jews from the Ukraine made Aliyah to Israel this week, marking the last wave of Aliyah for 2018. The flights were chartered by the international fellowship of Christians and Jews or the IFCJ who have brought around 4,800 Olim to Israel this past year alone

10. Top 5 list of the week

And now for this week’s top five, with ILTV’S incredible Emanuelle Kadosh with the most trending topics on twitter in Israel in 2018
11. Rape-drug drink tests handed out before New Year’s
Ahead of New Year's eve 2019, the Israel police in collaboration with the Israel anti-drug authority has just announced they would hand out free drink kits to test for the presence of date-rape drugs.
12. Hebrew word Of The Day: KHOSEN | חוסן= RESILIENCE / STURDINESS
Learn a New Hebrew word every day. Today’s word is "khosen" which means "resilience

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