"Neria needs a miracle" | Amb. Leiter calls for prayers for son injured in terror attack

 

Ambassador Yechiel Leiter

IDF reservist Neria Leiter, the son of Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Yechiel Leiter, and his wife Chana, was wounded in today's (Wednesday) terrorist attack near Route 443.

The family is asking the public to pray for the recovery of Neria Dov ben Chana.

Following the attack, Israel's Ambassador to the United States is making his way back to Israel from New York.

Ambassador Leiter wrote while on his way back to Israel: "I am grateful to the IDF, to the medical team at Shaare Zedek who are now fighting to save the life of Neria Dov ben Chana, and for the prayers of the people of Israel. I believe in the power of prayer, and I believe that when the people of Israel unite, miracles happen. Neria needs a miracle," the Ambassador stated.

He added: "Neria continued to serve in the reserves after losing his older brother, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, of blessed memory. Since October 7th, he has served hundreds of days in the reserves on multiple fronts."

"Palestinian terrorism seeks to uproot the people of Israel from their land. They choose death - we choose life."

Parrots fill the UN to Condemn Israel

 

Gym Manager calls Jew "Zionist Pig" then plays the Victim after she gets fired!

 DIN: She wears a kaffiya around her waist in a gym, knowing that it will antagonize Jewish clientele, and when confronted she calls the Jewish patron a "Zionist Pig", she then gets doxxed and fired, now she plays the victim! Its like wearing a Nazi uniform in a gym and expecting people to be quiet about it! 

KPMG manager Yuen Lee has now joined the victim class and like the Burger King anti-Israel girl she has now uploaded a victim video now says she has been fired after video of her calling a Jewish man a “Zionist pig” during a filmed confrontation at a Chelsea Piers gym in NYC. She already has a GoFundMe link which has collected $56,000 so far.

Lee was wearing a keffiyeh around her waist and claims the confrontation was provoked after the man approached her and questioned her about it.

When confronted about calling him a “Zionist pig,” Lee did not deny it. She repeated the phrase on camera while also accusing the man of being racist.

The video exploded after billionaire Bill Ackman retweeted JBN’s post to his millions of followers and tagged KPMG.

Lee is now pointing to Ackman’s amplification of JBN’s video and arguing that the clip lacked “context.”

But what context changes the words captured on camera? Whatever happened before the recording may explain how the confrontation began. It does not erase what was said once the camera was rolling.

Lee now says she has lost her job following the viral confrontation.

And should anyone decide to pursue JBN legally over our accurate reporting of what was captured on video, our attorneys are prepared to vigorously defend our reporting and pursue any remedies available in response to frivolous claims.

Israel Warns Sukkot Travelers: Unauthorized Lulavs Face Confiscation, With Free Replacement Sets Offered at Ben Gurion

 

Israel’s Agriculture Ministry warned Tuesday that travelers bringing unauthorized Four Species into the country risk confiscation. At Ben Gurion Airport, inspectors will offer free Israeli-grown replacement sets for personal use.

Travelers may bring one etrog for personal use, but lulavs, hadassim and aravot require authorization from the ministry’s Plant Protection and Inspection Services.

The distinction matters for visitors arriving with a complete holiday set. The Four Species consist of an etrog, or citron, a palm frond, myrtle branches and willow branches. They are held together during Sukkot prayers, and observant Jews often devote particular care to selecting their etrog before the holiday.

The warning comes ahead of Sukkot, which begins Friday evening, September 25. Since January, more than 1,200 passengers have been caught carrying prohibited plant material. About three tons have been destroyed. Those figures cover agricultural products generally, not just Sukkot sets.

Behind agricultural border controls is a problem that extends well beyond holiday travel: moving plants between countries can also move pests and diseases. The International Plant Protection Convention estimates that plant pests and diseases cause roughly $220 billion in annual economic losses worldwide. Its international standards are designed to allow trade while reducing the risk that imported plant material will introduce threats to crops and the environment.

