Tel Aviv | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Sat, 04 Jan 2020 21:37:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Tel Aviv | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Iraqi air base with US troops, Green Zone, struck by several rockets https://www.insideojodu.com/iraqi-air-base-with-us-troops-green-zone-struck-by-several-rockets/ https://www.insideojodu.com/iraqi-air-base-with-us-troops-green-zone-struck-by-several-rockets/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2020 21:37:08 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=9857 Multiple rockets aimed at an Iraqi air base just north of the U.S. embassy…

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Multiple rockets aimed at an Iraqi air base just north of the U.S. embassy where American troops are deployed, as well as the heavily militarized Green Zone were launched Saturday evening, according to multiple reports.

At least one rocket struck the Balad airbase where an unspecified number of U.S. troops are housed while another hit near the embassy compound in the Green Zone, U.S. Army Public Affairs spokesperson Maj. Charlie Dietz confirmed on Twitter.

Dietz said Balad was the only confirmed point of impact, although a second rocket seemed to strike just south of the Tigris river in the Green Zone.

According to a Reuters report, the Iraqi military said Celebration Square, just a few blocks away from the U.S. embassy, was hit.

“Several rockets targeting Celebration Square and the Jadriya area in Baghdad, and the Balad air base in Salahuddin province, with no loss of life. Further details to come,” the statement read.

Images from one of the impact points appeared to show a car hit with shrapnel and a sidewalk that was blown out.

News of the rockets came just hours after it was reported that a senior Iranian military official threatened an attack on some 35 “American targets” in retaliation of the U.S. airstrike at Baghdad International airport that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Senior Revolutionary Guards commander Gen. Gholamali Abuhamzeh foreshadowed a possible attack on “vital American targets” located in the Strait of Hormuz.

“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital point for the West and a large number of American destroyers and warships cross there,” Abuhamzeh said according to a Reuters report, citing Tasnim news agency.

“Vital American targets in the region have been identified by Iran since long time ago … some 35 U.S. targets in the region, as well as Tel Aviv, are within our reach.”

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Israeli taxi driver finds $60k in his cab and tracks down owner https://www.insideojodu.com/israeli-taxi-driver-finds-60k-in-his-cab-and-tracks-down-owner/ https://www.insideojodu.com/israeli-taxi-driver-finds-60k-in-his-cab-and-tracks-down-owner/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:35:06 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=9438 A taxi driver in Israel got an unexpected surprise Friday when he finished his…

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A taxi driver in Israel got an unexpected surprise Friday when he finished his shift.

Moshe Barkat found a bag containing $60,000, so he immediately set out to find its owner, the Jerusalem Post reported.

“People usually forget cellphones, small change, but this sort of sum?” said Barkat, who lives south of Tel Aviv, to Israel’s Channel 12.

With his wife’s help, he figured out which passenger likely left the bag. So he drove from his home in Bat Yam to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre, where he had dropped off an elderly woman in a wheelchair, accompanied by two young men, according to the Times of Israel.

“I thought they would cry from joy, but it didn’t happen,” Barkat told the reporter. The money was for a medical procedure at the hospital.

Though the good news wasn’t received as he expected, he never planned on keeping the cash and hopes his story sends a message to the public that taxi drivers are honest people.

“I am a man of faith,” he said. “The money isn’t mine, and I returned it wholeheartedly.”

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