The Jewish Home | JUNE 30, 2022
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complaining that his head was getting “mixed up.” At one point, the former Nazi said he had worked as an agricultural laborer in Germany for most of World War II, a claim contradicted by several historical documents bearing his name, date, and place of birth. After the war, Schuetz was transferred to a prison camp in Russia before returning to Germany, where he worked as a farmer and a locksmith. Despite his conviction, he is highly unlikely to be put behind bars, given his age.
Tavern Investigation in South Africa At least 22 teenagers, the youngest possibly 13, died last weekend in a tavern in South Africa for unknown reasons. According to provincial officials, many of the students may have been celebrating the end of their high school exams. There were no visible wounds on the bodies of the victims, and officials have ruled out a stampede. Autopsies will be performed to determine if the deaths were caused by poisoning. National Police Minister Bheki Cele
told reporters, “It’s a terrible scene. They are pretty young. When you are told they are 13 years, 14 years, and you go there and you see them. It breaks (you).”
Bennett Warns Iran
The dead included at least eight girls and 13 boys. Seventeen of the victims died in the tavern, while the rest died in the hospital. Police found the teens slumped over tables and chairs or sprawled on the floor of the club when they entered the premises. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa posted on Twitter, “My deepest condolences go to the families of the 22 teenagers who lost their lives. This tragedy is made even more grave by its occurrence during Youth Month – a time during which we celebrate young people.”
Tehran should be warned that Israel will go after anyone who attacks the Jewish state. That was outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s message on Tuesday, a day after Iran’s major steel companies were hit by a cyberattack. “[The] approach with our enemies, especially Iran… we don’t go around wreaking havoc in Tehran — that’s never been our policy. Our policy is, if you mess with Israel, you’ll pay a price,” Bennett said at the Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv. He also highlighted the benefits of using cyber warfare over more traditional military offensive methods, noting, “You can get a bunch of smart folks sitting on a keyboard to achieve the same effect… without risking your soldiers’ lives.” Monday’s large cyberattack forced the state-owned Khuzestan Steel Co. to halt production; two other major steel producers also reported being targeted. An anonymous hacking group claimed responsibility on social media for the attack, saying it had targeted Iran’s three biggest steel companies in response to the “aggression of the Islamic Republic.” The group, calling itself “Gonjeshke Darande,” shared what purported to be closed-circuit footage from the Khuzestan Steel Co. factory floor that showed the malfunction of a piece of heavy machinery on a steel bar production line, causing a massive fire. Israeli military correspondents, who are regularly briefed off-the-record by senior Israeli officials, hinted that Israel was directly responsible for the assault
in retaliation to a suspected cyberattack that caused rocket sirens to be heard in Jerusalem and Eilat last week. Bennett added, “You can no longer hit Israel indirectly through proxies, through Hezbollah, through Hamas, and think you’ll get away with it. “If you’re the bully who’s sending folks to hit us,” he elaborated, “we’re going to try and not fight with those folks; we’re going to hit the bully.” This approach, he said, applies in all dimensions including cyber: “If anyone attacks us on cyber, we’re going to attack back. We’re not going to be feeble,” Bennett said. Bennett also told the audience that he was “a bit surprised” by the relative “lack of use of cyber tools in the war in Ukraine” because of how beneficial it can be used in time of war without risking soldiers’ lives. According to data presented by the directorate at the conference, 1,500 cyberattacks on the Israeli homefront were foiled over the past year alone.
Arrest in Disappearance of Young Boy
This week, police said that they had arrested a suspect in the case of Moshe Klinerman, a young boy who has been missing since March 25. The sixteenyear-old was last seen when he left his home in Modiin Illit with a few friends for a trip to Meron. The group had arrived in Meron, and Moshe had wandered off to spend some time with himself; he told his friends not to wait for him. Since then, no one has heard from him. Two weeks ago, police said that they will establish a special task force that would assist in the investigation and were scanning the area where Moshe disappeared. “The area where he went missing is very challenging,” police have said, pointing to hilly terrain marked by uneven land and many hidden areas that make searching difficult. Klinerman’s parents have long said
