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Israel needs to step away from the illiberal nationsAlon Pinkas, Page 3

Christian hostelsstart hosting IsraelisJudy Maltz, Page 14

‘Sing me the song of the return, the song of hope’Ze’ev B. Begin, Page 8

Healed from her own art, now she heals at Babi Yar Liza Rozovsky, Page 16

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Turkey has arrested 15 suspects who have alleged-ly worked with the Israel’s Mossad within its territory, the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reported on Thursday.

According to the report, the suspects were arrested a month ago. They had pro-vided the Mossad with in-formation on Turkish citi-zens and foreign students who study in the country. The students were poten-tially going to work in the

defense industry.The pro-government dai-

ly also noted that the opera-tion to arrest the suspects, who it said were all Arabs, was conducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Orga-nization, known as MIT, fol-lowing a year-long counter-intelligence operation.

Charges are expected to be pressed against the sus-pects, who were reported to have been divided into five cells, each comprised of three members.

The Daily Sabah said that they had been operating in

four Turkish provinces and were all arrested during an MIT operation on the morn-ing of October 7.

The suspects were moni-tored “for about a year, using technical and human-based intelligence methods,” dur-ing which time they en-gaged in espionage focused

on Palestinians in Turkey, the paper added. “It was un-derstood that the espionage network, which was recruit-ed with money, shared the information it reached with the Mossad for tens of thou-sands of dollars and euros.”

Hamas has a command headquarters in Turkey.

Ankara’s relationship with Jerusalem has been rocky in recent years. Turk-ish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly tried to position himself as

Turkey busts Mossad ring, arrests 15 operatives, report says

Jonathan Lis

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minis-ter Nitzan Horowitz have approved a new policy to let vaccinated tourists into Is-rael starting on November 1.

The plan, which was pub-lished Thursday, needs the cabinet’s approval.

Tourists would be con-sidered vaccinated if they have received several inter-nationally recognized vac-cines. This is the first time Israel would be recognizing vaccinations done abroad.

Recognized vaccines include Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, and Janssen. Tourists who can prove recent recovery from COVID-19 or recovery plus a vaccine dose will also be allowed in.

Bennett has said he may postpone granting entry to those vaccinated with Rus-sia’s Sputnik V vaccine to December 1. (See story, Page 2) Health officials recommended delaying recognition of the Russian vaccine upon the discovery of the AY4.2 strain in Israel.

Israel to allow entry to vaccinated tourists as of November 1

Zafrir Rinat

Ecosystems provide a number of critical services to humanity, such as pollina-tion, flood control and the regulation of agricultural pests. These systems are under threat in Israel as a result of development, con-tamination and drying out of natural water sources. With the expected increase

in population and the conse-quences of climate change, these trends are liable to worsen in the future.

These are a few of the main conclusions of Israel’s National Ecosystem As-sessment, presenting the services and benefits that Israelis receive from the country’s ecosystems. The latest report was published Wednesday. Another impor-

tant finding in the report is that Israel extensively ex-ploits ecosystems in other areas. It imports 80 percent of the services provided by ecosystems, such as agricul-tural land (mainly food and wood and paper products). An area almost 1.5 times the size of Israel is needed to pro-duce these goods.

Nature’s ability to support humanity in Israel is declining

See MOSSAD, Page 2

See NATURE, Page 4

The public’s attention is wandering, understandably, to other locales, but the secu-rity situation is seething in a number of arenas around Is-rael. The issue of the Iranian nuclear project is becoming increasingly complicated, because it’s clear that the West still has no idea how to pressure Tehran into re-turning to the agreement. A relatively large number of attacks in Syria have been attributed to Israel; in Da-mascus, a rare, multi-casu-alty explosion occurred on a military bus on Wednesday.

Tension is palpable in the

Palestinian territories over hunger strikes by Palestin-ians in Israeli prisons. Israel is trying to keep the lid on in the Gaza Strip by easing more restrictions on Hamas. And in Jerusalem, violence has erupted anew in the Old City, recalling the lead-up to the bloody clashes between Palestinians and Israeli po-lice there in May.

In Syria, recent weeks have seen two air attacks east of Homs and an assas-sination of a former member of the Syrian parliament by snipers close to the border in the Golan Heights. All these

attacks were attributed to Israel. The worst incident was not linked to Israel: the killing of at least 14 Syrian soldiers when a military bus was targeted with explosive devices in Damascus. The attack may have been car-ried out by one of the rebel organizations associated with Al-Qaida or the Islam-ic State. The Syrian capital was relatively quiet over the past year, despite the surge in incidents in the Daraa dis-trict to the south of the city.

The other attacks were aimed at the Iranian pres-ence in Syria or at local individuals connected with it. This is happening amid

With talks stalled, Israel ramps up Iran offensiveAs Israel pushes the U.S. to impose sanctions, Iranian targets are hit in Syria

An emergency aheadEditorial, Page 9

In October 1995 the streets were ablaze. Ex-treme hatred ran rampant through the cities. The prime minister was nearly

attacked while visiting the Wingate Institute in Ne-tanya. Doctored posters of him wearing an SS uniform were hoisted at protests.

The opposition leader led marches with a mock cof-fin and a noose (which he never saw. He never saw). At the Knesset gates, young people stormed a minister’s car. “I saw murder in their eyes,” he later said. “Some-one is going to get killed.”

A Kahanist thug ripped the hood ornament off the prime minister’s Cadillac and boasted: “We’ll get to him too.”

In October 2021 the streets are relatively quiet. There are no marches or major protests, except for

the ones by medical interns and, alas, anti-vaxxers. Zion Square is empty. Occasion-ally there are shrill chorus-es in front of the homes of senior government officials, while other times protesters

See MIDEAST, Page 15 See DANGER, Page 2

Amos Harel

Netanyahu remains a danger to democracyAmos Biderman

Yossi Verter

From food production to flood control

Flooding in Nahariya during the winter of 2020. Rami Shllush