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Israeli Singer Omer Adam Performs Song Dedicated to Oct. 7 Victims During Israel’s Yom Hazikaron Ceremony
Omer Adam performing “Human Tissue.” Photo: Screenshot
Israeli pop singer Omer Adam performed a song on Monday during Israel’s torch lighting ceremony for Yom Hazikaron that commemorated the victims murdered by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.
The torch lighting ceremony on Monday night concluded Yom Hazikaron in Israel and marked the start of Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) celebrations. This year, instead of taking place in front of a live audience, the torch lighting ceremony was filmed and recorded in advance, and celebrations were toned down out of respect for those affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre.
Twelve torches are traditionally lit in memory of fallen soldiers and the victims of terror attacks. This year, families of those slaughtered in the Oct. 7 attacks were given the honor of lighting some of the torches. They were lit in cities around Israel impacted by the attack including near Re’im, where the Supernova music festival was held. The final torch was left unlit to symbolize the Israeli hostages still being held captive in Gaza.
Hamas terrorists murdered 364 civilians at the Supernova festival and roughly 1,200 in total across southern Israel during the early hours of Oct. 7 last year. A total of 252 people were kidnapped by Hamas that day and taken to the Gaza Strip and 128 remain in the Palestinian enclave, according to Israeli tallies.
On the site of the Supernova festival, Adam performed the song “Human Tissue,” originally written by Moti Hamer and Chava Alberstein. Families of the those murdered on Oct. 7 backed him up with vocals while they held pictures of their loved ones.
“When I’ll die, something from me will die within you. When you’ll die, something from you within me will die along with you,” Adam sang in the ballad. “Because all of us, yes, all of us … All of us are just a living human tissue. And if one of us fades away, something from us dies along. And something else, stays within him.”
Adam wrote in an Instagram post that through the heartbreaking song he hopes to send strength to all those who lost loved ones in the Oct. 7 attacks. He said he also prays for the speedy return of the hostages who remain held in the Gaza Strip.
He further sings in “Human Tissue”: “If we only knew, how to calm the hatred, if only we knew how. If we only knew how to silence our rage to say we are sorry, though we already got offended. If we only knew how to begin fresh from the start.”
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US Moves Patriot Missile Batteries from South Korea to Middle East
A Patriot missile battery. Photo: IDF.
i24 News – American Patriot missile defense batteries will be moved from South Korea to the Middle East, according to reports in Asian media on Friday, amid speculation over a potential military action against Iran’s nuclear program and escalating bombardments of Iran-backed jihadists in Yemen.
US President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program, and the United States has moved additional warplanes into the region.
Washington and Seoul have reportedly recently agreed on the “monthslong” partial deployment of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, in what is understood to be the first known case involving the relocation of United States Forces Korea (USFK) assets to the Middle East.
Iran in recent years has largely dropped the pretense of enriching uranium for a civilian atomic energy program, as it’s reportedly teetering on the nuclear precipice. Israel believes that a nuclear Iran represents a grave existential threat, consistent with the exterminationist antisemitism of the Islamic Republic’s anti-Israel rhetoric.
After the election of Trump, a known Iran hawk, the likelihood of an U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has increased precipitously.
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Report: Iranian Plot to Assassinate Azerbaijani Rabbi Foiled
The Azerbaijani capital of Baku. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
i24 News – Iran enlisted the services of a Georgian drug trafficker to carry out an assassination of a prominent Azerbaijani rabbi, the Washington Post reported Saturday, citing security officials.
The plot to murder Rabbi Shneor Segal, foiled by the State Security Service of Azerbaijan in early January, also involved a plan to attack a Jewish education center, the officials said.
The plot was set in motion by an officer with Iran’s Quds Force, who met with Georgian criminal Agil Aslanov, handing him a photo of Segal and detailed instructions on how to murder him, the officials cited by WaPo said. Aslanov’s fee for the foiled hit was $200,000.
The State Security Service said the two men “worked to collect information about a member of a religious community, and sent the location of his residence and workplace to a representative of a foreign special service agency via the appropriate mobile phone application.”
Iran is known to be behind multiple plots against Israeli and Jewish targets, many of which have been foiled by Israeli and foreign security services.
However a recent plot saw three citizens of Uzbekistan murder an Israeli rabbi in the United Arab Emirates on Iranian orders. The three were sentenced to death earlier this week for the murder of Zvi Kogan in November.
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Netanyahu to Depart for Washington on Sunday Directly from Hungary to Meet with Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, Feb. 16, 2025. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS
i24 News – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart to Washington DC on Sunday directly from Hungary—where he is presently on an official visit—to meet with US President Donald Trump, i24NEWS learned on Saturday from an Israeli source.
The visit comes following a phone conversation between the leaders on Friday, and a call with State Secretary Marco Rubio a short while ago.
As a result, the planned visit to Washington of Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz will be postponed once again.
Topics of discussion between the two leaders are expected to include the possible military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Gaza war and the future of the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, the US bombing campaign against Iran-backed Houthi jihadists in Yemen, and the recent imposition of tariffs on Israeli products.
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