Israel Responds to Rocket Fire from Lebanon - Yoav Zitun (Ynet News)
    Israel fired dozens of artillery shells early Monday at targets in Southern Lebanon, two hours after a rocket fired from there landed in an open field in western Galilee.

PA TV Broadcasts Call to Exterminate the Jews - Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)
    On April 17, 2022, official PA TV broadcast a prayer by a Palestinian imam in the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh:
    "Grant us victory over the infidels.... Allah, delight us with the conquest and liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque....Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews."

Disputed Hotel in Jerusalem's Old City Was in Jewish Hands for Nearly 100 Years - Ariel Kahana (Israel Hayom)
    The building in Jerusalem's Old City known today as the Petra Hotel, near Jaffa Gate, which the Jewish Ateret Cohanim association purchased from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate 20 years ago, is currently subject to an international campaign to prevent any Jewish presence at the site.
    However, historical research shows that the hotel was Jewish-owned from the first half of the 19th century until 1931.
    During the British Mandate, the hotel was a magnet for both Jewish and British leaders. In 1918, the cornerstone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was laid there.
    The 1929 Arab riots ultimately led the hotel's owner at the time, Yerachmiel Amdursky, to abandon the Amdursky Hotel.
    According to Hebrew University Professor Emeritus Ruth Kark, the original hotel was established by the Amzaleg family who made aliyah to Israel from Gibraltar.
    The family maintained ownership of the property until 1895, with it being reopened as the Amdursky Hotel in 1903.
    Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, herself an immigrant from Gibraltar, has embarked on an international media campaign to fight back against attempts to prevent the hotel's transfer to Ateret Cohanim.

Palestinian Authority Spends 33 Times More per capita on Terror Stipends than on Health Services - Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch (Palestinian Media Watch)
    Analysis of the PA's expenditures in 2021 shows that, per capita, it spends 33 times more paying terror rewards than it spends on health services for the Palestinian population.
    It spends 11 times more paying terror rewards than it spends on education of Palestinian children, and twice as much as it spends on benefits for needy Palestinians.
    In 2021 the PA spent $193 million on terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and another $78 million, at least, on wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.
    These sums were paid to 5,000 prisoners, 12,000 released prisoners and 40,000 families of dead terrorists.
    The writer served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps and was director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.

Arab Israeli Christians Debunk Myths about Jewish State (Jerusalem Post)
    Jonathan Elkhoury, an Arab Israeli Christian, has made it his mission to debunk myths about Israel's Christian minority.
    Five years ago, Elkhoury formed a group of Israeli minorities - Muslims, Christians, Druze and Bedouin - who were interested in getting more involved in society, including serving in the Israel Defense Forces. "Now we have so many that are just waiting to go and speak," he said.
    When Israeli minorities appear on campuses that have anti-Israel activists and they defend the Jewish state, "it shakes their whole lives and beliefs."
    Christians make up 2% of Israel's population, around 160,000 people. "Christian society is one of the most successful minorities. We have doctors, lawyers, judges....There is no glass ceiling."
    Elkhoury said 1/3 of Christian teens join military service or the police.