For travelers, that means agricultural inspections are separate from the question of whether an item is intended for personal use. A religious purpose does not, by itself, establish that plant material meets a destination’s entry requirements.

American visitors should also consider the return journey. U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance requires travelers entering the United States to declare all agricultural products. Inspectors determine whether those items meet entry requirements, which can vary according to the plant, its country of origin and its intended use. Permission to enter Israel should therefore not be treated as permission to carry the same items back into the United States.

‘GROTESQUE ABSURDITY’: Macron makes shockingly ignorant Hamas claim at UN.... Ignores Netanel Shakron, a French citizen and father of six who was killed Sunday in a Hamas terrorist attack in Judea and Samaria.

 

Partial list of roughly 150 Hamas attacks carried out in Judea and Samaria, or inside Israel, by Hamas terrorists

Israeli leaders sharply rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday after he claimed from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly that Hamas had “never operated” in Judea and Samaria, despite the terrorist organization’s longstanding activity in the territory.

Macron made the assertion while delivering a speech heavily focused on Israel and the Palestinians, calling for full recognition of Palestinian rights and arguing that the establishment of a Palestinian state was also necessary for Israel’s security.

“What we need is respect for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, for their legitimate right to exist,” Macron said. “This is a necessary condition for the security of the people of Israel and for the very existence of their state, to which we are deeply committed.”

Turning to Judea and Samaria, Macron accused Israel of daily violations and argued that Israeli policies were making Palestinian statehood increasingly impossible.

“Look at what is happening in the West Bank, where every day violations are committed. In whose name?” Macron said. “Hamas has never operated in the West Bank!”

The claim prompted a furious response from Jerusalem, with Israeli officials pointing to Hamas’s established presence in Judea and Samaria and, in particular, a deadly terrorist attack carried out just two days earlier.

“The grotesque absurdity of Emmanuel Macron’s statement is staggering,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.”

 

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.”

According to even the most critical reports, Guterres, 70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists.

During your years as Secretary-General: more than 600,000 people were massacred or starved to death in Ethiopia. 

377,000 died in Yemen — that figure appears in reports issued by your own organization. 

150,000 were killed in Sudan and 12 million were displaced. 

Hundreds of thousands have been buried in Ukraine.

You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.

The holy city of Tel Aviv

 

by Tzvi Fishman

This morning in Israel, the media is filled with Yom Kippur images of Tel Aviv’s busiest highways. Guess what? 

In video after video, the busy streets of Israel’s secular, high-tech metropolis are deserted of cars. Zero. Totally void of traffic. Not even one lone auto can be seen. Bicycle riders, yes. Car, buses, trucks, trains, and taxis, no. In the city that never sleeps! In Brooklyn or Monsey you might find a single street spanning two blocks where traffic is cut off in an Orthodox neighborhood on Yom kippur - but an entire major city? Voluntarily? No way.

How can it be?

Rabbi Kook provides the answer in his book “Orot." A Jew may appear non-religious on the outside, but in the depths of his soul the flame of Torah and the yearning for a full Israeli life blessed with the closeness to Hashem constantly burns:

“Within the inner heart, in its pure and holy chambers, the Israeli flame ever increases, demanding the strong, brave, constant connection of life to all of the commandments of Hashem. The inner soul seeks to pour the spirit of God, the full, all-encompassing spirit of Israel that fills all of the vaults of the soul, into all of its many unique vessels, to express the full Israeli expression in its complete practical and idealized form... in the heart of all of the Nation, it continues to burn from the days of yore, ‘A fire will constantly be burnt upon the altar - it shall not be extinguished.’

“And in the hearts of all of those seemingly empty of Torah, and in the hearts of all of the sinners of Israel, the fire burns and blazes in the most inward depths. And in the Nation in its entirety, all of the desire for freedom, and all of the yearning for life, all of the yearning for the life of the Clal and the individual, all of the hope for Redemption, only from the source of this inner spring of life do they flow in order to live Israeli life in its fullest, without contradiction or limitation.

