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‘Fauda’ Actor Idan Amedi Recovering From Wounds After Seriously Injured Fighting in Gaza
Idan Amedi. Photo: Screenshot
Israeli actor Idan Amedi, who is best known for his role in the hit series Fauda on Netflix, was seriously wounded while fighting in Gaza as a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Amedi, who is also one of Israel’s most popular singers, suffered shrapnel wounds while fighting terrorists on Monday before he was evacuated to the Sheba Medical Center by Tel Aviv.
Amedi’s father confirmed the injury to Hebrew-language media, saying his son would live but asked the public to pray for his recovery. The actor is reportedly in stable condition after being sedated and intubated at the hospital.
After Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 others as hostages, Amedi jumped into action, joining the IDF as a reservist. He has been actively fighting in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave.
“I am ready not to perform or sing a song for a year,” he told his fans in a social media post after a month of fighting. “We must not abandon the citizens of the south and the north. We will not stop fighting [until] the elimination of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.”
As Israel fights Hamas to its south in Gaza, the Jewish state has been clashing with Hezbollah forces to the north with increasing intensity. The Iran-backed terror group based in Lebanon has been targeting northern Israel since Oct. 7.
In November, Amedi shared a video on Instagram of him directing a strike on a building in Gaza, dedicating the military action to the victims of the Oct. 7 onslaught.
The actor previously paid tribute to victims of the terror attacks when he visited a beach in Gaza with fellow Israelis and raised the flag of the Supernova music festival, where Hamas killed hundreds of young people.
Lior Raz, the main star of Fauda, issued a statement with his co-creator Avi Issacharoff on the news of Amedi’s injury.
“Our dear brother Idan is a true hero. From the first day of the war he decided to put everything aside and go out to fight, first in the north and then in the south,” they said. “We pray for his speedy recovery and are sure that he will be fine. The Fauda family sends our condolences to the families of the victims, and to the families of the injured a full recovery.”
Amedi’s wife on the show, Rona Lee Shimon, wrote: “You are the most noble man I have ever known. There are no other people like you. There are no partners like you. Your pure and generous heart always beats strong. Your human love always goes a moment. Before your shy smile. I’ve been holding a prayer tight for hours … From Oct. 7, you fight like a lion. With all our best children. You are a hero of an era. I love you … Idan get well soon. We are waiting for you.”
Well wishes also came from the United States, where Israeli professional basketball player Deni Avdija, who plays forward for the NBA’s Washington Wizards, wore shoes that he signed with the words: “Recovery for Idan ben Tova Amedia,” in reference to his Hebrew name, which is typically used in prayers for recovery.
Fauda crew member Matan Meir, 38, was killed in action in November while fighting in Gaza as an IDF reservist.
The post ‘Fauda’ Actor Idan Amedi Recovering From Wounds After Seriously Injured Fighting in Gaza first appeared on Algemeiner.com.
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Iran Says Eight Arrested for Suspected Links to Israel’s Mossad Spy Agency
The Mossad recruitment ad. Photo: Screenshot.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had arrested eight people suspected of trying to transmit the coordinates of sensitive sites and details about senior military figures to Israel’s Mossad, Iranian state media reported.
They are accused of having provided the information to the Mossad spy agency during Israel’s air war on Iran in June, when it attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.
Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
A Guards statement alleged that the suspects had received specialized training from Mossad via online platforms. It said they were apprehended in northeastern Iran before carrying out their plans, and that materials for making launchers, bombs, explosives and booby traps had been seized.
State media reported earlier this month that Iranian police had arrested as many as 21,000 “suspects” during the 12-day war with Israel, though they did not say what these people had been suspected of doing.
Security forces conducted a campaign of widespread arrests and also stepped up their street presence during the brief war that ended in a US-brokered ceasefire.
Iran has executed at least eight people in recent months, including nuclear scientist Rouzbeh Vadi, hanged on August 9 for passing information to Israel about another scientist killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Human rights groups say Iran uses espionage charges and fast-tracked executions as tools for broader political repression.
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Body of Idan Shtivi, Murdered on Oct. 7, Retrieved from Gaza in Special IDF Operation
Idan Shtivi. Photo: Courtesy of the family
i24 News – The body of Idan Shtivi, a 28-year-old murdered by Palestinian jihadists at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, was recovered in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet in central Gaza, it was cleared for publication on Saturday.
Shtivi’s remains were returned to Israel alongside the body of Ilan Weiss, another hostage killed during the October 7 massacre.
“Idan Shtivi was abducted from the Tel Gama area and brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists after acting to rescue and evacuate others from the Nova music festival on October 7th, 2023. He was 28 years old at the time of his death,” read an IDF press release.
“Following an identification process conducted at the National Center for Forensic Medicine, along with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate, the Hostages and Missing Persons Headquarters notified his family.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Shviti “was a gifted student of sustainability and governance, and a courageous individual” who acted heroically on October 7, helping others flee.
“He was killed in the process and his body was abducted to Gaza by Hamas. My wife and I send our heartfelt condolences to the Shtivi family. So far, 207 hostages have been returned, 148 of them alive. We will continue to act tirelessly and decisively to bring back all our hostages—living and deceased.”
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Woman Stabbed at Ottawa Grocery Store in Latest Antisemitic Attack
A social media post by the alleged attacker, Joseph Rooke of Cornwall, Ontario. Photo: Screenshot via i24
i24 News – The stabbing of a Jewish woman at an Ottawa grocery by a man with a long history of antisemitic posts on social media, the latest antisemitic hate crime in Canada, sparked outrage and prompted condemnation from officials including the prime minister.
Both the victim and the attacker are in their 70s. The woman is reportedly in serious condition.
The suspect was identified as Joseph Rooke, who has authored a series of lengthy rambling screeds on social media, ranting against Israel and Jews.
“Judaism is the world’s oldest cult,” he writes in one post, going on to say “over time jews have become insidious in governments, businesses, media conglomerates, and educational institutions in order to do what they do better than anyone else. Jews are the world’s masters of propaganda, gaslighting, demonization, demagoguery, and outright lying. Using their collective wealth they have become masters of reprisal.”
“I am under no obligation whatsoever, legal, moral, or otherwise, to like jews and I do not. If that means I meet the jewish definition of an anti-semite, so be it.”
Canada has seen a steep spike in antisemitic attacks over the past two years, including a recent incident in Montreal where a Hasidic Jew was beaten in front on his children.
After Prime Minister Mark Carney condemned the incident, many, including former Israel’s ambassador the US Michael Oren, pointed out that Carney’s rhetoric and policies contribute to the increasing insecurity of Canada’s Jewish community through uncritical embrace of outrageous and easily disprovable allegations that Israel and its supporters were guilty of the worst crimes against humanity.