Israel At War Wednesday April 17

 Israel at war day 194

- Google fired 28 of the protesting employees,  occupying their boss's office for more than 8 hours to demand that the company sever ties with Israel.

- The newly unveiled Israel aid package bill allocates $5.2 billion for defensive weaponry, including $4 billion for Iron Dome and David’s Sling, and $1.2 billion for the Iron Beam defense system.

- Kan news reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelved pre-prepared plans for retaliation against Iran’s weekend barrage after speaking with US President Joe Biden shortly after the attack early Sunday.

According to the report, the cabinet had already approved a series of possible responses depending on the scope of the Iranian attack, which were slated to be carried out immediately following the Iranian fusillade.

-Biden: "The U.S. may be drawn to war if Iran continues attacks on Israel,"

-Pressure on Israel not helping getting votes in Dearborn. A MRG Michigan Poll is out. Trump is up on Biden by 6%. Trump leads by 3% when third party and independent candidates are added. 

- Israel strongly considered attacking Iran on Monday night - but backed off in the last minute, 5 Israeli and American sources tell Barak Ravid.

- Eighteen people were injured 4 seriously in in a rocket attack on northern Israel by Hezbollah. The rockets slammed into a cultural center in the Bedouin village of Arab el-Aramshe in the Western Galilee, injuring the residents, two of them serious

- Congress Passes Resolution: ‘From The River To The Sea’ Chant Is Antisemitic. U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Congressman Anthony D’Esposito (NY-4), and Congressman Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) led a bipartisan resolution that successfully passed the House on Tuesday. The resolution condemns the chant “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free” as antisemitic. The resolution passed the Hous

- Qatari PM says hostage talks at a ‘delicate phase,’ trying to overcome ‘stalling’

- Netanyahu tells ministers Israel will decide on Iran response itself

- Iran’s president warns Israel any attack will be dealt with “fiercely” and “severely” The “slightest” attack by Israel on Iran will be “dealt with fiercely and severely,” Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Wednesday. Raisi said that the weekend attack on Israel was “limited and punitive,” and warned that if Iran had “carried out a stronger operation, nothing would then have been left out of Israel.”