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FEBRUARY 4, 2021 | The Jewish Home
Blast at Israeli Embassy in India
Israel believes that Iran is likely responsible for last week’s explosion next to its embassy in India. No one was hurt in last Friday’s explosion, which detonated a few feet away from the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. The bomb blew out the windows of several cars and caused minor damage to a storefront. Hours after the blast, investigators found a crudely handwritten note in English threatening Ambas-
sador Ron Malka, who was called “the terrorist of a terrorist nation.” Warning that Israel’s envoy to India “is always under supervision,” it told Malka that “you cannot stop anyway no matter how hard you would pick, we can end your life anytime anywhere.” The missive went on to threaten Israelis around the globe, writing that all “participants and partners” of Israeli “terrorist ideology will be no more in existence.” “Now get ready for a big and better revenge for our heroes,” wrote the attackers, who identified as “India Hezbollah,” a group unknown to Western intelligence agencies. It ended by referencing “martyrs” killed by the U.S. and Israel, such as former Quds Force General Qassam Sulemeini and assassinated Hezbollah Commander Imad Mughniyeh. The reference to slain Shi’ite terror leaders led Israel to blame Iran for the attack, which has a long history of targeting Israel’s overseas missions. In 1993, an Iran-sponsored attack on Israel’s embassy in Argentina killed 29 people while another bombing in Thailand in 2012 seriously injured the wife of an Is-
raeli diplomat. The Mossad intelligence agency is said to be probing the recent explosion and dispatched an explosives team to New Delhi within hours after the blast. Indian police say that initial findings suggest that the “very low-intensity improvised device” utilized an explosive known as PETN and was packed with ball bearings. Investigators are currently probing the thousands of Iranian students studying in New Delhi and believe that the operation likely involved multiple people. Indian police also say that the use of PETN suggests that the blast may have been the work of al-Qaeda, which is known to have used the material in the past. “Here, too, the suspicion is on some Iranian group. But involvement of the Islamic State or al-Qaeda cannot be ruled out. Access to PETN suggests involvement of either a trans-national terror group or a group sponsored by a State. The blast was deliberately kept low intensity as the aim, it appears, was to send a message,” a security establishment officer said.
Ya’alon Quits Politics
Former Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon announced early this week that his Telem party will not run in the upcoming elections in March. Acknowledging that Telem had little chance of crossing the electoral threshold, Ya’alon said on Monday that he would leave the race to avoid wasting votes that could go to other parties. The decision to leave politics came after all of the surveys commissioned over the past week showed Ya’alon far behind the 3.35% needed to make it into the Knesset. “I believed that by running independently with Telem, we could increase the power of the [political] camp pushing for change,” Ya’alon
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