“This is the yearning for the Land of Israel, the Land of Kedusha, the Land of Hashem, where all of the mitzvot are realized and expressed in their finished form.

“And this yearning to reveal the special quality of the spirit of God, of raising one's head in the spirit of God in its absolute greatness, this is what activates everyone's hearts, and all wish to unite with it, to taste the pleasantness of its life: ‘Therefore I loved your commandments more than gold and refined gold.’

“If it be a wonder in the eyes of all those who stand at a distance and ask, `How is it possible that there will beat the spirit of Torah life with its inner force in all of the souls who are apparently even far from possessing faith - not only to a general closeness to Hashem, but to the true Torah life of Israel, to the framework of the mitzvot in their outward expression, and in their idea, in song and in action?' - it will not be wondrous in the eyes of all those who are attached in the depths of their spirit to the depths of Knesset Yisrael and who know of its wondrous Segulot.

“This is the secret of the valor, the uplifting of life which will never cease. ‘You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, that a man shall do and live by them; I am the Lord.’ - As King David said, ‘To walk before the Lord in the Land of Life, in Eretz Yisrael.’"

So if you think that Israel is a secular country you are very mistaken.

Bibi Derangement Syndrome is, in fact, deranged

 

We are currently immersed in a season of heightened awareness. In the run up to Yom Kippur we focused on those aspects of ourselves that were in need of correction and represented our deviation from the path of goodness and righteousness.

Now as we prepare for Sukkot, our heightened awareness is increasingly focused on hakarat ha tov, an appreciation of the mIIany blessings in our individual lives.

I suggest that the two sides of awareness need to be invoked to look objectively at Israel’s homegrown phenomenon of BDS: not Boycott, Divest and Sanction, but Bibi Derangement Syndrome.

This form of BDS allows many Israelis to paint a monochromatic picture of dark grey, if not black, in looking at the leadership of our Prime Minister. In that picture, he is the cause of innumerable problems and mistakes. But for him, Israel’s prospects at home and certainly abroad would be rescued.

An important aspect of this syndrome is to focus on the longevity of the PM’s tenure, but not the content of that tenure. While there is certainly a case to be made for term limits, and the required limitation of a prime minister’s tenure, there is no such requirement in Israel.

An all-time high: 2 million people visited the Kotel during the month of Elul Ignoring Satmar Rebbe's Fatwa

 

Rav Yoel Teitelbaum z"l had issued a "Fatwah" against going to the Kotel, because the Zionists captured it, yet over 2 million Jews, in an all-time high, visited and davened at the Kotel.

A very close friend of mine who lives near me, went to Uman this year and he asked me if it was a Satmar "thing" to go to Uman for Rosh Hashana? 

So I naively answered that I'm only aware , that as a Chassidus, only Breslov goes, he and his married son who also went, laughted at me and said, "that besides Breslov, the largest group is definitely Satmar! "

Makes you think! 

The Temple Mount Debate: A False Narrative

 What if the debate surrounding Har Habayit is based on assumptions, misinformation, and a narrative that doesn’t match the facts on the ground?

In this video, we take a closer look at the Temple Mount, examine the claims and assumptions that shape the conversation, and compare them with what is actually happening on the ground. This isn’t about taking someone’s word for it. Look at the facts. Look at the reality. See for yourself.

And if our understanding of Har Habayit is being shaped by misinformation or a distorted narrative, what does that mean for us—and for the Geulah?,

We take a closer look at the Temple Mount, examine the claims and assumptions that shape the conversation, and compare them with what is actually happening on the ground. This isn’t about taking someone’s word for it. Look at the facts. Look at the reality. See for yourself. And if our understanding of Har Habayit is being shaped by misinformation or a distorted narrative, what does that mean for us—and for the Geulah?