Israel’s Mossad on Sunday evening confirmed the Cypriot reports earlier Sunday about a thwarted Iranian attack against Israeli and Jewish targets on the island.
Channel 12 News reported that the targets of the Iranian assassination squad included the local Chabad house, an Israeli real estate magnate living in Cyprus, and a number of hotels and tourist venues popular with Israelis.
The members of the cell arrived on the island on direct flights from Russia and met in northern Cyprus – the Turkish side of the divided island, and eventually moved to the southern Greek side of the island.
Cypriot intelligence agents monitored the members of the terror squad for several months. According to Phile News, the attack was thwarted with the assistance of Israeli and US intelligence services.
An official statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday evening stated: “Israel commends the thwarting of the Iranian terrorist attack in Cyprus against Israeli targets.”
“The State of Israel is using a wide range of methods everywhere in order to defend Jews and Israelis and will continue to act in order to uproot Iranian terrorism wherever it rears its head, including in Iran, the main fomenter of terrorism in the world.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“The local Chabad house.” as if there’s only one on Cyprus.
Mr Netanyahu: You are to be commended, but go easy on the כחי ועוצם ידי . Let’s at least hear you say בס”ד .
Takahmamesh, you have joined the club of rabid sonay sholom that get triggered with any opportunity of sinas chinom.
You say the word Chabad and spewed the spittle of machlokes, even with falsehoods.
You took issue with the term “local Chabad”, foolishly mocking, “as if there is only one on Cyprus”.
Indeed, when my plane was diverted and I was stranded for shabbos in Cyprus, I learned that the tiny Island of Cyprus has two Chabad locations: one in Ayia Napa, 5330 Cyprus and a second in Larnaca, 6534 Cyprus. The Chabad there supplied the entire plane of stranded yidden with all our shabbos needs, from lavish meals to zmiros and true ahavas yisroel.
But haters of other Jews such as yourself, never cared much about facts.
Normal Yidden read this article and care that other Yidden were being targeted by our enemies. But takahmamash reads this article and all he cares about is how to target Chabad. That places him in the category of our enemies. Shame on a yid hating other yidden. Takahmamash should join his comrades in Iran.
Both Iran and Takahmamash target Chabad. They both consider yidden their enemies. They both pasdionately hate yidden. Iran and takahmamesh have commonality.